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Curtain
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sometimes I Forget What I Am
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I am primarily a painter of things and my practice has grown out of a process of subverting the genre of still life. For my most recent paintings I have been working in an improvisat...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Beneath the Night
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north.
An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made.
Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent.
Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper, a rusted stove—is juxtaposed with the soft glow of a yellow circle. This continues Houston’s ongoing use of colour to question the particulars of perception.
Heritage of All, White with Greed and Iron, and The Spaces we Breath, Houston’s titles read like lines of a haiku. Composed as prose, they are also confrontational, mapping out the cultural and environmental impacts of the extraction of resources in the Arctic. We witness scenes of violent decay, and yet simply carry on, like Business As Usual. In What Nations Come and Go a pale purple oval nearly fills the frame, revealing only in the very far right a simple cabin in front of a rocky incline. A similar imposing cloud of colour, this time blue, dominates the landscape in Mapped, Claimed, and Evaluated.
The north is just as much an idea as it is a place, and is one that looms large in the Canadian imagination. There are few better examples than Glenn Gould...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
South from high school study
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shadow
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moth Excursion
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Worlds Unseen
Natasha Chaykowski
It’s strange to look at a high definition photograph of red blood cells. They appear otherworldly and supple, formal and punctuated: so different...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Black and White Arena
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Charles Pachter "Oro Barns"
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the natio...
Category
1980s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Outskirts
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Le Poséidon
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa combines photography and painting in his production. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis at UQAM where he questioned the role of digital devic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
As listening III
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Confluence I
By Christine Nobel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s paintings in Between the Notes share a faithfulness to a soft colour palette of sky blues, mauves, peaches, roses and whites, reminiscent of a pastel-coloured youth...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Building on Tupper
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled #3
By Gary Evans
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Gary Evans is widely recognized for his distinctive painting practice that spans two decades. Evans’ vibrant paintings challenge traditional notions of perception and our experience ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Counterintuitive
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Moat, Green Water and Rope
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Le trou
By Eric Lamontagne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Interaction with one of Lamontagne’s works is, simply put, a surreal experience. By using one of several points of entrance, viewers are permitted to experience multiple views of com...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Some Thoughts
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Œillet 04 (diptych)
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa uses his immediate surroundings as his subject matter. Gobaa presents recognizable flora in a disembodied context, and the result is at once familiar and jarring. As of la...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Œillet 02
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa uses his immediate surroundings as his subject matter. Gobaa presents recognizable flora in a disembodied context, and the result is at once familiar and jarring. As of la...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tilleul 03
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa uses his immediate surroundings as his subject matter. Gobaa presents recognizable flora in a disembodied context, and the result is at once familiar and jarring. As of la...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Strangely Prescient
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north.
An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made.
Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent.
Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Leave It Be
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north.
An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made.
Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent.
Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper, a rusted stove—is juxtaposed with the soft glow of a yellow circle. This continues Houston’s ongoing use of colour to question the particulars of perception.
Heritage of All, White with Greed and Iron, and The Spaces we Breath, Houston’s titles read like lines of a haiku. Composed as prose, they are also confrontational, mapping out the cultural and environmental impacts of the extraction of resources in the Arctic. We witness scenes of violent decay, and yet simply carry on, like Business As Usual. In What Nations Come and Go a pale purple oval nearly fills the frame, revealing only in the very far right a simple cabin in front of a rocky incline. A similar imposing cloud of colour, this time blue, dominates the landscape in Mapped, Claimed, and Evaluated.
The north is just as much an idea as it is a place, and is one that looms large in the Canadian imagination. There are few better examples than Glenn Gould...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Scorch
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north.
An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made.
Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent.
Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Exquisite Resting Place
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
y painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from l...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Blind Poet 4 (Orquevaux)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
31.26" x 22.24" Unframed
Original - Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany
2018
Category
1990s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wanderer's Hymn 3
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
16" x 12" Unframed
Original - Oil on Panel
Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany
2019
Category
1990s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Appassionata (for Ludwig van Beethoven)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
17.5" x 23.5" Unframed
Original - Oil on Paper
Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany
2020
Category
1990s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Orquevaux 5
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
43" x 35" Unframed
Original - Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany
2018
Category
1990s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
All Those Born with Wings II
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
30" x 36" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany
2016
Category
1990s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Chelleneshin 23
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
30" x 30" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany
2015
Category
1990s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wanderer's Hymn 10
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
16" x 20" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany
2022
Category
1990s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Winter (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Original - Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Emma Uber
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Jungle (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Original - Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Emma Uber
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cyan (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Original - Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Emma Uber
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Magenta (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Original - Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Emma Uber
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Saturday (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Original - Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Emma Uber
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Trésor (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
30" x 30" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Yanelis Reynaldo Carson
Category
2010s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coal Abstract
Located in Toronto, ON
27.5" x 29" Unframed
Original Mixed Media on Paper
Hand Signed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
My Heart At Night
Located in Toronto, ON
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian Interdisciplinary artist well known for her abstract painting and installations, while also working in drawing, photography, sculpture, knitting, embroi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wavelength
Located in Toronto, ON
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian Interdisciplinary artist well known for her abstract painting and installations, while also working in drawing, photography, sculpture, knitting, embroi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fragmented Memories
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
37" x 60"
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Teal Spray Paint
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
37" x 60"
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Street Car Loop
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
47.5" x 37.5"
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Nightfigure
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
36" x 50"
Original - Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Audrey
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
36" x 51"
Original - Oil, Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Gold Leaf on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rebel
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
48" x 72" Unframed
Original Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Woman With Leaves And Feathers
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
32" x 44" Unframed
Original Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
My Mind Is Going
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
48" x 60" Unframed
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Walk Through
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
40" x 36" Unframed
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sweet Dreams
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
48" x 36" Unframed
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Ziggy
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
48" x 36" Unframed
Original - Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Standoff
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
54" x 42" Unframed
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Saucers
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
40" x 30" Unframed
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Ptilopsis Granti
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
54" x 36" Unframed
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Needs
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
50" x 40" Unframed
Original - Mixed Media on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Collective Memory
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
60" x 36" Unframed
Original - Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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