December 9 - 24, 2009

Light of Winter/December Show

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 10th 6-8

For a span of two celebratory weeks leading up to and over the holiday season, this beautiful gallery space in the Historic Distillery District will be home to multi-textured original creations of two and three dimensional works to stimulate the senses and feed the soul. The works will include paintings, sculpture, prints, photography, ceramic and glass works as well as jewellery.

November 21 - December 6, 2009

Fall 2009 Group show

Carolanne MacLean, Marilyn Lightstone, Zahide Ugur, Ivo Stoyanov, Kyle Clements, Matt Durant, Robert Hinchley, Ronak Kordestani, Elsha Leventis, Carolyn Megill, Ron Eady, Ray Brandolino, Peter Colbert

Opening Reception: Nov 21, 5-7PM

A group show of international and local artists.

October 31 - November 19, 2009

MAG 2067 - Crafting the Future

Opening Reception: November 7, 5 -7

The Metal Arts Guild of Canada will exhibit "MAG 2067 - Crafting the Future" their national juried metal and visual arts exhibition from Oct 31st to Nov 19th, 2009 at Arta Gallery in the Historic Distillery District. What will Canada be like in 2067? Utopian or Dystopian? We gave our members 5 possible futures to choose from which are portrayed in hollowware, jewellery, sculpture and visual arts.

October 21 - 28, 2009

Land & Conflict

Anne Bayin, Babak Salari, Kalandia

Opening Reception: October 24, 2-6PM

Land & Conflict is a unique collaboration among three Toronto festivals : Voices Forward, Internationl Diaspora Film Festival, and Planet in Focus. The program runs from 21October to 8 November and features artistic works in the medium of film, photography, literature and music focused on people and land in contested terrain. Palestinian, Israeli, Bedouin, Burmese and diasporic viewpoints are represented in a rich panoply of artistic expression.

October 21 - 28, 2009

The Liberty Project

Anne Bayin

Opening Reception: October 24, 2-6PM

The Liberty Project ( in progress): Anne Bayin  October 21-28

 A vivid photographic work in honor of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Amnesty International’s 2009 Ambassador of Conscience. Bayin uses a mask to symbolize the imprisoned Suu Kyi, depicting her in various landscapes, at home and in Turkey. Half-Mask, a section of portraits, features distinguished writers such as Vaclav Havel and Margaret Atwood

October 2 - 15, 2009

VIS-À-VIS

Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 3, 5-7 PM

An eclectic face to face grouping of paintings, mixed media, prints, and photography: from the virtual to the actual. Arta Gallery and Artists Toronto present VIS-À-VIS on Nuit Blanche 2009
 

September 17 - 30, 2009

Alluring my senses

JAE-HONG AHN, ISABELLE ANGUITA, ERIKA BAEMPFER DEERY, HIDA BEHZADI, CATALINA CARRASCO, BEVERLEY HAWKSLEY, REID JENKINS, SALOMON KHAMMI, AFSHIN NIKRAVESH, LAURIE O'REILLY, KEIJO TAPANAINEN, PAUL VODAK

Opening Reception: 5 - 7 PM

An exhibition of figurative works by local and international artists.

August 29 - September 10, 2009

Letting My Mind Free

Kyle Clements, Isabelle Anguita, Matt Schust, Fly Freeman, Rui Pimenta, John Mazaheri, David Hoover, George Calle, Lourdes Ladrón de Guevara and Ivo Stoyanov

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 29 5-7pm

Arta Gallery presents Letting My Mind Free, a collective exhibition of abstract and mixed media art. This unique show brings 10 Canadian and American artists together.

August 8 - 20, 2009

I Open My Eyes

Andre Baranyai, Peter A. Barelkowski, Laura-Lynn Bolan, Rosa Guasch, Afsaneh Hezarkhani, Mary Karavos, Mario Ricci

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 8, 5-7pm

A selection of Landscape and figurative abstract exhibition.

Arta gallery represents a special summer exhibition and invites you to experience this visual tour with us and seven artists.

July 18 - August 6, 2009

A Retrospective

Marilyn Lightstone

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 23, 6-9pm

A  unique  opportunity  to  get  to know the work of this exciting and distinctive artist.
Lightstone’s incredible journey over the past decade has taken her from a very successful career in the performing and literary arts, to one in the world of the visual arts.
Her  work  is  wide-ranging: from watercolour and gouache; to collage; monoprint; acrylic; photography and mixed media.
In this, her first retrospective, the viewer will witness Lightstone’sversatility, and the evolution of her unique style.
 

July 4 - 16, 2009

Window To Inspiration

Olga Kotova, Claus Heinecke, Salomon Khammi, Karen Taylor, Jason Alexander, Erin Sinclair and Peter Colbert

Opening Reception: July 4, 5-7pm

We live in a visual culture where we are influenced and inspired by our environment. Artists are inspired to create and explore out of curiosity, longing and personal challenge. And at the end the created art works are to communicate the emotional and intellectual essence of the experience.

June 27 - August 28, 2009

Doll Collection

Various Artists

June 27 - July 15 and August 7 - September 4

June 20 - July 2, 2009

Color is My Day

David Amos, Susan Belcher, Peter Colbert, Eduard Gurevich, Hilary Slater Lamont, Jesus Mora, Fraser Paterson, Darius Sanei, Chris-Alade Zeagraht

The combination between abstraction works with a traditional landscape and still-life will deliver a new and interesting visual experience to the audienc. In this special visual trip, try to discover that beautiful view and object in these artists’ paintings and sculptures. It is the traditional beauty shown in an unusual representational form.

May 30 - June 11, 2009

In the Art

Clement Cheng, Matt Durant, Sean Galbraith, Rowena Leacock, Pam Patterson, Erika Riemer-sartory, Hanna Ruminski, Marica Schnoor, Julita Wolanska, Adi Zur, Sari Jackson Zon

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 30, 5-7pm

To 'abstract' means to draw away from, to separate, and not to refer to something particular. This is an unusual representational form, a strong visual language, an interesting artistic composition which exists either in artists’ mind or in the art itself.

Wassily Kandinsky believes that abstract painting is the most difficult of all the arts. It has to be the most pure and direct way of expression. It is visible, but on the other hand the essential aspects are invisible. Initially it is art for us to see, however it is also in the art for us to discover.

May 16 - 28, 2009

CONTACT 2009: Perspective

Behzad Adineh, Geoff Fitzgerald, Catherine Guillaume, Jordan Junck, Michelle Kemble, Rinath Maman, Yadi Mazinani, Nigel Noble, Kamelia Pezeshki, Ian Revell, Wayne Salmon, Aaron Tator and Sashar Zarif

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 6-8pm

Making a photograph is a highly personal experience. What the photographer sees, and the manner in which he or she composes, reflects a unique perspective. This exhibition features unique perspectives of Canadian photographers, each informed by their own background; from captured movement to pastoral stillness and from staged scenarios to unembellished glimpses of real life. When seen together, these works not only reveal individual approaches to visions, but the scope of the medium itself.

May 2 - 14, 2009

Scott Johnston

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2, 2-4pm

When grasping the unseen things that give rise to everything the incomplete can become complete. When you discover contradictions there is a pull towards understanding and clarity will reveal itself. The photographer isolates space and creates an opportunity to take a second look, which can bring us insight. Scott Johnston favours reality and in this quest continues to document our time in this city. Probing his environment for motifs that reveal the rapid re-development of urban space, and the complex interplay of people and their surroundings.

April 18 - 30, 2009

Tooran Zandieh

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18, 5-8pm

Tooran Zandieh measures things with all the care of the world, a care which is soft, gentle and extremely affectionate. Because each piece is going to come and stand by the next piece and the next pieces, and together they are going to make other wholes which had not existed before. And the last stage of things is a blinding caressing of the eyes by the colours and shapes that have gathered together on the space of femininity.

March 14 - April 2, 2009

Inspiration (Full Stop)

Shafagh Azhandeh,Brigitte Radecki, Neil Clifford, Lilli Gillman, Lea Landau, Attila Szanyi, Patricia Whittingham

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 5-7pm

Group exhibition.

March 14 - April 2, 2009

In The Air

Carolyn Megill, Rose Brown, Craig Beal, Bernadette Badali, Karin Lapins, Frank Rodick

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 5-7pm

Group exhibition.

February 20 - March 5, 2009

Deeper Shade

Bill Philipovich, Erika Baempfer Deery, Olga Kotova, IRiKO, David Brown and Li Zhiguo

Opening Reception: Friday, February 20, 5-7pm

Circuit of movement proves that each canvas has a pathway as a site of transportation. An ambiguous formulation of points which leads to a questioning ones perception of each painting. The paintings will vary from simplified decorative styles to, using stylized figures as well as realistic and unidentifiable figures to tell stories. The fluidity of perception and the static into static representation leads to susceptibility of the illusionistic adaptation of motion.

January 17 - 29, 2009

Colour Circle

Romy Block, Aaron W. Lacey, Glen LeMesurier, Wendy McNally, George Kassabian, Paria Shahverdi and Maria Zamani

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 17, 7-9 pm

Arta Gallery is once again proud to present an abstract and figurative show by Toronto based and international artist. Each work will consist of purity associated with reduction of the consistent materials of a medium, of paint and canvas, which are seen as pure. In the end, these tensions are integral to abstraction which is best defined as a category that manages such contradictions. This in effect holds them in suspension, or puts them into dialectical play.