Out with the old, in with the new!
Congratulations! You dug deep and found a burst of energy to power through your spring cleaning. But what do you do about those big blank walls now that you’ve finally ditched your collection of New Wave posters?
We’ve got the answer: it’s time to check in with the AGO’s Art Rental & Sales team. Perhaps you’ve considered purchasing artwork in the past, but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re scared to invest in a piece that you won’t adore in six months. Renting an artwork from our team is the perfect solution. With our curated selection of contemporary Canadian works, there is something to suit every taste and price range – with some of the best access to established and emerging artists in the country. Check out some of the newest selections in our Art Rental & Sales collection.
This series of paintings, a continuation of Sarah Letovsky’s first solo exhibition GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS, explores ideas of subjectivity, tension, and hidden thought and feeling. Letovsky (b. 1987, Toronto, ON) finished her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in 2014. She was the recipient of the 2014 Mrs. W.O. Forsyth Award for Excellence in Painting. In addition to AGO Art Rental & Sales Gallery, Letovsky’s work has been exhibited at Art Toronto, Project Gallery, Only One Gallery, Hashtag Gallery, and featured in FASHION Magazine.
These next works are by Joanna Johnston. Johnston (b. Calgary, AB) is a fine art photographer with a background in architecture. After graduating with a degree in architecture, she moved to Toronto. Her home for 10 years, she then made a move to Arles, France.
Her Suspended Garden series was taken at High Line Park in New York, using multiple exposures in-camera. By layering the organic life of the park over the hard cityscape, it pushes the viewer to see how architectural space is not two-dimensional; it is also what we hear, smell, feel and experience.
Johnston’s South x South West series has never before been exhibited. AGO Art Rental & Sales has been given exclusive access to this series, one the artists holds very dear. Truly a love letter to her native land and to a father who brought out her inner explorer, South x South West beautifully showcases the Albertan landscape in a gestural and almost painterly fashion.
According to Johnston, she was inspired by "The gentle shape of the land; the volume of the sky; the vast swathes of crop; the sheer bigness of it. It is the Prairie. What started out as a desire to map out connections between my ancestors and my childhood memories of southwestern Alberta turned into a realization that perhaps I would only be able see the prairie for the first time, every time."
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