Martha Eleen

MARTHA ELEEN graduated with honours in painting from Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver, 1984. Her paintings have been exhibited in public galleries in Canada, U.S.A., and Mexico and are in private and public collections. Her recent series of paintings, Into the 905: The View From the Car, investigates the suburban landscape. This body of work in progress was exhibited at the Grimsby Public Gallery, Grimsby, ON; Cambridge Public Gallery (Preston), Cambridge, ON; Lehmann Leskiw Gallery, Toronto. 2005; and Gallery 1313, Toronto, 2004. Eleen was Artist in Residence at Peace Village, a Muslim subdivision on the outskirts of Toronto, in the spring of 2006. The paintings produced here were exhibited at the Bai'tul Islam Mosque at Peace Village in Maple, ON as well as at the International Centre in Mississauga ON in 2006. Eleen teaches painting and drawing at the Toronto School of Art.