Don Russell and Amir Shingray present "Snow" exhibition November 27 to January 17

From November 27 to December 14, and then January 7-17, Don Russell and Amir Shingray join forces in a two-person show called "Snow." Don Russell came to Ontario from a childhood in Newfoundland that included camping in snow drifts as high as he was while Amir Shingray came to Ontario from eastern Sudan where snow was almost beyond imagination. Each in his own way has studied the (surprisingly modest) place of snowscapes in both the history of Canadian painting and in contemporary painting, and learned from innovators from Franz Johnson to Jean-Paul Lemieux to David Milne to Peter Doig. For "Snow", each in his own way is producing work for the show that is guaranteed to forge new paths in connecting art and the white north of Canadian identity.

Above is Don Russell's largescale painting, "First Snow," while below is Amir Shingray's 30 x 30 inch "North of Here."