Ilya Gefter: Figures & Spaces extended through New Year’s Eve!

Happy holidays from the staff of the Julie M. Gallery! 

In the spirit of giving, we’ve extended our current solo show, Ilya Gefter’s Spaces & Figures, through the holidays, right up until the last day of 2011.

We will be open during regular business hours every day but Sunday the 25th, when we will be closed.  Stop by the Distillery for your last chance to these paintings hanging together.

Distillery Tradiitonal Christmas Market opens! Extra parking available

Hoping to visit the gallery? Perhaps you are joining us for Ilya Gefter’s artist talk, tomorrow at 2 pm!

The Distillery Christmas Market is in full swing. Apart from the vendors and reindeer, an additional parking lot is also open just south of the gallery. More information on the market can be found at: http://torontochristmasmarket.com/

R.M. Vaughan reviews Ilya’s Gefter’s suite of paintings in the Globe & Mail

Ilya Gefter, White Night, 2008

…Ilya Gefter’s suite of misty, achingly delicate paintings are a quiet respite.

Gefter’s crafty focus pulling/focus releasing causes the viewer to first seek out the solid, fully materialized objects being studied, and then to drift toward the liminal spaces, the backgrounds and sunsets, all underpainted veils of muted colour. Absence and presence, negative and positive space, are neatly, even obsessively, balanced, but Gefter’s works are not overly painterly or forced.

Sleight of hand rarely feels so honest.

R.M. VAUGHAN
“Ilya Gefter at Julie M. Gallery”
Globe & Mail, July 30, 2011

Ilya Gefter & Assi Meshullam debut in Life, Death & Rebirth

Julie M. Gallery is pleased to announce a summer exhibition featuring Ilya Gefter, a skilled representational artist using oil paint or ink to convey poignant and deeply personal experiences of place.  Simultaneously, the provocative sculpture of Assi Meshullam debuts at our Toronto venue. 

Artwork  by Gefter and Meshullam is complemented by that of Deganit Berest, Shai Kremer, & Alma Shneor. The interplay of works in this show underscores the breadth and range of subjective artistic vision.