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🌸 She Who Carries the World (Aug 16 - 31, 2025)
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She Who Carries the World is an intimate and multifaceted exploration of womanhood — its tenderness and tenacity, ancestral wisdom and personal mythology. This exhibition gathers over works that span decades and continents, celebrating the quiet strength, emotional complexity, and interconnected roles women inhabit as daughters, mothers, creators, thinkers, and dreamers.
Drawing on both contemporary and historical representations, from modern abstraction to folkloric symbolism, the show offers a layered visual dialogue on femininity in its many shapes — psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural.
🏛️ Meet Our Artist Friends
Autumn Bockart
Autumn Bockart is a contemporary abstract artist from Texas known for her cheeky art compositions and playful color combinations that push basic boundaries. After 27 years of teaching 6th grade English, she retired and began to gradually transition her creative energy into becoming a full-time artist. Being a self-taught artist means her art is forever evolving as new ideas ignite when her imagination and the messy human experience of everyday life collide. Expressive texture and vibrant pallets are fundamental elements of her abstract storytelling.
IG: @autumnsummerluv
https://www.autumnsummerluv.com/
Amy Straley
Amy Straley is a self taught oil painter based out of California. She paints the inner thoughts of womanhood by exploring surreal moments of self reflection, unspoken emotion, and the silent transformations that shape a woman’s soul. Through colorful forms and surreal landscapes, she invites viewers to step into a world that is both deeply personal and universally feminine. Each piece is both a mirror and a portal encouraging self contemplation.
IG: @aimstraley
Amy Thompson
Amy Thompson is a Toronto based painter whose work bridges the grandeur of Romanticism and Baroque with a distinctly millennial lens, exploring the torment and wonder of an unknown future. Fascinated by the overwhelming scale of urban architecture and the loneliness within its beautiful entropy, Amy draws parallels between the chaos of the city and the inevitable power of nature. Her paintings often introduce the human figure into these vast settings, celebrating scenes of joy, shame, wonder, loneliness, and connection.
IG: @aathomsonart
Brent Hardisty
Brent Hardisty is a Woodland style painter working in acrylic on canvas. His spiritual name, Niiwin Binesi—“Four Birds” in Anishnaabemowin—refers to the Thunderbird, Golden Eagle, Bald Eagle, and Hawk. Raised in the Sagamok First Nation in Northern Ontario, Brent’s work blends the spiritual traditions of his community with the bold, graphic sensibilities shaped by his early years in Toronto’s graffiti scene. Influenced by Norval Morrisseau and artists such as James Simon Mishibinijima, Daphne Odjig, and Leland Bell, his paintings use vivid color and symbolic forms to explore deep spiritual connections and invite personal interpretation.
IG: @4bhardisty
https://www.brenthardisty.com/
Heather Felder
Heather Felder is a California-based oil painter known for her dreamy, emotive portraits—an intimate ode to resilience. Influenced by the work of Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, and Kees Van Dongen, as well as the enduring strength of her mother and grandmother, Heather channels a soothing, nurturing energy into her art. Her portraits embody strength and the layered nature of human emotion, reflecting worry, endurance, and the quiet beauty found in life’s nuances. Through subtle harmonies of color and detail, every shade in her work becomes a reflection of those intricate, often unspoken feelings.
IG: @heatherfelder_art_
Mariana Silveira
Mariana Silveira is a Mexican born, Toronto based certified interior decorator and multi-media artist. Although she has taken fine art classes, she’s mostly self-taught. Her sculpture collection “The Wild Woman”, is as much a tribute to Carl Jung’s feminine archetypes, as it is an homage to the book “Women Who Run With The Wolves” by Jung scholar Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD.
IG: @the_decor_studio
Stephanie Baron
Stephanie Baron is a Vermont-based mixed media artist known for her abstract figurative depictions of women. Having grown up learning to be tough, Stephanie once kept her softer side hidden. Art became her way of saying yes to herself — of letting her inner world show. Each piece is an unfinished story, a figurative form that whispers of beauty, courage, and emotional truth. Her women are playful yet quiet, strong yet soft, inviting viewers to see themselves reflected in their curves, colors, and shapes. Every painting is, in her words, “a little love letter to the parts of us that want to be seen, but don’t always know how.”
IG: @an_abstract_woman