This is the last installment of the Art Toronto art fair. I hope you like these selections as much as I do. There is much to choose from. I hope next year is as good as this year's. Tim Okamura Reiko's Dream celebrates the artist's Japanese roots. The contrast between black and light is ever present and we wonder what exactly the artist is trying to tell us. Does he miss his distant land or we just living through him? Time will tell. Isabel Okoro's Spirit Traveller shows a masked man with seashells waving through his face hiding the man's identity. Is the headpiece a part of a ritual of sorts or is it sartorial? We don't know. Kristy Templeton Davidge's, Working Hands II is a wonderful painting which cuts off the face of subject. We'll never tell who we are looking at. All we see are the hands and shirt she is wearing, forever steeped in mystery. The A. Y. Jackson is in keeping with Canadian tradition weaving together Canadian identity with the landscape. It is snowy and so reminiscent of Canadian winters. We go to it to find solace and something to call home.
1 Tim Okamura Reiko's Dream, 2022, Canadian
3 Kristy Templeton Davidge, Working Hands II, 2022 Canadian
4 A.Y. Jackson, North Shore Quebec, ca. 1938, Canadian
5 Shuvinai Ashoona, Untitled, 2004 to 2005, Inuit Canadian
8 Bewabon Shilling, Switzerland, 2022, Canadian
9 Joan Mitchell, Sides of a River II, 1981, American
10 Florent Stosskopf, Master of Botanical, 2022, French
13 Shary Boyle, The Red Shoes, 2019, Canadian
14 Emma Haworth, Wide Night, 2021, British
15 Casey McGlynn, ET is Canadian, 2022, Canadian
16 Stanzie Tooth, Becoming After Rodin, 2022,Canadian
17 Antoine Lortie, The Return of Persephone, 2021, Canadian
18 Andrew Rucklidge, Felsite, 2022, Canadian
19 Bruno Kurz, Lago II, 2022, German
20 Michael Burges, Reverse Glass Painting No. 20, 2020, 2020, German
21 Livia Marin, Broken Things s ii, 2022, Chilean
22 Esther Nienhuis, Saudade Forest, 2022, Dutch
23 Ric Santon, Some Other Place, 2022, Canadian
24 Mr. Brainwash, With all my love, 2022, French
25 Steen Ipsen, Organic Movement 2, 2022, Danish
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