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Greetings!
Put a visit to the gallery on your list. The history of Canadian art pairs with the new in our lively then and now collection on view. Anja Karisik’s lauded new series Between the Lines and Luke Pestl’s groundbreaking porcelain and stoneware works stand at the heart of the exhibition.
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STEVEN VOLPE
Second Storey - oil on canvas, 23.75 x 30 inches
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The main gallery is rich with nearly a century of art history hanging alongside pieces fresh from local studios. The 1930s linocuts of Caven Atkins (1907-2000) are in conversation with an exquisite watercolour by David Michael Scott. A work on paper by Horatio Walker (1858-1938) complements a similar study in trees by Sean Yelland. Second Storey, a dynamic new canvas by Steven Volpe, finds the same light as a 1938 J.W. Beatty — and a glorious large-scale canvas from the west-coast studio of Jane Everett glows in union with a rare 1937 Barker Fairley watercolour.
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CAVEN ATKINS (1907-2000)
Edmonton St., 1930 - linocut, 4.25 x 4.75 inches
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Enjoy time for yourself or with others at the gallery. Write your art story and find your own personal connections between the pieces.
We’re open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, Bay and Museum stations are a three-minute walk; there’s metered parking out front and plenty of lots close by.
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J.W. BEATTY, R.C.A. (1869-1941)
Summer Landscape, c. 1938 - oil on panel, 10 x 13.75 inches
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Ingram Gallery, located at 24 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto’s Yorkville district, is a prominent art gallery specializing in contemporary and historical Canadian art. The gallery occupies a 5000-square-foot historic brownstone, featuring exhibition spaces across multiple floors, including a main gallery for solo exhibitions and a “Collectors’ Den” showcasing a diverse collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. The atmosphere is deliberately un-intimidating; conversations between artists, collectors, and first-time visitors happen easily and often.
Now on View
ANJA KARISIK: Between the Lines
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ANJA KARISIK
Urban Portage - acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
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Anja Karisik’s art practice is anchored in atmospheric meditations on weather, light, and the slow geology of time. Her latest series marks a change of altitude, not attitude. Karisik has moved to the vertical city, yet her interests remain unchanged: place as living organism, negotiating structure, the moment when permanence begins to dissolve. Toronto’s towers and glass canyons have replaced lakes and escarpments as the theatre in which those forces play out.
These are not straightforward architectural portraits. Karisik approaches the skyline as a weather system: surfaces are loose and abraded so that concrete takes on the weight and texture of storm clouds, while reflections shift and multiply until the city grid softens into something fluid. A single stroke can evoke taxi headlights and, at the same time, the accumulated energy of countless lives moving through the streets.
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ANJA KARISIK
Crowded Frame - acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 inches
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The large canvases possess a deliberate restlessness; paint is layered, scraped, and re-layered so that forms hover on the edge of legibility, the way the city itself does when seen from a moving train or through late-afternoon glare. The accompanying gouache and pastel studies on paper function as compressed dispatches from the same frontier: quick, luminous, perfect in their imperfection.
The paintings are most alive in person, where distance and proximity continually renegotiate what the city is allowed to become. Come spend time with Between the Lines.
LUKE PESTL
New porcelain and stoneware
Sculptural vessels and forms
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LUKE PESTL
Red - glazed stoneware, H: 10.25 x W: 9 inches
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Luke Pestl’s innovative forms and tactile surfaces redefine the possibilities of clay in contemporary practice. Pestl creates as both geologist and architect, coaxing porcelain and stoneware into vessels that evoke the tectonics of the earth itself.
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LUKE PESTL
Everything is the Same 2 - glazed stoneware, H: 18.75 x W: 18 inches
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This new series extends a practice devoted to materiality: bodies of fired clay that bear marks of process — faint finger impressions, asymmetrical swells, glazes that pool like mineral deposits.
Creating a dialogue between fragility and fortitude, Pestl’s sculptures are installed throughout the gallery. His latest collection grounds the space, offering a counterpoint to the paintings: earthen anchors in a gallery of sky and motion. We invite you to engage with them in person.
Catalogues are available for all artists and new collections on feature. Drop us a line to receive. We are here to be of help.
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ANJA KARISIK
Field Study (From Above) - gouache and pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches
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"For years, my art was rooted in nature’s rhythms and structures —landscapes shaped by weather and time. Recently, my focus has shifted closer to home as I look to Toronto’s urban terrain for inspiration. This isn’t a departure from landscapes, but more a continuation of my interest in place, atmosphere, and the tension between structure and fluidity."
— Anja Karisik
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STEVEN VOLPE
The Resort - oil on canvas, 20 x 40 inches
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December days are short. Spend one of the bright hours here.
You’ll leave lighter.
With our warm wishes,
Tarah & Jeff
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CAVEN ATKINS (1907-2000)
Solitude, 1931 - linocut, 4.5 x 5 inches
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