Joseph Muscat, In A Manor Of Speaking | David Griffin, Damselflies

Work by Propeller Gallery Honorary Members
Joseph Muscat: Chair 2010 – 2015
David Griffin: Chair 2015 – 2017

November 12 – 30, 2025
Opening Reception: November 15, 2 – 6pm
Artist Talk: November 30, 3pm
Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto

Propeller Art Gallery, founded by a group of OCAD students in 1996 is celebrating its 29th year of operation as an independent, self-funded artist run centre. It opened its doors at 96 Spadina Avenue, then moved to 984 Queen Street West and finally to the Artscape Triangle Lofts at 30 Abell Street. Earlier this year, through two generous grants from the Federal and Municipal governments and a fundraising campaign, Propeller took ownership of their gallery space.

Both Joseph Muscat and David Griffin, now Honorary Members, served as Chairs of the gallery. This exhibition brings together recent work by both artists.

Joseph Muscat, Éclair de lune – Let’s Be Clear, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 in.

Joseph Muscat is a multi-disciplinary Toronto artist. In this most recent series of paintings titled More Than Meets The I, pun intended, as the title might suggest, the work represents a visual exploration of the various hidden depths, situations and complexities of our realities today. With our constant exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT and Deepfake, where truth is never a given, one should always question. The colourful profusion of images, some brush-painted and others stencilled, swirling against various backdrops and markings, aim to create a sense of uncertainty. Muscat’s iconic and omnipresent “cabin” visible in each of his works, is a symbolic place of refuge one might seek amid this turmoil and confusion.

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David Griffin, Whirlwind, 2025, Mix media on paper, 40 x 40 in.

David Griffin is a Toronto artist and an assistant professor at OCAD University. His drawings extend his fixation with geometry as an incredibly fruitful drawing method — reductive but expansive at the same time. “The purpose for Art, the reason we do it, is understanding; understanding how language works as a sense conductor or understanding what we can say to each other, among other things”.

In a graphical search for understanding, he overloads his paper with colour, and with compositions of growth and natural things. The constraints of geometric drawing are complicated by his love of water flowing, things growing, fire licking, and coils coiling. He views all the drawings as shallow piles where stories may be stored.

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Joseph Muscat, Shelter Skelter, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 26 x 26 in. | David Griffin, One of Many Circles, 2025, Mix media, 39 x 39 in.

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