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Propeller Art Gallery
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An artist-run gallery in Toronto’s West Queen West Art + Design district. New exhibitions every three weeks.
https://propellerartgallery.com/
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Now at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Stories: Emerging Members Exhibition | Lex Barrie, Mert Kaan Burnaz, Tiffany Duong, Abby Gowland
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2 – 5 pm | Every piece of art tells a story. Whether through image, form, or material, art is never silent—it carries traces of the artist: their memories, perspectives, and lived experiences. Stories emerge in the marks we make, the materials we choose, and the subjects we return to again and again. Though our practices span different mediums—photography, sculpture, painting, and printmaking—we are united by a shared commitment to storytelling as a way of translating life into visual form.
January 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Eureka! | Propeller Art Gallery | A Mixed Media Open Call Submission Deadline: January 16, 2026, 11:59 pm | propellerartgallery.com/submissions/...
Propeller Art Gallery seeks submissions for Eureka!, a non-juried mixed media exhibition that celebrates the creative combination of multiple materials and techniques. We encourage experimentation and ingenuity, and will consider all forms of art that incorporate at least two different media. For example, acrylic and fibre, pencil crayon and ink, painting and photography, or wood and clay sculpture. Eureka! will take place at Propeller Art Gallery from February 11th to March 1st, 2026. It will include an opening reception on Saturday, February 14th, 2 to 5 pm and Artist Talks on Sunday, March 1st, at 2 pm. Image: Odilon Redon, The Chariot of Apollo, c 1910, pastel and tempera on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
January 13, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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❄️ We're sorry to say Propeller Art Gallery will be CLOSED TODAY (January 15, 2026) due to inclement weather. Stories; Emerging Members Exhibition by Lex Barrie, Mert Kann Burnaz, Tiffany Duong, Abby Gowland can be viewed on our website while we are closed, propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Eureka! | Propeller Art Gallery | A Mixed Media Open Call Submission Deadline: January 16, 2026, 11:59 pm | propellerartgallery.com/submissions/...
Propeller Art Gallery seeks submissions for Eureka!, a non-juried mixed media exhibition that celebrates the creative combination of multiple materials and techniques. We encourage experimentation and ingenuity, and will consider all forms of art that incorporate at least two different media. For example, acrylic and fibre, pencil crayon and ink, painting and photography, or wood and clay sculpture. Eureka! will take place at Propeller Art Gallery from February 11th to March 1st, 2026. It will include an opening reception on Saturday, February 14th, 2 to 5 pm and Artist Talks on Sunday, March 1st, at 2 pm. Image: Odilon Redon, The Chariot of Apollo, c 1910, pastel and tempera on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
January 13, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2 – 5 pm | Stories: Emerging Members Exhibition | Lex Barrie, Mert Kaan Burnaz, Tiffany Duong, Abby Gowland | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/... | Now on at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada.
Every piece of art tells a story. Whether through image, form, or material, art is never silent—it carries traces of the artist: their memories, perspectives, and lived experiences. Stories emerge in the marks we make, the materials we choose, and the subjects we return to again and again. Though our practices span different mediums—photography, sculpture, painting, and printmaking—we are united by a shared commitment to storytelling as a way of translating life into visual form.
January 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2 – 5 pm | Stories: Emerging Members Exhibition | Lex Barrie, Mert Kaan Burnaz, Tiffany Duong, Abby Gowland | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/... | Now on at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada.
Every piece of art tells a story. Whether through image, form, or material, art is never silent—it carries traces of the artist: their memories, perspectives, and lived experiences. Stories emerge in the marks we make, the materials we choose, and the subjects we return to again and again. Though our practices span different mediums—photography, sculpture, painting, and printmaking—we are united by a shared commitment to storytelling as a way of translating life into visual form.
January 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Now at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Stories: Emerging Members Exhibition | Lex Barrie, Mert Kaan Burnaz, Tiffany Duong, Abby Gowland
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2 – 5 pm | Every piece of art tells a story. Whether through image, form, or material, art is never silent—it carries traces of the artist: their memories, perspectives, and lived experiences. Stories emerge in the marks we make, the materials we choose, and the subjects we return to again and again. Though our practices span different mediums—photography, sculpture, painting, and printmaking—we are united by a shared commitment to storytelling as a way of translating life into visual form.
January 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Propeller's Artist Market happening now at Propeller Art Gallery! 11 am to 4 pm today (December 14th)

🖼 WHAT'S AVAILABLE?
Prints, cards, handmade artists' books, paintings, jewellery, framed and unframed work, one-of-a-kind pieces, a selection of second-hand books, and more!

#Toronto #Art #Market
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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✨️ Artist Market at Propeller this weekend!

📆 WHEN?
• Sat., Dec. 13 | 11 am – 5 pm
• Sun., Dec. 14 | 11 am – 4 pm
• Free Admission

🖼 WHATS AVAILABLE?
Prints, cards, handmade books, paintings, jewellery, framed and unframed work, one-of-a-kind pieces, second-hand books & more #toronto #torontoart
December 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | Live Zoom Event, Wednesday, Dec. 10th | Every Ticket Draws a fabulous Artwork! | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Propeller’s OFF THE WALL Fundraiser is an important annual event for the Gallery. The funds are used to create innovative programs for our gallery members and the wider artistic community. A portion of the funds raised will also be used for our Emerging Members program. This program gives young artists membership and gallery experience for an entire year culminating in the Emerging Members Exhibition in January 2026.
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | Live Zoom Event, Wednesday, Dec. 10th | Every Ticket Draws a fabulous Artwork! | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Propeller’s OFF THE WALL Fundraiser is an important annual event for the Gallery. The funds are used to create innovative programs for our gallery members and the wider artistic community. A portion of the funds raised will also be used for our Emerging Members program. This program gives young artists membership and gallery experience for an entire year culminating in the Emerging Members Exhibition in January 2026.
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Meet the OFF THE WALL Donor Artists, Sat . Dec. 6, 2-5 at Propeller Gallery | OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | Live Zoom Event, Wednesday, Dec. 10th | Meet the Donor Artists Dec. 6, 2-5 | Every Ticket Draws a fabulous Artwork!
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Meet the OFF THE WALL Donor Artists, Sat . Dec. 6, 2-5 at Propeller Gallery | OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | Live Zoom Event, Wednesday, Dec. 10th | Meet the Donor Artists Dec. 6, 2-5 | Every Ticket Draws a fabulous Artwork!
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | Wed. December 10th,
Live Zoom OFF THE WALL Event | Every ticket draws a Work of Art | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Propeller’s OFF THE WALL Fundraiser is an important annual event for the Gallery. The funds are used to create innovative programs for our gallery members and the wider artistic community. A portion of the funds raised will also be used for our Emerging Members program. This program gives young artists free membership and gallery experience for an entire year culminating in the Emerging Members Exhibition in January 2026.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Artist Talk at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Sunday Nov. 30 | propellerartgallery.com
Karen Klee-Atlin: Much of my work depicts the natural world, and for close to 15 years, I have worked mainly in reductive woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints made from used plates. I began as a painter, but I have found my perfect medium with these techniques. The measured steps it takes to work in reduction relief allow me the time to consider line, shape and colour interactions. There is also the tension of, after making a cut, there’s no going back. | David Griffin:These drawings extend my fixation with geometry as an incredibly fruitful drawing method — reductive but expansive at the same time. The purpose for Art, the reason we do it, is understanding; understanding how language works as a sense conductor or understanding what we can say to each other, among other things. | Joseph Muscat: More than meets the I or Plusque ce que je vois is an intended pun, un jeu de mots. I wanted to visually explore the various hidden depths, situations and complexities of our realities in our day and age. We live in a time of Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT and Deepfake, where reality is always on shaky ground and may never be what it seems. Each tableau is populated with images and markings which fall into the composition intuitively and which carry with them symbolic possibilities. It’s up to the viewer to negotiate their way through the work and to spin their own story and derive their own meaning.
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Continuing at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Artist Talks Sunday Nov. 30 | propellerartgallery.com
Up Down Strange | Griffin & More Than Meets the I | Muscat | Nothing But Blue Skies | Karen Klee-Atlin | Artist Talks
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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OFF THE WALL Annual Fundraiser 2025 | Wed. December 10th,
Live Zoom OFF THE WALL Event | Every ticket draws a Work of Art | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Propeller’s OFF THE WALL Fundraiser is an important annual event for the Gallery. The funds are used to create innovative programs for our gallery members and the wider artistic community. A portion of the funds raised will also be used for our Emerging Members program. This program gives young artists free membership and gallery experience for an entire year culminating in the Emerging Members Exhibition in January 2026.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Nothing But Blue Skies | Karen Klee-Atlin | Continuing at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto,Canada | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Much of my work depicts the natural world, and for close to 15 years, I have worked mainly in reductive woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints made from used plates. I began as a painter, but I have found my perfect medium with these techniques. The measured steps it takes to work in reduction relief allow me the time to consider line, shape and colour interactions. There is also the tension of, after making a cut, there’s no going back. In this series, Nothing But Blue Skies, I maintain that while skies may not always be blue and clear, we see the same things when we look up. In these prints, I explore the colours of sky, land, and water. Most of these prints depict Rabbit Lake, in Northern Ontario, where my family has a cabin. The area has been a touchstone for my work in the past. There are also a couple of nods to my love of Seattle in prints of boats moored at the Centre for Wooden Boats.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Up Down Strange | Griffin & More Than Meets the I | Muscat | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Up Down Strange | David Griffin: These drawings extend my fixation with geometry as an incredibly fruitful drawing method — reductive but expansive at the same time. The purpose for Art, the reason we do it, is understanding; understanding how language works as a sense conductor or understanding what we can say to each other, among other things. | | Joseph Muscat: More than meets the I or Plusque ce que je vois is an intended pun, un jeu de mots. I wanted to visually explore the various hidden depths, situations and complexities of our realities in our day and age. We live in a time of Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT and Deepfake, where reality is always on shaky ground and may never be what it seems. Each tableau is populated with images and markings which fall into the composition intuitively and which carry with them symbolic possibilities. It’s up to the viewer to negotiate their way through the work and to spin their own story and derive their own meaning.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Continuing at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Up Down Strange | Griffin & More Than Meets the I | Muscat | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Up Down Strange | David Griffin | These drawings extend my fixation with geometry as an incredibly fruitful drawing method — reductive but expansive at the same time. The purpose for Art, the reason we do it, is understanding; understanding how language works as a sense conductor or understanding what we can say to each other, among other things. In a graphical search for understanding, I overload my paper with colour, and with compositions of growth and natural things. The constraints of geometric drawing are complicated by my love of water flowing, things growing, fire licking, and coils coiling. I view all the drawings as shallow piles where stories may be stored. | More Than Meets the I | Joseph Muscat: More than meets the I or Plusque ce que je vois is an intended pun, un jeu de mots. I wanted to visually explore the various hidden depths, situations and complexities of our realities in our day and age. We live in a time of Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT and Deepfake, where reality is always on shaky ground and may never be what it seems. Each tableau is populated with images and markings which fall into the composition intuitively and which carry with them symbolic possibilities. It’s up to the viewer to negotiate their way through the work and to spin their own story and derive their own meaning.
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Continuing at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Nothing But Blue Skies | Karen Klee-Atlin | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/... |
I’ve lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing my own studio work. Much of my work depicts the natural world, and for close to 15 years, I have worked mainly in reductive woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints made from used plates. I began as a painter, but I have found my perfect medium with these techniques. The measured steps it takes to work in reduction relief allow me the time to consider line, shape and colour interactions. There is also the tension of, after making a cut, there’s no going back. In this series, Nothing But Blue Skies, I maintain that while skies may not always be blue and clear, we see the same things when we look up. In these prints, I explore the colours of sky, land, and water. Most of these prints depict Rabbit Lake, in Northern Ontario, where my family has a cabin. The area has been a touchstone for my work in the past. There are also a couple of nods to my love of Seattle in prints of boats moored at the Center for Wooden Boats. I am a member of Shift Gallery (Seattle) and Propeller Art Gallery (Toronto). You can view more of my work on my website www.kleeatlin.com, and on Instagram @kleeatlin.
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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At Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 1 – 6 pm | propellerartgallery.com |
David Griffin: These drawings extend my fixation with geometry as an incredibly fruitful drawing method — reductive but expansive at the same time. The purpose for Art, the reason we do it, is understanding; understanding how language works as a sense conductor or understanding what we can say to each other, among other things. | Joseph Muscat: More than meets the I or Plusque ce que je vois is an intended pun, un jeu de mots. I wanted to visually explore the various hidden depths, situations and complexities of our realities in our day and age. We live in a time of Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT and Deepfake, where reality is always on shaky ground and may never be what it seems. | Karen Klee-Atlin: Much of my work depicts the natural world, and for close to 15 years, I have worked mainly in reductive woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints made from used plates. I began as a painter, but I have found my perfect medium with these techniques. The measured steps it takes to work in reduction relief allow me the time to consider line, shape and colour interactions. There is also the tension of, after making a cut, there’s no going back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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At Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 1 – 6 pm | propellerartgallery.com |
David Griffin: These drawings extend my fixation with geometry as an incredibly fruitful drawing method — reductive but expansive at the same time. The purpose for Art, the reason we do it, is understanding; understanding how language works as a sense conductor or understanding what we can say to each other, among other things. | Joseph Muscat: More than meets the I or Plusque ce que je vois is an intended pun, un jeu de mots. I wanted to visually explore the various hidden depths, situations and complexities of our realities in our day and age. We live in a time of Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT and Deepfake, where reality is always on shaky ground and may never be what it seems. | Karen Klee-Atlin: Much of my work depicts the natural world, and for close to 15 years, I have worked mainly in reductive woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints made from used plates. I began as a painter, but I have found my perfect medium with these techniques. The measured steps it takes to work in reduction relief allow me the time to consider line, shape and colour interactions. There is also the tension of, after making a cut, there’s no going back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Now at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Nothing But Blue Skies | Karen Klee-Atlin | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
I’ve lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing my own studio work. Much of my work depicts the natural world, and for close to 15 years, I have worked mainly in reductive woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints made from used plates. I began as a painter, but I have found my perfect medium with these techniques. The measured steps it takes to work in reduction relief allow me the time to consider line, shape and colour interactions. There is also the tension of, after making a cut, there’s no going back.In this series, Nothing But Blue Skies, I maintain that while skies may not always be blue and clear, we see the same things when we look up. In these prints, I explore the colours of sky, land, and water. Most of these prints depict Rabbit Lake, in Northern Ontario, where my family has a cabin. The area has been a touchstone for my work in the past. There are also a couple of nods to my love of Seattle in prints of boats moored at the Center for Wooden Boats. I am a member of Shift Gallery (Seattle) and Propeller Art Gallery (Toronto). You can view more of my work on my website www.kleeatlin.com, and on Instagram @kleeatlin.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Now at Propeller Art Gallery, one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Toronto, Canada | Up Down Strange | Griffin | & | More Than Meets the I | Muscat | propellerartgallery.com/exhibitions/...
Up Down Strange | David Griffin: These drawings extend my fixation with geometry as an incredibly fruitful drawing method — reductive but expansive at the same time. The purpose for Art, the reason we do it, is understanding; understanding how language works as a sense conductor or understanding what we can say to each other, among other things. In a graphical search for understanding, I overload my paper with colour, and with compositions of growth and natural things. The constraints of geometric drawing are complicated by my love of water flowing, things growing, fire licking, and coils coiling. I view all the drawings as shallow piles where stories may be stored. | More Than Meets the I | Joseph Muscat | More than meets the I or Plusque ce que je vois is an intended pun, un jeu de mots. I wanted to visually explore the various hidden depths, situations and complexities of our realities in our day and age. We live in a time of Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT and Deepfake, where reality is always on shaky ground and may never be what it seems. Each tableau is populated with images and markings which fall into the composition intuitively and which carry with them symbolic possibilities. It’s up to the viewer to negotiate their way through the work and to spin their own story and derive their own meaning. This body of work stylistically follows my earlier work in its use of random images, some new and some repetitive, against various backdrops, executed primarily through an automatiste painting approach and the use of stencils. One common thread that weaves throughout my paintings is the ubiquitous presence of the cabin, which I have been including in my work for the last forty-plus years. This simple, isometric structure can conjure up a whole array of meanings from the warmth of home, family or country to the more sinister praxis of homelessness or domestic conflicts.
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM