Paul Petro Contemporary Art
980 Queen St West M6J 1H1 Toronto, ON, Canada

Andre F'n Ethier Untitled (Aquarium) 2017 oil on canvas 24 x 28 inches. As part of our annual Christmas Spice, opening Dec 4, André runs with the fish motif ...on this year's CSpice tree. He also has an exhibition of new work, "What Isn't Nature?", opening February 19, 2021. @paulpetrocanada @andredalethier #andreethier #christmasspice24 #christmasspiceonline #multiplesandsmallworks @multiplesandsmallworks #resilience See more

Nelson Henricks " Winter Fruit" and Michael Morris "City Deluxe" open Friday November 20, 7pm. left: Nelson Henricks "Lacuna Photo 26" 2020 inkjet on rag paper ...edition of 2, #1 16 x 12 inches, right: Michael Morris "City Deluxe 9" 1968/2012 etching & aquatint edition of 25 30 x 22 inches (sheet size) See more

Jay Isaac, Mural Study For The Future Site of An Artist's Union 2020 acrylic on canvas 49.5 x 140.25 inches, included in our (virtual) booth at Art Toronto this week and included in the upcoming exhibition Mural Studies opening January 15, 2021 at PPCA.

Last few days for our current exhibitions. See them while you can! Stephen Andrews/Daniel Gruetter and FASTWURMS!

We think one of the most incredible works at this year’s Art Toronto digital fair is by an artist you should know: I Can’t Breathe by multidisciplinary art...ist and curator Natalie Wood is available through Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto. Wood’s practice is rooted in art historical research, with a focus on postcolonial and Black queer feminist thought. Born and raised in Trinidad, she is an OCAD University studio practice alumna and graduate of the MA program in Art Education from the University of Toronto in 2000. Wood is a tenured Professor in the Social Service Work Program at George Brown College and is presently pursuing a PhD through the Faculty of Environmental Studies program at York University. Natalie Wood, I Can’t Breathe, 2019, watercolour, acrylic, and ink on paper, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.

Final Week! "Performing Change" is a survey of lens-based work, participatory performance, and installations made over the last decade by Trinidadian-born, Toro...nto-based artist Natalie Wood. Positioned across two venues (details and links below), Wood’s work reflects on the fugitive and the imaginary as forms of resistance to colonialism and slavery’s afterlife. It counters heteronormativity by presenting rarely seen imagery showing intimacy and tenderness between Black women. Using a cinema verite approach, the artist celebrates Black women’s lives and loves. Wood’s interdisciplinary artwork exists at the intersections of popular culture, gender, Black feminism, sexuality, and race. She weaves together queer Afro-Caribbean diasporic women’s experiences within aesthetic frameworks, reinforcing the idea that Black is beautiful and that queer love IS love. Performing identity actively and constantly produces and reproduces the self that is presented to the worldbecause humans absorb the ideals and expectations of the surrounding culture, living queerness necessitates performing identity as a mechanism for survival. When cultures are in opposition to one’s natural self, individuals must also perform change. This occurs once self-love takes place, which then makes it possible to resist and disrupt culturally defined normativity. Wood’s timely cinematic work theorizes and maps models of imagined and sustained cultural resistance and resilience onto new-media formats, providing viewers new tools with which to engage the social imaginary. Wood’s work is positive, offers hope, shows love, is aspirational, and as such one can describe hers as a practice that is bridge-building, or in the artist’s words: performs change. Presented by John B. Aird Gallery in partnership with Charles Street Video and CONTACT. Curated by Carla Garnet. https://scotiabankcontactphoto.com//natalie-wood-performi/ Here's a link to the online catalogue: http://airdgallery.org//AIRD_CONTACT_2020_NWood-Publicatio

Here is a link to a tour of the exhibition "Firmament" with Stephen Andrews and Daniel Gruetter. The exhibition continues at our gallery to November 14. This video was made for our virtual booth at Art Toronto this week ( arttoronto.ca ) and we're happy to simultaneously share it with you all! Thanks Dennis Day & Laura Carusi!... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXueh6mn6I

Ross Bleckner Untitled 2019 oil on linen 72 x 48 inches each, in our virtual booth at Art Toronto to November 8.

Tuesday October 27 at 6:30pm. Free registration at the following link:

We are now scheduling half hour viewings for FASTWÜRMS #turtle_kin_in_kind installation for tomorrow (Saturday) 2-5pm. Artists present! We can handle six people per time period. Email or call the gallery to reserve a time!

Stephen Andrews & Daniel Gruetter "Firmament" October 16 - November 14, 2020. Installation views and individual works.

FASTWÜRMS #turtle_kin_in_kind October 16 - November 14, 2020. Installation views and individual works.

left: FASTWÜRMS #turtle_kin_in_kind 2020 studio view right: Stephen Andrews Shooting Star 2020 oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches (detail)

The making of a commissioned mural. Gary Evans "Backyard", produced during COVID-19 times, brought art (and our gallery garden) to the street at a time when it ...was becoming less possible to bring people to art. Tomorrow is the final day to view this work on site. Thanks Gary for rising to the occasion and executing a concept that captures our collective moment. #resilience "Backyard" 2020 acrylic on plywood 96 x 120 inches (overall)

Gary Evans & Olia Mishchenko continue to Saturday October 10, today - Saturday 11-5pm. Call or email to schedule a visit!

Gary Evans "Shed" 2020 oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches. Exhibition continues to October 10. Scheduled visits during gallery hours Wednesday-Saturday 11-5pm.

Gary Evans "Small Steps" 2020 oil on canvas 24 x 18 nches Exhibition continues to October 10.

In today's Toronto Star (link in comments). Gary Evans "Alley" 2020 oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches Exhibition continues to October 10.