Five Toronto Exhibitions Worth Seeing This November, From Textile Patterns to Upended Landscapes
Shows run from Red Head Gallery and Blouin Division to Franz Kaka, with conceptual pieces and fringe sculptures among the picks.
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After Nuit Blanche and Art Toronto, the city's art scene doesn't slow down. Galleries are keeping visitors indoors with a November slate that leans conceptual, witty and approachable, according to Toronto Life. Here are the exhibitions worth a visit.
How to Trace a Pattern, by Pakistani Canadian textile artist Tazeen Qayyum, runs Nov. 4 to 28 at Red Head Gallery, 401 Richmond St. W. The show moved from Canvas Gallery, where it spent a month in September. Curated by Sarah Quinton, former curatorial director of the Textile Museum of Canada, it draws on the dress patterns and handmade garments Qayyum's mother made her as a child. Qayyum abstracts those patterns into compositions that resemble architectural renderings, maps and blueprints.
Long Live the New, by Sean Weisgerber, runs from Oct. 30 at Blouin Division, 45 Ernest Ave. Twenty-four paintings each read NEW on a different coloured background, and each painting's title is an object Weisgerber bought after finishing it, along with the purchase date. The show is a mash-up of Claes Oldenburg's The Store and On Kawara's date paintings.
New Works, by Lakota artist Dana Claxton, also runs from Oct. 30 at Macaulay and Co., 133 Tecumseth St. Claxton photographs mountains and city skylines, then flips the images upside down. She also shows paper fringes made from shredded photograph test strips
