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Corkin Gallery is pleased to present Revisiting Motifs, an exhibition of work by Toronto-based artist David Urban, on view in the Distillery District and in the gallery’s online viewing room. The exhibition brings together a selection of paintings from 1995–2015 that chart the interplay between gestural, figurative, and abstract techniques, highlighting how Urban’s methods generate a kinetic visual language.

For Urban, painting begins with the familiar. His works often depict figures in rural landscapes, inspired by time spent in the country and views from his studio window, while recurring …