Pursuits Inc.

Pursuits Inc. We are a boutique advisory and curatorial firm inspired by the power of art to intrigue, challenge and delight. Pursuits Inc.

is an internationally focused art advisory firm, headed by Marla Wasser, that guides private and corporate clients through each step of the collecting process with transparency and discretion. Our vision extends beyond merely brokering art. We are committed to reflecting the unique interests and personality of the collector, working closely with them to facilitate a deeper appreciation of the art world. Exhibitions:

RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
January 16 - March 22, 2015


The Art, Inspiration and Appropriation of Andy Warhol
The Children's Museum, January 15, 2009 - May 23, 2009

RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine
THEMUSEUM, September 15, 2011 - January 22, 2012

Congrats to the 2025 team! From the debut of the vibrant Arte Sur section to the monumental installations, the fair was...
10/28/2025

Congrats to the 2025 team! From the debut of the vibrant Arte Sur section to the monumental installations, the fair was full of surprises, inspiration, and had some pretty special unforgettable moments.

Here are a few highlights that caught our eyes:

✨Marie-Claude Marquis - hand painted typography on vintage plates, infusing pop culture and nostalgia into everyday objects. Presented by .

✨Russell Banx - delicate graphite drawing depicting interior sensitivity and communicative subtleties of body language. Presented by .pangee.

✨Gerardo Ramírez- a dance of form and colours by the Costa Rican artist who has lived and worked in Toronto for 50 years. Presented by .

✨Jeremy Holmes - intricate wooden sculptures where hardwoods like white ash are soaked, softened, and bent into abstract compositions. Presented by .

✨Aline Setton - architectural paintings and installations exploring the oscillating relationship between bodies, pictorial language, and built structures. Presented by .

✨Hedy Yang - hand painted stoneware capturing the pastel hues of the Californian landscape. Presented by .

Art Toronto reminded us why we love experiencing art in person- every corner offered a new perspective, a story, a detail to get lost in.

🚀 Intergalactic Planetary, artist debut Canadian exhibition, has just opened at Arts and runs until December 14, 2025....
09/22/2025

🚀 Intergalactic Planetary, artist debut Canadian exhibition, has just opened at Arts and runs until December 14, 2025.

Coincidentally, our founder Marla Wasser has been a huge fan of Snelling’s work and has owned an incredible piece titled “Bad Motel” for years. It is such a great honour to see Snelling’s collaboration with the Koffler Arts here in Toronto!

Step inside the exhibition space and you are immersed in a world of cacophonous imagery: tucked-away dining room cluttered with found objects, towering cardboard-and-wood structures with glowing screen “windows,” a life-sized bed evoking a love hotel, neon signage guiding the way through a maze of posters, images, and fragments of pop culture.

Inspired by cities like Shanghai, Tokyo, Berlin, and across the U.S., the Beastie Boys–inspired title mirrors Snelling’s eccentric style. Peep-show screens and voyeuristic vignettes invite you to linger on the details—yet together they form a universal whole, uniting Wong Kar-wai stills with glimpses of Ryan Gosling and Daniel Radcliffe in one eclectic constellation.

Themes of taboos and desire surface throughout. In one corner, a video piece “Tell Me You Love Me” shows the artist engaging in Sh***ri, Japanese rope art, bound with masks, wigs, toys, Hello Kitty, and even George Clooney’s face cutout—blurring play, restraint, and performance.

Forgotten architectures also reappear: miniatures of Naples’ failed Vele di Scampia, Berlin’s infamous Bierpinsel tower, and the abandoned Mäusebunker (“Mouse Bunker”) research facility. Each serves as a memory of spaces once buzzing with promise, now left in ruin.

This is a show best experienced in person—don’t miss it.

🪐 Intergalactic Planetary: Tracey Snelling
📍 Koffler Arts, 180 Shaw St. #104, Toronto
🗓 Sept 18 – Dec 14, 2025

of the week: 𝙀𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 by Marcel Dzama🌙✨At Los Angeles, Canadian artist conjures a dreamlike world of dancing...
07/18/2025

of the week: 𝙀𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 by Marcel Dzama🌙✨

At Los Angeles, Canadian artist conjures a dreamlike world of dancing figures, mythic creatures, and celestial skies.

Made in the quiet of night, these lush ink-and-watercolor scenes channel Goya and Lorca- blending surrealism with sharp political undertones. Allegory, protest, and poetry collide in jungles both real and imagined.

Even amid darkness, Dzama gives us wonder.

🗓️ On View: June 28–August 8
📌 606 N Western Ave, Los Angeles

Image Credits:
1. Installation view, Marcel Dzama: Empress of Night, David Zwirner, Los Angeles, 2025. Courtesy of David Zwirner and the artist.
2. Zoomed-in view of Marcel Dzama, The sleep of reason produces monsters, 2025.
3. Marcel Dzama, Blue water blues, 2024.
4. Marcel Dzama, I never came from your rib you came from my va**na, 2025.
5. Installation view, Marcel Dzama: Empress of Night, David Zwirner, Los Angeles, 2025.

🇨🇦This Canada Day, we are celebrating with seven artworks that capture the beauty, boldness, and imagination of this cou...
06/30/2025

🇨🇦This Canada Day, we are celebrating with seven artworks that capture the beauty, boldness, and imagination of this country. From coastlines to supper tables, beadwork to abstraction, these artists show us just how many ways there are to see- and love- Canada. Here’s to creativity, community, and the stories that bring us together.

Featured Artworks:

1. Charles Pachter, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙜, 1981- A cheeky and colourful twist on Canadian pride, blending pop with iconic imagery. (© Oeno Gallery)

2. Nico Williams, 𝙕𝙝𝙞-𝙗𝙞𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙜𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙖, 2022- A vibrant beaded form that pulses with strength, identity, and the joy of Indigenous futurism. (© Nico Williams)

3. Alex Colville, 𝙏𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙙𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙, 1965- A quietly powerful moment of travel and connection, filled with Maritime mystery. (© National Gallery of Canada)

4. Christopher Pratt, 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖 𝘽𝙖𝙮 𝘽𝙤𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧, 1995- A serene and soulful tribute to Newfoundland’s coastal life, where time stands still. (© Mira Godard Gallery)

5. Mary Pratt, 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙏𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 1969- A luminous tribute to domestic life, capturing the quiet beauty and emotional heart of everyday moments in Atlantic Canada. (© Art Canada Institute)

6. Emily Carr, 𝙏𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙, 1939- A dynamic, windswept forest scene that channels the raw energy of British Columbia’s landscape. (© Heffel Auction)

7. Françoise Sullivan, 𝙍𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙚 𝙉𝙤𝙨 3, 5, 6 𝙚𝙩 2, 1997- A bold dance of colour from a groundbreaking figure in Canadian modernism. (© Musée d’art contemporary de Montréal)

🖼️ 4 Toronto Exhibitions to Catch This Weekend 🎟️✨ From conceptual photography to slow-burn abstraction—these 4 Toronto ...
06/20/2025

🖼️ 4 Toronto Exhibitions to Catch This Weekend 🎟️

✨ From conceptual photography to slow-burn abstraction—these 4 Toronto exhibitions are pushing the boundaries of image and experience.

📍 – 𝘾𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣
Group show featuring . Photography meets identity, intimacy, and image theory.

📅 Until June 28 | 📌 1134 & 1136 Dupont St.
(Images courtesy of the artists and Cooper Cole)

📍 – : 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨
Abstract paintings shaped by rhythm, intuition, and slow accumulation. A meditation on time and attention.

📅 Until July 26 | 📌 188 St. Helens Ave.
(Images courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery)

📍 – 𝙒𝙊𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍 by
DIY sets, absurd gestures, and Cindy Sherman nods. A playful spin on self-portraiture in Koffler’s new space.

📅 Until July 13 | 📌 Koffler301, 180 Shaw St.
(Images courtesy of the artist and Koffler Arts)

📍 – 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 by
Poetic film works trace gardens, architecture, and memory across decades. A camera becomes a sketchbook.

📅 Until Sept 14 | 📌 231 Queens Quay W.
(Images courtesy of the artist and The Power Plant)

🌍 As climate concerns shape creative practice across disciplines, we are spotlighting a landmark exhibition by Canadian ...
06/19/2025

🌍 As climate concerns shape creative practice across disciplines, we are spotlighting a landmark exhibition by Canadian artist , whose work has long interrogated the complex relationship between ecology, industry, and human impact.

🌳 Curated by , 𝙀𝙙𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙮𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙮: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 features over 70 photographs and three ultra high-resolution murals, revealing the striking beauty and sobering fragility of altered landscapes around the world.

🌱 On view through Climate Week NYC this September, the exhibition invites reflection on the urgent environmental challenges we face- while offering moments of awe in the sublime.

Image 1 & 2: Installation views courtesy of ICP/ Charles Roussel
Image 3: Nickel Tailings #34, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996.
Image 4: Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community/ Suburb, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2011.
Image 5: China Recycling #22, Portrait of a Woman in Blue, Zeguo, Zhejiang Province, China, 2004.
(All works courtesy of the artist)

🎨 Pursuits’ Picks: Art Basel 2025A few standout works that moved us—where visual poetry, memory, and cultural depth conv...
06/12/2025

🎨 Pursuits’ Picks: Art Basel 2025

A few standout works that moved us—where visual poetry, memory, and cultural depth converge.

1️⃣ TADÁSKÍA
mudada casca de cor changed color shell V, 2025 ()

We were drawn to this poetic transformation of surface and spirit—soft, shell-like forms that speak to metamorphosis and memory.

2️⃣ Sergio Sarri
Con vista panoramica – II, 1970 ( )

A retro-futurist gem that still feels timely—Sarri’s precise, surreal vision offers a clever critique of progress through flattened utopias.

3️⃣ Flora Yukhnovich
Tarantella, 2025 ()

Yukhnovich’s swirl of Baroque drama and dance-like energy captures the pulse of emotion and the spectacle of gesture—deliriously alive.

4️⃣ Dominique Fung
A Stillness Between Strides, 2025 ()

This Canadian artist’s quiet yet surreal composition reflects on diaspora and intimacy—bridging time, space, and stillness with uncanny grace.

5️⃣ Hank Willis Thomas
“we wanted to come home” (reflection), 2024 ()

A powerful invocation of absence and return—Thomas invites viewers into a space of collective memory and unresolved longing.

From Fifth Avenue to Beverly Hills, London, Vegas and Beijing – Lululemon is showing the world how cultural storytelling...
05/23/2025

From Fifth Avenue to Beverly Hills, London, Vegas and Beijing – Lululemon is showing the world how cultural storytelling meets community-led brand building.

Each of these events offer so much— they are brand ethos brought to life.
At Pursuits Beyond, we believe these moments matter. They mark a shift in how brands are building loyalty, shape culture, and show up with purpose.

, you’re defining the future. Let’s talk about how to bring this vision to our city. 

🎈Augmented Reality at Regent St, London
✨Their NYC flagship transformation for Align
🎾A full-on Tennis Club activation in LA
🧘‍♀️A breathtaking, global-scale yoga gathering in Beijing
👟Lululemon takeover at the Sphere Las Vegas

A must-see in NYC! • Lotus L. Kang: Already, now on view at , reflects on ideas of impermanence, inheritance, memory, a...
05/14/2025

A must-see in NYC!

• Lotus L. Kang: Already, now on view at , reflects on ideas of impermanence, inheritance, memory, and time through a selection of discrete objects, wall works, and an installation staged within and around two greenhouses.

The exhibition title, Already, draws from an eponymous poem by Kim Hyesoon—one of forty-nine from her book Autobiography of Death (2019), which considers the Buddhist tradition of after-death rituals performed for forty-nine days during the intermediate period spanning death and rebirth.

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Lotus L. Kang artworks and details:
1: Receiver Transmitter (49 Echoes I), 2022–2025
2/4/7: Installation view, Lotus L. Kang: Already, 52 Walker Street, New York, 2025
3: Tract XX (You are already II), 2025
5: Receiver Transmitter (49 Echoes II), 2025
6: Azaleas II, 2025

An incredible cultural event• SERPENTI INFINITO EXHIBITION, SEOUL.⁣In celebration of the Year of the Snake, the Serpent...
05/05/2025

An incredible cultural event• SERPENTI INFINITO EXHIBITION, SEOUL.⁣

In celebration of the Year of the Snake, the Serpenti Infinito exhibition held at , brought together a group of visionary artists to explore the powerful themes of rebirth, transformation, and evolution through contemporary art. ⁣
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Featured artworks:⁣
“Cause & Effect” by ⁣
“The Miracle of the Snake” by ⁣
“Gloria” by ⁣
“NaTuRE NurturE” by choijeonghwa.kr⁣
“Regulation of Circulation” by ⁣
“Coexistence” by ⁣
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