See the world through the eyes of SOLE Alternative students, with a group showcase May 25 to June 1 at Fresh Paint Studio, 1849 Danforth Ave. The high school students are showing work in mediums like painting, silkscreen, photography and digital photo manipulation, exploring themes of identity, media, mysticism and pop culture. Ahead of Canada’s […]
The art hanging on the walls of the Balmy Beach Club is not only a geographic tour of stunning Canadian vistas, it’s also a mini-course in Canadian art history. Painter Pamela Mayhew has been a member at the Balmy Beach Club for three years, and a Balmy Beach Club artist for a little over four […]
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, […]
A downtown photographer is banking on an East End food institution being the perfect pairing with his food photography. Jack Gilbert, a business lawyer by trade, will be showing his photographs in an ongoing exhibition at The Tulip Restaurant at 1606 Queen St. E. While Gilbert worked in the law field for many of his […]
The inPrint Collective has set up shop for the month on the second floor of the Linsmore Tavern , 1298 Danforth Ave. The printmaking pop-up shop allows collective members to work on their own projects, as well as teaching workshops on relief printmaking and monoprinting to groups from the Kennedy House youth shelter, Bangladeshi Community […]
Fifteen years ago, Carole Baldwin was recently widowed and talking to her friend Shirley Jones when Jones told her to take painting lessons and join the Beach Guild of Fine Art. “I did both of those things,” said Baldwin a few weeks ahead of the Guild’s annual Small Paintings for Small Spaces show. Though she […]
Yellow House Gallery is celebrating a year of fine art in Kingston Road Village, while launching its latest show, Mindscape. Yellow House was opened a year ago at 921 Kingston Rd. by Christina Kostoff as a combination gallery and framing shop. Since then, Kostoff has been running regular exhibitions, both solo and group shows, by […]
The annual Beach Studio Tour will take place from May 1 to 3 at private home studios in the Beach. The semiannual tour brings together 25 artists in 14 locations on a self-guided tour of some of the most prolific creators in the Beach. Everything from painting to printmaking, sculpture to fabric art can be […]
Yellow House Gallery will feature Adi Zur’s mixed media work in a show called Abstract Connection. Zur describes her work as part of a search for a connection between a shared past and an uncertain future, in the midst of a bombardment of information from different media. Abstract Connection runs from April 9 to May […]
There are still a couple days left to catch Jennifer Smithwell and Shelley Cinnamon’s latest show at Ben Navaee Gallery, 1107 Queen St. E. Illuminations runs until Jan. 15 at the gallery, and features plein air (on location) paintings done locally, as well as in New York, California, and Hawaii. The gallery is open from […]
