Feheley Fine Arts is excited to share Mark Igloliorte’s solo exhibition “katinngak”, now on view at Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg. The exhibition includes sculptural pieces such as Nipakittuk (Quiet) (2021), a wall-mounted installation of twenty vibrantly spray-painted skateboards marked with Inuktitut words. The sculptures sit in dialogue with Igloliorte’s earlier video works, contrasting between static and dynamic … Read More
Quvianaqtuk Pudlat: Experimentals
Deviating from his coloured pencil and ink drawings, this special presentation of a new series by Quvianaqtuk Pudlat features, for the first time, brush drawings completed in ink. Through this new medium, Pudlat transforms his usually naturalistic and meticulously drawn images of Arctic wildlife into abstract and expressive compositions. His black ink images are set boldly against iridescent backgrounds of … Read More
Ooloosie Saila: Surging Skies
Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of recent drawings by Kinngait artist Ooloosie Saila, the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. Completed between late-2019 and 2021, this body of work builds on the subjects of Saila’s earlier drawings, taking them to new levels of form, colour, and detail. Vibrantly coloured and dynamically composed, Saila’s drawings visualize … Read More
Interview of Artist, Brian Dedora about his Exhibition “Read this Foto”
Brian Dedora has lived a life gilded in gold, primarily as a master framer and gilder, but also as a writer, poet, artist, and photographer. His show, Read this Foto, took place at Feheley Fine Arts during the month of May, 2022 in conjunction with Scotiabank’s Annual CONTACT Photography Festival. Dedora’s seminal exhibition included a culmination of works made over … Read More
Gilded Martinis & Grayscale: Feheley Hosts Brian Dedora’s “Read this Foto” Party
On the evening of May 19, 2022, Feheley Fine Arts celebrated Brian Dedora’s seminal exhibition Read this Foto, showcased in conjunction with the annual Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. An intimate group of guests were in attendance, including close friends of the artist and the gallery. Vibrantly-coloured calla lilies placed throughout the gallery sat in contrast to Dedora’s black-and-white photographs. The … Read More
Brian Dedora – Read This Foto
Feheley Fine Arts is thrilled to present the exhibition Read This Foto, featuring photographic works by Toronto-based artist Brian Dedora. On view from May 3 – 21, 2022, this exhibition is in conjunction with the annual Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. Dedora’s analogue photography practice asks: “How is narrative made?” Through the use of dissonance, disruption, and misalignment, his intention in … Read More
Thin Ice: Drawings by Qavavau Manumie
Thin Ice, a solo exhibition of primarily new drawings by Qavavau Manumie, explores contemporary issues of climate change in the Arctic. Based in Kinngait, Nunavut, Manumie is a long-time observer of environmental shifts in his home community and how it increasingly affects the land, animals, and people of the circumpolar north. In keeping with his signature playful and illustrative drawing … Read More
Jutai Toonoo: Body Landscape
Jutai Toonoo was born in Kinngait, NU in 1959, the same year that the inaugural Cape Dorset Print Collection was released. He grew up surrounded by artists and naturally fell into art making himself. He started with sculpture and gradually experimented with other media like print, drawing, pastel, and painting. Across all his media, Toonoo rarely conformed to traditional assumptions … Read More
Sikhirtya: Figures from Siberia
Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present a compelling collection of small sculptures called Sikhirtya (little people) by Nenets artist Evgeniy Salinder. Like Inuit, Nenets are people of the circumpolar north (northwestern Siberia) known for excelling in harsh conditions. The sculptures, standing between two to four inches tall, represent the “little people” from Nenets cultural stories – small, supernatural beings … Read More
A Conversation on Oscar Cahén with Sarah Milroy, David Urban and Gina Rorai
In conjunction with the opening of Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior, Feheley Fine Arts and TrépanierBaer were thrilled to host an in-person talk between Sarah Milroy, David Urban and Gina Rorai. In this conversation, Milroy (Chief Curator, McMichael Canadian Art Collection) invites Urban and Rorai to respond to Oscar Cahén’s paintings including The Warrior (1956) from their own perspectives as … Read More
Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior
In an exciting collaborative first, Feheley Fine Arts and TrépanierBaer Gallery are thrilled to present the exhibition Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior opening November 13, 2021 at Centre Space (located inside Feheley Fine Arts) in Toronto. The exhibition features an extraordinary selection of Cahén’s paintings and works on paper, some of which have not been exhibited in a commercial gallery … Read More
Panel Talk: Oscar Cahén
In conjunction with the exhibition Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior, Feheley Fine Arts and TrépanierBaer were pleased to present a panel talk on the life and work of Canadian abstract painter and illustrator, Oscar Cahén. Panelists included Sara Angel, Founder and Executive Director, Art Canada Institute; Jaleen Grove, Author, Oscar Cahén: Life & Work; Robert Enright, Contributing Editor, Border Crossings … Read More