Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Passing Notes, an exhibition of new paintings by Maggee Day. Over the past year, Day has developed a daily practice of drawing, making quick sketches of whatever catches her attention: a pile of toys, objects left on a table after friends have gone home, containers gathered while starting a garden. These drawings are casual records of everyday life, but they become the starting point for something much more expansive in the paintings.

Working from her sketchbooks, Day brings her observations together on a single canvas. One drawing may overlap another; an object may appear clearly in one area and disappear beneath paint somewhere else. As the paintings develop, the original subjects become increasingly difficult to identify. What began as a still life suddenly begins to tip into abstraction. A recognizable shape might become a burst of colour or a sweeping gesture. The paintings seem to shift as you look at them, moving back and forth between the familiar and the unknown.