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Folded Steel no.1
By David Umemoto
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The concrete works of David Umemoto stand as studies about volume. At the juncture of sculpture and architecture, these miniature pieces evoke temporary buildings or monuments standi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Unbreakables (Diptych)
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
Extrapolation 7
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
The suitor
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
Doum
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
Extrapolation 4
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In Extrapolations, Lachapelle extracts seemingly mundane mechanical objects from a typical cityscape – such as radiators, fire hydrants, and balconies – and manipulates their appearance by creating 3D printed models that visually oscillate between the magical and the monstrous.
In some of his sculptures, Lachapelle uses photogrammetry – a method that scans a series of two-dimensional photographs or images to create three-dimensional models. While photogrammetry typically enables real-life objects to be accurately reproduced, the artist challenges this paradigm by tampering with the machine’s process, both by accepting the machine’s glitches and by triggering them. When scanning images, the results may not always be what is anticipated, however, for Lachapelle it is about welcoming the unknown. In several examples, he encourages the program to read screenshots of images and extrapolates what should be there, filling in blank data with added images and various shapes. The resulting sculptures are symmetrical and geometric, appearing uncannily familiar like human vertebrae, yet unfamiliar in fantastical abstracted forms. The sculptures merge between two different worlds, bridging human and machine through unexpected adaptations to everyday things.
Extrapolations balances between this duality, ultimately reflecting on the increasing dependency humans have on technology in our everyday world. For Lachapelle, this is especially pertinent in a world where technology is continuously developing. The sculptures highlight the dynamic and everchanging relationship between humans and technology, making us question this reliance on technology.
In this exhibition, Lachapelle also introduces the inclusion of human characters back into his art practice. He places people in unnatural and impossible exchanges with machines and technology. For instance, while in past exhibitions, he has usually tried to conceal the electronic components that make moving pieces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
St-Laurent
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
Extrapolation 5
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
The suitor
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
Dom
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
Mach I - Aviation tribute, abstract, polished stainless steel, outdoor sculpture
By Jake Goertzen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Manitoba sculptor Jake Goertzen’s dynamic Mach I sculpture is an homage to the historic event in 1947 that changed the face of aviation. The decorated US air force...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Xenolith V
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Xenolith IV
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Xenolith VI
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Chariot Burial
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Xenolith I
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Xenolith VIII
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Xenolith III
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Accoutrements
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Xenolith VII
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Xenolith II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A collision. A landslide. A tectonic shift and a tumbling of boulders reveal geological strata that have been hidden for centuries. Nicholas Crombach’s Landslip is a slow unfurling o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Owl)
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Karine Payette was born in 1983 in Montreal, Quebec, where she lives and works. Working primarily with sculpture and installation, she reproduces, for the most part, environments tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Cumulus VI Revisited - large, tall, cloud, outdoor stainless steel sculpture
By Ania Biczysko
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this elegant sculpture by Ania Biczysko, fine ribbons of stainless-steel overlap in circles forming a cloud-like structure mounted on a tripod stand. When viewed from all sides, the sky is reflected in the luminescent quality of the polished steel.
"Clouds for me represent reaching out for hopes and dreams. They appear in ever changing shapes and light however elusive and untouchable, we find them present in our everyday lives. Like our dreams, they guide us to something bigger and allude to an idea of pure beauty." Ania Biczysko
She obtained a master’s degree in sculpture from the Fine Art Academy in Gdansk, Poland. Over the years, she has received many public exhibitions and commissions within...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Evangeline - expressive, textured, female, figurative, paper Mache sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Paul Duval’s engaging sculpted figures capture an emotional moment in time. One in a series of table-top pieces, the Quebec artist uses paper mache, wire and steel to create unique characters expressed through their colour, posture, and gesture. This figure of a woman, clothed in a long royal blue...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Pantie
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous parts that, taken together, violate our mental patterns and expectations. Charged with contradictions, metaphor, sexual undertones, and unsettling associations, Lane’s unlikely combinations use absurdity as a way of pointing to western society’s normalized habits and conventions, often with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.
For the exhibition Try Me, Lane installs a basketball court in the gallery. The two basketball hoops on opposing walls are embellished with silver-coated frames and lustrous mirrors, which serve as decorative backboards. In place of nets, women’s black lace underwear delicately hang from hoops. A decorative rug stenciled with court lines performs as the court floor. It is a mise-en-scène set in motion by viewer’s reconciliation of the individual parts to the whole, and to their original function. Panties regard themselves in the mirror or perhaps measure up their opponent, which, not without irony, is the mirror image of itself. Themes of gender and sexuality are performed and imagined in the upward voyeuristic gaze of the viewer and the expected swoosh of the ball into the net. This is further elaborated by phallic impressions formed by court lines and their likeness to a work of modernist abstraction—a movement wrought by notions of masculinity. The decorative rug’s connection to femininity and domesticity juxtaposes the rigid geometry.
Lane further explores the historical gendering of technology, industry, and war in her series of wallpaper drawings, which depict war submarines on cloud patterned wallpaper. The innocence of the submarine in popular culture and its reality as a phallic war object...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bella - bright, expressive, textured, female, figurative, paper Mache sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Quebecois sculptor Paul Duval has created a delightfully engaging series of table-top sculptures that portray a variety of characters. Bella is a bronze-coloured female figure dresse...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Four Ring Temps Zero Small Orange 1/10 - abstract, stainless steel, sculpture
By Philippe Pallafray
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bright mandarin orange draws the viewer’s eye to this playful and dynamic sculpture by Philippe Pallafray. This piece—four rings of varying sizes attached at intriguing angles -- is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Blue and Red Wrestlers - expressive, textured, figurative, paper Mache sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Two figures wrestle in this playful paper mache sculpture by Paul Duval. Duval, a Quebec based artist, is known for his unique and expressive figures. A perfect metaphor for our time...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Cup #7
By Zeke Moores
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Man's profound gestural relationship to objects, which epitomizes his integration into the world, into social structures, can be a highly fulfilling one, and this fulfilment is discernible in the beauty - the 'style' - of the relationship in its reciprocity.”
-Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1996)
The cliché that “one man’s trash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cup #8
By Zeke Moores
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Man's profound gestural relationship to objects, which epitomizes his integration into the world, into social structures, can be a highly fulfilling one, and this fulfilment is discernible in the beauty - the 'style' - of the relationship in its reciprocity.”
-Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1996)
The cliché that “one man’s trash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled (Branch)
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Karine Payette was born in 1983 in Montreal, Quebec, where she lives and works. Working primarily with sculpture and installation, she reproduces, for the most part, environments tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Neutral Grey Lima
Located in Toronto, ON
The Goodman Studio has garnered international recognition and admiration for the beauty and accomplishment of its modern blown glass vessels, sculptures and architectural glass. Ever...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Glass
XOX Chill Yellow 1/10 - graphic, pop-art, figurative, resin sculpture
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Playful, colourful and imaginative, Viktor Mitic’s latest series of sculptures appear to merge pop art with science fiction. The colour palette is fun, bright and contemporary—a sunny yellow. These 3-D figures began as digital creations, sculpted out of resin and painted. Their form was initially inspired by the towering abstract sculptures Mitic produced from images of paint splashes on his studio floor. Edition one of ten.
“This character has emerged from a shadow of one of my sculptures (as in the video) I have always been a fan of science as well as science fiction writing and movies. For me, X-O-X is a ‘being’ that came out of a technological world possibly from another galaxy.” Viktor Mitic
“As an icon, or hybrid worthy Viktor Mitic- X-O-X has a synthetic, playful identity. It’s culturally a fusion of influences brought together in one formal public sculpture.” John K. Grande, author, poet, essayist
He earned a BFA from the University of Toronto in 1995 with studies in art history at Sheridan College. He has exhibited his post-Pop inspired...
Category
2010s Pop Art Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Resin
Celestial Mechanical - modern, geometric, abstract, painted aluminum sculpture
By Philippe Pallafray
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A highly polished stainless-steel ball framed by a rectangular cardinal red form appears to float in this dynamic table-top sculpture by Philippe Pallafr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Bronze Pine Cone 22-555 - nature inspired, still life, forged bronze sculpture
By Floyd Elzinga
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian sculptor Floyd Elzinga finds inspiration for his iconic imagery in nature. From his studio on the rugged Niagara escarpment, he creates beautiful sculptures using natural forms—trees, the maple leaf and pine cones. This new series of pine cones are superbly detailed, and hand forged from bronze. The polished finish lends an elegance to these tabletop pieces.
“The natural world is fundamentally my inspiration, and it is strongly reflected in my subject matter.” Floyd Elzinga
His pinecone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
The Big Shy One - expressive, textured, male figurative, cast aluminum sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This striking character cast in aluminum was created by Paul Duval. The Quebec artist has sculpted a series of characters; each one unique in colour, gesture, and form. He titles thi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mandala Zooxanthellae, Modern Canadian Glass Sculpture, 2019
Located in Toronto, ON
This work of art is inspired by the tiny plant-like organisms called zooxanthellae live in the tissues of many animals including corals, anemones, jellyfish, sponges and foraminifera. These microscopic algae capture sunlight and convert it into energy just like plants to provide essential nutrients to the corals. When under stress, such as high temperature caused by global warming of the oceans and seas, they will die and leave their host, a process known as bleaching.
Alex Anagnostou...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Oculus Series Ovoid 6 Lenses
Located in Toronto, ON
Jared’s work combines his interest in colour, pattern, architecture and the unique optical properties of glass to create both functional and sculptural works that invite investigati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Iris Brown Cylinder Vase
Located in Toronto, ON
James was born in Edmonton in 1986 and then moved to Ottawa shortly thereafter. He gained exposure to glass blowing through a condensed 14-week program at the well-known Haliburton S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Collaged Geometric Disc Mobile - Abstract, Colourful, Canvas and Board Mobile
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Dynamic and whimsical, Aron Hill’s mobile is a joyful contemporary kinetic sculpture. Three separate discs are covered in a curated collage of shapes and brilliant colours. The colour profile here is Hill’s characteristically vivid palette-- orange, yellow, blue, red, and green punctuated by black and white. Delicately balanced, the sculpture moves in the air redefining the space and affording the viewer a fresh ‘view’.
Mobiles have existed for millennia—at first as windchimes, then re-imagined by Russian sculptors...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
You Never Know - colorful, figurative, female, hand-hammered steel sculpture
By Derya Ozparlak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this compelling new work by Derya Ozparlak, a young woman, hair and dress flying, clutches a briefcase as she free falls through the air. Her belt is tethered to a bright bouquet ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Ambivalence 1/4 - figurative, male, animal, narrative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Ambivalence is cast in bronze, and in an edition of 4. The figure stands in his underwear, one rubber boot on, one off, a beaver dangling from his hand.
Nicholas Crombach (b.1989, K...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seven Rings Temp Zero Wall Relief - abstract, stainless steel, wall sculpture
By Philippe Pallafray
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Painted in vivid colours, this intriguing modern metal wall sculpture was hand forged by Philippe Pallafray. Six stainless steel rings of varying sizes—painted in red, orange, yellow...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Four Ring Temps Zero Small White 1/10 - abstract, stainless steel, sculpture
By Philippe Pallafray
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Contemporary and dynamic, Philippe Pallafray’s sculptures are inspired by shapes found in nature and hand forged using industrial materials.
This table top sculpture of four highly p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Home Sweet Home, outsider artist etched copper, paint, diamonds in bronze frame
Located in Toronto, Ontario
HOME SWEET HOME by Rocky Dobey is a hand-inscribed copper sheet with cut diamonds, black asphaltum and fired porcelain paint. It measures 36 x 24", and framed in bronze it measures 37 x 25”. Part of the "Home" series of recent works, Home Sweet Home features a darkly shimmering chandelier...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper, Bronze
Singing Vessel Citrine Gold 32 - circular, contemporary, steel wall sculpture
By Marlene Hilton Moore
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Artist Marlene Hilton Moore continues to explore the theme of listening with the creation of more beautiful ‘singing bowls.’ Like ancient vessels they are intended to be objects of h...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Singing Vessel Quetzal Green 32- circular, contemporary, steel wall sculpture
By Marlene Hilton Moore
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by ancient vessels, Marlene Hilton Moore’s colourful, contemporary wall sculptures are made from polished powder-coated steel. The deep blue-green colour of the vessel draws...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Two Ring Temps Zero Pink with Ball 2/10 - abstract, stainless steel, sculpture
By Philippe Pallafray
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Hot pink pops from this elegant minimalist and modern sculpture created by Philippe Pallafray. Inspired by natural forms, the Quebec-based artist cuts, shapes and welds industrial ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"Fox Hunt", wallpaper, acrylic paint, optical lens, screws, mounted on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Fox Hunt“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 16x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, wood, acrylic paint, screws and an optical lens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood, Found Objects, Board, Acrylic
Singing Vessel Atlantic Blue 32 - circular, contemporary, steel wall sculpture
By Marlene Hilton Moore
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This deep ocean blue-coloured steel wall sculpture is one of a series of contemporary works created by Marlene Hilton Moore. Inspired by ancient ‘singing’ vessels they are intended ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Tumsae 7 - red, white, pattern, wall hanging, 3D, felt, textile, tapestry
By Chung-Im Kim
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Striking organic shapes in bright red provide dramatic contrast in this cream felt tapestry by fabric artist Chung-Im Kim. Kim meticulously hand stiches together small pieces of indu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Felt, Thread, Mixed Media, Screen
Applause for the Inevitable
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bevan Ramsay completed his graduate degree in sculpture nearly a decade ago, but it's only now that he feels he has truly graduated from his MFA. This liberating feeling comes with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Cordial", wallpaper, spray paint, aunt's pearls, crystal, red resin, on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Cordial“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 16x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, spray paint, wood, the artist's aunt's pearls, crystal and red resin (solid), mounted on board. It fixes to the wall with a custom-fit wooden cleat. Reflecting on domestic materials and their relationships to display and social identity, Cordial celebrates and questions feminist reclamation, nostalgic tenderness and the histories embedded in the objects, while carrying on their aesthetic traditions through transformation into works of art.
Heather Nicol is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes immersive sound installation, small-scale discrete object making, and independent curating. Her large site-specific interventions explore the architectural, sonic, historic and operational conditions across a wide range of locations. These include concourse atriums, rail terminus, lobbies, a theatre, a public school building, a theme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood, Found Objects, Board, Resin, Spray Paint
Medusa, outsider artist etches copper, paint, cut diamonds, ink, aluminum frame
Located in Toronto, Ontario
MEDUSA by Rocky Dobey is a hand-inscribed copper sheet with cut diamonds, blue machinist ink and fired porcelain paint. It measures 36 x 48", and framed in aluminum it measures 37 x 49”. It features some of the artist’s notable motifs – a monstrous brick wall with crenelated and flaming towers, inlaid with sparkles of diamond and glass, sword-like flames. New for the artist are the twisting, turning bodies of which there are at least eight. The deep blue background of machinist ink coating the copper provides a momentous, mythological night sky.
For over 40 years, outsider artist Rocky Dobey has been producing intaglio prints, etched metal plaques, engraved copper sheets and site-specific public sculptures. Working anonymously for the first two decades, his work has drawn attention to social and political issues like prison and justice reform, neighborhood gentrification, globalization, indigenous sovereignty, drug rehabilitation and homelessness.
With striking imagery of demonic towers toppled in flames, horrific machines and cryptic symbols of oppression, Rocky's work soon became a recognized and sought-after stamp of organized resistance. Several of his prints are held in collections, particularly the “Carnival Against Capitalism” poster he produced for the 2001 Quebec City protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Rocky’s poster...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
Welcome Home, outsider artist etched copper, paint, diamonds in aluminum frame
Located in Toronto, Ontario
WELCOME HOME by Rocky Dobey is a hand-inscribed copper sheet with cut diamonds, black asphaltum and fired porcelain paint. It measures 36 x 32" and is fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
"Parlour", wallpaper, glass, silver platter, butterfly, nails, mounted on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Parlour“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 17x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, fabric, wood, nails, glass, silver platter, plastic wrap, butterfly specimen, mounted on board. It fixes to the wall with a custom-fit wooden cleat. Reflecting on domestic materials and their relationships to display and social identity, Parlour celebrates and questions feminist reclamation, nostalgic tenderness and the histories embedded in the objects, while carrying on their aesthetic traditions through transformation into works of art.
Heather Nicol is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes immersive sound installation, small-scale discrete object making, and independent curating. Her large site-specific interventions explore the architectural, sonic, historic and operational conditions across a wide range of locations. These include concourse atriums, rail terminus, lobbies, a theatre, a public school building, a theme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Does It Look Expensive, outsider artist etched copper, paint, glass, brass frame
Located in Toronto, Ontario
DOES IT LOOK EXPENSIVE by Rocky Dobey is a hand-inscribed copper sheet with cut glass, asphaltum and fired porcelain paint. It measures 24 x 36" and is fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
Boar Mount
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach is interested in the complex interactions between humans and animals. Using sporting and hunting as markers of longstanding traditions of both adversarial and collaborative relationships between humans and animals, Crombach examines the cultural significance and the complex issues percolating domestication and domination, play and survival in the 21st century.
Crombach combines references to mythology via a striking aesthetic, creating works which revel in their contradictions and contrasts. Notably, the artist draws from the myth of Diana and Actaeon, which provides a poignant framework for this new series. In Ovid’s tale Actaeon, a hunter and grandson of King Cadmus, is in the forest with his dogs when he spies Artemis (Diana), the venerated goddess of the hunt, in her bath attended by her nymphs. Diana’s nymphs try to cover her modesty as the goddess feels violated by Actaoen’s brash curiosity. Diana splashes water upon Actaeon, robbing him from his ability to speak and turning him from a mortal man into a stag who flees into the forest only to be hunted down and killed by his own dogs. The hunter becomes the hunted.
Crombach’s Fetch (2018) refers to the mythology of Diana and Actaeon in its last tragic hour, but the classical story of metamorphoses is presented as a game of fetch in the local park. Crombach creates a hybrid between the art historical imagery from paintings of hounds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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Life Size Dog Bronze
Bronze Dog Life Size
Break In Emergency
Bronze Sculpture Life Size Dog
Outdoor Bowl
Cameron Burns
American Spinning Wheel
Fire Screen Insert
Resin Mushroom
Jerry Rothman
Cesar Baldaccini Sculpture
Electric Train Set
Sealife Art
Landscape Paintings Craze
Quaker Meeting
Angel Sculpture Bronze Angel Garden Sculpture