Open Studio

What a wonderful night! Thank you to everyone who came out to our opening reception yesterday, May 29. It was a pleasure to experience such insightful artwork and share many meaningful conversations. The exhibitions will remain on view until August 1, 2026. 🎉 Congrats to the artists!

MAIN GALLERY
Defiant Memory
Sylvat Aziz

PROJECT SPACE
Refraction: Translations of Japanese Landscape
Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada, and Yoshie Uchida
Guest Curated by Derek Michael Besant

PROOFS & PROCESS VITRINES
Jenn Law
Mohammad Tabesh

📍Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West

✨Join us for an opening reception this Friday, May 29, 6-8pm! We have multiple exhibitions opening. Suite 104, at 401 Richmond Street West.

MAIN GALLERY
Sylvat Aziz
Defiant Memory

In ‘Defiant Memory’, Sylvat Aziz uses printmaking and other media to explore how illegitimate power erodes cultural memory, identity, and tradition. Through layered visual storytelling, the work foregrounds the resilience and shared humanity that persist in the face of oppression and displacement.

PROJECT SPACE
Refraction: Translations of Japanese Landscape
Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada, and Yoshie Uchida

Three Japanese printmakers, Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada, and Yoshie Uchida, each bring a distinct visual language to ‘Refraction: Translations of Japanese Landscape’. From Goto’s meditative forest stillness to Hamada’s perception-bending flora and Uchida’s colour-driven elemental fragments, the exhibition asks how urban life in Japan shapes an artist’s relationship with the natural world. Curated by Derek Michael Besant, RCA, and supported by Open Studio, it is an intimate and poetic journey through landscape as translation.

PROOFS & PROCESS VITRINES
Jenn Law and Mohammad Tabesh

The Proofs & Process vitrines present new work by Jenn Law and Mohammad Tabesh, focusing on the often-unseen stages of printmaking, from testing and revision to material and colour decisions. The display frames process as a visible part of making, with works shown as they develop over time.

Jenn Law is a Toronto-based artist and writer who uses letterpress printing to inscribe poetic language into plants. In her ivy-based works, the plant gradually alters and erases printed text, turning the work into a changing collaboration between language and living material.

Mohammad Tabesh is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist working across print, sculpture, and writing. His project ‘The Book of Roaring Memories’ transforms oral histories from the Iranian diaspora into colour-based prints, shaped by systems of translation, memory, and his red-green colour blindness.

📸 Images in order of artists presented

Join us this Friday, May 29, 6-8pm, for our next opening reception!

Main Gallery: Sylvat Aziz
Read more: https://openstudio.ca/exhibition/defiant-memory/

Project Space: Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada & Yoshie Uchida
Read more: https://openstudio.ca/exhibition/refraction/

Proofs & Process Vitrine Jenn Law
Proofs & Process Vitrine: Mohammad Tabesh

Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West. See you there!

✨❇️✨ Yesterday we had a blast for Doors Open 2026 () at St. West. Open Studio ran a letterpress demo in collaboration with Jenn Law () in Studio 264. 🙏 Extra thanks to Pudy Tong, Studio & Education Manager, for his excitement in teaching, and for sharing his appreciation for printmaking with visitors.

If you didn’t get a chance to visit, stop by for a tour or join us for our next opening on Friday, May 29, from 6 to 8 pm, 📍Suite 104.

Last week to see our current exhibitions, closing Saturday, May 23!

We’re also joining Doors Open Toronto on May 23 from 10am to 5pm, the perfect way to close out the shows. Stop by to explore the exhibitions, tour our studio, and try your hand at the Vandercook 4T letterpress.

📍 Suite 104, St. West

PROJECT SPACE
Colour of an Object
Walter Procska ()

Walter Procska’s compositions unfold through open, fluid forms and colour drawn from personal experience, creating a quiet dialogue between contemplation and artistic expression.

MAIN GALLERY
I Was Thinking About All of This and All the While I Kept Walking Further and Further, in Wider and Wider Circles
Isabel M. Martínez

Isabel M. Martínez investigates how the Sun, Moon, Earth, and solar system shape our shifting understanding of place. Blending printmaking, photography, drawing, and sculpture, her work explores perception, scale, and the hidden systems that shape how we see.

✨Stop by the OS Shop!✨We have an amazing selection of original handmade prints and printed goods, including screenprinted tea towels, totes, notebooks, stationery and more. Our print bins are overflowing with wonderful work, and our current display features the prints of Leszek Wyczólkowski, whose practice explores the relationship between geometric structure and organic form. Find us at Suite 104, 401 Richmond Street West. Visit our online shop: https://openstudioshop.ca/

🌙 In ‘Lunes es por Luna/Monday is for Moon’, seven sculptural forms materialize the negative space of the artists’ left hand squeezing clay. Operating as handheld cameras of sorts, they nest a gelatin silver film negative within. In the week surrounding the summer solstice, each day at noon, one ‘camera’ was pointed towards the celestial body the weekday is named after. Bulging 24K gold leaf alludes to the sunlight the photographic film was exposed to. The silver in the gelatin emulsion serves as a symbol for moonlight.

On display in the Main Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘I Was Thinking About All of This and All the While I Kept Walking Further and Further, in Wider and Wider Circles’ by Isabel M. Martínez. Closes May 23, 2026.

Visit Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West to view this amazing mixed media work in person.

Only a few weeks left to see ‘Colour of an Object’ by Walter Procska in the Project Space, closing May 23, 2026. Through open, fluid forms and colour drawn from personal experience, Procska invites viewers into a quiet dialogue between contemplation and artistic expression.

We’re joining for Doors Open Toronto on May 23, from 10am to 5pm. It’s the perfect way to close out the show. Stop by to see the exhibition, explore our studio, and try your hand at the Vandercook 4T letterpress. Visit us in Suite 104 at 401 Richmond St. West.