Solo Exhibition in Toronto April 26-May 24

21 April, 2025

Medrie MacPhee will be exhibiting her work in two upcoming solo exhibitions. The Edge of the Alphabet will be on view at Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto from April 26-May 24, 2025. She will also exhibit The Repair at Tibor de Nagy in New York, March 15-April 19, 2025.

The Edge of the Alphabet, Medrie MacPhee’s latest series, continues her intuitive approach of collaging clothing onto canvas or panel and then painting on top. The exhibition presents a uniform scale of 30 x 24 inch panels – a smaller format than MacPhee has previously worked on in this medium. The paintings are also more textural than ever before. In addition to the occasional seam, button, or zipper, she uses pumice-infused paint to enhance the work’s sculptural qualities. While the paintings at first read as abstractions, the titles reveal their unique inspirations from everyday life as in ‘Sleeping, Dreaming’ and ‘A Particle and a Wave.’ While her use of clothing inherently references the body, MacPhee also uses the seams and various textures to give each painting its own semiotic meaning, like that of a visual haiku. Throughout her distinguished career, MacPhee has been fascinated in words as complex objects, as forms that hold within them weight, structure, memory, emotion, and association. (source: Nicholas Metivier Gallery Instagram)

(Photo credit: John Berens | Medrie MacPhee, A Particle and a Wave, 2024. Oil and mixed media on panel. 30 x 24 in.)