CELIA NEUBAUER

New Paintings

Opening: Saturday February 1, 2025

Time: 2 - 5 pm

Place: General Hardware, 1520 Queen St. W. Toronto

Celia Neubauer’s exhibition of new paintings beautifully expand her “Whispers in Ice” series. Neubauer continues to explore the impact of climate change on glaciers around the world.

In her elegant paintings, Neubauer harkens back to the precision of historical Chinese painting and the tenderness of calligraphy under the guise of modernist abstraction. At once familiar and strange, these works are symptomatic of Neubauer’s adeptness at fabricating almost-ambiguous spaces, be they celestial landscapes, heavenly bodies, ice shelves, or clouds exploding in the sky. Neubauer seduces the voyeur that is within us all while quietly reminding us of our frailty and our diminutive place within the larger universe.

Neubauer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at York University and earned a Higher Diploma at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Neubauer exhibits internationally and her work is included in the collections of BMO Financial Group, Royal Bank of Canada, TD Art Collection, Canada Life, Cadillac Fairview, Canada Goose Collection, Four Seasons (Dubai), the Donovan Collection, Hewlett Packard Canada Ltd., Live Entertainment of Canada Inc., Art Gallery of Mississauga, Tory Tory Deslauriers & Binnington, Telus Sky and many private collections. She has taught at Queen’s University; the University of Guelph and the University of Toronto School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Neubauer’s work has been featured in The Globe and Mail numerous times, Canadian Art Magazine, The Toronto Star, Toronto Life Magazine, Design Lines Magazine and Carte Blanche 2: Painting.

Whispers in Ice, 11, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48 inches

Whispers in Ice, 13, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48 inches

Whispers in Ice, 12, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48 inches

Whispers in Ice, 14, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48 inches

Whispers in Ice, 14, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48 inches

Whispers in Ice, 16, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48 inches

Untitled, acrylic and oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches each