The Power Plant

WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES

Ron Terada

Upcoming Exhibition

Jun 23 – Sep 04 2023

 Ron Terada, TL; DR 4, 2019–20.  52 acrylic-on-canvas paintings, 305 x 1,585 cm. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Ron Terada, TL; DR 4, 2019–20. 52 acrylic-on-canvas paintings, 305 x 1,585 cm. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.


PRESENTING DONOR

Eleanor and Francis Shen

MAJOR DONORS

Jay Smith and Laura Rapp
Elisa Nuyten

SUPPORTING DONORS

Philip Lind and Ellen Roland
Robin and Malcolm Anthony
Shabin and Nadir Mohamed


GUEST CURATOR

Kitty Scott

Vancouver-based artist Ron Terada will present his first major solo exhibition in Toronto since 2018, including his monumental painting series TL; DR, 2017–22, and a newly commissioned sign sculpture in the Fleck Clerestory that also lends its title to the exhibition.

TL; DR is a series of paintings featuring headlines generated from The Verge, an online tech-news source, and recasting them in the distinct font used by The New York Times. TL; DR is internet slang for “too long; didn’t read,” and Terada’s wry works speak to our shared sense of frustration when faced with the overwhelming experience of today’s often catastrophic news. The exhibition features the latest body of work in the TL; DR series: an epic cycle of 325 paintings that tells a story of 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

About the Artist


Ron Terada

Ron Terada (b. 1969, Vancouver; lives/works: Vancouver) has developed a wide-ranging conceptual art practice over more than two decades, which includes painting, photography, video, and music, as well as publications, posters, billboards, and signage. Terada is a graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design.