The Contemporary Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Leon Polk Smith starting May 14.

Titled Big Form, Big Space, it is the first solo exhibition in a public gallery in Canada by the American artist.

"Focusing on paintings and works on paper from the 1950s," reads the event info, "the exhibition charts a critical moment in Smith’s artistic career in which the signature visual language of his work began to manifest, reflective both of prevalent trends of the time and an increasing engagement with the contexts of his upbringing and identity.

"Big Form, Big Space provides a timely opportunity to re-evaluate Smith’s place within art history, looking beyond the strict appreciation of his place within hard-edge modernist abstraction to encompass broader considerations of context, time and identity."

The exhibition, guest curated by Nigel Prince, will run until August 22, and you can learn more about it here.