Winter 2025 Exhibitions at The Goldfarb Gallery
Visual identity by Mark Bennett.
Announcing The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University Winter Exhibitions
On view February 1 – April 26, 2025
Opening Reception
Friday, January 31, 2025, 6 – 9 pm | RSVP here
Artist Talk with Charles Campbell and Maryam Taghavi moderated by Felicia Mings
Saturday, February 1, 2025, 3 pm | RSVP here
The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery invites you to the launch of their winter program. The winter exhibitions are curated by Felicia Mings who presents two solo shows: An Ocean to Livity by Charles Campbell and Unfolding Worlds by Maryam Taghavi, as well as a recent digital art commission, From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire by Dele Adeyemo.
Audiences are invited to engage with each artists’ practice and see the interconnections that weave across each body of work as breath, spirit, and histories intertwine.
Charles Campbell, Detail of Breath Cycle 1, 2022. Photo: Dennis Ha.
An Ocean to Livity
Charles Campbell is a Jamaican-born multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. His artworks, which include sculptures, sonic installations, and performances, have been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. For his exhibition, Campbell brings together metal and mixed media sculptures along with multichannel audio installations that create immersive spaces for congregation, for reflection, and that hold the presence of Black life.
Charles Campbell: An Ocean to Livity was first exhibited at Surrey Art Gallery, April 15 to June 4, 2023, curated by Jordan Strom. The second iteration of the exhibition was at Nanaimo Art Gallery, October 14, 2023, to January 14, 2024, curated by Jesse Birch. The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery presentation of An Ocean to Livity is curated by Felicia Mings with community engagement led by Allyson Adley. It is made possible with support from Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Project Grant, the Afrosonic Innovation Lab, York University’s Making and Media Creation Lab, local poets David Delisca and Joshua “Scribe” Watkis, and emerging sound artist Chibuzor Igwilo.
Installation view, Chicago Works: Maryam Taghavi, MCA Chicago. Dec 16, 2023–Jul 14, 2024. Photo: Shelby Ragsdale, © MCA Chicago.
Unfolding Worlds
Maryam Taghavi is a Tehran-born, Iranian-Canadian artist and educator based in Chicago. Drawn to language and translation, her practice takes form in airbrush and stencil paintings, works on paper, installation, sculpture, and performance. In Unfolding Worlds, Taghavi exhibits recent paintings, sculptures, and an architectural installation that draw upon Persian script and abstraction to transform space and expand language in ways that direct us to consider the unseen.
Maryam Taghavi: Unfolding Worlds, curated by Felicia Mings builds upon the exhibition Chicago Works: Maryam Taghavi, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, December 20, 2023, to July 14, 2024, organized by Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, MCA, with Kamala GhaneaBassiri, Visual Arts Intern.
Dele Adeyemo, Detail of From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire
Dele Adeyemo is a Scottish/Nigerian artist, architect, and critical urban theorist based in London and Lagos. His research and creative practice explore human, ecological, and spiritual life amidst the architectures of racial capitalism. In From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire, Adeyemo combines a soundscape of voices from within and in proximity to York University’s Keele campus with architectural projections of the territory to unravel the fiction of linear development and ask what does it mean to be caught in the course of empire?
From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire was curated by Felicia Mings in 2022 as a digital art commission on the occasion of the construction of The Goldfarb Gallery and the transition from the Art Gallery of York University (our former space and name). This new work was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through its Digital Strategy Fund. The project was developed through voice contributions by Ohemaa Boateng, Wanda MacNevin, Ola Mohammed, Lisa Myers, Rinaldo Walcott, and Anders Sandberg; soundscape design by Tony Njoku; and web design by Em Woudenberg of Strike Design Studio.
About the Gallery
The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University is a socially minded not-for-profit contemporary art gallery that is a space for the creation and appreciation of art and culture. It is a supported Unit of York University within the President’s Division. We are externally funded as a public art gallery through the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, local and international foundations, embassies, and our membership who support our programs.
Location & Accessibility
The Goldfarb Gallery is located at York University, Toronto, at 83a York Boulevard. It is a one-storey wheelchair accessible building only 30 meters from the TTC York University subway stop on line 1 where there is also a Wheel-Trans stop. There is pay street parking on Fine Arts Road and at the Student Services Parking Garage (84 James Gillies Street).
The Goldfarb Gallery
83a York Boulevard
Toronto, ON M7A 2C5
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 5 pm
Always free
For more information about the exhibitions, please visit our website: TheGoldfarbGallery.ca
For media inquiries and accommodations, please email: TheGoldfarbGallery@yorku.ca
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