Dan Rocca
Selected Theatres, 2025
This work is largely inspired by my experiences moving through large, empty theatre spaces. These images ask the viewer to meditate on themes like light, performance, emptiness, nature, and artifice. Meant to highlight the theatre and cinema as a door between worlds, this work presents theatres in an abstract, mystical way–as spaces of quiet transcendence.
Dan Rocca (b.1981) is an artist, painter, and illustrator, living and working in Toronto. Primarily focused on drawing and bookmaking, Dan’s practice also includes a broad range of media such as painting, animation, music, performance, and film. Dan graduated from OCADU, and has since gone on to show his work in Canada, and internationally.
Alex Chacinski
Ladder Guy, 2025
Ladders are everywhere - practical, familiar, and often overlooked. But like people, they come in every shape and size, each with their own story. This sculpture explores the intersection between function and imagination. What happens when a tool designed for utility expresses a personality?
This piece was constructed from stock lumber you might find in a quiet corner of a woodshop. After hours, when the tools are put away and the sawdust settles, Ladder Guy comes to life. Playful and slightly uncanny, Ladder Guy invites us to see the potential for life and character in an ordinary, inanimate object.
Alex Chacinski is a Toronto based designer who is interested in transforming everyday experiences into something playful and unexpected.
Liza Desya
Bubby Wubbles, Dance
Liza Desya is an award-winning animator and artist. Her jack-of-all-trades, master-of-fun approach has allowed her to work on creative projects across the animation industry and beyond. She has collaborated with musicians, indie organizations, and non-profits such as the Toronto Animated Image Society.
Liza is the founder of Hijinx World: The Human Creativity Magazine, a weirdo-core publication that highlights local new-media artists and unconventional storytellers.
Bubby Wubbles (20”x24” digital print on fine art paper / unframed / limited edition of 15)
Dance (10”x13.5” digital print on fine art paper / unframed / limited edition of 15)