Propeller Art Gallery presents
January 21 – February 8, 2026
Saturday, January 24: Opening Reception 2 – 5 pm & Artist Talks 3 pm
Through a collection of prints and hand-bound books, and scrolls, Daniel Etigson’s Love Your Shadow exhibition explores the shadow as a source of beauty, protection, and love.
The exhibition contains original essays, books, poems, and graphic works that draw upon a range of visual and literary traditions, including ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hebrew, Syriac, Pali, Sanskrit, Buddhist, and Japanese texts. Viewers of the exhibition will experience Daniel’s original books and graphic works inspired by these traditions, and they will leave with a broadened understanding of the visual and literary history of the shadow’s beauty and power.
Daniel Etigson is a graphic artist currently based in Toronto. His work focuses on screen prints and hand-bound art books. He’s an Artist Member and Board Member of Propeller Art Gallery, a member of People of Print, and a Studio Member and Board Member of Open Studio: Centre for Contemporary Printmaking.
This exhibition is my nod and expression in painted form to both Canadian landscape near water and to the landscape and the mythological creatures who live in reality rather than fable and verse, under the sea.
The mysticism and the oral tradition of mythology depicting life under the surface of water are celebrated in every ocean in most countries. We have the Mermaid, the Merman, the Sirens, the Shape shifters and More. Most countries have their own oral tradition of telling stories of life under the sea. I have always imagined that Venice, Italy, is Mermaid Headquarters.
All paintings and sketches are in oils. The two series running simultaneously through this exhibition are complemented by the sculptural forms of my hand-painted wedding gowns in mermaid attire. The gowns are ready to be worn, under the sea.
Elizabeth Greisman is an international visual artist, curator and educator based in Toronto, Canada. She has developed collaborations with dancers, poets, musicians, actors, physicians and cooks and is the Founding Director of the Artist Cooperative of Canada and the Nascent Art Science Collective. Her work has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Dublin, Ireland and group exhibitions supported by the Canadian Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
