a Museum Dedicated to Abstract Painting
Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday:
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Address: 230 Niagara Street, Toronto
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JOSEPH DRAPELL
Exhibition:
The Island Paintings
On view:
October 3 - 18, 2026
Opening / Artist Reception:
October 10, 2-5 PM
Artist talk:
October 18, 2 PM
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Previous Highlights
Artist Talk: Judy Singer
How to Look at Paintings
We recently welcomed Judy Singer for The Visual Language of Art: How to Look at Paintings, an in-depth talk on how artists use line, color, space, and composition to create meaning. She guided the audience through centuries of art, revealing how visual relationships shape our aesthetic experience. Watch the full talk here.
We are thrilled to invite you to the Niagara Inaugural Group Exhibition of Artists, hosted by The Modern.Toronto. This exciting showcase features a diverse group of artists exploring abstract expression and non-objective painting and drawing.
NEW LOCATION: 230 Niagara Street, Toronto, ON.
Exhibition Hours:
Friday: 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Exhibition runs through January 15
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Françoise Sullivan, Mark Roth, Andre Fauteux, Cora Cluett, Judy Singer, Ben Woolfitt, Katie Pretti, William Griffiths, Sandy Van Iderstine
the modern.toronto is a not-for-profit foundation exhibiting contemporary abstract art. The objective of the gallery is to bring ambitious international art to Toronto not previously seen in this city.
the modern.toronto complements Toronto’s existing institutions and makes a notable contribution to the city’s art scene.
"Writing about the need for a "new religion" in 1938, in response to "the new Nazi and Soviet religion," which he found was as "oppressive" as "the old traditional religion," Piet Mondrian declared that the only truly "new religion is for those capable of abstraction." The "new art" of abstraction is "free of all oppression," and as such "life's purest expression." It "grows out of inner life...strengthens us where reason cannot." the modern.toronto, a new museum of abstract art, is a testimony to this conviction, and serves to remind us that abstract art continues to be as daringly alive as it was when Mondrian made his statement eighty years ago, and continues to do psychic good."
Donald Kuspit
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
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