“Test Patterns and Grips” highlight a unique approach to painting and craftsmanship. Michelle Forsyth reveals the complex layers of her life in this autobiographical exploration. Forsyth uncovers her relationships and physical challenges dealing with early onset Parkinson’s.

For the past six decades, Poons’ art has been acclaimed for its stylistic diversity as well as its conceptual continuity, in an exploration of color, texture and optical sensation. With undiminished energy and ambition, Poons today continues to produce compositions of epic scale and prodigious beauty. His works reflect the artist’s lifelong devotion to the expressive nuances of light and the emotional possibilities of color. The recent paintings are clearly the work of a true visionary with more than six decades of experience in composition and color. In this body of work, sweeping expanses of feverish blue tones, painted with fingers and hands as well as brushes, glow within an indeterminate, ethereal space. The luminous paintings reveal panoramic scenes, with a spectrum of vivid hues and rhythmic movement.

“Artists to Watch” highlights rising stars in the Canadian Art Scene. Featuring works by Virgil Baruchel, Peter Campbell, Hana Elmasry, David Stewart, Danielle Vincent, the exhibition showcases big potential on small canvases.