Introducing the artists taking over SMASH: Nourish

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SMASH presented by RBC Wealth Management, the Gardiner Museum’s annual summer art party, returns on Wednesday June 26! This year, we’re taking you on an immersive journey of self-care and celebration.

Indulge in delectable food and drink, unwind in a meditation session with MINDSET brain gym, revel in good company and conversation, and interact with dazzling contemporary art installations that will refresh and reenergize you.

Meet the artists who’ll be transforming the Museum for one night only. SMASH sells out every year so get your tickets early!

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen is a Toronto-based multimedia artist who investigates mysterious elements of our natural world through a selective vision of magical realism. Her objective in creating and exploring these realms is provoking the subconscious, challenging our reality by lifting the viewer into a deeper inner state of mind, and sifting through the longing within our day-to-day lives in order to create seemingly unlikely effervescent entrances suggestive of a mirage.

Ness Lee is an illustrator/artist based in Toronto. They explore the sensitivity of emotional expression and its resonance with intimacy of the self and our engagements. They use a range of mediums and surfaces as a method expression, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, textiles, and mixed media sculpture.

Jon Sasaki is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice brings performance, video, object, and installation into a framework where expectation and outcome rarely align. Often charting territory between logic and absurdity, his work employs ad hoc problem solving and inefficiencies in thought experiments that search for useful models.

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SMASH: Nourish is art-directed by RBC Senior Curator Corrie Jackson and hosted by the Gardiner Museum Young Patron Circle. Get your tickets here, or join our Young Patrons Circle for a complimentary ticket!

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