By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

One of the complaints of the Toronto arts scene is that it’s far too downtown-centric. Yet interestingly many of its artists, and many many Torontonians actually come from and some still live in the suburbs. Couple this with the gentrification happening all over downtown Toronto and you can come to the conclusion that sooner or later artists will be priced out of their downtown live/work spaces and crappy basement apartments. This is what Brenda Goldstein, curator of the exhibit The Centre Cannot Hold argues. She’s asked a number of Toronto artists (some urban, some not) to examine their vision of the suburbs. Pieces include Emily Hogg’s Luis Vuitton/Highway Architecture mashup, Anthea Foyer’s exploration of Rochdale and Lorraine Oades’ tongue in cheek look at aging, modernism and the Garden City school of urbanism.
The show opens tonight at the Toronto Free Gallery, 660 Queen E. 8pm.