Current Exhibitions
SUMMER 2026
We are closed for installation, please join us for the reception of two new shows Friday, May 22 from 5-7PM
Sightlines
Emelie Robertson, MFA Candidate
Exhibition: May 22 - June 4, 2026
Reception: Friday, May 22 from 5-7PM
artLAB Gallery
Sightlines suggests a confluence of meeting points approached through multiple entries, navigating a delicate tension between material, memory, perception, and place. Within these works, the painted surface becomes a threshold for movement and observation, where perception entangles with intuition, recollection, and material. Meaning emerges through the act of making itself: a thought or memory carried through gesture and repetition, requiring both close observation and a submission to the materials’ own agency.
This process, as a form of perceptual exchange, creates a rhythm in which time collapses, coalesces, and transforms—like walking through a forest, and like memory itself. The works remain in constant negotiation between proximity and distance, perception and expression, stillness and movement, matter and intuition, clarity, and obscurity. In doing so, they reflect an artist working through her own emotional and entangled relationship to forests, trees, water, and the unresolved histories and responsibilities carried by the land, which continue to shape how it is seen, felt, and inhabited.
Friend of Dorothy’s
Stefania Dragalin
Exhibition: May 22 - June 4, 2026
Reception: Friday, May 22 from 5-7PM
Cohen Commons
Friend of Dorothy’s is an exhibition that explores queer identity, intimacy, and self-expression
through personal visual narratives. Borrowing its title from the historic coded phrase used within
the LGBTQ+ community, the exhibition reflects on how queerness has existed both openly and
in secret, creating spaces of connection, recognition, and belonging. Through a collection of
artworks created by myself, Stefania Dragalin, the exhibition examines sexuality not as a fixed
category, but as something fluid, emotional, and performative.
The works included in this exhibition investigate themes of desire, vulnerability, memory, and
the human body. Using imagery that ranges from intimate and tender to playful and
confrontational, the pieces challenge traditional ideas surrounding gender roles, sexuality, and
social expectations. By centering queer experiences, the exhibition aims to celebrate the
multiplicity of identities and relationships that exist outside heteronormative structures while
also acknowledging the histories of concealment and coded language that queer communities
have relied upon for survival.
As an artist, I am interested in how art can serve as both an intimate form of self-expression and
a shared reflection of collective experience. For that reason, these works are rooted in lived
experience while remaining open enough for viewers to see aspects of themselves within them.
“Friend of Dorothy’s” invites audiences into a space that is honest, vulnerable, and unapologetic,
encouraging conversations surrounding identity, connection, and the freedom to exist
authentically. Through this exhibition, I hope to create an environment that feels both celebratory
and introspective, honouring queer histories while embracing contemporary expressions of
sexuality and selfhood.
