Toronto Neighbourhood Guide

Ingram Gallery located at 49 Avenue Road in Yorkville is hosting a show titled In The Neighbourhood that will run from February 26-March 19. This show will pay homage to the some of the great artists who once proliferated in the Yorkville and Annex neighbourhoods prior to gentrification and lofty real estate prices sent many artists packing for new frontiers in the west-end and east-end downtown neighbourhoods. Their legacy are the many fine galleries that now proliferate in Yorkville.
Tarah Aylward, Director at Ingram Gallery says the inspiration for the show came from a 6x5.5 ink on paper by O.C. Madden, circa 1922, that depicts the artist at work in his Annex studio at 310 Huron. This small rendering was the epiphany that led Tarah and her colleagues to search for other local paintings, drawings and sketches from yesteryear and to create a show. Tarah explains that these local works of art gave "new eyes to look at the neighbourhood around us".
Artists featured in this show include Albert Franck, Caven Atkins, Jack Beder, Barker Fairley, O.C. Madden, and Nicholas Hornyansky. Contemporary local work by Toronto based Sean Yelland and works by Rachel Berman are also part of the show. The iconic works of Albert Franck are particularly striking and touch a chord with those who love Toronto history. Franck's 16x12 oil on board titled Behind Major Street (1964) is pictured here.
For more information on In The Neighbourhood see the following http://www.ingramgallery.com/exhibitions/in_the_neighbourhood_2011.html