Upcoming Exhibition - Wallspace Gallery
Wallspace Gallery
Threading the Needle | March 8 - 30
Elizabeth D'Agostino
Gosia
Noelle Hamyln
Kelly Grace
Julie Liger-Belair
Ava Margueritte
Ava Roth
Florence Solis
Rachael Speirs
Reception: Friday, March 8 @ 5 - 7 pm
*Artists Ava Margueritte and Elizabeth D'Agostino will be in attendance*
RSVP your attendance to responses@wallspacegallery.ca
Wallspace Gallery
1090 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 3X5
Wall Space Gallery invites you to celebrate International Women's Day with Threading the Needle. To pass through the eye of a needle is a delicate manoeuvre, not dissimilar to how women have historically been forced to navigate achieving visibility within the art world, and the world-at-large. This group exhibition of nine artists explores feminine identity and world-building through storytelling from the female perspective. Through embroidery, textile, painting, photography, encaustic, printmaking, and collage, each of these artists reclaim or push the boundaries that define ‘a woman’s world.
“Elizabeth D’Agostino engages nature and objects as medium and subject in ways that reclaim the connection between the feminine and the natural. Ecofeminism’s proposed shared history between the oppression of women and nature under patriarchal social structures was rejected by social feminism, believing it to be a damaging association. However, in a world striving for hope amidst the climate crisis, the qualities of care, community teamwork, and symbiotic relationships – typically associated with natural structures and women’s sensibilities – are being revalued.”
Photo credit - Ava Margueritte
Making an Impression: Contemporary Prints from Open Studio
Hotel Victoria Toronto - Mosaic Room
February 1 - April 1, 2024
Elizabeth D’Agostino, Astrid Ho, Phyllis Gordon, Walter Procska, Phoebe Todd-Parrish
Making an Impression brings together contemporary prints by artists working with Open Studio, an artist-run, non-profit printmaking centre that has provided support for making, learning, and exhibiting different forms of printmaking in Toronto for more than fifty years.
This exhibition 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 through the layering of marks pressed from one surface (a woodblock, silkscreen, etching plate) to paper.
All works in the exhibition are available for sale through Open Studio’s online shop.
Visit Open Studio at 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, or find out more online at www.openstudio.ca/.
This exhibition continues Hotel Victoria’s partnership with Open Studio. Read our blog post with Curator, Rebecca Travis about selecting artworks from Open Studio for Hotel Victoria’s recent renovation, here: A Visual Window into Toronto: Meet Art Curator Rebecca Travis.
Hotel Victoria
56 Yonge St
Toronto, Ontario
M5E 1G5
https://hotelvictoriatoronto.com/
Photo credit - Open Studio