Toronto Outdoor Art Show Picks

The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition—one of Canada's largest open-air art fairs—opens tomorrow morning at 10:30am and runs all weekend. The offerings can be hit and miss, but increasingly there's a a surprisingly large number of emerging and established contemporary artists participating. Here's a few worth checking out:


Julie Moon - jaw-dropping pop ceramics, always worth taking a look


Eamon MacMahon – photographer with credits in W Magazine, the New Yorker, and New York Magazine; known for contemporary looks at landscape


James Olley - a well received younger painter of suburbia in the neon-inflected tradition of Kim Dorland


Wendy Walgate - prolific ceramics artist who turns mass production into manic sculpture/installation


Scott Everingham - darkly deconstructed contemporary paintings


Leanne Eisen - emerging photo-based artist with a smart body of work on sex-trade settings


Alex Kisilevich – witty/melancholy performance photography


Annie Tung – poignant objects and sculptures, like Braille-encrusted silver spoons


Brad Turner – award-winning glass art


Genevieve Jodouin – up and coming Toronto printmaker specializing in hipster romance


Min Hyung - well-reviewed just-graduated Toronto painter


Talia Shipman - gained attention recently for black-and-white portrayals of the ten plagues of exodus; here showing colour work

All images from artist websites except for Eamon MacMahon (via TBP Design) and Talia Shipman (via Sweet Station)