Currently located in the Queen Street West Art and Design District, the Edward Day Gallery has been an outlet for art experimentation since first opening in Kingston, Ontario in 1991. The gallery called Yorkville home for several years before moving into their current Queen and Ossington premises, delighting and enlightening the community with their selection of sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography and installation. The space is also available outside of regular gallery hours for private events like standing buffets, seated meals, receptions and seated concerts or lectures.

Edward Day Gallery represents over 30 different Canadian artists and maintains a collection that includes a group of artists from Russia. Notable names aligned with Edward Day include sound and vision collage artist John Oswald, the decomposing preservation of multimedia print maker Steven White and aura photographer Chrysanne Stathacos. Joshua Jensen Nagle shoots landscapes with expired and aged Polaroid film, Dan Kennedy explores “the commercial unconscious” through imagery, text and painting, and Stan Repar inserts surrealist qualities into realistic and narrative scenes. Subversive bronze sculptor Tom Dean, the shallow-spaced landscape paintings of Melissa Doherty, and sea creature sculptor Doug Guildford are also regular exhibitors of their latest work.

 

The gallery’s influence reaches beyond downtown Toronto, coordinating art exhibits in the Mississauga and Peel regions, and maintaining the Kiwi Sculpture Garden in Perth, Ontario. But with its presence in the increasingly popular Art and Design District along Queen West, the Edward Day Gallery has assured its position as a main outlet for the cutting edge in Canadian and international art.