My solo show, Mixed Blessings, opens at Towards Gallery this Thursday, October 10th, in Toronto. The opening is from 6-9 pm.
I picked this book up a year ago when I had been thinking a lot about women’s fantasies, girlhood, secrets, populism, domesticity, and trad wives among other things (and in no particular order). I should do my due diligence, I thought. Unfortunately for me, it wasn’t good. But I do love the title.
I won’t spoil the surprise and show you any work before the opening but here are some paintings that I’ve been looking at while in the studio.
John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and her daughter Rachel, 1903
Felix Vallotton, Coucher de Soleil (reminds me of walking down the long staircase to Wreck Beach), 1898
Pierre Bonnard, Grand Salle à Manger sur le Jardin, 1934-35. I’ve used so much cobalt violet in my new paintings because of a Bonnard I saw at the MET earlier this year.
Dike Blair, Untitled, 2020
Nadya Isabella, Lac du Poisson Blanc, 2021
Elizabeth Peyton, Twilight, 2009
Sophie Barber, Alex Katz loves me and he gave me an azalea to show it, 2019
Luc Tuymans, The Barn, 2022
Felix Vallotton, Le Ballon, 1899
Fairfield Porter (my crush), Landscape with Child and Dog, 1968
