some works at Gallery Gevik: 1) a stunning Daphne Odjig, 2) a timely, lunar-themed work on paper by Carl Beam, 3) a hard-edged abstraction by Ulysse Comtois (Rita Letendre’s partner early in life), and 4) a book-themed painting by David Garneau
#daphneodjig #carlbeam #ulyssecomtois #davidgarneau
a rare opportunity to view (1-2) a body of works by Canadian modernist Fritz Brandtner (1896-1969), with additional works by (3) Rita Letendre, and (4) Philip Surrey, among others at Canadian Fine Arts in Yorkville
#ritaletendre #philipsurrey
Brian Rideout at Towards Gallery
I finally saw Faye HeavyShield's show before it closed yesterday @agotoronto.bsky.social ✨
#fayeheavyshield
we caught On Time, curated by Amy Rogers and Melissa Fish Gallery 1065, before it closes today: 1) Adam David Brown, 2) Philip Leonard Ocampo, 3) Ginette Legaré, 4) Micah Lexier 🕰️ ✨
#ontime
Oddfellows' Hall, 441 Queen Street West, built 1886 🎭
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very pleased with the texts I wrote for Heffel's auctions in May; you can read my descriptions of Alex Colville's Cattle Show (1995) and A.J. Casson's Autumn on the York River (1959) at the links below, or look for them in hard copy 🖼️ 📖✨
www.heffel.com/Auction/A202...
www.heffel.com/Auction/A202...
I visited Joyce Wieland's former Corktown home and the nearby laneway newly christened in her honour 🚏
#joycewieland
Ludovic Boney's In Equilibrium (2024) on Cherry Street 🪞 🌾 🔵
another urban object lesson in metaphor for the kids, Napoleon Brousseau's installation "Ten Ants" (1984) on the exterior of The Cameron House, a witty representation of its tenants 🏨 🐜
#napoleonbrousseau #thecameronhouse #tenants #metaphor
1) Jack Shadbolt, 2) Hortense Gordon, and 3) Alexandra Luke at La Parete Gallery
#jackshadbolt #hortensegordon #alexandraluke
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some horizontal works by 1-2) Jay Isaac, and 3-4) Stephen Andrews at Paul Petro Contemporary Art
@jayisaac.bsky.social
1) Meghan Price, 2-3) Ed Pien, 4) Linda Rotua Sormin at United Contemporary 𓊁 🪨 ✍️ ✂️
the latest iteration of Alize Zorlutuna's Reckoning: [Git gel with cedar], at Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art's SPACE Billboard Commission in 2025-26 🪧 𖡴 ✨️
I only caught at Gallery 44's Salon 44 Annual Fundraising Exhibition on its last day & was too late in posting before it closed, but here are a couple of pics from that show: 1) Nicole Beno "Mirage of the Sprawl", & 2) Rebecca Wood "One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see" 📸 🦋
Glenn Gould's former apartment on St. Clair West, located directly opposite the Imperial Plaza featuring the York Wilson mural I posted last week 🏢 🎹
#glenngould
hour by hour and day after day, we watch and listen as the province excavates countless loads of Ordovician bedrock from below our window; the removal of 450 million years of sedimentation has become our white noise, both day and night
1-2) Timothy Yanick Hunter, and 3-4) Thato Toeba at Union Station 🐜 ⚪ 🐜 📖 ✂️ 🪞
1-3) Jay Isaac, and 4-5) Stephen Andrews at Paul Petro Contemporary Art ☣️ 📰 ✍️
@jayisaac.bsky.social #stephenandrews
York Wilson's sweeping mural representing the deep time of petrocapitalism, The Story of Oil (1957), located in the one-time lobby of the former Imperial Oil headquarters on St. Clair W - currently (1) an LCBO and (2) a Longo's...thanks to Morley Shayuk for bringing Wilson's mural to my attention 🛢️🕰
some details of Alvin Luong's Dephinitely Paradise at Mercer Union, about Lan Thiệu Nguyen, a former refugee from Vietnam and hobby coral farmer 🪸🫧𓇼𓏲*ੈ
1-2) Balint Zsako, and 3-4) Colleen Heslin at Patel Brown Gallery 𓈈 🌵 𓊍
@colleenheslin.bsky.social
