Hong Kong artist Peony Yip blends the real and the imagined in these exquisite vignettes about the ache of a long-distance relationship. See more of her drawings on Behance .

Calgary-born Geoff McFetridge has had a remarkable career, as a graphic designer with high profile clients such as Apple and Patagonia and as an acclaimed artist immersed in sculpture, painting, poetry and animation shown in major galleries in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.

This fall, in a kind of homecoming, he is featured in a solo show, These Days are Nameless (The Drive, The River, And Hills), on view at Contemporary Calgary until Oct. 29. The show intersects with screenings earlier this fall of the documentary film Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life, at the Calgary International Film Festival (trailer below).

McFetridge was first featured here on Canadian Art Junkie in 2012 (see that post here), and he has gained a huge international following in the years since then. Although he is not well known publicly, you may unknowingly have seen many of his works — on Pepsi billboards and Apple watch faces for example. If you live in Ottawa, you could have seen his work in the OLRT Lyon Station (below). There are similar murals and installations all over North America.

Geoff McFetridge’s website, here.

His Instagram, here.

At Cooper Cole gallery, here.

A magazine profile from L.A., here.

Tia Halliday, on exhibit at Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary, uses her dance and performance background as a touchstone for her figurative abstract paintings. Above: Up-Lifting, 2023, acrylic & oil on canvas, 62 x 84″

Called “choreographed abstractions” Halliday’s paintings depict physical gestures of care between humans.

Figures captured through lyrical line, bearing the weight of one another through daring acts of physical support, suggest themes of connectivity, responsibility, and care, the gallery says in notes for this exhibition, which runs through Oct. 7.

Tia Halliday website, here.

Herringer Kiss Gallery, here.

One of the most prominent artists of her generation, and an innovator who helped define the 1960s, a retrospective of the work of Marisol (Venezuelan & American, 1930–2016) is opening at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Oct. 7.

As a sculptor, Marisol was accomplished in many art forms but it was her striking life-size totemic figures that created the most notice. They consisted of mixed-media assemblages combining wood with drawing, painting and found objects in a style that is sometimes quizzical or satirical. Many of them depict the role of women in society.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibition page, here.

A bio from the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, which curated the travelling exhibition, here.