Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
7pm - 10pm
October 10th - November 24th
The Gladstone’s 5th annual Why the @#&! Do You Paint? juried painting exhibition explores the theme “what does it all mean?”. The introduction of the camera aided in changing the focus of painting away from representation and realism towards many different forms of expression. With this, the meaning of the work has surpassed the aesthetics. Works in the exhibition focus on the meaning or message within the work, and are painted to “perfection.”
Curators: Lukus Toane & Spencer J. Harrison
Artists:
Charly Baxter, Ange Beever, Danielle Clarke, Olivia Di Gregorio, Pauline Gladstone, B.A. Lampman, Megan Ellen MacDonald, Noelle Feodora Mok, Kristin Palombo, Kayla Polan, Susan Pollock, Rebecca Proppe, Vivian Rashotte, Amanda Rhodenizer, Bianca Roco, Diego de la Rosa, Margaux Smith, Shannon Taylor-Jones, Matt Thomas, Kim Wilkie, David Willis
Beaver Hall Gallery
29 McCaul Street, Toronto
6pm - 9pm
October 9th - 14th
The idea of transformation is informed by our own personal experiences and presents a broad range of interpretive possibilities. We may become transformed communally through the act of being visible, or by naming our craft and ourselves or interpret transformation as the act of shape-shifting within ritual in a current socio-political, geographic or economic time and space.
How we locate ourselves within these evolving realms of internal and external forces can challenge our notions of witchcraft and identity. Allowing identity to become or remain fluid encourages us as individuals, a witchcraft community and the mainstream to recognize emergent and transformative ideas of witches, and witchcraft.
Artists:
Teresa Ascençao
Olivia Di Gregorio
Lisa East
Yaara Eshet
Jyne Greenley
Rowena Katigbak
Clara Laratta
Megan Lucarelli
Ramune Luminaire
Ella Mazur
Leah Nielsen
Linda Salna
Kesa Smith
Kim Stanford
Natalie Very B
TaraLee Waite
Erin Zerbe
I’ll have work showing at the Women’s Art Association of Canada on July 31st - August 8th for Exuberant, a curated group show featuring a number of recent OCAD University graduates and talented painters.
Feel free to visit on July 31st for the opening reception, going from 5:30-8pm!
