A one-weekend-only art show will include work by Emily Carr, Alex Colville and Annie Pootoogook
Opening June 11 at Toronto’s Bau-Xi Gallery, the exhibition is free and open to the public
To mark the occasion of its 60th anniversary, the Art Dealers Association of Canada is hosting a pop-up exhibition at Toronto’s Bau-Xi Gallery, on Dufferin Street—and this weekend, you don’t have to be an art dealer to see works by artists including Emily Carr, Alex Colville and Annie Pootoogook, alongside nearly 90 other pieces from the 1800s up to the present day.
Billed as “a survey of Canadian art across generations, geographies, and mediums,” the exhibit is free to attend from June 11 through 14. It will also show work by Charlotte Evans, Tyler Bright Hilton, Jen Mann, Catherine Morin, Stan Olthuis and Luca Soldovieri.
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“The general public thinks of Canadian art as the Group of Seven,” Mackenzie Sinclair, the ADAC’s executive director, said in a statement. “This is a way to open up that dialogue. I haven’t seen an exhibition that confronts those time frames side by side like this. It’s a real retrospective of Canadian art.”
The pieces are curated to be in conversation with one another, and the show is meant as a way to trace the history of Canadian art through the decades.
“Contemporary art did not come out of nowhere. It came from dealers,” said Sinclair. “At one point, historical art was contemporary. And at some point, all contemporary art will be historical. It’s a great way to look at the trajectory of art history within the country and the world.”
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
