Welcome to the Lobby Gallery
Season 2023 / 2024
Withrow Park
KEN MacDONALD
Ken is an award -winning set designer across both Canada and the United States.
His design credits for the Tarragon Theatre alone include:
7 Stories, Vigil, The Dishwashers, Lawrence & Holloman, The Ends of the Earth, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Earshot, Benevolence, Sextet, The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, Pal Joey, 2000, Paint Me This House of Love, Marry Me a Little, and White Biting Dog.
These drawings were all done on the iPad … they were all done for fun, they are all from the imagination, they are all for sale at $140 /ea. …signed and framed.
(It is a limited edition set but some extras are available.)
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A Poem for Rabia
The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time
Hana Hozhabr Pour
Resilient Bubbles
Watercolour on paper
11.5 x16.5 Inch
$ 400
Moments of Life
Watercolour, and collage of metal on paper
11.5x 16.5 Inch,
$200
Fragmented Map of Memories
Acrylic and water colour on canvas
16×20 Inch
$650
Elevation of Dreams
Acrylic, watercolour, collage on paper
11.5x 16.5 Inch
$1200
Hana Hozhabr Pour is a visual artist exploring diaspora feminism, based on Toronto, Canada. Hana Hozhabr Pour creates captivating mixed media paintings that delve into the intersection of diaspora feminism and marginalization. Her art has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across North America and Middle East. Join her on a journey of exploration and empowerment through her unique creations.
A Salient Symphony of the Unseen
Admits the pandemic’s quietude, when our sense of aliveness and embodiment seemed distant without genuine connections, I turned to watercolours on paper. Entranced by the transformative power of colour, I sought to capture the subtle, hidden elements of our world, those often overlooked. Through my art I gave voice to the silent emotions and thoughts within bridging the gap left by the absence of visible social bonds. This technique, born of fluidity within structure, was both deliberate and intuitive, offering solace in our shared human experience.
Instagram: @hanahozhabr
Website: hana-hozhabr.format.com
Ciphered Essence
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
11.5X 16.5 Inch
$200
Virtual Dreams
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
16x 20 Inch
$400
Saving tools
Water colour and acrylic marker on paper
11.5X 16.5 Inch
$350
Seoyoung Yoon
Archive (I), 2023
Oil pastel, conté, acrylic, transparent gesso on Canvas
50.2 x 25.7 inches
$2000
Archive (II), 2023
Oil pastel, conté, acrylic, transparent gesso on Canvas
56 x 24.6 inches
$1000
Seoyoung Yoon is a Korean visual artist and a painter based in Toronto (Canada) and Seoul (Korea). She has a bachelor’s degree in fine art from OCAD University in Toronto. She mostly uses conté, oil pastel, and uses other various mediums as a means of documenting how she feels as she’s painting, using symbolism as a way to self reflect. Through abstract forms she examines her personal identity and explores defects in human nature.
Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Ada Slaight Gallery in Toronto, Canada (2023), Villa Hamilton Gallery in Seoul, Korea (2022), Holy Art Gallery in London, England (2022), Ada Slaight Gallery in Toronto, Canada (2019), and Onsite Gallery in Toronto, Canada (2019). Her artworks have been published by commission for the book cover (2021) and the Album cover (2017) in Seoul, South Korea.
Instagram : @fantasticdissonance
Archive (I) / (II)
Compiling abstract records of emotions is crucial for documenting and preserving past experiences and coping mechanisms. Emotions are shaped by childhood experiences and interconnected by past situations. In this painting series, I used layering techniques with transparent gesso to capture the complexity of emotions, physically reflecting their interconnectedness.
My art practice starts with a conflict experience and focuses on exploring the flaws of individual identity and human nature. Here, conflicts can be the moment I feel a lack of emotion such as love or anger, the moment when your values with others do not match. I shifted my focus to everyday, abstract paintings and used symbolic forms to capture emotions at certain moments to induce self-reflection. Maintaining emotions is important to me, it references them later and makes me remember how I handled them. Our emotions and behaviors are all connected and rooted in situations that we have learned and become familiar with since childhood. Layering techniques are physically consistent with the belief that emotions are connected and influenced by past experiences.
We are all born into the world and go through the continuous process of self-development, and each experience is based on previous experiences. Using this concept, I create a self-documenting task, capturing the complexity of emotions and the association with past experiences.
Sylvia Frey
Formed of Fun
Acrylic
12″ x 16″
$225
Sylvia Frey is a Toronto based artist working in acrylic and oil. Her work is inspired by ideas that humanity holds of themselves, often revealing our shared passions, our foibles and our desires. Combining these into artwork and painting “Formed of Fun” tackles our needs to be determined and also to be free.
