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From the expressway, the colourful facade of Katharine Harvey’s Gardiner Streams reflects back at the nighttime traffic, transposing the banality of the road into a work of art. Harvey spent hours perched in a building overlooking the Gardiner Expressway to plan her concept for Gardiner Streams‘, her integrated glazing artwork expressively interprets traffic movement on the roadway. The subject of the artwork finds unexpected beauty in the headlights and taillights below it. As cars stream in and out of the city, light trails behind them create a canvas of intermingled colours and patterns.

Katharine Harvey’s, is a Canadian artist, painter and conceptualist, working on installation and public art on a monumental scale. Through these medias Harvey explores memory and the sensation of ephemeral, fleeting moments. At the core of her work is a fascination with the unseen, the liminal space between reality, the mind’s eye, and imagination. Her work is exhibited across Canada, as well as in Hamburg, New York, Los Angeles, Monterey Bay, and Washington, D.C.