Art Metropole

29 Nov. 2025

Book Launch - Tim Whiten: Elemental

Time

2:00-4:00 PM

Offsite Location

Olga Korper Gallery, 17 Morrow Avenue, Toronto

Art Metropole is pleased to be participating in the launch of Elemental: Tim Whiten, taking place at Olga Korper Gallery on Saturday November 29th, 2025. Please join us from 2:00-4:00 PM to celebrate the launch of this landmark catalogue. The artist and curators will be in attendance at the launch. Please RSVP for the launch here.

The Goldfarb Gallery, along with the McMaster Museum of Art, The Robert McLaughlin 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.