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Cheryl Bailey Art Show

September 17, 2024

Come Butterfly! It’s Late

An exhibition by Cheryl Bailey
We invite you to join us for this artist reception.
Saturday September 21st, 2024
Artist Talk: 3pm
Reception: 2 – 4pm

About the Cheryl Bailey Art Show at Riverdale Hub

The Cheryl Bailey Art Show at Riverdale Hub showcases her unique talent in depicting nature with powerful environmental themes. The exhibition highlights the importance of native plants in supporting pollinators, while reflecting Bailey’s artistic mastery and environmental advocacy.

Cheryl Bailey is a Toronto-born contemporary landscape artist from Oakville Ontario. She is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). Recently one of her paintings was juried into the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Cheryl has studied with John Leonard, Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) member, at the Etobicoke Art Group studio and at Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design since 2012.

 

Artist Statement

My paintings express a deeply rooted familial connection to the Canadian countryside. Mountains, rivers, hills, valleys, forests, farmland — I love them all!

Visual complexity is distilled into carefully choreographed simplicity. Shapes, surface textures, and a limited palette are combined with a powerful and unifying black. A poetic re-interpretation of landscape emerges in my distinctive and authentic voice.

 

The moment I laid my eyes on Cheryl Bailey’s Canadian landscape paintings, I was struck by their rich, expansive color and intense texture. Visual complexity is distilled into carefully choreographed simplicity. A poetic re-interpretation of the scene she is rendering emerges in a unique and distinctive style.

David Reed, RIverdale Hub Gallery Curator

Cheryl Bailey Art Show 'Come Butterfly! It's Late'

Riverdale Gallery Event

The Riverdale Hub houses three gallery spaces, located on the first, second, and third floors of the community center building. The Riverdale Hub Gallery is dedicated to employing the transformative power of art to engage Toronto’s east-end community, connect with other communities across the city, and provide a platform for local, national, and global conversations.

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