Tenfold, Akin Dupont’s 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition
Tenfold, Akin Dupont’s 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition
Remote Gallery, 568 Richmond St W
Opening Night Reception:
Thurs Oct 8: 6-9pm
Gallery Hours:
Fri Oct 9: 4-8pm
Sat Oct 10: 1-5pm
This year, Akin Dupont celebrates its tenth anniversary. To mark this milestone, Akin Dupont artists are bringing their work together in a collective exhibition, Tenfold, which will take place at Remote Gallery from October 8-10th.
Tenfold speaks both to this ten year journey and to the many ways creativity expands when developed collectively. It evokes layers unfolding through time—individual practices, stories, inspirations, and relationships woven together within a shared space.
While each artist explores distinct questions through their own techniques and visual language, Tenfold highlights the dialogues, affinities, and contrasts that emerge between their practices. Individual voices remain visible, while their shared experiences reveal the rich sense of exchange fostered within the Akin studio community.
More than a thematic exhibition, Tenfold presents an interwoven collection of artistic expressions that coexist, intersect, and strengthen one another. We invite you to experience this vibrant multiplicity and celebrate its value to artists, communities, and society.
Here’s to the next ten years!
Some works are available for purchase,
please contact the aritists directly for more information.
Participating Artists
Coming from a sculptural background, Kobayashi is interested in the balance between form and surface design. She predominantly builds using the coiling or slab method, working in both stoneware and porcelain clay. Her process is highly experimental, with much of her time devoted to testing glazing techniques and the movement of colour across a surface. Through this repeated experimentation, she explores how pigments bleed and compete, allowing the unpredictable behaviour of the glaze and the structural form to dictate the final work.
Kobayashi recently completed the FUSION Mentorship Program under Toronto-based artist Julie Moon, marking the beginning of a dedicated new chapter in her ceramic practice.
@a.t.k.studio
Barbara Bailey based these early 2026 acrylic paintings on her colourful collages, referencing fairy tales, fruit and fabrics. Currently she creates larger works, capturing light effects on autobiographical imagery.
Bernadette graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1996 from the Drawing and Painting Department. She studied in Florence, Italy for one year with OCA where she developed a keen interest in art history and the aesthetics of renaissance and baroque paintings. She worked in theatre for over 10 years previous to art college as a designer of costumes, sets and props and brings these influences into her work. Drawing and Painting are her main areas of interest but she has also explored themes through installation and 3D Shadow Boxes over the past 35 years of her practice. She is interested in process and experimentation as a means to discover more about her subjects and themes.
The depiction of nature and certain socio-political themes have been the main focus of her work. She moves between working with the human figure, the landscape and objects over various media including oil and acrylic painting, drawing, shadow boxes and installations. The piece in this exhibit entitled “ Splayed Bodice” from 2002 is from a series called “Body Count” in which she explored how women have transformed their bodies to conform to societal ideals of beauty to the point of pain and mutilation. The more recent landscape with neon plexiglass is part of a series that explores how we have contributed to the shifts in temperature and the declining health of the planet. The neon layers obscure and transform the colors and natural appearance of the landscapes beneath resulting in an other worldly affect.
@b_peetsart
Bettina Westwood explores the unstable relationship between memory, imagination, and lived experience. She is interested in how memories are constructed and reconstructed over time, and how easily what we remember can become intertwined with what we imagine, assume, or encounter later.
A photograph appears to preserve a moment, while an object can seem to offer physical proof that something existed. Yet neither can tell us the complete story. We instinctively fill the gaps, constructing narratives from incomplete information. Over time, these constructions can become indistinguishable from memory itself.
Material and process also play an important role in her work. Breakage, distortion, chance, and imperfection can shift the meaning of an object and become part of its history rather than something to conceal.
Her work exists somewhere between representation and abstraction, familiarity and uncertainty. Rather than attempting to recover the past accurately, Westwood is interested in the stories that emerge when memory begins to loosen its connection to fact.
@bettinawestwood
Beverley Rosenberg is a Toronto-based artist who creates original paintings and drawings that explore human emotions, internal landscapes, and relationship dynamics.
Her works have childlike appearances, and are multi-layered and complex. While simple on the surface, they contain vibrant, sometimes intense emotional undertones, inspiring visceral experiences for the viewer. Taking a sketchbook wherever she goes, her work is a direct response to the environment and the information discovered there. Raw and uncontrived, she produces highly authentic expressions that grab viewers and introduce new perspectives. Her passion for understanding people, what makes them tick, and the everyday experiences of life, inform and inspire her work.
Beverley’s chosen medium of expression is acrylics, inks and pastels, which she applies to canvas, paper and wood. Beverley’s work has appeared in group exhibitions, such as the L.L. Contemporary Art Gallery (Richmond Hill, CA), Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Norman Felix Gallery, where her work has gained an enthusiastic following. Beverley received the Telford Fenton Memorial Award at TOAF.
I am a contemporary artist based in Toronto and a former student of fine art at OCAD University. Through textural landscapes and hazy compositions, I create abstract expressionist pieces that reflect my longing for a deeper connection to my surroundings and to the experiences that have shaped my world. My paintings share an earthy quality with an underlying vibrancy, with each piece possessing atmospheric compositions and textural layers brought to life through a mix of acrylics, plaster and pastels.
My aesthetic is strongly inspired by my early years growing up in South Africa which is evident in my use of earthy tones mixed with pops of colour. The raw textural layers of my pieces reflect the rugged, untamed beauty of the African landscape, while the local plant life, textiles and street art have heavily influenced my subject matter and overall aesthetic. I seek to explore contrasts in my work, where calm brushstrokes meet the chaos of pencil lines, and vibrant colours connect with muted tones to create balance and quiet tension within each piece. The layers of plaster, pencil markings and slow drips of paint built into my work allow me and my audience to take a slower pace in order to explore the intricate details and quiet tension within each painting.
@roadside.studio
Eli Moser is a painter, neuroscientist, and ceramicist. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but was grew up in the rivers and lakes of southwestern Ontario. His work focuses on figurative surrealism and attempts to understand the absurd and complex experience of existing within a human body. He is influenced by his research background, and gravitates towards themes of perception, facial recognition, and sleep science. He primarily works in acrylic, graphite, and watercolour pigments on canvas, board, and anything else he can get his hands on.
Hamid Mohammadi is an artist residing in Toronto. Hamid creates artwork that is optimistic, shows movement, community and happiness. Through subjects including people of all shapes and sizes shown in a universal way Hamid seeks to make the viewer feel as though they are represented, seen, and part of the fun shown in the images he draws. Hamid creates artwork which explores the relationships of people to themselves, to others, and their environment. Through figures, gestures and forms developed and communicated through his work Hamid captures the essence of movement, form and meaning which involves the viewer. Body language is universal so there is an interpretation which is immediate and widely understood. The figures in Hamid’s work communicate a sense of joy, warmth, calmness and contemplation. The interrelationships in a group image start to multiply and provide endless interpretations. Hamid’s art aims to be broadly relevant and touch on core universal aspects of positive human emotions, as well as joyful behaviour and actions. The artwork he produces is optimistic and uplifting with room for interpretation and sparking of further discussions. The forms presented become a vehicle for further discussions. Hamid has a background in art, architecture and design. He uses the knowledge and viewpoints of these disciplines to inform his work.
Born and raised in South Africa, Loren Kaplan has worked as a ceramic artist and teacher since the mid-1990s. In 2013, she relocated to Toronto, where she continues to live and work.
Kaplan’s practice explores the relationship between form, function, material, and meaning. Working primarily with porcelain and basalt clay, she creates vessels and sculptural forms that bring together symbolic, visual, tactile, and spiritual elements through pattern, texture, light, and repetition.
Her work is created through a combination of wheel throwing, coiling, and hand-building. Surfaces are carved, sculpted, pierced, slip-trailed, and engraved with intricate patterns that move between the geometric and the organic. In her porcelain lighting, these patterns become openings through which light can pass, transforming the object and allowing pattern, shadow, and illumination to extend beyond the ceramic form itself. She is drawn to contrasts and the challenge of holding seemingly opposing qualities in balance: white porcelain and black basalt clay, open and enclosed forms, the delicate and the substantial, the small and the monumental. Across these differences, the work carries traces of the slow, meditative process of making—the accumulation of time, repetition, concentration, and attention to detail.
The vessel remains central to her practice because she is interested in containers as spaces of potential. Her focus is on the space in between, defined spaces of emptiness making room for something to be held.
@lorenkaplan
Mark Buck is a former Toronto born gallery owner & teacher with over 40 years art experience. Mark's been a member at Akin Dupont since 2016. His Mondragam’s combines the Bauhaus Colour & Shape theory with Agam’s kinetic design. His “woven” Paperworks combines monoprints into contemporary artwork. All Mark Buck Artwork: Acrylics, Mondragams, and Paperworks are available for purchase.
Ingrassia’s practice explores contemporary masculinity and the contradictions within its performance; how emotions and actions like tenderness, aggression, desire, and shame coexist beneath inherited cultural norms. Through large-scale figurative oil painting, Ingrassia examines the social and emotional terrain of young men navigating identity and intimacy inside a cultural framework that often seeks to deny emotional fluency. His works seek to articulate the instability of masculine performance, revealing moments where vulnerability reaches the surface. These works aim to straddle the line between queer and heteronormative expressions of masculinity. They occupy a liminal, essentially bisexual space, one that resists clear categorization and instead embraces tension, ambiguity, and fluidity.
@milesingrassia
MP Guillot is a multidisciplinary artist from Quebec based in Toronto. Ceramics has become her playground for creative intuition, where her process exists at the intersection of knowing and letting go, listening for what wants to be created. Working with soft clay slabs bent and fused together with a sewing inspired approach, she assists the material in defying gravity, transforming it into fluid forms that seem to belong elsewhere. Living with colour synesthesia, MP uses colour as a language of its own. Her works emerge like messages expressed through colour, translating experiences that exist beyond words.
@mp__guillot
My work explores Open Time, the expansive, unscheduled periods of childhood when time seemed to belong entirely to us. I return to memories of days shaped less by plans or obligations than by curiosity, play, friendship, adventure, and discovery.
These experiences form the starting point for my paintings, but I am not interested in reconstructing memory literally. Instead, I explore how memory changes over time, how places, people, sensations, and emotions become fragmented, intensified, or transformed. Through drawing, watercolour, and large-scale mixed-media painting, I move between observation and recollection, translating remembered experiences through colour, gesture, texture, atmosphere, and imagined space.
At the centre of Open Time is the idea that creativity emerges when time is not completely prescribed. In childhood, ordinary surroundings could become territories for adventure, while simple encounters could develop into lasting experiences. Imagination and curiosity were allowed to determine what came next. In adulthood, these experiences become longing.
Through this body of work, I seek to recover that sense of openness and possibility. The paintings reflect on what emerges when we are free to wander, become absorbed, follow curiosity, and experience time on our own terms. Open Time is ultimately an exploration of freedom, memory, and the creative possibilities found within unscheduled time.
@robertsimoniart
Shayla Bond is a Canadian fibre artist whose work explores the intersection of textile, design, and domestic space. Rooted in the preservation of heritage craft techniques, her practice reconsiders quilting as both an artistic medium and a functional object within contemporary interiors.
@byshaylabond
Tatjana Reithofer is a multidisciplinary artist and based in Etobicoke, Ontario. She spent the majority of her youth growing up in Puebla, Mexico and finally moved back to Canada in 2013 which has influenced her practice. Using textile crafts both handmade and repurposed, Tatjana’s practice grapples with questions of cultural belonging, right to heritage, identity and her impact as a white settler on culture. She graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program in 2020.
@tatjana_anandamaya
Veronica Z.M. is a multidisciplinary artist working across mediums that include painting, drawing, ceramics and digital experiments. Veronica’s work often centers themes of grief, memories, nature and mythology.
Curated By
Renato Baldin is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, activist, and curator. His current work focuses on immersive art installations reflecting his immigrant and queer perspective.
A recipient of the Newcomer Mentorship Grant from TAC in 2022 and Aluna’s Digital Lab Residency in 2023. His recent art works includes the exhibitions and installations Fluids (2024), Queerleidoscope (2023), Narcissus (2023), Non-Exhibition (2022), Rocking Futures (2021), and The Empathy Museum: Walking in your shoes (2017).
As well, Renato designed the set and costume for the plays Kill Your Father (2026), Public Enemy (2025), The Rage of Narcissus (2022), and curated the exhibition A Country of a Thousand Colours for Caminos Festival (2022).
@renato.baldin
