Paper Mirrors brings together the work of three artists who are pushing printmaking beyond traditional boundaries to present personal, innovative and, at times, playful artworks that express and investigate the artists’ experiences in the Queer community. Anthea Black, Michael Ciesielski and Ron Siu present a diverse range of work that extends conventional ink on paper printmaking into experimental video, sculptural books, and large format woodcuts.
This exhibition features elaborate, large-scale ink paintings exploring the human relationship to nature. Visitors will find human figures camouflaged within the richly detailed images of plants and flowers familiar to the Stouffville area. Stanzie Tooth’s work evokes a direct connection with the land, which is rapidly shrinking in our increasingly urbanized environments.
Friday, April 25 – Saturday, May 17, 2025 Latcham Art Centre - 2 Park Drive As a part of National Youth Week, this annual exhibition of art by local children celebrates the creativity, energy, and ideas of students from Whitchurch-Stouffville elementary schools as well as Stouffville District Secondary School.
2025 Annual Juried Exhibition Monday, March 10 to Saturday, April 19, 2025Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. This exhibition offers artists working in all media the opportunity to have their work evaluated by three visual art professionals serving as jurors. The public can discover a variety of work exploring ideas and themes by contemporary artists from all over Ontario while the Curator has the chance to engage with hundreds of Ontario-based artists.
Michael Christian Casola is an Ontario-based artist, writer, and educator. Specializing in photography, Michael’s artwork challenges the perception of reality and brings into view the abstract qualities of the everyday world, whose underlying beauty is often overlooked. This exhibition features selections from Michael’s series entitled “The Way.” Inspired by the philosophy of the Tao Te Ching and the symbolism of the yinyang, Michael’s work invites the viewer to stop and consider the balance of opposing forces present in every moment. Each piece demonstrates that in every instance of light or darkness, a seed of the opposite is also present. A shadow is defined by the existence of light, just as new life springs out of death. This relationship can serve as a reminder to move through life with hope of renewal, opportunity, and wholeness.
Tuesday, February 18 – Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Town Office Gallery - 111 Sandiford Drive, Stouffville. Richmond Hill artist, Andrea End, presents two related series of artworks that express the restorative power and value of nature. Andrea's paintings focus on the land as seen in the reflections of water. The artist likens these rippling, liquified images to visual sounds bouncing around to be heard and seen in a new way. Her intimate forest prints employ a linocut reduction technique in which each image is entirely created from a single linoleum block. After each layer of colour is printed onto the paper, more of the block is cut away. The resulting destruction of the block parallels the gradual loss of natural spaces.
Friday, January 10, 2025 – Saturday, February 22, 2025. Latcham Art Centre - 2 Park Drive What if, instead of scrolling through social media, a person resolved to begin each day with a creative act? That is what Shaheer Zazai did in 2013, when he purposefully opened Microsoft Word to make a design using 2013 characters. What began as a creative distraction from social media would lead Zazai into a new form of art production that he never intended to pursue. This exhibition includes Zazai’s digital prints, Jacquard tapestries, handwoven carpets and videos, all translated from images painstakingly created in Microsoft Word. As an Afghan-Canadian artist, Shaheer Zazai’s work integrates the rich history of Afghan carpet production with contemporary media and graphic languages to open a dialogue between Eastern and Western traditions and between the technologies of the past and present. Image: Installation view of Another word for translation. Another thread for thought.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 – Saturday, January 4, 2025 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. IMAGES is an annual exhibition featuring work by the graduating art class from Stouffville District Secondary School. Students work with the Latcham curator throughout the fall semester to learn about the curatorial process, plan the exhibition, create related marketing materials, install the art, and organize the opening reception, providing an opportunity for these student artists to engage with a professional gallery in their community. For IMAGES 24/25: Out of Time the students have created artwork based on Lewis Carroll’s infamous novel, Alice in Wonderland.
Friday, August 30, 2024 – Sunday, October 20, 2024 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. Dianne Brown-Green's artistic journey has been profoundly influenced by her family, the environment, her Indigenous heritage, and cultural beliefs. Water has a consistent presence in her painting, appearing as literal shorelines or pools of colour that allow her subjects to float among one another. For Familial Waters, the artist presents a series of bold paintings in the Woodland style that reveal the entanglement of all these things, reflecting on memories of her family in nature – especially Algonquin Park and Manitoulin Island – and teachings passed down from her elders. Paired with a series of short videos in the artist's studio that offer details about her influences and inspirations, Brown-Green's exhibition in Stouffville captures our interdependent relationship with our surroundings, a theme that has sustained her career for almost twenty years.
Friday, November 1, 2024 - Friday, January 31, 2025 Town Office Gallery – 111 Sandiford Dr. Stouffville artist Vicky Talwar expresses the contrasts of her hybrid cultural Hindu and Canadian identity by using vibrant colours and textured materials in her layered paintings. Pigment choice grounds these complex pieces, representing the artist’s emotional energy and meditative process in the creation of the work. Atmospheric backgrounds suggest in-betweenness and transcendence, while recurring flower garlands, mala beads, sacred threads, and salt punctuate her surfaces with presence and intention. The Town Office Gallery is programmed by Latcham Art Centre in collaboration with the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.
