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We’re all set up for the Armory Show 2026! Come see us at Booth P22 in the presents section, where we are showing a new presentation of works by Winnie Truong. ⋆˙⟡🌷 Delicate yet precarious, Truong’s hybrid forms evoke ecosystems in flux, reflecting a world shaped by ecological instability. These imagined specimens propose transformation and interdependence as possible conditions for navigating an increasingly uncertain natural order. ⋆˙⟡🪻 “I create dioramas as windows into the lives of these new hybrid forms; familiar patterns and figures emerge throughout my work; flowers become bodies and reproductive structures become sites of vulnerability, resilience, and resistance. These hybrid plants function as windows into possible futures: strange, fertile, unsettling worlds that propose other ways of living alongside the natural world before it is too late.” – Winnie Truong 🌷Fair Hours🌷 Friday, September 25, 11:00 am–6:00 pm Saturday, September 26, 11:00 am–7:00 pm Sunday, September 27, 11:00 am–6:00 pm Visit us all weekend long at the Javits Center in New York City! Documentation by @raidendingo See you around @thearmoryshow ! ⋆˙⟡🌷⋆˙⟡🪻⋆˙⟡🌷⋆˙⟡🌷⋆˙⟡🪻⋆˙⟡🌷⋆˙⟡🌷⋆˙⟡🪻⋆ #WinnieTruong #TheArmoryShow #ColouredPencil #CutPaperCollage #PatelBrown
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Explore the art of portrait photography with professional photographer Darren Rigo! 📸 📅 Sunday, September 20: 1–4 PM 📍 Benson Park, Picton 🌧️ Rain location: County Arts Lab, The Armoury, Unit 2E, Picton In this three-hour workshop, Darren will share simple, practical techniques for creating more compelling portraits. Open to ages 16+. Free to attend. #OntarioCultureDays #CultureDays #PrinceEdwardCounty #CountyArts #CountyUp Image Description: A green “Portraits in the Park” poster featuring a behind-the-scenes photo of an outdoor portrait photography setup in a park. Text includes “Benson Park, Picton,” “1–4 PM,” and “Sept 20.” A QR code appears on the left, with Ontario Culture Days and County Arts festival hub logos along the bottom.
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💃 Looking for free creative programming events in PEC this weekend? You’re in luck! Prince Edward County will be among 19 municipalities that will serve as a provincial festival hub during Ontario Culture Days. A number of exciting and free participatory arts and culture events will be taking place right here in PEC. Explore the full calendar at the link in our bio or at countyarts.ca/ontario-culture-days. PEC Culture Days Weekend Itinerary: September 18-20, 2026 Theme: “Living Creatively” ⭐This Weekend - @pecstudiotour @ Various Locations ⭐This Weekend - The Barley Days to Baco Noir: A History of Wine & Spirits in PEC @ Wellington Heritage Museum ⭐This Weekend - Fearsome Creatures by @theglbarrett @ County Arts Lab Project Room ⭐ Sept 18 - Return to Source: Living Creatively Workshop with @sarahselecky & @juliejarvisink @ County Arts Lab ⭐ Sept 18 - Moving Bodies of Water with @allisonnichol @ Wellington Main Street Park ⭐ Opens Sept 19 - Ethan Weitendorf Art Show @ Macaulay House @thecountymuseums ⭐ Sept 19 - Sun Prints for Kids! with Sara Keller @ County Arts Lab ⭐ Sept 19 - Cyanotype Workshop with Sara Keller @ County Arts Lab ⭐ Sept 19 - Sounds of the County: A Celebration of Local Musical Talent on @993countyfm ⭐ Sept 20 - Portraits in the Park with @raidendingo @ Benson Park ⭐ Sept 20 - @oenogallery Sculpture Garden Guided Tour @ Oeno Gallery ⭐ This Weekend - @onculturedays @ Prince Edward County #CountyArts #visitthecounty #PrinceEdwardCountyArtists #PrinceEdwardCounty #pictonontario Image Description: A graphic image on a dark teal background with the text Arts Events on the left in pink, and the County Arts Word Mark, What's On in white at the top and white boxes containing the text from the body of this post and images from each event.
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Nicolas Fleming, Darren Rigo, Waard Ward Flowers for Shoruk Alsakni 2 Archival inkjet print 14 × 11 in. 35.6 × 27.9 cm                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Edition of 15 💐🌷🌹🌸🌺 Created through a collaboration between Waard Ward, artist Nicolas Fleming, and photographer Darren Rigo, Flowers for Shoruk Alsakni 2 documents one of the collective’s community-created bouquets.  Presented within a structure built by Fleming from recycled materials and photographed by Rigo, the work transforms an ephemeral floral arrangement into an enduring record of gathering, collaboration, and care. In 2022, Waard Ward planted historic Damask roses during a land-based residency at the University of Toronto Scarborough, creating a gathering place in memory of public gardens destroyed in Syria. The print was later included in the Doris McCarthy Gallery’s 2024 exhibition A rose gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it, which considered displacement, the lasting effects of war on land, and the ways communities cultivate familiarity and a sense of home. 💐🌷🌹🌸🌺 Browse this print and more limited editions through Patel Brown LTD. 💐🌷🌹🌸🌺 💐🌷🌹🌸🌺 💐🌷🌹🌸🌺 💐🌷 #Patelbrownltd #Nicolasfleming #Darrenrigo #waardward #Archivalinkjetprint
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Holly Chang
Arching the Sun, 2026
cyanotype on fabric toned with golden rod and pomegranate ⋆｡˚⋆ 🌰 ✴︎˚｡⋆ Currently on view in our summer showcase: Slip, Stitch In Holly Chang’s works, the garden is treated less as a subject than as a system of return. Using gardening as a way to move through grief, Chang observes both cultivated and self-seeded plants, questioning hierarchies that privilege certain forms of life over others.  The garden becomes a site for witnessing how life sustains life, as plants support emotional survival while continuing to nourish surrounding ecologies through cycles of growth, decay, and return to soil. Cyanotype preserves plants in their brief seasonal presence, while quilting merges these impressions into layered compositions where different moments of growth coexist, transforming grief into a soft, domestic object of care and comfort. ⋆｡˚⋆ 🌰 ✴︎˚｡⋆ Slip, Stitch is on view until September 5 | 21 Wade Ave, 10 am to 6 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.  ⋆｡˚⋆ 🌰 ✴︎˚｡⋆ ⋆｡˚⋆ 🌰 ✴︎˚｡⋆ 🌞⋆｡˚⋆ 🌰 ✴︎˚｡⋆ ⋆｡˚⋆ 🌰 Documentation by Darren Rigo, @raidendingo #HollyChang #SlipStitch #Cyanotype #TextileArt #PatelBrown
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After They Leave an exhibition in the Vitrines from Manny Wood Lynes-Ford closes this Saturday, July 4! Documenting Wells, British Columbia, a historic mining and logging town on the territories of the Lhtako Dene and Secwépemc peoples, After They Leave is a testament to what happens when the relationship between humans and the land is forgotten. Lynes-Ford documents the scars left behind from the process of extraction, abandonment and the displacement of Indigenous peoples who lived in reciprocity with this land. Presented in partnership with imagineNATIVE. — Manny Wood Lynes-Ford is an indigenous photographer from Gitxaala, British Columbia, based in Toronto. He specializes in analog photography with a range of media from cyanotypes to chromogenic prints in the darkroom. He holds a BFA from OCAD University in photography. Working with themes of decolonization and the Indigenous experience, he draws inspiration from artists such as Fred Herzog and Carl Beam. 📸 Manny Wood Lynes-Ford, After They Leave, photo documentation by Darren Rigo at Gallery 44 (Toronto), 2026
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JUST PUBLISHED - The Newsletter, Summer Edition We have the scoop on the latest decorative arts and design news for an art-filled sunny season. 🍧🍦 📸 @jolienope, Table Lamp in Cherry Blossoms and Himalayan Salt, 2025. Image Courtesy: @gardinermuseum. 📸 @cheyennerainlegrande, Misi-mîkisak, 2026. Fibreglass. Image Courtesy: @yegarts. 📸 Lynne D. DiStefano and Dan Schneider, The Ontario Cottage, 2025. Image Courtesy: @figure1publishing. 📸 Installation view of Always In Fashion. Curated by @amberdawngold for the @textilemuseumofcanada. Image Credit: @raidendingo. 📸 Medium Dior Book Tote with Strap. Image Courtesy: @dior -- Check your inbox or sign up to receive your copy via link in bio 💥
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A week remains to visit Proof 32, G44’s annual group exhibition of work by emerging Canadian artists—featuring the work of Zaynab Ghaïs-Mortada, Tommy Keith, Dion Smith-Dokkie, Parumveer Walia and Long Xi Vlessing—before it closes on Saturday, July 4! Proof is Gallery 44’s annual group exhibition of work by emerging Canadian artists, reflecting a range of current concerns and practices in contemporary photography and lens-based media. For more information, read A Test’s Procession, an exhibition essay by guest writer Benjamin de Boer. Designed by Mubashir Baweja. (Link in bio) Interested in exhibiting in Proof? Apply to Proof 33’s open call by September 30, 2026. Submissions are juried by members of G44’s Exhibitions Programming Committee (EPC). (Link in bio) — Dion Smith-Dokkie’s work oscillates around intermedia image practice, post-representational cartography, translation and morphology as a practice of escapist, sentimental formalism. Long Xi Vlessing’s evolving practice centres diaristic photography in exploring intimacy and the lived-in body, the shared humanity of strangers, and quotidian scenes as sites of personal and collective transformation. Parumveer Walia is an artist whose practice extends image-making into video, installation, and object-based forms, drawing on expanded media and queer aesthetics. Tommy Keith photographs people and places close to where he lives, and often returns to the same areas over extended periods of time. Zaynab Ghaïs-Mortada is a self-taught artist who works primarily with photographic objects and has led research on gendered Islamophobia and epistemic violence in Québec. 📸 Zaynab Ghaïs-Mortada, Tommy Keith, Dion Smith-Dokkie, Parumveer Walia, Long Xi Vlessing, Proof 32, photo documentation by Darren Rigo at Gallery 44 (Toronto), 2026
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Gallery 44 is pleased to share Dear Luther, the first essay from 2025-2026 Writer-in-Residence Heather Canlas-Rigg. “Dear Luther, It’s been over a year since I saw your exhibition Ambient Photo and I am still thinking so much about it. Back when I was working at Gallery 44, one of the nicest things for me about being the curator there was the Writer-in-Residence program, and having the opportunity to spend time with your writing. I thought about your words the entire time I was at your exhibition, and kept thinking about how many of the themes you explored in your texts were also being investigated through the materiality of your photographs and the exhibition as a whole. I have always loved that your residency texts are written in the second person. The intimacy of writing to a reader, to a friend, to a specific someone, is such a welcome change and respite from the detachment of contemporary art discourse. Since then, I have become much more attuned to noticing writing in the second person, especially letter writing, within our ecosystem.” Visit the link in our bio to read the full essay. 📸 Luther Konadu, Ambient Photo, photo documentation by Toni Hafkenscheid at two seven two (Toronto), 2026, image courtesy of two seven two Webpage designed by Darren Rigo.
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This Saturday at the Toronto Sculpture Garden! Meet the artist responsible for the super nostaligic exhibition Waiting Rooms and Roller Coasters, Chloe Begg. 🎢 🧮 When: Saturday June 20, 2-5pm Where: the Toronto Sculpture Garden (115 King St East) near Church and King. 📸 Gorgeous photos by Darren Rigo @raidendingo
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Highlights from 𝙏𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙡/𝙉𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙀𝙭𝙞𝙩, a new contemporary art exhibition by Toronto artist @janinemiedzik by Steelcase Art Projects at Industrial Arts. Through large-scale installation art, bold colour, and urban-inspired materials, the exhibition explores signage, public space, and the visual language of the modern city. 🎨Now on view every Friday - Sunday | 12 PM–4 PM until August 30, 2026. Weekday visits by appointment. 📍 Located inside the Industrial Arts Campus, start at 200 Steelcase Rd E, Markham and find UNIT 8. Follow the directions on this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DajD2dJoBB6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 📸 Photos by Darren Rigo #JanineMiedzik #MarkhamArts #TorontoArt #InstallationArt #PublicArt
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I can’t believe that Celina Eceiza’s “A material called Earth, Volume 1: The life of corners” has already been on view for 2 weeks. It still feels like yesterday!   “Volume 1: The life of corners” is the first of a sequence of exhibitions—collectively titled “A material called Earth”—that will bring Argentine artist Celina Eceiza’s practice to Canadian audiences from coast to coast. “A material called Earth” is also a curatorial exper­iment that tests how migratory exhibition practices might enrich our artistic and social ecosystems and our imaginaries.

As the project moves, each volume of “A material called Earth” offers a distinct,situated story. Consequently, “A material called Earth” is anything but a touring exhibition, that quaint, tired curatorial fable with deep imperial roots—an artefact of authority-accruing, institution-advancing practices. Instead of touring, the ever-evolving itinerant project mobilizes movement and performativity to welcome audiences into intimate visual narratives woven in tender, vulnerable ways. The project’s curatorial stance also differs categorically from the widespread institutional practice of “adapting” a project to a space and a context. Its itinerance requires us—curator and artist—to pay close attention to our every encounter (social, economic, political, material, spiritual). Only then can we bear witness to what we carry, share, and shed from one place to another—and at what cost. “A material called Earth” is about arrivals and elabo­rations . . . a ledger-less, accrual-shy and/and/and that carries criticality and commitment.   Subscribe to my new curatorial Substack to follow this curatorial experiment. I’ll be posting weekly insights. See link in bio. Photos: Thank you Darren Rigo.
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