Exhibitions Archive - Latcham Art Centre

IMAGES 24/25: Out of Time

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.

Dianne Brown-Green: Familial Waters

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.

Vicky Talwar

Friday, November 1, 2024 - Friday, January 31, 2025 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park 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 part of me that recognizes you.

Friday, July 19 – Saturday, August 24, 2024 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. How do we express the evolving experience of belonging to a place or culture? How is belonging felt among friends, lovers, and family? The part of me that recognizes you invites us to explore these questions through the works of Steven Beckly, John Delante, Christina Leslie, and Joel Rodriguez, who present deeply personal images of connection.

Valerie Ashton & Inklings : Dialogue

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - Thursday, October 31, 2024 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. This multi disciplinary exhibition brings together visual art and the written word, as collages by Valerie Ashton are thoughtfully paired with written reflections by members of Inklings, a Stouffville based writing group. Together, these works highlight York Regions diverse artistic community and explore narratives that are expanded and interconnected through dialogue with one another.

like heirlooms

Friday, May 31 - Saturday, July 13, 2024Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr.Morris Lum, Joy Wong, and Stephanie Yee bring together large-scale photographs with installation and sculptural works that use experimental materials like MSG and symbiotic cultures of bacteria and and yeast (SCOBY). Through these ingredients, food preparation techniques, and vivid images, their distinct ways of working connect aspects of food culture that are significant to Chinese diaspora communities with intangible assets like care, authenticity, and belonging.

Celebrations 2024

Thursday, May 2 – Saturday, May 25, 2024 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. 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. Image: Installation view of Celebrations 2024.

2024 Annual Juried Exhibition

Monday, March 25 – Saturday, April 27, 2024 Latcham 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. Read the artist statements here. A big thank you to our wonderful external jurors, Megan Kammerer, Scott Sawtell, and Samantha Jones, who took on the process with enthusiasm and generosity....

Gazaleh Naderian

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 – Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. Ghazaleh Naderian is a Newmarket-based artist whose works are inspired by her experience of place, altered through memory. For this exhibition, the artist presents watercolours of regional forests and familiar neighbourhoods, painted with the warmth and affection she feels for these spaces.Naderian is a member of the Toronto Watercolor Society, the Society of Canadian Artists, the North York Visual Artists, and the Newmarket Group of Artists.The Town Office Gallery is programmed by Latcham Art Centre in collaboration with the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.

Mathieu Larone: Night Visions

Friday, January 19 – Saturday, March 16, 2024 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. In Night Visions, Montreal-based artist Mathieu Larone presents drawings that transport viewers to familiar spaces made strange. Set alongside collaboratively-made music videos, Larone’s narratives and recurring motifs invite us to take in mysterious stories, while blurring the line between illustrative work and fine art.