"Introspective Insight". Roots, heritage, traditions, race, land, and culture are all concurrent themes within the work of the following artists. These artists have found methods to investigate inherited identities as they work in a transcultural arena such as Toronto.
Julieta Maria explores her Palestinian-Colombian heritage through media based installations.
Puerto Rican born artist Taira Liceaga celebrates the mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture of African, Aboriginal and Spanish) of her Latin American heritage through life-sized fiber sculptures.
Chilean born artist Rafael Goldchain presents his latest work entitled Familial Ground, an autobiographical series of photographs in which Goldchain performs as ancestral figures from his own family history. His work is about grounding an identity within a familial and cultural history subject to extinction, geographic displacement, and cultural dislocation.

Nieves Carrasco, Valerie Knapp & Carolynn Bloomer: Wrap, Stitch & Burn. Explorations in mixed media: In Carrasco's work, a monochromatic palette captures the unique qualities of resist-dyed Japanese paper. Knapp's textile and paper-based work examines sewing, breathing and other everyday pursuits. Bloomer shows assemblages combining pop icons with ancient archetypes, alongside larger porcelain forms.

Main Gallery - Frances Patella: Transitional Environments. Photography. Depicts the rare black oak Savannah ecosystem in High Park through photos spanning a six-year period taken during controlled burns. Part of CONTACT 2008 Toronto Photography Festival: Between Memory and History.

North Gallery - Daphne Gerou: The Photobooth Project. Photography / installation. A self-documented narrative of body fragments transformed into clinical objects whereby the self, as body, becomes a personal history contained in memory alone. Part of CONTACT 2008 Toronto Photography Festival: Between Memory and History.

New magic-realist paintings by Marcelo Suaznabar.

One Year Younger. John Long's photo-based installation examines the aesthetics of stereo photography exploring a visual space between traditional monographic photography and the three-dimensional world. Wed 14 May, 7pm: "Aesthetics of Stereo Photography". Free lecture. RSVP for guaranteed seating: info@leonardogalleries.com, subject: lecture; or 416 924 7296. Lecture synopsis available!

The Colour and Form Society cordially invites you to our Biennial Open Juried Exhibition. www.colourandformsociety.com.

Hall Gallery, Places of Importance. Paintings by Arlene Baldwin, Jan Hawthorne, Claire Lyons and Anka Milligan. Places of Importance reflects the creativity that is inspired by nature, architecture and people and has found its way onto our canvases.

Celebrations: The Young at Art. Come celebrate children's art with this exhibition by elementary children in Whitchurch-Stouffville. Schools from the area are invited to bring work done by their students throughout the year. The Gallery will be filled from floor to ceiling with paintings, drawings, sculpture and more. It is a wonderful way to see their creativity and be inspired by their talent.

Evan Macdonald: A Painter's Life. A master draughtsman, printmaker, book illustrator, and painter, Evan Macdonald is renowned for his depictions of historic Guelph and Wellington County. This retrospective exhibition includes over 100 landscapes, portraits, and watercolours painted by Guelph artist Evan Macdonald (1905-1972).

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Featuring works from the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre and University of Guelph collections by Tom Thomson, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S Harris, A Y Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J E H MacDonald, Frederick Varley, A J Casson, Edwin Holgate, and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald, this exhibition celebrates the Canadian landscape and the painters who rendered it indelible in the history of Canadian painting.

Remi Arora studies artificial light and how it is translated through the prosthetic eye of the camera, making the invisible visible through video projection and large-format glossy photographs. By manipulating the mechanics of the camera, Arora exposes an infinite spectrum of gaseous colors in the white fluorescent tubes common in public signage.

Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet.