We are excited to be back in operation, please visit us!

Front-of-house Access & Hours of Operation [Galleries, office, shop]:
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
401 Richmond Street West, Suite #104 [ground floor], Toronto ON

Drop-in visits have resumed. Bookings are also welcome; you can reserve access to view current exhibitions using the booking app at the bottom of each exhibition weblink. Also, please note that we are not hosting in-person gallery receptions at this time. Have questions? Please contact us by email and make sure to check out our Visiting Guide for ongoing updates here.

Exhibitions
March 4 – April 16, 2022

MAIN GALLERY

Tom Lecuyer: New Prints

Tom Lecuyer, Untitled Print (detail), 2022, ink on canvas, 4’ x 6’.

New Prints is a continuation of Tom Lecuyer’s exploration into the fundamental elements of printmaking. In this new body of work, Lecuyer asks the audience to reflect upon the printmaking process and question the nature of a print in general. His work references the Modernist re-thinking of material hierarchy and the Minimalist tradition of process-based art, in which the process or act of making takes a prominent role in defining the finished artwork.

PROJECT SPACE

Pamela Dodds: Documenting Border Barriers

Pamela Dodds, India-Bangladesh Border Barrier (detail), 2021, drypoint and relief print, 11” x 19”.

Documenting Border Barriers is an exhibition by Pamela Dodds that addresses the exponential rise in the building of fortified fences and walls between nations and territories to keep people out. The installation in Open Studio’s Project Space presents the initial prints in her continuing, comprehensive study in drypoint and relief printmaking of border barriers in the world today.

Pamela Dodds thanks her research assistant, Temple Marucci-Campbell, and the Ontario Arts Council.

Click here for more information about Documenting Border Barriers.

FEATURE WALL

Sean Weisgerber: Wall Drawing #1

Sean Weisgerber, Price Per Square Inch series (detail), 2021, acrylic and ink on canvas. 35” x 28”. Image credit: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Sean Weisgerber’s new series of wall drawings stems from his ongoing Price Per Square Inch series of paintings. At Open Studio, the artist will execute the first work in this series, Wall Drawing #1, using a price gun to place fluorescent pink price stickers in each square inch of the gallery walls’ surface. Each sticker is marked with the date it was executed and its price, breaking down the CARFAC exhibition fee paid to the artist by Open Studio into 11,520 units.

Click here for more information about Wall Drawing #1.

Open Studio gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and the Government of Canada. Open Studio also acknowledges the generous support of its members and numerous foundations, corporations and individuals.

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Toronto ON M5V 3A8
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