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“Weightlifter”, a sublime room-sized installation alongside “Full Strip”, stages an effective encounter with viewers who enter the space. It is the result of Ferguson working collaboratively with a heavy rubber material to make an open form that communicates the effects of tension, gravity, and resistance on all matter. One can sense the artist’s body in the body of the object in relation to the architecture. The artist’s absence is present while the object is waiting, perhaps for another encounter, and the opportunity for its identity to become entwined with pur own.
✍️ 📷 Svea Ferguson’s exhibition “weight lifted” is on view through 02 August, 2024.
Please join us for a tour and conversation with the artist Wednesday, July 17th, 6pm.

Svea Ferguson’s current exhibition, “weight lifted”, is about the materials she chooses to work with. Her choices reveal her empathy for the in/animate world and her desire for more ethical material relations. She works with mass-produced functional objects and synthetic surfaces, linoleum, vinyl, and rubber, that are often faux finished. She is interested in the physical properties and lived identities of these things—how they were made and by whom, their intended and actual use, and why they end up, as they most often do, languishing in resale and recycle bins. ✍️ 📷

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I’m so happy to announce that
A model world
my third solo exhibition with
will open Friday May 10, 2024, 5-8 pm
and continue to June 16, 2024

The exhibition will include two new etching series, some drawings and my first animated short

With exhibition text by the wonderful
📸

My collaboration with .studio
really levelled up on these two etching suites, after a decade of working together we are still growing all the time, which has been a complete joy

Huge thanks to
and
both of whom supported this exhibition with crucial 💵
And to for being a passionate advocate of my many kooky schemes

It’s all in the details…using ink and gouache on traditional Kozo paper, Hildebrand creates this dreamy take on a Japanese woodblock print, inspired by a work by Hiroshige from the mid 1800s.
It is best seen in person to detect the perfect imperfections.
“Charta Flores”, 2023
Ink and gouache on kozo paper
55 x 34 inches

On view until 02 March 2024.

In this series of paintings and woodblock relief prints, Hildebrand has incorporated new influences in the form of traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking called Ukiyo-e (translated as “pictures of the floating world”). Traces of Ukiyo-e masters such as Hokusai (1760-1849) and Hiroshige (1797-1858) are evident in the exhibition. In Hildebrand’s work, as in the case of these woodblock masters, architectural motifs combine with landscape imagery to unique effect. Passageways, screens and windows open onto deep horizons or nearby gardens with framing techniques that echo modern formal strategies, inviting the viewer to imagine themselves entering into the frame. Abstract forms combine with natural forms in ways that blend abstraction with representational imagery.

This is the last week to see Scott Everingham’s “Inward Field” at VVIANEART. We are open 11-5 thru Saturday and 12-4 on Sunday. The exhibition ends January 14th.

Stay tuned for details about our upcoming exhibition, “if on a winter’s night…”, a solo presentation by Montreal based artist Dil Hildebrand.

VIVIANEART wishes everyone a happy and safe holiday season. We are taking a much-needed extended break!

CLOSED:
Monday, December 18th, 2023 - Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

Our online store vivianeart.store is always open! During our closure, we can be reached at [email protected]

REGULAR GALLERY HOURS RESUME:
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024

We look forward to seeing you in the new year!

More information at:
www.vivianeart.com

Join us for our Holiday Open House on Dec.9, Saturday 2-5 pm!
On view, “Inward Field” by Scott Everingham. Featured here,
“Subconscious Terrain“.

We are loving the 2023 Holiday Window! Come in to view this curated collection of works on show alongside Scott Everingham’s solo exhibition “Inward Field”.

Kyle Beal’s Matin/Midi are a series of drawing the artist made while visiting Mandelieu, France. Drawing the same location at two different times of day, once in the morning and again in the afternoon, he tried to capture the essence of the place. This he furthered with the addition of a perfume, created by Beal in Grasse France.
Putting his exceptional framing skills to work, the perfume vial rests delicately in a groove he made on the top of the frame. On view as a part of our Holiday Window exhibition and at vivianeart.store.

We are ready to go! So looking forward to all of the great conversations we will have 2023! Work featured includes artists: .fakih.studio

Regarding his experience painting this current series of pieces during the lockdowns in Toronto Evans wrote, “Starting up a conversation with a bunch of dead painters didn’t seem that odd in a time when I couldn’t physically talk to anyone anyways. Their paintings were very much of their time, and I wanted to bring them forward into ours. I started to reference directly and pull parts of paintings I found a likeness to in my photograph. In a time when our reality was changing daily it wasn’t a huge leap to lose myself within theirs.”
“Serenity’s Reflection”, 2023, oil on canvas, 36x24”

If you're coming by for the opening tonight , Friday 22 Sept 6-9pm, swing by VIVIANEART on route to view "Oh, The Places". We will stay open til 7:00pm

Artwork pictured:
Lake's Lullaby, 2023
Oil, oil stick, and acrylic on canvas,
76" x 82"

OH, THE PLACES
SHAWN EVANS

08 SEPTEMBER TO 29 OCTOBER 2023

VIVIANEART is excited to announce our upcoming exhibition of all new paintings by artist Shawn Evans. Join us to celebrate the opening of “OH, THE PLACES” on Friday, September 8th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. As a part of the Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) Art Walk, Shawn will also be in the gallery on Saturday, Sept 9th from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

ARTWORK SHOWN: CATHEDRAL BEYOND, 2023

This is the last week to view our current exhibition, "GO BIG”! The last day to view this group show will be this Saturday, September 2nd, as VivianeArt will be closed on Sunday, September 3rd.

“Puff Ball” was included in a solo presentation of Winnie Truong’s work at Art Toronto in 2019. This piece is now on view in the gallery window at VIVIANEART. This is a stunning example of her exploration of portraiture.

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HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
Join us in the gallery on Saturday, Dec 17, 2022, between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM for a glass of cheer and some homemade treats.

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SERENA BEAULIEU - VivianeArt In this exhibition of all new paintings and drawings, artist Serena Beaulieu continues her investigation of the effects of color and form on visual perception. Through a skillful ex*****on of clean hand painted lines and a colour palette that is repetitive and rhythmic, she moves beyond her explorat...

ERIK OLSON - VivianeArt Using his characteristically bold and expressive application of colour and form, he furthers his exploration into portraiture with both paintings on canvas and painted wood sculptures.

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Add a stop at VIVIANEART in Inglewood to your weekend plans.
Enjoy our beautiful fall weather, the amazing works of Erik Olson and the wonderful neighborhood of Inglewood.