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Andrea Bolley

Andrea Bolley's paintings are abstract canvases which take their inspiration from Colour Field painters such as Helen Frankenthaler, Clyfford Still and Jules Olitski. Her work has been praised for the complex treatment of surface and depth. Bolley has made distinctive use of paper, both as a tool for the application of paint and in her "paper paintings", which incorporate a paper collage element. Bolley participated in the Art Gallery of Ontario's Artists with their Work program in the 1970s, for which she presented art workshops throughout the province of Ontario....

Hunt Slonem

Hunt Slonem tends to embrace the ephemeral beauty of nature, a characteristic that brings a nurturing, spiritual effect to his creations. Throughout his extensive career as a New York artist, Slonem has favored the subject of exotic birds, rabbits, and butterflies. Lately, his compositions have consisted of flat spaces with simple forms pushed to the front of the picture plane. The artist creates exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the German Expressionism movement such as Ernst Ludwig and Emil Nolde. ...

Wayne Gretzky (rendered by David Arrigo)

Sheila Gregory & Eugene Knapik

Sheila Gregory and Eugene Knapik have been creating mosaics together for the past decade. Their projects have included numerous outdoor works – oversized owls, blue jays, grackles, cardinals, life-sized mosaic bears, giant butterflies – and a large-scale granite garden bench featuring a magnolia mosaic surface. Indoor projects include complex mosaics covering entire doors. Gregory and Knapik have also been active painters, exhibiting extensively in the Toronto area since graduating from York University in 1983. They have been the principal organizers of a number of large-scale group exhibitions in non-traditional spaces including c.1996, Canadian Shield, Meat, Great Lakes, Big Show and more. These exhibitions were featured in the Collective City short film, The Un-Collective. Gregory has been creating an ongoing series of photos published online called The Left Overs. Knapik is represented for paintings and drawings by Yumart Gallery in Toronto. He has also written a series of 17 short-short stories called The Lazy...

Kanika Gupta

Kanika Gupta is an artist, writer and social entrepreneur who actively influences change by leading by example. Her visual artistic practice is diverse ranging from stick figure doodles to sculpture, painting and photography. Through all of her creative and community building endeavours, Gupta seeks to contribute to creating new societal norms that are more inclusive and accurately embody what it means to be human. Gupta was named among Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women, and her work has been profiled internationally in Forbes, the Globe and Mail and Guardian. Currently, Gupta is a Director of Tangled Arts + Disability....

Greg Haberny

Greg Haberny’s work engages the intersection of personal and collective memory, weaving episodic narratives into methodical chaos. Gritty, spontaneous, obsessive and free-floating, his pictures unapologetically reject common methods of artistry in favour of finger painting, melting, even tracking in footprints and incorporating objects strewn about the studio. He has recently taken to burning and liquefying his old works into a new form as he orchestrates both a physical and metaphorical reincarnation now central to his practice. Clusters of symbols and crude figuration are rendered in flat, one-plane perspectives, simultaneously self-referential and universal. In an increasingly technological and mass-produced world, Haberny’s techniques preserve the physical art of process while calling to the CoBrA Movement’s spontaneity and the primitive figuration of the New York School. Haberny has exhibited internationally throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, including solo institutional projects at Middlebury College Museum of Art; the McColl Center for Visual Art; the HVCCA Peekskill...

Ted Hamer

Ted Hamer is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Toronto. He holds a degree from OCAD University and an advanced diploma in Animation-Digital Arts. Hamer has been fortunate to work on sculptural and mural projects across Ontario in the public realm and has collaborated with non-profit organizations to explore public art in diverse communities. His studio practice explores human/animal relationships through figure-based work in drawing, painting, mural making and sculpture. Hamer is interested in exploring the intersection of the natural and man-made environments and is fuelled by artistic collaboration in the community....

Rick Hansen (rendered by Shary Bartlett)

Iconic Canadian Rick Hansen established the Rick Hansen Foundation in 1988 following his Man in Motion tour to raise awareness about the potential of, and barriers facing, people with disabilities. Artist Shary Bartlett proudly followed his athletic Paralympic victories and world tour, and was honoured to interpret Hansen’s vision in this brain sculpture. As the daughter-in-law of someone who has Alzheimer's disease, she marvels at how this complex organ harbours such intelligence, abilities and memories, and its profound impact on love and human experience....