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  • Summer Group Exhibition at Julie M. Gallery

    June 16 – September 20, 2011
    Featuring Ilya Gefter & Assi Meshullam, with Deganit Berest, Shai Kremer, & Alma Shneor
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    [column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]JULIE M. GALLERY
    15 Mill Street
    Building 37, Suite 103
    Toronto ON M5A 3R6
    T: 416 603 2626
    F: 416 603 2620
    E: info@juliemgallery.com
    www.juliemgallery.com

    Julie M. Gallery is pleased to announce a summer exhibition featuring Ilya Gefter, a skilled representational artist using oil paint or ink to convey poignant and deeply personal experiences of place. Simultaneously, the provocative sculpture of Assi Meshullam debuts at our Toronto venue. The interplay of works in this show underscores the breadth and range of subjective artistic vision.
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  • RAW ME

    June 18 – July 9
    Opening Reception: June 18, 7 – 10 pm

    Bezpala Brown Gallery
    17 Church Street (Front and Church)
    For inquiries, please contact: Fariz Kovalchuk at 416.907.6875 / 647.929.4878
    fariz@bezpalabrown.com
    Official Exhibition Page
    Facebook Event Link

    Must be 18+ to attend. Admission: Free.

    The reception will be followed by a Party Night with the artists – from 10 pm till 5 am, exquisite compilation of music, the bar will stay open till 1 am. Admission: Free.

    • Sarah Hunter
    • Francis Luta
    • Nickolas Hadzis
    • Fariz Kovalchuk
    • Donald Vaillancourt
    • Olena Sullivan
    • Drasko Bogdanovic

    RAW ME is an eclectic group show exposing a collection of intimate stories of self-acceptance, self-identity and sexuality by seven Toronto-based queer artists. A collection of expressionistic mixed-media paintings and drawings by Hunter emerged into a visual journal that reflects the artist’s coming out. Luta’s Door series use two pieces of dismembered history to revisit the corral world of pubescent fears – in contrast with the razed disclosure of self-acceptance and openness. Deeply personal images by Vaillancourt and Kovalchuk depict the sensitivity and fragility of human body and a contemporary twist to the psyche of body image. Hadzis displays exotic shirts covered with original art and a series of multiple drawings transformed into one single installation piece. Whether still or motion photography, Bogdanovic’s message is simple – there are no rules, sexuality has no bounds, all is right with the perverse. Inspired by pin-up photography and fetish art, Sullivan’s black-and-white images depict women in bondage. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, photography, video, collages, installations, and hand-painted shirts.