Marni Marriott

UPDATES! Midnight Mass Books and Standard Time present a night of royalty featuring readings from: Roddy Bottum Damian Rogers Bechdel Test Stevie Manning Knowah Holder Marni Marriott Vidal Wu Roddy Bottum is best known as a musician (Imperial Teen, Nastie Band) and the founder of the iconic Faith No More. His new book, The Royal We (Akashic) is an ode to San Francisco, bicycle messengering, sex work, heroin, dreadlocks, the birth of politics in punk rock, wheatgrass, witches, crystal meth, coming out, self love and the burning down and obliteration of a great American city. Damian Rogers is the author of the concisely titled memoir An Alphabet For Joanna: A Portrait Of My Mother In 26 Fragments (KnopfCanada), Dear Leader (Coach House Books), and Paper Radio (ECW Press). She currently teaches creative writing at Toronto Metropolitan University and in private workshops. She also practices, writes about, and teaches Tarot. Bechdel Test is a performance art group from Toronto ON, comprised of three self-serving transsexuals. On June 18th, Marni Marriott, Knowah Holder & Stevie Manning will perform as Brooke LaBrooke LaBrooke; an homage to the inimitable Bruce LaBruce. Stevie Manning is a celebrated Toronto poet and artist. She is the author of Joan Would Say (KFB) and Shampoo Boy (Midnight Mass Books). Her poems were solicited by the Canadian Medical Association, but rejected after closer examination. Knowah Holder is a very serious Black transsexual writing and living in Tkaronto. She is a co-founder of Groundwork TO and her work has been published in The White Wall Review and Cunt Magazine. Marni Marriott is an artist living in Toronto. Vidal Wu is a writer and wine professional. Their articles have appeared in Louis Vuitton, Flaunt, Chatelaine and Toronto Life. Tickets are $20 advance (+ taxes and service charge) - more at the door. Link in bio Thursday June 18th - 7pm doors 165 Geary Ave. Toronto Flyer by @studioandresgarzon Original Photo by G.B. Jones

BRONZE EYE art/performance/personae a theatrical autopsy ➳❥ Opening Night May 29th from 7-11pm ➳❥ On view from May 29th - May 31st ➳❥ Performances begin: 9:30pm ➳❥ Located at @girlfraud 1254 Dundas St W ➳❥ PWYC ➳❥ Masks, costumes, or drag strongly encouraged  Bend me over to the other side and sneak a peak at my BIG BRONZE EYE 𓀓 𓂉 @marnigurl @robesofteal_ @marinahasalongname @francispitsadiotis @medusiform @jobellequijano @billieraphael @omar.inferno @dreamgirlonfilm @labyrinth_crab @skitebird Have some fun and wear something you wouldn’t!!!!!! See you there 𓀓𓀓𓀓𓀓𓀓𓀓𓀓𓀓𓀓𓀓

Closing soon: Marni Marriott 'The Sphinx'.⁠ ⁠ '[...] In Yesterday (Iron Lake), a central protagonist hunches against an exterior landscape of river, trees, and rushes. The stark illumination of her shoulder blades stands in uneasy juxtaposition to the flatly lit openness of the adjacent environment, creating a yawning distance between the two. The painting’s modal register – somewhere between dream, memory, and longing – is underscored by an opaque grey plane at the upper edge, a framing device that further complicates the protagonist's relationship to space. This quiet sense of placelessness hums throughout the compositions in The Sphinx.'⁠ ⁠ ⁠Marni Marriott⁠ Yesterday (Iron Lake), 2026⁠ Oil on Canvas⁠ 40.6 x 101.6 cm⁠ ⁠ On view until April 25 at ⁠ ↗

Marni Marriott reflects on flatness, collage, and the construction of picture space in one of her recent works, considering the relationship between memory, landscape, and distance.⁠ ⁠ The Sphinx continues online this week.⁠ ⁠ View the exhibition via painterspaintingpaintings.com ↗

Marni Marriott shares an exclusive audio where she discusses her piece ‘Composition in Cobalt and Silver’.⁠ ⁠ Composition in Cobalt and Silver, 2026⁠ Oil on Canvas⁠ 40.6 x 30.5 cm⁠ ⁠ 'Marriott creates her own contemporary vocabulary of symbols which repeats throughout the works: the quilt motif – a symbol traditionally painted on barns across rural Ontario as a form of vernacular heraldry – carries a glimmering presence, refracting continually at the works’ edges [...]'⁠ ⁠ View the full exhibition online via ⁠ For inquiries: [email protected] ↗

'Nostalgia (Funktion 1)' from Marni Marriott's exhibition, 'The Sphinx'. Visit the exhibition online via ⁠ ↗⁠ ⁠ Marni Marriott⁠ Nostalgia (Funktion 1), 2026⁠ Oil on Canvas⁠ 101.6 x 76.2 cm

In our inaugural episode of the Substack podcast, we feature an exclusive discussion with Marni Marriott regarding her solo exhibition 'The Sphinx'. ⁠ ⁠ You can listen to the full episode on our Substack: painterspaintingpaintings.substack.com ↗⁠

'Marriott is also influenced by the work of German artist Hans Bellmer, whose studies of dolls and constricted bodies creates a formal and philosophical antecedent. Bellmer’s refusal of authoritarian aesthetics – his insistence on the mutability and transgression of the body, and particularly his engagement with childhood and passivity – chimes with Marriott’s exploration of new modes of identity and myth.'⁠ ⁠ Marni Marriott solo show 'The Sphinx' is on view until April 26th at painterspaintingpaintings.com ↗⁠

The Sphinx' by Marni Marriott continues on view at painterspaintingpaintings.com ↗⁠ ⁠ Pictured:⁠ Marni Marriott⁠ Memory Entombment, 2026⁠ Oil on Canvas⁠ 76.2 x 61 cm⁠ ⁠ 'The painting’s modal register – somewhere between dream, memory, and longing – is underscored by an opaque grey plane at the upper edge, a framing device that further complicates the protagonist's relationship to space. This quiet sense of placelessness hums throughout the compositions in The Sphinx.'

View the exhibition ‘The Sphinx' by Marni Marriott via ⁠ ↗⁠ ⁠ Pictured:⁠ Marni Marriott⁠ Winter (Elk Lake), 2026⁠ Oil on Canvas⁠ 45.7 x 61 cm

Now Live: Marni Marriott’s 'The Sphinx' presents a series of paintings where twisted, isolated figures curl into themselves and beckon, set against open landscapes that saturate shadowy tableaux.⁠ ⁠ Drawing on fin-de-siècle Symbolist thought and Canadian landscape painting, the works reconcile a contemporary, decadent ennui with the yawning expanses of rural Ontario, turning on themes of dislocation and transgression, belonging and estrangement.⁠ ⁠ See it live at ↗

Ep 5 of Local Colour features Marni Marriott (@marnigurl ) - she paints, she DJs, what else could a person want Link in bio @cbcarts DP Colin Cameron (@cmrn.co ) Sound Jaiden Davis-Jones (@jaidendavisjones )