Toronto Art Appreciation Meetup Group

New paintings by Mark Viola explore layered identity, movement, and perception through translucent, process-driven works.

Through explores translucence, movement, and the layered nature of perception. Figures emerge and recede within surfaces that reveal the process of their making, inviting viewers to look beyond the immediate image toward what lies beneath.

In this way, the act of painting becomes inseparable from the subject itself. The accumulation of layers echoes the psychological and emotional weight carried by each figure, suggesting that identity is not static, but continuously constructed, obscured, and revealed over time.

Rather than offering resolution, the works remain open—holding space for ambiguity, motion, and multiple readings. Through ultimately asks not only what we see, but how we see, and what might be uncovered when we choose to look beyond the surface.

Contour explores growth, change, and renewal through layered textures, shifting landscapes, and expressive abstract forms.