PAST EXHIBITIONS
SHELTER / ESCAPE | Kal Mansur
January 6 - February 10, 2024
Kal Mansur employs a palette knife to build a textured terrain from impasto layers of paint. The surface is washed over with translucent glazes, with liquid pooling in valleys and falling away over edges. This process builds and subdues color, resulting in a monochromatic mass. Embedded circular resin sculptures inundate the work with changing reflections. What emerges is a painting that starts to bloom as one walks around it.
TROPICAL FUTURES | Jill Paz
November 23 - December 30, 2023
Jill Paz’s mixed media paintings vividly portray lush tropical landscapes. Crafted with photography, painting, and laser-etching technology, Paz’s works are borne out of puncturing and etching delicate layers on cardboard. She uses balikbayan boxes as charged symbols of the diasporic experience. The term "balikbayan," meaning "one who returns home," holds significance as these humble cardboard boxes are intimately woven into the lives of Filipino migrants. Paz uses photographed and sketched palm trees as archetypal yet unstable signifiers of the exotic. She situates them within a tenuous grid, and her squares jostle with hesitation. Her palm trees are frozen in motion, provisional, situated between suggestion and statement.
THE WEREWOLF IN THE COMPOSITION | Amanda Nedham
October 19 - November 15, 2023
Autumn in Lapland. The warm rain-laden East wind rushes down the dried-up river bed. In its banks, yellowing birches tremble in the storm. /The opening bars in the great hymn of extinction. Not a hymn to extinction or because of it. Not a hymn in spite of extinction. But a dying which is the hymn.
- Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T | Kal Mansur
May 15 - July 29, 2023
In this new series, Mansur distills the interplay of light and surface to a succinct, minimal expression. On first impression, the surfaces appear to be divided into geometric fields of varying shades of gold, some more yellow; some more brown. But move around and you will see the lighter and darker areas swap places. The colours shift depending on your point of view and the angle of light. Move in close and you’ll notice that the sharply defined geometry is textured with prominent brush marks. You’ll also notice that the paintings are completely monochrome.
ESCAPE | February 1 - April 9, 2023
Matt Neuman and Kal Mansur
SURVEY | November 23, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Julia Campisi, Evan Ishmael, and Kate Casanova
THE NEW NEW | August 18 - September 18, 2022
Louise Lessél, Jason Yung, Aidan Fowler, and Markus Heckmann
A group exhibition of works by Brooklyn-based artists Louise Lessél, Jason Yung, Aidan Fowler and Toronto-based artist Markus Heckmann. Working primarily through the medium of light, their works deal with the relationships between human beings, technology, and nature.
TENDING | Alyssa Alikpala
September 16-24, 2022
Gallery Courtyard Exhibition
Alyssa Alikpala is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She creates meditative installations from found objects and foraged natural materials. Her work responds to a specific time and place through subtle disruption, offering a means for affecting impermanence. Her environmental interventions invite slowness and sensitivity.
This show will mark the gallery’s first courtyard exhibition, a way for us to expand our programming and curate novel installations by emerging artists.
OF MIND AND BODY | Natale Adgnot and Kate Casanova
July 9 - August 7, 2022
Kate Casanova creates abstract sculptures that evoke hybrid bodies. Made from a variety of materials such as plaster, resin, foam and found objects, her works blur the line between human/nonhuman and organic/synthetic.
Natale Adgnot employs patterns and systems to investigate human vulnerability to dogma. Hovering between drawing and sculpture, Adgnot’s work often replicates a two-dimensional sketch when viewed frontally and comes into relief when viewed from other angles.
LAND ESCAPES | Kal Mansur
June 9 - July 3, 2022
For his first solo exhibition in 2022, Kal Mansur has created a new series entitled Land Escapes. These works are a change in direction for Mansur as he explores new modes of interference in abstraction. A textured surface is built with a palette knife and washed over with translucent glazes. Embedded circles shift in and out of monochromatic fields, inundating the work with changing reflections. The paintings start to bloom as one walks around them, like beacons that turn on and off. Painting on large-scale panels, Mansur's abstractions recall enveloping aerial landscapes.
CURVEBALL | Evan Ishmael, Matt Neuman, Court Swartz, and Kal Mansur
March 26 - April 30, 2022
NON-SPECIFIC OBJECTS | Kal Mansur
January 18 - February 27, 2022
