March 5 – 23, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2 – 5 pm
Artist Talks: Sunday, March 23. 2 pm
The art in Small Pleasures is a dynamic showcase of various artistic processes and innovations that can be achieved on a small scale. Featuring emerging and established artists, this exhibition has been organized in a dualistic manner to rebel against the preconceived limitations of working small: embracing the tension between power and preciousness through the symbolic representation of the interconnectedness between naturalistic and alternate realities.
The first half of the gallery explores a naturalistic perception of reality as it is recalled in fragmented memory. Separated into night and day, these works, mostly representational and earthy, explore the beauty and intimacy within mundanity. Elements of the natural world are represented and dissected to offer a sense of introspection, melancholy, and yearning. Reciprocally, the bold colour palettes and surrealist content of the second half of the gallery provide a saturated, psychedelic disruption to our current understanding of fleshly, terrene, and cosmic matters. The transition between colours—from yellow to orange, red to blue, opposite a purple and pink wall—aims to invoke this notion of transcendence that occurs as the viewer moves through the gallery, shifting between dreamscape and reality.
Ultimately, this exhibition seeks to redefine the presupposed boundaries of working small by challenging the fluid nature of human memory, dreams, and naturalistic reality. It invites viewers to question the absoluteness of our world, one tiny piece at a time. Additionally, it suggests the beauty of function on a smaller scale, pushing the limits of how to impact the world emotionally.
Tiffany Duong
Exhibiting Artists:
Kira Alexanian
Aaron Anaya
Helen Armstrong
Steven Baine
Nicole Banton
Norman Barney
G L Barrett
Laurie Waller Benson
Leslie Bertin
Loïc Bisson
Patricia Bond
Paige Bowen
Patty Bowman Kingsley
Patrizia Brasch
Sophia Brown
Jack Bullen
Jill-Marie Burke
Sara Bursey
Monique Campbell
Debra Carter
John Ian Castaneda
Sheila Cavanagh
Skye Cheung
Melanie Chikofsky
Eunah Cho
Tanya Chowdhury
Sharron Corrigan Forrest
MyYung Dang
Beverley Daniels
Liliana De Irisarri
Nancy Dickieson
Jelena Duma
Justyna Zaklina Dunal
Miranda Elliott
Jean Eng
Lucy Erskine
Daniel Etigson
Raha Fard
Susan Farquhar
Peter Friedrichsen
Jackie Gallagher
Garth Scheuer
Tina Giang
Erica Gibbs
Phoebe Good
Margara Goyzueta
Lisa Graziotto
Kate Greenway
Elizabeth Greisman
Brian Groberman
Camilla Gryski
Nickie Harrington
Katherine Hartel
Victor Hernández
David Holt
Lauren Huffman Morris
Tam Huynh
Jane Irwin
Sylvia Jacobs
Nicola Jacobson
Tim Johnston
Vivienne Jones
Erin Kann
Carin Katagiri Mahon
Maya Keleris
David Kempton
Paul Kilbertu
Sohyun Kim
Robin Kingsburgh
Deborah Kirkegaard
Valerie Knapp
Vanessa Krause
Ashmitha Kunasingam
Elaine Lauzon
Michelle Letarte
Judith Librach
Shannon Lively
Sharon MacLennan
Gary MacLeod
Jelena Martens
Melissa Mather
Ruth Maude
Ward Maxwell
Lauren McKinley Renzetti
Haley Meyer
Anjum Motiwala
Kathryn Naylor
Vanna Nguyen
Leah Oates
Frances O’Flynn
Lainey Oleka
Mariel Pagliai
Frances Patella
Pam Patterson
Sara Pavlovic
William Peltier
Elisabetta Pesaresi
Jody Peters
Anna Petrosyan
Fraser Radford
Maria Isabel Rodriguez
Edna Ruiz
Susan Ruptash
Pietro Sabbatini
Asima Samam
Kylie Sandford
Amiel Sandland
Rami Schandall
Mariela Schiappacasse
Carmine Scioscia
Afsaneh Shafai
Darrel Smith
Carol Lee Smith
Kaeli Stein
Leigha Stiles
Warren Sulatycky
Krista/Laura Sutton Moon
Amardeep Tandal
Grace Vali
Andres Vosu
Martin Vuong
Shannon Wallace
Morris Wazney
Donna Weatherall
Helena Wehrstein
Marnie White
Marsha Wineman
Leizu Xie
Noriko Yamamoto
Taylor Yeo
