Hang Man Gallery
The Hang Man Gallery in the historic Riverdale district of Toronto is the public face of a thriving community of visual arts professionals. For five years the Hang Man Gallery has pursued its mandate to showcase emerging and established artists – local, national and international – through fully juried individual, group, and Artists' Network member exhibitions.
The body of work highlighted through Hang Man celebrates the full range of approaches, techniques and points of view that make the visual arts so arresting. Here artists explore their specific media and the evolving sensibilities of the arts themselves, with a confident freedom that produces unique and accomplished results.
Yet the Hang Man remains firmly anchored in its time and neighbourhood: its very name connects the artists and the gallery with the notoriety of the nearby Don Jail, a landmark that once helped define a neighbourhood that included factories, crowded housing for workers, and a reputation as being outside the main. Embracing that ethos, The Hang Man is also a venue where artists wrestle with the gritty realities of contemporary life.
