Stouffville residents and visitors have just a few weeks left to catch a free art exhibition that turns everyday items into large-scale geometric installations. Kristiina Lahde’s solo show, Emergent Geometries, is on display at the Latcham Art Centre at 2 Park Drive until July 18, 2026. The gallery is open daily from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and there is no charge to enter.
The exhibition reimagines ordinary objects like straight pins, measuring tapes, safety pins, and old library catalogue cards as intricate art pieces. Lahde transforms these materials into sprawling geometric forms that explore ideas of measurement, order, and how we see the world around us. The work includes a towering structure built from pins and spiraling patterns made from discarded cards.
Lahde is a Toronto-based artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She was long-listed for the 2013 Sobey Art Award, a major Canadian art prize. Her art is held in collections at the Canada Council Art Bank, TD Bank, and Microsoft, among others, and she is represented by Toronto’s MKG127 gallery.
The exhibition is supported by the Ontario Arts Council through its Exhibition Assistance Program. Discover Stouffville, the town’s tourism office, is promoting the show as part of its summer arts push, alongside other local events like the Strawberry Festival and Ribfest.
The Latcham Art Centre has been Whitchurch-Stouffville’s public art gallery since 1979 and has operated at its current location inside the Lebovic Centre since 2018. It remains a key spot for contemporary Canadian art in the community.
