The Halifax-based artist is on exhibition through June 8 at Katzman Art Projects in Figures in the Landscape, A collection of Memories. Above View from the Guest House, 2024, 24 x 24″.

The figures in Caracristi’s paintings “have a spectral quality, symbolizing the transitory nature of time and the evanescence of human life,” the gallery says.

For the work in this show I really wanted the paintings to have this glow about them that would radiate throughout the work. I feel this is a great example of that! – Sara Caracristi commenting on Farm to Table (via Instagram)

All the works in this exhibition are acrylic and polyurethene on canvas over board.

See all the paintings on the Katzman Art Projects exhibition site here.

Sara Caracristi’s Instagram here.

Accomplished figurative painter Erin Armstrong is on gallery talent watch lists everywhere. She opens a solo show at Duran Mashaal gallery in Montreal next month, (Above: Winds Symphony, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40″)

Armstrong’s rep is solid, no wonder with the popularity of her work. She has already exhibited in the U.S. and internationally (Australia, Sweden, Norway, Paris, London & Geneva) with a show scheduled for Italy in the fall. (Above: Swirl Of Night 60×72″)

When the Art Junkie first featured her in 2019 (see that post here) Armstrong had already been tabbed by Saatchi Art as one of the world’s 20 emerging artists to watch. Now, Toronto-based and in demand, her life is productive but chaotic. (See a recent Nuvo profile here) Definitely an artist to continue to watch.

Exhibition opens April 6 at Duran Mashaal in Montreal

Represented by Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto, here.

Erin Armstrong’s website, here.

Her Instagram, here.

Kirsty Templeton Davidge is a figurative painter rooted in the practice of noticing details – hands, clothing, body language. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the University of Alberta in 2015 and was awarded numerous scholarships as well as nominations for both painting and sculpture awards. 

. . . there are no standard portraits in these works. Instead, she zooms in on small details: things like hands that enfold each other protectively or rest tensely in a young woman’s lap. There is honesty in these depictions. She shows freckles, unmanicured nails, the blue tinge of veins, the sort of minute flaws we often judge only in ourselves. – Review by Agnieszka Matejko

Sneakers and Rubber Boots

Her newest work features cropped perspectives of the human form where hands, backs and clothing items are the only hints provided to piece together faceless narratives.

Kristy Templeton Davidge’s website, here.

Peter Davidson Gallery which represents her, here.

Erin Armstrong is a figurative painter with top prospects, identified by Saatchi Art as one of the world’s 20 emerging artists to watch. Represented by Toronto’s Bau-Xi Gallery, known to have an eye for identifying talent, Armstrong opens a solo show there March 7.

Using quick and decisive gestural markings over acrylic-based images, she creates unique distorted figures and portraits in an expressive dream-like world -Bau-Xi Gallery

Armstrong has recently collaborated on projects for The Drake Hotel, Nike, Kit + Ace, Saatchi Limited. She has upcoming exhibits in Australia, Stockholm, Edinburgh, London, Oslo, Miami and NYC.

Above: Erin Armstrong with her What the Mocking Jay Remembers Painting, 77 H x 72 W x 2 in

Erin Armstrong at Bau-Xi, here.

Armstrong’s solo exhibition runs March 7-21, 2019 at Bau-Xi Toronto

Erin Armstrong’s website, here.