Friday, July 19 – Saturday, August 24, 2024 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. Image: Installation view of the part of me that recognizes you.
Friday, May 31 – Saturday, July 13, 2024 Latcham 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. Image: Installation view of like heirlooms, 2024. Courtesy of Dennis Hristovski.
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.
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....
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.
Monday, May 8 – Monday, July 31, 2023 Town Office Gallery – 111 Sandiford Dr. Yi Mei is a Richmond Hill artist whose work flows from realism into abstraction. Her landscapes and still life paintings often incorporate natural elements—like dried plants from her backyard and moss from nearby ponds—into the surface of the work to make distinctive textures. Her scenes take inspiration from her surroundings and community. The Town Office Gallery is programmed by Latcham Art Centre in collaboration with the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville. Image: Installation view of Yi Mei’s solo exhibition at the Town Office Gallery.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 – Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Town Office Gallery – 111 Sandiford Dr. While traveling through Ontario from Niagara to north of Lake Superior, Markham-based artist Judith Livingston has witnessed dramatic changes to the environment. For this exhibition, the artist presents an ongoing series of paintings that are overlaid with sewing patterns and intricate linework, that reference the ways people reform the land. The Town Office Gallery is programmed by Latcham Art Centre in collaboration with the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville. Image: Installation view of Judith Livingston: Redesigned Rockscapes.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 – Saturday January 13, 2024 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. An exhibition of 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. Latcham Art Centre acknowledges the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville and the Lions Club of Stouffville for their generous exhibition support. Image: Artwork by the...
Friday, October 20 – Wednesday December 7, 2023 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Drive, Stouffville Max Lupo and José Andrés Mora explore the power and playfulness of words using technology. Mora’s videos and prints open up conversations about memory, cultural hybridity, and assimilation while highlighting the intimacy of language. Lupo reprograms obsolete devices, like typewriters and rotary phones, to reveal personal stories and machine-made wisdom. Taken together, the works in Continuous Memory ask us to consider what is required to give meaning to language, and how that meaning can change as our relationships to words shift. The artists would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the...
Tuesday, August 1 – Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Town Office Gallery – 111 Sandiford Stouffville-based photographer Sean Stone presents a collection of photographs from his travels throughout Canada, capturing images of the land and wildlife in different seasons. With an eye for lighting, honed by past careers teaching theatre and lighting design, Stone’s documentary-style photographs show coast-to-coast views of Canadian natural wonders.
