
NOW SHOWING
At the Uptown Gallery Waterloo
Our exhibition changes six times a year and, while we will always showcase work by our whole community of 30+ artists, each collection will explore a different theme and feature a new set of our wonderful artists.
Sept 18th to Nov. 12th
Featuring Jonathan Sau, Ardea Thurston- Shaine, Michael ManChoi Chow, Emily O"Neil Larsen

Featured Artists
ManChoi explores spaces where reality and dreams cross over, overlap, and blur. Ethereal floral mages from his home garden transform into metaphors for self-discovery that grapple with difficult existential questions, which may or may not have answers. Often called a dreamer, he believes we need more; everyone needs to dream!
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Emily’s work is inspired by her own feelings and the visuals around her,
molded into acrylic and oil paints. Her work provokes curiosity and inspiration through
vibrant colours and textures. Lucid dreams are intense and wonderful experiences, vivid
and abstract like Emily’s paintings. For this exhibit, her work is all about the unification
of vivid colours with abstract placement in a dream-like trance.
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Jonathan explores the ever-changing face of water under the influence of wind.  I’ve been doing quite a bit of wave photography, from gentle waves washing up the beach on warm summer days, to heart-pounding Great Lakes winter storms. I love creating abstract images from waves, focusing on shapes and curves. Like in a dream, sometimes I see waves turn into rolling landscapes by the foothills, or windswept sand dunes. As wind does its magic sculpting water, things change every millisecond and no two shots are the same.
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Ardea’s art has always come out of her dreams.
In lucid dreams, waking and sleeping worlds fade into each other. Ardea’s images blur
the boundaries between inside and outside spaces to explore how self relates to other.
She tries to expand her own mental spaces through this breaking down of boundaries.
As in dreams she struggles to control her interactions with the dream world,
through art she questions the agency of her individual human self enfolded
in a nonhuman landscape.
Explore the Gallery
Please visit us in Uptown Waterloo to view the work and connect with our artists. For a peak into the space please explore the 360 gallery below.
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