Roxanne Tochor is an artist based in Woodstock, Ont. She graduated from Sheridan College in 2013 after studying Craft and Design (Glass). After experimenting with many glass techniques, she decided to use a hollow kiln cast technique to complete her design for The Brain Project. Tochor has shown her work at exhibitions in Canada and the United States....
Born in Greece in 1961, prolific and creative Canadian artist Peter Triantos lives and works in Toronto where his work is featured in many of his galleries. He has successfully represented himself while further developing his astonishing artistic styles. Fascinated with sculpture and old master paintings as an avid collector himself, he projects his own unique vision through abstract expressionism. Beyond the limits of the large scale canvas, exploration of vivid colour, his work conveys emotion and energy of human nature through his gestural brushstrokes, bold style and thick impasto blended into his signature diverse style naturally. Activity and movement in his works, reveals the true identity of the artist himself. Peter Triantos is a contemporary artist, specializing in high-end, investment grade art produced specifically for residential and corporate spaces for over 30 years in Toronto. As a result of partnerships with designers, architects and developers, his paintings have been placed worldwide...
Raymond Waters is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores the tensions between objects and social, cultural, political and economic discourse to highlight the meaning and evolution of “value.” He re-uses and repurposes objects, including film, flags, coins and cardboard, to explore human constructs. Waters graduated from Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) in 1989 and was awarded a painting scholarship to study in New York. His work has been sold at top contemporary auction houses including New York's Phillips de Pury, now Phillips, and shown at art fairs like ArtHamptons, Art Miami and the Toronto International Art Fair. His pieces are also in private and corporate collections around the globe. In his new series, Waters explores the social construction of homelessness. Specifically, he transforms and challenges the language of currency (coins) by repurposing this economically imbued object, casting it into life-size human figures to highlight this global crisis – ultimately...
Artist Andrea Cohen was born in South Africa and has painted for most of her life. She works in acrylic and oil as a portrait artist....
Adam Colangelo’s large-scale compositions speak to his understanding of copper and his interest in challenging the way we view and interpret two-dimensional art. His process is methodical, laborious and time consuming. By employing diverse techniques, Colangelo exhibits an array of patinas and finishes so rich in detail that each small segment of his compositions offers its own earthy abstraction....
The Donald and Elaine Rafelman Creative Arts Studio at Baycrest is a bright and cheerful space dedicated to the creation of art. The atmosphere within the Studio is warm and welcoming. Music fills the space, along with the sounds of merriment and content. The art programs at Baycrest challenge the clients both physically and mentally. Any project can be accommodated to fit the individual clients’ needs and level of ability. Through years of experience, the Creative Arts team has skillfully adapted techniques to suit the population at hand – countering feelings of frustration with feelings of satisfaction and achievement. The therapeutic value of arts programming is attributed to the holistic and healing power of art. The Creative Arts team works hard to accomplish specific goals including gentle physical therapy, as well as social, creative and mental stimulation. Arts programs foster a sense of purpose and meaning, enabling participants to draw on their...
Gina Godfrey is a contemporary digital artist and print maker whose work is exemplified by her use of bursts of bright colour and sharp images. Godfrey took the four-year art course at Central Tech and later at OCAD University where she studied printmaking. Now her works are all over the world… Canada, Israel, China, North and South America and the Caribbean. She often uses collage and seemingly random combinations of materials culled from print sources and scans them into a computer to create new works by digitally altering them; many are unrecognizable from their source....
Alexis Fraser, known as Lipstick Lex, makes all of her art with love- literally! Her kiss print is her signature and it's found on every piece she creates. Fraser believes love, beauty and feelings of merriment are all infectious, and is it along through her work. She's often asked how she came to think of using lipstick and kiss prints. Fraser began her art career in her early twenties as a traditional oil painter, specializing in portraiture realism. That all changed in 2012 when she was challenged to create a larger than life portrait of Marilyn Monroe utilizing a non-traditional approach, which also needed to correlate with the bombshell and sex symbol of the classic Hollywood period. After loads of brainstorming, the idea of creating with lipstick and kiss prints was unleashed! Since then, Fraser has painted a wide spectrum of portraits utilizing only lipstick and her kiss prints to create famous icons which people love and adore. ...
Colin Nun is a Canadian artist working with text-based paintings. His work consists of carefully constructed typographic motifs deeply rooted in graphic design. Nun’s primary objective is to paint words that convey their meaning – simply put, to use words as imagery. He challenges how ‘normal’ letters and words are represented and questions what letterforms can become if pushed to their limits....
