Year: 2016
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dame?
CELL GALLERY, March 2-13 , 2016, Reception March 3, 7-10pm Original Works by Vashty Hawkins Artist Statement I live and work in Toronto, and am an encaustic and acrylic artist with influences including pop art, art nouveau, silent movies, and fashion design in the 1920s through 1960s. Painters that strongly influence me include but are not limited…
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Architecture Out of Time and Space: Paintings by Gregg Allan McGivern
Artist statement: Each panel has a different theme based on architectural structures, not only from various periods in history but also from my imagination. As human beings we bipeds and the most used form of ascending and descending short horizontal planes are stairs, therefore, I have joined the numerous structures with various shaped staircases thus creating an illusion of levels…
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CBC Radio Canada interview with artist Paul Kilbertus
Artist Paul Kilbertus is interviewed about his art work, STUMP in the Eco Art Exhibit on CBC Radio Canada with Line Boily. http://bit.ly/1Rjy7yO Follow Paul Kilbertus on Twitter @peekay2k
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Amalgamate
Feb. 17-28 Main Gallery: Amalgamate, a group painting exhibition featuring 17 students from York University 4th year painting. Instructor Michael Daigneault. Participating artists: Sarah Di Paola, Hanna Broker, Queenie Chu, Emanuel Ciobanica, Giovanna Galuppo, Ana Grkovia, Cayla Hollingshead, Megan Ashley Jeanes, Nina Lin, Sara Pisani, Francesca Scaini, Claire Scott featuring Kathryn Lunny and Casandra Merson,…
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ECO Art 2016
Gallery is pleased to present ECO ART 2016, a group exhibition of over 20 artists whose work addresses environmental concerns and issues. The exhibition was curated from a online call for submissions reaching artists from California to Toronto by director Phil Anderson. The artists used variety of formats including painting, photography, sculpture, installation and mixed media. Artists have always mirrored the concerns of…
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RED: The Colour of Life by Judith Donoahue
February 3 – February 14 Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313 Artist Statement: Red speaks for itself: it is the colour of love, fire, blood, birth, courage and bravery, as well as anger and destructive rage; red foods sustain life…apples, grapes, beets, cranberries, to name just a few; red soothes the soul in brilliant sunsets; and think…
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Artist Workshop with Phil Anderson
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Lori Beckstead Interview with Matt Galloway
Interview with Matt Galloway CBC Metro Morning January 20th, 2016
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The Interactive Radio Machine by NAISA
The Interactive Radio Machine is a custom-built, interactive radio that allows for auralizational of data about diversity of radio hosts in Canada s largest radio market. The radio allows the user to explore how many women and/or racialized persons are hosts/presenters there are on any of the radio stations on the dial. After selecting a station…
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2116: Art of Leverage
Feature Artist: Hussain AI Ismail, Yan Wen Chang, Luis Figueroa, Marley Johnson, Sally Huang Wong, Sara Maclellan Leone McComas, Alexadr Nabokov, Fernando Pendas, Vinetha Sivathasan, Kathy Hong Zhou, Yong Zhang 2116: Art of Leverage centers on the understanding of the role young artist plays in today’s realities. Perhaps, if we are lucky, a hundred years from now (in…
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Rebirth by Karen Grossman
Window Box Gallery, Gallery 1313 Karen Grosman’s artwork explores issues of power. Inspired by Foucault’s writings on power structures she explores different binaries within contemporary culture and within history. She holds a BFA from OCAD University. Majoring in Drawing and Painting, Minor in Art History. History and politics are important influences in her work. Her…
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Branches of Hope by Mahshid Fathi Roodsari
Artist Statement: Branches of Hope is a collection of paintings, poetry and animation that respond to the various aspects of Autism Spectrum Condition. Therefore, these works that at times are fully abstract and at times contain figurative forms, are created while having in mind the physical, communicative and social challenges that Autistic people face. However, these…