Including a retrospective from Miranda Hobbes’s new favourite artist.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Hi, Art!

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Hi, art lovers!

 
Still from Season 3 of And Just Like That. A red haired woman and grey haired man smile while sitting around a dinner table. In the background, a large painting is seen hanging on the wall. Dimly lit, it appears to be an image of a seated figure.

I couldn't help but wonder ... Did Miranda know she had a painting by Erica Rutherford? (Craig Blankenhorn/HBO Max)

 
Looking for something to do this week? If you’re in the mood for theatre, Q has stories on two Toronto-based productions: The Sankofa Trilogy and Rainbow on Mars. Plus our gallery-hopping writers have a couple suggestions. In Toronto, this show on Black culture and fashion is dandy. In Vancouver, pore over a big collection of tiny collages. And I have one more tip for you, inspired by trashy summer TV. In Ottawa, see Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works at the National Gallery of Canada, which will go on to tour the country through 2027. How does a painting by the P.E.I. artist wind up in Miranda’s new apartment?! (Related question: how do you get a job building “art collections for people who don’t exist?”)
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Vibrant abstract landscape artwork.

Morgan Grady-Smith

A Story for Everything by Morgan Grady-Smith.
 
Square painting in black and white. The image is a duplication of two extreme-close-up views of a person's eyes. The eyes are heavily made up with elaborate eyeliner. The gaze is directed at the viewer.

Col Urrutia

The Vancouver Mural Festival folded after its 2024 edition, but one of the event’s long-standing traditions, the 100 Amigos art exhibition, has returned this weekend as part of the city’s newly launched Astro Arts Festival. The show features square works by, you guessed it, 100 local artists and is curated by Douglas Coupland, Drew Young and Pablo Zamudio. Here’s Col Urrutia’s contribution, a painting titled Note to Self.
 
Abstract landscape in shades of vibrant purple and deep murky green.

Emily Harrison

Emily Harrison is another artist based in B.C., but she’ll be showing her work on the other side of the country. An exhibition of her works on paper (Labyrinth Keeper) is at 13 Cedars in Rowley, N.B., this weekend.
 
Abstract landscape in shades of blue, green and pink.

Linda Martinello

Canyon Cascades by Toronto-area artist Linda Martinello.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Aerial view of a green patch of parkland with roadways around its perimetre. A flat branch-like shape is visible on the lawn.
Aidan Mao

Nothing will stop this Ontario artist, not even drought and hungry gophers

 
But a new public artwork by Xiaojing Yan will need plenty of care and patience if it’s going to thrive.
 
Still from an episode of In Process. A mean wearing a mustard beanie crouches in a white room surrounded by artworks: paintings and small sculptures.
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I spy with my little eye

 
An installation by Leif Low-Beer! His art is like a puzzle, and you decide how the pieces fit together. Watch a new episode of In Process.
 
Several gloopy ceramic forms in various colours are grouped together on a circular mound of dirt in a white walled gallery.

Sonali Menezes

 

These ceramic sculptures grow and rot (just like we do)

 
Nicole Levaque’s solo exhibition, You and I Are Earth, is on view in Hamilton.
 

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Seema Shah

@tellingitslant
Paper collage with torn assembled scraps.

Seema Shah

Seema began making collages when a chronic mental illness left her bedridden. The practice became a lifeline, and the self-taught artist now has a show at a Vancouver gallery. Read her story.
 

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