FUTURE PROOF 2025A Virtual Auction in Support of Open Studio VIRTUAL AUCTION DATES / TIMESMay 15 – 12:00 pm ET online auction launchesMay 22 – 7:00 pm ET online auction closes . FUTURE PROOF is back this spring, May 15–22! This annual online fundraising auction in support of Open Studio will showcase a curated selection…
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 9, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. drawing a blank, an installation by Rochelle Rubinstein and Jennifer Lindsay, addresses voicelessness in the forms of delayed language recall, family matters, resistance to aggression and violence, and the current moment of extreme censorship and self-censorship. In this exhibition, visitors enter a spiral-shaped ‘labyrinth’ of hanging…
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 9, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. the stars wish to rest here is a contemplative installation reflecting Leila Fatemi’s exploration of Islamic geometry as a framework for engaging with spirituality, interconnectedness, and cultural memory. Inspired by her first visit to the Alhambra, an iconic monument of Islamic architecture, Fatemi reimagines its intricate…
The sale continues until December 21st! Open Studio’s Holiday Print Sale & Shop EventFREE to attend! Opening night: Thursday, November 285:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Live Printmaking Demo at 6:00 pm Can’t make it to opening night? Stop by anytime—the galleries will feature a rotating selection of new artworks through December 21.Mark your calendars! Join…
From epic proportions to small scale, the prints in the Intimate Impressions: Figures, Studies and Abstractions exhibition—each created at Open Studio and originally collected for the studio archive—are united through their exploration of the figure and intimacy. Janet Cardiff is internationally known for her collaborative sound installations created with George Bures Miller but initially trained…
We are grateful to have partnered with Waddington’s for their Editions auction, running online until October 31, 2 pm ET. The auction features prints from Open Studio’s archive and publishing program, with proceeds directly supporting our organization. A big thank you to Waddington’s for their partnership! .
Collector’s First Look & Opening NightThursday, October 24Collector’s First Look: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pmOpening Night: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Public DaysFriday, October 25, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSaturday, October 26, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSunday, October 27, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West, Toronto, M5V…
For Nuit Blanche, on October 5th, Open Studio will be responding to the two large framed linocut prints from Jeannie Thib’s Tabula series that are installed in the corridor outside of Open Studio’s entrance in the 401 Richmond Street building. A series of prints drawn from Thib’s artwork collection for sale will be presented in…
Experience the art of screenprinting at Open Studio! Watch artist Arwen Giel in action during a live screenprinting demonstration in our front-of-house galleries. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about screenprinting techniques and gain a deeper appreciation for the art of printmaking. While you’re here, explore our galleries showcasing a diverse selection of contemporary…
We are pleased to present a rotating selection of contemporary prints from our sales program, fundraising program, and archive in our gallery spaces. Our display will change every couple of weeks to show a wide variety of works in the printmaking medium: from small prints to large prints, lithographs, etchings, screenprints, linocuts, and everything in…
Open Studio is thrilled to participate in the 2024 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF) in the Community Booths section! We thank TOAF for this opportunity to showcase a curated collection celebrating the possibilities of print. About TOAF Community Booths: Each year, artist-run centers, collectives, and non-profit galleries join TOAF to showcase their members’ work, raise…
An Introduction to Printmaking Print Workshop Abbozzo Gallery learning series Suite 128 at 401 Richmond Street WestSaturday, June 8, 20242 – 5 pm As part of Abbozzo Gallery’s Learning Series, the gallery announces a printmaking workshop led by gallery artist Alex R.M. Thompson in partnership with Open Studio. This will include a tetra pak drypoint…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 19, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. John A. Sharkey (Coast Salish), Charles Jules (Nuu-chah-nulth), and Hereditary Chief Shawn Decaire (Kwakwaka’wakw) live on unceded Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ Territories (North Vancouver Island) and work collaboratively as members of the Ha̲mdzat̓si Collective. They can often be heard sharing and comparing stories, and dispensing Elder-in-training wisdom, as they…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 19, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. In The Dreamer is Still Asleep, Khadijah Morley showcases a collection of vibrant, yet subtle new prints. Working intuitively, she allows unconscious decisions to inform her imagery. The result is the emergence of new imaginative realms. Working with linocut and wood carving, she creates work from…
Open Studio is Suite #104 Open Studio is a part of Doors Open Toronto!Suite #104 Saturday, May 2510:00 am – 5:00 pm Visit Open Studio at 401 Richmond, Suite 104, for Doors Open Toronto! Explore the building and the community of tenants, and observe the Three ‘C’s – community, culture, and commerce – at work. Join…
May 25, 10:00 am – 5: 00 pm at Open Studio . Join artist Cleopatria Peterson and collaborate on their Security Blanket. Using linocut and relief printing we will use this workshop to collaborate and create prints that will be stitched into a makeshift quilt. The final product will be showcased in their show Bestie Mart at…
May 11, 10:00 am – 6: 00 pm at Open Studio . Open Studio Instructors are launching a grassroots fundraising event Print Tease 🫣 😋 They are donating their time and skills so you can come get inky with them at the studio for a print workshop extravaganza ✨ Make a sliding scale donation between…
THE AUCTION IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you for your support! We will notify all winners when the artwork is packaged and ready for pick-up or shipping. FUTURE PROOF 2024A Virtual Auction in Support of Open Studio VIRTUAL AUCTION DATES / TIMESMay 2 – 12:00 pm ET online auction launchesMay 9 – 5:00 pm ET online…
Open Studio is taking place in the Canadian Art Hop! We will be featuring two onsite exhibitions during this time and offering studio tours. Gallery Hours:April 25, Thursday | 11 am – 5 pmApril 26, Friday | 11 am – 5 pmApril 27, Saturday | 12 pm – 5pmPlease note that we are not open…
We are very thankful to have partnered with Waddington’s and to take part in their Editions auction, held online from April 20 – 25, featuring eleven prints from the Open Studio print archive and publishing program. Proceeds from these eleven lots will help support Open Studio’s mission of enabling artists of all backgrounds to continue…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 1, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Jill Ho-You’s work engages with the anxiety, fear, and speculation about the future of the planet by imaging the world after the Anthropocene reaches the predicted climax of catastrophic climate change. Set in a future where biodiversity, the environment, human industry, society, and health have been…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 1, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Spring Again is Jaehyang Lee’s first exhibition since 2016 and features a series of intricate lithograph prints, many of which were created in the last two years. Lee’s work draws upon her experience of dislocation and isolation when she moved to Toronto from Seoul, Korea, and…
Featuring work by: Elizabeth D’Agostino, Phyllis Gordon, Astrid Ho, Walter Procska and Phoebe Todd-Parrish. Making an Impression celebrates a variety of approaches to printmaking and includes several different techniques including linocut, screenprint, monoprint, etching, and woodcut. The uniting factor in each way of working is the act of impression or transfer – building an image…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 12, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Unbound يا يك خوان از هفت خوان اسفنديار, Reyhan Yazdani’s first solo show in Toronto, considers the displacement of objects and people, legacies of dispossession and the generational, geographical and terrestrial experiences of loss and yearning. Through creative processes of transformation, reorientation, fragmentation, replication and modification,…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 12, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Have a Pomelo engages the materiality of the giant citrus fruit, the pomelo. The pomelo is a significant fruit in the Chinese home, finding itself regularly on the spirit table, shared among family members as dessert, or gifted during Lunar Calendar festivals. Unlike its citrus cousins,…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 12, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Buried Echoes explores the course of the buried Taddle Creek in today’s Toronto, encouraging looking and listening to what cannot be immediately seen or heard — an obscured piece of nature and indigenous heritage. The practice-based research for this work includes the development of a year-long…
OPENING NIGHT PARTY: Thursday, December 7, 6-9 pm at Open Studio Get ready for Screen-O-Rama, Open Studio’s exciting holiday fundraiser! Join us for the opening night party on Thursday, December 7th, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, featuring immersive printmaking activities, incredible art for sale, and a festive atmosphere. Our front-of-house galleries will transform into an…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 27, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. CONSTRUCT & ASSEMBLE is a visual case study that explores social conditioning from the everyday perspective of the other – in this case, a Black person living in the American South. The title forms an acronym that provides a step-by-step guide on how to create an…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 27, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. A Medium to Tell Stories brings together three artists who incorporate print media and narrative elements into their work to tell stories informed by personal, generational, and wider community experiences. Mohammad Tabesh’s work is informed by his childhood memories of war and violence. His work for…
Friday, November 4, 1-3 pm at Open Studio. Please join us in person at Open Studio for a drop-in conversation with Jillian Ross and Brendan Copestake as they discuss their collaborative printmaking process and work. In 2024 in Aix-en-Provence, France, William Kentridge will be presenting a new theatrical production titled The Great Yes, The Great No….
Collector’s First Look & Opening NightThursday, October 26Collector’s First Look: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pmOpening Night: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Public DaysFriday, October 27, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSaturday, October 28, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSunday, October 29, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West, Toronto, M5V…
Friday, October 6, 2-4 pm at Open Studio. We are pleased to welcome Lili Boshevska, Director of the Cultural and Information Center (CIC) in Bitola, Macedonia, to give a talk at Open Studio. In her role at the CIC, Dr. Boshevska has organized and supported numerous projects and exhibitions of fine artists from all over the…
Saturday, September 23, 7 pm – 7 am, Open Studio shop window installation. The Deceiving Eye is an experimental animation composed of cyanotype prints. The video features a non-narrative series of short, looping vignettes inspired by phenakistoscopes (early, analog animation devices that were circular). These abstract sequences play on motifs related to nature, the body,…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 8, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. We are excited to announce our 2022 – 23 Visiting Artists’ (VA) Residency exhibition featuring work by Dorian FitzGerald, Rafa Santos, and Kara Springer. The Visiting Artist Residency Program allows artists to realize a creative project in print media using traditional and experimental methods. During the…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 8, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Ruth A. Mora Izturriaga’s artistic practice thrives on diverse expressions, inspired by change, transformation, and adaptation. Anatomic images and references to nature are recurrent in her art, symbolizing beauty, time’s passage, birth, regeneration, and healing. She aims for them to bridge between her personal preoccupations and…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 8, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. The diptych portrays a figure lost in thought as they gaze back into a mirror that reflects on their past self with a sense of rememory. The artwork in Rememory captures nostalgia as a powerful magnet that draws the figure toward their past experiences. The figure…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 9, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Created through the Nick Novak Mid-Career Printmaker Residency (find out about our residencies here), the work in this exhibition presents an exploration of contemporary possibilities for printmaking as a conceptual tool. Playing with modes of inscription that range from the performative to the mechanical, printmaking allows…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 9, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Growing up in Iran, the highly political atmosphere of society and constant turmoil in the region manifested themselves in Mohammad Tabesh’s memories. He remembers the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, including mass arrests of political activists, widespread imprisonments and executions with…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 9, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Historic Toronto/Tkaronto was once built mainly of wood but, after several devastating fires, brick became the building material of choice. By 1912 there were 34 brickyards within the city’s proximity. With modern building developments in the 60s, 70s, and 80s much of the city’s clean demolition…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 21, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. What is so new about “new media”? The original definition of “media” simply meant “material” (wood, bronze, ink, and so on). It is ironic then that new media (more commonly known as digital media) is viewed as holding an immaterial existence. The digital image after all…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 21, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. Phoebe Todd-Parrish’s exhibition, TO STAY, is a selection of work exploring the diners of Toronto and these unassuming local landmarks’ roles as bellwethers of changing architectural fashions and processes of gentrification. Through observation and comparison of these particular neighbourhood locales, patterns and particularities emerge, encouraging the…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 21, 5-7 pm at Open Studio. For printmaker Christopher Hutsul, Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Pickering, Ontario. was an opportunity to explore his fascination with large, person-made structures and infrastructure, the likes of dams, mines, power plants etc. In this instance, he was interested in surveying the power plant’s physical and symbolic relationship…
This exhibition features three artists whose use of print-based processes is actively intertwined with botanical material. Taking place towards the close of winter and in anticipation of spring, the works in Cultivating Connection engage with communication, unfixed outcomes, and slow viewing. Jenn Law’s recent explorations with a Line-o-scribe involve the letterpress impression of poetic sentiments…
Lichens: infinitely varied, ancient, ubiquitous, slow-growing, tiny, still, silent. Lichens are a foundational element in the development of plant life on earth. They unite differences, both algae and fungi, plus additional lifeforms, exemplifying collaboration and symbiosis and the absence of binary hierarchies. Moreover, they are marvellously intricate and beautiful. The prints in this exhibition each…
Cleopatria Peterson’s printmaking practice explores how print can be used to create tactile art objects that feel as though they exist in our everyday lives. Their artwork Bestie Mart explores the labour of print through creating a product and commodity using humour. In our current landscape, living is unaffordable, particularly groceries. Using the motif of…
An image list is available here. Semipermeable describes a barrier or membrane that is partially, but not freely or wholly permeable. Our urban environment is full of fences and windows, gates and grids – semipermeable membranes between the worlds of the public and private that are at once open and closed. These works probe the experience…
I would like to acknowledge that the lands depicted in these images are not my home. This land and water belong to the Inuit people of Canada and Greenland. I am grateful to have been welcomed into their homelands and acknowledge the problematic nature of being a settler within this space. Climate change impacts us…
With no distinct beginning or end, thoughts are momentary ideas that bubble up to the surface. Consistently collected and categorized, they create a loop of ideas, gestures, and feelings mulled over until satisfied. Through this series of prints, Elmi illustrates the physical depiction of thought processes. This collection of fragmented moments and sentiments that may…
We are excited to announce our 2020 – 22 Visiting Artists’ (VA) Residency exhibition featuring work by Nour Bishouty, Rachel Crummey and Laura Findlay. The Visiting Artist Residency Program allows artists to realize a creative project in print media using traditional and experimental methods. During the residency, visiting artists work with a collaborative printmaker and…
You really don’t remember? features a selection of artist proofs from Tyler Bright Hilton’s ongoing series of narrative etchings. Mixing fictional and real-life people ‘cast’ as antagonists who symbolize different themes, this work is inspired by film noir, a genre which combines the fatalism and disorientation of a society going through rapid and frightening cultural…
All that I see, all that I wonder, is a new work by Ron Siu experimenting with the intersections between print media and animation. Through a series of hand-printed phenakistoscopes (circular devices that were an early analogue form of looping animation), Siu considers their cyclical nature as space for meditations on change, intuition, emotions and…
Collector’s First Look & Opening NightThursday, October 27: VIP event (invitation only). Public DaysFriday, October 28, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSaturday, October 29, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSunday, October 30, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West, Toronto, M5V 2W6. We’re excited to participate in Art Toronto’s Content…
Nuit Blanche Open Studio shop window installation on display from sunset to sunrise, Saturday, October 1, 2022 (7:00 pm – 7:00 am). Thinking through Soviet filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein’s reflections on animation as a plasmatic medium, one that is forever unstable and with the “ability to dynamically assume any form“, while also considering the…
Image: Rest On The Gum Hoods, 2022, laser etched acrylic, spray paint. Mounted on a baltic birch panel, 48” x 72”. Please note that the following exhibition text contains sensitive words. An X-ray of a memory only the bones remember. ‘X’ marks the spot where the ghost bicycle occupies the place of a tragic happening. Painted…
Judith Klugerman’s work often recalls, in an abstract way, the colours and textures of places she has visited. These images engraved in Klugerman’s memory are re-invented in her etchings, weavings, and paintings. They crop up as overlapping layers of colour, subtle linear markings, and traces of poetry. Drawing is a continuous part of Klugerman’s practice….
This exhibition has been extended to October 22, 2022 The world we see comes in flashes, and then it becomes an imperfect icon, an image that helps retrieve a memory but a memory that changes a little each time we revisit it. What is awareness of then, and what is it now? The urge to…
The creative starting point for this exhibition, A Practical Guide to Localization, by Native Art Department International (NADI) is a custom-made traffic barrier that has been taken apart and re-assembled in an improvised fashion. This gesture counters the expected aesthetic experience of a centre primarily known for printmaking. The materially versatile works exhibited in A…
What are individual, cultural, and societal associations with belonging, and how does its absence shape our expectations and identities? Whether direct or obtuse, these connections invite a multitude of concurrent themes, including longing, vulnerability, and reclamation. How does one define and respond to intimacy and connection at a time when, in the wake of the…
This exhibition presents new work by artists Jasmin-Nicole Amoako, Megan Feheley, and Sonali Menezes, created while participating in Open Studio’s inaugural Virtual REsidency program. These three emerging artists spent six weeks developing ideas and learning printmaking processes both virtually through digital learning and engagement and in-person at Open Studio. The new prints in this exhibition result from…
Blooming over her body, a bouquet of indiscriminate desires. The grotesque body has no beginning or end; it takes up too much space and is ineffaceable from its environment. In Joy Wong’s exhibition florescence, cut-outs from etchings and lithographs are pasted over each other on the gallery walls in an expansive collage that cannot be…
Inspired by depictions of the physical newspaper in popular culture, the print-based sculptures in roll! stack! fold! break! (old man yells at cloud) by Pudy Tong, play up the notions of superficial knowing and tenuous materiality. The veneer of mimesis falls away when these haphazardly recreated newspaper props are brought outside the context of the screen,…
What does it mean to talk about there while being here? A TROPICAL GLOW BABY PRODUCTION: Remember the sun baby girl is an expanded installation of a portion of Isabel Diana’s MFA Thesis. The installation includes a repeated pattern wall and two monoprints—a printmaking technique that is significant to their practice. The work explores her…
New Prints is a continuation of Tom Lecuyer’s exploration into the fundamental elements of printmaking. In this new body of work, Lecuyer asks the audience to reflect upon the printmaking process and to question the nature of a print in general. His work references the Modernist re-thinking of material hierarchy and the Minimalist tradition of…
Documenting Border Barriers is an exhibition by Pamela Dodds that addresses the exponential rise in the building of fortified fences and walls between nations and territories to control and prevent the movement of people. The installation in Open Studio’s Project Space presents the initial prints in her continuing, comprehensive study in drypoint and relief printmaking…
Wall Drawing #1 Sean Weisgerber’s new series of wall drawings stems from his ongoing Price Per Square Inch series of paintings. At Open Studio, the artist will execute the first work in this series, Wall Drawing #1, using a price gun to place fluorescent pink price stickers in each square inch of the gallery walls’…
Kelsey Stephenson’s exhibition, Flux, uses images from along the North Saskatchewan, Athabasca, and Bow rivers to create imagined landscapes of disparate places – one view may encompass everything from the Saskatchewan glacier to the riverbank in Edmonton. Imagery and sounds have been taken from dissimilar times and places and brought together as a whole made…
Samar Hejazi uses visual perception, repetition, reflection, light, shadow, multidimensionality and interactivity to question interpretations of structural systems of belief. By emphasizing temporality and transformability based on perspective, she challenges the mind’s inclination and impulse to hold and ascertain meaning. Her use of repetition and multiple focal points allow the viewer to create their own…
…a delayed reaction to a surprising or significant situation after an initial failure to notice anything unusual —usually used in the phrase do a double take (Mariam-Webster Online) By utilizing imagery of mirrors, Khadijah Morley’s work in Double Take asks viewers to ruminate on the notion of spectatorship. Emanating from the mirrors in Khadijah’s linocuts is…
6/edition Toronto International Art Book FairOctober 29 – 31, 2021Metro Toronto Convention Centre255 Front Street West, Toronto, M5V 2W6 We are delighted to be participating in the 6/edition Toronto International Art Book Fair. Open Studio Shop will be exhibiting a selection of contemporary prints and artist multiples as part of the fair, which this year takes place…
Each year, Open Studio awards two yearlong residencies to artists. The Nick Novak Fellowship* is awarded to an artist currently involved with Open Studio as an artist member. Recipients are provided with rent-free access to Open Studio facilities for one year, a materials bursary, professional development assistance, including access to Open Studio’s education program and…
The long history of vicious weapons adorned in beautiful engravings is remembered and reflected in this exhibition by Rocky Dobey. The title is inspired by Jane Jacobs’ 2004 book “Dark Age Ahead”, in which her insight about the US embracing Trumpism was prescient. Dobey’s interest in medieval Byzantine style is influenced by his childhood spent…
Don Phillips Scholarship Residency recipient. Blind Spots is a new body of work where Lavinia Lindsay touches on what it means to value new experiences and places beyond your focal point. Her mezzotint prints focus on scenes of her drive from Toronto, Ontario, to Tofino, British Columbia, where she spent time alone on the road this…
DAY TRIPPER is a public art exhibition and collaboration between Open Studio and Lake Effect Projects as part of their ongoing Ferry Terminal Billboard Project, on the occasion of Open Studio’s 50th anniversary in 2020. Taking place across two exhibitions – the first featuring Nix Burox and Lorna Livey, and the second with Philippe Blanchard…
As part of Open Studio’s 50th-anniversary programming in 2020 we put forward a call to our artist membership for print projects that pushed the possibilities of size in printmaking. The result is a duo exhibition, Over the Horizon, featuring artwork by Sadko Hadžihasanović and Libby Hague, which brings together two different approaches to large-scale printmaking,…
For the last ten years, Philippe Blanchard has developed an interdisciplinary creative practice exploring the intersections of animation, installation, textile and print. His recent animated works, Brouillages/Interference Patterns and Rayuela/Hopscotch, both from 2019, represent the continuation of a body of work first initiated during his yearlong research project through Open Studio’s Nick Novak Fellowship, in…
carlina Chen’s practice explores experiences of time and space in everyday life. Everyday indicates routine, the mundane; the actual backbone of our existence. This overlooked omnipresence is a staple of her art-making language. Overlook features visuals and audio, mapping out a shared riding experience that illustrates how we relate to the spaces and the temporal…
A Celebration of 50 Years of Print and Artist-Run Centres in Toronto Participating artists: Saimaiyu Akesuk, Shuvinai Ashoona, Sally Ayre, Philippe Blanchard, Yael Brotman, Laura Bydlowska, Agata Derda, Eric Euler, Arwen Giel, Ted Howorth, Brenda Joy Lem, Ooloosie Saila, Ningeokuluk Teevee, Alex R.M. Thompson, Pudy Tong, and Meggan Winsley. In the fall, Open Studio and…
An image list is available here. “In these times of enforced isolation how can we remember and reinforce the benefit of being together? Community should not always be considered valuable on the basis of pure numbers. Surely the power is in how our numbers increase the possibilities of cooperation? A friend of mine once spoke…
An image list is available here. The Toronto Star has reviewed Rochelle Rubinstein’s exhibition, you can read the article here. The block printed banners in SHELTER in PLACE represent Rochelle Rubinstein’s desire to blend the design aesthetics and art of printmaking on textiles with social and environmental advocacy. When her Open Studio exhibition was postponed due to…
An image list is available here. We live in a continually changing environment where changes construct layers of memories that weave together past and present. Walking is one of Sally’s passions, an activity she enjoys and where her thoughts can flow at liberty in many directions. The exploration of parks, ravines and waterways in and…
List of participating artists here.View the Murmuración card catalogue here. On behalf of Open Studio, artist members Andrea deBruijn and Heather J. A. Thomson invited national and international printmakers to create an edition of slotted cards. These cards are the foundation of Murmuración: an expansion of Open Studio’s Murmuration exhibition that would have travelled to…
We are excited to announce our 2019 – 20 Visiting Artists’ (VA) Residency exhibitions featuring work by Kotama Bouabane, Meaghan Hyckie, Luke Painter and Annie Wong. The Visiting Artist Residency Program allows artists to realize a creative project in print media using traditional and experimental methods. During the residency, VAs work with a collaborative printmaker…
As for me, I know nothing else but miracle,Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,Or stand under the trees in the woods.– Walt Whitman Life does not and cannot stand still. Its beauty rests in impermanence. We look at nature and the human imagination,…
An image list is available here. Films for Garments features a suite of films, hand-painted on mylar, layered and tacked to the wall. These films are often used to create printed material, particularly screenprints. For the past year, Michelle Forsyth has been making a series of garments, printed at Open Studio, to wear in large-scale photographs….
Richard Sewell views his work as “occurrences” because they are a gathering of possibilities that he allows. He chooses to avoid rushing toward a conclusion to better notice what he is actually doing in the now, in front of him. The three works featured in wHerOccurence titled Memory, Memoir, and Mimic, together reflect on Sewell’s…
The word shade offers comfort, implying shelter, protection, and relief. It simultaneously alludes to that which is uncertain – a spectral presence, an obstruction of clarity, or a gathering darkness. In this installation, Andrea deBruijn fills the gallery with black printed foliage, inviting reflection on our changing relationship to natural environments. Her leafy contours represent…
The Oscilloscope Drawings is a collaborative publishing project between Open Studio and Micah Lexier, resulting in a set of ten photopolymer etchings on 17″ x 11” Japanese Kozuke paper, held in a silkscreen-printed, aluminum portfolio box. The prints feature imagery from a found technical manual, continuing Lexier’s interest in creating new objects from old sources. — Micah…
Open Studio is proud to participate in Partners in Art, TBD Takeover initiative. Our first nominated artist is: Ciara Phillips TBD Takeover is an online, commissioned art project spotlighting works and stories relating to this current period of uncertainty amidst the global health crisis. In partnership, select artist-run centres have curated two artists to takeover…
Open Studio is proud to participate in Partners in Art, TBD Takeover initiative. Our second nominated artist is: Michelle Forsyth. TBD Takeover is an online, commissioned art project spotlighting works and stories relating to this current period of uncertainty amidst the global health crisis. In partnership, select artist-run centres have curated two artists to takeover PIA’s…
On-site exhibition cancelled due to Covid-19 Canadian/Irish artist Ciara Phillips works with printmaking processes to make art both alone and in collaboration with others. Through her practice, she explores the physical and tactile properties of printing and considers its histories and legacies as they relate to art and the wider realm of information production and…
On-site exhibition cancelled due to Covid-19 Where She Lives brings together bold, graphic printmaking by three female artists working out of the WBEC Kinngait Studios, Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut. Where She Lives at once refers to Ningiukulu Teevee, Saimaiyu Akesuk and Ooloosie Saila’s representations of landscapes, wildlife and everyday ephemera, but also alludes to interior worlds…
Nick Novak Fellowship Residency recipient. In Afterdark, Agata Derda focuses on the exploration of interpersonal dynamics. As stand-ins for actual human images, she substitutes modified vegetation or man-made forms that are staged in ambiguous, foreboding landscapes. Human engagement with these fictional landscapes is suggested by carefully planned arrangement of objects within the ground (trees planted…
Don Phillips Scholarship Residency recipient. Room for Absence features small and large-scale woodcut and letterpress pieces alongside installation work. With tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation, but also sometimes uncomfortably honest exposition, Nix Burox uses autobiography and self-analysis to tackle issues of mental illness, gender, and being an artist struggling to find coherence. As a self-identified ‘recovering perfectionist’, Burox…
Joy Wong’s Skimming, skirmishing explores the fight between interior and exterior worlds by meditating on the dirt that lives with us, on the in-betweenness of skin, boundaries, and thresholds. To skim is to discard of “impurities”. To take the top off, to reveal below. These works are explorations in materiality and corporeal ambiguity. Deteriorating surfaces…
Meet the Curator Rebecca Travis: January 25, 12:00 pmJoin us for an informal talk about our current exhibition PRESS RECORD: Prints from the Open Studio Archive, led by Curator Rebecca Travis. Open Studio is excited to present its first 50th anniversary exhibition PRESS RECORD featuring prints and ephemera from the Open Studio Archive, curated by…
Liz Little is a contemporary artist based in Toronto. Moon Song features a selection of Mokuhanga prints made by Little during a recent residency in Japan.
Pascaline Knight uses screenprinting, performance and installation to examine and reveal the interstices of being. This exhibition is the culmination of her master thesis research: When ( i ) stand for the w(hole)/ je maintiens mon être entre deux parenthèses embrassées—performing the substrate. During this research, she operated from the red margin to find, appreciate…
Process-based, experimental, and spontaneous, Rachael Dodgson’s practice explores the possibilities of print and the impact of abstract imagery on both artist and viewer. Dodgson uses lithography and screenprinting techniques to create colourful and bold work. Informed by her spontaneous gestures, Dodgson’s mark-making is an evolving language that translates subconscious thoughts centered around mental health, perception,…
Generational Echoes is a new body of work that is part of Emma Nishimura’s ongoing research that focuses on the narratives surrounding the Japanese Canadian internment, which investigates the weight of memory and the stories that are passed down from one generation to the next (and the stories that are lost as well). An extension…
We are excited to announce our second of two 2018 – 19 Visiting Artists’ (VA) Residency exhibitions featuring work by Maura Doyle and Sidney Masuga. The Visiting Artist Residency Program allows artists to realize a creative project in print media using traditional and experimental methods. During the residency, VAs work with a collaborative printmaker and…
Where I’m at Now is a collection of ‘postcards’ reflecting an ongoing conversation about the experience of place – physical and psychic – by artists Yael Brotman, Karen Curry, Liz Parkinson, Snaige Sileika and M.J. Steenberg, colloquially called the Gibson Girls. During their 2018 annual retreat, each of the artists received ten 4”x6” cards to…
Shape Garden 2019, by Toronto-based artist Tom Lecuyer, features a monotype print and the woodblocks used to create it. The installation draws attention to the printmaking process and explores the relationship between print and sculpture.
a·mal·gamnoun: amalgam; plural noun: amalgams a mixture or blend.“a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern” synonyms: combination, union, merger, blend, mixture, mingling, compound, fusion, marriage, weave, coalescence, synthesis, composite, composition, concoction, amalgamation;informal: mash-up Amalgam celebrates Otis Tamasauskas’ career in printmaking, a medium enveloped by its own unique factors that present endless possibilities. Tamasauskas has always…
This group show features a selection of prints by artists who worked under the tutelage of Otis Tamasauskas. Each work shows artistic development that is strongly rooted in creative experimentation, whether it’s through the painterly mark-making seen in Amy Uyeda’s prints, bold graphic design elements in Tara Cooper’s work or an appreciation for layering elements…
We are excited to announce our first of two 2018 – 19 Visiting Artists’ (VA) Residency exhibitions featuring work by Erika DeFreitas and Frisk Flugt (Tina Helen and Ask Katzeff). The Visiting Artist Residency Program allows artists to realize a creative project in print media using traditional and experimental methods. During the residency, VAs work…
Open Up is a collection of screenprints that tell stories of Victoria Day’s experiences with anxiety, depression, motivation and mental health. Her figures convey a sense of defiance and confrontation representative of the internal struggles that sometimes seem impossible to address and the strength it takes to overcome or simply accept them. Each screenprint is…
PA System’s Do you want to take the short-cut or the long-cut? is part of an ongoing collection of works about land: human use and relationship to land, places of shared experience and memory, complex and conflicting societal relationships to resource exploitation and industry, ideas of development, commons, nations, rights, and the experience of snow…
Passage is a recent body of work by Laura Bydlowska which examines how strata intersect to create or limit access within a fictional landscape. Passage continues Bydlowska’s fascination with geologic cross-sections, and the forming of imagined environments below the surface. Passage also suggests movement, an opportunity to observe how lines, shapes and textures encourage the eye to travel across different…
A Twist of Lime employs the blended roll technique of other work in Lorna Livey’s ongoing Glow series, but unlike those other works, which hint at narrative landscape and atmospheric meditations, A Twist of Lime is a visual play of pure abstraction. To add to the sense of experimentation, the modular units can be rearranged, the patterns…
Convergence North/South is a printmaking project which took place in Ivujivik, Nunavik (Arctic Quebec) and features three artists from Nunavik – Qumaq Iyaituk, Mary Paningajak and Passa Mangiuk – collaborated with Montreal-based artist and printmaker, Lyne Bastien. In addition to individual chine-collé prints, each of the four artists created their own panel of twenty-eight linocuts,…
The Laxgiik Convocation Robe by Luke Parnell (Haida/ Nisga’a) is an immersive installation, performance, and print of an original design based on Northwest coast Indigenous Chilkat blankets. The blanket refers to the potlatch, a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. On some occasions of the event, Chilkat blankets were cut…
Superstratum is a survey of the Earth’s surface—a new layer in the making. In this exhibition, Morgan Wedderspoon brings together found objects and borrowed text* to inquire into the relationship between the inconsistent human subject and the escalating crisis of anthropogenic global warming. Her works, playfully ethnographic in tone, embrace subjectivity, speculation and free association….
Monarchs, Mexico and Milkweed are the focus of Liz Menard’s current work in progress. In September 2015, she was an Artist in Residence at Playa in Oregon’s high desert. Playa is adjacent to a six-mile lake that dries up each summer. This extreme otherworldly landscape was arid and barren. The dry, cracked lakebed resembled clay. Menard spent her days wandering, collecting, sketching, photographing and creating prints. When she returned to Toronto,…
Fatima Garzan’s multidisciplinary art practice includes painting, printmaking, and site-specific installations. Through these various media, she explores pattern and abstraction as it exists within diverse cultures. Having trained in both Iran and Canada, she strives to mix influences from both eastern and western cultures, while investigating ornamental and modern design in her work. She combines…
Even the continents have no place but earth. The title of this exhibition is borrowed from a poem by Canadian poet and philosopher Jan Zwicky, The Geology of Norway, which explores the discrepancy between logical language and the ineffable, how we struggle to find and express meaning. These tensions are reflected in Judd’s affinity for the factual:…
Nick Novak Fellowship Residency recipient. Botanique is part of an ongoing body of work that explores Stewart’s long fascination with utopian architecture, the early history of photography and notions of archiving and collecting. Stewart has been photographing and researching Victorian conservatories as utopian architectures not only for their formal attributes of construction but also as sites…
Don Phillips Scholarship Residency recipient. Although many countries faced economic hardships following World War I, the German Papiermark was notoriously volatile and exceeded other inflation rates. Beyond Statistics: The Artifacts of Inflation continues Thomson’s visual and historical research into Papiermarks. Heather Thomson feels discussions on hyperinflation Germany focus on statistics and disregard the physicality of currency. For…
We are excited to announce our second of two 2017 – 18 Visiting Artists’ (VA) Residency exhibitions featuring work by Colin Miner and Susy Oliveira. The Visiting Artist Residency Program allows artists to realize a creative project in print media using traditional and experimental methods. During the residency, VAs work with a collaborative printmaker and…
Get it together is a body of work by Meggan Winsley about survival, and of wearing masks so that we may endure. Winsley is drawn to the use of masks, and by extension, the possible alternate identities that one can wear. Winsley began using gas masks as a chosen imagery, followed by Plague masque imagery and…
We are excited to announce our first of two 2017 – 18 Visiting Artists’ (VA) Residency exhibitions featuring work by Jaime Angelopoulos and Panya Clark Espinal. The Visiting Artist Residency Program allows artists to realize a creative project in print media using traditional and experimental methods. During the residency, VAs work with a collaborative printmaker…
Variations on Urban Planning features print-based work by Alex R.M. Thompson. The work aims to unpack the process of contemporary city building, drawing on the order/disorder of the construction site as its primary motif. The work deconstructs the familiar ubiquity of urban building, removing the necessary (and numerous) instruments of development from their regular contexts and…
Footnotes is the first solo exhibition of work by Michelle Forsyth in Toronto. Her work is both material and conceptual, and includes: sculpture, weaving, writing, painting, in addition to printmaking, which she uses to examine her changing relationship to the objects in her home. Recent screenprinted photographs of bundled objects and screenprinted text passages that have been…
The Figure: Trials and Tribulations exhibit is a retrospective of Nancy Hanada’s exploration of the figure and monotype printing over the last six years. It documents her struggles with experimentation and balancing reality versus imagination in creating figures using the medium of monotype printing. It is a journey that includes triumphs, disasters and happy accidents….
Group Exhibition featuring work by Barbara Balfour, Nadine Bariteau, Dan O’Neill and Nick Shick.Curated by Daryl Vocat. In celebration of Pride month, Open Studio Print Sales Gallery presents About and Beside; an exhibition rooted in interactions and interpretations. These four artists gather, contemplate, and translate their sources and ideas to create new works. In some…
This exhibition is a Featured Exhibition for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Group exhibition featuring work by: Shannon Garden-Smith, Jenine Marsh, Tania Willard, and Fan WuCurated by Daniella Sanader Emphasizing practices that press, graze, and caress, The Shape of the Middle explores forms of touch that are essential to both printmaking and photography. The exhibition takes its…
As an adult language teacher to newcomers to Canada, Susan Cunningham’s role is to assist her students in acquiring proficiency in English, a skill that can be the key to success. She is acutely conscious of her privilege and of the power imbalance that persists between her and her students, just because by a trick…
Sally Ayre has been collecting plant specimens for many years, some from explorations in the city, and other specimens from the edge of waterways and during time spent in the country. The specimens have been scanned and catalogued to form an image bank from which she draws on to create her work. In the work…
This new body of work is a continuation of Cynthia Dinan-Mitchell’s surrealist botanical inspiration. The hand-painted screenprints reference the vanitas theme, where vegetables, flowers, ribbons, skulls and birds tumble together in compositions as heterogeneous as they are harmonious. The light source in the works becomes the central narrative element to the compositions, where the dark…
Rebecca Cowan is a printmaker, book artist and arts educator based in Kingston, Ontario. Cowan’s childhood was shaped by relocation, from pastoral new suburbs to vibrating inner cities. Regularly being the “new kid” encouraged her observation and analysis of others, while simultaneously tightening the ties within her own family. Over the course of her career,…
The artists in this group exhibition examine notions of the landscape in printmaking, using expressive forms of imagery, challenging traditional constructs. Brian Kelley, known for his intaglio prints and screenprints of Algonquin and Killarney Provincial Parks, explores the singular element in nature in a new form of expression for the artist. Kelley’s Waterfall is an…
Emma Nishimura is a Toronto based artist, whose art practice ranges from traditional etchings and papermaking, to installations. She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her BA from the University of Guelph. Emma’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in public and private collections. Recent exhibitions include: MacLaren Art…
Rust is both an indicator of decay and the passage of time. While rusted out objects often represent a failed glory or state of neglect, they also present an inherent beauty that speaks of history and a life once lived. Oxidized, weathered and beaten, the objects in these prints have endured and remain as stoic…
Very short “poems” are printed in wood type and accompanied by abstract or figurative woodcuts. Throughout her life, artist Libby Hague (RCA, BFA Honors, Concordia University) has loved to read (and being read to) as much as she has loved making things. As a child, Hague had a large, green, illustrated volume of The Golden…
Each year, Open Studio awards two, yearlong residencies to artists of merit. The Nick Novak Fellowship is awarded to an artist currently involved with Open Studio as an artist member. Recipients are provided with rent-free access to Open Studio facilities for a period of one year, materials allowance, professional development assistance, and tuition-free access to…
Each year, Open Studio awards two, yearlong residencies to artists of merit. The Don Phillips Scholarship is awarded to a graduating student who has just completed an undergraduate art program with a printmaking major at an accredited Canadian institution and who will not be returning to full-time studies. Recipients are provided with rent-free access to…
CLOSING RECEPTION February 7, 2018, 6-8 PM. Kate Zeidler in attendance. Curated by Kate Zeidler Featuring prints by Shogo Okada, Liz Parkinson and Tammy Ratcliff Open Studio is pleased to invite Kate Zeidler, one of Canada’s leading interior designers, to curate a group exhibition of prints selected from the Open Studio Print Sales Gallery. Focusing…
Tara Cooper embraces an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach, combining media from print, photography and animation to installation and book arts. Her subject matter draws from meteorology and creative non-fiction, resulting in a series of production-based projects housed under the monikerWeather Girl. The most recent phase of Weather Girl addresses the condition and impact of severe weather, which included two storm-chasing…
Visiting Artists Residency Exhibition: Sameer Farooq & Lee Henderson Artist Talks: Friday, October 20, 2017, 6:00 – 7:00 PM Opening Reception: Friday, October 20, 2017, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Each year Open Studio selects four professional artists with or without printmaking experience to create traditional and/or experimental works in the print medium of their choice,…
Kristie MacDonald is visual artist who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her research-based practice engages notions of the archive and the collection, as well as their roles in the evolving meanings and contextual histories of images and artifacts. Her current research is concerned with the phenomena of recollection, remembrance, and forgetting which drive the…
By definition, monochrome is the use of a single colour or values of a colour in an artwork. Monochromatic composition simplifies the imagery and injects drama into the work. The artists in this group exhibition—Laine Groeneweg, Alex Thompson and Laura Widmer—create monochromatic works to define the space that their subjects inhabit, creating dramatic effects that…
Dana Tosic is a Toronto based artist who works in printmaking, installation and digital media. Tosic investigates possibilities of capturing the human body in motion using one reprographic technology (3D scan) to capture a moment in time, executed in another (screenprint). For more information and images please click the link below to visit the Varied Editions website,…
Visiting Artist Residency Exhibition: Daniel Barrow & Kathleen RitterArtist Talks: Friday, September 15, 2017, 6:00 – 7:00 PM Opening Reception: Friday, September 15, 2017, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Each year Open Studio selects four professional artists with or without printmaking experience to create traditional and/or experimental works in the print medium of their choice, working…
Jeannette Nguyen’s work is illustrative and graphic in style, comical with strokes of whimsy. She works with themes revolving around subconscious anxieties often pertaining to nature, animals, the environment and our human relationship to these things. She often depicts real and magical creatures trying to live life in slightly altered but real environments. At times…
Playful Tangents is a group exhibition curated by Kelly Manikoth featuring work by artists who previously worked at Open Studio under the auspices of the Visiting Artist Residency program: Suzanne Nacha (2008 – 09), Endi Poskovic (2008 – 09), and Suzie Smith (2012 – 13). Each artist uses traditional printmaking techniques—from lithography to screenprinting—to deconstruct,…
Anna Gaby-Trotz is a Toronto-based printmaker and photographer. Through her art, she intends to bring the landscape forward into people’s consciousness by showing the fragile beauty that still exists in the most remote parts of Canada. Gaby-Trotz writes the following about her art practice: The landscape is on my mind. We are at a point…
Please note that the main Open Studio gallery is closed from July 22nd through September 13th. Our next round of exhibitions will open on Friday, September 14th, and we invite you to join us. We look forward to seeing you in September!
The Cape Dorset Print Collection produced at Kinngait Studios, part of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative in Kinngait, Nunavut, has annually catalogued collections of between 30 and 60 images as well as numerous commissions and special releases every year since 1959 providing a valuable record of the changes in the community. Pulling from this archive,…
Jennie Suddick is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada who has exhibited in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia. She earned her Masters of Fine Arts from York University and holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Advanced Visual Studies Certificate from OCAD University. Her solo projects have been featured at The Art…
EXTENDED TO: Friday, July 28th, 2017. Walter Procska’s prints are filled with shapes that are often strongly mathematical. Like Kandinsky and other artists as well as scientists, he feels a strong sense of spirituality in mathematical forms. Notwithstanding the circuitous course of our daily lives and our thought processes, many of his lines fight to…
This exhibition is a Featured Exhibition for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. The Inhabitants of Space, featuring work by artists Miles Collyer, Derek Coulombe, Erika DeFreitas and Alexis Dirks, takes its title from the dedication of Edwin A. Abbott’s satirical novella Flatland (1962), which breaks down the geographical, architectural, and social structures of the world…
Closing Reception: Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM People always say to be yourself. The difficulty arises from the assumption that the self is a solid, secure entity born of choice rather than various fragments composed of experiences, memories, learned behaviour, and defense mechanisms. Early on as an artist, Dorona Zierler went through…
This group exhibition features Anna Gaby-Trotz, Morgan Wedderspoon and Meggan Winsley, three artists who employ digital media as either a primary process or as a component in their work. The stories that the photographic or photo-based works tell are varied, but are centred in visual dialogue, using observations and methods of organizing to tell the images’…
Born into a traditional Chinese family in Taiwan, Carlina Chen came to Canada to study printmaking at OCAD University, and then decided to stay to pursue her art practice. The dual cultural living experience has enabled her personal growth, enriched her life, and inspired her art practice. When she has qualms, she resigns to: I…
Pudy Tong’s art practice draws on elements from journalism as the subject through which our experience of contemporary, media-saturated society is refracted, re-interpreted and re-imagined. Not only is the newspaper an interesting material artifact due to its ephemerality, also presents therein a distilled snapshot of the world, a multi-dimensional mosaic that weaves together a wide…
Closing Reception and Performance: Saturday, March 18, 2:00 – 4:00 PM A Body Called Paula has been risen. The work has been done. Thank you for your information Toronto. Hold the whispers of the knowledge. Carry them with the dignity. A Body is true. Who are you? It is time for the celebration of the…
This exhibition of new work by Astrid Ho explores images of various architectural interiors and exteriors in abstract compositions. The subjects of her work are based on personal photos taken from her phone in the summer of 2016 as a passive visitor of the locations. She sees formalist and abstract compositions in the everyday. In…
Christine Koch is a printmaker and painter based in Newfoundland and Labrador. Her practice balances between her working studios (in downtown St. John’s and in Woody Point) and a variety of field-based residencies that have taken her to remote environments in Canada’s North: the Yukon, Nunavut, and northern Labrador. For the past decade, her work…
Irina Schestakowich spent her childhood in Montreal and has been in Toronto since the 1980’s. Irina graduated from the University of Victoria, BC in Fine Arts. She specialized in printmaking and early classical Buddhist imagery. She is an active member of Open Studio. Irina Schestakowich likes the challenge of confronting disorder and struggling to translate…
The installation Dwell, by Carolyn Wren, consists of a wooden table, two chairs, and a linocut printed linen tablecloth. Culture implies a transformation of nature, and Dwell embodies an evolutionary imprint of nature to culture, to nature and back to culture. Because nature provides raw material for cultural products, flax is the inspiration for the…
The three works in Cyclic are the result of layering of material and of subject. The figurative narratives, which include expressions of desire, courtship rituals, and the act of giving birth, are woodblock and linoleum printed on opaque silk. This is the “back story” in front of which are woodblock and softoleum printed circular shapes,…
Featuring work by Lorna Livey, Laurynas Navidauskas, Shogo Okada & Yorodeo This group exhibition features original prints by Canadian artists whose work has a design aesthetic. Each work has a strong sense of design that is either intentional or unintentional. These artists utilize elements of design—line, shape, form, colour, space and texture—blurring the boundaries of art and design….
Walter Procska’s prints are filled with shapes that are often strongly mathematical. Like Kandinsky and other artists as well as scientists, he feels a strong sense of spirituality in mathematical forms. Walter Procska was born in Quebec and has lived in Toronto since 1994. Procska studied Fine Arts at Concordia University. He received the Helen…
Artist talk at 6:30PM on March 24th, 2017 followed by an opening reception. Gabriela Jolowicz captures fleeting scenes of everyday life in one of the oldest and most traditional visual media, the woodcut. Depicting modern still life images and dense scenes of metropolitan life, Jolowicz freezes an already fading afterimage of reality in a disjointed…
Special Opening Performance: Violinist Gloria Yip will be performing at the opening on Friday, March 24. Yip will begin her 20 minute performance at approx. 7:30pm. The full title of the violin piece she will be playing is: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 1. Grave 2. Fuga 3. Andante 4. Allegro…
Cut. Woven. Folded. is a group exhibition featuring artists Judith Klugerman, Annyen Lam and Ann Unger. The three artists use traditional printmaking techniques such as intaglio and lithography as the basis of their artwork. Each artist transforms their print through different techniques such as paper cutting, folding and weaving. The artists create unconventional prints with…
William Steinberg writes the following about his art practice: Architecture inevitably erodes and as it moves towards entropy, it transforms. No longer part of the new and useful, it takes on a new persona and character—the ruin. It now possesses the remnants of its past glory, the physicality of its present existence, and the potential…
With a background in film and video, Laurynas started exploring print media after a workshop at Open Studio. He is currently an Open Studio member, working in screenprinting.
Anne Abbass is a Toronto-based artist and printmaker. She holds a BFA from Queens University (1993). Abbass was awarded the Don Phillips Scholarship at Open Studio in 1994 and has been an artist member of Open Studio since then. Her prints are created through the process of combining images, hand written script and areas of colour…
Each year, Open Studio awards two, yearlong residencies to artists of merit. The Nick Novak Fellowship is awarded to an artist currently involved with Open Studio as an artist member. Recipients are provided with rent-free access to Open Studio facilities for a period of one year, materials allowance, professional development assistance, and tuition-free access to…
Each year, Open Studio awards two, yearlong residencies to artists of merit. The Don Phillips Scholarship is awarded to a graduating student who has just completed an undergraduate art program with a printmaking major at an accredited Canadian institution and who will not be returning to full-time studies. Recipients are provided with rent-free access to…
Watersheds are living entities with richly layered histories, narratives and morphologies. In her work, Menard explores boundaries where the Don River and our city, Toronto, converge. The Don is constantly changing because of climate change and urban development and human interaction. Along its course, most native plants and animals are threatened or extirpated, but some…
Residue: Tracing the Lore, a collaboration between Brendan Tang and Diyan Achjadi, explores the ways that ornamental motifs can reveal or reflect histories of migration. Through imprinting fragments of images onto their own skin, as well as those of close relatives, this project asks how familial lore and traditions are transmitted, and the residues that…
Amy Uyeda is a Toronto-based printmaker who works primarily with colour lithography. Amy holds a BFA from Queen’s University and has printed at Gravity Press in North Adams, Massachusetts, The Glasgow School of Art, and St. Michael’s Printshop in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A dedication to mastering the art of lithography is what drives her work….
Elizabeth D’Agostino has spent the last few years building fictitious environments merging elements both real and imagined. As a child D’Agostino curiously watched her father graft his backyard fruit trees. She would watch him carefully join separate varieties of trees and as a result would produce various varieties of fruit from a single tree in…
Sonya Filman is currently a Master’s Candidate in Fine Art at York University. She received Open Studio’s 2014/15 Don Phillips Scholarship, and has held positions at the Blackwood Gallery, Open Studio, C Magazine, and Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. Utilizing print media, photography, sculpture and drawing, Filman explores the ideological influences and power dynamics…
Opens: Friday, August 5th, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, August 6th, 2016, 2 – 4 PM Exhibition extended until Friday, August 26th, 2016 Over the past 45 years Open Studio has amassed a collection of original prints by significant Canadian artists through fundraising proofs artists provide from their printed editions and work donated by the artist…
Artist Talks: Friday, June 17, 2016, 6:00 – 7:00 PM Opening Reception: Friday, June 17, 2016, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Each year Open Studio selects four professional artists with or without printmaking experience to create traditional and/or experimental works in the print medium of their choice, working collaboratively with a print media artist. The Visiting…
Jae Lee’s works capture special stories of trivial, mundane or disappearing things that are detected in her life. Even though they are not flashy or leave profound impressions, they contain unique histories that create extraordinary images. Lee has been collecting various kinds of plants from her garden and letting them dry naturally. Eventually, they are transformed—twisted, faded, and curved….
Paper is a common print surface in printmaking, but many contemporary print media artists are exploring alternative print surfaces. Beyond Paper is a group exhibition that presents work which utilizes alternative print substrates such as ceramic, fabric and wood rather than solely paper. Work by Laura Bydlowska, Pam Lobb, Liz Menard and Theresa Morin examines the fragile existence of…
Cheryl Kaplan spent the first portion of her career as an art director in advertising, developing internationally acclaimed, award-winning campaigns for packaged goods, financial institutions, cars, beer, liquor and numerous charitable organizations. Her focus is now exclusively on her art, as she divides her time between her studio at home and at Open Studio in…
Visiting Artists Exhibition: Stephanie Cormier & Jacob Robert Whibley Artist Talks: Friday, May 13, 2016, 6:00 – 7:00 PM Opening Reception: Friday, May 13, 2016, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Each year Open Studio selects four professional artists with or without printmaking experience to create traditional and/or experimental works in the print medium of their choice,…
The Edge will feature work from Curry’s series Ancient Light. This body of work was begun during a 2015 artist residency in New Zealand as an exploration into the ever-changing nature of the edges of islands. Ancient Light is a series that continues to develop and will also form part of a collaboration in book…
Featuring work by Rebecca Cowan, Victoria Cowan, Sandra Haar, Kevin Haas, Loree Ovens, and George A. Walker, this group exhibition focuses on the handmade book as artwork. The artists included explore various subject matters, utilizing traditional bookbinding techniques, such as accordion folding and hand binding to create contemporary artist books.
Susan Fothergill, is a Toronto-based award-winning fine art printmaker. Fothergill’s provocative images are immediately recognizable, and reflect a tension of opposites within the feminine, being both strong and soft simultaneously. Visit the Varied Editions website by clicking below.
How to Eclipse a Photograph is an exhibition that considers artificial vision analogues. As technology marches toward artificial intelligence, data-driven sensory apparatuses will fill the data mines. What will life be like as a series of data points? Ian Rubenzahl is a Toronto-based artist and has been a member of Open Studio since 2011. A…
Loree Ovens’ work is influenced by intersecting and overlapping patterns, both in a linear and abstract sense. The actual path of our daily routine interacts with others and our environment as though our footprints create sheet music or are part of a dance. “Tension and vibrations are formed between lines and objects producing surface energy,…
During a visit to Japan, after the immense earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, Shinsuke Minegishi witnessed the disorder and chaos in this urbanized system and realized just how fragile and vulnerable human civilization could be. It was terrifying to recognize that a nation that took thousands of years to develop, and the security people…
Meggan Winsley explores the technical reaches of the four-colour separation screenprinting process. The images she screenprints often reflect a state of deterioration. Her work highlights the elegance found in decay and brings new life to otherwise dying or abandoned subjects. Each photographic image is broken down to create a new composite work. In this way, the printing process parallels the subject matter featured in Meggan’s work. …
The term “truss” refers to a rigid framework of wooden or metal beams, which supports a structure. This small body of work is an extension of Yael Brotman’s series of extra-dimensional prints, Scaffolding, in which she references architectural models and construction processes, and considers our urge to build. Brotman began to incorporate lights into her…
Performance: Friday, February 12, 2016 at 7:00 PM Angela Silver is a visual artist working with the residue of language. Her research focuses on the itinerant ways language inhabits the body. Silver’s work raises questions about the way texts function in society, public and private spaces, and authority and agency, while offering hopeful alternatives to…
Sandi Ralph’s Shadow Flight takes its inspiration from creatures in the natural world—butterflies, birds, wolves. Ralph’s print-based wall sculptures are intricately hand-cut from Japanese paper and formed into three dimensions with the use of silver pins and beads, punctuated with Swarovski crystals. The works subscribe to a recurring theme in her work, construction and deconstruction….
My current work is based on photographs and drawings made during trips to Newfoundland and to Western Japan. Though very different, Newfoundland and Japan are island-bound societies where the geography impacts powerfully to shape their unique cultures and values. My work contains landscape elements affected by intrusive memories and observations suggesting the process of personalization…
The working title of the show À la recherche (in search of practice-based research), suggests a call in honour of research, as something to be celebrated, and also alludes to the title of Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu. Etymologically, there is a sense of “search” within “research,” which curator Barbara Balfour…
In a new series of screenprints, Dana Tosic investigates possibilities of capturing the human body in motion using one reprographic technology (3D scan) to capture a moment in time, executed in another (screen print). The images depicted portray glimpses of quotidian activities and gestures captured using a continuous 360-degree, 3D scan of a single motion….
Open Studio’s Print Sales Gallery represents original fine art prints by over 150 artists, offering collectible works by contemporary Canadian artists. This exhibition will feature a selection of framed prints from the Print Sales Gallery with work by Mary Baranowski-Lowden, Janice Carbert, Libby Hague, Christine Koch, Lorna Livey and Luke Painter. Also in the Print…
Laurie Zinkand-Selles’s work considers time and memory, contrasting the brevity of our human experience with that of historical/architectural structures and environments. Her recent series of photo based screen prints, draws on historical images of Toronto and considers the evolving nature of the city. They are narratives of the past within an architectural or geographical context….
31st Annual Artist Proof Sale Opening Night Party: Thursday, December 3, 2015, 6 – 9 PM Continues to Saturday, December 19, 2015 in our galleries and online. The Artist Proof Sale is an excellent way to kickstart or build a growing art collection. And you can do it without breaking your holiday budget! Hundreds of…
Each year, Open Studio awards scholarship/fellowship residencies to artists of merit, as chosen through an annual juried selection process. The Don Phillips Scholarship is awarded to a graduating student who has just completed an undergraduate art program with a printmaking major at an accredited Canadian institution and who will not be returning to full-time studies….
Each year, Open Studio awards scholarship/fellowship residencies to artists of merit, as chosen through an annual juried selection process. The Nick Novak Fellowship is awarded to an artist currently involved with Open Studio as an artist member. In addition to rent-free access to Open Studio facilities for a period of one year, materials assistance, professional…
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