PAST EXHIBITIONS
SHELTER / ESCAPE | Kal Mansur
Myta Sayo Gallery
January 6 - February 10, 2024
Kal Mansur employs a palette knife to build textured terrain from impasto layers of paint. The surface is washed with translucent glazes, allowing liquid to pool in valleys and fall away at the edges. This process both intensifies and subdues color, resulting in a restrained monochrome. Embedded circular resin sculptures flood the work with shifting reflections. What emerges is a painting that begins to bloom as the viewer moves around it.
TROPICAL FUTURES | Jill Paz
Myta Sayo Gallery
November 23 - December 30, 2023
Jill Paz’s mixed media paintings vividly portray lush tropical landscapes. Crafted with photography, painting, and laser-etching technology, Paz’s works are borne out of puncturing and etching delicate layers on cardboard. She uses balikbayan boxes as charged symbols of the diasporic experience. The term "balikbayan," meaning "one who returns home," holds significance as these humble cardboard boxes are intimately woven into the lives of Filipino migrants. Paz uses photographed and sketched palm trees as archetypal yet unstable signifiers of the exotic. She situates them within a tenuous grid, and her squares jostle with hesitation. Her palm trees are frozen in motion, provisional, situated between suggestion and statement.
THE WEREWOLF IN THE COMPOSITION | Amanda Nedham
Myta Sayo Gallery
October 19 - November 15, 2023
Autumn in Lapland. The warm rain-laden East wind rushes down the dried-up river bed. In its banks, yellowing birches tremble in the storm. /The opening bars in the great hymn of extinction. Not a hymn to extinction or because of it. Not a hymn in spite of extinction. But a dying which is the hymn.
- Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T | Kal Mansur
Myta Sayo Gallery
May 15 - July 29, 2023
In this new series, Mansur distills the interplay of light and surface into a precise, minimal language. At first glance, the works appear divided into geometric fields of gold, some tending toward yellow, others toward deeper brown. As the viewer moves, lighter and darker areas trade places, and color shifts with changes in position and light. Up close, the apparent geometry gives way to pronounced brushwork embedded in the surface. Despite these shifting effects, each work remains resolutely monochrome, holding the composition in a single tonal field. Across the series, Mansur treats lines as provisional markers rather than stable divisions, positioning borders as contingent and mutable rather than fixed.
SURVEY | November 23, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Myta Sayo Gallery
Julia Campisi and Evan Ishmael
Evan Ishmael uses soot residue from a flame to create his graphic paintings. He combines a minimalist aesthetic with traditional techniques to create large-format works.
Julia Campisi’s practice is rooted in material experimentation, where surface, transparency, and structure are treated as active components of the image. Her works inhabit the space between object and image, unfolding slowly through light, depth, and spatial tension.
THE NEW NEW | August 18 - September 18, 2022
Myta Sayo Gallery
Louise Lessél, Jason Yung, Aidan Fowler, and Markus Heckmann
A group exhibition of works by Brooklyn-based artists Louise Lessél, Jason Yung, Aidan Fowler and Toronto-based artist Markus Heckmann. Working primarily through the medium of light, their works deal with the relationships between human beings, technology, and nature.
TENDING | September 16-24, 2022
Myta Sayo Gallery courtyard
Alyssa Alikpala
Alyssa Alikpala is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She creates meditative installations from found objects and foraged natural materials. Her work responds to a specific time and place through subtle disruption, offering a means for affecting impermanence. Her environmental interventions invite slowness and sensitivity.
OF MIND AND BODY | July 9 - August 7, 2022
Myta Sayo Gallery
Natale Adgnot and Kate Casanova
Kate Casanova creates abstract sculptures that evoke hybrid bodies. Made from a variety of materials such as plaster, resin, foam and found objects, her works blur the line between human/nonhuman and organic/synthetic.
Natale Adgnot employs patterns and systems to investigate human vulnerability to dogma. Hovering between drawing and sculpture, Adgnot’s work often replicates a two-dimensional sketch when viewed frontally and comes into relief when viewed from other angles.
LAND ESCAPES | June 9 - July 3, 2022
Myta Sayo Gallery
Kal Mansur
This new series marks a shift in Mansur’s practice as he introduces new forms of interference into abstraction. A textured surface is built with a palette knife and washed over with translucent glazes. Embedded circles shift in and out of monochromatic fields, inundating the work with changing reflections. The paintings start to bloom as one walks around them, like beacons that turn on and off. Painting on large-scale panels, Mansur's abstractions recall enveloping aerial landscapes.
CURVEBALL | March 26 - April 30, 2022
Myta Sayo Gallery
Evan Ishmael, Matt Neuman, and Kal Mansur
NON-SPECIFIC OBJECTS | January 18 - February 27, 2022
Myta Sayo Gallery
Kal Mansur
