What do we perceive when we are awake during the hours in which we normally dream? In Vivian Reiss’ “Endless Day into Night”, the artist delights in bringing the experience of night out of the dark. The exhibition has a dream-like quality, and explores things that come out in the night, like the toys on…
“La Sirena, Irma” oil on canvas, 42×54 inches, oil on canvas by Vivian Reiss El Museo del Jardín de la Humanidad was a show of portraits of immigrant Mexican farm workers who plant and harvest in Southern Ontario’s farms and nurseries, along with paintings of Reiss’ farm garden in Toronto. The Show was sponsored and organised by the…
Satoyama Storehouse is an art project Vivian Reiss created for the prestigious Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, the largest international art exhibition in Japan. The project consists of a series of intensely personal paintings of the inhabitants of Hachi, a small rice-farming village in the mountains of Japan which is slowly shrinking as farming loses its prestige in…