Retro – Contempo Catalogue

catalogue
the al green gallery
64 merton street, toronto, www. thealgreengallery.com
the al green gallery
the al green gallery
table of contents
A Message From The Director
Al Green, Founder
Keita Morimoto Ron Eady
Nicholas Crombach Donna Zekas Adam David Brown
Sona Safaei-Sooreh Katie Pretti
Andrea Maguire
Christopher Reid Flock Alice Vander Vennen
Douglas Keesic
Cylla von Tiedemann
David Trautrimas
Bonnie Devine
George Farmer
Melanie Chikofsky
Jon Curry
Jerry Campbell
Julia Vandepolder
André Krigar
Doug Stone
Christian McLeod
Artist Information
Group Exhibitions
Charitable Organizations
Opening Night Photographs
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a message from the director
The Al Green Gallery, named in our father’s honour, is a meaningful way to carry on his legacy as
an artist and a philanthropist with a clear focus on supporting the arts in Toronto. I wish to thank my
siblings for their unwavering support and belief in this venture.
Our father, who is also an important real estate developer, originated the gallery to showcase his
sculptural works alongside that of fellow artists, including members of the Sculptors Society of Canada and The Al Green Sculpture Studio and School, another arts entity he founded.
Since 2009, I have had the privilege as curator and director to
broaden the gallery’s focus by
including artwork in all mediums.
Over the past five years, the gallery has hosted solo, duo, and
group exhibitions featuring the
work of sculptors, painters, printmakers, photographers, jewellers,
mixed media artists, textile artists,
ceramists and video artists. This
retrospective is unique as it not
only brings together in one exhibition this eclectic grouping of artists
but highlights what they are creating today. It’s exciting to witness how the artists have evolved individually and how the new works,
assembled together, create a dynamic synergy.
The gallery does not represent artists in the traditional manner but offers exhibition opportunities to
emerging, mid-career and senior artists. Collaboration with the galleries that represent some of these
artists has resulted in a new paradigm with broader exposure for all. I have also travelled many of our
exhibitions, curated visual arts components for a variety of performance arts companies and taken
part in public art expositions.
The gallery is committed to supporting the arts and is unique because it operates within a philanthropic
model. For every exhibition a portion of sale proceeds is donated to a charity. Over the past five years,
we have partnered with a myriad of charitable community organizations and raised both funds and
awareness. Subsequently and as a result of these associations, the Green family has been able to
provide further support, particularly through the creation of sponsorships and educational bursaries. It
has been an extraordinary, enormously enriching five years for me, and I especially cherish the many
inspiring relationships that have been forged. I would like to conclude by thanking all the artists who
exhibited at the gallery. I hope this catalogue will serve as a wonderful memento of our time together.
Respectfully,
Lindy Green
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al green, founder
For more than forty years Al Green devoted himself to sculpture, a passion that has coloured his life.
Green’s initial work consisted of representations of the human form, including a series of female figures
and life-sized busts. These impressionistically textured works in wax and clay were cast in bronze and
patinated in rich tones of brown and green. Influenced by such luminaries as Archipenko and Lipchitz,
Green pursued a cubist, angular aesthetic, which ultimately became his artistic style.
Green went on to create works in categories
that include Musicians and Dancers, Sports,
Human Figures, Cactus, Religious Symbols,
Totems, Awards and Towers. He favoured casting 12-18 inch bronzes but his creativity extended to large scale work, many of which are
installed throughout Toronto.
The presence and emotional power of Green’s
work were recognized immediately by his peers
including renowned artists Sorel Etrog and
Maryon Kantaroff. Green is a generous donor
of his work to charity, has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group shows.
His work can be found in public and private collections in Canada and around the world.
As co-founder of Greenwin Construction, Green
helped develop and shape the urban landscape
of Toronto. Early on he received the nickname
“Dream Maker” because of his social involvement and generosity. He is a tireless philanthropist, recently honoured with the Order of
Canada for his devotion to community service.
Bolt of Lightning, Patinated Bronze, H 20” X W 8” X D 8”
In 2000, he founded The Al Green Sculpture
Studio and School which fulfilled his desire to
provide a venue for sculptors to work and learn
in an open, accessible environment. Green
continues to enrich himself and others through
his involvement in arts organizations including
The Sculptors Society of Canada and The Art
Gallery of Ontario.
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Keita Morimoto
Kayla
Oil on panel, 2014, 12” x 12”
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Ron Eady
Overseer
Encaustic on panel, 2012, 50” x 38”
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Nicholas Crombach
Foundling
Resin, paint, 2014, H 36”x W 18”x D 18”
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Donna Zekas
Woven Fragments of Being
Patinated winterstone, metal, 2014, H 33”x D 12”x W 12”
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Adam David Brown
Cloud 9
Carved gyprock, 2014, 25” x19”
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Sona Safaei- Sooreh
V+1
Commercially printed strengthened ceramic mug, 2014, 3.5” h x 3”dia
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Katie Pretti
Moratoria # 1
Oil stick, oil pastel, acrylic paint and graphite on red canvas, 2014, 78” X 56”
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Andrea Maguire
Elemental Spirit 2
Mixed media on canvas, 2014, 50” x 32”
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Christopher Reid Flock
Basking Blue
Stoneware, paint, 2014, H16.5” x W26” x D15.5”
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Alice Vander Vennen
Connexion
Mixed media, found objects, 2014, 60” x 22”
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Keesic Douglas
Fracture
Chromogenic print (darkroom processed) Edition of 9, 2014, 40” x 30”
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Cylla von Tiedemann
Gathering
Ink jet print, Edition 1/15, 2014, 14” x 20”
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David Trautrimas
As Long As The Sun Lasts
Archival pigment print, State proof 1/1, 2014, 26” x 48”
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Bonnie Devine
Robinson Huron Yellow Cake
Diptych: left panel mixed media on canvas, right panel giclee print on canvas, 2014, 28” x 48”
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George Farmer
Clear Cut
Wood, steel, glass, 2014, H 7”x W 18”x D 7”
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Melanie Chikofsky
Twist of Fate
Mixed media, paper rope, found objects, oil paint, 2013, H 27”
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Jon Curry
The Entrée
Acrylic on canvas, 2014, 36” x 36”
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Jerry Campbell
Jade Pool
Oil on panel, 2014, 11” x 14”
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Julia Vandepolder
Letters from Ternopil,
Ukraine (Series of 36 Paintings)
Oil on panel, canvas and canvas board, 2014, Varied sizes
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André Krigar
Untitled
Oil on canvas, 2007, 15.5” x 13”
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Doug Stone
Where Have You Been
Mixed media on canvas, 2012, 48” x 48”
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Christian McLeod
Dusk Particles
Oil on canvas, 2013, 30” x 48”
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artist information
Adam David Brown
Jerry Campell
Melanie Chilkofsky
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Adam David Brown is a multidisciplinary artist living in Toronto.
Brown has achieved critical success with his many solo and group exhibitions. His
exhibition at MKG127 in 2009 was reviewed by Artforum International Magazine
and Canadian Art and brought his work to the attention of the Toronto Friends of
the Visual Arts who awarded him their 2009 Artist Prize.
Guided by the principle of “less is more”, Brown’s work is frequently generated
by his interest in science, language and the passage of time. Intentionally spare,
his work attempts to find a balance between emptiness and form, mark making
and erasure.
Adam David Brown is represented by MKG127.
Jerry Campbell completed his fine art training at the Ontario College of Art and
Design. A plein air painter, Campbell paints on location, completing the entire
work in one sitting. More recently, the artist has begun to expand his practice by
working in studio. His primary interest lies in cataloguing the urban landscape,
offering revelatory, often hidden perspectives.
Campbell’s paintings are included in both private and public collections in Canada and the United States. His recent exhibitions include the Toronto Outdoor Art
Exhibition and Canadian Fine Arts Gallery in Toronto.
Melanie Chikofsky is an award-winning sculptor, mixed media artist and teacher.
She was an art instructor for the Toronto District School Board and has been the
director and lead instructor at the Al Green Sculpture Studio and School since its
inception.
Chikofsky believes the fleeting nature of human life drives artists to create works
that, in their content and form, transcend our mortality and express our need to
communicate something about our transient selves to validate our existence.
Chikofsky has exhibited since 1983, most recently at The Canadian Sculpture
Centre in Toronto. Her work can be found in many private collections in Canada
and United States.
Nicholas Crombach
artist information
Award-winning visual artist Nicholas Crombach works primarily in sculpture. In 2012 he
graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program.
Crombach’s artwork operates as an investigation into the paradoxical relationship humans
have with the “natural world”. He juxtaposes domestic objects, human figures, and animals to
create visual representations of the complexity of human nature. The artist works within the
sculptural tradition of representation, yet his work is contemporary, carrying a serious tone
that is belied by hints of humour.
Crombach continues his practice, exhibiting in a variety of gallery exhibitions, project spaces
and sculpture gardens.
Jon Curry
Curry is a self-taught artist who uses industrial tools to create whimsical,
evocative paintings. He also plants trees for a living, from the rugged mountainsides of British Columbia to the more manageable terrains of Alberta and
Northern Ontario.
Six years ago, during the off-season, Curry began painting and rapidly developed his own unique style. Using unconventional tools, he applies paint and
then scrapes away or sands through the layers. He controls the painting by
revealing more and more of an emerging patch of something recognizable.
The finished image is human or animal, or an otherworldly combination of
both. Curry’s human and anthropomorphic creations emerge as if from the
mists of time. Jon Curry is represented by Muse Gallery.
Bonnie Devine
First Nations (Ojibwa) installation artist Bonnie Devine holds fine art degrees from OCAD and York Universities and is the recipient of numerous
awards and scholarships. She is an associate professor at OCAD University and the Founding Chair of its Aboriginal Visual Culture Program.
Devine’s art practice, writing, curating, research and teaching career derive from her connection to the land and history of her forebears. She is
inspired by the stories of the Anishinaabek and is committed to furthering
the recognition and development of contemporary Aboriginal art.
Robinson Huron Yellow Cake draws on two of the artist’s earliest political and visual influences. First, the text of the Robinson Huron treaty, by which the Anishinaabek surrendered
and transferred their immense territory on the north shore of Lake Huron to the British Crown in 1850. Second,
the piles of raw sulfuric acid left on the shoulders of Highway 17 from uranium mining in the Serpent River watershed, one hundred years later.
As a practicing artist Devine has exhibited her installation and video work globally. Her work forms part of many
permanent collections including The Art Gallery of Ontario.
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artist information
Keesic Douglas
Ron Eady
George Farmer
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Keesic Douglas graduated with a BFA from OCAD University where he won
the medal for photography and completed his MFA at the University of British
Columbia.
Douglas is an Ojibway artist from the Mnjikaning First Nation in central Ontario, Canada. Specializing in the mediums of photography and video, Douglas
focuses on sharing his unique perspective based on his Aboriginal heritage.
His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and
internationally. Most recently, Douglas was part of “Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes”, an exhibition at the Art Gallery
of Ontario.
Hamilton-based artist Ron Eady was born into a long line of craftsmen: his father and grandfather were piano cabinetmakers and his matriarchal grandfather
painted stained glass windows for churches. He studied at Sheridan College
and The Ontario College of Art and Design.
Eady spent his formative years developing his drawing skills, then gradually
changed his focus to painting. Over the past decade he has primarily worked
with encaustic paint and has incorporated the medium into sculpted wood.
Many of Eady’s encaustic works include his signature cross hatching technique which developed from a desire to translate his pen and ink sketches
into paintings. His works explore the feeling of unsettled or elusive imagery,
whether it’s an industrial landscape, figurative work or organic formations,
creating an atmosphere of uncertainty.
Eady’s work has been featured in numerous publications. He has exhibited
internationally, and his paintings are held in collections in the USA, Canada,
Japan and China.
Toronto sculptor George Farmer graduated from the sculpture program at OCAD University. He has since gone on to work as a technician and instructor in foundry practices at OCAD University and
The Al Green Sculpture Studio and School. He also runs his own
business providing artwork to designers and technical assistance to
sculptors.
Farmer questions human demand for and consumption of space. Although the artist is concerned with environmental issues, his sculpture soon imposes its own logic. Farmer eschews commentary on
his work, preferring to keep meaning and interpretation open to the
viewer. Farmer has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions and his work forms part of many private collections.
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Christopher Reid Flock
Award-winning ceramist Christopher Reid Flock, was born in Burlington,
Ontario. Flock initially pursued a university education in violin performance but later discovered a familiar musicality in the making of a bowl.
The artist realized that “while music can be tactile, one can virtually hold
the same malleable notes in one’s hands”.
His early mentors include museum curator Jonathan Smith and Kayo
O’Young, one of Canada’s top porcelain artists. In 1999 Flock moved to
Japan where he lived and worked for ten years, eventually opening his own
studio in Hitachi City.
By incorporating contemporary materials such as garden hose and shredded tires into traditional forms, Flock
merges Japan’s quiet artistic heritage with a hyper-urbanity. Most recently, his focus has been on developing the
basket form with highly saturated, vibrant colours, inspired by the digital processing programs he uses when
photographing his work. For the artist, “The basket simply is an iconic form, regardless of origin, and has great
value”.
Since 2004, Flock has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. His work is held in many public and private
collections in Canada. Christopher Reid Flock is represented by The David Kaye Gallery and The Art Gallery of
Burlington.
André Krigar
German plein-air painter André Krigar, is the son of well known documentary cinematographer Kurt Krigar. He studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts and
since 1995 has been a member of the “North German Realists”, whose artistic heritage
is rooted in 19th Century Realism and plein air painting.
Krigar’s plein air paintings, often depicting the bustling city life of the many places in
the world he travels to, are always executed and completed on site.
Krigar’s paintings have appeared in several publications and books. He was the winner of the “Rembrandt Painting Award” in 2008 at the painters’ festival in Noordwijk,
Netherlands. His work has been exhibited in Germany, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands,
the Republic of Macedonia, Colombia and Canada.
André Krigar is represented by De Luca Fine Art Gallery in Canada.
Andrea Maguire
Painter Andrea Maguire received her MFA from Norwich University in Vermont. She
currently resides in Toronto, where she has an active studio practice and holds workshops for professionals.
Those familiar with Maguire’s work will recognize the spiritual intent in her paintings.
The artist’s own search has taken her to many places off the beaten track, among them,
Tibet, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Japan. The enigmatic quality of her figural
paintings reflects Maguire’s meditative approach. Yet her forms and figures are not symbols of the unconscious but rather stripped down, intensified visual facts firmly based in
sensation. The viewer engages directly with the image, its posture, movement and raw
energy.
Maguire has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally, and her work is held
in many private and corporate collections. Andrea Maguire is widely represented in the
US, UK, Japan and Canada.
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Christian McLeod
Toronto painter Christian McLeod graduated from the Toronto School of Art before
moving to Spain where he exhibited on the Island of Ibiza. McLeod has also lived
and worked in Mexico and Germany. He is currently exhibiting in Toronto and San
Antonio, Texas, and his next solo exhibition opens in Halifax in 2015 at Gallery Page
and Strange. His current studio is a live-work storefront in Toronto.
McLeod has been dubbed “the particle physicist of Canadian art”. He consistently produces new matter from the kinetic energy of colliding pigments. He daubs,
scrapes, pushes and pulls mounds of oil-based colours until he has seized a snippet of time, a snapshot of constant
change. He captures the shift between a perceived image and the particles that comprise the whole picture.
McLeod’s works are held in private and corporate collections in Canada and internationally. The artist has been widely
written about, most recently in 1968 Magazine and artoronto.ca.
Christian McLeod is represented in Toronto by ChristianMcLeod.com and in eastern Canada by Gallery Page and
Strange. Keita Morimoto
Award-winning painter Keita Morimoto was born in Japan and moved to Canada in
2006. Since graduating from OCAD University, Morimoto has kept a full time painting
practice.
In 2011, Morimoto won a painting competition organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche and received a solo exhibition at the Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in 2014. At the 2012 indoor art fair “The Artist
Project”, Morimoto was voted the People’s Choice for Favourite Emerging Artist in
the Untapped Artist category. As the winner, he received a free booth in 2013, where he
won first prize in The Faces Competition. In the same year he held his first solo exhibition “Into the Wild” at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. Morimoto has since exhibited and travelled extensively,
including Tokyo and Los Angeles.
Katie Pretti
Toronto-based painter Katie Pretti graduated with honours from OCAD University. She
has had studios in Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, and Brooklyn and been artist in residence
at COME (Buenos Aires), CTRL LAB (Montreal), The White House (Toronto), and Spark
Box Studios (Picton, Ontario).
Pretti explores narrative abstraction in drawing and painting. Her current work, a series
entitled Moratoria, experiments with a more playful approach to figurative abstraction and
the unabashed portrayal of a moment.
Her book of drawings, Sonority of Words, was launched in Toronto by Art Metropole,
featured at the 2007 NYC Art Book Fair, and subsequently added to the collection of The
National Gallery of Canada. Pretti’s work has been profiled in many publications including Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting (a survey of Canadian Painters). Her work is held in
many private collections in Canada and abroad.
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artist information
Sona Safaei-Sooreh
Sona Safaei-Sooreh is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She holds a BFA in
painting from Azad University, Iran and a BFA in Sculpture/Installation from OCAD
University.
In her practice, Safaei-Sooreh explores commonalities in art discourses, institutionalization of art and the relationships between art and capital. Her new body of
work V+1 is a series of artist multiples. Every time a piece is purchased, the individual value of the remaining pieces goes up in price. However, unlike most multiple
editions, the production of these items is not limited, and the price is endlessly increasing. This project makes a reference to the inner workings of the art market and
the value systems at play within it, exemplifying the very economic model that artists, dealers and collectors are
both resisting and perpetuating.
Safaei-Sooreh has won several awards, grants and scholarships. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
Cylla von Tiedemann
Cylla von Tiedemann is a performing arts photographer, educator and visual
artist with an impressive and wide-ranging body of work. Renowned for her
dance portraiture and live theatre photography, she is also involved in collaborations on stage as a visual designer.
Von Tiedemann has lectured and presented workshops at many schools and
universities. Her photographs have been recognized in books and magazines
and through the publication of “The Dance Photographs of Cylla von Tiedemann” by the National Arts Centre. She has exhibited globally, and her
images form part of many private and corporate collections.
In the artist’s words: “My fascination in dance has always been with the archetypal expression of the body’s inherent wisdom. I not only witness but try to capture fleeting moments in time and space, those interstices of movement and drama where revelation lies”.
David Trautrimas
Artist David Trautrimas graduated with honours from OCAD University.
He is a pioneer in digital printmaking, his works distinguished by technically superb microphotography. The artist disassembles objects into separate components and recreates the image into fabulist architectural structures.
Trautrimas’ new series, Dispersals, is generated from photographs of architectural ruins taken in Detroit, upstate New York, and southern Ontario.
Dispersals combine expressions of languishing architecture to investigate
the boundaries of structural dematerialization, contemplating the spirit of architecture as it depreciates into an
imagined afterlife.
Trautrimas is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and commissions. His work has appeared in solo and group
exhibitions in Canada and around the world. He has received international acclaim from numerous publications
including Art News, The Globe and Mail, and the New York Times.
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Julia Vandepolder
Julia Vandepolder earned an Honours BA specializing in studio art and art history from the
University of Guelph.
Vandepolder’s understanding of place is generated over a continuum of time by witnessing the subtle transformations of colour, light and shape. With the use of a lush palette,
unexpected perspectives and remarkably confident compositions, she aims to capture the
poetic sensibilities in ever fleeting moments. Her paintings derive from the notion of how
difficult it is to perceive and observe a quality in something that is so familiar and simple
in our day to day experiences.
Letters from Ternopil, is a collection of 36 paintings inspired by found handwritten letters
in Ukrainian between the artist’s grandparents and immediate family who were separated
in WW II. These intimate, in-scale studies capture fragments of the disintegrating envelopes, in an attempt to piece together an understanding of an unknown history.
Vandepolder has garnered critical attention, numerous awards and grants. She continues to exhibit at public and private galleries across Canada and her work is included in corporate and private collections. She lives and works in the
Alice Vander Vennen
Artist Alice Vander Vennen studied at OCAD University and completed her BA in Art Education at
Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Trained as a sculptor, Vander Vennen brings a profound
understanding of form to her two dimensional assemblages.
Vander Vennen’s superbly constructed and collaged artworks are created from an array of materials
including fabric, branches, stones, wire, copper, paper and found objects. Her compact assemblages,
often totemic in stature, form a visual narrative that speaks of divergent cultures, histories and generations.
In 1997 Vander Vennen co-founded the Colborne Society of Artists, a diverse group of artists in Northumberland County who manage the Colborne Art Gallery. Along with exhibiting in solo, group and
juried exhibitions, Vander Vennen conducts art workshops. Her work forms part of many private and
corporate collections.
Alice Vander Vennen is represented by Oeno Gallery.
Donna Zekas
Artist Donna Zekas taught art in the inner city school system while maintaining her studio
practice. She graduated from the Toronto School of Art where her passion for representing the
human form was broadened from sculpture to painting. Zekas went on to study at several arts
institutions and attended private workshops, a practice she vigorously maintains today.
Zekas’ work is inspired by the consequences of time and weather on both the human form and
man-made objects. Working primarily with winterstone and employing a variety of techniques
including direct building and acid washes, the artist strives to achieve a distressed surface to
convey the impact of natural forces against nature.
Zekas has participated in numerous solo, duo and group exhibitions and her work can be found
in many private and corporate collections. Of note is a recent installation of ten paintings at the
Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto.
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group exhibitions
The Al Green Sculpture Studio and School:
2009 “Studio”
2010 “Beyond Sculpture”
2011 “Green Spaces”
2012 “Informs”
2013 “Configuration”
2014 “InSite”
Baresic, Stephania
Bates, Matthew
Blankstein, Ellen
Bradstreet , Brian
Brent-Harris, Franz
Brown, Bruce
Carvel Thea
Chan, Dorothy
Crombach, Nicholas
Chikofsky, Melanie
Conn, Garson
Crowder, Jeanne
Farmer. George
Fashion, Tod
Fiskel, Penny
Frolic, Irene
Gharvian, Anvar
Godin, Gerard
Golden, Sid
Grainger, Mary Ann
Gue, Gregory
Halbert, Tootsie
Hands, Brian
Hastie, Sarah
Hawk, Crystal
Hejazi, Samar
Hung, W.W.
Hunter, Janet
Johnson, Inge
Kogan, Evgueni
Lipman, Phyllis
Lisa Schokking
MacBride, John
Meeson, Brian
Munn, Allan
Naranjo, Juan
Okun, Hershel
Paisley Love, Ruth
Paloschi, Susan Lin, Shen
Peteherych, Virginia
Pin, Patricia
Prittie, Allan
Povinsky, Dean
Quinlan, Jan
Ravin, Janet
Reynolds,Kari
Robins, Gloria
Saunders, Dona
Shani, Karen
Shepherd, Peter
Sproule, John
Stephenson, Philippa
Suga, Sylvio
Tytarenko, Alexandra
Walters, Doris
Winters, Lorne
Zekas, Dona
2010 “Face Value”
Shoot With This Mentorship Collective in collaboration with glass artist and photographer Andrea Marcus.
2010 “I am from Here”
The paintings of Maciej Frankiewicz, a collaboration with The Ashkenaz Festival
2010 “Isaac Bashevis Singer and & His Artists”
A travelling exhibition from the Hebrew Union College Museum in New York in collaboration with the Ashkenaz Festival.
2011 “The Artist Backstage”
Drawings and Paintings of Zero Mostel. A collaboration with The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company and the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. This exhibition travelled to Philadelphia and San Francisco.
2011 “Spark”
Shoot With This Mentorship Collective in collaboration with photographer Nigel Dickson and “Ignite the Spark Fund”, Children’s Aid
Foundation.
2012 “Journey”
Students , teachers and artist mentors in collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves Canada. Artist mentors include: Mary Ann
Grainger, Donna Zekas, Bruce Brown and Guillermo Cabrera (AKA Memo).
2012 “Ira Moskowitz: Spiritual Routes”
A painting and drawing exhibition in collaboration with The Ashkenaz Festival (the visual arts component) at Harbourfront Centre.
2012 “Bound Together”
A silk screen exhibition in collaboration with Creative Works Studio.
2014 “Toronto Art Expo”
Winning the “Featured Gallery” category, The Al Green Gallery was gifted a 100 linear foot display wall where six artists and informational panels were displayed.
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gallery supported charitable organizations
Art City in St. James Town
Shoot With This Mentorship Collective
Casey House
The Ashkenaz Foundation
The Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre
OCAD University:
The Al Green Gallery Student Bursary Fund
The Al Green Gallery Indigenous Visual Culture Program Bursary Fund
Interval House
Children’s Aid Foundation: Ignite the Spark Fund
Camp Oochigeas
Facing History and Ourselves Canada
Youth in Time: Gilda’s Club Greater Toronto
The Film Stars Project: Priority Youth Initiative
The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre: The Al Green Gallery Student Bursary Fund
Sketch: Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth
Ontario Crafts Council
Canada Israel Cultural Foundation
Art Barn School
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition: The Community Booth Sponsorship (2011 and 2013)
Raising the Roof
The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre
Art Gems in support of Creative Works Studio: Event Sponsorship and Preview Host
Youth Day Toronto: Visual Arts Sponsorship 2013
The A.M.Y. Project (Artists Mentoring Youth) Event Host and Sponsor
The Stephen Lewis Foundation Arts Fund
Factory Theatre: Natural Resources Creation Group
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