ANNOUNCING MY FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION
AT INGRAM GALLERY: MAY 3 - 23, 2025

I'm excited to share with you the latest news from gallery row in Yorkville. My debut solo at Ingram Gallery will take place in May of 2025. As this year moves forward, I will keep you posted on my progress as I undertake my longtime dream of presenting a body of work in one of Canada's most respected commercial galleries. It is still too soon to speak of a theme or how this collection will take shape, though the ideas are circulating and I'm steadily painting. I will allow the energy to flow as my journey in studio takes me where it wants to go. I appreciate your interest in following me.

Ingram Gallery, 24 Hazelton Ave.

While undergoing their major transformation in the months ahead, Gardiner Museum has ensured with this collaboration that Gardiner Shop remains open and a vibrant part of art and culture in the city.

“Artists who create ceramics breathe life into earth, transforming simple clay into vessels of beauty and stories told through the touch of their hands.” - Ingram Gallery, Art News, December 2024

Among the Gardiner works, the gallery is also featuring new paintings by their represented artists. I’m honoured to be a part of this rotating installation with a selection of canvases from my Surfacing series. Please enjoy the exhibition photos below.

latest CANVASES at ingram gallery

The past six months have been exceptionally productive in studio with many new pastels and oils coming off the easel. Several of these canvases are now available at Ingram Gallery. These paintings will be shown on the second floor in a rotating installation of available works by the gallery’s represented artists. Please visit 24 Hazelton Avenue to be acquainted with my new works in person, and enjoy the preview below. If you are interested in any of these canvases, please contact Ingram Gallery.

Ingram Gallery, 24 Hazelton Ave.

While undergoing their major transformation in the months ahead, Gardiner Museum has ensured with this collaboration that Gardiner Shop remains open and a vibrant part of art and culture in the city.

“Clay and ceramic traditions have been with us throughout history. The experimental capacity and appeal of the medium speaks to the ever present human need for creating. Gardiner Museum’s Gardiner Shop Pop Up presents a curated selection of locally made ceramics and glass for sale at Ingram Gallery, ‘taking clay into the community’ on the neighbourhood path from their front doors to ours.” - Ingram Gallery, Art News, July 2024

Among the Gardiner works, the gallery is also featuring new paintings by their represented artists. I’m honoured to be a part of this rotating installation with a selection of new large-scale canvases. Please enjoy the exhibition photos below.

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: A TRIO OF OILS
FEATURED AT INGRAM GALLERY, DECEMBER 2023

The Humber River is my local riparian zone and it has held my fascination for many moons. Each day brings new visual excitement, for nature conceals as much as it reveals. While looking at the summer's low water, I'd see water striders on its surface and watch little fish catching the measly current just below. My eyes negotiated the detritus of collected leaves and rocks covered in sediment on the murky bottom. I would also see reflections of the surrounding trees or often just their crowns on quiescent water. Sometimes a water whorl created a pattern that radiated outward, stirring the surface and dizzying the eyes. In all this earthly reality, a cloud in the sky would suddenly materialize; its reflection floating on the water so that the river bottom and all life in the water disappeared under the cloud.

The idea of ‘as above, so below’ ties into the concept of correspondence - there is a relationship or reflection between the macrocosm and the microcosm. Laws and patterns in the higher realms are mirrored here on earth. Painting the sky reflected on earth is a way of looking for connection and meaning across different scales of existence. These paintings juxtapose heaven and earth, connect the intangible with the material, and weave imagination into reality.

This small family of paintings is on view at Ingram Gallery in the heart of Toronto this December 2023. The three oils are being exhibited in conjunction with my Strata series, a new collection of works on paper complementary in subject matter to As Above, So Below.

Surfacing at Ingram Gallery
A Collection of New Works

As the below paintings left the easel one by one, it became apparent that what was emerging was a new series inspired by our planet’s diverse and ever-changing surfaces. By focusing on the intricacies of surfaces - their textures, patterns, geological formations - a sense of awe and reverence emerges for the beauty and complexity of nature.

With gestural lines, unconventional tools, and free application of paint, the new paintings inch closer to abstracted landscapes while their tactile nature draws viewers closer to the sensory aspects of the natural world. I encourage you to visit Ingram Gallery at 24 Hazelton Avenue in Yorkville to experience these works in person.

Eyes of Society
A Regionalist Perspective
Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria BC
september 5 - november 30, 2019

Participating artists: April SGaana Jaad White, Sophie Lavoie, Anja Karisik, Gary Landon, W. David Ward, and Andrew Cheddie Sookrah

This exhibition presents a series of new 'perspectives' in an on-going, cross-cultural collaboration, exploring the relationship between art and traditional knowledge, and the belief 'that nature and culture are intrinsically connected', to quote the Coastal Guardian Watchmen. These ideas of interconnectedness and co-dependence, on all levels, are reoccurring themes in the works of this collective of realist painters from across Canada. Perhaps no one (in this world) can claim to have a closer relationship to what is real than those who live closest to the earth and ocean.

A WORLD WITHIN
PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS BY CIBA & ANJA KARISIK
Wychwood barns, JUNE 2019

“A WORLD WITHIN is an exhibition celebrating the tenets of tradition, continuity, apprenticeship, and the transmission of knowledge and craft from one generation to the next. It also honours individual points of inspiration, reflecting the sacred world within each artist. We invite you to join us on Father’s Day weekend at The Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery for this special showing of paintings and drawings, and catch a glimpse of the world within our shared studio.”

Eyes of Society: Art, Traditional Knowledge, and the Watchmen of Haida Gwaii
the robert BATEMAN CENTRE, VICTORIA BC

Eyes of Society: Art, Traditional Knowledge, and the Watchmen of Haida Gwaii, is a collection of over thirty works of art by ten Haida and non-indigenous artists. Coming from different regional and cultural backgrounds in Canada, all the artists explore the meaning of ‘sense of place’ on the islands of Haida Gwaii through their own artistic traditions. Through their art, language and beliefs, they investigate the notion that artists, traditionally, have been the “eyes of society.”

Eyes of Society features the artwork of April White, Anja Karisik, Sophie Lavoie, Jim Hart, Gwaai Edenshaw, Jaalen Edenshaw, Gary Landon, Andrew Sookrah, W. David Ward, and Robert Bateman. The exhibit will also feature the documentary Eyes of Society by Joe Crawford and Allison Smith of Braid Films.

“In Haida Gwaii, I learned that the greatest hope lies in rethinking how we perceive our relationship with the land and the myriad creatures, including ourselves, dependent on it for survival. We must care for it so that it can nourish us in reciprocity. After all, as the adage goes, we don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. My innate respect for tradition, as expressed in my painting, reflects this same idea: culture is a means for transmitting the accumulated knowledge of society to future generations. ”