Jennifer Walton: Microcosm
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
2y ago
Jennifer Walton: Microcosm November 5th – 27th Opening Reception with Artist – Friday, Nov. 5th, 5 – 8pm Join us for the opening reception of Jennifer Walton’s solo exhibition, ‘Microcosm’, on Friday, November 5th, from 5-8pm. The show will be open to the public from November 5th-27th. Jennifer Walton’s Microcosm, invites the viewer into the shimmering world of bees, butterflies and the flowers they pollinate. This intimate series dwells on the beauty of this miniature world in response to rapidly declining populations of pollinating insects throughout the globe. Masks ..read more
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Vladimir Kanic: The Book of Waves
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
2y ago
Vladimir Kanic: The Book of Waves November 5th 2021 – March 2022 Opening Reception with Artist – Friday, nov. 5th, 5-8pm Join us for the opening reception of Vladimir Kanic‘s solo exhibition, ‘The Book of Waves’, on Friday, November 5th, from 5-8pm. The show will be open to the public from November 5th 2021 – March 2022. This winter, we’re excited to be hosting the newest work by Vladimir Kanic, a multi- disciplinary artist who works with fine art, science and technology; ‘The Book of Waves’, his latest exhibition, is a series of bioart sculptures made primar ..read more
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Brian Harvey: Drift
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
2y ago
Brian Harvey: Drift October 8th to 30th – Opening Reception Friday October 15th from 5 – 8pm Returning once again for another solo exhibition, Toronto based oil painter Brian Harvey brings new work to the walls of Abbozzo Gallery in his show “Drift”. Painting in his distinct gestural style, Harvey manages to still deliver a high amount of realism through large, colourful brushstrokes and almost exclusively depicts the local iconography of Toronto. Rejecting stereotypical cityscapes of Toronto, Harvey paints images that are much more familiar and commonplace to the Torontonian such as the back ..read more
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Richard Jacobson: Pieces from a Different Puzzle
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
2y ago
Abbozzo Gallery is pleased to announce Richard Jacobson‘s solo exhibition, Pieces from a Different Puzzle. Saskatchewan born, Toronto based high realism oil painter Jacobson brings his autobiographical still life and landscape artwork to the walls of Abbozzo starting September 10th, with the Opening Reception at 5pm of the same day. The exhibition runs until October 2nd. “If you imagine the studio as a giant sandbox for adults, you can get a sense of what it’s like to work as one. There is no greater pleasure to step into the studio with the wild abandon of childish excitement. To allow play t ..read more
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Fresh Voices: Group Exhibition
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
2y ago
Fresh Voices – Group Exhibition August 12th – September 4th Opening Reception – August 12th, 5 – 8 pm Abbozzo Gallery is pleased to announce Fresh Voices, an interdisciplinary group show largely featuring artists who have not shown their work at Abbozzo before. The show will include photographers Stéphane Alexis, Nika Belianina, David Brandy, Sylvia Galbraith, painters Bill Boyko, Jacob Freeman, Miles Ingrassia, Diego Narvaez and sculpture / installation artists Vladimir Kanic and Justin Mencel. Focusing on painting, photography and digital techniques as the centr ..read more
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Naoko Matsubara: In Praise of Hands
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
3y ago
Naoko Matsubara is a Japanese-Canadian woodblock print artist. She’s the longest tenured artist, having been with Abbozzo since day one. This June she will be having the 6th solo exhibition in her 27 years with us.⁠ The June 2021 show will be celebrating the North American launch of her book In Praise of Hands including poetry by Penny Boxall published by Oxford University Press, following her 6 month long 2019 solo exhibition “Lifelines” at the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford. The woodcuts in In Praise of Hands focus on the very tools that define humanity: our hands.  ..read more
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Abbozzo Gallery and Virtual Reality
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
3y ago
How to see Abbozzo Gallery’s Exhibitions in Virtual Reality, hosted by our friends at ArtGate VR: – Open your preferred Web browser (Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc.) – Go to https://www.artgatevr.com/ – Click on the ‘Download’ section at the top of the page – Scroll down and select the download option for the corresponding platform to your computer (PC, Mac, or your Virtual Reality Device e.g Oculus Quest 2, Oculus Rift etc.) – Clicking the ‘Download on PC (or Mac)” button will begin the download process on your computer. A folder icon will appear at the bottom of your brows ..read more
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OCAD University Sculpture / Installation Thesis Shows
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
3y ago
OCAD University’s Sculpture/Installation Program— in collaboration with Abbozzo Gallery and Beaver Hall Gallery— is pleased to announce the 2021 Sculpture/Installation Thesis Exhibition Series titled Today, Tomorrow & The Next Day. Taking place from March 4 to April 10,this series of six solo and group exhibitionswill feature the multi-media artworks of 4th-year Thesis students in Toronto galleries. It has been made possible by the generous support of the Nora Vaughan Bequest to the Sculpture/Installation program. March 4 to 13: around the corner Julien Woolley-Fisher March 18 to 27 ..read more
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Katharine Burns: Sea Change
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
3y ago
Atlantic Canadian oil painter Katharine Burns opens her second exhibition with Abbozzo Gallery this Saturday, following her debut in the Feature Gallery last fall. Impressive in their scale – one painting being 10 feet wide, two of them 7  feet wide –Burns almost exclusively draws inspiration from the ocean she resides beside, bringing the tumult and calm of the sea to the canvas in her photoreal oil paintings. Katharine Burns was born, raised and resides in Halifax and is a graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, paints full-time and guides p ..read more
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Marie Rioux – Temps suspendu / Suspended times
Abbozzo Gallery – Contemporary Art
by Blake
3y ago
November 6th – November 28th Opening Reception: Friday, November 6th 5 – 8pm Quebec painter Marie Rioux‘s atmospheric landscapes are coming to Abbozzo Gallery for her first solo-exhibition with us. Inspired by her surroundings and North American geographies, Rioux paints vast monochromatic landscapes often interrupted by informal figures and subtle, fluorescent highlights. The work is a contemplation on the space she occupies within and without where “a multitude of people encountered in the metro and in streets and park inhabit my work, confronting ..read more
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