Anton Shebetko about the artist “Common People”Photography, installation of photo-based images, video Anton Shebetko Robert Kananaj Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Ukrainian artist Anton Shebetko in Canada. “Common People” is a series of distorted portraits and interviews with Ukrainian closeted gays. It is being shown for the first time in full. Overview: According to statistics, homosexuals make up […]

Silvia Mei about the artist “These are self-portraits, and portraits of friends and family. Anatomically correct, but less human and more animalistic, so as to highlight our true nature and essence.” – Silvia Mei The artist’s statement for her first solo exhibition at RKG: The pieces that I have in this exhibition are summary of […]

Emmanuel Monzon about the artist Robert Kananaj Gallery is honoured to bring to the Toronto public an opportunity to experience the photographs of Emmanuel Monzon. When so much is invested in what is loud and in your face, Monzon’s “Urban Sprawl” series finds an opposing refuge in emptiness and silence. The artist invites one’s experience, […]

Lula Motra about the artist Lula Motra with her work is on her contemplative quest. Meditative, labour-intense, obsessive, with richness in interpretation of her subject: Lula’s drawings are an invitation of wonder, containing within itself desire and love of making. Transcendent feelings appear as images, intricate blocks of mark-making as traces of trails of thought. They […]

Daniel Segrove about the artist Daniel Segrove We at RKG are proud exhibiting Daniel Segrove paintings in addition to his signature drawings.  Segrove’s body of work is diverse in subject, medium and content. Daniel’s explorations of traditional subjects such as portraits and the human form are unconventional. Daniel explores the use of paper in an […]

Natalia Laluq about the artist The two-month-long Ceramic Residency of Natalia Laluq at RKG, through stages of clay working – drying – firing, reaches its culmination this September. RKG becomes a backdrop of celebration. The Ceramic Residency has been an ongoing demonstration of the studio experience. The  process of working, for the visitors, was part […]

Oscar Figueroa about the artist Receive the Blue. Accomplish the Blue. Be suspended in the Blue. Greet and be greeted by the Blue. Carry the Blue. Witness the Blue. The Blue inhales and exhales: anything is Blue. –  Oscar Figueroa, January 2020 Write An Artist Statement With The Word ‘Me’ Or ‘I’ In It, Or […]

Silvia Argiolas about the artist Proud are we to have Silvia Argiolas joining the Robert Kananaj Gallery as our new addition.Silvia seems to be witnessed by her very own art. Unpredictable within her painting is Silvia – Life like .The most amazing aspect of her work is a very exotic sense of graphic, with raw […]

Francesco Albano about the artist After Grünewald 26 May – 9 July, 2016Reception: 26 May, 2016, 5pm to 8pm solo exhibition of sculpture, installation, drawings and video Peripatetic notesMemory, and the capacity to be in the world through touch.  Catharsis through sculpture: My furthest journey is rooted close by. I sculpt what I feel. The […]