Alex Cameron | Celebration Of Life
Sunday, September 14, 2 - 5 PM | Remarks at 3 PM
Arts & Letters Club | 14 Elm Street
Memorial Focus | Alex Cameron 1947 - 2025
September 1 - 30 | 1384 Dufferin Street
On the afternoon of September 14th, at the Arts & Letters Club, please join us as we celebrate the life of Alex Cameron, one of Canada's most distinguished contemporary painters. His oils, watercolours, and early acrylics are in many Canadian museums and hundreds of corporate and private collections.
Cameron's works will also be featured in a memorial focus at our 1384 Dufferin St. location until September 30th, on our upper floor.
Memorial Focus Installation at 1384 Dufferin Street
Immersed in the arts from a young age, Cameron was introduced to New York City’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1960s and witnessed concurrent and equally powerful experiments in abstraction back home in Toronto.
The artist’s celebration of pure pigment characterized his canvases. His thick, painterly application lends lively sculptural form to both energetic landscapes and non-representational studies.
Memorial Focus Installation at 1384 Dufferin Street
His subjects—the varied landscapes of Canada observed during his regular coast-to-coast travels—are not merely captured or recorded in paint, but rather honoured for their complexity; they are organic and magical environments that live and grow.
Alex Cameron’s paintings have been collected extensively in Canada and abroad. Notable collections include the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Bank of Canada, and The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Art Collection.
The artist's studio, circa 2019