With the flowers in bloom, and the weather (hopefully) warming up, we hope you will join us for the Opening Reception of The Wanderer and Souvenirs de passages, solo exhibitions by Vanessa McKernan and Marie Rioux, respectively.

Souvenirs de passages (Memories of passages) harmonizes three constellations of Rioux's work: night scenes, northern impressions, and evolving artistic practices. Across them, Rioux follows lone figures adrift in landscapes that soften and turn inward, becoming sites of quiet reflection. As a result, the paintings linger in states of passage. Memories surface and recede, light shifts, and forms dissolve into one another. What remains is a space where memory is layered and ever-evolving. 

The Wanderer unfolds through an ongoing shift in place and practice, following the artist's move from Toronto to Ottawa Valley, where daily life, gardening, and painting now exist in close proximity. McKernan's paintings move between lived experience and interior reflection. The Wanderer explores figures that drift through landscape and psyche, at times passive, at others searching. Together, the works reflect an exploration of wandering, through place, through the mind, and through the unfolding nature of the creative process itself.

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Lead Image: Marie Rioux, Vol de nuit (Night flight) No. 2, 2026, Mixte on canvas, 24 x 24 in