Exhibitions & Fairs

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  Jacob Freeman

  Feature Exhibition 14 Apr - 19 May 2023 Jacob Freeman's works are playful imaginations reappropriating motifs, figures, techniques and tropes of historical painting using contemporary popular American culture iconography, painting images and subjects he sees in magazines, on TV, in movies or in his readings over disparate backgrounds.
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  Story

  Patty Maher 31 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 A synthesis of the artist’s photography and painting practice, 'Story' brings together three series 'The Salvage Mission', 'The Ghosts' and 'Sand & Stone', accompanied by selected works. Read more

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  Wavelengths

  Group Exhibtion 3 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 Meet us on our wavelength. Abbozzo Gallery presents the Group Exhibition Wavelengths, a collection of work inspired by the intuitive and the innate, exemplary of the variety of what can be produced within the wavelengths of the visible colour spectrum. Featured are paintings and sculptures that speak to you silently in the way a familiar friend calls out with a wordless glance; all that is given and all that is needed is the outward expression of internal thought – in the universal language of art. Artists included are Lola Erhart, Delfina Gómez Marestaing, Celia Lees, Fabiana Salomao, Steven K. Tucker, and David Wilstermann, all exhibiting for the first time with Abbozzo Gallery.
  
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  Mémoire

  20 - 29 Jan 2023 ‘Mémoire’ is a collaborative project between wood artist Andreas Krätschmer, visual artist Tania Love and poet Paul Ruban. Read more

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  Closer

  Duane Nickerson 2 Dec 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Nickerson’s work in his current exhibition is rooted in the tradition of landscape painting, a long and varied practice that extends to the dawn of human civilization and is featured prominently in the art making tradition of Canada. The uninhabited landscape is a key facet of Canadian identity, and it is becoming a prominent symbol for the global environmental movement. Our growing awareness that the human species faces hard limits to its growth and consumption makes Nickerson’s detailed paintings of tree trunks, roots and leaves poignant reminders of the fragility of life. Read more

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  Coastal Impressions

  Katharine Burns 4 - 26 Nov 2022 This new body of work celebrates the beauty and variation in the familiar yet ever-wondrous subject of water. Specifically, the Ocean, in its boundless mass and dormant strength. Read more

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  The Scenic Route

  Kelly Grace 7 - 29 Oct 2022 Kelly Grace's first solo exhibition with us, The Scenic Route, is the artist's most cinematic and narrative work to date. Grace has tapped into her knowledge of cinema, graphic novels and story boarding to immerse the viewer in a chronological tale told through several paintings. Read more

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  One Step Closer to Knowing

  Dan Steeves 9 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Dan Steeves' latest exhibition is a contemplation of nostalgia, past experiences and youthful tranquility. Steeves has participated in over 100 public exhibitions all around the world, and is adding to this record with 'One Step Closer To knowing', a compilation of two series of work created in the past three... Read more

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  Hampton's Fine Art Fair & Exhbition

  Our Contribution 14 Jul - 27 Aug 2022 Abbozzo Gallery is pleased to announce we are taking part in the 2022 iteration of the Hamptons Art Fair. Read more

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  Inventory Fair

  Reduced prices starting at 40% off 28 Jun - 31 Jul 2022 Operating since 1993, we have held on to some pieces for almost 30 years. It's time to bring them back into the light. We're launching our Inventory Fair, a sale starting at 40% off so these pieces can finally find their home. The fair includes notable Canadian and international artists such as Carl Beam, Annelies Hoek, Theo Tobiasse and more. Read more

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  Based on a True Story

  Tadeusz Biernot 3 Jun - 21 Jul 2022 We are thrilled to be exhibiting Tadeusz Biernot's most recent work, Based on a True Story , from June 3rd to July 2nd 2022. A departure from his well-known, expressionistic depictions of the human face, Based on a True Story is an exploration of shape, texture and composition. A marriage... Read more

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  OG Punk

  Dina Goldstein 6 - 28 May 2022 Part of the 2022 Scoatiabank Contact Photography Festival, Dina Goldstein's OG Punk speaks to the legacy of punk as an anarchistic, youth counterculture that rebelled against mainstream society. More an attitude than a movement, punk swept across the globe in the 1970s and was often motivated by urgent political concerns. An especially vibrant hardcore punk music scene flourished on the West Coast.
  
  Over the past year, Goldstein photographed key figures from the legendary punk rock scene of the 1980s and 1990s in Vancouver and Victoria. The portraits in OG Punk were made against a neutral studio backdrop, establishing a mood of theatrical artifice. Read more

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  Muskoka

  D.A. Dunford 9 - 30 Apr 2022 D. A. Dunford's latest exhibition tackles the stunning scenery of the Muskoka Lakes region in Southern Ontario, with the intention of capturing as much detail and beauty as he possibly can. Dunford's mastery of hyper-realism brings Muskoka to life like never before. He contemplates the region and reproduces his vision... Read more

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  Interlude

  Abbozzo Gallery Artists 15 Dec 2021 - 26 Mar 2022 Abbozzo Gallery is proud to showcase the latest works from our extensive catalogue of represented artists. Join us during these winter months in viewing new works by Brian Harvey, Vladimir Kanic and Michael Pittman, and in welcoming Kelly Grace, the newest addition to our cast. Interlude is meant to give... Read more

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  Drawn to Film

  Olexander Wlasenko 30 Nov - 31 Dec 2021 My studio production focuses on a personal and investigative discourse surrounding drawing’s relationship to lens based media (i.e. photography, cinema) in modern culture. The images I choose to work with trigger involuntary and perhaps atavistic memories. In relation to this, I perceive the photos and films I draw from as... Read more

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  Microcosm

  Jennifer Walton 4 - 27 Nov 2021 Join us for the opening reception of Jennifer Walton’s solo exhibition, ‘Microcosm’, on Friday, November 5th, from 5-8pm. The show will be open to the public from November 5th-27th. Jennifer Walton’s Microcosm, invites the viewer into the shimmering world of bees, butterflies and the flowers they pollinate. This intimate series... Read more

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  The Book of Waves

  Vladimir Kanic 3 Nov 2021 - 28 May 2022 Vladimir Kanic presents us with an experimental glimpse into a more sustainable future with his original creations: breathable sculptures. Kanic combines natural biological processes with an unnusually beautiful outer shell of bioplastic, resulting in an algae farm that is able to recycle the oxygen in any given space. These works... Read more

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  Drift

  Brian Harvey 3 - 30 Oct 2021 Brian Harvey is most comfortable portraying the ephemeral; he often focuses on specific moments and times of day that feel rare and fleeting. Harvey’s effective surrender to the cityscape, and his acknowledgement that he himself is a part of the city's social reality, gives him the ability to portray these... Read more

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  Pieces of a Different Puzzle

  Richard Jacobson 10 Sep - 3 Oct 2021 Abbozzo Gallery is pleased to announce Richard Jacobson's solo exhibition, Pieces from a Different Puzzle. Saskatchewan born, Toronto based high realism oil painter Jacobson brings his autobiographical still life and landscape artwork to the walls of Abbozzo starting September 10th, with the Opening Reception at 5pm of the same day.... Read more

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  Fresh Voices

  Group Exhibition 12 Aug - 4 Sep 2021 Abbozzo Gallery is pleased to announce Fresh Voices, an interdisciplinary group show largely featuring artists who have not shown their work at Abbozzo before. The show will include photographers Stéphane Alexis, Nika Belianina, David Brandy, Sylvia Galbraith, painters Bill Boyko, Jacob Freeman, Miles Ingrassia, Diego Narvaez and sculpture / installation... Read more

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  In Praise of Hands

  Naoko Matsubara 11 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 The woodcuts in In Praise of Hands focus on the very tools that define humanity: our hands. The colourful and lively woodblock prints present in this exhibition serve to elevate the almost mundane perception of the human hand, as Matsubara transforms these mere body parts into fitting symbols and representations... Read more

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  Sea Change

  Katharine Burns 8 - 30 Dec 2020 Atlantic Canadian oil painter Katharine Burns opens her second exhibition with Abbozzo Gallery this Saturday, following her debut in the Feature Gallery last fall. Impressive in their scale – one painting being 10 feet wide, two of them 7 feet wide –Burns almost exclusively draws inspiration from the ocean she... Read more

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  Temps Suspendu/Suspended Times

  Marie Rioux 6 - 28 Nov 2020 Quebec painter Marie Rioux ‘s atmospheric landscapes are coming to Abbozzo Gallery for her first solo-exhibition with us. Inspired by her surroundings and North American geographies, Rioux paints vast monochromatic landscapes often interrupted by informal figures and subtle, fluorescent highlights. The work is a contemplation on the space she occupies... Read more

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  An Exploration of Line and Form - 20 Year Retrospective

  Ron Eady 9 - 31 Oct 2020 Ontario based painter and sculptor Ron Eady returns for his 5th Solo Exhibition at Abbozzo Gallery. An Exploration of Line and Form takes us through the 20 year evolution of approaches to figure in Ron Eady’s artwork, the influence of encaustic, and eventual foray into sculpture. Oft reclaiming old beams,... Read more

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  Love Story

  Heather Horton 10 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 Canadian painter Heather Horton's signature contemporary realist style returns to Abbozzo Gallery for her 7th Solo-Exhibition this September. This new series of work, Love Story, sees a slight thematic departure from Horton’s often personal, contemplative, meditative work on memory, loss, and remnants of what was, to one of things found,... Read more

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  The Dominion of Ice and Time

  Arnold Zageris 8 - 29 May 2020 Following expeditions to two of the more remote geographies of the globe, Zageris captures the rugged, unforgiving, yet fragile landscapes of Antarctica and Iceland in entirely unedited photographs. Informed by oft unseen subjects that evidence the dominion of ice, time, and their geological processes, Zageris’ photography juxtaposes the awe-inspiring grandeur... Read more

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  Visions of Wesleyville

  David Blackwood 1 - 29 Feb 2020 The works of Canadian Master Printmaker David Blackwood once again return to the walls of Abbozzo Gallery for the 11th time. For decades, David Blackwood has captured and recreated the mythologies of the rugged and unforgiving East Coast of Newfoundland. Blackwood left Wesleyville to study art at what was then... Read more

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  Tree: Recent Oil Paintings

  Duane Nickerson 8 Feb - 2 Mar 2019 Read more

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  Feature Exhibition

  Naoko Matsubara 4 - 29 Apr 2017 Read more

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  Feature Exhibition

  Duane Nickerson 3 - 25 Feb 2017 Read more

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  Dancing with Wood: 50 Years of Woodcuts

  Naoko Matsubara 1 - 31 Oct 2015 For over fifty years Naoko Matsubara has worked in, through, with, and about “wood.” She has engaged with the material in its raw and processed form, revelling in it as her preferred medium for creative expression. From the start she rejected the rigidity of traditional Japanese woodcut printmaking (ukiyo-e), her... Read more

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  Odori

  Naoko Matsubara 8 - 31 Mar 2012 Read more