The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery presents

Book Launch of Tim Whiten: Elemental, 2025
Published by the McMaster Museum of Art, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, the Art Gallery of Peterborough, The Goldfarb Gallery, and Art Metropole.

In-person at Olga Korper Gallery
17 Morrow Ave, Toronto, ON M6R 2H9

Artist and curators in attendance

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, along with the McMaster Museum of Art, Goldfarb Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Peterborough, first came together in 2022 and 2023 in presenting a series of four distinct but thematically linked exhibitions of the work of Tim Whiten. These four exhibitions functioned as a retrospective of Whiten’s career, and we are collectively more than pleased to be launching the collaborative publication which marks the closing chapter in this ambitious venture.

Whiten has been a key member of the arts ecology in Toronto for over half a century. He has been dedicated to a sustained inquiry into the human condition through transformative engagements with material and spirit. Whiten has built a practice that defies easy categorization, bridging sculpture, drawing, installation, and performance with a metaphysical lens rooted in ritual, spirituality, and ancestral epistemologies.

The four curators, Pamela Edmonds, Liz Ikiriko, Chiedza Pasipanodya, and Leila Timmins, have collectively written and edited this publication. The catalogue is heavily weighted towards documenting Whiten’s work, with the essays touching on the elemental cores of his practice and of the curator’s individual understandings of this practice as gained through a full and intimate engagement. The key task of bringing the raw materials to finished form was entrusted to Cristian Ordóñez, whose deft work has resulted in a book that entices and encourages the reader to sense fully Whiten’s trajectory.

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