Gallery Hours
We will be closed starting on Saturday, November 2nd. We'll be reopening for SWARM on Friday, December 6th!
Sal Shivji’s colourful acrylic paintings evoke the bright sunshine of Tanzania where he grew up. He applies vibrant colour to define form and create contrast, similar to the contrasting shadows produced by the sun in the tropics. Movement and interlaced curves inspired by song and dance conjure abstract forms from his mind’s eye. Simultaneously organic yet structured, Sal’s luminous paintings offer viewers insight into the party of his imagination.
“The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Programming:
Opening Reception
September 13, 2024 from 7-9PM.
Sal Shivji is an LGBTQ artist and a polio survivor. Born in Tanzania with Indian ancestry, he has resided in Ontario for over 45 years. Sal has had a career in Toronto as a graphic designer, interior designer and as an antiques dealer. He works out of his studio in a converted 19th century church in Waterford, Ontario after moving there with his husband in 2019. He has a vivid imagination and his nonrepresentational abstract in acrylic on canvas are colourful, intriguing and sometimes have a powerful message.
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