Photo by Pearl Van Geest, Shark Lake, 2022. Photo manipulation by Cai Sepulis.

At a Moment’s Glance
Pearl Van Geest

April 29 – May 23
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2, 2 – 5pm
Doors Open: Art-A-Thon, May 23, 10am – 10pm. Presented by the Throbbing Rose Collective as a fundraiser for Nuit Rose.
Red Head Gallery, Toronto

Red Head Gallery is pleased to present At a Moment’s Glance, an exhibition by Pearl Van Geest.

“I continue to be inspired by shorelines—the worlds between the land, water and sky, especially poignant from the vantage point of sitting in a canoe or kayak. There, moving while buoyed just below the water’s surface, you can quietly paddle close to the shoreline, sit motionless watching, or move slowly along while the water is like glass, reflecting the land into the water so that the already shifting shoreline border disappears—and faces, beings, openings are (at moment’s glance) revealed and then concealed. Forms and ideas emerge through the interplay of light, shadow and sound and between the substantive and the energetic, the captured and the fugitive, and scales of impermanence.”
– Pearl Van Geest

Avalonia, watercolour on paper, 2026

About the Artist

Pearl Van Geest (she/here) is a queer Canadian artist, writer and arts educator, practicing since graduating from art school (OCAD) in 1996. She also holds a BSc, MFA and BEd. Her work is included in private and public collections, including the Canadian Arts Council’s Art Bank and has been supported through grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. She was short-listed for the RBC Painting prize in 2003.

In her own work, informed by theories of queer ecology, Van Geest explores the connection between the human/animal body and the natural world, working towards the blurring of commonly perceived binaries and dichotomies. In the most recent work, Van Geest uses photographs taken while paddling along shorelines of lakes and rivers—from southern Ontario, upstate New York and in the northern Ontario parks of Temagami, Algonquin and Pukaskwa.

View past exhibitions by Pearl Van Geest.

The artist gratefully acknowledges funding from the Ontario Art Council.

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401 Richmond St West, Suite 115
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
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Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm

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