Coldstream Fine Art has just launched an new exhibition, Drawing Toronto, which focuses on the six new works on canvas by artist Shantell Martin. If you haven’t discovered her work by now (Saks Canada did a big media push with the artist earlier in the year), you are about to…
What I love about the work of Shantell Martin is its graphic nature; it feels like a meditation of lines. Her work explores and plays with notions of language – the characters and creatures of language itself. Her work feels to be even more about the process of drawing than the final product of drawing. And I am all about the process. “Part autobiographical, and part dreamlike whimsy, Martin has created her own world that bridges fine art, performance art, technology and the everyday experience — conversations, objects and places”.
Shantell’s artwork has appeared in the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Bata Shoe Museum just to name a few.
Coldstream Fine Art is located at 80 Spadina, Toronto ON The exhibition runs from February 6th – March 12th.