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Henry Wanton Jones: A Retrospective
The surrealist paintings and sculptures of Henry Wanton Jones (1925-2021) are mysterious, irreverent, and dazzling and Gallery Gevik is excited to finally honour the artist with a retrospective spanning six decades of his monumental and fascinating body of work. Henry Wanton Jones: A Retrospective opens Saturday October 26 and continues until November 30, 2024.
Gallery Gevik is excited to announce the opening of Carl Beam: Life & Work, an exhibition of never before seen paintings from the artist’s studio, in celebration of the September 2024 publication of the Art Canada Institute’s online and hardbound book, Carl Beam: Life & Work by Anong Migwans Beam. Please join us on Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 2pm when Anong Beam will give introductory remarks about the artist and sign copies of her monograph.
Gallery Gevik is pleased to present Levon Ichkhanian: The Armenian Guitars, an exclusive exhibition of guitars featuring Armenian motifs and designs, carefully curated over the last ten years by musician Levon Ichkhanian. A first for the gallery, these extraordinary musical pieces will were on display for a limited time between June 11 – 15, 2024.
Despite his lack of formal art training, Bertram Brooker (1888-1955) painted in a wide variety of styles, creating cutting-edge modernist pictures and is widely considered one of the first Canadian artists to exhibit abstract paintings, in 1927. Gallery Gevik’s exhibition brings together oil paintings, watercolours and drawings that provide a glimpse of the artist’s stylistic evolution through a number of different periods. April 20 – May 20, 2024
VGallery Gevik’s exclusive exhibition & sale, The Vagn Andersen Collection, opens on Saturday, February 17, 2024. Highlights include major paintings by Daphne Odjig, and Norval Morrisseau and giants of Canadian Impressionism, including A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Goodridge Roberts and W.J. Phillips, Post French Impressionist Francois Gall, Danish realist Carl Locher, and English Victorian painter George Cole.
Rita Letendre: In Studio
Gallery Gevik is pleased to present Rita Letendre: In Studio – an exhibition of works from every decade of Rita’s career as well as a special installation featuring the artist’s work table, a selection of her paint brushes, palette knives and easel. “Whenever I visited Rita’s studio, she was always so full of humour and exuded such a positive presence. Having been lucky enough to keep many items from her studio since her passing in 2021, it’s been on my mind to try and recapture a bit of her magic in the gallery. I hope this rare opportunity to view Rita’s art and her tools gives you a glimpse of her wonderful spirit.” – Phillip Gevik
David Garneau Re: Making History
Gallery Gevik is pleased to present Re: Making History, an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Regina based multidisciplinary artist David Garneau. Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, David is a Métis painter and has enjoyed a long career as both an artist and academic, culminating in a highly successful retrospective in February 2023 at the Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. He is a recipient of the 2023 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts: Outstanding Achievement.
20th Century Women: Carol Wald & Sylvia Lefkovitz
The two trailblazing artists featured in Gallery Gevik’s latest exhibition – Carol Wald (1935-2000) and Sylvia Lefkovitz (1928-1987) – were bold, uncompromising visionaries who forged two very different paths for themselves in the post-war art world. Rather than follow their peers into abstract expressionism, they wholeheartedly embraced the figure – Wald from an illustrative, psychological point of view and Lefkovitz from that of a social realist who would end up working in variety of media, most notably bronze and the technique of lost-wax.
Anong Migwans Beam: Gathering Colour
Gallery Gevik is excited to present Gathering Colour, an exhibition of recent paintings by M’Chigeeng based artist and colourist Anong Migwans Beam. These works come to us after a nearly three-year long tour of public galleries across Ontario. We’re also thrilled to be exclusively showcasing seven new works on birch panel that evoke the artist’s memories of her home on Manitoulin Island, using rich colour and dream-like imagery.
Rick Rivet & Bob Boyer: Journeymen of Soul
Bob Boyer (1948-2004) and Rick Rivet are painters of similar inspiration. Both of Métis heritage, they could also each be described as journeymen – Boyer was a passionate powwow dancer, following its call wherever it led, while Rivet prefers to look inward, exploring the metaphysical through his art. In our exhibition Journeymen of Soul, a selection of outstanding Boyer and Rivet paintings spanning the last thirty-five years are placed in conversation, offering viewers an enlightening look into each artist’s creative process.
Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in Toronto in over twenty-five years, Gallery Gevik is pleased to announce that Tales of Water, a collection of new works by esteemed Québec painter Geneviève Jost, will open on Saturday April 22, 2023 with the artist present from 1 – 5 pm. A chronicler of the harmonious relationship between humanity and nature for over forty years, Geneviève Jost turns her eye to the theme of water for this latest exhibition.
This special memorial exhibition includes rarely seen paintings and works on paper from each decade of Rita’s artistic life. It’s our honour to share them with all of you and I hope you will join us at Gallery Gevik on Saturday November 19, 2022 from 1 – 5 pm for our opening reception, and also in remembering Rita at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Celebration of Life on Wednesday November 23, 2022 from 7-9 pm in Baillie Court.
Like many great artists, Daphne Odjig’s vibrant energy and her faith in humanity, reflected in the dazzling colour and imagination of her paintings, have the ability to uplift and emotionally prepare us for whatever life is about to throw our way. Harmony and the Universe expresses the importance and beauty of trees and forests. Daphne always used to say that trees could talk – she meant that they had their own spiritual voice, and deserved respect as living beings. In this joyful painting, we see that thought exemplified in the spirits and dancers celebrating among the trees. It’s a hopeful image for troubled times. (October 29 – November 16, 2022)
Brian Burnett: Paintings 1988-2015
This fall we’re thrilled to welcome Canadian artist Brian Burnett to Gallery Gevik with an inaugural mini survey of his lush, neo-expressionist paintings dating from 1988 to 2015. This exclusive presentation of some of the artist’s best work marks his first solo exhibition in Toronto since 2003. (September 27 – October 19, 2022)
Gallery Gevik is pleased to present The Making of Canadian Modernism, an exclusive exhibition of paintings and drawings that traces how Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald (1890-1956), Bertram Brooker (1888-1955), Kathleen Munn (1887-1974), and Lowrie Warrener (1900-1983) strove to shake the post impressionism of the Group of Seven in the first half of the twentieth century. Following a year of planning, we’ve gathered an outstanding selection of rare and little seen works from various private collections available to view from April 23 to May 14, 2022.
Gallery Gevik is pleased to present Carl Beam: The New World, a retrospective exhibition and the first in a commercial Toronto gallery in many years. Of Ojibwe heritage, Carl Migwans Beam (1943-2005) has exerted a strong influence on generations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. His work survives as a milestone in the development of a unique and powerful voice within the context of the presence of Canada on the international art scene.
In his paintings and sculptural work, Bedrossian gives poetic significance to what is essentially an abstract structure. The deeply felt psychological statements permeating his creative production are Bedrossian’s significant contribution to the domain of contemporary art.
As the clouds of uncertainty of the last few months begin to part, we’re pleased to share an exhibition of uplifting, visionary colour-field paintings by nine of Canada’s most revered abstract artists. Our group exhibition features works by Ron Bloore (1925-2009), Kenneth Lochhead (1926-2006), Jacques Hurtubise (1939-2014), Rita Letendre, Fernand Leduc (1916-2014), Jean-Paul Jerome (1928-2004), William Ronald (1926-1998) and Charles Robb.
Gallery Gevik is pleased to present an exhibition of visionary paintings by the seven trailblaizing members of the Professional Native Indian Aritsts Incorporated – Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Alex Janvier, Jackson Beardy, Carl Ray, Eddy Cobiness, Joseph Sanchez.
March 14 to June 27, 2020.
