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Katharine Harvey: Luminous Layers

On display in our gallery until July 31st, 2025, is Luminous Layers, a solo exhibition by acclaimed Canadian artist Katharine Harvey, curated by Yuluo Wei. The artist's multidisciplinary practice spans four decades, and encompasses painting, installation, and public art.

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About the Artist:

Katharine Harvey is a Canadian conceptual painter and multi-media artist based in Markham. Throughout her career, Katharine has switched naturally between mediums, allowing her paintings to inform her public artwork and vice versa. This process inspired her to create a body of work that includes multi-layered acrylic paintings, recycled plastic installations, monumental public installations in mosaic and hand-painted or digitally printed glass, kinetic sculptures, and an illuminated drone show.

Her public artworks include large painting commissions for the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie, and 340 Ferrier Street in Markham, as well as art glass and mosaics for Toronto's Chester Subway Station.

The artist has exhibited in both commercial galleries and institutional museums throughout North America and Germany, such as the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie, Ontario), the Art Gallery of Regina, Nicholas Metivier Gallery (Toronto), Galerie Borchardt (Hamburg) and Galerie Clara Maria Sels (Düsseldorf). Her work is part of corporate art collections like the Bank of Montreal, Canada Council Art Bank, Ontario Hospital Association, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, and TD Canada Trust.

She studied at Queen's University for her BFA and earned her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria, B.C.

Yuluo Wei writes:

"Harvey’s work represents a sustained investigation into the transformative power of layering—of materials, memories, and meaning. This exhibition brings together two pivotal facets of her oeuvre: her monumental public art projects and her intricate acrylic paintings, revealing the symbiotic relationship between these domains.

Harvey’s public installations exemplify her commitment to integrating art into communal spaces. These projects often inspire her studio practice, where she translates the scale and dynamism of public art into the intimate medium of painting.

In her studio paintings, Harvey delves deeper into the ethereal qualities of light and space. Through meticulous layering of acrylics, she creates a three-dimensional effect where lines and atmosphere dissolve into one another, evoking the sensation of standing beneath a luminous dome, shadow, and sky.

Luminous Layers underscores Harvey’s mastery of layering as both technique and metaphor. Here, by placing her public interventions in dialogue with her studio explorations, this exhibition opens a space for reflection: on the spaces we pass through, the ones we build and inhabit, and the quiet revolutions that colour can awaken within us."

The exhibition is generously supported by Steelcase Art Projects (SAP).

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