2026 | Jamie Lispson | TORONTO (PROJECT SPACE): Hard Plastic

Blouin Division is pleased to present Hard Plastic by Jamie Lipson in the project space. With this exhibition, Lipson reflects on a lifelong impulse to collect and preserve objects whose meanings shift as they accumulate and disperse.

As a child, I kept everything. Ephemera of all sorts filled my bedroom walls, eventually overflowing into bags stacked in the closet. Periodically I would sort through the contents only to find I could not remember where any of it came from.

With age, my compulsion to collect grew more deliberate. It began with stamps, coins, and basketball cards. First edition novels, private press records, and archival fashion soon followed. Now languishing in storage lockers, this material too was lost. My precious stockpiles, whether sentimental or rare, suffer a fate unfit for their station.

My work is a battle against this entropy. My process is one of double framing. The first frame is literal: each object demands the perfect enclosure, a structure that invites closer examination. The second is spatial: I seek out environments with the necessary conditions to imbue my dead collections with new meaning, context, and value.

Jamie Lipson (b. 1990) is a Canadian artist living and working in Toronto. His mixed-media sculptures function as a living archive of his interests and memories. An obsessive collector, he recontextualizes his accumulation of curios to question, complicate, and reinvent their material histories.

Trained as an architect, Jamie brings a distinctly tectonic formal language to his practice. He works extensively with plexiglass, employing an evolving lexicon of joints and fasteners to construct intricate enclosures for his prized possessions.

Hard Plastic presents a series of objects in boxes. Enshrined in plastic and placed in a new environment, the inanimate becomes ensouled. A new suit, a new life, a new audience.