Category: Exhibitions
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OPEN CALL: HEROES AND VILLAINS – A PORTRAIT EXHIBIT – Mar 4 – 15, 2026
This is an exhibition of contemporary works by artists who explore portraits of persons they consider to be heroes or villains in their world . Curated by Director, Phil Anderson. Interested artists please send a letter of interest, a current CV /artist statement, image list and 1-4jpegs (to philipanderson@bell.net. Accepted submissions will pay a small…
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OPEN CALL: ECO ART – Mar 4 – 15, 2026
4-15 March 2026 A curated open call for submissions This is an exhibition of contemporary works by artists who explore environmental issues in creating art works . Whether it is urban sprawl , climate change , wildfires , air or water pollution artists are engaged in these issues . Curated by Director, Phil Anderson. Interested…
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Kenneth Vincent * 18 Feb. – 01 Mar. 2026 * Academia
For the past five years I have been studying drawing and painting at the Academy of Realist Art, in Toronto. The curriculum is designed to teach skills & improve artistic visual perception and is largely based on the pedagogy of the 19th century Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris: copying from Bargue plates, drawing and…
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Celebrating Black History – Feb 4-15, 2026
A curated open call for submissions – Feb. 4-15 . This is an exhibition of contemporary works by black artists who explore and celebrate their culture .Participants are encouraged to incorporate a variety of textile media . Curated by Director, Phil Anderson. Interested artists please send a, a current CV /artist statement, image list and…
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HOLDING SPACE , Place , Relation and Belonging *21 Jan. – 1 Feb. 2026*
* Visual Arts Student Association – York University * Reception 22 Jan. at 6:30 p.m. * The Visual Arts Student Association (VASA) at York University proudly presents HOLDING SPACE , Place, Relation and Belonging an annual exhibition at Gallery 1313 showcasing the diverse and vibrant works of emerging student artists. This dynamic show celebrates creative expression…
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Drawn Together 2026 * February 18 – March 1 *
The 36 artists submitting works, share a common love of figurative art, though their personal artistic creations go far beyond works on paper. The show has reserved a space for paper works. Drawn Together presents the artists’ success with oils, acrylics, watercolours, and inks in a variety of styles, including portraits, landscape, still life, and figurative works. The…
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PROVISIONAL TRAJECTORIES – Dimitrije Martinovic – Jan 21 – Feb 1, 2026
Provisional Trajectories: Recent Digital Paintings stands at the intersection of abstraction and digitization. Abstraction replaces depiction with inner experience, while digitization carries that logic into a mutable, virtual space. By synthesizing elements of historical movements, from early modernist abstraction to contemporary digital practices, each work carries the legacy of familiar visual languages. Using colour, form,…
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INTO THE FOREST DIM – Hugh Alcock – Jan 7 – 18, 2026
In his poem Ode to a Nightingale John Keats understands the bird, or its song, as immortal. The nightingale’s song is, crucially, a shining example of beauty in nature, and contrasts with the poet’s mortal attempt to realise beauty in his verse. It is this falling short of natural beauty that I too feel when…
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FOUND – Group Show – Dec 17 – 21, 2025
Main Gallery: FOUND art works that have been abandoned or disposed of looking for a new home . Rescues from the street or thrift stores now given another opportunity . Artists sometimes find it necessary to purge themselves of art works and these works can be appreciated by others .
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A PORTRAIT EXHIBIT – Group – Show – Jan 7 – 18, 2026
A PORTRAIT EXHIBIT Process Gallery / Gallery 1313 Jan. 7-18 2026 With works by Mark Sterling, Pam Patterson, Emily Conlon, Amelia Stea MacLaurin, Catherine Mellinger, Vivi Partridge, Drea Cohane, Sofia D’ Onofrio and others. Curated by Phil Anderson
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TWO SYSTEMS – Ryan Jakubek – Dec 10 – 21, 2025
wo Systems is a series that uses contrasting print materials to visually interpret ideological tension in Hong Kong, focusing on the city’s position between two governing systems. Recurring representational elements are used in conjunction with text from the Basic Law of 1997 and National Security Law of 2020. Selected for their contradictions, the excerpts have…
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THE SEX SHOW – Group Show – Feb 4 – 15, 2026
Open Call For Submissions – 29 Jan 2026 Deadline Curated by Phil Anderson Reception Thurs. 05 Feb. at 6:30pm Artists are asked to submit works exploring the subject of sex . The subject matter can mean many things to many people. A variety of media can be submitted. Please, submit 1-4 images/jpegs an image list , artist…
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ReFRESH – Group Show – Jan 7 – 18, 2026
ReFRESH 2026 January 7th – 18th 2026 Reception Jan. 8 6:30 A curated group exhibition of contemporary works in a variety of media to start the new year. Works by Courtney Fairweather, Bill Ward, Pam Paterson, Leah Oates, Eric Garsonin, Natalia Tcherniak, Greg Thurlbeck, Matthew Flanagan, Brinda Taneja, Nedda Zaharelos, Christopher Harms, Edgar Baculi, Ingrid…
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The Living Alphabet – Jerome McNicholl – Dec 10 – 21, 2025
‘The Living Alphabet’ began one night in the autumn of 1975 with some rather awkward, lumpy drawings of alphabet creatures, some sitting motionless in a jungle setting, others positioned in outer space. With many revisions, I came to realize that I wanted to create a believable species of creature that would have offered early homo…
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BENJAMIN RONDEL * 4-15 March 2026 *
THE LAST STREET Cell Gallery This body of work reflects on the quiet persistence of North America’s small communities, their last streets, in contrast with the relentless expansion of urban sprawl. These streets are not transitional spaces but endpoints, where histories settle rather than accelerate. Unlike the perpetual growth of cities, last streets in small…