Lot 47

Nancy Friedland is a Toronto-based painter whose work explores narrative, memory, landscape, and light, often drawing on family albums and personal photographs as source material. Trained first as a photographer, she is interested in the ways images shift and transform as they move between mediums, embracing the distortions, omissions, and reinterpretations that occur in translation. Her paintings balance observation and imagination, weaving fragments of personal history into evocative visual narratives that feel both familiar and dreamlike.

Friedland studied photography at OCAD University and completed an MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology as a Sir Edmund Walker Scholar. At the heart of Friedland’s practice is an exploration of darkness and illumination—both literal and emotional. Whether depicting moonlit landscapes or intimate recollections, her work offers a refuge against uncertainty, revealing the quiet beauty and meaning that emerge when light cuts through darkness.