Angell Gallery
1444 Dupont Street, Unit 15 M6P 4H3 Toronto, ON, Canada

ERIKA DeFREITAS: close magic Erika DeFreitas opens her solo exhibition "close magic" today at the Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam, BC. @artgalleryevergreen @evergreenarts An image, less than a memory but more than a feeling, lingers. A woman runs rosary beads between her fingers. A mother and daughter laugh hysterically to the point of tears. Two hands intertwine. These simple yet vivid vignettes reveal something akin to muscle memory, where intellect and biology falte...r and intuition and magic take over. This solo exhibition focuses on lens-based artworks by Erika DeFreitas, many of which feature her mother, whom she has been working with as a subject for more than a decade. The collection of photographs, video, and works on paper illuminates recurring themes in her practice such as loss, inheritance and finding ways to make the impermanent permanent. DeFreitas is a Scarborough-based artist whose practice includes the use of performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, works on paper, and writing. Curated by Katherine Dennis. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in British Columbia, and is part of the 2021 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program. @capturephotofest Image: Erika DeFreitas, "On Pincushions and Lace (les pales se sont ouverts)", 2017, digital inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. @erikadefreitas416 https://evergreenculturalcentre.ca/exhibit/ #evergreenarts #coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #tricities #CapturePhotoFest2021 #ErikaDeFreitas

VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK: Eva Kolcze & Jessica Thalmann - The Time Being Please join us on YouTube (link in bio) for a virtual artist talk with Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann about their collaboration, "The Time Being." This virtual exhibition will run from January 13 to February 13, 2021. Follow along here: @angellgallery and @_thetimebeing. Over the course of four weeks, the artists have shared new and recently posted work covering themes that include: boundaries, edges, and co...rners; walking, distance and solitude; site and destination; and monuments and hidden histories. The Time Being is made up of lens-based media captured during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attention paid towards the sites, spaces, and environments visited and inhabited during their time in isolation. The Time Being is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. https://youtu.be/PK8ggs6AjO8 @canada.council @evakolcze @jthalmann1 . . . . . . #AngellGallery #Arts #Photography #CanadianArt #CanadianArtist #ContemporaryArt #VideoArt #StreetPhotography #TheSix #Toronto #TorontoArtist #VideoDiary #VisualArt #Psychogeography #Analog #LandscapePhotography #CanadaCouncilForTheArts #BringingTheArtstolife #DigitalOriginals2020 #EvaKolcze #jessicathalmann

We have much to look forward to online at ANGELL GALLERY while the doors are currently closed to visitors in accordance with Toronto regulations. We will happily remain available by telephone and e-mail, as well as in person for deliveries at our front door with reserved parking and following all safety protocols (masks and distance). Our current exhibition by STEVE DRISCOLL, Celestial Bodies and Brief Intervals, can be viewed online with a virtual studio and exhibition tour.... Also, please join us this Friday evening between 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. for a virtual drop-in viewing of Dan Hudson's new video work, Mayday. *all links in bio* Stay safe and be well! @stevedriscoll @danhudsonart Pictured: Steve Driscoll, Still life with green apple (studies), 2020. Please contact [email protected] for more information. @alex_harold . . . . . . #AngellGallery #Canadianart #Canadianartist #contemporaryart #SteveDriscoll #celestialbodiesandbriefintervals #exhibitiontour #studiotour #artisttour #artisttalk

ERIKA DeFREITAS is a contributor to an important new publication edited by Grace Aneiza Ali, "Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora." Pictured: Erika DeFreitas' mother, Cita DeFreitas, and grandmother, Angela DeFreitas (nèe Vieira) in their home in Georgetown, Guyana, then British Guiana, circa 1965. DeFreitas Family Collection, Courtesy of Erika DeFreitas. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1208:... Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history from the 1950s to the present day bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana. Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a ‘disappearing nation’. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable notion of ‘homeland’, and grapple with ideas of place and accountability. This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly field of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It will be of great interest to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies. Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. @erikadefreitas416 @grace_aneiza_ali #LiminalSpaces

PREMIERING at 4:45 pm!

We are excited to announce the launch of A PLUS: a new division of ANGELL GALLERY devoted to editions, multiples, artist books, and small original artworks. The first limited edition by STEVE DRISCOLL (@stevedriscoll) is now available, contact [email protected] for more information or visit angellgallery.com (links in bio). Upper Falls, 2020... Screen print ink on styrene sheet 23 x 27 inches Edition of 12 . . . . . . #AngellGallery #APlus #APlusAngellGallery #SteveDriscoll #editions #multiples #artistbooks #launch #Canadianart #contemporaryart See more

STEVE DRISCOLL's studio and exhibtion tour premieres on our YouTube channel today at 4:45PM! Join us to learn more about Driscoll's unique practice and very special studio, as well as his insights into the current exhibition, "Celestial Bodies and Brief Intervals," running through December 5, 2020. Please contact [email protected] for more information, or book a private viewing appointment at the gallery. All links in bio and below. https://youtu.be/hcj0Wq5U4c4... http://www.calendly.com/angellgallery @stevedriscoll @alex_harold . . . . . . #AngellGallery #Canadianart #Canadianartist #contemporaryart #SteveDriscoll #celestialbodiesandbriefintervals #exhibitiontour #studiotour #artisttour #artisttalk

Today is the final day of @art_toronto , and we are so grateful to everyone who has made it such a special yearcongratulations to our gallery artists! Our virtual booth remains on view today, and we can always be reached at [email protected] Pictured: Steve Driscoll's exhibition, "Celestial Bodies and Brief Intervals," continuing by appointment through December 5, 2020, book online: calendly.com/angellgallery @stevedriscoll @erikadefreitas416 @danhudsonart @dbhutchinson... @gavin_lynch___ @isabel_m_martinez @millard.laura @personfrompotluck @jthalmann1 @bradleywoodart @kylescheurmann @alex_harold . . . . . . #AngellGallery #artto2020 #ArtTO #ArtToronto #ArtToronto2020 #Canadianart #Canadianartist #contemporaryart See more