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Aidan Urquhart

Aidan Urquhart was educated at the University of Western Ontario and Fanshawe College in studio and art theory. He has been exhibiting his work across Canada since the early 1990s. Fascinated by the dynamics of communication, Urquhart explores with colour, images and ideas that at first glance, might seem at odds with each other. He has completed residencies at the McIntosh Gallery-University of Western Ontario and the Banff Centre for the Arts. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Museum London, The McIntosh Gallery, St.Thomas/Elgin Art Centre, The National Archives- Ottawa, and the Canada Council Art Bank.

Ann Clarke

Clarke’s work is predominantly abstract painting and drawing, with some sculpture, installation and printmaking.

Born in Britain, Clarke received her art education at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London University, graduating in 1966. She came to Canada in 1968, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1973. She has lived in Alberta, Ontario and Newfoundland. During the period from 1969-1979 she was known as Ann Clarke Darrah.

Clarke has taught at many institutions in Canada, including The Banff Centre, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and Queen’s and Guelph Universities. From 1992 she taught in the Department of Visual Arts at Lakehead University, and retired in 2009 as Professor Emerita. In 2008 Clarke was elected to membership of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art.

Since 1969 Ann Clarke has had over thirty solo exhibitions in Canada and since 1966 has shown work in more than ninety group shows in Britain, Canada and the U.S.A. Her work is in public and private collections in Canada, Britain, U.S.A. and Australia

Artists

Ben Darrah

Darrah is a Kingston-based artist. He was born in London, England, and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1968. He grew up in Edmonton, Alberta and graduated with a BFA from the University of Alberta in 1987 and earned a Master of Fine Art at the University of Windsor in 1995.

Darrah has worked as an art dealer, curator, freelance writer, and taught art at Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College, and White Mountain Academy. He is currently an elementary teacher with the Limestone District School Board and maintains a studio in Glenburnie, Ontario. He has exhibited in private and public galleries across Canada with an exhibition record that spans over 30 years. His work can be found in private and public collections in North America and Europe.

Callen Schaub

Callen Schaub is a Montreal, Canada based abstract artist and creator. He is recognized for his vibrant paintings using trapezes, pendulums, and spinning machines. Openly sharing his painting process with viewers and inspiring fans everywhere to participate in his “Fake Art” movement. With paintings hanging in collections across the globe, Callen continues to make the world a more colorful place one artwork at a time. Callen Schaub was named Instagram’s “Hidden Gem” for 2019.

Claire Sarfeld

In Claire Sarfeld’s work the artist lets herself fall in love with paint and colour.

Reflecting on David Hockney’s quote “I do not believe there are any off-putting colours” Sarfeld works to combine her signature abstract style with pops of colour outside of traditional colour palettes. She combines wild splashes of paint intertwined with the marks of her collected and handmade tools, she immerses herself with neons, metallics and thick globs of paint. Sarfeld is continuously looking to push her understanding of colour and form through her work in a way she hasn’t before.

Layers of adding and taking away, Sarfeld creates transparent windows revealing her process while denying the viewer in others by creating solid flat surfaces. Sarfeld wants her paintings to transform throughout the day, using the different qualities of light as it streams through the gallery playing off the surface of the painting. This constant state of change pleasantly tricks the viewers eyes into believing the colour changes throughout the day. Sarfeld’s goal is to achieve a sense of disharmony before bringing it back to the balance and flow found in her finished woks. She aims to entice the spectator’s curiosity as their eyes are invited to move throughout the canvas allowing them to question the work as well as adding their own thoughts and ideas.

Claire Sarfeld is a Canadian Artist who currently resides in British Columbia.

Daniel Solomon

Daniel Solomon is a Toronto-based artist and art teacher dividing his time between his studio and work as a Professor of Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design. His career spans over forty years beginning as an architecture student at the University of Oregon, in the early sixties. Since moving to Toronto in 1967, Daniel has shown his paintings and sculptures regularly in solo exhibitions in major galleries in Toronto and has exhibited across the USA and Europe.

Daniel Solomon’s work conveys a love of intense, vibrant colour and an interest in complex pictorial space. This same combination of elements is found throughout his paintings, water colours, and sculptures.

Dimitri Papatheodorou

Dimitri Papatheodorou is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice comprises painting, sculpture, music, installation and architecture. He also designed a country home for Alex Lifeson of the rock group Rush. In another idiom he is the front man for the queer pop band The CLEATS.

Papatheodorou, a long-term adjunct faculty member in the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, is interested in the intersection between practice and theory. Comfortable navigating through various work spaces and working in different media, including boardroom, studio, drawing table or painting easel, utilizing digital recording equipment or working in clay. Papatheodorou is co-founder and past Chair of the Arts & Heritage Centre in Warkworth, Ontario, current Board member of the Art Gallery of Northumberland, and past Board member of the artist-run Propeller Art Gallery in Toronto.

Douglas Bentham

Canadian sculptor Douglas Bentham produces abstract sculpture in various mediums such as steel, stainless steel, bronze/brass and wood. He creates his unique objects in scales ranging from monumental pieces, to works that can be held in the hand. Bentham’s sculptures are represented in the collections of numerous public institutions across Canada.

Erin Loree

Erin Loree is a Toronto-based painter from Gananoque, Ontario. She completed her BFA at OCAD University in 2012 and received a Certificate of Advanced Visual Studies from OCAD’s Florence Program. In the brief time since graduating she has successfully exhibited nationally and internationally including Toronto, Montreal, New York and the UK, with a current museum solo exhibition at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound.

Loree has work in a number of collections including Toronto Dominion Bank, Holt Renfrew, and Imago Mundi. Loree was awarded the Robert Pope Artist Residency at NSCAD University in Halifax, and has participated in residencies at Artscape Youngplace in Toronto, and Sachaqa Centro de Arte in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the 2012 Drawing and Painting Medal, and Nora E. Vaughan Award from OCAD University, as well as an Ontario Arts Council grant. Loree’s work has been featured in YNGSPC.com, MOMUS.ca, CBC Arts, the Toronto Star, Beautiful Decay, Booooooom, and Huffington Post.

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Henry Saxe

Henry Saxe, OC is an Ontario based, Canadian sculptor. Through his teaching and through the example of his own unconventional works he has left an indelible imprint on Canadian sculpture.

Believing that everyday substances can create an art form, he uses the simplest and most basic materials to create large-scale, enigmatic works which make both a visual and intellectual impact on the viewer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec where he attended the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. As a young man, he was twice featured at the Biennale of Paris before being profiled in a major solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 1973. Today, the National Gallery of Canada owns fourteen of his works. In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was also made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 1994, he was awarded the Government of Quebec‘s Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas.

Today, Henry Saxe’s work is well represented in major public art gallery collections in Canada.

Julie Himel

Julie Himel’s work is about human experience. It’s in the balancing act of grounding and departure—always looking for the light through the tangle of life. It’s in decay, not as destruction, but as catalyst: a signpost for renewal, growth and reclamation. And it’s in honesty, about creating a portrait of landscape as it is: something apprehended and unknowable. Paint is the medium she uses to formalize the possibility of a place—a place alive, mutable and shared, a character in our collective unconscious.

Julie Himel carries a Diploma of Fine Art from Langara College in Vancouver, a Bachelor of Fine Art Honours Degree from York University, and a Graduate Diploma from the Toronto School of Art. Her award winning paintings can be found in private collections internationally, public collections including The University of Calgary, Calgary’s Civic Art Collection, Westfield State University, the Armenian Centre Art Collection Canada, and several corporate collections nationwide.

Katie Pretti

Pretti’s large scale works on canvas and paper challenge the distinction of abstraction and figuration.

A graduate of OCAD University, Pretti has held studios in Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, and Brooklyn, and has been artist-in-residence at COME (Buenos Aires), Ctrllab (Montreal), The White House (Toronto), and Spark Box Studios (Picton, Ontario). Her book of drawings, Sonority of Words, was launched in Toronto by Art Metropole and featured at the 2007 NYC Art Book Fair. The book is in the collection of the Library and Archives of the National Gallery of Canada. Pretti’s works are featured in the collections of SoHo House, TD Canada Trust, and Femmarte. She has been profiled in publications such as Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting, ArtSync, ArtSlant, Magenta Magazine Online, Elle Canada, Fashion Magazine, Canadian House and Home, and Inside Entertainment.

Kevin Hearn

Kevin Hearn is best known as a multi-instrumentalist from Barenaked Ladies, the multi-platinum selling band he’s played with for almost two decades now. One of the most respected Toronto musicians of the past 25 years, Hearn’s solo albums always attract equally brilliant collaborators.

Kimberly Danielson

Kimberly Joy Danielson has a BFA from the Ontario College of Art in drawing and painting.She holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from McMaster University, a medical degree from McMaster University, with a specialization in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

Danielson's current body of work emerges as a culmination and synthesis of a lifelong practice of painting, psychoanalysis, and exposure to the colours, traditions, and handicrafts of Västerbotten Sweden and Telemark Norway, which is her cultural heritage.

Kurt Swinghammer

Kurt Swinghammer was born in Newmarket, Ont and studied at the Ontario College of Art in the mid 80’s. He has sustained dual careers as a visual artist and musician, which has been a part-time job free since 1990 when he appeared on the cover of NOW Magazine. His many diverse projects include illustrating an album cover for Stuart McLean, hand-painting stage wardrobe for The Shuffle Demons, art directing award winning music videos for Maestro Fresh Wes, creating the set for Joni Mitchell’s award winning live broadcast on MuchMUSIC, illustrating the cover of Margaret Atwood’s Murder In The Dark talking book for Coach House Press, making a caricature of Jack Layton and Olivia Chow for their annual Christmas card, designing the Jell-O Pudding Shaker Cup, giving a hot rod makeover of the Zamboni at Maple Leaf Gardens for Sam The Record Man, as well as designing the shopping bag for the chain, illustrating the children’s book My Stompin Grounds by Stompin Tom Connors, and animating music videos for Buffy Sainte-Marie and Bruce Cockburn. He has been Artist of the Week on Bravo’s Arts and Minds, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Canada Council Art Bank.

On the music side, Kurt has released a dozen CDs of original material, and as a session guitarist recorded on over 100 albums by artists including Ani Difranco and Great Big Sea. Live shows include playing with Sarah McLachlan, a recording of which appears on Lillith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music. He produced the first full-length release by Ron Sexsmith, and won NOW Magazine’s annual Reader’s Poll for Best Local Guitarist. He has composed extensively for film and TV including David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things. For the last three years he has been a member of the dance rock trio Communism, who hope to resume their weekly psychedelic light show gigs post-COVID19.

Kyle Clements

Kyle Clements is a Toronto-based Canadian artist. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2006, Kyle lived in Asia for a year, collecting source material and inspiration.

His work is vibrant and colourful. Whether painting the harsh Northern landscape, or capturing the overwhelming buzz of life in the city, his acrylic paintings hover between representation and abstraction.

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