Xavier Allen (Grange studio) has an Opening Thursday October 27 6 - 9 at Gallery 1313 in Parkdale. This is right beside the Parkdale studio so let's go! 1313 Queen Street West. The exhibition runs to Nov 5, 2023.
Gallery open Wednesday to Saturday 1 - 5. Sunday 1 - 4
Congratulations to Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro, the debut solo exhibition at the Rele Gallery in Lagos. 'Feeling Blue, Seeking Solace' exists as part of an ongoing dialogue on mental health and mental health issues in contemporary society. Built up with thick layers of paint, Coleman-Pinheiro’s shroud-like figures emerge and recede into shadowy, formless landscapes, silent inhabitants of an unknowable world. These conjured figures, expressionist in their otherworldliness usher us into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, through emotional experiences and murky landscapes. Echoing the indeterminate, vast nature of the human mind, Coleman-Pinheiro’s textured canvases exist as ‘snapshots’ of an expanding, complex world, one that overwhelms and detaches, offering new depths and realities. In this exhibition, the artist contemplates what it means to...
Solo Exhibition Eternal by KEIGHT MACLEAN October 4th – October 28th Working from historical references of women long passed but forever enduring, this body of work remixes and re-imagines their portraits through Keight MacLean’s personal lens. Enlivening the traditional imagery with a playfulness in contemporary media, including spray paint and paint marker and experimental applications of traditional media, including gold leaf, MacLean explores her own place in the ever progressing timeline of history hopeful these newly created images will be carried forward and remembered. “Reflecting on how many surviving portraits of women we have vs. how many of their stories remain, I am enchanted by the fact that their images now live on in families and serve as an eternal...
