Member Exhibitions & Events
Artist Talk | Dale Kirschenmann @ Collectors Gallery
Artist Talk by Dale Kirschenman
Date: Saturday, April 27th
Time: 11:00 am
As part of the ADAC - Art Dealers Association of Canada Art Hop, join us for an enlightening Artist Talk by Dale Kirschenman. Gain unique insights into the artistic process, inspirations, and stories behind the "Liminal" exhibition.
Final Day | Shelley Niro: silent waiting moving LOUD @ Stephen Bulger Gallery
Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present “silent, waiting, moving, LOUD,” our first solo exhibition of work by Shelley Niro (b. 1954, Niagara Falls, New York, USA). Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, from the Six Nations of the Grand River territory.
ADAC Canadian Art Hop!
This Spring, join the Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) for four days of non-stop art exhibitions and programming at commercial galleries, not-for-profit arts organizations, public galleries, and museums across the country.
Final Day | Winnie Truong: Second Nature @ VivianeArt
VIVIANEART is proud to present an exhibition of all new works by Canadian artist Winnie Truong. Titled Second Nature, this series continues Truong’s near decade long practice of working with pencil crayon drawings and cut paper to create intricately collaged environments. Influenced by fantasy, surrealism and the grotesque, these environments contain hybrid forms, part plant and part body. Unnerving and undeniably alluring, Truong’s works continue to challenge our views of the feminine. They offer a window into a subversion of the idea of a natural order and our perceptions of women’s bodies and identities.
Exhibition runs from March 8th to April 28th.
Opening Day | Sandra Brewster: Lullaby of Birdland @ Olga Korper Gallery
Toronto based artist, Sandra Brewster is interested in making work that emits a lasting presence. Lullaby of Birdland will invite people to engage physically, through metaphor and implied storytelling. Join us in celebrating this exhibition at the opening reception on May 2nd, 5-8 pm.
Lullaby of Birdland will be on view from May 2nd to June 8th, at Olga Korper Gallery.
http://www.olgakorpergallery.com/exhibitions/lullaby-of-birdland/
Closing Day | Dale Kirschenman "Liminal" @ Collectors Gallery
Dale Kirschenman's paintings are more than just images—they are windows to new perspectives, invitations to wander through lush valleys, climb rugged mountains, and bask in the serenity of untouched landscapes.
Artist Talk by Dale Kirschenman
Date: Saturday, April 27th
Time: 11:00 am
As part of the ADAC - Art Dealers Association of Canada Art Hop, join us for an enlightening Artist Talk by Dale Kirschenman. Gain unique insights into the artistic process, inspirations, and stories behind the "Liminal" exhibition.
JAZZYYC: Jazz Walk
Date: Saturday, April 28th
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Immerse yourself in the soulful melodies and vibrant rhythms of jazz as a part of International Jazz Days Jazz Walk. Experience the captivating performance of the Timothonius Trio amidst the inspiring backdrop of our gallery.
Discover the beauty of art and music coming together in harmony at Art Gallery DALE KIRSCHENMAN. We look forward to sharing these unforgettable experiences with you!
https://www.cgoart.com/portfolio-item/dale-kirschenman-liminal/
Final Day | Counterpoint: Nancy Callan and Mel Douglas @ Sandra Ainsley Gallery
COUNTERPOINT – An Exhibition of new work by Nancy Callan and Mel Douglas.
Callan and Douglas with be presenting both individual and collaborative sculptures as part of the Exhibition.
Exhibition will run from March 23rd to May 7th
Final Day | Dennis Ekstedt: Observer @ Herringer Kiss Gallery
Herringer Kiss Gallery presents Dennis Ekstedt: Observer.
This exhibition will run from April 13th to May 11th.
Final Day | Mark Crozier "Painting Toronto" and John F. Marok "Reflections" @ James Rottman Fine Art
A two person exhibition highlighting Toronto artist Mark Crozier "Painting Toronto" and Quebec artist John F. Marok "Reflections". Experience the vibrant downtown Toronto neighborhoods, bustling streetscapes and dynamic city life through Mark Crozier's exquisite paintings. The artist paints with a raw vibrant style that captures the vitality of place and shows us the city in a new and personal way.
John F. Marok "Reflections"
“In my paintings, I channel my inner world and I explore my relationship with the people, places and things around me. I often depict narratives of love, reflections on solitude and childhood memories. My work is abound with historical cameos and references."
John F. Marok lives and works in Wakefield, Quebec, a quaint little village in the Gatineau Hills, where he paints full-time.
Final Day | Whitney Lewis-Smith, The Overview @ Kostuik Gallery
This exhibition’s theme focuses on ideas surrounding the Overview Effect and first hand accounts described by astronauts seeing our fragile earth from space.
Opening Reception | Angela Grossmann: New Work @ Herringer Kiss Gallery
Herringer Kiss Gallery presents Angela Grossmann: New Work. Opening Reception will be Saturday, May 18th, from 2-5PM, and the artist will be in attendance.
Final Day | Angela Grossmann: New Work @ Herringer Kiss Gallery
Herringer Kiss Gallery presents Angela Grossmann: New Work.
This exhibition will run from May 18th to June 22nd.
ADAC Canadian Art Hop!
This Spring, join the Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) for four days of non-stop art exhibitions and programming at commercial galleries, not-for-profit arts organizations, public galleries, and museums across the country.
ADAC Canadian Art Hop!
This Spring, join the Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) for four days of non-stop art exhibitions and programming at commercial galleries, not-for-profit arts organizations, public galleries, and museums across the country.
ADAC Canadian Art Hop!
This Spring, join the Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) for four days of non-stop art exhibitions and programming at commercial galleries, not-for-profit arts organizations, public galleries, and museums across the country.
Opening Reception | Whitney Lewis-Smith: The Overview @ Kostuik Gallery
Our physical location cannot help but inform our scope of the universe. Leaving earth to explore beyond writes a new chapter in our evolutionary tale that may also become part of our origin story. Traversing the heavens, a place previously reserved for imagination and the afterlife, is impacting humanity in ways we are still trying to grasp, especially now as we cruise further and further from home
Opening Reception | Dennis Ekstedt: Observer @ Herringer Kiss Gallery
Herringer Kiss Gallery presents Dennis Ekstedt: Observer.
This exhibition will run from April 13th to May 11th.
Opening Reception will be Saturday, April 13th, from 2-5PM, and the artist will be in attendance
Opening Day | Michelle Austen "Becoming" @ Masters Gallery Ltd.
MICHELLE AUSTEN : BECOMING
April 12-18, 2024
Please join Masters Gallery for an opening reception: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 1-4pm with the Artist in attendance.
Monarch butterflies are beautiful and soft, yet busy and purposeful.
They are intuitive beyond measure, seeking to fly and reproduce, take risks and persevere.
To me, they show extreme resilience and an inspiring sense of freedom.
Monarchs require community to survive, they huddle together in fir trees high in the Mexican forest.
When the sun comes out, they spread their wings and fly towards the light.
This magical experience I will always remember.
Let us become all that we want to be ...
- Michelle Austen
Image :
Michelle Austen
Free to Fly, 2024
Oil on canvas
36x60 in.
Opening Day | Bertram Brooker: Visionary @ Gallery Gevik
April 20 – May 15, 2024
An exhibition devoted to the paintings and drawings of one of Canada’s most influential modernists, Bertram Brooker (1888-1955). Opens Saturday April 20, 2024 at 2pm when curator Michael Parke-Taylor will sign copies of his monograph Bertram Brooker: When We Awake, a retrospective exhibition on now at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection through June 2, 2024.
Final Day | Joice M Hall: Nocturnal Light @ Wallace Galleries
This exhibition focuses on the subtleties and dramatic light in the evening and night skies of Kelowna, BC.
Final Day | Nate McLeod: Slow Burn @ Herringer Kiss Gallery
Herringer Kiss Gallery presents Nate McLeod: Slow Burn.
This exhibition will run from March 7th to April 6th.
Final Day | Spring Cleaning: University of Saskatchewan Staff and Sessional Exhibition @ The GALLERY / art placement
Art Placement is pleased to host an exhibition of works by the staff and sessional lecturers in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Saskatchewan.
Opening Day | When The Time Comes @ Abbozzo Gallery
Brian Harvey’s newest series of work, When the Time Comes, is particularly interested in immortalizing the ephemeral and exploring the ordinary iconography of urban landscapes. Uninterested in the grand spectacle of downtown and the repeated popular motifs of Toronto, Harvey turns a lens onto the smaller, perhaps unremarkable yet recognizable spaces of Toronto -- not limited to, but primarily Toronto’s east end streets, corners, and locales. His artwork produces a familiar affect, the paintings leave viewers, with a sense of I’ve-been-there and I-swear-this-is-just-by-my-house.
Of particular interest to Harvey are the images of places he holds dear, both as an artist and preserver of relics and time capsules in the hyper-evolving landscape of Toronto. We see Harvey's classics: the laneways, street corners, and a return to his interiors. Harvey in some cases eulogizes the dog-eared diners and industrial buildings that have long closed: his subjects are often places that have gone by the way of time, as captured in One Last Time and Convergence. Perhaps more than previous exhibitions, human figures also feature prominently in the pieces.
Harvey is also well known for his distinct mark-making, creating a sense of realism with only the brushstrokes that are necessary – ultra-high realism gives way to feelings of nostalgia and memory.
Exhibition goes until May 4, 20234.
Final Day | Colour Trip @ Oeno Gallery
By mid- winter, as the sun hangs low in the sky and days are still short, many of us yearn to escape the seasonal blues. We crave sunlight, warmth and relief from the gray palette of winter—a return to a colourful world.
Final Day | Chroma VI @ Michael Gibson Gallery
Every winter for the past 6 years we have curated an exhibition that celebrates colour. This year, I explored the concept of contrasts – variations and differences in both tone, shape and of course colour. The duality is sometimes apparent in a single work (like with Will Gorlitz’s glowing blood moon set against the rich and velvety dark blackness of space), while in other instances the juxtaposition requires multiple works (exemplified by Hans Wendt’s incredible soft and bold “index” watercolours).
Typically, the exhibition features abstract painting, however, this year, whimsy and figuration takes prominence. The artists featured include: Greg Curnoe, Mark Dicey, Jonathan Forrest, Will Gorlitz, Clark McDougall, Ron Moppett, William Perehudoff and Hans Wendt.
Final Day | Matt Bahen: Was Once Only Imagined @ Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Nicholas Metivier Gallery is delighted to announce Was Once Only Imagined, an exhibition of new paintings by Matt Bahen.
Final Day | Shelley Adler: Sitting, Standing, Looking @ Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Following her highly acclaimed series, Idols, Muses and Lovers, a series based on Picasso's female muses who were artists in their own right, these latest paintings highlight Adler's own sources of inspiration.
Opening Day | Counterpoint: Nancy Callan and Mel Douglas @ Sandra Ainsley Gallery
COUNTERPOINT – An Exhibition of new work by Nancy Callan and Mel Douglas.
Callan and Douglas with be presenting both individual and collaborative sculptures as part of the Exhibition.
Exhibition will run from March 23rd to May 7th
Final Day | Joane Cardinal-Schubert: Works from the Estate @ Masters Gallery Ltd
Joane Cardinal-Schubert (1942 – 2009) was an artist, curator, and activist whose body of work addressed Indigenous experiences, the deep struggle for cultural autonomy and her personal history as an Indigenous woman in modern day Canada.
Opening Reception | Joice M Hall: Nocturnal Light @ Wallace Galleries
Opening Reception on Saturday, March 16 from 2-5PM: artist in attendance.
Opening Day | Vickie Vainionpää: Gaze-Paintings
Join us for Vickie Vainionpää’s first major solo exhibition in Canada, “Gaze Paintings” opens Saturday March 16th from 2-5pm.
What does it mean to look at a painting? This is the central question explored in Vickie Vainionpää latest body of work, Gaze Paintings, in which she considers the historical implications of the gaze within painting. Vainionpää has developed a distinct visual language of forms that are abstract yet bodily, which are generated through custom built 3D modeling software before being painted in oil on canvas. For the works in Gaze Paintings, Vainionpää adds an additional step to her generative process, which begins with her own embodied gaze and herself as a subject apprehending canonical works of art.
While visiting museum collections during a residency in London, Vainionpää wore eye tracking glasses to record her eye movements while looking at paintings by Rubens, Tintoretto, and Bronzino, among others. Works that were chosen were ones which seemed to exist specifically for the male gaze or that featured a central female nude, with an interest in challenging the directionality of the gaze. Her gaze was mapped as data points in 3D space, which she then used to generate images of her signature tubular forms.
Within some of those forms are the suggestions of faces – points of fixation of the gaze, looking back at the viewer and alluding to though not fully revealing the relationship between the paintings and their source material. Her interest in cyborgism – the relationship of interdependence between humans and the augmenting technological devices that they use – reaches new ambition as she herself becomes a cyborg.
In her newest two paintings from the Gaze Paintings 2.0 series, Vainionpää extended the invitation to others to take part in her generative cyborgian experiment, and compiled the gazes from over 100 viewers on 2 paintings. Their collective gazes were analyzed as data points, and mapped into energetic and dynamic compositions that become an interconnected abstract tangle. Their titles, The Painter’s Studio and The Dream reference specific paintings that the viewers looked at, yet also suggest more ambiguous readings – perhaps it could have been a painter’s studio that viewers’ eyes darted around, rather than a painting of one.
Uniting physical and digital processes, the gaze paintings suggest an optimistic outlook on the creative possibilities of algorithms and technologies which tend to have more sinister associations of tracking and surveillance. Vainionpää works in a mode in which representation and abstraction are one and the same – the gaze paintings are the representation of a physical encounter with works of art, yet at the same time the abstraction of that encounter into a digital and subsequently painted image.
Written by Alex Feim
Opening Reception | Vickie Vainionpää: Gaze Paintings @ Olga Korper Gallery
In her newest two paintings from the Gaze Paintings 2.0 series, Vainionpää extended the invitation to others to take part in her generative cyborgian experiment. In the end she compiled the active gaze of over one hundred viewers into two paintings.
Opening Reception | Patrick Dunford: Branch Lines @ Norberg Hall
Featuring 14 paintings completed between 2019 and 2024 the works continue exploring interests Dunford has pursued over the past decade while diving deeper into the artist’s process; conceptually driven the artist uses place as a lens to contemplate extractive industries and nature’s reclaiming of these spaces. We invite you to join us this Saturday, Mar 16 between 2 - 5 pm for coffee, cookies, + conversation.
Final Day | Contemporary Land: The Birth of Contemporary Drawing in the North @ Feheley Fine Arts
Feheley Fine Arts are thrilled to present their newest exhibition, "Contemporary Land", showcasing groundbreaking works by Annie Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona, Jutai Toonoo, Itee Pootoogook, Tim Pitsiulak, and Ohotaq Mikkigak.
Opening Day | Cathy Daley: Gestures @ Newzones Gallery
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce "Gestures", a solo exhibition of work created by acclaimed Canadian figurative artist, Cathy Daley, marking the two-year anniversary of her passing.
Final Day | David Marshak: Boundless @ Roberts Gallery
This body of work represents the last two years of exploration and development of a single notion. The idea was simply to paint a series of cloud ‘portraits.'
Final Day | Branko Marjanovic & Robyn Lake @ Hambleton Galleries
Hambleton Galleries’ 2024 Spring Show features new work from Branko Marjanovic & Robyn Lake, two lively and colourful artists.
Final Day | Toni Onley: Plein-Air @ Wallace Galleries
This exhibition celebrates a selection of works by Toni Onley from around the world. He often painted watercolors from the pontoon of his plane; always seeing the beauty in landscape and challenged by the watercolour medium.
Final Day | Invention | Illusion, Graham Peacock and Gordon Rayner @ James Rottman Fine Art
James Rottman Fine Art presents Invention | Illusion, from Graham Peacock and Gordon Rayner.
Opening Reception | Joane Cardinal-Schubert: Works from The Estate @ Masters Gallery Ltd.
Please join Masters Gallery Ltd. for an exhibition and sale of works by Joane Cardinal-Schubert RCA LL. D (Kainai, 1942-2009). Opening Reception : Saturday, March 9, 1-4 PM with a presentation on the artist’s life and work by Lindsey Sharman, curator of the Art Gallery of Alberta at 2PM.
Final Day | Kui Cai: Northern Dreamscape @ L.L. Contemporary
L.L. Contemporary is thrilled to announce Kui Cai’s upcoming solo exhibition, ‘Northern Dreamscape,’ featuring 18 of his latest oil paintings. Some of these pieces were created during a recent plein air painting event that the artist attended in Muskoka. It was a captivating gathering where artists painted, dined, and reveled so deeply that time seemed to stand still. This experience not only honored the joy of artistic creation but also cultivated a serene and cheerful atmosphere among the participants. Within this lively environment, artists were moved to explore and capture the surrounding beauty, continuously energized by the excitement of creation and the passion of the painting process. Cai regards these works with great esteem, valuing them as treasures and is eager to share them with the audience.
The Exhibition will run from February 12th to March 10th
Final Day | Jennifer Wanner: Bower @ Paul Kuhn Gallery
Paul Kuhn Gallery is pleased to present Jennifer Wanner’s Bower, a two-part project which features plant species at risk that grow on Canadian soil but also live beyond borders. The exhibition will also include other selected works from Wanner’s earlier series, Absentia and Periculum, that have influenced the Bower project.
Want to list your event or exhibition?
If you are an ADAC Member Gallery and would like us to list your exhibition or event in our calendar, please visit the link below.