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401 Update – Spring 2026
Read the Spring 2026 edition of the 401 Update for a Tenant Profile on William Huffman and Metro Studio, tenant press and achievements, the spring Gallery and Events Listing, and the Back Page featuring artwork by PH1 Studios.
Community
Brigitte Nowak
Second Floor
Brigitte Nowak lives in Toronto and spends summers on an island in Georgian Bay. Her paintings, in oils and in egg tempera, explore the nature of reality and illusion, the interface between the human and natural worlds and the line between observation and comment. Image-making, to understand and reveal the world, has always been part…
Events & Exhibitions
Doors Open 2026
401 Richmond Building-Wide May 23, 202610AM – 5PM
401 Richmond opens its doors for Doors Open Toronto! Explore the building and the community of tenants, and observe the Three ‘C’s – community, culture, and commerce – at work. Join a tour or wander freely through galleries, shops, open artist studios and more. Fuel your visit with snacks from the licenced café, and enjoy…
'Lucio de Heusch and Robert Cronin' at Simon Bentley Fine Art
Virtual Window Gallery
'Lucio de Heusch and Robert Cronin' at Simon Bentley Fine Art
Lucio de Heusch and Robert Cronin share a love of investigating relationships between form, colour, field/ground and the role of the viewer in formulating an ‘experience’ of painting. Lucio’s finely controlled brushwork belies the foil of neo-expressionism, blending the Op-Art tendencies of Quebec Abstractionists like Molinari, Tousignant and Gaucher with the cautious refinement of contemporaries such as Ron Shuebrook and Pat Thibert. Cronin uses canonical movements as building blocks for his sculpture, intertwining the playful palette of Matisse with the considered formalism of Calder’s stabiles. In juxtaposing these two colourists the exhibition highlights and compares their negotiations with past and present, interfacing with ideas of 1980s postmodernity in traditional media.