Year: 2020

  • David Brown – Happy Dance

    David Brown – Happy Dance

    www.ArtistDavidBrown.com Messages from more innocent times. Our world has changed dramatically, quickly, and completely. I present to you this collection of “pre-pandemic” work as a love letter from the past and reminder of more innocent times. Happy days are ahead and silver linings do surround us. I hope these whimsical images lift your spirits… even…

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  • BrideGroom Apollo-Gentiklees

    BrideGroom Apollo-Gentiklees

    Spring 2020 A Virtual Exhibition amid CoronaVirus Pandemic The images that flow as the viewer scrolls downward become a River of wordless sign-making. The signs themselves are both Obvious and Obscure, twinkling in the heavens as like fundamental metaphors of the earliest Human mind. Eventually, through infinitesimal refinements, they evolve toward the present, becoming beloved…

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  • COVID-19: Gallery Closed Temporarily as Safety Measure

    COVID-19: Gallery Closed Temporarily as Safety Measure

    Gallery 1313’s highest priority is the health & safety of our visitors, staff, volunteers and extended community. As we continue to monitor the evolving COVID-19 situation across TORONTO, we are taking the advice of Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, and closing the gallery temporarily. As soon as it is safe to do so, we…

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  • Gallery 1313 and the Parkdale Hub

    Dear Members, Artists, Partner Organizations & Friends of Gallery 1313: You may have heard recently about the Parkdale Community Hub Project (https://parkdalehub.ca/). Currently, the Project is in a feasibility phase, and appears to be learning toward the design and implementation of Option 3. This configuration would see the Parkdale Library at 1303 Queen St. West…

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  • OCADU – Locating Impermanence – April 2 – 12

    OCADU – Locating Impermanence – April 2 – 12

    Group thesis show of five students from OCADU’s Sculpture and Installation program Opening reception Thursday, April 2nd 7 – 9 pm “Place deeply involves time. Place does not stay still, but bends and twists. – Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: for a Logic of Future Coexistence Representing OCAD University, five graduating Sculpture and Installation students are…

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  • Elaine Stewart – All My Dirty Laundry – March 17 – April 12

    Elaine Stewart – All My Dirty Laundry – March 17 – April 12

    Through a Glass lightly….. A series of work by international disability artists curated by WIAprojects: Elaine Stewart March 17th – April 12, 2020 Window Box Gallery Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen Street West Toronto, ON My dirty laundry…My dirty laundry, as installation, reflects on two of my most horrific experiences with the medical industrial pharmaceutical complex.…

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  • York University – When All Is Said and Done – March 18 – 28

    York University – When All Is Said and Done – March 18 – 28

    York University – When All Is Said and Done – March 18 – 28 York University Department of Visual Arts and Art History.  2020 Graduating Class Exhibition.  Opening Reception Saturday March 21, 2-5 pm. 

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  • York University – Noise – March 6 – 14

    York University – Noise – March 6 – 14

    Reception Saturday. March 7th 2-5 pm MAIN , CELL & PROCESS GALLERIES  York University Painting and Installation – Sculpture Programs Present an exhibition of works by some 50 students sprawling over all three Gallery 1313 exhibitions. Gallery 1313 is pleased to host this large group exhibit from York University and rare glimpse to see what…

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  • Eco Art Exhibition Feb 19 – Mar 1

    Eco Art Exhibition Feb 19 – Mar 1

    FEBRUARY 19- March 1, 2020Reception Feb. 20PROCESS GALLERY – Gallery 1313 Gallery 1313 is pleased to present ECO ART Exhibition of art works curated by Phil Anderson (Director, Gallery 1313), will be comprised of artists exploring environmental issues such as urban sprawl, water quality, air pollution and other issues working in various practices and disciplines.Gallery…

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  • Juliana Kolesova – The Sky is Pink – Feb 19 – Mar 1

    Juliana Kolesova – The Sky is Pink – Feb 19 – Mar 1

    FAIRY TALES MIX WITH RENAISSANCE WHEN ARTIST JULIANA KOLESOVA DIVES INTO HER TWOFOLD PORTRAITS OF MYSTICISM. — MARIE BERTELSEN ARTICULATE MAGAZINE, 2019 Denmark One of the first things you notice about Juliana Kolesova’s art is it being twofold: The artwork can be divided into a mystical fairy tale world, as well as into Renaissance style…

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  • Gomo George – Another Tongue – Feb 19 – Mar 1

    Gomo George – Another Tongue – Feb 19 – Mar 1

    ANOTHER TONGUE AN RETROPECTIVE OF ARTIST GOMO GEORGE Gallery 1313 Main Gallery 1313 http://www.g1313.org Feb. 19- March 1 2020 Reception Feb. 20 6:30pm Main Gallery : ANOTHER TONGUE Gomo George is pleased to be presenting a retrospective of sculptural works titled Another Tongue. The work is concentrated in varying aspects on interpretations of the human…

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  • Erin Williamson + Alison Kruse – You Up? – Feb 5-16

    Erin Williamson + Alison Kruse – You Up? – Feb 5-16

    Cell Gallery : YOU UP Artists Erin Williamson and Alison Kruse team up for a collaborative exhibition Alison Kruse and Erin Williamson both graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Minor in Art History in 2017. They are both currently living and working in Toronto. This series of work, aptly…

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  • Karen Justl – Glitz & Glam – Jan 22 – Feb 2

    Karen Justl – Glitz & Glam – Jan 22 – Feb 2

    Glitz & Glam: Another Blue Day in a Nowhere Place Karen Justl is exhibiting a new series of paintings on paper, the the Cell Gallery @ Gallery 1313. This recent work depicts a loose gang of outsiders: luna moths, sly sidewinders, vampire wives, teen sabrinas & shimmering shenas. I have been working as an illustrator,…

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  • VASA Presents: Ephemeral – Jan 22 – Feb 2

    VASA Presents: Ephemeral – Jan 22 – Feb 2

    Main Gallery: Visual Art Student Association (VASA) York University We are a student run organization that works towards the growth of our fellow artists at York University. We hold a variety of events throughout the school year at school and the highlight is our annual show at Gallery 1313!We strive to represent the diverse range…

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  • Tari Ito – Feb 5 – March

    Tari Ito – Feb 5 – March

    WINDOW BOX GALLERY – Tari Ito Feb 5- March 2020 Video/Installation: Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep Tari Ito is a feminist performance artist who lives in Tokyo, Japan. Seven  years ago, Ito was diagnosed with a neurologic disease called SMA which  affects her muscles. The disease has progressed rapidly and as a…

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