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The reception for Nadya Isabella’s debut art exhibit, A Toast to this Moment, was held on September eighth at the Libby Leshgold Gallery. In this collection Nadya juxtaposes fantastical moments of human reality with imaginative scenes of fictional characters and non-human perspectives. The show consists of vibrant, saturated paintings where the colour palette and brush strokes capture the essence of a memory. For example, in one painting a person pours cream in their coffee. Here Nadya paints them with grey tones and a blue hat against a bright yellow café. The artwork invites the observer into its world, one that describes those slow, gloomy days where it seems as if the world is too loud and fast. This piece is just one example of how the many forms of human interaction are explored in A Toast to this Moment. Some paintings depict what are probably “traditional” moments one might think of when considering this, such as picnics and parties. How