Yellow House Gallery presents Love Me Do as part of the gallery’s guest curator program. Curated by Ann Somers, the exhibition aims “to express raw emotion and truth behind the internal struggles we face day to day as individuals.” The show includes a mix of abstract and figurative work from artists Adam Chapman, Meg Dearlove, […]
Local illustrator and artist Tak Bui will be included in the Museum of the Street: 50 Years of Toronto Illustration exhibit at the John B. Aird Gallery downtown. Bui has been a professional illustrator since the 1970s, working first for Maclean’s, then expanding to Canadian Business, The Financial Post, and daily papers such as the […]
Several holiday shows continue at East End galleries. We Are All Precious Snowflakes runs at Yellow House Gallery until Jan. 9, though the gallery will close from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2. The show gathers 160 small works at $200 or less, drawn from more than 45 local and Toronto artists. Yellow House is at […]
Debbie Wong’s Urban Landscapes show is on now until Nov. 29 at Gerrard Art Space. Wong’s mixed media works are abstracted expressions of the city’s straight lines, corners, and asphalt, the intentional opposite of nature landscapes. Her work represents the concrete jungle, using geometric shapes, angular lines, and found objects. Wong’s career path has come […]
Jacquie Gillespie’s paintings will hang at Gerrard Art Space for the next three weeks. From Oct. 21 to Nov. 8, Prairie Landscapes will feature Gillespie’s work, which she describes as impressionist Canadiana. Originally from small-town Manitoba, her work celebrates the landscapes of her formative years. Gillespie travelled western Canada for several years after working for […]
The Tribute Show runs from Oct. 15 to 31 at Yellow House Gallery, 921 Kingston Rd. The annual exhibition is presented by the OCAD Alumni Association, and features a select group of graduates from the school’s various incarnations over the years: the Ontario College of Art, OCAD, and OCAD University. Participating artists are Maggie Broda, […]
Mary Dykstra’s surrealistic paintings are on display until Sept. 28 at Flying Pony, 1481 Gerrard St. E. The show is called Innocent when you dream. Dykstra writes in her statement that her paintings are “made of filtered memories, snippets of stories, lyrics that landed, waking Technicolor dreams, inspirations embraced, visions tackled.” Her paintings, often incorporating […]
Arts on Queen, 2198 Queen St. E. at Balsam, will feature the work of East End painter Patrice Carmichael for the month of July. Carmichael is a native of South Africa, though Toronto is home. A member of the Beach Guild of Fine Art, her oils on canvas range from expressionist landscapes to abstract paintings […]
This year’s Contact Photography Festival will be establishing ground in the East End, with shows set for the Great Escape Bookstore, Artisans At Work and Dylan Ellis Gallery on Danforth, and a large public installation at the Warden subway station. John Davidson and Stephen Gilligan will put on The Landscape and Other Bodies of Work […]
Yellow House Gallery, 921 Kingston Rd., is hosting its first art installation. Let the Moon Guide You is a seven piece video installation by Maria Flawia Litwin. The common element in the videos is travel, encouraging viewers to “venture into the unknown … to position yourself as a traveller, a willing foreigner, a non-belonger.” The […]
