lights out: nuit blanche

nuit blanche: mallory diaczun

I dare you to colour inside of the lines.
Beginning the night of Nuit Blanche, Mallory Diaczun will be hosting a
naughty colouring contest featuring line drawings of porn star Jenna
Jameson. The creator of Queen West's most infamous dirty work "Jenna's
Colouring Book" is inviting everyone to participate in decorating (and
submitting) colouring sheets, or working on a community colouring
wall. The winner of the contest will be announced at the closing
reception of Diaczun's collaborative show "Sweet Light Crude" and
will receive a copy of Jenna's Colouring Book, along with a loot-bag
full of sexual treats. The event will be held Come As You Are at 701
Queen Street West.

YYZ: JENNIFER MARMAN + DANIEL BORINS | MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL KENNETH DOREN | RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style

KENNETH DOREN “RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style” Installation detail. Image courtesy the artist.



JENNIFER MARMAN + DANIEL BORINS | MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL
KENNETH DOREN | RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style
SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2009 – SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009


JENNIFER MARMAN + DANIEL BORINS | MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL
On June 27, 2009, Marmco International celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony in 401 Richmond, kicking off construction of «MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL», the first ever artist-run centre mall of its kind in Canada (Marmco International is the pseudo-corporate-moniker of Toronto based artists JENNIFER MARMAN and DANIEL BORINS). «MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL» will host 430 square feet of retail space in a mini-mall built within the Z gallery. The project will officially open on Friday 11 September 2009 and it will feature four stores/small businesses designed by four sets of artists. JENNIFER MARMAN and DANIEL BORINS have conceived of and facilitated this project as part of a summer residency at YYZ. In the winter of 2009, MARMAN and BORINS invited four groups of artists to participate in this project by asking them: if they could open a store or small business, what would they dream of doing? The artists included in the project are Ken Ogawa, Aleks Ognjanovich, Ulysses Castellanos, and the Shinn family – Karey, Nick and their children Eric and Zoe.

JENNIFER MARMAN and DANIEL BORINS practice sculpture, installation and media art in Toronto. MARMAN and BORINS have shown work both in Canada and internationally, including exhibitions at: Art Santa Fe, in Santa Fe New Mexico; Galeria Vermelho, and Paco Das Artes, in Sao Paulo Brazil; at the University of Toronto; the Toronto International Art Fair; and the Toronto Sculpture Garden. In the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008 MARMAN and BORINS showed their sculpture The Presence Meter at the National Gallery of Canada, as part of an exhibition entitled Dots, Pulses, and Loops. In the fall of 2008 MARMAN and BORINS participated in a group sculpture show at the National Gallery of Canada entitled Caught in the Act. Most recently, they had their first museum level solo show at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto. MARMAN and BORINS have been invited to speak at a number of galleries and institutions, including: the National Gallery of Canada, The Power Plant's Hub-Bub series, the Art Gallery of Ontario, University of Toronto, the Ontario College of Art and Design, York University, and Syracuse University. Their work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada (2008) and they are represented by Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto. MARMAN and BORINS graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2001. Prior to that, MARMAN received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, and BORINS received a BA in Art History from McGill University.


KENNETH DOREN | RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style
KENNETH DOREN’s «RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style» is an interdisciplinary installation and performance about the past as well as the human potential to act, or simply knowing that we just don't have it in us. This «Low Opera» questions current and historical issues while interpreting social codes and philosophies. It's about the personal quest for greatness as well as the poetic beauty of falling from grace. «RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style» is summed up in the musical movement titles, borrowed from three consecutive lines from the second book of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost 1667. This opera might even humbly be seen as a contemporary interpretation of this great literary work.

Musically, this type of inter-disciplinary work elaborates on DOREN’s investigation in re-thinking Western classical music, performed and produced using multi-media elements, uncommon to classical concert music, to challenge the roles of the musician and composer. DOREN’s process for composing involves the use of sampling and manipulating source material via computer technology, then transcribing the new digital versions for an acoustic instrument performance, forming a complexity of untraditional harmonies and rhythms. For «RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style», the scoring is for two pianos (facing away from each other) and was inspired by British piano music. Mezzo Soprano Patrice Jegou improvises vocally within certain guidelines and styles that were pre-planned, videotaped and edited for a visual display in two video monitors, one on top of each piano. Her edited performance developed different costumed characters and presents an operatic visual presentation that plays homage to the grand «Shite Style» of yesteryear.

KENNETH DOREN is a Canadian multi-media artist and composer whose art installations, videos and digital operas have been presented in Canada, China, Finland, and the U.S.A. His work and practice employs musical interventions and political discourse utilizing video and performance to decode the subject. DOREN has developed a number of personal projects that he has termed 'digital operas' incorporating video and musical performance that challenge the parameters of composition, and the performance of western classical music and text. The digital operas and video work are performance spectacles in which DOREN has appropriated historical texts and juxtaposed them with references to pop culture. DOREN obtained his MFA from NSCAD University in 2005 and received an Alumni Award from Alberta College of Art and Design for recognition as one of the top 75 students throughout ACAD’s seventy-five year history.


UPCOMING EVENTS AT YYZ

WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2009
Ongoing event
«MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL» retailer War and Leisure introduces ESL Wednesdays, occurring WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2009, WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2009, WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2009.
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2009
Canadian Art Gallery Hop
Gallery Hours

THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER 2009
Performance
Performance Art Class by «MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL» retailer Chirajito: Clown Painter (Ulysses Castellanos).
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM

SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2009
Midnight Madness
«MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL» opens late from 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM for a shopping extravaganza.
11:00 PM – 1:00 AM

WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2009
Lecture
Nick Shinn, of «MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL» retailer Shinndustry International, delivers a perspective lecture.
6:30 PM

THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2009
Fashion Show
Fashion show featuring designs by Karey Shinn, War and Leisure and a special performance by guest artists including Xenia Benivolski and others.
8:00 PM at Cinecycle

SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009
Closing party
«MASSIVE SALE: YYZ MALL» hosts a garage sale with a DJ and cocktails and guest artists’ collective The White House. All merchandise, store fixtures and furniture must be sold for this business blow out.
Mall Hours

Performance
Kenneth Doren’s «RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style» performed by Joseph Ferretti, Elaine Lau, Fiona Jane Wood and Stephanie Chua
Meet at 6:00 PM. Performance at 6:30 PM. Duration: 33 minutes. Stay for drinks!

These events are subject to change. Please check the YYZ website (www.yyzartistsoutlet.org) for more information about the exhibitions and the most current information about the associated events.


For images and interviews contact Ana Barajas at 416-598-4546.





YYZ
140-401 Richmond Street W.
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8

T: 416.598.4546
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E: yyz@yyzartistsoutlet.org
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GALLERY HOURS
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

MALL HOURS
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

exhibition: erin finley, sept. 16-30, 2009, peak gallery

Erin Finley
Ink and watercolour drawings from the series, "Wally and the Detroit Sibyls"
Peak Gallery
23 Morrow Avenue
Toronto ON M6R 2H9
September 16 - September 30, 20

Wally and the Detroit Sibyls

Violence and romance collude and collide in this series of phantasmagorical, narrative-based vignettes. Motifs from the disparate worlds of Victorian fashion, ancient mythology, and professional wrestling are combined here, creating the locus for a perverse wonderland where everything is at once serious and comical. Parodying the beauty, grotesquerie, and madness of the real world, this is an alternate universe where hyperbole abounds – with equal force – at the fall of empires and the spilling of milk.

Produced on paper, and rendered in ink, watercolour, and pencil crayon, the mark-making in these images recalls illustrations belonging to the canon of children’s lit, including Cinderella and Robin Hood, with most of the influence being from John Tenniel’s Alice in Wonderland illustrations. These tales have also been exploited for their larger-than-life conceptions of morality, tragedy, and villainy: therefore, in these vignettes, cruelty and kindness act as a form of currency.

telephone: 416 537 8108
email: zack@peakgallery.com

http://www.erinfinley.com/

read Erin's hit list here: http://www.akimbo.ca/hitlist/?id=51

nuit blanche at the gladstone

COME PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER AT THE GLADSTONE!

NUIT GLADSTONE IV
Sunset to Sunrise
Sat Oct 3 6:55pm to 7am Sun Oct 4, 2009
All Public Spaces

EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

SECOND FLOOR: FREE!


7pm to 7am sketchPAD

sketchPAD transforms the second floor exhibition spaces of the hotel into a three dimensional artist sketch pad. Stroll through or lounge amidst drawings and illustrations, and watch or participate in works in progress in individual exhibition rooms and connecting public gallery spaces. Curated by Chris Mitchell, Director of Exhibitions for the Gladstone Hotel

Participants: Art Fuzion, featuring the Fuzionists, ATAW Illustration and Design, Vivien Cheng, Moira Clark, Joey DAMMIT!, Erin Finley and Andrew kmiecik, Sara Hartland-Rowe, Steve Khan, Catherine Lane, Lonsdale Gallery, Ramune Luminaire and Liegh MacDonald, Sheetal Sehgal, Dr Sketchy, and Lois Schklar.

nuit blanche: lights out

Over the last year students from the department of Art and Art History at Sheridan College were introduced to performance practices in a new inter-disciplinary performance course. This course investigated ways in which the body informs issues surrounding identity, gender, activism and the body within space. Expanding from this point, students explored the role of performance in relationship to: social and daily ritual, audience interaction, spectatorship and interventions of public and private space.

To celebrate their research students will be presenting new and re-imagined performances, audio works, videos, and performance ephemera for this year’s Nuit Blanche at Camera Bar. Titled, Lights Out!, this event will run from Oct.3 6:55 PM, 2009 to Oct.4 2009 at sunrise.

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=137293216679&ref=mf

artist lecture: sunny kerr

Art and Art History Presents

Sunny Kerr on Student Exhibitions at University of Toronto Art Centre

Tuesday 22 September 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan Annie Smith Mezzanine

Sunny Kerr is an artist, curator, and occasional educator living and working in Toronto. After completing his BFA at NSCAD in Halifax, he moved to Toronto in 2001 and became managing editor of the art and culture journal Public for three years. Kerr was also involved in the experimental film and video community as a member of Pleasure Dome collective where he created audio scores and experimental video pieces.
Kerr earned his MFA at York University in 2006 focusing on video installation. He is a member of the curatorial/artist’s collective wayupwaydown along with artist Yam Lau and architect Tania Ursomarzo. He has also worked as a Teaching Assistant at OCAD focusing on both media art and artists’ writing.
He currently manages student and educational programs at the University of Toronto Art Centre, which has given him the opportunity to support and facilitate exhibitions of students’ art, publications, and curating. This position has also allowed him to curate the 2009 Chancellor’s exhibition of Student artwork, and to participate in various U of T art juries and planning groups.
Kerr is a member of the Board of Directors of YYZ Artist’s Outlet, helping with programming and with an effort to re-imagine its publishing arm.

Kerr’s art practice engages different media in an investigation of the everyday nature of illusion. His work has expanded from video installation to include book works, laser-cut vinyl projects, and relational and pedagogical happenings. Upcoming exhibitions include spring 2010’s Stantec Window piece.
Kerr has recently exhibited in the 2008 Nuit Blanche, where he initiated and carried out a large-scale collaboration with an automotive club, as well as in Titles, a wayupwaydown bookstore intervention project, which has toured to bookstores in the U.S. Montreal, and London, Ontario. Its final stop is opening September 26th at Art Metropole in Toronto. Kerr is presently co-curating an exhibition, history project, and free-school happening at the U of T Art Centre in the spirit of Toronto’s seminal Rochdale College.


Image: Sunny Kerr and Esther Lee with Yasunori Aoki, Meet (2008), collaborative project with Toronto Subaru Club at the University of Toronto Art Centre during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008

exhibition: flavio trevisan

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Grey Area
Flavio Trevisan
drywall compound and millboard on plywood [2009]
56” x 118” x 1½”

show runs from September 18 - October 17, 2009

Most maps are in the service of providing as much information as possible. This is achieved by introducing numerous layers of information, such as natural and man-made landmarks, geography, built form, infrastructure, etc., all the while providing this information both graphically and in text.

Here in Grey Area, with the reduction of the map to a single layer of information—the public street and highway system—a surprisingly clear and complex reading remains. Because extraneous layers of prescribed information are removed, an understanding of place is possible. Through analysis of this pattern, a mix of cultural, geographical, social and political histories of Toronto can be unearthed.

From the original 10 blocks that were the birth of the metropolis, to the subsequent surveying of the surrounding lands, and the final filling in of these super blocks, one can get a sense of how the City of Toronto grew to where it is today. The outlying villages that were eventually annexed and their modern day equivalents in the making of the megacity can still be discerned. The development of the first 20th century suburb of Don Mills is a distinct pattern that can be seen reproduced in areas further away from the city centre. Interestingly, as land has become more valuable, the density of the blocks in these recent suburbs often more closely resembles that of older areas downtown. But the meandering suburban street is still seeming more popular in these new developments than the regular grids of downtown.

The natural environment also has a major effect on this pattern development. Everywhere the presence of natural watersheds of rivers and creeks that run through the city can be seen by absences of streets or, at the very least, their deviation from the grid. Many natural features can be discerned by following the oddly twisted streets along the old Lake Iroquois shoreline, the Scarborough Bluffs, and even the long buried Garrison Creek. As well, much of our infrastructure is oblivious to these natural features. For example, the 401 route often passes over large ravines without a traveler realizing it, while the Don Valley Parkway, by its very nature, is a clear contrast.

In this map, the road system is represented as a sculptural relief, giving the organizing structure of the city its presence, and alluding to the containing and compartmentalizing nature of the system. Streets are of course absolute urban necessities for allowing us to move people and things at will, yet at the same time they act as boundaries, intentionally or not becoming lines within the grey area.


Flavio Trevisan is an artist working in Toronto. He was born in 1970 in Padova, Italy and was educated at the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1999. He is a founder and co-director of convenience gallery in Toronto.


convenience is a window gallery that provides an opening for art that engages, experiments, and takes risks with the architectural, urban, and civic realm.

convenience
24/7 window gallery
58 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto ON M6K 2V9
(at Seaforth Avenue, one block North of Queen)
www.conveniencegallery.com

contact: Flavio Trevisan
flavio@flaviotrevisan.com
www.flaviotrevisan.com

exhibition tour bus

ARTbus: The Get Out of Town Tour
Exhibition tour to Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga and Oakville Galleries
Sunday 20 September 2009
11:30 am to 5:30 pm




Reserve your seat by 18 September at 905.844.4402 ext. 30 or elizabeth@oakvillegalleries.com.
$10 registration fee includes food and refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market.

PICK-UP
Bus departs 11:30am from OCAD, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto.

DROP OFF
Bus arrives at 5:30pm back at OCAD.


BLACKWOOD GALLERY at the University of Toronto Mississauga
Bus arrives at noon for a tour of the exhibition with Christof Migone, Curator/Director of the Blackwood Gallery.

Fall Out
14 September - 13 December 2009

Blackwood Gallery presents Fall Out, with artists Robyn Cumming, Simone Jones, Erika Kierulf, Zilvinas Kempinas, Kristiina Lahde, Paul Litherland, Valerian Maly, Tom Sherman, and Don Simmons. An exhibition where to be bound by gravity will be considered, diverted, inverted. Some work will defy gravity, others will simultaneously defy and confirm its pull. Fall Out will also be a study of outcomes, epiphanies and consequences. It will be an examination of remnants and how they act as triggers in perennial permutation—in other words, Fall Out will dwell on a fall out that never settles. Curated by Christof Migone.


ART GALLERY of MISSISSAUGA
Bus arrives at 1:15 pm for a tour of the exhibitions.

Chris Barr: Bureau of Workplace Interruptions
Markings: Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection
17 September - 1 November

The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) will be hosting Chris Barr: Bureau of Workplace Interruptions and Markings: Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection. Barr’s Bureau aims to challenge our relationship to time and efficiency by harnessing interruptive technologies to expose the secret possibilities of the workday. The selection of works in Markings: Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection explores the varied and unique methods of drawing, printmaking, and mark-making which have found a home at the AGM. With no thematic constraints in terms of subject, the exhibition is an investigation into how the formal visual languages of line, plane, shape, texture, colour, and composition can combine in innumerable ways to create meaning.


OAKVILLE GALLERIES at Centennial Square
Bus arrives at 2:45 pm for the exhibition opening and tour by Bertrand Carrière.

Bertrand Carrière: Caux
19 September - 22 November

Bertrand Carrière's Caux captures muted aspects of a turbulent history along the Normandy Coast, particularly the beach at Dieppe in 1944, where many Canadian soldiers fell in the Dieppe Raid. His photographs uncover the ruins of the strange legacy left behind in the landscape, where cliffs rise up in an impenetrable fortress of harsh and arid beauty. Curated by Marnie Fleming.


OAKVILLE GALLERIES in Gairloch Gardens
Bus arrives at 3:45 pm for the exhibition opening and tour by Peter MacCallum.

Peter MacCallum: Vimy Ridge, 2005-2008
19 September - 22 November

Peter MacCallum is a painstaking researcher, a historian with a camera. Three trips to the site of Vimy Ridge saw the artist scrutinize the contemporary remains of the 1917 battlegrounds, cemeteries and the restoration of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. The resulting images invite dialogue between past and present, between imagination and a distant reality. Curated by Marnie Fleming.

This event is part of Hometown Stories: Oakville Memories of War (www.hometownstories.ca) and has been made possible through the generous support of Veterans Affairs Canada and the Oakville Community Foundation.

For a detailed tour schedule, please go to http://www.oakvillegalleries.com/current-talks.htm.


Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N., Mississauga
905.828.3789
www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Art Gallery of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga
905.896.5506
www.artgalleryofmississauga.com

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square
120 Navy St., Oakville

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville
905.844.4402
www.oakvillegalleries.com

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exhibition: fall out @ blackwood gallery

Fall Out
September 14 – December 13, 2009
With Robyn Cumming, Simone Jones, Erika Kierulf, Zilvinas Kempinas, Kristiina Lahde, Paul Litherland, Valerian Maly, Tom Sherman, and Don Simmons
Curated by Christof Migone

Live the lives, live them all,
Keep the dreams separate,
See: I rise, See: I fall
Am an other, am no other.
Paul Celan

An exhibition bound by gravity. An exhibition where to be bound by gravity will be considered, diverted, inverted. Some work will defy gravity, others will simultaneously defy and confirm its inevitable pull. Yet others will allude to the rise and fall in Celan’s epigraph and feature the ebb and flow of breathing as well as his notion of the self as ‘other’. Tactics involving wind and magnetism, amongst others, are recruited to counter the fated force of attraction which ties our feet to the ground and keeps the Earth spinning around the Sun. Orbits are relationships defined by thwarted falls, they dance the push and pull pairing of two bodies. The physiological and psychological impact of gravity will warrant particular attention in this exhibition (with a special nod to Philippe Halsman's Jumpology project). Fall Out will also be a study of outcomes, epiphanies and consequences. It will be an examination of remnants and how they act as triggers in perennial permutation—in other words, Fall Out will dwell on a fall out that never settles.


Fall In
October 26 - December 13, 2009
With Annie Onyi Cheung, Sophie Bélair Clément, Gillian Collyer, Zev Farber, Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Ryan Park, Roula Partheniou, Joshua Schwebel and Josh Thorpe
Curated by Christof Migone

Fall In follows Fall Out, literally. For Fall In, nine artists have been invited to produce works in response to the works presented in Fall Out. The works will be presented alongside the 'original' works. The two exhibitions are thus entwined in a chain reaction. As the dominos fall, an immediate genealogy emerges.

Fall Out
Fall Out Fall In
Fall Out Fall In Fall Through
Fall Out Fall In Fall Through Fall From
Fall Out Fall In Fall Through Fall From Fall To
Fall Out Fall In Fall Through Fall From Fall To Fall With
Fall Out Fall In Fall Through Fall From Fall To Fall With Fall Under


SPECIAL EVENTS

Sunday Sept. 20, 11:30-5:30pm
ARTBus Tour
Bus departs at 11:30am from OCAD (100 McCaul St) for Oakville Galleries, Blackwood Gallery and Art Gallery of Mississauga. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Cost: $10. To register, please call 905-844-4402 by Friday Sept. 18.

Sunday Sept. 27, 12-5pm
FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour
Starting at noon at the ROM (100 Queen's Park) with exhibition tours organized by the Institute for Contemporary Culture and the Koffler Gallery, bus departs for Doris McCarthy Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Blackwood Gallery. To reserve a seat, please call 416-638-1881 ext.4270 by Friday Sept. 25.

Sunday Oct 18, 10–4pm
Regional Art Bus Tour
Tour starts at 10am of the Art Gallery of Mississauga, then departs for the Art Gallery of Peel, Gallery Streetsville and the Blackwood Gallery and returns to the Mississauga Civic Centre at 4pm. Coffee and refreshments will be provided and there will be free time for lunch in Streetsville (lunch is not provided). Free underground parking available at the Mississauga Civic Centre. Cost: $15. To register, please call 905-896-5088 by Friday Oct.16.

Sunday Nov. 8, 12-5pm
FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour
Starting at noon at the ROM (100 Queen's Park) with exhibition tours organized by the Institute for Contemporary Culture and the Koffler Gallery, bus departs for Doris McCarthy Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Blackwood Gallery. To reserve a seat, please call 416-287-7007 by Friday Nov. 6.

For more information, call 905-828-3789 or visit www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Support generously provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, University of Toronto Student Housing and Residence Life (Mississauga) and The Ontario Trillium Foundation.





Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
www.blackwoodgallery.ca

FREE shuttle tickets to UTM are available upon request at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
Come and get’ em! (Supplies are limited.)

Gallery Hours
Monday to Friday: 11-5pm
Sunday: 1–4pm
closed Saturdays and on civic holidays

Photo credit: Erika Kierulf, Jonathan, from Untitled (Studies for Breathe), 2006

savac: call for volunteers

SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) presents
GHOST STORIES
for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
October 3, 7pm-7am

Volunteers needed
SAVAC is looking for 10 volunteers to help out with our performance programme.
Volunteers will help artists set-up, and act as facilitators / runners / ushers / docents for the night.

Experience in photo / video is welcome if you're interested in helping out with the documentation of the programme.

For more info or to sign up, please contact info@savac.net

opening: open house

Cordial handshakes abound at Open House as Jaclyn Quaresma metaphorically explores self-definition through

the presentation of the multiple roles of 47.

A confession of the artist/curator, artist/mother, artist/student, artist/... Quaresma's fear of the latter consuming the former is explored by acknowledging that, at times, the former will be suspended by the latter. Open for inspection and observation, Quaresma invites you to witness the suspension of artist-as-producer as she presents the space, void of her own artistic practice .

NYC TRIP

sandwich q: september 16

Art and Art History Program

Sandwich Q @ Blackwood Gallery Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. Blackwood Gallery Kaneff Centre, UTM This is an opportunity for students, staff, faculty and administrators to begin the year by sharing a delicious range of deli sandwiches — which will include vegetarian offerings. Everyone is welcome!

call for submissions

artist lecture: Vid Ingelevics

Art and Art History Presents

Vid Ingelevics

Thursday 10 September 2009

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124

Vid Ingelevics on his work: My art practice has followed a number of formal threads over the past two decades – moving between and across the media of photography, video, sound and installation. The subject matter, also diverse, has included: a study of post-WWII displaced persons camps in Germany; an installation work at Toronto’s City Hall that examined the demise of the Metro Toronto’s city halls that existed prior to amalgamation; a contemplation of the complications of translating bird song into human language as found in birding guides; an impersonation of a museum staff photographer who made “documents” that should have, but never were, commissioned; a complete full-scale reconstruction of a forgotten exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art based only on its documentation; and, currently at Oakville Galleries, studies of deer hunting platforms and woodpiles under the title, hunter/gatherer. What underlies many of these disparate-seeming works is my concern with problems of representing the past – i.e., issues around documentation - and the inherent tensions between our desire to remember and our need to historicize.

Vid Ingelevics is a Toronto-based artist, independent curator and writer. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate students at Ryerson University within the School of Image Arts. His artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited across Canada, Europe and in the United States. His writing has appeared in publications such as Canadian Art, C, Blackflash and others internationally. Currently, he is at work on several projects – a study of the economy of family-run stores on a particular street in Toronto and, in collaboration with artist Blake Fitzpatrick, a North America-wide search for fragments of the Berlin Wall, one of the world’s largest mobile ruins. Excerpts from the latter work-in-progress will be exhibited this fall to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the German consulate, Toronto and the Canadian Embassy, Berlin.

Image: Woodpile #7 (2006), C-print

artist lecture: peter maccllum

Art and Art History Presents

Peter MacCallum

Thursday 24 September 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan B124

Peter MacCallum on his work: My documentary photography series currently on view at Oakville Galleries surveys the unique memorial landscape created by artists, architects and gardeners at Vimy Ridge in northern France to commemorate Canada’s losses in the First World War. The series centres on the recently completed restoration of Walter Allward’s great limestone monument at the highest point of Vimy Ridge. Prefiguring Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D. C., Allward’s monument combines sculpture and landscape architecture in a powerful and enduring image of loss. Other photos in my documentary series show the preserved battlefield topography of the Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, as well as the sublime landscape architecture of nearby Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries, where many Canadian soldiers are buried.

MacCallum is a self-taught, Toronto documentary photographer whose work is primarily concerned with social, architectural and industrial subjects. In his Concrete Industries series of 1998-2004, he examined sites in Southern Ontario related to the production and consumption of concrete and cement. This project is featured in his 2004 monograph, Material World. In 2005, he documented the Lakeview Generating Station, the first of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants to be shut down for environmental reasons. Also in 2005, he began his series at Vimy Ridge in northern France, which he completed in 2008. Since 2006, he has documented the commercial architecture of Toronto’s lower Yonge Street, which will be published in an upcoming monograph.

MacCallum’s photographs have found a home in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Oakville Galleries, Art Gallery of Mississauga, City of Toronto Archives, Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Henry Morgentaler Toronto Clinic, as well as other corporate and private collections. MacCallum is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto.


Image: Vimy Ridge Monument (2008), gelatin silver print

exhbition: kelly mark and kim tomczak

Kelly Mark: It's Just One God Damn Thing After Another

3 September to 10 October 2009

Opening Thursday 3 September from 6 to 9

Artist in attendance

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present new work by Kelly Mark, in her first exhibition with the gallery. For years, Mark has been known for her witty critiques and wry sense of humour. Influenced by minimalism and conceptualism, Mark explores themes related to work, repetitive labour, and time. Her work often focuses on the banal facets of everyday life, and comments on contemporary culture. In this exhibition of primarily new work, Mark will show a range of media, including: drawings, text pieces, video- and light-based works. In a series of new letraset drawings, Mark employs this long-outdated desktop publishing tool to create elaborate designs in black and white; meanwhile, several neon and light-based works employ the self-reflexive, self-deprecating humour that she is known for.

Toronto-based Kelly Mark received her BFA in 1994 at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. She has exhibited widely across Canada and internationally at venues including the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal), Ikon Gallery (UK), Lisson Gallery (UK), and the Physics Room (NZ). She is a recipient of numerous Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council grants, as well as the KM Hunter Artist Award (2002), and Chalmers Art Fellowship (2002).

Kelly Mark gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak: The funniest thing...

3 September to 10 October 2009

Opening Thursday 3 September from 6 to 9

Artists in attendance

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present new work by Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak. Steele & Tomczak have worked exclusively in collaboration since 1983, producing videotapes, performances and photo/text works. Visually elegant and technically sophisticated, their work addresses universal social realities, family histories and repressed memories. They have profoundly influenced developments in video and media art in Canada since the early 1970s through an intimate and subjective approach to investigating and documenting society. Continuing this approach, for the past several years, Steele & Tomczak have been asking young people questions in various Western countries. In this series of work, these short interviews are inscribed as texts onto hybrid images of young individuals in front of institutional doorways. These photo-text works speak to the deep solitude of youth while never abandoning the current social environment within which each person exists.

Toronto-based Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak have shown their work in numerous film festivals and exhibitions worldwide. In September 2009 they will be showing a new piece entitled Speak City for Projections, part of the Toronto International Film Festival. Steele & Tomczak have received numerous grants and awards including the Governor General’s Award for lifetime achievement in Visual & Media Arts (2005). They are also co-founders of Vtape, a Toronto media arts centre, and both teach at the University of Toronto, where Steele is the Associate Chair of the Department of Art.

For more information, please contact:

Laura Rovinescu,

laura@diazcontemporary.ca

Diaz Contemporary

100 Niagara Street

Toronto, ON M5V 1C5

416.361.2972

www.diazcontemporary.ca

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 to 6 or by appointment

exhibition: showcase 09

SHOWCASE.09
Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square + Preston

September 12 - October 25
Opening Reception: Saturday September 12, 2:00-5:00 pm
Opening comments at 2:30 pm at Queen's Square

Three exhibitions opening on one afternoon!
Showcase.09 (at both Queen's Square + Preston) shares an opening reception with Roula Partheniou: Circular Logic (in the Queen's Square Library), and The Art of Wallpaper (at Design at Riverside).

FREE ART BUSES DEPARTING TORONTO, WATERLOO + KITCHENER * (details below)

SHOWCASE.09 is the third installment of Cambridge Galleries' emerging artists biennial. Co-curators Sara Knelman, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Cambridge Galleries Curator Ivan Jurakic looked at 138 submissions by artists from across Central, Southern and Southwestern Ontario. Their final selection features an exciting group of 13 up-and-coming artists working in a range of media ranging from photography, painting, video, fibre, bronze and mixed media.

This year's exhibition features recent works by: JULIA BELTRANO (London), KRISTIN BJORNERUD (Hamilton), FAUSTA FACCIPONTE (Mississauga), STEFANIE FIORE (Woodbridge), MARTIN GOLLAND (Toronto), LAUREN HALL (Kitchener), JEAN-PAUL KELLY (Toronto), DAVID R. HARPER (Toronto), ANDREW MACDONALD (London), DAVID MCDOUGALL (Toronto), SASHA PIERCE (Toronto), NATHALIE QUAGLIOTTO (Kitchener), and ALEKS WOSZCZYNA (Toronto). Showcase.09 will be on display concurrently at both the Queen's Square and Preston galleries.

Cambridge Galleries are supported by membership, the City of Cambridge, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

* FREE ART BUSES:
TORONTO: Departing from Ministry of the Interior (80 Ossington Ave.) at 1:00 pm.
WATERLOO REGION: Departing from the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (25 Caroline St. N.) at 1:00 pm, and Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (101 Queen St. N.) at 1:20 pm.

Please note: First come first seated!

For info contact K. Jennifer Bedford at 519.621.0460 X119.

CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES QUEEN'S SQUARE
1 North Square
Cambridge, ON
N1S 2K6

Gallery Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9:30 am - 8:30 pm,
Friday & Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm

CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES PRESTON
435 King Street East
Cambridge, Ontario N3H 3N1
T 519.653.3632

Gallery Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 12 noon - 8:30 pm,
Friday & Saturday: 12 noon - 5:30 pm, Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm

MEDIA CONTACT:
K. Jennifer Bedford
jbedford@cambridgegalleries.ca
519.621.0460 ext. 119
www.cambridgegalleries.ca

IMAGES (left to right): Fausta Facciponte, Walter for $5.00, 2009, digital print mounted on Plexiglas. Kristin Bjornerud, Nightmare Keeps Her Safe, 2008, watercolour and gouache on paper. David McDougall, Gasmask Guy, 2008, bronze.