Angie Quick “Has Love Made You The Enemy” April 3 – May 3, 2025

Angie Quick Psychic Watercolour Performance – Thursday, May 1 from 6-8pm

Angie Quick & Susan Day: In Conversation – Saturday, May 3 @2pm sharp.  In Person & Online via Webinar Zoom: Register HERE

An exploration of intimacy in both public and private places, this is Angie Quick’s most personal body of work yet.  Full of happiness and heartbreak, the paintings are filled to the brim with pillows, plants and pearls, mirrors, maids and disco balls, and delicious tea and pink frosted cakes.  It is painting at its most joyful – bold, gestural and fearless: “It’s a bedroom show with all the gushy feelings the bed brings.”

This is my most personal show yet, it originated in heartbreak and burnout and followed a journey to recovering romance and myself. Through this journey I saw the bed as refuge. The bedroom as a place to keep our greatest sorrows, aspirations, and desires.

These paintings are playrooms of healing, rage, intimacy, and discovery. A place that holds us as we fall apart, rebuild, and as we love.

Like my older works I continue to make reference to canon art works, as I believe oil paint inherently holds all this history and I like to nod towards its lineage. But in this show I more boldly entwine aspects and symbols from my personal life; the pillows my mom makes, my favourite devices (phone, tablet, game system…), books, my eye mask, pillowcase, bathrobe etc. In the painting “You can cry but you still have to fight” a scene from from one of my favourite movies is depicted (a portrait of a lady on fire). I even wrote a letter into one of the paintings of the apology I think I deserved.

I have recently been adding cell phones to my paintings because it’s both a nod to the classical history of oil painting as records of our lives (which is now primarily the role of the phone) while also acknowledging the prevalence of cell phones as our direct line to romance and life.

The disco ball appeared like a fever dream as I was completing the series, an important act of joy. The realization that the night of the heart isn’t so lonely but ultimately an endless party.

In the end I offer these paintings as a place for the viewer to rest, to find comfort, to feel sexy, and to hope.
Angie Quick, April 2025

Angie Quick (b. 1989) is an artist based in London, Ontario.  Her practice encompasses painting as well as performance. Quick’s work explores tenderness and intimacy both historically and contemporaneously.

A self-taught artist, Quick has built a rigorous studio practice in London Ontario over the past decade.  Named the 2025 York University Artist in Residence, Quick has enjoyed recent solo exhibitions “make me less evil” at Museum London in 2023, “The Moonlight Made Me Do It” at the McIntosh Gallery in 2021 and “when i die i will have loved everything” in 2019.  She is the recipient of multiple grants, including an emerging artist grant from the Ontario Arts Council.

Her painting is in the permanent public collections of Museum London & McIntosh Gallery at Western University as well as countless Canadian private collections.

Link to Angie Quick’s Artist Page HERE