“In The Presence of Painting” December 4, 2025 – January 3, 2026

Opening on Art Crawl Thursday – December 4 from 6-8pm

Painting and all of its pleasures is the focus of our December front gallery exhibition.  Proclaimed “dead” multiple times over the past 150 years, we will celebrate the materiality of paint and its lasting impact.  From sensuous to refined, gestured to detailed, experiential to organic, we will honour painting and its transformative alchemy.  Specifically, we have selected paintings created early in each of the artist’s formative years.

The centrepiece of the exhibit is Harold Klunder’s 12-foot triptych “Antwerp Blue (Altarpiece)” from 1980-1982 balanced with recent arrivals by Paterson Ewen, Gathie Falk, Wanda Koop, William Perehudoff, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland.