A West Coast Gallery Lands in Toronto

Kostuik Gallery Pop-Up, April 23 – May 3

From April 23 to May 3, Vancouver’s Kostuik Gallery brings a curated selection of international works to Toronto, transforming a tucked-away space at Dupont Rails into a temporary destination for art discovery.

This exhibition is an invitation into a practice shaped over decades. Gallerist Jennifer Kostuik, approaching 30 years in the industry, has built her reputation on an intuitive understanding of how art lives in space. Her long-standing relationship with LightForm founder Richard Assally as neighbours in Vancouver’s Yaletown for over 20 years, speaks to a shared philosophy: that lighting and art are in constant dialogue, shaping and co-creating atmosphere together.

Alongside the exhibition, Kostuik and her team offer private consultations in Toronto, helping collectors place works in their homes or workplaces with intention.

Exhibition details:

Kostuik Gallery Pop-Up

April 23 – May 3, 2026

1444 Dupont St, Unit 10 (at Campbell Ave) in Toronto, ON

To book a consultation or learn more, visit kostuikgallery.com or follow along on Instagram @jkostuikgallery.

Three Works to Experience

“The Painted Photograph: Remnants Silver White 09” by Judy D. Shane

"The Painted Photograph: Remnants Silver White 09" by Vancouver based Judy D. Shane 24 x 24 x 2.5 inches Archival pigment print on 100% Rag Paper, UV laminate, walnut base

At first glance, it reads as something fluid, luminous, almost cosmic, and painterly, but the piece invites a closer look.

Vancouver-based artist Judy D. Shane constructs her images through a meticulous process of stacking over 100 photographs of paint fragments and glitter, each originally no larger than a thumbprint. Her work continually navigates between the real and the unreal, and provides the viewer with a magnified sense of rich colour and detailed texture that cannot be so easily observed by the naked eye. She is a master illusionist.

“Greyhound Lines” by Philip Jarmain

"Greyhound Lines" by Canadian photographer/cinematographer Philip Jarmain, part of 50 photographs in "American Beauty: The Opulent Pre-Depression Architecture of Detroit"

There’s a quiet gravity to Philip Jarmain’s work. Part of his larger series documenting Detroit’s pre-Depression architecture, Greyhound Lines captures a now-deserted bus depot. Its tiled facade is still intact and its signage holding onto a past era of movement and optimism. Jarmain’s lens is more about observation than nostalgia or romance. The beauty lies in the preservation, the endurance of material, the weight of time, and the stillness of a place once defined by transit.

01010110 01101001 01101110 01101111 (VINO) by Katja Zubkova

"01010110 01101001 01101110 01101111 (VINO)" by Katja Zubkova, mixed wood, 23” diameter, 3 inches depth.

Material meets meaning in the work of Katja Zubkova. Her carved wall sculptures are composed of over ten varieties of ethically sourced woods, each piece cut, layered, and finished to create a rhythmic interplay of shadow and form. Rough edges meet smooth planes. Organic movement sits within structured geometry.

Even the title is encoded. Written in binary, it gestures to the underlying system beneath the visible surface toward themes of light, architecture, nature, and evolution. This is sculpture that shifts throughout the day, changing with the light, asking to be experienced rather than just viewed.

A Temporary Space for Art Discovery

What makes this pop-up compelling isn’t just its limited run, but the way it brings together disciplines, geographies, and different ways of seeing. Paint becomes photograph. Architecture becomes memory. Wood becomes language.

In collaboration with LightForm, the exhibition extends beyond art alone. Select lighting pieces from yours truly will be lent to the space, thoughtfully integrated to illuminate the works and shape the atmosphere. We hope this thoughtfully reinforces the dialogue between light and art that both teams value deeply.

For Toronto’s design and art community, it’s a rare moment to engage with works that extend beyond the local circuit. We hope to see you there!

Beyond the Pop-Up in Toronto

Kostuik Gallery also lends artworks for display in LightForm’s Vancouver showroom. This is an ongoing collaboration that reflects a shared belief in how art and lighting shape a space together.

Currently on view are two large-scale works by California painter Mike O’Guinn: Emergence and Seretonia.

Each measuring 63 × 63 inches, the paintings are layered with acrylic, fine art spray, pencil, charcoal, and gesso, capturing O’Guinn’s instinctive, neo-expressionist approach. Influenced by the Expressionist painters of the 1950s and 60s, his work channels a contemporary urban energy, shaped by music, memory, and his West Coast upbringing.

His pieces feel alive and constantly shifting in dialogue with the light around it. Go see them in person at our Vancouver location at 205 5th Ave, Vancouver, BC.