Janet Jones’ painting exhibition Playtimes at Katzman Contemporary in Toronto

Playtimes, a new series of monumental paintings by York Visual Art Professor Janet Jones, is on view at Toronto’s Katzman Contemporary March 27 to April 25, 2015. Evoking abstract representations of a contemporary urban existence on the brink of a “techno-sublime explosion”, the real and the virtual overtly overlay, careen and collide in these works. Playtimes …

Prof. Michel Daigneault solo show on view at Montreal’s Galerie Trois Point

Visual Art Professor Michel Daigneault’s solo exhibition Ensemble Opératoire is on view at Galerie Trois Points in Montreal  February 21 to March 28, 2015. Blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, Daigneault creates rich pictorial spaces that engender various narrative possibilities. Tending more to allusion than illusion, his paintings are built by an accumulation and …

Alternative Energies

Alternative Energies, an exhibition featuring work by 13 thirteen undergraduate and graduate students in visual arts at York, will be on view downtown at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre Hotel as part of the Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, 2014. Participating York artists are Amanda Boulos, Marnie Brandejs, Elaine Chan-Dow, Mary …

Larry Towell

Internationally recognized photojournalist, York University Visual Arts alumnus Larry Towell (BFA 1976) has his seventh solo show at Stephen Bulger Gallery this fall.

York talent in the 2014 Windsor-Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art

Professor Brandon Vickerd of the Visual Art and Art History Department is presenting a new commissioned installation at Vollmer Culture and Recreation Complex as part of Possible Futures: What is to be done? the Windsor-Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art running October 4, 2014 to January 11, 2015. Kiki Athanassiadis, Patrick Cull, Svava Thordis Juliusson and …