Angela Grossman “Pink Ribbon”, taken from Angela Grossman’s series Alpha Girls is a portrayal of an adolescent girl. While many of Angela’s paintings in this series show several girls surrounding their alpha leader, Pink Ribbon is a portrait representing the solitude and confusion that often accompany adolescence. Angela’s paintings embody the overwhelming intensity of emotion that dominates adolescent girls. Angela Grossman’s journey through art has been met with critical acclaim from all ends of the spectrum. Art collectors to critics alike appreciate Angela’s talent in beautifully incorporating social themes into her art. View now

Annie Pootoogook Native Canadian artist, Annie Pootoogook comes from a long line of accomplished artists. Annie uses her pencil crayon drawings to document her history, daily life, and her friends and family. The realism of Annie's work is intoxicating and powerful. She creates an honest, striking portrait of the contemporary North addressing the mundane such as shopping and kids playing video games as well as darker issues like spousal abuse and alcoholism. Annie's work has been represented in several commercial exhibitions including a solo exhibition at Toronto's Power Plant in 2006. Annie also won the prestigious Sobey Arts Award in October, 2006. View now

Barbara Cole Fate was on our side when Barbara Cole stumbled into photography 25 years ago. Barbara’s recent series Underworld, of which “Drycleaning” was taken, is a stunning depiction of beauty and weightlessness. Well known as a self-taught photographer, Barbara’s collections are now enjoyed by such noteworthy clients as The Royal Ontario Museum, IBM, and Sony as well as art collectors world wide. Barbara continues to surprise audiences with her beautiful, creative, and sensuous photography. View now

Beth Howe Beth Howe is an exciting young artist with incredible technique. Working with thread and paper she stitches her drawings. The ability of a piece of thread to make a beautifully straight line between two points suits Howe's fascination with urban architecture. Howe was educated at Haverford College and the San Francisco Art Institute. She currently resides in Toronto, where she teaches at Ontario College of Art and Design. Her award winning work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Canada. Howe's works are held by a number of collections, including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, a prestigious collection of works on paper housed in San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor. View now

Elaine Cameron-Weir "How can they so amorous bear to be so inconspicuous?" Elaine Comeron Weir was born in Red Deer , Alberta and has recently graduated from the Alberta College of Art and received its Board of Governors award this year. Elaine is a multi-disciplinary artist whose main interest lies in sculpture. In her work, simple forms are paired with text fragments that perplex rather than explain.It seems to speaks uniquely to the spectator . View now

Eliza Griffiths One of FemmArte's most challenging and talented artists to date, Eliza Griffiths is a Canadian painter whose work involves the creation of invented characters in psychologically fraught pictorial tableaux. Her favourite themes include sexuality and gender, identity, and the complexity of desire. Her paintings have been shown extensively across Canada in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as in the US, UK, and in Spain. Griffiths currently lives in Montreal and teaches painting at Concordia University. View now

Erica Eyres Eyre's work ranges from explorations of ideas of beauty to those of the grotesque; self-representation and awkwardness.Eyre works in many different media,including video,sculpture and drawings. Erica Eyres is a Winnipeg artist who is currently based in Glasgow View now

Gerda Neubcher Neubacher's evolution as a contemporary artist walks the line between representation and abstraction. Her discoveries relating to storytelling have led her to embrace new narratives,resulting in her decision to paint what she wants rather than conform to a particular style. " Wonderland" creates a sense of looking through a kaleidoscope of color and visual effects into a dreamscape comprised of our childhood surroundings altered by time. View now

Julie Quellet Quellet's mesmerizing work ' L'eoge de la graviteo, follows in vein of the exploration of woman's psyche containing in several pieces of our collection. While an erotic scene may pass before the concentrated gaze of one viewer,another will perceive a devotional episode within the same piece of work. View now

Katie Pretti Young print maker Katie Pretti is already receiving acclaim since graduating from OCAD in 2004. Pretti enjoys exploring line and form in the production of her visually aggressive yet delicately feminine works on paper. Pretti's abstract compositions reflect a gathering of subtle lines and colours seemingly on the verge of becoming something. Pretti's drawings in ink, oil and graphite have been exhibited at Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art in Toronto and Bjornson Kajiwara in Vancouver. Work by Pretti was recently in the Ocean Four. View now

Margaux Williamson Young painter and artist Margaux Williamson is lauded for her imaginative creatures and deftly subdued palette, she combines familiar objects with splashes of colour and hints at a fractured form of realism. Her paintings reveal themselves slowly, evoking elements of surrealism and expressionism to convey her subject's sense of solitude. Williamson's work has been shown in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto. View now

Marianna Gabor Marianna Gabor is an absolutely outstanding artist who is full of promise. Her exhibition calendar is already filling up with dates in Argentina,Japan ,Europe and Canada. Gabor's sharp,dry wit finds both beauty in ugliness and ugliness in beauty. View now

Marisa Portolese Known to many as one of Canada’s top contemporary artists, Marisa Portolese’s recent work is an exploration of the human condition, inspiring three photographic series. Through revealing and often defiant photographs, Marisa explores the depth of female femininity, sexuality and the irresistible feeling of desire. Marisa’s landscape choices, ravines, forests, marine panoramics, and gardens only intensify her passionate portrayal of human emotion and condition. View now

Melanie Authier "Cyclonic chthonic" Melanie was born in Montreal MFA from the University of Guelph 2006 and her BFA 2002 from Concordia University among other numerous awards, she recently received Honorable Mention in the ninth RBC Painting Competition. Authier's paintings express the idea of the mediated landscape, while remaining attentive to all the rhetorical possibilities of the languages of abstract painting. View now

Melanie Rocan "Girl on dock" Melanie has graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BFA in 2003 she was part of the Young Winnipeg Artists Group. Her recent work speaks of the fragility of human beings and the reality of the subconscious state. View now

Melissa Doherty "Green-space series" Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo Doherty's work continue to challenge the grand tradition of landscape painting. Instead of looking out at deep , her paintings are about looking down . Her landscapes are designed and manipulated like an architectural model and are often seen as 'still-lives' where the viewer is absorbed into the scene or the nature depicted. View now

Min Hyung Min Hyung Hyung populates her work with little multicolored blobs of acrylic.She has matured considerably over a short period of time,and her recent efforts showcase these globules in a dramatically new light;as patina on dream-like views of contemporary luxury architecture. View now

Sarah Ann Johnson "Girl with Sea-Lion" Born in Winnipeg, received her BFA from the University of Manitoba and went on to complete her MFA at Yale School of Art in 2004. Her installation technique mixes color with black and white. Johnson crafts figures of sculpey that animate elaborate tableaux. Presenting them as a salon-style installation she feels that these two ways of picture-making depend on each other to flesh out the entire event and strengthen the aesthetic suspension of disbelief in the viewer. In 2005 the Guggenheim Museum purchased the entire (64 prints) installation. View now

Shary Boyle Boyle describes her otherworldly imagery as " uncomfortable in a seductive way" In 2008 ,the AGO commissioned two of her porcelain sculptures for their collection. View now

Stéphanie Béliveau Stéphanie Béliveau’s work reveals a mood of its own. Over the past few years, Stephanie has received popular and critical acclaim for her original and thoughtful work. With the recurring theme of the fragility of life, Stephanie’s unique and often unrefined work is both poetic and profound. A past winner of City of Montreal's Pierre-Ayot Prize for young artists, Stephanie’s work is admired by members of the art community world wide. View now

Sylvia Matas Matas had a solo exhibition in March 2008 at the Mercer Union Toronto and Gallery 803. She is quickly building an international reputation for her mixed media works,as well as her delicately scaled articulate water colors. Her four print series titled "Up and Down" is a watercolor series based on the playfulness of water within our lives. View now

Tyler Clark Burke Tyler Clark Burke is a staple in the Toronto art world. The exciting young artist's work has been shown at Awol, Sis Boom Bah, Luft Gallery,The Drake Hotel (6-week artist-in-residence), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, and Magic Pony. Her art has been favourably reviewed or featured in The Toronto Star, Lola, Eye Weekly, Now Magazine, Metro (San Francisco), SF Weekly, Vancouver Straight, The National Post and on the CBC and Bravo. Most famously, she once said "things come together the more they fall apart". View now

Kate Graham Kate’s quintessential abstracted arctic landscapes thrill with their perfect fusion of scale, format, and color. Now in her nineties, Kate’s work represents a unique moment in the history of Canadian art. She has been called the finest landscape painter working in Canada. View now

Kristine Moran On the youthful side of the age spectrum is Kristine Moran. Kristine is a noteworthy and impressive young artist. Her work has drawn substantial attention from Canada’s leading art critics and publications. Most recently she was profiled in BoarderCrossings Magazine as a talented artist to watch. View now

Lisa Klapstock Lisa Klapstock is a photo-based artist with a strong exhibition track record. In addition to galleries in Canada, the USA, and Europe, Lisa has exhibited in public institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, TENT and Museum Van Nagsael and in Holland, Museum of Photography in Florida, and The Center for Photography in New York and is collected by The Art Gallery of Windsor and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. View now

Tania Kitchell Tania Kitchell’s work has a mood all its own. With her continued fascination on the subject of weather, environment and climate, she carved out her own distinctly Canadian style. Tania has exhibited extensively in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her work continues to gather acclaim. Of late, Tania was the subject of a full feature article in Canadian Art. View now

Bonnie Marin We are humoured by the quirky Bonnie Marin, as she thrills us with her colourful imagery of 50s and 60s inspired art of every day life. Bonnie has shown her work in the Art Gallery of Southern Manitoba and in several bookworks; amongst them, The Secret Diaries of Babs Sugarloaf and The Book of the Dead. A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Bonnie’s imagination and sense of humour continue to entertain audiences around the world. View now

Nicole Vogelzang Nicole Vogelzang is a remarkable young artist, showing significant promise. Receiving a nomination in 2004 from the prestigious Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, Nicole is emerging as an artist with impeccable creative talent, making gummi bears and My Little Pony whimsical treats for audiences across Canada. View now