MCA Gallery

05/03/2024

This was really a gorgeous exhibition to walk through 🤩
📍 Palazzo Cavanis
👀 Ewa Juszkiewicz
🎨 Locks with Leaves and Swelling Buds
Exhibition on view until Sept 2024

Almine Rech press release extract:
By covering the face of historical portraits, Juszkiewicz challenges the very essence of this genre: she destroys the portrait as such. Her paintings are no longer portraits of anyone in particular, but representations of the condition of women under patriarchy. And, as she points out, at the heart of the intervened portrait she drives the stake of another genre: the still life, to which belong the fabrics, flowers, fruits, and other objects the artist uses as masks, subverting the traditional hierarchy of genres and the culture/nature dichotomy.

05/01/2024

📍
🧑‍🎓 109th Annual Graduate Exhibition
On view until May 5, 2024.

📍 :
🎨 Gigaemi Kukwits
On view until May 11th, 2024

📍 :
🖼️ Making her mark- A History of women artist in Europe , 1400-1800
On view until June 1st, 2024

📍 :
🧑‍🎓 2024 University of Toronto MVS Studio Program Graduating Exhibition
🎨 Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances
👀 Liberation in Four Movements
🩷 The Love that Remains
All on view until July 27th 2024

📍 :
👀Lullaby of Birdland by Sandra Brewster
On view until June 8th, 2024

📍 :
🎨 Colour Field by Andrew Dadson
On view until June 1st, 2024

📍 :
📷 Crystal Gazers by Mathieu Grenier,
On view until June 29th 2024

📍 :
👀 Eroding territory curated by Cecilia González Godino
On view until May 11th, 2024

📍 :
📷 Make yourself at home by Jake Kimble
On view until May 11th, 2024

04/30/2024

📍 The Canadian Pavilion
🎨 Kapwani Kiwanga
👀 TRINKET

From the press release:
Kapwani Kiwanga is a multi-disciplinary artist who considers how diverse forms of power are manifested, how the histories they suppress are often overlooked, and their impact on everyday life. Her works function as experiential archives that offer temporary ruptures in established conventions, allowing audiences to both experience and imagine alternative ways of relating and being.

With Trinket, Kiwanga transforms the Canada Pavilion by way of a site-specific sculptural installation. She invites visitors into an immersive environment through an ambitious intervention on the building’s interior and exterior. Viewed from its facade, the building becomes a large-scale tableau where distinctions between inside and outside dissolve through transparency, layering, and transgressing of the building’s original boundaries.

03/19/2024

What a breathtaking show 💜 THANK YOU 🙏 We will be posting videos soon 👀

Gaze Paintings by Vickie Vainionpää.
“What does it mean to look at a painting? This is the central question explored by Vickie Vainionpää in her latest body of work, Gaze Paintings, in which she reflects on the historical implications of the gaze. Vainionpää has developed a distinct visual language of forms that are recognizably organic and bodily while simultaneously digital and abstract, generated first through custom-built 3D modeling software and finally rendered in oil paint on canvas. For the works in Gaze Paintings, Vainionpää has added an additional step to her generative process: using herself as the tool, and her own gaze as the subject as she engaged with canonical works of art.”

02/14/2024

Love the job! ❤️ Thank you to those that make it possible 🙏

01/31/2024

Flashback February: another chance to see Ginger Sorbara & Greg Pacek: 247 Main Street: Photographing The Royal, 1881 - -

Exhibition dates: February 3rd - February 25th, 2024 Location: The Barlow Room at The Royal Hotel, 6 Ross St, Picton, ON K0K 2T0 MCA Gallery is pleased to present Photographing The Royal, 1881- , an exhibition by Greg Pacek and Ginger Sorbara at the MCA Gallery pop-up location at The Royal Hotel...

01/25/2024

When you get a final peak at some beautiful paintings 😌

01/16/2024

Thank you to those who came to visit this past weekend 💙 it was cold and windy out but you made it :)

Exhibition: Current Sea by the Broadbent Sisters, Jan 6-28th

01/10/2024

“Studies”, these range from 10 x 12 to 12 x12.
They are on view at the gallery pop up space in Picton, at the Royal Hotel.
The show is on until the 28th January, open on weekends 💙
DM us for any inquiries 👀

About the exhibition:
The Broadbent Sisters’ latest body of work is largely created with Royal Blue archival ink on board, as well as paintings on canvas finished with the blue ink. The monochrome palette might recall Picasso’s Blue Period, and as with Picasso, The Sisters have created work that is a direct response to the upheavals of the age. They subtly juxtapose the social with the satirical, and the political with the playful. The tension that arises from these pairings are part of a broader motif that they call “complementary opposites.”
While restraining themselves to create work in just one colour, they realized that blue in fact provides a whole universe of tones, from the blackest blue at the bottom of the sea, to the lightest blue of the morning sky and everything in between. Regardless of the subject matter, The Sisters rely on blue for the soothing and calming quality that it adds to their visual language.
In the body of work presented in this exhibition, Current Sea, the viewer will recognize a visual language that borrows from and transforms the subject matter and motifs of contemporaries like Matthew Barney and Gilbert & George, as well as predecessors like Francisco Goya, Henri Matisse and Georgia O’Keefe.

12/30/2023

Part 1: 🤩 what a selection of pieces at the group exhibition show at the London gallery location

1) Luiz Zerbini, Tonico Lemos Auad
2) Ged Quinn
3) Channing Hansen
4) Stephan Balkenhol, Thomas Hirshhorn
5) Andreas Eriksson
6) Sky Glabush
7) Juan Araujo
8) Manuel Espinosa
9) Pam Glick