Mar 31, 2021 · Kenyan-American Wangechi Mutu is a globally recognized contemporary artist. Widely known for her collage-based works on Mylar and large-scale installations, Mutu also works across other media, including painting, drawing, sculpture and video.

Shary Boyle’ s latest installation, hidden 68 floors above the suits and clattering heels of the Financial District in the BMO Project Room, is unremarkable at first glance. Forty-five...

TORONTO — On view now at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Re-Mixing African Photography: Kelani Abass, Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Abraham Oghobase presents new and recent works by three contemporary African artists. United by their shared interest in the photographic histories of West and Central Africa—specifically studio portraiture ...

Nov 28, 2023 · Erik Olson paints faces, but in a much more abstract manner, with gloopy brushstrokes that both reveal and hide the sitter. He paints those close to him, allowing feeling to be prioritized more than a direct likeness of the person. …

A _____, often used with architecture as wall decorations, grows out of a flat, two-dimensional background, and its projection into three-dimensional space is relatively shallow.

Aug 7, 2019 · Previously situated outside the main entrance of the AGO on Dundas Street West, Henry Moore’s “Large Two Forms” became one of Toronto’s best-known—and most photographed—works of art. Today, visitors can find the sensual, pelvic-shaped bronze sculpture at the rear of the building in the Grange Park.

Apr 20, 2010 · Evan Penny fell in with the hyper realism portraiture crowd, but he’s well known for exploring a different facet than most: he creates three dimensional portraits out of silicone and other high tech materials that are typically only seen on film sets.

AGO’s collection of close to 95,000 works ranges from cutting-edge contemporary art to European masterpieces; from the vast collection by the Group of Seven to works by established and emerging Indigenous Canadian artists.

Sep 30, 2019 · Toronto artist Laura Findlay experiments with translating paintings into three-dimensional space. In her recent exhibition “Echo Location” at Forest City Gallery, small-scale gestural renderings of bats were complemented by Bat Mobile (2018), a sculpture designed according to the shape of the animal’s wing.

Toronto sculptors bring a unique 3 dimensional vision from indigenous soapstone and Haida carving to work in clay, resins, stone and metals to create anything imaginable: wildlife, figures, abstracts and conceptual art in all scales.