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Director’s Note

Since its reopening, The Goldfarb Gallery has worked to expand and question how art is defined, who has access to it, and who controls its history and future. As a socially engaged art organization, the Gallery has hosted an ambitious series of exhibitions in its expanded programming spaces exploring these questions in a myriad of ways. I have long held The Goldfarb Gallery in high esteem and commit to stewarding the Gallery as a place for the creation and appreciation of art and culture as Interim Director.

The Spring/Summer exhibitions bring together two artists whose work reflects on the land and environment. What better time of year to explore these themes as we all (hopefully) spend more time outside as the weather warms up. From opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean using different approaches and materials, Anne Duk Hee Jordan and D’Andrea Bowie both explore the natural world in their artistic practices.

Worlds Away is the first solo exhibition in Canada by the Berlin-based artist Jordan. In it, she considers the current conditions of life on earth through installation, sound, sculptures, and film. Her work invites us to question our connection to water and its life-giving properties for all beings on our planet, from the smallest plankton to the largest whale.

An important addition to the Gallery’s programming, D’Andrea Bowie’s exhibition Winter Wheat begins a series of new exhibitions that will feature recent York University alumni, presenting an opportunity to celebrate graduates from the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design. Bowie’s artwork, and how it responds to her experiences on the land where she lives just outside of Toronto, looks at cycles in nature imposed by humankind through materials closely connected to the natural world.

At their core, these exhibitions truly explore connection – a word that seems to be everywhere these days. How we are all interconnected beings on this planet, how one cycle feeds another, how individuality is prized often at great cost to the needs of community.

In early summer, the Gallery will also connect to our place within the city, in particular the nearby neighbourhood of Jane Finch. The program Art on My Mind, a series of songwriting, vocal, and performance workshops that over the last seven years have been hosted in community spaces across Jane Finch. This year, we are once again collaborating with Black Creek Community Farms to present the latest iteration of this community-based program.

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We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery this season!

Warmly,

Lauren Gould, interim director