Impermanent Landscape
Kathleen Finlay
ARTIST - IN - RESIDENCE
DATES: JUNE 16 - 29 2024
I travel - Zooming in and out on this world; from past to present, trying to imagine the future. I zoom in on the forest - it enfolds everything. Zooming in and out on the moss and lichen. It's taken 15 years to grow the size of a nickel. I zoom out high above this world into transformed landscapes.
One day they'll return to their original state. Mostly, I stay present because this time is now. Precious and impermanent.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
FARAH AL AMIN
DATES: MAY 17 - MAY 30 2024
Fascinated by the perpetual process of becoming, this series of photographs captures the entanglement of life with death through an exploration of the symbolic and aesthetic qualities of decaying and decomposing matter.
By freezing the decay of organic objects in time, the photographs strive to preserve the ephemeral moment when one life form blossoms while another fades; the moment when one life form displaces another, and when the familiar and the ordinary are taken over by the strange and otherworldly.
Amelia Valentine
DATES: APRIL 25 – MAY 8 2024
“Accidental has always been an element of my work. Only half the work was intentional, the other half left to chemical reactions between inks, resin, and paints in my work.”
– Amelia Valentine
CEK
DATES: MARCH 21 - APRIL 5 2024
“A canvas for his fascination with spatial abstraction and explosions.”
An Italian ex-pat and graduate from the University of Udine, Giorgio moved to Toronto in 2011 to pursue a career in Architecture. Inspired by the geometrical achievements of the Minimalism movement, Giorgio’s earlier concrete work combines product design and sculpture.
Lately, his research has been directed towards exploring a new medium, the pen plotter, which Giorgio uses to draw geometrical plotted line compositions where the same principles are applied in a continuum with his design practice.
Jonathan Dunklman
DATES: NOV 20 2023 - JAN 24 2024
Each work in SURFACES embodies a distinct minimalist concept, masterfully projected by the artist onto two-dimensional, nearly monochromatic surfaces. Their simplicity, purity, and beauty invite us to experience the moment with a gentle insistence to go slowly, breathe deeply, and be fully present.
Hans Fonk
DATES: JULY 9 2023 - SEP 30 2023
Amsterdam-based photographer and founder/art director of award-winning interior design magazine Objekt International Hans Fonk is drawn to drama. An exhibited artist in Beijing, Hong Kong, France, Belgium, Netherlands, and USA, his solo exhibition entitled Dutch Bonsai, series III, premiered at ARTERIAL on June 29th. It showcases a series of large-scale photographs printed on canvas and coated with Chinese pigments and tempera.
Anthony Fieldman
DATES: APRIL 29 2023 - JULY 1st 2023
“The reason I photograph kids is because I find that anywhere I go there are a number of adults who are just too self-conscious... Kids are largely free of the self imposed constraints that most of us carry as adults.”
Fieldman has spent time in over 70 countries and lived on three continents. This open-minded wanderer’s spirit has inspired a wealth of beautifully composed and thoughtfully curated black-and-white images.
Aline Setton
DATES: NOV 24 2022 - JAN 12 2023
An aging brick house drifts through time but not space, graffiti tattooing its garage door, weeds growing up its steps, and faces a titanium-grade home of futuristic charm across the street. How do these two architectural timelines exist on the same street, in the same space, in the same image?
Artist Aline Setton lives for such urban juxtapositions, exploring the meaning of their rebounding vibrations and visual reverberations in her art. Brazilian artist Aline Setton’s new solo exhibition “Visual Reverb” investigates the intersections between intersections themselves.
Same Differences
Group exhibit, in collaboration with Crybaby Gallery
Tahsine Al Hassane, Jahsua Advincula, Victoria Sequera, Shane Winrow, Dina Roudman, Paul Jackson, Moises Luvs, Bank Moody, Smolik, and Poser
DATES: APR 29 2022 - MAY 20 2022
“Same Differences” is the fourth exhibition at Arterial, curated by Mony Zakhour in collaboration with Cry Baby Gallery. The exhibition was on display from April 29th to May 20th, 2022, and featured the works of; Tahsine Al Hassane, Jahsua Advincula, Victoria Sequera, Shane Winrow, Dina Roudman, Paul Jackson, Moises Luvs, Bank Moody, Smolik, and Poser.
Mark Raynes Roberts
DATES: MARCH 22 2022
“Nature has a reliable sanity. She has consistent rituals. The sun comes up and it sets. In the spring, flowers bloom. In the winter, the landscape sleeps under a cover of snow. No matter what happens, the grass will grow, blossoms will always bloom, leaves will always change colour, snow will always fall, tides will rise and fall. When there’s uncertainty in the world at large, nature is our one, dependable friend.”
Dina Roudman
DATES: SEP 30 2021
Dina structures her compositions tracing large-limbed movements, varying her line with brushes ranging in size from a fraction of an inch to a hand's-width, combining explosive, colourful energy with lyrical monochromatic minimalism.
Group exhibit, in collaboration with The Soulfood and Smokestack
Louis Au, Kathleen Finlay, Sonia Haberstich, A. Hernandes, Kat Herden, Sandra Lambert, Kate Maura, The RGB Collective, Christo Saba, Aline Setton, and Verona Sorensen.
DATES: NOV 19 2021 - DEC 19 2021
The second exhibition hosted at Arterial, titled Paper Art. Organized by The Soulfood in collaboration with Smokestack. Featuring framed and unframed paper art and collectible reproductions, with a focus on affordability.
An inagural exhibit, in collaboration with The Soulfood
Maciek Balmas, Elyma Bouchard, Kathleen Finlay, Hans Fonk, Aline Setton, Verona Sorensen, and Theo Willemse
DATES: JULY 1 2021 - SEP 1 2021
The first exhibition hosted at Arterial, in collaboration with The Soulfood. Curated by Kathleen Finlay, this exhibition acts as the fourth installment of The Soulfood, which seeks to highlight a diverse group of Canadian Artists.