YYZ is now open to the public
Drop by Wednesdays to Saturdays from Noon to 5PM.
A Path in the Garden: A Conversation between Yam Lau and Susan Rowe Harrison
model, garden, mirror Yam Lau: Let us recall the lovely afternoon when we viewed the delicate model you made for the present exhibition at the YYZ Artists’ Outlet. You had casually placed the model (of a garden?) in a garden, amidst the plants at the…
Weather Report: Susan Rowe Harrison
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 2022 OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 6:00 – 8:00 PM The climate crisis is overwhelming—the problem is so huge that we struggle to understand its effects and outcomes on everyone in every place in the world. With a nod…
Calling Through the Trees: Shelley Niro
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 2022 OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 6:00 – 8:00 PM Image credit: Shelley Niro, Hunger, 2008. Still courtesy of V-Tape. Curated by Franchesca Hebert-Spence Shelley Niro’s work has long been lauded for her pops of humour, revisioning…
Words Have Wings: Asma Sultana
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 2022 OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 6:00 – 8:00 PM “Words have wings” is an imagined expression for the lost innocence deeply rooted in my culture of silence and misrepresentation. It is part of a journey probing my identity…
Vases communicants
WEDNESDAY JULY 27 to WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31, 2022 Edith Brunette and François Lemieux Vases communicants 2021, 16min 49sec Distributed by Vidéographe Through the gestures and movements of bodies, a landscape is constructed, makeshift and evolving. It signals a world that is chequered with organizing…
Artist Talk with Aaron Jones and Chiedza Pasipanodya
Join us over zoom Thursday July 21 at 6:00 pm for a conversation with Aaron Jones and Chiedza Pasipanodya on Jones’ current exhibition at YYZ “Between Sea and Sky.” Exhibition closes Saturday July 30. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85399628542?pwd=aDgreW9IZDlVU1I1Zk5HV3lMQnM1dz09 Meeting ID: 853 9962 8542 Passcode: 480798
Artist Talk with Brynn Higgins-Stirrup in conversation with Alanna Thain
YYZ IS PLEASED TO PRESENT ARTIST TALK WITH BRYNN HIGGINS-STIRRUP IN CONVERSATION WITH ALANNA THAIN AT 7:00 PM ON THURSDAY JULY 7, 2022 Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82554437107?pwd=0QoNPpu26x7Idk7xxUAc2AFC2d6GcE.1 Meeting ID: 825 5443 7107 Passcode: 363805 BRYNN HIGGINS-STIRRUP is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist working in drawing…
Escaping into Ourselves: Fragments and Ethereal Beauty By Timothy Yanick Hunter
Escaping the human form, subverting restrictive ideas around identity and the self – Jones’ work affirms our spiritual-symbiotic relationship to nature. Layered cuts of paper, intentional but free, shape dreamy and amorphous figures. Aaron evokes the unreal and beautifully strange yet the geography is…
The Shadow of Your Smile by Alanna Thain
Desire lines are everyday traces that mark where bodies wander at will. Their pragmatic urgency might trample a grassy path that shortcuts across a park; over time they become their own contagious attractors, through repetition. But it is that first impulse to step off the…