It is a glorious sunny day in Toronto and you should be on Dundas Street West eating, shopping, and looking at art. We are extending our hours to 6pm in honour of the pleasant day.

Linda Martinello's practice is equally indebted to the long trajectory of landscape art as it is to the fictitious and real histories of places that have inspired it. Her drawings and collages are composites of observations and memory based on geographic and geological details encountered in travels. This new series of works entitled Chambers of Indefinite Extent is based on recent travels to cenotes across the Yucatán peninsula in Southeastern Mexico. These drawings continue her research into the links between history and geography, and its political involvement with space, place and landscape.

Martinello's brush-strokes are combined with multiple layers of deep elemental tones and fierce black lines. Her hybrid painting/drawing technique combines rich oil paints with wet graphite onto layers of cut mylar. Revealing themselves from under the mylar, the intense colours insinuate memory and shadows. Clean cut windows peer through the layers of mylar, inviting a more intimate examination of the surface. - Trish Boon

Martinello received her HBA from the University of Toronto and her MFA from the University of Waterloo. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 2009. Her work is in numerous private, public and corporate collections including the Aimia Collection, BMO Financial Group, Cenovus, Encana, PAMA Peel Art Gallery, The Dononvan Collection University of Toronto, TD Bank Financial Group, TD Waterhouse, TELUS and Torys.  She is the recipient of several awards and research grants including the Emerging Artist Grant from the Toronto Arts Council and the Emerging Artist Grant from the Ontario Arts Council , SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo President's Graduate Scholarship and the Shantz Fellowship Award. She lives and works in Toronto.