Sami Sabani (Parkdale alumni) has work in a show at Gallery 1313 (around the corner from the Parkdale Studio) The opening is Thursday Feb 2nd at 6:30. Drop by!
Julia Rose Sutherland is part of an exhibition at the Power Plant.Six artists from Tkaronto and surrounding areas explore how visual documentation and cultural practices can reclaim the narratives of their respective communities despite colonialism’s persistence.I’m going. Join us on February 2, from 8 PM to 11 PM, to experience in parallel first-hand during the opening of the Winter 2023 season.https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/calendar/opening-party-of-winter-2023-exhibitions
Lan “Florence” Yee opened at the Pierre Leon Gallery in Alliance Francais. The show runs until Feb 4. Lan is a visual artist and serial collaborator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Lan’s work has been exhibited at the Darling Foundry (2022), the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2020), the Textile Museum of Canada (2020), and the Gardiner Museum (2019), among others. Along with Arezu Salamzadeh, they co-founded the Chinatown Biennial in 2020.
Lan “Florence” Yee: Just Short of Everything Opening reception: January 13, 2023 from 6:30 to 8:30pm at the Pierre Leon Gallery of the Alliance Française Toronto. 24 Spadina. January 14, 2023 to February 4, 2023 Lan “Florence” Yee is a visual artist and serial collaborator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Just Short of Everything is an exhibition of text and textile that takes on conflicting desires and the foundations that we fall through when trying to fulfill them. The main series, Tangerine, After Grapefruit, draws from Yoko Ono’s 1964 book of instructions, now embroidered as nine large-scale ‘pages’ that were photographed and printed as...