David Kaye Projects

David Kaye Projects has listed In The Middle of the World as an Event .

Although the David Kaye Gallery closed December 2018, the newly formed David Kaye Projects is a developing platform that David Kaye will use to continue promoting the many artists he has represented.  Judy Martin's 2017 exhibition is well documented here.  The photographer is Frank Myers.

David Kaye says: 

I am pleased to be able to continue working with this great group of artists, that grew over the years, by allowing this website to be available. I feel it is important as an archival online document that showcases the amazing efforts of all those with whom I worked and exhibited. The newly formed DAVID KAYE PROJECTS will be a developing platform that allows me to resume promoting these extraordinary talents.

The Cloud in Me - a successful exhibition

All the pieces in the show were completed in 2017.

Judy Martin's first solo exhibition at  the David Kaye Gallery.

longing cloth  9 feet x 2 feet

longing cloth showing red interior
side b

The Cloud in Me was Judy Martin's 28th solo exhibition.  Most of her other exhibitions have been in government supported public galleries in Ontario.  The David Kaye Gallery is a commercial gallery.  Two pieces sold.   Longing Cloth and Basic Goodness   If you are interested in ownership of any other pieces in this body of work, please contact the David Kaye gallery

basic goodness 3 feet x 3 feet

This exhibition was well attended.  Some of the many visitors wrote in the artist's guest book and what follows are just some of the beautiful comments:

thank you for the inspiration and beauty
wonderful work, inspiring
awesome, so many hours spent - beautiful
so beautiful, connected to spiritual peace
wonderful
gesture and energy and the time it takes to stitch and dye
a steller exhibition
sensual, deep, the risk of revealing and allowing the unconscious world to radiate

earth and air  9 feet x 6 feet

absolutely stunning
touches me
beautiful
beautiful show, incredible work
feast for the soul
fantastic, elegant, thoughtful and warm
extremely interesting
congrats, beautiful work, your true voice
transcendental
a wonderful milestone
love the way I feel when I'm in this room.  So nurturing and healing

the cloud in me  5 feet x 6 feet

fantastic, I love the rnage of depth in the texture of white thread and white cloth, soulful and serene
amazing work
heart wrenching
quiet and intense and draws you in
beautiful work, speaks volumes
inspiring exhibition, love the option of touching the work
glad I had a moment to spend looking
wonderful, heart warming
spectacular
very inspriting
lovely to see them in person.  inspiring
thank you for allowing us to touch Sisu.  I was amazed at its weight.  Looking at all the stichting in your pieces gives me tranquility
beautiful and very moving

my open heart 5.5  feet x 5 feet

so lovely
I was blown away, great work
beautiful stitching, thank you for sharing Sisu - such an intimate quilt
gorgeous exhibition, structure with playfulness
a beautiful touch
awesomeness
so inspiring
most impressive
intricate textiles, holes, overlaps, and blush of pink
such a large idea rendered in such a meticulous and minute way

cloud of time 7.5 feet x 9 feet

thank you for sharing your work and your sentiments
absolutely stunning
amazing, intricate work
great and inspring work
poetic cloth indeed
seeing the works in person is another experience altogether, it's wonderful
such a gentle joy
elegant and original
gorgeous show
satisfying on so many levels
I feel so fortunate to have seen this work in person

bidwell  5 feet x 5 feet  aprox

all photographs in this post by Frank Myers
(except for Basic Goodness- Nick Dubecki)

a second Meet The Artist planned for this Saturday October 21

Judy Martin will be at the David Kaye Gallery from 3 - 5 pm on October 21, 2017

Please drop by and say hello to the artist and view (and maybe touch) her work with her.

"This exhibition needs to be experienced in the real, and not on a device"  David Kaye

1092 Queen Street West  (entrance on Dovercourt)
Toronto Ontario  M6J 1H9
416 532 9075

The Cloud In Me opens in Toronto

The Cloud In Me
October 5 - 29 2017
Opening "meet the artist"  on Saturday October 7  2-4 pm

David Kaye Gallery
1092 Queen West Toronto
Entry is off Dovercourt
Look for the side walk sign.  That is where the entrance is.

All work is hand stitched.
Accidents, found and used fabrics, aging processes, are included in the work, giving soul to the serene tactile drawings on exhibition.
Judy Martin has brought her father's wheel chair quilt for viewers to touch.  (blue object above)
Touch is the most powerful of the senses to communicate on an intimate level.

Celebration of Women's History Month

paradise is what lies beyond the horizon  2012  Judy Martin, domestic linen, acrylic paint, thread on paper

time, dream, memory: dream  2014  Judy Martin  re-purposed wool blanket, red thread, vandyke print, vintage frame 

Four of Judy Martin's framed pieces (2 shown above) will be shown in the exhibition in celebration of women's history month, 9th floor, Capital one North York campus, 5140 yonge street, Toronto from August 2017 until November 2017.

Tracey Capes fine art consulting arranged the exhibition through the David Kaye Gallery.

Other women artists in this small exhibition:  Susan Warner Keene, Valerie Knapp, Loree Ovens, and Sylvia Ptak.  The opening reception - meet the artists is scheduled for October 30, 2017 from 4-6 pm.

Gallery Artists exhibition at David Kaye Gallery

Two of Judith Martin's Time, Dream, Memory series  are part of the exhibition
GALLERY ARTISTS March 31 - May 1 2016.  
This exhibit is in David Kaye's main space, the west gallery.

Time Dream Memory: Time  by Judith Martin 2014

 Van dyke print on hand made paper, wool blanket, hand stitch 2014. 

Time, Dream Memory: Dream  Judith Martin 2014

 Also in this exhibit, Sylvia Ptak's framed stitch and pigment piece, The Unicorn and the Date Palm

and below, Barbara Klunder's collage, Either Love or Fear

In the East Gallery at David Kaye's are the Saidye Bronfman award winners, ten of which exhibit with David Kaye.  That exhibit includes textile artists Dorothy Caldwell, Susan Warner Keene, Sandra Brownlee, Kai Chan and the 2016 winner, Jane Kidd.  See their work here.
The gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday.

now on view at David Kaye Gallery

David Kaye told me that this piece is currently on display in the wall case in his gallery.

If you go into that gallery in Toronto to see the Tracey Lawko exhibition that is opening this weekend, look for this piece of mine.  Full view is over here.

David Kaye Gallery displays Yin Yin this summer

 Yin Yin is currently on display at the David Kaye Gallery in Toronto.

Above, installation shot of the collection display area of the gallery.  Yin Yin is upper right.

Yin Yin is a two sided piece.
The second side has a rougher texture.  Detail shown below.

David Kaye represents some of the most important textile artists in Canada.  Judy Martin is proud to be in the same gallery as Dorothy Caldwell, Sandra Brownlee, Kai Chan,  Sylvia Ptak, Susan Warner Keene,  Chung-Im Kim, Tracey Lawko, Valerie Knapp , and Barbara Klunder among others.

The mixed media paintings of Nova Scotia artist, Donna Boyko are featured in solo exhibition this month until July 26.

David Kaye gallery in December 2014

 Morning Star by Kai Chan  2014   Bamboo, dye, oil paint  (detail)

artist statement / poem by Kai Chan - for his solo exhibition entitled Love Circles at the David Kaye Gallery Nov 27 - Dec 21 2014.

On the wall - Paradise Meditation 1 and Paradise Meditation II by Judith e Martin David Kaye Gallery 1092 Queen Street West, Toronto Ontario

Morning Star by Kai Chan

Two pieces by Judy Martin were curated into the group show at the David Kaye gallery that is on display concurrently with the Kai Chan exhibition.

Toronto representation: David Kaye Gallery

paradise meditation I,  2012

Judith e Martin is now represented by the David Kaye Gallery in Toronto.

 paradise meditation II, 2012

The four pieces in this post can be seen at the David Kaye Gallery and are available for purchase.

time dream memory: time 2014

Martin is also represented by the Perivale Gallery on Manitoulin Island during the summer months.

time dream memory: dream  2014

Please contact David Kaye gallery if interested in more information about one of these four pieces.

DAVID KAYE GALLERY

1092 Queen Street West

(entrance on Dovercourt)

Toronto, ON M6J 1H9

416.532.9075

www.davidkayegallery.com