SHERIDAN ART AND ART HISTORY

Student Job Oppurtunities @ Oakville Galleries

2010-04-25T10:15:00.000-07:00

New Summer Job Postings at Og2:

http://www.oakvillegalleries.com/214.htm

design two student exhibition

2010-03-21T20:08:00.001-07:00

artist lecture: jaime angelopoulos

2010-03-15T10:32:00.001-07:00

Art and Art History Presents

Jaime Angelopoulos

Tuesday 16 March 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Annie Smith Mezzanine
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Jaime Angelopoulos is a Toronto-based visual artist currently enrolled as an MFA candidate in sculpture at York University. Angelopoulos received her BFA from NSCAD University in 2005, and has participated in artist residencies at Meadows School of the Arts (Dallas, TX) and the Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta). Angelopoulos has participated in solo exhibitions and performances at The Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax), Meadows School of the Arts Gallery (Dallas), Special Projects York University Gallery (Toronto), and the Other Gallery, (Alberta). Her sculptural practice explores the intrinsic characteristics of physical objects through formal considerations of shape, color, scale and gravity. She often combines two or more variable sculptural objects in one work, highlighting seemingly contradictory forms in a coexisting context. She works with found material and is interested in the transformative potential of materials, processes and spaces. Angelopoulos congruently works on large-scale abstract drawings that explore similar themes of color, form and surface.
Angelopoulos has exhibited in group exhibitions at Art Mûr (Montreal), Loop Gallery (Toronto), Durham Public Art Gallery (Ontario), Victoria College of Art (Melbourne) and Sydney College of Art (Australia). She is currently instructing a sculpture course at York University and preparing for her MFA thesis exhibition and defense at The Gallery, York University, 1-9 April 2010.

Image: Jaime Angelopoulos, Knot Being (2009), fabric, steel, 64 x 40 x 24 inches, A Possibility (2009), charcoal on paper, 96 x 60 inches

Kensington Past and Present (2010)

2010-03-15T07:44:00.000-07:00

Twenty-four Art and Art History students in Professor Carmelo Arnoldin’s Past and Present Techniques class in the Art and Art History Program created Kensington Past and Present for an activity room in Kensington Gardens, a long-term care facility in the Kensington Market neighbourhood in Toronto.

Kensington Past and Present (2010)

This mosaic mural pays homage to the ongoing history of the Kensington community and market; as well, the mural depicts a church hall building during its 2009/10 conversion to a new ten-bed residential hospice for Kensington Health Centre. The mural is conceived in a two-tone palette: the sepia passages, based on historical photographs in Kensington Gardens’ collection, point to the past — while the brightly coloured areas offer contemporary views. Surrounding the church hall, are community vignettes: stacked fruit and vegetables in a market stall, bolts of cloth on a table outside a textile shop, graffiti in a local alley, humourous local signage. An accordion player and a small airplane and are nods to Kensington Market’s many festivals and the Canadian National Exhibition Air Show that flies over the neighbourhood every year.

Additionally, an image of the mural will serve to publicize an upcoming $5-million campaign to raise capital and ongoing operating support for the new hospice, a joint venture between Kensington Health Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital and the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.

Student Artists: Erica Bergamin, Katrina Bolinas, Noellen Bollozos, Nicola Correa, Andrea Donofrio, Sharon David, Daniel Deus, Wei Jia Feng, Kielle Ferreira, Jennifer Anh Thu Giang, Ruth Ho, Meighan Hooper, Catherine Jeon, Steve Khan, Bojana Kljucevic, Vanessa Kutrowski, Daegan Mcneaney, Patti Meris, Sarah Moore, Henry Park, Emily Read, Amena Siddiqui, Sharyl Spring, Jacqueline Venegas, Serina Bruce

artist lecture: vera frenkel (new date!)

2010-03-12T07:43:00.001-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Vera Frenkel

Thursday 18 March 2010 (note: new date!)
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville

Rooted in an interrogation of the abuses of power and their consequences, projects by multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel have been seen at documenta IX, Kassel; the Offenes Kulturhaus Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz; the Setagaya Museum, Tokyo; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Biennale di Venezia (Club Media, 1997; Head Start, 2001) among other important venues.
Frenkel’s videotapes, installations, photographs, writings, audio works and new media projects explore the forces at work in human migration, experiences of displacement and deracination, their effect on the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the increasing bureaucratization of everyday life.
Frenkel’s video-photo-web project on art theft as cultural policy, Body Missing, installed most recently at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna, 2008, was the focus of From Theft to Virtuality, an international conference on the artist’s work organized at the ICA, London, by art historian, Griselda Pollock. The conference papers will form the basis for the first published anthology on Vera Frenkel’s work.
The Institute™: Or, What We Do for Love, a touring installation and a website on the theme of a dysfunctional cultural institution, was seen most recently at the National Gallery of Canada as part of the exhibition of work by recipients of the Governor General’s Award in Media and Visual Arts.
Frenkel’s newest video, ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive, received its world première at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (November, 2008), and its Canadian première at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto (April, 2009).
A mid-career survey of Frenkel’s video works, the Spotlight at the Images Festival of Film, Video and New Media, curated by Dot Tuer, provided the core selection to which new material was added for Of Memory and Displacement / Vera Frenkel: Collected Works, a four disk DVD/CD-ROM boxed set available from Vtape Distribution, Toronto.

Image: video still from ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive

210 graduate exhibitions

2010-03-12T06:49:00.000-08:00

Thrown Forth

2010 Graduate Exhibitions Art & Art History Program

EXHIBITION #1

March 17 – March 28, 2010
Opening Reception:

Wednesday March 17, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Andrea Beiko, Kimberly Birch, Kyleigh Buryta, Serina Bruce, Nicola Correa, Andrea D'Onofrio, Mallory Hazlett, Catherine Jeon, Krista Keller, Joanabel Lasam, Edith Longuet-Allermeand, Matthieu Martin, Violeta Para De Moya, Johnson Ngo, Emily Read, Paola Savasta, Nicole Schlosser, John Spagnolo, Alysha Woolner, Jessica Vallentin, Jacqueline Venegas.

EXHIBITION #2

March 31 – April 11, 2010
Opening Reception:

Wednesday March 31, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Lilyan Aitkin, Khadija Amjad, Diane Beatty-Wearing, Jennifer Chan, Jacquie Cobb, Matthew Filipowich, Genevieve Gardiner, Nicole Green, Amanda Haller, Andrea Hitchman, Sarah Johnson, Steve Khan, Tracy Lewis, Natalie Merrifield, Shirley Mpagi, Jaimee Ogilvie, Sam Ouellette, Sharyl Spring, Sonia Trivedi, Angie Wang, Tracey Wilson.

Thrown Forth is the title of this year's exhibition of work by graduating students in the Art and Art History Program. This program was established in 1971 when Sheridan joined with the University of Toronto's Erindale College to create Canada's first collaborative fine art program between a college and a university. This year marks the 39th Anniversary of the UTM/Sheridan joint program.

The integration of theory and practice in the A&AH program allows students to develop an interdisciplinary approach to cultural production. In their artwork, the graduating students of the Art and Art History program question the conditions of cultural emergence through drawing, painting, performance, print, design, sculpture, photography and video. Thrown Forth demonstrates the instability and fervor of graduation as a collective dispersal of disjunctive aesthetics and affects. As these graduating students hurtle towards the professionalization of their practice, the limits of the contemporaneous and the redundant are played out in the work shown at this exhibition.

SPECIAL EVENT March 21, 2-4pm at Blackwood

Making a go of it: Careers in the arts

An Open Discussion with Red Armstrong, Jen Hutton, and Christopher Régimbal, answering your questions about: further education, showing as a professional artist, residencies and grants, writing and publishing, among other topics.

The Art and Art History Program, Sheridan/University of Toronto Mississauga

Students graduating from the Art and History program receive the benefit of both a Diploma in studio arts from the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto Mississauga. Alumni have pursued careers in teaching, both at the secondary and post-secondary level, while others go onto to earn their Masters in Studio Art or Art History.

For more information on the AAH Program, visit www.artandarthistory.ca

photo and print students exhibition

2010-03-05T07:08:00.001-08:00

artist lecture: Jaime Angelopoulos

2010-03-05T06:52:00.002-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Jaime Angelopoulos

Tuesday 16 March 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Annie Smith Mezzanine
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Canadian Art Editorial Residency

2010-03-05T06:52:00.001-08:00

Canadian Art Editorial Residency, Summer 2010

This two month Toronto summer residency is a national prize award for students of art and art history at Canadian universities and art colleges. The winning student will hone his/her writing ad editorial skills while working at the Canadian Art magazine. This introduction to art-magazine publishing and writing is intended to foster new critical and editorial talent.

Application Requirements
1. Maximum 500 –word exhibition review
2. Once recent sample of academic writing.
3. Maximum one –page cv or bio

Award Value
$7, 000

Contract Duration
June 14, 2010 to August 13, 2010 (TBC)

Deadline:
April 6, 2010

SEND APPLICATIONS TO
Canadian Art
215 Spadina Ave, Suite 320
Toronto, ON
M5T 2C7
Attention: Canadian Art Editorial Residency

Information about past recipients can be found at www.canadianart.ca/foundation programs/residency/

Inquiries can be made to Alia Toor at atoor@canadianart.ca
Thank you. Apologies for any duplicate email.

Alia Toor
Education and Outreach Coordinator
Canadian Art Foundation | 320-215 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2C7
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artist lecture: vera frenkel

2010-03-05T06:51:00.001-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Vera Frenkel

Thursday 18 March 2010 (note: new date!)
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville

Rooted in an interrogation of the abuses of power and their consequences, projects by multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel have been seen at documenta IX, Kassel; the Offenes Kulturhaus Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz; the Setagaya Museum, Tokyo; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Biennale di Venezia (Club Media, 1997; Head Start, 2001) among other important venues.
Frenkel’s videotapes, installations, photographs, writings, audio works and new media projects explore the forces at work in human migration, experiences of displacement and deracination, their effect on the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the increasing bureaucratization of everyday life.
Frenkel’s video-photo-web project on art theft as cultural policy, Body Missing, installed most recently at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna, 2008, was the focus of From Theft to Virtuality, an international conference on the artist’s work organized at the ICA, London, by art historian, Griselda Pollock. The conference papers will form the basis for the first published anthology on Vera Frenkel’s work.
The Institute™: Or, What We Do for Love, a touring installation and a website on the theme of a dysfunctional cultural institution, was seen most recently at the National Gallery of Canada as part of the exhibition of work by recipients of the Governor General’s Award in Media and Visual Arts.
Frenkel’s newest video, ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive, received its world première at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (November, 2008), and its Canadian première at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto (April, 2009).
A mid-career survey of Frenkel’s video works, the Spotlight at the Images Festival of Film, Video and New Media, curated by Dot Tuer, provided the core selection to which new material was added for Of Memory and Displacement / Vera Frenkel: Collected Works, a four disk DVD/CD-ROM boxed set available from Vtape Distribution, Toronto.

Image: video still from ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive

artist lecture: lyla rye

2010-03-05T06:49:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Lyla Rye

Thursday 11 March 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville

STATEMENT
My work explores the perception of space by creating installations that draw the viewer into subtly illogical situations. In a range of media I aim to throw the viewer slightly off balance; optically, physically and often psychologically. In doing so, the subliminal expectations of space can surface and be examined.

BIO
Lyla Rye is an installation artist who lives and works in Toronto. She received a BFA from York University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1989. Recent solo exhibitions include Interplay, Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin (2007), Hopscotch, Agnes Etherington Gallery, Kingston and Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat (2006 & 07); Flesh and Blood, Cambridge Public Galleries, Ontario (2003). Internationally, Rye has exhibited in San Francisco, New York, Adelaide, Australia, Paris, and Berlin. Her work is in the collections of York University, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Cadillac Fairview Corporation and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Image: Lyla Rye, Dream Home, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009

artist lecture: colette urban

2010-02-06T10:49:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents
Colette Urban
Thursday 4 March 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Colette Urban was born in Denver Colorado. After relocating to Canada,  she received a BFA degree in Visual Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art  and design, and an MFA degree from the University of Victoria.    

Colette Urban has performed her works at the following venues: Duende,  Rotterdam,The Netherlands; Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax;  Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga; Presentation House, Vancouver; Art  Gallery of Windsor, Windsor; Mercer Union, Toronto; Eastern Edge, St.  John’s; La Centrale, Montreal; Norwich School of Art and Design,  Norwich, England; Sala Uno, Rome, Itay; Sir Wilfred Grenfell Art  Gallery, Corner Brook; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Contemporary Art  Gallery, Vancouver; Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff; Mendel Art  Gallery, Saskatoon; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary; Niagara  Artist’s Company, St Catherines; Open Space, Victoria; Western Front,  Vancouver.

   In 2006, Colette Urban established Full Tilt Creative Centre in McIvers,  Newfoundland as an art residency facility to attract contemporary art  makers to the west coast of Newfoundland.  

Urban on her work: My practice as a visual artist includes the use of performance, drawing, costume- making, sculpture, and installation. My recent projects have been performance-based works inspired by the local landscape, my encounters and collaborations with community members, Newfoundland folklore communicated through storytelling and historic references to the area. The drawings and performances are sourced from personal experience of the rural community of McIvers Newfoundland.

Image: Colette Urban, Polar (2008) (Photo: Katherine Knight)

artist lecture: vera frenkel

2010-01-26T04:11:00.001-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Vera Frenkel

Thursday 11 March 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville

Rooted in an interrogation of the abuses of power and their consequences, projects by multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel have been seen at documenta IX, Kassel; the Offenes Kulturhaus Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz; the Setagaya Museum, Tokyo; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Biennale di Venezia (Club Media, 1997; Head Start, 2001) among other important venues.
Frenkel’s videotapes, installations, photographs, writings, audio works and new media projects explore the forces at work in human migration, experiences of displacement and deracination, their effect on the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the increasing bureaucratization of everyday life.
Frenkel’s video-photo-web project on art theft as cultural policy, Body Missing, installed most recently at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna, 2008, was the focus of From Theft to Virtuality, an international conference on the artist’s work organized at the ICA, London, by art historian, Griselda Pollock. The conference papers will form the basis for the first published anthology on Vera Frenkel’s work.
The Institute™: Or, What We Do for Love, a touring installation and a website on the theme of a dysfunctional cultural institution, was seen most recently at the National Gallery of Canada as part of the exhibition of work by recipients of the Governor General’s Award in Media and Visual Arts.
Frenkel’s newest video, ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive, received its world première at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (November, 2008), and its Canadian première at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto (April, 2009).
A mid-career survey of Frenkel’s video works, the Spotlight at the Images Festival of Film, Video and New Media, curated by Dot Tuer, provided the core selection to which new material was added for Of Memory and Displacement / Vera Frenkel: Collected Works, a four disk DVD/CD-ROM boxed set available from Vtape Distribution, Toronto.

artist lecture: swintak & don miller

2010-01-26T04:10:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Christine Swintak & Don Miller

Thursday 25 February 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Christine Swintak is a Toronto-based visual artist who works in a number of media including performance, intervention, installation and multimedia. She has exhibited at galleries, festivals and museums across Canada and internationally, including HMK Mariakapel (Holland), Model Niland (Ireland), DCR Guest Studios (Holland), YYZ Artist's Outlet (Toronto), Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Art City Festival of Art and Architecture (Calgary), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax) and Rockefeller Centre (New York). Swintak has also presented numerous independent public interventions and relational happenings in places like Shelburne, Amsterdam, Banff, Vancouver, Teslin, New York, Salt Lake City, Death Valley and Los Angeles. Her projects include building a full-scale ship through collective improvisation, running an election party campaign for the Irish underworld, transforming a dumpster into a luxury boutique hotel, promoting urban quickand pits, creating a symmetrical frontispiece out of two mirrored rooms, attempting to give a shed a consciousness, and producing a series of impossible project proposals. Swintak received a BFA in 2003 from NSCAD University and is committed to continual self-directed research.

Don Miller is an idea-based visual artist, intuitive carpenter and poet who lives near Shelburne, Ontario. Miller works in a number of media including performance, video, installation, experimental architecture, snow sculpture and written word. He also works with stone, steel and wood to generate income to fund his artistic pursuits; his creative endeavours infiltrate his life, and his life tends to be infiltrated by his art. Though the majority of his projects are produced independently, outside the gallery network, Miller has also presented performances, videos, readings and interventions at Ghost Ship (Amsterdam), York University (Toronto), Knock on Woods (Holland), Pleasure Dome/ Cinecycle (Toronto), Engine Gallery (Toronto), Tranzac (Toronto), and Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax). His projects include an ongoing series of sensory deprivation and/or sensory enhancement snow caves, a large one-of-a-kind frankenhouse created from numerous century-old barns, spoken-word performances at various venues, and creating what he terms "a strategy for living." Miller received a BFA in 2002 from NSCAD University.

Christine Swintak and Don Miller met at NSCAD in 1998. Though they have been involved with each other's projects for the past decade, their upcoming Blackwood Gallery exhibition is their first large-scale exhibition together as an equal-authorship collaboration. Neither Swintak nor Miller had a cottage in their childhood.

Image: Swintak, The Thing That Won't Let You Walk Away (installation view, Art Gallery of Ontario), 2005-8.

artist lecture: john brown

2010-01-26T04:09:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

John Brown

Tuesday 11 February 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

John Brown has been working and living in Toronto since the mid 1970's. He was educated at the Ontario College of Art and the University of Guelph. He has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since 1982 and is currently represented by the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto and by Wilde Gallery in Berlin. His work is represented in public and private collections in Canada the US and Europe.

Brown: For the last few years I have been making large paintings in oil on wood whose main subject would appear to be indeterminacy. I am interested in making images that are in process of becoming or unbecoming. The paintings are not abstract but iconic. The images I start with are usually drawn from newspaper photographs, photos taken off the Internet or images from books in my studio. Sometimes the images are manipulated on Photoshop and sometimes they painted over with oil or gouache and sometimes they are left as they are and stapled on to the painting surface. The finished paintings often bear no relation to the image I started with.

Image: John Brown, May 26 2021 (2010), Oil on panel, 7 x 6 feet

artist lecture: therese bolliger

2010-01-26T04:08:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History and Oakville Galleries Presents Therese Bolliger in dialogue with curator Shannon Anderson Tuesday 9 February 2010 Art and Art History
and Oakville Galleries Presents

Therese Bolliger
in dialogue with curator
Shannon Anderson

Tuesday 9 February 2010
Bus leaves Sheridan from AA Wing Loop at 12:15 PM
Talk starts at 12:30 PM at Gairloch Gallery
A light lunch will be served

Gairloch Gallery, Oakville Galleries
1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville

Therese Bolliger Four Echoes Curated by Shannon Anderson
5 December 2010 - 28 February 2010
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
This exhibition brings together a selection of recent drawings and sculptures by Toronto artist Therese Bolliger. Occupying the four gallery spaces of Gairloch Gardens, Four Echoes is an exploration of the essence of form, as Bolliger articulates memory’s place between past and present, translates mathematical and philosophical constructs into objects, and explores the outer reaches of the body.

Therese Bolliger Artist Statement
Since the mid-nineties, my practice has focused on the gaps between image and language, between object and viewer. A large body of wall-dependent text pieces addressed issues of reception of artworks.
The exhibition at Gairloch Gardens consists of three bodies of work, two series of works on paper and a group of floor sculptures. Fragments of forms, at the threshold of the perceptible, juxtaposed with elements of text, bring into consciousness specific works by artists with whom I have shared an aesthetic space and sensibility.
The floor sculptures, entitled Heffalumps suggest a slippage between what is animal and what is human. The idiosyncratic materials are destabilizing notions of abstraction, infusing the pieces with psychological connotations. There is a deliberate shift away from weighty substances and elaborate processes linked with traditional sculpture towards materials associated with the everyday. Abstract forms, derived from the context of knot theory act as a manifestation, a sensate residue of their process of production.
In the Interior Schema drawings, layered, abstract forms reference constructs of interiority and exteriority. They attempt to acknowledge and articulate the ephemeral nature of experience, memory and time.

Therese Bolliger Biography
Therese Bolliger was born in Switzerland where she studied at the Schools of Visual Arts in Berne and Basel before moving to Canada. She currently resides in Toronto. She has taught in the Visual Arts Department of the University of Guelph and at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Between 1983 and 2008 she was a professor in the Art and Art History Program.
Recent exhibitions include the following: Fray, Koffler Gallery, Toronto; The Cold City Years, The Power Plant, Toronto; Mask and Metamorphosis, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Ellipsis, Koffler Gallery, Toronto and University of Rochester; The Word in Contemporary Canadian Art, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.

Shannon Anderson Biography
Shannon Anderson is a freelance writer, curator and editor based in Oakville, Ontario. Currently a member of Oakville Galleries Acquisition Committee, she was previously Curatorial Assistant and Registrar at Oakville Galleries for seven years, where she also curated such exhibitions as Burrow and numerous exhibitions from the permanent collection. Most recently, Anderson was Associate Editor for Designlines Toronto and Azure Magazine, publications dedicated to art, design and architecture.

Image: Therese Bolliger, Heffalump (2009)

call for submissions: freedom clothing collective

2010-01-18T16:38:00.000-08:00

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Freedom is currently accepting submissions and proposals from emerging local artists for the 2010 program of exhibitions.

SPECIFICATIONS

We welcome all forms of media; being innovative and thinking outside the box are quite mandatory!

Submission Requirements:

Artist’s statement (max 500 words)

Medium-high res images of all works to be considered (file name is to correspond with work title)

A detailed list of all submitted works to specify their dimensions, value, and medium

Please send in your submission package to arts.freedomcc@gmail.com with “GENERAL SUBMISSION – (ARTIST’S NAME)” as the subject. Please include your name in the file names of all attached documents.

No submission fee is applicable, however selected artists are subject to an exhibition fee of $20. All works sold in the premises will be subject to 30% commission.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Round 1: FEBRUARY 8^th, 2010

Round 2: MARCH 8^th, 2010
Round 3: APRIL 5^th, 2010

ABOUT US

Freedom Clothing Collective is a non-profit art and design space. Our collective passion is to provide emerging artists and designers with an opportunity for publication within our supportive network.

Any inquiries may be directed via e-mail.

www.freedomclothingcollective.com

the blackwood is looking for volunteers

2010-01-18T16:34:00.001-08:00

The Blackwood Gallery is seeking volunteers to assist with our upcoming exhibition entitled "LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!".
We are looking for Volunteer Gallery Attendants for Thomas Cottage (the old cottage near the Kaneff and the Student Centre). Thomas Cottage will be our 3rd site for this exhibition, in addition to the Blackwood (Kaneff) and eGallery (CCT).

The exhibition runs from Wednesday, January 27 to Sunday, March 7 and the hours of operation are:

Monday to Friday: 12 - 5pm
Wednesdays to 9pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12 - 3pm
(closed on civic holidays)

We are looking for punctual and reliable volunteers who can work 2 to 5 hours a week, during our hours of operation and throughout the entire 5-week run of the exhibition.
Volunteers will be responsible for opening the gallery on time, greeting visitors to the space and answering questions about the exhibition. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants experience working in a gallery environment and are curious about the contemporary art world.

One thing we would like to mention upfront is that Thomas Cottage is an old building that has not been well maintained over the years. Unfortunately it has a mild odour and I would discourage anyone with severe respiratory conditions or allergies (especially to dust) from signing up. That being said, the space has been carefully cleaned and is heated. Attendants will be allowed to have a friend sit with them while they are watching the space. If you have any questions or concerns about sitting the cottage, please let me know.

We promise that Thomas Cottage will offer a truly "unique" gallery sitting experience. Making "gallery spaces" from the most unlikely habitats and altering environments is very much "on par" with what is happening everywhere else in contemporary art. To participate in an exhibition this ambitious, especially at a university gallery is a remarkable thing. I hope that you will consider taking at least one shift at the space and help support the gallery.

If you are interested in a shift, please send me your date and time preference by Friday January 22rd. If you have any friends that are interested, please feel free to pass on this message. For more information on the exhibition, please read below.

Lastly, we are hosting a special tour THIS Wednesday at 2pm starting at the Blackwood Gallery in Kaneff. It is called the "Hard Hat Tour" and the artists will be giving a personal tour of the galleries AND the cottage. (See attached poster.) So, if you would like to get a "peek" of the cottage, please join us on Wednesday. I will be in attendance and can answer any questions you might have about this volunteer opportunity.

Best,
Juliana Zalucky
Exhibition Coordinator
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Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
T: 905 828 3789 F: 905 569 4262
www.blackwoodgallery.ca <http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/>

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LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION!
January 27 – March 7, 2010

Collaborative work by Christine Swintak and Don Miller
Curated by Christof Migone

Opening Reception
Wednesday, January 27th 6 – 9pm.
A free bus leaves OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) at 6:30 pm and returns to OCAD at 9 pm.
Artists in attendance.

Three sites. Three stages. Three locations, and one event intertwines the three. First, in one location, a cottage is gutted. Second, the cottage's interior is reconstituted in our two gallery locations as a temporary display which functions simultaneously as an architectural autopsy, a time capsule, a resuscitation, a dump display, a scavenger manual, a surgical dismantlement, a reverse gentrification, a study of inefficiency, an erased erasure, and a memento mori. The second stage enacts a delayed forgetting, it forestalls the inevitable discarding, it impedes the third unknowable stage of oblivion from ever occurring. Christine Swintak and Don Miller intervene in the course of a campus in the midst of a growth spurt; they balance the equation whereby as new buildings break ground and emerge, others fade underground. The cottage in question, the Thomas Cottage, is a small late 19th century building that sits in the middle of the UTM campus and precedes the establishment of the campus and even its predecessor, Erindale College. The artists methodically take apart the dilapidated and maligned cottage and not only stage a slowing down in anticipation of its impending demolition, they also animate and transform it into a chimerical entity. The cottage, now in a pseudo post-mortem state and no longer listed in the property registry, enters the realm of sitelessness. Robert Smithson described his non-sites as "maps of material" which not only delimit space but also "involve a consciousness of time." Swintak and Miller provide a similar sensitivity to this continuum. The layered histories of the cottage, from the banal to the apocryphal, are present in both gallery spaces. The installation presents a portal to a pastoral past, but also reflects its university-based gallery setting as a white cubed cog in the knowledge industry. Neither narrative is idealized or demonized, in other words, the project acknowledges the fissures and fractures inherent in architecture. The invisible structures of society are made manifest in the structures of our buildings. In short, architecture not only speaks volume, it also speaks power. Consequently, with a conviction that is both resolute and risible, Swintak and Miller pervert the conventions and dub the cottage a sovereign. In honor of what would otherwise be an unnoticed demise, they then produce an installation which proclaims, The Cottage is dead! Long live the Cottage!

Christof Migone, Director/Curator

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Christine Swintak is a Toronto-based visual artist who works in a number of media including performance, intervention, installation and multimedia. She has exhibited at galleries, festivals and museums across Canada and internationally, including HMK Mariakapel (Holland), Model Niland (Ireland), DCR Guest Studios (Holland), YYZ Artist's Outlet (Toronto), Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), ArtCity Festival of Art and Architecture (Calgary), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax) and Rockefeller Centre (New York). Swintak has also presented numerous independent public interventions and relational happenings in places like Shelburne, Amsterdam, Banff, Vancouver, Teslin, New York, Salt Lake City, Death Valley and Los Angeles. Her projects include building a full scale ship through collective improvisation, running an election party campaign for the Irish underworld, transforming a dumpster into a luxury boutique hotel, promoting urban quicksand pits, creating a symmetrical frontispiece out of two mirrored rooms, attempting to give a shed a consciousness, and producing a series of impossible project proposals. Swintak received a BFA in 2003 from NSCAD University and is committed to continual self-directed research.

Don Miller is an idea-based visual artist, intuitive carpenter and poet who lives near Shelburne, Ontario. Miller works in a number of media including performance, video, installation, experimental architecture, snow sculpture and written word. He also works with stone, steel and wood to generate income to fund his artistic pursuits; his creative endeavours tend to infiltrate his life, and his life tends to infiltrate his art. Though the majority of his projects are produced independently, outside the gallery network, Miller has also presented performances, videos, readings and interventions at Ghost Ship (Amsterdam), York University (Toronto), Knock on Woods (Holland), Pleasure Dome/Cinecycle (Toronto), Engine Gallery (Toronto), Tranzac (Toronto), and Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax). His projects include an ongoing series of sensory deprivation and/or sensory enhancement snow caves, a large one of a kind frankenhouse constructed from numerous century old barns, spoken word performances at various venues, and creating what he terms "a strategy for living." Don received a BFA in 2002 from NSCAD University.

Christine Swintak and Don Miller met at NSCAD in 1998. Though they have been involved with each other's projects for the past decade, this is their first large scale exhibition working together as an equal authorship collaborative. Neither Swintak nor Don had a cottage in their childhood.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Sunday January 31st, 11:30-5:30pm.
FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour
Tour starts at 11:30 am at 23 Beverly Street (Koffler Centre off-site space) and then departs for Blackwood, Art Gallery of York University and Doris McCarthy Gallery. To make a reservation, contact the Blackwood Gallery at blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca or 905-828-3789.

Monday March 1st, 2-4 pm
The Blackwood Talks:
Location is Everything: site and non-site in the work of Christine Swintak and Don Miller
Narrated tour by Michelle Jacques (Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario).
At the Blackwood Gallery.

For more information, call 905 828 3789 or visit www.blackwoodgallery.ca <http://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 <http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/>
blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca <mailto:blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca>
905.828.3789

Gallery Hours
Monday to Friday: 12 - 5pm
Wednesdays to 9pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12 - 3pm
(closed on civic holidays)

design sale: jan. 19th & 21st

2010-01-18T08:15:00.001-08:00

exhibition: hover (1st and 2nd year exhibition)

2010-01-18T08:14:00.001-08:00

jen chan's curatoral incubator: VTAPE

2010-01-18T06:36:00.000-08:00

Curatorial Incubator v.7:
FRAK FACEBOOK: celebrating the anti-social

This year, The Curatorial Incubator, v7 – FRAK FACEBOOK: celebrating
the antisocial called for proposals to participate in this research and presentation
project that aims to uncover works that buck the current trend of "social
networking" and "living in public" that is so prevalent today. FRAK FACEBOOK:
celebrating the anti-social explores the urge to burrow under the covers, to hide in
the basement -in short, the drive to NOT connect, to NOT be nice. Our 3 emerging
curators have answered the call with gritty aplomb. With her programme, Mireille
Bourgeois posits stupidity as “an act so powerful that it can interrupt the very
foundation of thought.” The gross and the abject figure prominently in Jennifer Chan’s
selection. And Ted Kerr asks if the internet has changed gay cruising.
After the VIDI THIS! VIDI THAT! marathon screening, all 3 programmes
will be available on request at Vtape in the Video Gallery, February 2-20, 2010.

VIDI THIS… VIDI THAT…
Screening marathon of all 3
Curatorial Incubator v.7 programmes:
FRAK FACEBOOK: celebrating the anti-social
curated by:
Mireille Bourgeois (Ottawa) "Growing Up Stupid"
Jennifer Chan (Toronto) "Feeling Video: Are You Done with Judgment?"
Ted Kerr (Edmonton) White Buffalo’s Return to Emerald Island
Curators will be present
LOCATION:
230 College Street, auditorium, 1st floor
(northeast corner of Huron and College)
Marathon screening and curators’ talks
Saturday, January 30, 2010
12-5pm
Jubal Brown, Operation, 10:00. Courtesy of Vtape.

1st and 2nd exhibition walk-through w/ christof migone

2010-01-13T14:12:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Christof Migone

Tuesday 26 January 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, The Gallery
Christof Migone will comment on the work in the First- and Second-Year Show

Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007.

Migone co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and his writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, etc. He has released six solo audio cds, has appeared on numerous compilations and runs the diminutive label, squintfuckerpress. A monograph on his work, Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM presented a retrospective on his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Christof Migone - Trou. Migone currently lives in Toronto and is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Image: portrait of Christof Migone by Crys Cole

exhbition: agyu (oliver husain/brendan fernandes)

2010-01-13T04:24:00.000-08:00

AGYU: out there & centre stage.

AGYU is HOT this season!

We’re playing out there centre stage; performing as usual and featuring a whole new cast of characters, who will light up the dark days of winter:

Oliver Husain: Hovering Proxies
21 January – 14 March 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 21, 6 – 9 pm

…You are surrounded by the late summer in Tandun's garden in downtown Jakarta where two dogs, Ziggy and Uma, scuffle on the dry grass. Ziggy, the husky, is a bit crazy from the heat. Elegant wrought iron furniture balancing on thin legs, withered vines, broken flowerpots: this is the set for a tropical drama. You are part of the action: invited to step behind the flapping curtain where you might find yourself in the position of an understudy, waiting for the star's fatal slip... As always, the really exciting part happens backstage. Or rather, the really exciting part is that one step through the curtain, that thin in-between space, that slice of a moment…

Brendan Fernandes: Relay League
21 January – 6 June 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 21, 6 – 9 pm

…Flashing from the wings, Relay League signals sympathetically to the AGYU’s current exhibitions and, staged as a choreographed light performance. As well, it spills out there onto the York University campus acting as a primitive communications device.
· · · — — — · · · Relay League is a chain of forwarding optical telegraphs used to convey messages of distress or celebration. · — — — · · · Pulsing within the AGYU VITRINES, SOS messages are sent and received. — — — — — Morse code patterns pulse softly and slowly. Neon African mask vibrates more rapidly. The flashes of this optical trance are less scientific than supernatural, less advertising seduction than Voodoo probe. A searchlight maneuvering through an unidentified space adds to the mystery …

A text by Kenneth Montague accompanies the exhibition, published in another coded format as a free take away item at the AGYU.

Get on The Performance Bus with Mantler!

Make the familiar trip out there stranger on the one and only Performance Bus with Toronto performer Mantler (a.k.a. Chris Cummings). Mantler’s Tour Bus is your free ticket to Oliver Husain’s and Brendan Fernandes’ opening night and your serious comic relief for the evening! Part tour guide and part musician, this “childman” is all entertainer! You don’t want to miss this performance! The free AGYU Performance Bus departs OCAD (100 McCaul St.) on Thursday, January 21 at 6 pm sharp and returns downtown at 9 pm.

Alex Wolfson and Bojana Stancic: And so, the animal looked back…
28 January – 14 March 2010
Opening Performances:
Thursday, January 28, 7:30 pm [opening night!] & Friday, January 29, 7:30 pm
Closing Performances:
Thursday, March 11, 7: 30 pm & Friday, March 12, 7:30 pm

[Seating is Limited, please call 416.736.5169 to reserve free tickets. Thursday tickets are reserved for individuals on the free performance bus departing from OCAD at 6 pm sharp. There is no bus for the Friday performances.]

Writer/Director: Alex Wolfson/ Set Designer and Visual Concept: Bojana Stancic/Costume Designer: Vanessa Fischer /Sound Designer: Matt Smith Actors: Amy Bowles, Lindsey Clark, Vanessa Dunn, Nika Mistruzzi, Liz Peterson, Evan Webber

…One day Max begins to speak. Then to write. The primatologists are unsure of what to do with this new development. Soon Max begins to compose a long essay on the subject of the separation between man and animal, chimpanzee and animal, man and chimpanzee. Word leaks out to the world at large about Max. People become frenzied. Strange things begin to occur as the world starts slowly to fall apart. Pairs of animals, both human and otherwise, begin to congregate around the laboratory. Finally it becomes clear, Max’s essay is the last words to be spoken before a new flood, a new apocalypse, but unlike the deluge that occurred before the first play, this flood does not simply destroy, it also reconfigures new identities, new shared subjectivities. The play ends not with a prescription of what must come but simply with an understanding that things must change, and what will come is a mystery to them all…

And so, the animal looked back... is a unique venture of the AGYU into the world of experimental theatre, a theatre that has its roots equally in the art world and queer performance. The AGYU has commissioned two new plays under the overall title of And so, the animal looked back..., the performance of which open and conclude an installation that will retain props, performance elements, and projections from the first play.

WITH AN OFF-OFF BROADWAY PRODUCTION!

The Glimmering Grotto: Seven plays over seven days
February 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 8:30 pm
AGYU @ The Department, 1389 Dundas Street West (Toronto)

The Glimmering Grotto is an outcrop week of performances by Oliver Husain, Bojana Stancic, and Alex Wolfson whereby the artists work through a system of limitations with each performance set-up like a game of round robin: three solos, three duos, one group. Each non-performing artist sets limitations upon the two performing. And as for the limitations…there are no limitations on the limitations! The Glimmering Grotto is both a place and an idea. A location and a game. A limitation and an opening...

AND AN ENCORE!

Audio Out
Conducting the Audio Out series from 6 January – 24 February will be Gwen MacGregor and Lewis Nicholson in the production of New Time, a 24-hour sound loop building on recordings of sea clocks made by John Harrison between 1735 and 1759 for reliable global ocean navigation.

The following work, Outside Our Doors, will be under the musical direction of Janice Gurney from 25 February – 7 April. This recording meditates on The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, with translated readings in numerous languages outside the door of the speakers’ homes to the outside of ours.

Foreign Agent
Our new online Foreign Agent series continues with a trip to Colombia as our cultural attaché Astrid Bastin weathered the rain to take you into countless artist studios. She brings you the latest from Bogotá in her feature report exhausting all that the city has to offer from food to cultural institutions, with a special insider’s look at the ArtBo fair.

Look for our upcoming report from Mexico as Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez sets the stage for a cultural getaway in Puerto Vallarta. http://theagyuisoutthere.org/everywhere/

The Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and our membership.

The AGYU is located in the Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele Street Toronto. Gallery hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 am–4 pm; Wednesday, 10am–8 pm; Sunday from noon–5 pm; and closed Saturday. Admission to everything is free.

Out There. AGYU. Where the ordinary is always extraordinary.
www.theAGYUisOutThere.org

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Do you have questions or require further information or images? Please contact Emelie Chhangur, Assistant Director/ Curator, AGYU, +1.416.736.5169 or emelie@yorku.ca
Image: Vlackie O

faculty print exhibition

2010-01-13T04:21:00.000-08:00

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Art & Art History Faculty when-they-were-students
Print Expo

Live late-modernist education. See what the 1940s to 90s were really like. Right here in the Annie Smith Arts Centre. Get to know your faculty as they once were: Young, vibrant and impressionable.

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blackwood gallery: hard hat tour

2010-01-11T17:42:00.000-08:00

lecture: jp kelly

2010-01-11T17:38:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

JEAN-PAUL KELLY

Thursday January 21 /12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

RM: B124

Jean-Paul Kelly (b. 1977, London, Ontario, Canada) is an artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals in North America, Japan, and Europe. Gallery TPW (Toronto) presented a solo exhibition of Kelly's recent installation, And fastened to a dying animal, in the fall of 2008. He is Programming Director of Trinity Square Video and a past member of the Pleasure Dome experimental film and video programming collective. Kelly holds a Masters of Visual Studies degree from the University of Toronto (2005).

“Grounded in self-reflection and readings from psychology and film theory, [his work] addresses issues of self-doubt and personal anxiety, seeking to understand and work through a profound sense of “anticipatory melancholia”… Anticipatory melancholy borrows from the phrase “anticipatory grief” … The loss has not yet happened but is inevitable, and all the more devastating for being imminent yet in the future. For Kelly, the term also refers to his everyday anxieties about aging parents, love relationships, and his own eventual demise. But [his work] is also… witty and amusing work of great charm and self-deprecating humour, conjuring wicked pleasure and irony at the very edge of the abyss.” – Peggy Gale, writing on Kelly’s The Lie in Wait (2006) in the University of Toronto MVS Programme Inaugural Graduating Exhibition catalogue.

artist lecture: richard purdy

2010-01-10T10:34:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Richard Purdy

Tuesday 19 January 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Annie Smith Mezzanine
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Richard Purdy: I am particularly drawn to in situ installations, monumental and serial artworks, texts, sensory art and the creation of videos and performances. Primarily active in the scientific humanities, I work in all mediums. I believe that art is about symbols, and that the symbol colonies I create are larger than fields, techniques or specific disciplines. Embracing the cultural bulimia of our début-de-siècle, I try to fuel the fire ... delighting in enigmas, searching out obscure subject matter, lies, minutiae, and meretricious figures of speech, weaving fictions into them, and teasing them up by the hair.

Born in Ottawa, Richard Purdy is presently a tenured professor of drawing at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. He has mounted over 150 expositions over three decades of practice, and is known as much for his writing as his art making, having published 24 books and catalogues. Recently, Purdy has been active with three-year individual research creation subsidy by both the FQRSC (2004-2007) and the SSHRC (2007-2010). His work is the subject of three Master's theses in Art History, and 266 reviews. In 1998 Richard Purdy launched Les industries perdues with François Hébert, realizing 28 projects in public art with a long list of collaborators, notably Carmelo Arnoldin. In 2001 he received his PhD in artistic practice from UQÀM; his thesis looked at the Buddhist and pre-Buddhist stupa. In 2006 he was awarded his University's Institutional Research Prize. Presently, he is directing the Research Creation Laboratory in Sensory Art at UQTR. This summer Richard Purdy will mount a large-scale installation at the Espace Shawinigan, Quebec.

Image: L'Oeil de l'artiste (2008), digital photograph

call for submissions

2010-01-04T14:11:00.000-08:00

Hello Art and Art History Faculty,

I am writing you to solicit student art work from your classes. I am currently working on a small installation piece in conjunction with the Blackwood Gallery for an event entitled “Art’s Birthday” taking place at the Erin Meadows Community Centre on Jan 16^th from noon - 5pm.

The work is called “Purposeful Purposelessness” and based on the work of Arman, a Neo- Dadaist French sculptor. In the spirit of his accumulation pieces, I would like to invite students to submit unfinished or abandoned work or research for the show. The purpose of this installation is to showcase the art that will never be showcased, art that has been considered a failure or incomplete or abandoned. Research is welcomed as well.

Multimedia art such video or audio art pieces will also be included in this installation.

Students must submit all work with their names clearly marked on the piece. Should any student submit video work, it should be placed on a CD in a .mov format or sent to the following e-mail address, Shell.c.johnson@gmail.com. Work should be dropped off by January 14^th by 5 pm at the latest at a location designated by faculty. There is some risk that work may be damaged in the process of installation, as in the nature of Arman’s work, the small display case will jammed full of all the submitted work. We will attempt to return work to students. All participants will have their names included in the exhibition labeling.

I thank you for your time,

In conjunction with the Blackwood Gallery,

Michelle Johnson

M.A. candidate in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies

Columbia University

lecture: richard rhodes

2009-12-31T07:43:00.001-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Richard Rhodes

Thursday 7 January 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Richard Rhodes is an author, arts journalist, curator, educator, critic, painter and photographer. Rhodes regularly writes on contemporary artists working today, primarily for Canadian Art magazine where he is currently the Editor. He has written on art for more than 25 years. In the early 1980s, he served as Toronto editor for Montreal arts and culture magazine Parachute. In 1983, together with Dyan Marie, he founded C Magazine in Toronto, and ran it until 1990. During the late 1980s, he was also a regular contributor of reviews to Artforum magazine in New York.

In 1990, he was appointed curator at The Power Plant in Toronto, following project work as an independent curator, which included work as Commissioner for Canada at the 1985 Sao Paulo Biennale. He has been an adjunct curator for Oakville Galleries and has organized more recent independent projects that included a five-gallery exhibition of emerging artists from the Netherlands in 2002 and a series of one-day exhibitions called The News at Five for Toronto International Art Fair. Rhodes will curate the 7th Alberta Biennale at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2010.

As a photographer, he worked with writer John Bentley Mays to illustrate the City Sites and Material World columns for the Globe and Mail. Rhodes has taught criticism at the Ontario College of Art and Design and photography at Ryerson University. In 2003, he received the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Achievement Award.

Rhodes’ paintings were included in the 2005-06 exhibition Weathervane, curated by Karen Love. His work has been exhibited at Dyan Marie Projects in Toronto (2006) and Galerie René Blouin in Montreal (2007). Rhodes is the author of a popular book on the history of Canadian art for young people, “A First Book of Canadian Art” (2001).

EXHIBITION: BREANN RICHTIE

2009-12-29T13:37:00.000-08:00

RED: solo works of Breann Ritchie
Earth and Fire (second floor)
489 Queen St. W
January 4th until January 31st Opening: January 9th, 8pm-12am

graphic design contest

2009-11-23T19:41:00.001-08:00

Time is running out! Submissions are due by

end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009!

Attention students in graphic design, advertising and/or communication media programs!

The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum – Forum canadien sur l’apprentissage (CAF-FCA) is looking for the ‘look’ of its new, peer-reviewed journal: The Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage…

Can you help?

We are looking for graphic design submissions for the logo, print cover and web homepage of our new Journal.

Submissions should consist of two items: cover page of print version and homepage of web version, both of which should include the unique, designed-by-you logo of the journal title in Canada’s official languages: Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage.

The reward…

The winning submission will be from a creative, full-time student in any college or university graphic design, advertising and/or communication media program in Canada. To ensure your program applies, please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org .
The nationally renowned graphic design firm Sage Media Design will assist the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal’s Editorial Board in judging the finalists.
You will be recognized and profiled in the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal.
You will be able to add this design to your impressive CV and portfolio.

The challenge…

You will need to include the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover and homepage:

Please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org for the CAF-FCA logo.

You will need to use only the colours and shades of the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover design. Please use the four colour process (CMYK). The homepage may include additional colours and shades.
You will need to make the ‘look’ of the Journal appeal to a diverse audience of apprenticeship stakeholders including researchers, employers and apprentices.
You will need to include the Journal website address in English and French:

http://www.caf-fca.org/en/journal/

http://www.caf-fca.org/fr/journal/

You will need to show where the volume, issue number and date should be displayed on both the print cover and online homepage.
You will need to provide us with a paragraph explaining your rationale for the design.
You may include the Table of Contents (again, please just show us where).
You will need to be really creative because we are seeking submissions from across Canada!

The details…

Submissions are due by end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009.
Submissions must be sent via email to danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org.
For more information, please contact Danielle Matheusik at danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org or 613-235-4004 ext. 203, or visit our website at www.caf-fca.org.

Funded by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program.

Financé par le gouvernement du Canada dans le cadre du Programme des conseils sectoriels.

exhibitions: oakville galleries

2009-11-23T19:38:00.001-08:00

Please join us for the opening of our winter exhibitions on Sunday 6 December 2009 at 2:30 pm at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square (120 Navy Street), followed by a reception at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens (1306 Lakeshore Road East) at 3:30 pm.

5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

This exhibition brings together a selection of recent drawings and sculptures by Toronto artist Therese Bolliger. Occupying the four gallery spaces, Four Echoes is an exploration of the essence of form, as Bolliger articulates memory’s place between past and present, translates mathematical and philosophical constructs into objects, and explores the outer reaches of the body. Curated by Shannon Anderson.

Therese Bolliger, Interior Schema 5, 2009

Wendy Coburn, Untititled (buck), 2007

5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

Fretfulness, anxiety and apprehension are hardly new concerns in contemporary art, but they are quickly gaining currency in light of present global woes. Uneasy Pieces will showcase works from Oakville Galleries’ permanent collection that grapple with the fragile state of our world. From anxiety about economic recession, military warfare and global warming to concerns about consumerism, surveillance and the decentered world of global capitalism, the works in Uneasy Pieces examine states of uncertainty and unease in contemporary life. Curated by Marnie Fleming.

Featuring works by Ed Burtynsky, Wendy Coburn, Colin Darke, Susanna Heller, Deirdre Logue, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, Kim Moodie, Monika Napier, Louise Noguchi, Ed Pien, Glenn Rudolph and John Scott.

fado performance

2009-11-22T15:02:00.000-08:00

FADO Performance Art Centre presents

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession
November 23 – 29, 2009

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Curated by Don Simmons

Daily media reports bombard us with the reality of the current worldwide economic situation. We are in the midst of a recession. Businesses are failing and offering discount prices on everything in the store, the stock market is volatile, companies are looking for bailouts, and government agencies are giving away bloated stimulation packages. Despite these tough economic times, some businesses are experiencing a boom. Alcohol sales are up; Hollywood movies are experiencing a surge in attendance and theatres are reporting a rise in audience numbers. During tough economic times, art relating to escapism prospers.

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession is a weeklong series of performance events that investigate personal and public economics by offering the audience alternative methods of exchange. The series culminates in three evening programs: Black Friday, Red Flag Saturday, and Grey Cup Sunday. These programs investigate the mixed emotions evoked by the volatile economic market with live performances that navigate fear, despair, laughter, and hope. The audience is transported from the dark emotions of Black Friday through the humour of Red Flag Saturday, arriving at celebratory Grey Cup Sunday!

Co-presented by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.

ARTISTS
John G. Boehme (Victoria)
Joanne Bristol (Winnipeg)
David Frankovich (Toronto)
Tomas Jonsson (Calgary)
Rodolphe-Yves Lapointe (Montreal)
Julian Higuerey Núñez (Venezuela)
Ignacio Peréz Peréz (Venezuela)
Claudia Wittmann (Toronto).

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FULL SCHEDULE DETAILS: www.performanceart.ca

BLACK FRIDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Joanne Bristol, Claudia Wittmann, Roldophe-Yves Lapointe, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

RED FLAG SATURDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Tom Jonsson, John Boehme, Joanne Bristol, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

GREY CUP SUNDAY @ 6PM: Grey Cup Party by David Frankovich

And more!
November 23, 2-9PM: Open Barter Market by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 24 – 29, 9AM-9PM: The Artist and the Beanstalk by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 27, 1-4PM: Association for Imaginary Architecture by Joanne Bristol
November 28, 1-10PM: Magpie by Tom Jonsson

See our website for full details, project descriptions and artist bios.

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About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage.

FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage. We would also like to thank InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre for their support and contributions hosting and presenting this event.

artist lecture: jon sasaki

2009-11-22T15:00:00.001-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Jon Sasaki

Tuesday 24 November 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Working in the vein of “romantic conceptualism,” John Sasaki utilizes primarily performance-for-video, objects, installations and interventions in work that mixes humour and pathos, often with gently antagonistic results. Cynicism, futility and tragedy are taken as starting points, then countered with dry, comic delivery. Often structured like the familiar “shaggy dog joke,” much of this work is a deadpan escalation of expectations, followed by an anticlimactic punch line. It is a celebration of futility and resignation.

Sasaki’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Centre Clark (Montreal), Gallery TPW (Toronto), The New Gallery (Calgary), and Latitude 53 (Edmonton). He has participated in recent group exhibitions at VOX (Montreal), the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (University of Toronto), the Owens Art Gallery (Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB) Simon Fraser University Gallery (Burnaby, BC), as well as the 2006 and 2008 editions of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Upcoming solo exhibitions will be presented at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto), The Doris McCarthy Gallery, (University of Toronto at Scarborough) and 126 (Galway, Ireland). Sasaki was an active member of the Instant Coffee art collective between 2002 and 2007. He lives and works in Toronto.

Image: Toronto's Official Y2K Mascot, Autumn (2008), HDV, 4:33, looped

bookworks call for submission

2009-11-07T08:18:00.000-08:00

The Art Gallery of York University sponsors the race to the ABotM.

Now is your chance to be recognized.

The Art Gallery of York University is now accepting submissions to the AGYU Artists' Book of the Moment competition.

Following the closing deadline, our panel of adjudicators will assess all submissions. Taking into consideration their own eclectic tastes, the jury will select which books they deem worthy of the AGYU ABotM designation – a rare honour indeed!

The singular book that rises to the top of the ABotM will receive a cash award of $1,500 (Canadian funds, of course).

Submission Deadline is 18 January 2010.

Submission guidelines:

Read the full rules (see below).
Complete the ABotM submission information form (even further below).
Send the book(s) you wish considered for the AGYU ABotM competition to the Art Gallery of York University along with printed submission information for each entry.
Books must be received by the AGYU by January 18th, 2010. Do not send books COD.
Email the required submission form to ABotM@theAGYUisOutThere.org.
Wait for the results of the adjudication.

ABotM Rules:

Yes, there are rules.

The “A” in ABotM is silent.
All books submitted to the ABotM competition should already be published (e.g., no prototypes or maquettes) and exist in either editions of more than 20 or as open editions. The ABotM is directed towards content-driven artist's books. For the purposes of this contest, we will not consider catalogues, portfolios, or promotional material.
There are no restrictions on date or location of production. There is no limit of the number of submissions you may make.
There is no submission fee. No submissions will be returned, however. Over the course of the submission and assessment period, all the books will be publicly accessible in the lobby bookstore of the AGYU. At the end of the competition, all works will be placed in our newly-developed artist's book resource centre or other suitable collection. Those retained by the AGYU will continue to be accessible to the public by appointment.
All books deemed worthy of ABotM designation will be featured on a section of our website dedicated to artist's books along with contact information on the artist(s) responsible. In addition, qualifying artist's will receive proper notification and acknowledgement as well as a frameable certificate attesting to the designation.
Any submission to the competition is considered tacit agreement to the terms of the competition (especially rule number 5).
Follow all submission guidelines.

ABotM Submission information to include with your entry:

Title of work
Artist name[s]
Press/imprint
ISBN (if applicable)
Dimensions
Retail Price
Edition size
Supplier/contact person
email address for contact person
mailing address for contact person
website
200 – 300 words describing the submitted title
200 – 300 words describing the press and/or artist

For more information please contact:
Michael Maranda, assistant curator
Art Gallery of York University
Toronto ON (Canada)
abotm@theAGYUisOutThere.org

out there
http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/

emerging artist competition

2009-11-07T08:17:00.000-08:00

Emerging Artist Competition | Deadline: January 15, 2010
The Artist Project Toronto | March 4-7, 2010

The Artist Project Toronto invites submissions from emerging artists for the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition. Untapped is a juried competition in which 16 of the best up-and-coming artists are awarded a free space in the 2010 show! This is an excellent opportunity to participate in a professional level art fair and to showcase your work to gallerists, collectors and art enthusiasts.

Winners Will:

Receive a free space in the Open Gallery section of the show (approximately 10 linear feet)
Connect with 10,000 visitors, gallerists & art buyers
Network with artists from across North America
Get promoted on: The Artist Project website, show guide, press releases & other marketing materials

Who Can Apply?

Current students and recent graduates (no more than three years removed from post-secondary or graduate-level education)
Self-taught artists who have been practicing their art for less than 3 years
Winning artists must be personally present for the duration of the show (March 4-7, 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Building, Toronto, ON)

The deadline for application is Friday, January 15, 2010
Click HERE for application (pdf)

For applications & more information
Visit www.theartistprojecttoronto.com

About Us:
The Artist Project Toronto is produced by MMPI, one of the largest trade show producers in the world credited with Art Chicago, Volta, NEXT and The Armory Show. MMPI Canada is also responsible for The Toronto International Art Fair, One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show, and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada .

Contact:
Kim Selman
T: 416-960-4527
E: kim@mmpicanada.com
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maura doyle: artist lecture

2009-11-06T11:08:00.001-08:00

reel asian film festival

2009-11-06T10:22:00.000-08:00

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Opens this week, November 11-15

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) celebrates its 13th year as Canada’s premier showcase of contemporary Asian cinema! This year’s festival presents 49 East/Southeast Asian titles from 14 countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Singapore, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and the USA.

With over 30 Asian Canadian titles, this year’s festival presents the biggest and best selection of recent Asian Canadian films, videos and new media works, including the world premiere of THE ACHE by Toronto-based director Keith Lock; REX VS. SINGH, a collaboration between Ali Kazimi, Richard Fung, and John Greyson; and an installation by Jin-Me Yoon.

For more info: 416-703-9333, www.reelasian.com.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Wed Nov 11 7:00 PM | Bloor Cinema | Opening Night Gala
OVERHEARD
Dir. Alan Mak & Felix Chong | Hong Kong 2009 | Canadian Premiere
Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu star as three cops torn between money and justice in the highly anticipated Canadian premiere of this suspenseful crime drama. Preceded by a live multi-media animation by Lesley Loksi Chan and Serena Lee.

Thu Nov 12, 5-8 PM | Trinity Square Video | Gallery Reception
“IT WILL ALL BE DIFFERENT”
Exhibition: November 12 to December 12
ANGST ESSEN / EAT FEAR (Ming Wong) is a reconstruction of the Fassbinder movie, Angst essen Seele auf (1973). In this scandalous love story between an elderly cleaning woman from Munich and a young Moroccan immigrant worker, Wong unlocks a playful state of ‘in-betweenness’ (in-between ethnicities, languages and genders) by humorously playing all of the characters in the film.
AS IT IS BECOMING, BEPPU, JAPAN SERIES (Jin-Me Yoon) - Through rigorous action that evokes scenes of evasion and/or survival combat techniques, Yoon crawls like an alien creature throughout the Kannawa District, a former U.S. Army Base converted into a park, and the Atomic Treatment Centre.

Thu Nov 12 | 7:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
FRUIT FLY Dir. H.P. Mendoza | USA
An outrageously gay San Francisco musical about a Filipina performance artist in search of her birth parents.

Fri Nov 13 | 6:15 PM | Innis Town Hall
SENSE OF WONDER
Inspiring our imaginations in the darkest of moments, this year’s selection of the best Asian Canadian shorts invokes a playful outlook on tragedy. Including films and videos by Leslie Supnet, Jong Wook Choi, Lydia Fu, Yung Chang, Paramita Nath, Victoria Cheong, Randall Okita, Richard Fung, John Greyson, and Ali Kazimi.

Fri Nov 13 8:00 PM | The Royal | Centrepiece
RED HEROINE with Live Score by Devil Music Ensemble | Dir. Wen Yimin | China
Red Heroine and White Monkey unleash the art of hand, sword, and powerful magic in the Canadian premier of the only surviving silent “Kung Fu” film from China (1929), featuring a modern score performed live by Boston band, Devil Music Ensemble.

Fri Nov 13, 10:00 PM | The Rivoli
CANADIAN MOVIEMAKERS PARTY
Celebrate Canadian Moviemakers! Live music by THE WORST POP BAND EVER joined by LEO37, MAGNOLIUS, THE ABYSS, SUNCLEF to new animations by Howie Shia (PPF HOUSE), and DANCING with DJ TAD.

Sat Nov 14 2:00 PM | Innis Town Hall
AGRARIAN UTOPIA | Dir. Uruphong Raksasad | Thailand
Two families find themselves farming together on the same field as they face economic, political and social changes sparked by national policy and industrial globalization. Panel with Uruphong Raksasad: Tue Nov 10, 6-8pm at the Asian Institute, Munk Centre

Sat Nov 14 10:00 PM | Innis Town Hall
FISH STORY | Dir. Nakamura Yoshihiro | Japan
A doomsday adventure about a Japanese punk song that rescues humanity—adapted from the acclaimed book by Kotaro Isaka.

Sun Nov 15 12:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
A SCHOOLGIRL’S DIARY | Dir. Jang In-hak | DPRK (North Korea)
A story about the daughter of a national researcher provides a remarkably lucid window into the social fabric and cinematic culture of the contemporary DPRK. Preceded by Chosun Forever by Joohyun Kwon.

Sun Nov 15 5:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
THE ACHE | Dir. Keith Lock | Canada
A young Chinese Canadian woman working in an erotic parlour unravels the shameful mysteries of her cursed family and father’s illicit affair with a spirit.

Sun Nov 15 8:00 PM | The Royal | Closing Night Gala & Awards Ceremony
BREATHLESS | Dir. Yang Ik-June | South Korea
Debut director, writer and actor Yang Ik-June plays a frustrated extortionist who tries to escape his violent past after he meets a wayward schoolgirl.

FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Phone: 416 703 9333, Email: info@reelasian.com, Website: www.reelasian.com

SCREENING VENUES
Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St W at Bathurst
The Royal, 608 College St at Clinton
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave at St. George

BOX OFFICE INFO
During the Festival
Festival Box Office: Nov 12-15. Innis College Lobby (2 Sussex Av) open from noon. Cash only.
Venue Box Offices: Nov 11-15. At each screening venue. Opens an hour before each screening. Cash only.
Advance Box Office
Web Sales (until Monday, Nov 9 at 11:59pm). Online at www.reelasian.com
Walk-Up Sales (until Saturday, Nov 7 at 6:30pm). T.O. Tix (Yonge-Dundas Square), Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00pm – 6:30pm.
ADVANCE BOX OFFICE INFOLINE – call T.O. Tix at 416 536 6468 x 40

TICKETS & PASSES

	Regular Price/Discount Price*
Regular Programmes	$12/$10
Opening Night Gala	$20/$15
Centrepiece Presentation	$15/$12
Closing Night Gala	$15/$12
Festival Pass	$80/$65

*Discount applies to students (with valid current ID), seniors over 65 (no ID required), or group sales (by arrangement)

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Ontario Tourism, Toronto Arts Council, Telefilm and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Reel Asian Charitable # 870021383RR000

artist lecture: richard rhodes

2009-11-06T08:59:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Presents

Richard Rhodes

Thursday 19 November 2009

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124

In 1990, he was appointed curator at The Power Plant in Toronto, following project work as an independent curator, which included work as Commissioner for Canada at the 1985 Sao Paulo Biennale. He has been an adjunct curator for Oakville Galleries and has organized more recent independent projects that included a five-gallery exhibition of emerging artists from the Netherlands in 2002 and a series of one-day exhibitions called The News at Five for Toronto International Art Fair. Rhodes will curate the 7th Alberta Biennale at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2010.

As a photographer, he worked with writer John Bentley Mays to illustrate the City Sites and Material World columns for the Globe and Mail. Rhodes has taught criticism at the Ontario College of Art and Design and photography at Ryerson University. In 2003, he received the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Achievement Award.

Rhodes’ paintings were included in the 2005-06 exhibition Weathervane, curated by Karen Love. His work has been exhibited at Dyan Marie Projects in Toronto (2006) and Galerie René Blouin in Montreal (2007). Rhodes is the author of a popular book on the history of Canadian art for young people, “A First Book of Canadian Art” (2001).

call for submissions

2009-11-06T08:56:00.000-08:00

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Up and Away 1st exhibition at your Inset Space

If you haven’t already heard, the North Building at UTM is home to a newly established student gallery called Inset Space. Most magnificent of all, we want your artwork NOW for the first exhibition!

We want your reactions/responses to the current shows at the Blackwood Gallery – ‘Fall Out’ and ‘Fall In’. Inspiration could stem from a certain artist, concepts from the exhibition, or the relationship between multiple works, etc. New work is encouraged as well as the reworking of previous projects you may have. Consider the relationship between the themes of the two Blackwood shows and the implications of the phrase ‘up and away’.

Inset Space is accepting submissions from UTM students. Entries in all media are welcome. Performances for the opening? Yes please! The opening will take place on Thursday, November 26th.

Please keep in mind: Inset Space is located within a computer lab – work with sound requires headphones. The space is unmonitored – work is unfortunately susceptible to damage. A web component to the show can be created for work that is awesome and on topic but not suitable for, or at risk in the Inset Space.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

• A few photos/descriptions of previous work
• Artist statement (paragraph about yourself including program, year of study, areas of interest)
• A description of the proposed work with sketches if relevant, a plan of how the work would be installed (equipment needed, what you can get, what you may need from us)

Email submissions to insetspace@gmail.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, November 6th, at 12 pm

More Info? Ideas? Inquiries? contact us at insetspace@gmail.com

ART AND ART HISTORY: AWARDS CEREMONY

2009-11-06T08:37:00.000-08:00

Art and Art History Program

2009 Awards

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Annie Smith Arts Centre, Sheridan College

Awards Ceremony begins at 7:00 p.m.

Pot Luck Dinner and Bar at 6 p.m.

Bar will remain open after the ceremony.

Keynote Speaker: Carol-Ann Ryan, Art and Art History Alumna

Everyone is Welcome!

artist lecture: blackwood gallery

2009-11-06T08:30:00.000-08:00

artist lecture: susan detwiler

2009-10-27T06:55:00.001-07:00

Art and Art History Presents

Susan Detwiler

Thursday 12 November 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan B124

I live in a rural area of southwestern Ontario. Over the past six years I have developed and maintained a series of walks, which trespass private farmland, abandoned quarries, swampland and woodlots. Within this activity I try to cultivate sensitivity to body awareness as opposed to mind-based projection and perception. Much of my work deals with issues of body and landscape. It often raises questions about our relationship to the environment and increasing disconnection with the natural world.

Biography

Susan Detwiler is a contemporary visual artist, educator and writer. Her work includes sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and video. Detwiler studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and later received an MFA from the University of Guelph. She teaches part time at the University of Guelph and the Dundas Valley School of Art.

Image: Green Cleaning House (2008), 8 x 6 x 5 feet, float, live plants, mops, brooms, buckets, Jay Cloths

symposium: war at distance

2009-10-23T11:30:00.001-07:00

War at a Distance Open Symposium
Documentary Practice, Visual Culture and Public Conversations about Military Conflict
Ryerson University, Toronto
Friday October 30, 2009 – Saturday October 31, 2009

War at a Distance Exhibition
Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
Curated by Blake Fitzpatrick, Karyn Sandlos and Roger I. Simon
Saturday October 24, 2009 – Saturday November 21, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 2009 7-9pm

The War at a Distance symposium and the associated exhibition will explore the ways in which new representational practices are mediating the terms on which Canadians struggle to make sense of the war in Afghanistan. New technologies and forms of documentary and artistic practice are continuing to alter the range of impressions available to a civic culture. The symposium and exhibition will create a forum for participants to grapple with the questions that emerge when these artistic and cultural forms are brought into relation, often in ways that blur the distinctions between documentary and aesthetics, art and visual culture, war artist and combatant-diarist. This new cultural landscape is setting the terms for public conversations about Canada’s on-going involvement in the war in Afghanistan.

Barbie Zelizer will deliver a Keynote lecture at Ryerson University at 4:00pm on October 30th. Barbie Zelizer is the author of Remember to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye among other numerous publications and holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

The War at a Distance Symposium is free and open to the public. It is supported by The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University and the Centre for Media and Culture in Education, OISE/UT.

More information can be found at http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/waratadistance

short film screening

2009-10-23T07:53:00.000-07:00

Interested in watching some short amateur student films? What about
free food to compliment your eyes? And maybe a little bit of alcohol
as well?

Then come out to the Hart House Film Board: Student Film Screening on
Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 7pm.

We will be showcasing various short films from your very own amateur
filmmakers at UofT as part of the Hart House Film Board.

If you would like to submit a short film for the screening send an email to
Sve Pavic @ svebor.pavic@utoronto.ca. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 6th.

Hope to see all you cinephiles there and in the meantime enjoy the
posters created by Kate McEdwards!

**THE HUB = the Hart House main desk!!!
*** Deadline for submissions has been changed to Nov. 2nd!
***** And as you see the location has changed from the music room to
the East Common Room :)

exhibition: gallery 44

2009-10-23T07:51:00.001-07:00

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond St West Suite 120 Toronto Ontario M5V 3A8 www.gallery44.org

GOOGLE EARTH
Eryn Foster and John van der Woude

October 23 – November 28, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, October 23, 6 - 9 pm
Artists’ talk: Friday, October 23, 6 pm

CHANGING THE WAY WE VIEW THE EARTH – TWO ARTISTS CONSIDER THE IMPLICATIONS OF GOOGLE EARTH

From the first aerial photograph made by Nadar in 1858 to the first fully illuminated view of planet Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 to the release of Google Earth 3.0 in 2005, our access to views of the Earth has increased exponentially. In their exhibition at Gallery 44, Eryn Foster and John van der Woude demonstrate what can be done with the visual information made publicly available today by Google Earth.

In Eryn Foster’s animation, Flight Simulation, aerial perspectives of the landscape coalesce into the abstract renderings and discontinuous movements of computer-generated images. Flight Simulation thus brings to our attention the sociological distance we have traversed from being airplanes passengers to being “virtual navigators”—as Foster refers to the users of Google Earth—and how this “developed” perspective affects our relationship to the Earth.

John van der Woude’s series of photographs, Airports—composites of satellite images downloaded from Google Earth—show us in astonishing detail the nine busiest airports in the world. Van der Woude refers to the airport as “a metaphor for the ultimate strength and weakness of contemporary life”. Beyond their formal beauty, his images immediately bring to mind issues of accessibility in an age when populous locations are prime terrorist targets.

Eryn Foster is an interdisciplinary artist who currently lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Art Centre, the MacDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire and the Vermont Studio Centre. From 2005 to 2009 she was the director of the artist-run Eyelevel Gallery in Halifax and has also worked as an instructor in the Foundation Studies program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.

John van der Woude is a photography and new media artist, based in Montreal, who initially studied art and design at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2007, focusing on photography and graphic design. He has won multiple awards, including the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward 2008 award and the BMO Financial Group's 1st Art! Competition. His work has been shown in galleries across Canada and has been featured on many media outlets, including CTV and CBC, both locally and nationally.

A catalog essay by Marco Avolio accompanying the exhibition is available at www.gallery44.org

Google Earth opens on October 23 and continues until November 28. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23, from 6 to 9 PM at Gallery 44, located at 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120, Toronto. The artists will be giving a talk at 6pm.

Image credit: John van der Woude, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, USA, 2007

For more information please contact:
Alice Dixon, Exhibition Coordinator
Gallery 44
(416) 979-3941
alice@gallery44.org
Gallery 44 is open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 5 pm

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
www.gallery44.org

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to the advancement of photographic art. Founded in 1979, the centre consists of a gallery, resource centre, and production facilities. Gallery 44 is supported by its members and patrons, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.

call for submissions

2009-10-23T07:49:00.000-07:00

To Whom it May Concern:

XPACE Cultural Centre and the Images Festival are co-presenting a new media student group exhibition for the upcoming Images Festival (April 1 – 10, 2009) and we are seeking proposals from local undergraduate new media students.

Now in its second year, this collaboration is hoping to expand on the success of last years Inner and Outer Spaces. This energetic exhibition featured work from students at York University, the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the University of Toronto.

XPACE and Images are seeking challenging and refreshing new media installations. Our goal is to combine work from OCAD, the U of T campuses, Ryerson and York for an exciting counterpart to the annual S is for Student screening, one of the Images Festival favourites. This is an excellent opportunity for students to exhibit their work at a supportive, professional space with internationally renowned festival exposure.

On behalf of XPACE, I would be delighted to answer any questions about this project and encourage you to contact me. Please feel free to forward this call for proposals to interested parties – attached is the application form. All proposals must be received by November 13^th, 2009; note that only hardcopy proposals will be considered. Class talks regarding this project and about XPACE Cultural Centre can also be arranged.

Thank you and warmest regards,
Matthew Williamson
Programmer
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave.
xpace.info

artist lecture: anda kubis

2009-10-23T07:48:00.000-07:00

Art and Art History Presents

Anda Kubis

Thursday 29 October 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan B124

The urban experience is highly visual, complex and competitive. Attentive viewing and prolonged focus is often impossible. To navigate we must continually filter and sort. I wish to mimic the perceptual negotiation that must take place when we constantly shift from the virtual to the natural and back again. Rising from questions posed in Modernist abstract painting, such as presence, consciousness and the desire for transcendence, my work explores the subjective quality of conscious experience. I create floating screens and flickers of luminously synthetic colour using traditional oil paint. My challenge is to seek a resolution between painting’s historic context and its relevance today – as a means of “explaining” the dominant drivers in my visual landscape: architecture, design, media and consumer culture.

Biography

Anda Kubis was born in Toronto during a hopeful era. A faith in possibility pervades her work. Kubis studied at OCA for a short while and then moved on to complete a BFA at NSCAD and an MFA at York University in 1992. She is currently Chair of Drawing and Painting at OCAD. Before teaching at OCAD Anda taught at the University of Lethbridge and at York University.
Kubis has curated many exhibitions and run experimental art galleries: Superplastic for Drabinsky Gallery, Self Help at Mercer Union and Alias, Alibi for Free Parking Gallery.
Kubis is represented by Drabinsky Gallery in Toronto, Newzones in Calgary, Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver and Tapper-Popermajer Art Gallery in Sweden. In 2008 Kubis’ work appeared in Carte Blanche, Vol. 2: Painting – a compendium of Canadian painters, published by the Magenta Foundation.

Image: Cluster, Red (2008), 6 x 5 feet, oil on canvas

huffman award information

2009-10-23T07:46:00.000-07:00

Art and Art History Program

William Huffman Award

In preparation for the Art and Art History Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 17 November 2009, William Huffman will judge student work for the William Huffman Award on Tuesday 10 November 2009. Please assemble your work for viewing in either your cubicle or in the Annie Smith atrium area before 6:00 PM.

The William Huffman Award recipient will participate in an exhibition curated and promoted by Mr. Huffman in Toronto at Red Bull 381 Projects. Last year’s recipient of this award was Jessica Valentin.

Mr. Huffman, a program alumnus (1991), is Associate Director at the Toronto Arts Council.

hart house: call for submissions

2009-10-23T07:45:00.000-07:00

Deadline for Submission is November 9, 2009

Any student interested in art of photography, then this is a chance for you to showcase your work at Hart House through the Hart House Art Committee.

The Art Committee is now accepting SUBMISSIONS OF ARTWORK from any University of Toronto student (full-time, part-time, undergraduate, graduate, professional faculty) to be exhibited in the Arbor Room of the Hart House on the St. George Campus. The size of the artwork should not exceed 60 inches high by 70 inches wide. Works submitted may be in any media as long as its mount or frame can be safely and securely placed on hooks along the wall of the dining area in the Arbor Room. If your submission is selected for the upcoming exhibition, please reframe from using clip frames and make certain that they are properly framed. The Hart House Art Committee cannot assume liability for lost of damaged artworks throughout the exhibition.

The Arbor Room Sub-Committee oversees the Arbor Room exhibitions.

***Some sculptural pieces and other 3-dimentional artworks may be included at the discretion of the Committee.Please forward any questions to arbor.cttee@gmail.com

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK:
Please submit jpeg image(s) of your work with a title and short description about your artwork, along with your Name, Year, College, email and contact number to arbor.cttee@gmail.com under the subject heading of Arbor Room Submissions.

artist lecture: tara marshall

2009-10-23T07:44:00.001-07:00

Art and Art History Presents

Tara Marshall

Tuesday 27 October 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Annie Smith Arts Centre Mezzanine

Tara Marshall is an art historian, teacher, curator, art consultant and writer from Toronto. Tara earned her MA in Art History from York University, her BA from McGill University and also studied Interior Design at Sheridan College. Tara is currently the Outreach Programmer at the Art Gallery of Mississauga where she programs special exhibitions and events and she teaches courses on Contemporary and Canadian Art at the AGO and at the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. Tara has published in Canadian Art Magazine, worked for the Canadian Art Foundation, worked as an art historian for the Granite Club and is a former Director of Red Head Gallery in Toronto. This Spring, an exhibition of portraits by James MacDougall, curated by Tara, will open at the Varley Gallery in Markham.

Tara will be speaking to students regarding opportunities in Visual Arts.

lights out: nuit blanche

2009-09-26T20:16:00.001-07:00

nuit blanche: mallory diaczun

2009-09-25T06:23:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-23T13:07:00.000-07:00

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
F: 416.598.2282

E: yyz@yyzartistsoutlet.org
W: www.yyzartistsoutlet.org

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

2009-09-22T23:12:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-20T20:33:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-20T19:42:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-20T19:39:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-15T21:17:00.001-07:00

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

art supply sales

2009-09-15T21:15:00.001-07:00

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exhibition: fall out @ blackwood gallery

2009-09-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-14T16:07:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-14T16:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-14T16:03:00.001-07:00

sandwich q: september 16

2009-09-14T15:58:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-14T15:57:00.000-07:00

artist lecture: Vid Ingelevics

2009-09-03T16:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-03T16:26:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-03T16:24:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-03T16:22:00.000-07:00

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.

UTAC: CALL FOR STUDENT RUN WORKSHOPS AND ARTWORKS

2009-05-16T09:45:00.000-07:00

The University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2009 exhibition: Rochdale College

All Ontario students are invited to submit class proposals.

What is Rochdale College? Rochdale College is an experiment in education, cooperative living, and juvenocracy. It opened in 1968, at the corner of Huron and Bloor Streets, to 850 students who were Toronto’s young new radicals in participatory democracy, ready to rethink pedagogy and redesign the institution. Rochdale was as buoyed by late sixties counterculture revolution as it was burdened by its free spirits and drug culture. With the clampdown on the hippie haven of Yorkville in 1969, Rochdale’s population more than doubled with squatters, blurring the line between educational cooperative and flophouse, and causing the experiment to be shut down in 1975.

The exhibition does not claim to present a complete historical portrait of Rochdale, but instead prepares a historical collision in which Rochdale never stopped. The fragments of the wreckage will allow us to recontextualize Rochdale in all its forms: is Rochdale still relevant? Was it a failure? What is the possibility or value of alternative education? What does counterculture mean to you today? While the class can be on any subject, entrants should include a brief statement explaining how their class proposal relates to the ideas implied by the exhibition.

Classes are an important part of the exhibition in keeping with the emphasis on participatory education. We are not looking for experts to coordinate classes. All that is required is openness and a willingness to participate. Classes can be proposed on any topic and approached through a wide range of styles: from the most activist urgency to the most irreverent, absurd or exploratory style.

How to Submit

All submissions must indicate the artist’s name, institution, phone and email contact. Submissions must include a statement outlining how the proposed class touches upon the ideas above. Please forward entries under the title “Rochdale College submission” to sunny.kerr@utoronto.ca. NEW Deadline: July 29, 2009.

Criteria

An art lounge education committee of students and staff will choose the classes for the exhibition. The following criteria will be applied: how well the project speaks to a current condition, meets a perceived level of artistic and/or curatorial merit, and falls within UTAC’s ability to host appropriately.

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Call for artworks

The University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2009 exhibition: Rochdale College
All Ontario students are invited to submit art works as part of an exhibition entitled Rochdale College that will participate in Nuit Blanche 2009.

The exhibition does not claim to present a complete historical portrait of Rochdale, but instead prepares a historical collision in which Rochdale never stopped. The fragments of the wreckage will allow us to recontextualize Rochdale in all its forms: is Rochdale still relevant? Was it a failure? What is the possibility or value of alternative education? What does counterculture mean to you today? Experimental pedagogy is an important part of the exhibition in keeping with Rochdale’s emphasis on participatory education, as are reevaluations of failure and the role of counterculture. Entrants should include a brief statement explaining how their work relates to these questions and strategies.

How to Submit

All submissions must indicate the artist’s name, institution, phone and email contact and a maximum 2 megabyte jpeg. Submissions must also include a statement outlining how the project explores the ideas above. Please forward entries under the title “Rochdale College submission” to sunny.kerr@utoronto.ca. NEW Deadline: July 29th, 2009.

Criteria

An art lounge curatorial committee will choose the works for the exhibition. The following criteria will be applied: how well the project speaks to a current condition, meets a perceived level of artistic merit, and falls within UTAC’s ability to host appropriately.

About the University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge:
Located at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, at 15 King’s College Circle, UTAC’s mission is to offer a space where young artists can show and discuss their work in an energetic, original and inclusive way. The art lounge student exhibition program aims both to encourage rigorous aesthetic exploration and to reflect the diverse practices in student visual art. The art lounge accepts proposals from student artists to exhibit their own work, and curators to exhibit the work of other students; we also collaborate with U of T clubs and divisions on open call juried or curated student shows - and with faculty on projects that use the lounge and adjacent spaces.

Sunny Kerr
Student and Education Program Coordinator
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
416-946-3029

CANADIAN ART WRITING PRIZE

2009-05-16T09:44:00.000-07:00

CANADIAN ART WRITING PRIZE
Designed to encourage and discover new writers on contemporary art

Submission deadline is June 26

The Canadian Art Writing Prize launches in conjunction with
Canadian Art’s 25th anniversary

First prize is $3,000
Two honourable mentions will receive $1,000 each.

The jury for the prize includes Richard Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art, Ray Cronin, director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Nancy Tousley, art critic at the Calgary Herald.

The winning submission will be published in Canadian Art magazine.

Go to http://www.canadianart.ca/foundation/programs/writingprize/ for full submission guidelines

If you would prefer not to receive emails from the Canadian Art Foundation, reply to this email with Unsubscribe in the subject line.

Canadian Art
215 Spadina Ave, Suite 320
Toronto, ON M5T 2C7

writingprize@canadianart.ca
416-368-8854 x101

chromatose pictures for download

2009-04-20T15:01:00.001-07:00

http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cvmc/aah/temp/chromatosepics.zip

call for volunteers

2009-04-20T15:00:00.001-07:00

Subject: Royal Botanical Gardens Summer Earth Art Exhibition — Call for Sheridan Art Students.

Ross Halloran, who works in the Marketing department of Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, has sent out a call for students to assist with their 2nd annual Earth Art Exhibition this coming June. The RBG is looking for students to volunteer this coming June to help five international artists — (Ichi Ikeda (Japan), Dennis Oppenheim (USA), and others — create their "in situ" environmental/land art installations. Each artist will be assigned up to two student assistants who will mentor them in the philosophy and technique they use to create their very personal "in situ" art installations. A documentary entitled "Down to Earth" will also be shot onsite at RBG in June to build on footage shot during last summer's inaugural Earth Art exhibition and will later air on Bravo Arts & Minds in October 2009. In return, each participating student volunteer will receive a formal thank you/reference letter from RBG signed by all of the featured artists and a one-time honorarium fee of up to $350 dollars (fees will be based on time volunteer hours worked) as token of thanks for their volunteer involvement and contribution to the success to the Earth Art exhibition. In addition, each participating student volunteer will also be invited as an RBG guest to attend our VIP Earth Art Exhibition Gala opening on Thursday July 2nd, 2009.

Student Volunteer terms will range from 2 to 4 weeks (based on Artists onsite needs and travel itineraries) during the month of June.

See the attached overview of the project.

Contact: Ross Halloran, Marketing, Royal Botanical Gardens

Cell phone #: (416) 856-6666

port credit exhibition oppurtunity

2009-03-21T15:23:00.000-07:00

The Credit Village Marina, a city owned and operated facility located in picturesque Port Credit (Mississauga), is the home of the Eleventh Annual Port Credit Outdoor Art Show. This non-profit, juried show was created to bring art to everyday people in an informal and fun atmosphere.

EXHIBITOR SPACE
The space is 10’x10’ and is restricted to one artist per space. Hydro is not provided. Artists are responsible for their own display equipment, including table, chairs and canopies. The number of spaces provided is limited.
All other pertinent information will be provided upon acceptance into the exhibition.

Canopies are mandatory and must be anchored in case of wind. (This will be checked at set up)

EXHIBITOR SET-UP AND TAKE DOWN
Artists must arrive between 1pm and 2pm on Friday for set up. Artists must not dismantle their display or commence packing up until the show closes (Advertised Hours). Artists have the option to stay opened until Dusk.

This is an outdoor show! In the event of inclement weather, artists must make their own provisions for shelter.

SELECTION OF WORK
To maintain a high quality exhibition, a panel of jurors made up of artists and art professionals will review all the applications. Submitted artwork will be judged based on originality in conception, design and quality of workmanship.
The exhibition is open to works of painting, sculpture, ceramic, glass, photography,
multi-media computer generated, mixed media, jewellery, wood, fiber and metal.
Only original art forms will be considered for display. Photo lithos, posters, cards and T-shirts are only allowed if it is of your original work
and makes up 20% or less of your display.

Decisions made by the jury of the Port Credit Outdoor Art Show are final.
Letters of the jurors' decision will be mailed on or before April 30th, 2009

CONDITIONS AND LIABILITIES
Artists must agree to be present at the show for all 3 days. No refunds are issued if you are unable to attend or in the event of poor weather. Port Credit Outdoor Art Show, the City of Mississauga, and volunteer workers are not responsible for losses or damages incurred at the
Port Credit Outdoor Art Show.
Insurance is not provided.

MAIL TO:
Port Credit BIA

For info call: 905-278.7742
Web Site: www.portcredit.com
Email: beatrice@portcredit.com

SUBMISSION CHECKLIST

• You must submit up to 3-6 photos or digital images of your work on CD Maximum 300dpi, appropriately labeled in sequence for CD.

• Completed application form.

• Include a 9”x12” self-addressed stamped envelope for return of CD and/or photos.

• Please sign and return the Letter of Indemnity on the reverse side.
This must be included with your submission.

ENCLOSE 2 CHEQUES:

1. Jury Fee (non-refundable)
$25.00 full time artists
$10.00 students
Cheque or money order payable to
Port Credit BIA

2. Application Fee (refundable)
$200.00 for full time artists
$100.00 for students with photo ID (must be a fulltime student in a post-secondary art program).This fee will be returned if you are not accepted into the show. Cheque or money order made payable to Port Credit BIA

NOTE: Artists previously selected
Do not need to submit pictures or Jury Fee.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
April 6, 2009

THE SHOW GOES ON RAIN OR SHINE!!!
NO REFUNDS ISSUED.

APPLICATION FORM

NAME: ____________________________________

ADDRESS: _________________________________

CITY: _____________________________________

POSTAL CODE: ____________________________

EMAIL: ____________________________________

HOME PHONE: _____________________________

BUSINESS PHONE:__________________________

__________________________________________

I hereby agree to abide by the rules of the show. By entering, the artist warrants the work submitted is their original creation.

SIGNATURE:

__________________________________________

DATE: ____________________________________

The Corporation of the City of Mississauga
Port Credit Outdoor Art Show,
Port Credit Business Association
Visual Arts Mississauga
Acknowledgement and
Indemnity Waiver

I, _________________________________________
(Name of artist)

Do hereby:

1. Acknowledge that the City of Mississauga, The Port Credit Business Association, Visual Arts Mississauga and The Port Credit Outdoor Art Show shall not be liable for death or injury or damage to property of the Registered Participant or of others including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any loss of or damage to any property of the Registered Participant or of others by theft or otherwise from any cause whatsoever. The Registered Participant waives all rights of subrogation against the City of Mississauga, The Port Credit Business Association and Visual Arts Mississauga.

2. Acknowledge and agree to hold harmless and indemnify the City of Mississauga, its councilors, officers, employees, agents and contractors and the Port Credit Business Association and Visual Arts Mississauga along with its officers, agents and employees from and against, any loss of, or damage to, property, personal injury or death, or any other losses, actions, claims, causes of action, damages, both direct or indirect, and such other costs and expenses, however and whatsoever incurred, suffered or sustained by the participant, its employees, servants, agents, or any of the participants invitees, guests, during or otherwise in relation to or in connection with the participants invitees, guests, during or otherwise in relation to or in connection with the participants invitees, guests, during or otherwise in relation to or in connection with the participants use of the Marina, Port Credit Memorial Park and all activities relating to such use, including that which has been caused or contributed to any negligence.

Signature Date

Outdoor Art Show

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Friday, July 17, 2009
4 pm – 9 pm

Saturday, July 18, 2009
11 am – 8 pm

Sunday, July 19, 2008
Noon - 5 pm

On the boardwalk of the
Credit Village Marina
12 Stavebank Rd. S.
Port Credit

editorial residency/oppurtunity @ canadianart

2009-03-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

Canadian Art Editorial Residency, Summer 2009

This two-month Toronto summer residency is a national prize award for students of art and art history at Canadian universities and art colleges. The winning student will hone his or her writing and editorial skills while working at Canadian Art Magazine. This introduction to art-magazine publishing and writing is intended to foster new critical and editorial talent.

Application Requirements

1. Maximum 500-word exhibition review.

2. One recent sample of academic writing.

3. Maximum one-page C.V.

Award Value

$7,000

Contract Duration

June 15, 2009 – August 14, 2009

DEADLINE

April 1, 2009

SEND APPLICATIONS TO:
Canadian Art
Attn: Canadian Art Editorial Residency
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 320
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7

free tickets to sarah thorton lecture

2009-03-21T15:17:00.001-07:00

geoffrey shea exhibition @ ineraccess

2009-03-21T15:13:00.001-07:00

Geoffrey Shea: Drawing and Speech

InterAccess is pleased to present a special, four-day exhibition of new media art work by Geoffrey Shea, from March 25 to March 28, 2009.

Please join us for the reception: Thursday, March 26 at 8:00.

For over two decades Geoffrey Shea has been creating idiosyncratic video installations and interactive works laced with denuded language and stripped down technology to question not only the tales we tell ourselves, but the very telling itself.

In a recent essay, Michael Tweed observes, “The authority of the word, even the comforting sovereignty of the image, is revealed to be what it is: the elegant cloak of our still timid unknowing. Shea does not impose or catalogue the seemingly countless variations of melancholy and despair to which we are prone. What he does provide however is a sort of topography of courage, sketching the geography that stretches between optimism and resignation, hope and despair.”

With this exhibition Geoffrey Shea gives us three recent works that intersect language differently.

Speech (I Want to Know) is a video installation that looks at the artist’s three years as an elected politician. From a (literally) empty campaign speech to a flood of pointless motions and bylaws, language plays a stifling, muted role. But an oh-so-earnest song and a laugh track from some unseen performance turn the experience upside down.

Drawing of a Man is a series of 16-foot tall charcoal sketches with video projected on them. Shea created these drawings to illustrate a now-absent story. Just as in Speech, he appears in the work, performing as a politician, in Drawing we see him performing as an artist.

Writing Machine is an interactive, typewriter-like tool for making words and phrases into concrete poetry. Yet nothing is written—only spoken—and our impulse to create shifts to a rhythmic, musical one.

Geoffrey Shea is a media artist based in Durham, Ontario. Shea's artwork has been presented internationally and is represented in the collections of the National Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art. As well as producing, Shea curates and writes about art and film, most recently as a regular programmer for the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. Currently his research is in mobile content and the creation of new wireless hardware and software platforms for art.

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Y8
Canada
T +1.416.599.7206
F +1.416.599.7015
help(dot)me(at)interaccess(dot)org

Wednesday – Saturday, 12 — 5pm

Media Contact:
Jennifer Cherniack,
(416) 599-7206
jennifer.cherniack@interaccess.org

FADO Performance Art Centre presents International Visiting Artists Series: Tel Aviv Residency

2009-03-21T14:55:00.000-07:00

FADO Performance Art Centre presents
International Visiting Artists Series: Tel Aviv Residency

BETI
New performances from Yaron David, Karin Mendelovici and Meir Tati

Friday March 27, 2009
The Theatre Centre
1087 Queen Street West, Toronto
8pm, $5

FADO is pleased to present BETI - new performance work from Tel Aviv, Israel.
FADO asked Yaron David to curate two other artists from Tel Aviv, and working together as a trio, to create a new performance in/for Toronto, using an invented collaborative working model. After a short residency in Toronto, the final work will be the culmination of a continuous improvised performance and working process that began for these three artists over a month ago. Since the start of their adventure together they met some people (one of them was Beti) and worked in various spaces. Combining video (documentation of the process starting in Tel Aviv and edited at the last moments in Toronto) and live actions, the work of these three artists speaks to the loss of, search for, and the production of meaning in a fragile and chaotic reality - the collaborative research of confusion.

About the Artists
Yaron David (b. 1970, Israel) works in video and performance art. He is also a curator and is active in the performance art scene in Tel Aviv, working with and organizing events with PAP (Performance Art Platform) including a monthly performance event (2004-2007), as well as the ZAZ International Performance Art Festival (2007, 2008). He is a writer and freelance editor, working with museums and cultural institutions. David's work has been presented at international festivals in Israel, Croatia, UK, Finland, Istanbul, Poland, France, and at the National Review of Live Art in Scotland, among other events and exhibitions. This will be David's first appearance in North America.

Karin Mendelovici (b. 1975) is based in Tel Aviv. She works in photography, video and performance. Her performance work has been primarily presented in Tel Aviv, especially in cooperation with PAP (Performance Art Platform). This will be Mendelovici's first appearance in North America.

Meir Tati (b. 1973, Israel) works in video and performance. Recent exhibitions have included the Moscow Biannual for Young Art (2008), and presentations at EPAF (Warsaw), ZAZ Festival (Tel Aviv) and other exhibitions and performances in Italy, Germany, Istanbul and Denmark. This will be Tati's first appearance in North America.

Upcoming at FADO
Not Waterproof
Julie Andrée T.

Monday April 27, 2009
The Theatre Centre
1087 Queen Street West, Toronto
8pm, $10

Lighting design by Jean Jauvin. Sound design by Laurent Maslé.

In Julie Andrée T's work, there is an unsettling blend of performance/installation and theatre. Her iconoclastic work is a hybrid of these two approaches in which dialogue, action and image are gradually distilled into poetry. Disconcerting, moving and unclassifiable, the artist deploys an astounding transformation of the body through a metamorphosis of the stage landscape. In Not Waterproof, the artist's body is subjected to a series of ordeals, is pulverized and dirtied, becoming a dreamscape. In exposing her vulnerability, she quietly conveys the impermanent and ephemeral nature of our lives.

Julie Andrée T.'s (Quebec) installations and performance works have been shown in Canada, U.S.A, South America, Asia and Europe. She was part of PME (experimental theater company directed by Jacob Wren) for many years and has collaborated with choreographers Benoit Lachambre, Xavier Le Roy, Dominique Porte, Martin Bélanger and the filmmaker Dominic Gagnon. Since 2003 she has been part of the performance group Black Market International. She worked with the collective PONI from Brussels as co-artistic-director in 2007. Julie Andrée T. is currently guest artist Faculty at the School of museum of Fine Arts in Boston (USA) where she is teaching performance art.

About FADO
Founded in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre was established to provide a stable, knowledgeable and supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art works created by Canadian and international performance artists. FADO is the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. FADO's activities include presenting performances, artist talks and symposia, festivals, residencies, exchanges and workshops, as well as publishing in a variety of formats, including video and for the web.

FADO would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council for their on-going support of our endeavors.

FADO Performance Art Centre
info@performanceart.ca
416-822-3219

Check out our new website: www.performanceart.ca
(Thanks Twig Design!)

volunteers needed at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto

2009-03-19T05:14:00.000-07:00

VOLUNTEERS WANTED!

Exhibition Installation at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto

On April 2, 2009, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery will present a major exhibition exploring the intersections in the histories of Africa and South Asia. Exhibition works include photography, video projection, a large hand written wall text, and costumes.

Volunteer Slots available on:

Monday March 23, between 6:30pm - 9pm (painting is a major task this day)

Tuesday March 24, between 10 am - 6pm (painting is a major task this day)

Wednesday March 25, between 10am - 6pm (painting is a major task and other tasks - such as wall tracing - are added)

Thursday March 26, between 10 am - 6pm

Friday March 27, between 10 am - 6pm

Saturday March 28, between 10am - when possible (a curator will be around till 8/9pm)

Sunday March 28, between 10am - when possible (a curator will be around till 8/9pm)

Monday March 30, between 10 am - 6pm

Tuesday March 31, between 10 am - 6pm

Wednesday April 1, between 10 am - 6pm

Volunteers are needed for:

1) Gallery Wall Painting (from March 23 - 26 experienced wall painters are highly encouraged to enroll to help paint the entire Gallery white.)

2) Tracing a large wall based text piece (detail oriented volunteers are asked to trace and 'drawn-in' a large wall text that is composed of 46 paragraphs. Many volunteers are required for this. Hope you will sign up!!!)

3) Various tasks from painting to assisting with hanging photographs.

Please contact Katie Bethune-Leamen stating your availability and interested volunteer area.

WOULD REALLY REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP WORKING ON THIS EXHIBITION.

THIS IS GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND THOSE INTERESTED IN EXHIBITION MAKING.

PLEASE CONTACT:

Katie Bethune-Leamen

katiebethuneleamen@hotmail.com

416 978 8017

THANKS SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INTEREST AND HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU :-)

Best,

JMB Gallery!

robert lendrum @ ryerson gallery

2009-03-18T05:02:00.000-07:00

LIVING DOCUMENTS:
Dr. Frankenstein's Guide to Self-Portraiture

Robert Lendrum

Wednesday, March 18th - Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19th, 6-9pm

Ryerson Gallery is pleased to present Living Documents: Dr. Frankenstein's Guide to Self-Portraiture, a video-based installation by Robert Lendrum. Manipulating information, documents, and research methods, Lendrum creates performative representations of identity and memory that highlight the disconnect between personal data and persona. Lendrum's project begins with a survey about his identity involving the participation of over 75 of his friends, family, coworkers, acquaintances and ex-girlfriends. Converting the information into an identity profile with statistics, pie charts and graphs, the raw data is brought to life in a series of performance videos with Dutch actress Jacqueline van de Geer. Lendrum also examines his own family photographs through a process of reenactment manifesting as durational video performances. Asserting his belief that identity is co-authored, Lendrum's work is both self-portrait and social experiment.

An essay by Gabrielle Moser accompanies the exhibition

Information about the artist:
Robert Lendrum (b. 1979) was raised between the suburbs of Toronto and the rural area hamlet of Fallbrook, Ontario. An emerging artist working in video, performance and documentary, his work explores the tension between perceived identity and self-perception. He received his BFA from the University of Western Ontario and his MA in Media Studies at Concordia University. Now completing his MFA in Documentary Media at Ryerson University, he currently lives and works in Toronto.

Image credit: Robert Lendrum Impostor: The Audition (2009) video. production still by John Londono.

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