Quick Pick - Art Gallery of York University Now The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery

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Lori Blondeau, detail from the Plains Horizon, 2024

mixed-media installation, including watercolour by Leona Bird, grandfather stones, fabric, silk prints, a photograph, flags, flagpoles, ribbon, and dried flowers

The Art Gallery of York University has been transformed into The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University (short version: the Goldfarb Gallery.)

The transformation, which includes a new standalone gallery designed by architect Siamak Hariri, took place thanks to funding from Joan and Martin Goldfarb.

The gallery's new location is 83a York Boulevard, Toronto. 

“Situated at the heart of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, this new space promises to be a beacon for artistic research and engagement that comes alive through exhibitions, performances, and workshops,” according to the news release. 

Three exhibitions are on view at the new space until Dec. 21. Lori Blondeau's new solo exhibition, Plains Horizon, by incorporates “stones collected from the gallery’s site as the grounding for an opulent installation featuring a painting by her mother from 1949.”

A group exhibition, Manual Assembly, features nine artists “who use accumulation and assemblage as the basis for the construction of both form and meaning, entwining material experimentation with personal experiences, economic histories, and ecological impact,” according to the release. Artists include: Kevin Beasley, Wally Dion, Anthony Douglas Cooper, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Kelly Jazvac, Jenine Marsh and Rosie Lee Tompkins.

Abstract Legacies looks at the university's art collection in relation to its identity. Artists include: Paul-Émile Borduas, Jack Bush, Alexander Calder, Sorel Etrog, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jean Paul Riopelle, Frank Stella, and Françoise Sullivan. It's curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis and Jenifer Papararo.

And in celebration of the gallery's new Visible Vault, they are showing artworks from the permanent collection that have never been exhibited. ■

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