Artist Project
Apr
11
to Apr 14

Artist Project

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Discover and connect with over 250 independent artists at Artist Project in Toronto from April 11-14, 2024. Experience a stimulating environment designed to ignite enriching conversations and foster a personal connection with art. Explore thousands of artworks, large scale installations, enjoy curator led art tours and take home that special work that truly resonates with you.

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Art Fair: The Artist Project
Apr
13
to Apr 17

Art Fair: The Artist Project

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Discover and connect with over 250 independent artists at Artist Project in Toronto from April 13-16, 2023. Experience a stimulating environment designed to ignite enriching conversations and foster a personal connection with art. Explore thousands of artworks, large scale installations, enjoy curator led art tours and take home that special work that truly resonates with you.

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Exhibition: Night on the Lake at Jones Gallery
Jun
2
to Jun 30

Exhibition: Night on the Lake at Jones Gallery

A Solo Exhibition at Jones Gallery in Saint John, New Brunswick

The figures in the exhibition Night On the Lake find themselves in moments of quiet reflection seeking respite among the natural world.  Submerged in water, by an apple tree, or dissolving into a sunset, the natural elements in the paintings (sun, moon, tree, water) are at times, an extension of the figure’s psychological states.  Though each of these vignettes have their roots in lived or observed experiences, I have tried to push the work into a space outside the margins of the tangible world allowing various elements in each painting to take on symbolic and at times ominous significance. In Night on the Lake floating hands lead us upwards to two moons that become a pair of eyes. In Winner’s Wreath a wolf conceals itself in the bouquet. In Sunset on the Farm the figure is both above and below the water, floating in a kind of final rest. Peaceful states and quiet unease are juxtaposed allowing for multiple layers of meaning.

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Art Fair: The Artist Project
Apr
21
to Apr 24

Art Fair: The Artist Project

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Come visit me at booth 925!

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Artist Project returns April 21-24, 2022 to Toronto, bringing together 200+ Canadian independent artists showcasing their work under one roof. Hosted at the Queen Elizabeth Building at Exhibition Place, the annual art fair invites visitors to meet artists, learn the stories behind their artworks, and support the next generation of culture in Canada by buying directly from the artists at the show.

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Exhibition: New Perspectives at Wallspace Gallery
Apr
9
to Apr 30

Exhibition: New Perspectives at Wallspace Gallery

An exhibition of new works by seven of our artists Ian Busher, Elizabeth D’Agostino, Brian Harvey, Vanessa McKernan, Brandon McVittie, Patti Normand and Manny Trinh. Working in printmaking, sculpture, and painting, each artist approaches their respective medium with a unique voice.

In communication with one another, these seemingly disparate practices open new creative worlds paving an encompassing picture of contemporary social and ecological concerns. Through hard edge and colour field abstraction, landscapes, otherworldly creatures and ecologies, lirical figuration, and the contemplation of habitual objects and community spaces, each of these artists shine a light on the collective experience of living in the twenty-first century.

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Open Studio
Sep
24
to Sep 25

Open Studio

Come and visit my painting studio in the Distillery District! Paintings, drawings and prints for sale. Please note masks will be necessary and visitors will be limited to 5 at a time. Thank you for your understanding :)

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Exhibition: Wallspace Gallery, River Variations
May
27
to Jun 19

Exhibition: Wallspace Gallery, River Variations

Please join us in kicking off this exhibition with an online reception celebration via Zoom - Click here to register.

This collaborative exhibition from Vanessa McKernan and guest artist Julie Gladstone explores ideas about the connected strengths and mysticisms of rivers and family mythology and mothering. Click here for more details and images of the exhibition.

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Exhibition: WALLSPACE Gallery, Body of Work
Oct
5
to Oct 26

Exhibition: WALLSPACE Gallery, Body of Work

Body of Work: Featuring new works by Gosia, David Lidbetter, Vanessa McKernan, and Stan Wany

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5, 5-7 pm

As life feels increasingly chaotic, how does the body adapt and perform to cope? In what ways do we convince ourselves and others that a heightened sense of busyness should be worn as a badge of honour? Seeing the body as performance, we mould the masks we wear to live within the public eye. As we become conditioned to our own sense of chaos, let us look inwards and within companionship for solace and truth as means to reorient ourselves towards caring and mindfulness.

We invite four regional artists to explore the human figure as an expression of chaos or as a means of rebellion against chaos. The body as protest, the body as a safe house, the body as a medium for creative declaration.

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Exhibition: WALLSPACE Gallery, Great Big Wall of Smalls
Aug
10
to Aug 30

Exhibition: WALLSPACE Gallery, Great Big Wall of Smalls

Wall Space Gallery invites you to celebrate summer with us and partake in the Great Big Wall of Smalls! We are preparing a gargantuan salon-style wall featuring dozens of our talented Canadian contemporary artists. Enjoy work by Kelly Grace, Erin Vincent, Ava Roth, Vanessa McKernan, David Lidbetter, Brian Harvey, Erica Hawkes, Manny Trinh, Nicole Krstin, Sharon Kelly, Tanya Kirouac, and many more!

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Holiday Open Studio
Dec
8
11:00 AM11:00

Holiday Open Studio

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Alongside the Toronto Christmas Market in the Distillery District, I’ll have my doors open to the public with new artworks on view and for sale. Lots of gift-able pieces available! For free entry into the grounds go to the green express gate at any point of entry and them you are attending an event at Artscape.

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Exhibition: WALLSPACE Gallery
Sep
14
to Sep 30

Exhibition: WALLSPACE Gallery

X: TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Opening Friday September 12th from 6-8pm

WALL SPACE GALLERY is so proud to announce their 10 year anniversary in Westboro Village. To celebrate and kick off the next ten years, they will present a 10-artist group show centring in on a cross-medium examination of contemporary artistic talent. 

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Exhibition: ARTA Gallery
Mar
22
to Apr 2

Exhibition: ARTA Gallery

Wondrous Ways features works by Deniz Altug, Shahrzad Amin, Noma Bliss, Paul Brown, Jacques Descoteaux, Joyce Fournier, Heather Gentleman, Cristina Getson, Roshanak, Heravi Henry Ho, Nicole Krstin, Vanessa McKernan, Anna Medvedeva, Julie Ourceau, Jayne Sims, Kirk Sutherland, Massey Vishdehi and Candace Wilson.

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Exhibition: Day Trip, Gallery 555
Jun
10
to Jul 11

Exhibition: Day Trip, Gallery 555

Featuring the work of 8 Toronto based painters, the exhibition explores themes related to leisure and impermanence. The artists explore these themes through various strategies including depicting the nuanced relationship between humans and their environment in the experience of  leisure, the enjoyment and exploitation of nature, depictions of fantastical and manufactured landscapes, and through the tradition of nature-morte and the impermanence of the human experience.  

Working in a range of traditions from abstraction to still-life to surrealism to expressionism the works in the exhibition range  in use of materials from traditional oil paints, to tree bark, to sparkles and inkjet, to wax and carbon pencil and more.    

 Works by: Amanda Baron, Chen Cao, Kaitlin Johnson, Vanessa McKernan, James Olley, Ester Pugliese, Cortney Stevenson, Daniel St -Amant 

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Exhibition: Layers; Women Artists Of Our City, A Partial Gallery Pop-Up
Apr
6
to Apr 20

Exhibition: Layers; Women Artists Of Our City, A Partial Gallery Pop-Up

Featuring 17 of Toronto’s diverse women artists.

This curated group show explores different ways that layers and processes come together to create not just the art itself, but also insight into some of the layers of each unique individual as an Artist, Creator, and Woman. A percentage of proceeds will go towards Sistering: A Woman’s Place.

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