lyla rye: reception

Join us for the Opening Reception of Kiosk
By Lyla Rye
Commissioned by Cadillac Fairview
for the Encounters with Art series

January 15, 2009 6-9 pm

Spring Rolls Restaurant
Fairview Mall
1800 Sheppard Ave. East (Don Mills)
TTC: Yonge-Sheppard subway line, Don Mills station

Lyla Rye: Kiosk 2008. www.lylarye.com

Kiosk is a video sculpture designed to resemble an empty mall kiosk. Although empty of objects for sale, it is filled with desire in the form of two projected videos. In these videos, a woman arranges objects for display in increasingly unusual ways provoking questions about why we choose to display only certain objects. The manner of filming causes her to merge with the kiosk.

Kiosk is on exhibit on the Lower level of Fairview Mall near H&M until April 12, 2009. Fairview Mall is directly accessible by the Yonge-Sheppard subway and attracts 15 million visitors annually.

Commissioned as the inaugural installment of the Encounters with Art series, Rye's Kiosk was selected from a shortlist of artists by a panel including curatorial advisor, Gordon Hatt. The Encounters with Art series presents contemporary art to the general populace within the framework of a shopping centre. By commissioning site specific work within a familiar setting, the series challenges people's perception of art.

Generously supported by Cinema Stage, Sanyo, and Spring Rolls by Thai Pan.

Info Contact: Mary Pan at 647-868-6989 | mary.pan@sympatico.ca
www.fairviewmall.ca

january 20: amos latteier lecture on models

Art and History Lecture Series Amos Latteier lectures on Models Tuesday January 20 @ 12:30 ROOM B124


"Model Notes" is a short lecture/performance that explores the idea of "models", from fashion models, to the Copernican model, to model citizens, to the Domino theory, to Wild West shows, to the Marshall plan, to urban planning, to feng shui.

Amos Latteier is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist who creates interactive public art using technology and performs PowerPoint lectures. He has performed lectures across North America and in Europe. His recent public art projects include a location-specific haiku by sms project, a telephone-operated karaoke protest song project, a pigeon condo, cell phone-operated nature tour, a 500lb potato battery, and a chainsaw-powered walking machine. For more information visit http://latteier.com/

max dean performance

Max Dean

January 8 to 31, 2009
Reception for the artist: Thursday January 8, 6 to 8pm
Artist talk: 7pm
Saw Box performance: 6:30, 7:00 and 7:30 pm





As visual artists, we put something in a room and we walk away from it. I wanted to extend the viewing experience. I see these things fundamentally as an idea and secondly as a machine. – Max Dean

This first exhibition of Max Dean at Nicholas Metivier Gallery surveys over twenty works from 1971 to 2008. Dean, known for the Robotic Chair, uses boxes, tools and furniture as extensions of the body. Many of the works are interactive and respond to the participation of the viewer; some involve other senses such as sound and touch. The handmade quality of the works confounds a straightforward reading as machine, inviting us to explore and experience ideas of agency, trust, and control.

The opening reception features a ONE NIGHT ONLY screening of "Mist", three performances of "Saw Box" and a talk by Dean at 7pm.

Max Dean’s work was exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale and is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

http://www.metiviergallery.com/exhibition.php?exhibition=dean_2008

http://www.roboticchair.com/


Nicholas Metivier Gallery
451 King Street West
Toronto, ON. M5V 1K4
416-205-9000

art and art history graduate meeting

Art and Art History Graduate Exhibitions Meeting Part Two
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

All graduating students wishing to participate in our two graduate exhibitions at the Blackwood Gallery in March 2009 should attend this meeting with Blackwood Outreach Coordinator Karen Kraven.

The exhibitions will take place between March 4 – 29, 2009.

At the meeting we will check in on the organization of the shows. Here are the assigned tasks:
· Canadian Art ad design and coordination, signage and show title design, invitation design, Matt Hoffman, Drew Lesiuczok, Andrew Nguyn
· Artist statement editors, press release writing and distribution, Michelle Johnson and Claudia Ciornei
· Reception coordinator, food, Steve Shupak
· Installation coordinators for first exhibition, includes creating list of works in the exhibition (note installations occur on a Monday/Tuesday), Ryan Lord and Jackie Quaresma
· Installation coordinators for second exhibition, includes creating list of works in the exhibition, Michelle Johnson and Raneem Meknes
· Installation strike coordinators for first and second exhibitions, Ricardo Antonio Conte-Oro De Arco, Laura Momeau, Kora Bakier
· Web communications coordinator, Facebook page, Shelley Williams

Contacts
Jackie Quaresma
Robert Fones
Karen Kraven

artist lecture: richard mongiat

Art and Art History Presents Richard Mongiat
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Richard Mongiat has been exhibiting his paintings in public galleries, commercial spaces and collective exhibitions for the last 25 years. An artist/curator in the painting collective From*A*Pit, Mongiat brought together 17 painters for the True to Form exhibition at the Dufferin Mall in 1995 and organized 9 Painters and a Magazine at College Park in 1997. In 2000, Mongiat and artist Catherine Beaudette co-founded Loop Gallery on Queen Street West in Toronto. In 2008, he completed the first part of The Underpass Project, a mural under the bridge at Bloor Street West and Lansdowne in Toronto. Part two is scheduled for 2009.

Mongiat is represented by Delong Gallery in Toronto. He also works in the theatre, painting backdrops and scenery for Opera Atelier, Canstage and the The National Ballet of Canada and has been teaching scenic painting at Ryerson University.

For more information visit www.delonggallery.com , www.loopgallery.ca , www.ccca.ca

artist lecture: anthony burnham

Art and Art History Presents Anthony Burnham
Thursday 22 January 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Anthony Burnham studied at Concordia University and currently lives and works in Montreal. His solo exhibitions include Superbia (Darling Foundry, 2002) and Overlap and Rewind (Clark Gallery, 2004). Over the past few years he has exhibited his work in groups shows in Québec, Spain, Austria, and France. In 2008, he took part in the Québec Triennial, Nothing Is Lost, Nothing Is Created, Everything Is Transformed (Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal).

Exhibition curator Katie Bethune-Leamen:
Through paintings and drawings, Anthony Burnham presents work of a pared-down plasticity. His paintings are representations of sculptural constructions that he builds, models acting out ideas. His images are a representation of what brings him to painting. They present a world that is soft, morphing, made up, volatile. Observing the invisible, his practice works through ideas of slippage, manipulation and transformation.


Image: Anthony Burnham, Maquette of Wall and Floor (2008), oil on canvas 152.5 x 184 cm

artist lecture: christof migone

Art and Art History Presents Christof Migone
Tuesday 10 February 2009 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

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