Open Studio

✨Join us for an opening reception this Friday, May 29, 6-8pm! We have multiple exhibitions opening. Suite 104, at 401 Richmond Street West.

MAIN GALLERY
Sylvat Aziz
Defiant Memory

In ‘Defiant Memory’, Sylvat Aziz uses printmaking and other media to explore how illegitimate power erodes cultural memory, identity, and tradition. Through layered visual storytelling, the work foregrounds the resilience and shared humanity that persist in the face of oppression and displacement.

PROJECT SPACE
Refraction: Translations of Japanese Landscape
Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada, and Yoshie Uchida

Three Japanese printmakers, Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada, and Yoshie Uchida, each bring a distinct visual language to ‘Refraction: Translations of Japanese Landscape’. From Goto’s meditative forest stillness to Hamada’s perception-bending flora and Uchida’s colour-driven elemental fragments, the exhibition asks how urban life in Japan shapes an artist’s relationship with the natural world. Curated by Derek Michael Besant, RCA, and supported by Open Studio, it is an intimate and poetic journey through landscape as translation.

PROOFS & PROCESS VITRINES
Jenn Law and Mohammad Tabesh

The Proofs & Process vitrines present new work by Jenn Law and Mohammad Tabesh, focusing on the often-unseen stages of printmaking, from testing and revision to material and colour decisions. The display frames process as a visible part of making, with works shown as they develop over time.

Jenn Law is a Toronto-based artist and writer who uses letterpress printing to inscribe poetic language into plants. In her ivy-based works, the plant gradually alters and erases printed text, turning the work into a changing collaboration between language and living material.

Mohammad Tabesh is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist working across print, sculpture, and writing. His project ‘The Book of Roaring Memories’ transforms oral histories from the Iranian diaspora into colour-based prints, shaped by systems of translation, memory, and his red-green colour blindness.

📸 Images in order of artists presented

🌙 In ‘Lunes es por Luna/Monday is for Moon’, seven sculptural forms materialize the negative space of the artists’ left hand squeezing clay. Operating as handheld cameras of sorts, they nest a gelatin silver film negative within. In the week surrounding the summer solstice, each day at noon, one ‘camera’ was pointed towards the celestial body the weekday is named after. Bulging 24K gold leaf alludes to the sunlight the photographic film was exposed to. The silver in the gelatin emulsion serves as a symbol for moonlight.

On display in the Main Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘I Was Thinking About All of This and All the While I Kept Walking Further and Further, in Wider and Wider Circles’ by Isabel M. Martínez. Closes May 23, 2026.

Visit Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West to view this amazing mixed media work in person.