glimpse of unseeing
clk co at stackt market
glimpse of unseeing
Oct 4th - Oct 31st, 2024
STACKT Market, 28 Bathurst St, Toronto
The act of unseeing is to have one's eyes open without noticing; willfully unaware.
Emerging artists Cassandra Lui, Katarina Holbrough, and Xiaobang Li engage in the act of looking, absorbing, and omitting. From Lui’s intimate portraiture to Holbrough’s liminal forms leading to Li’s humorous confrontation with the mundane; glimpse of unseeing creates space for the act of noticing.
Exhibiting Artists
Cassandra Lui
Katarina Holbrough
Xiaobang Li
Cassandra Lui
Using her personal life as the lens for this exploration, Cass confronts stereotypes and questions the patterns put upon Asian women in her life and in the media. With her intimate portraiture, she invites viewers into the vulnerabilities, mysteries, and joys of living as an Asian woman.
Artist Bio
Cass Lui (she/her) is an artist based in Toronto. Cass holds a BDes in Illustration and primarily works as a tattoo artist. Blending her illustrative skills and love for painting, she explores themes of identity, girlhood, and race.
Katarina Holbrough
A projected world of nocturnal ephemeral spaces, Holbrough’s work delineates omitted realities using liminal forms to confront the unseen. The transcorporeal environment engulfes the canvas, while only specific elements are detailed and fleshy. The sea of phthalo green illuminates the dark night scene. You are brought into an untethered world, where you are forced to confront your ignorance.
Artist Bio
Mixed-media artist working with oil, acrylic, ink, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Katarina holds a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice, minoring in Drawing and Painting. Her work has been displayed across Canada and Internationally. With a most recent show at She Said Gallery, Toronto, and Art on a Postcard, London, UK. Holbrough works with themes of classicism, femininity, and environmentalism.
Xiaobang Li
Xiaobang Li captures and translates mundane objects, through his classically trained observation skills and silly imagination, onto a 2D surface. Xiaobang Li is an artist based in Toronto, BA in visual arts with a specialisation in oil painting. Influenced primarily by the old masters, Xiaobang's mission is to impart knowledge and share high-quality oil paintings with individuals who have a keen interest in drawing and painting.
The inspiration for Xiaobang Li’s technique and design comes from the illustrious masters of the Renaissance. Infused with vibrant colours, graceful lines, and aesthetically pleasing shapes, Xiaobang Li’s work embodies their timeless influence. While art remains subjective to some extent, he holds a belief in the artist's mission to communicate beauty, awakening the viewer's visual senses and evoking feelings of delight
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