18/05/2026
Join us May 21st, at 7pm for a new print release and show by Canadian artist Graeme Luey.
The exhibition brings together a body of work produced during Luey’s residency in Mexico City, tracing an arc of material transformation and autobiographical encoding that has defined his practice across mediums. Anchoring the presentation are a selection of mixed-media collage works—previously exhibited at Aqua Art Fair Miami Beach and during the 2024 Venice Biennale—assembled from reclaimed fabric, residual paint, and repurposed stretcher bars. These works resist the logic of novelty; each one is a site of recovery, where discarded material is restored to agency and meaning. The result is neither nostalgia nor salvage, but reinvention—objects unmoored from their original contexts and resituated within a different time, a different city, a different register of value.
New to this exhibition is a limited edition screenprint released to coincide with the artist’s forty-fifth birthday, on the occasion of the opening. The work depicts the lunar phase as it appeared over Toronto on the night of Luey’s birth, rendered in his signature 45° halftone reduction—precise, restrained, and quietly charged with private significance. The palette draws from his birthstone, emerald, in combination with a colour of personal resonance, and joins a chromatic system the artist has maintained throughout his entire print output: all works are composed exclusively from CMYK values corresponding to the digits of his birthdate—05, 21, 81, and 45. This constraint operates simultaneously as signature and cipher, binding each edition to the others and to the artist himself across geography and time.
In our Residency Gallery we have work from our May resident on display.
