Toronto’s Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery opens its doors today (Thursday, May 22) to the fresh breeze of its spring/summer season. Two internationally acclaimed artists, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn with When Water Embraces Empty Space and Andrea Carlson with Painting, invite art lovers on a profound journey of discovery.
Curated by Clara Halpern, Andrea Carlson’s solo exhibition Painting is a prismatic gateway into the artist’s universe. Spanning canvas to sculpture, drawing to video, Carlson weaves ancestral wisdom rooted in the land, the magic of cinema, and the boundless possibilities of Indigenous futurism. Alongside her intricate layered works on paper, a new sculpture and a multi-screen video installation created in collaboration with Rozalinda Borcilă bring together the personal and political with cosmological depth.
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, in his first solo exhibition in Canada, When Water Embraces Empty Space, curated by Jenifer Papararo, takes viewers on a journey beyond time and space. At the heart of the exhibition lies the Luf Canoe, taken from Papua New Guinea in the 19th century. Through a multi-channel video installation incorporating animation, song, and documentary forms, alongside a selection of objects, Nguyễn illuminates the canoe’s complex past and spiritual journey through the voices of its creators’ descendants. The exhibition offers a dreamlike reimagining of this historical journey, etched into memory, exploring what it was and what it could be.
These captivating exhibitions, bringing together the worlds of two distinctive artists, will be open to art enthusiasts at the Goldfarb Gallery from May 23 to August 2, 2025.
For more information, visit goldfarbgallery.ca
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