Exhibitions - Art: Upcoming

This exhibition is the first large-scale, comprehensive, survey of the career of Kim Ondaatje, an artist, filmmaker and cultural advocate whose diverse efforts have impacted the art of this region and beyond. Selected works span her earliest forays into minimalist yet bold landscape imagery, executed with strident colour and palette knife, to an even more pared-down, subtly toned collection of paintings and prints known as The House on Piccadilly series, named after her rented home in London. A large space is also dedicated to a third major cycle in her career, the Factory series. These works, produced in the early 1970s, are among the first investigations of industrial space as a valid subject within the Canadian landscape tradition. It was at this time that Ondaatje also began producing art films and documentaries.

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This exhibition follows a retrospective thread, displaying an array of paintings, drawings and more sculptural works dating from the early 1970s to the present. It continues the interpretation of Vincent’s practice, situating her as an important senior artist who has contributed much to London’s culture.

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This exhibition of work primarily by regional artists, evokes ideas of passage, interval, and change. These senses play out in gridded panels by Ed Zelenak. Combining the conventions of relief sculpture with a painterly application of metal solder, the work resembles imagery used for meditation, such as hieroglyphics, pictographs and certain medieval illuminations. These concepts similarly exemplified by Toronto’s Kelly Mark’s close-up, serial views of road markers, which together riff on semiotics and minimalist abstraction, and heighten our awareness of the mundane.

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