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  • “The Painter in the City” – André Krigar

    October 5 –  28, 2011
    Opening: Wednesday, October 5,  6 – 9 p.m
    De Luca Fine Art | Gallery
    217 Avenue Road
    Toronto, ON, M5R 2J3
    T: 416-537-4699
    E-mail: corrado@delucafineart.com  
    www.delucafineart.com.
    Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5pm

    This show  marks the first exhibition at the De Luca Fine Art | Gallery new location, at 217 Avenue Road, Toronto.  

    With his canvas, brushes and oils André Krigar travels the world to capture urban- scapes and moments of life as he experiences them while portraying them. From Berlin, Germany André travels to Toronto, Canada for his first time.

    In this exhibition De Luca Fine Art | Gallery presents a series of works that depict our city through the eyes of this traveller artist. André Krigar is a contemporary painter, who is very comfortable in allowing the strong impressionistic influence in his paintings. They hide something magic. The longer one looks, the more difficult it becomes to turn away. André beautifully captures or even interprets (which gives it that magic touch of what it could appear “naïve” at first) that exact light of that exact moment when he was there painting.

    André’s use of colours and the Monet-like manner of conducting the brush on the canvas create a “real” feeling of being there, “inside the painting”. One can almost smell and hear the subject.

    De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, established in 2004, is now located at 217 Avenue Road, in the heart of the Yorkville Designer District steps away from the Designers Walk and is dedicated to representing and introducing Italian and International Artists to Canadian audiences. In collaboration with select Italian Galleries, De Luca Fine Art | Gallery introduces established and emerging Canadian Artists to Europe. De Luca Fine Art | Gallery’s mandate is “representing a bridge” between Cultures.  For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit www.delucafineart.com.

  • The Kingston Project

    Pauline Conley,  ‘Seriously’ , mixed media on canvas

    September 24 – October 14, 2011
    Opening: Saturday, September 24, 10am – 6pm
    GALLERY GEVIK
    12 Hazelton Ave
    Toronto, ON M5R 2E2
    T: 416.968.0901
    Hours: Tues – Sat 10-6
    E-mail: info@gevik.com
    www.gevik.com

    Gallery Gevik is pleased to present an exhibition celebrating Kingston’s rich contribution to the Canadian art scene. The home of the oldest Arts Council in Ontario and one of the most notable public art collections at Queen’s University’s Agnes Etherington Centre, Kingston is a vibrant artistic hub.  Gallery Gevik is proud to exhibit the works of artists Diane Black, Jane Colden, Pauline Conley, Jane Derby and Lori Richards whose paintings and sculptures reflect the creativity and inspiration of this region.   

    Diane Black’s love of character and visual narratives are rooted in her early studies. In recent years, Black has developed her blacksmithing skills and has incorporated her own ironwork into her sculptures. Black draws her inspiration from the people and the environment of Kingston, where she has been a resident for twenty years.

     Jane Colden’s love of the natural interaction between organic and structured form inspires her artwork. By choosing paint as her medium, Colden is able to turn not only her subject matter but also the painting process into a method of understanding the world around her.

    Pauline Conley‘s paintings deviated from the non-representational when she began working with the idea of the horizon line as a friction point between the known and the unknown. Conley’s challenging abstract works use grids and patterns as evocative metaphors for our shared daily experience.

     Jane Derby’s art evokes the inspiration that she finds in cast off and undervalued items. Her fascination with surface textures and the physical properties of the objects she selects for her artwork reflect the landscape surrounding Kingston and enable her to create visually appealing relief works. 

    For Lori Richards, painting stems from the emotional connection that binds the artist, the landscape and the viewer. By experimenting with different media and colour, Richards creates works inspired by memory and imagination, which lead both viewer and herself on a journey of self-discovery.

     

  • Annie Dunning | Foolproof Four: Superheroes of the Forest Floor

    September 9  – December 10, 2011
    Opening:Friday, September 9, 8-10pm.
    YYZ Artists’ Outlet
    401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140
    T: 416-598-4546
    yyzartistsoutlet.org
    yyzbooks.com
    Hours: Tues – Sat 11 a.m. to 5 p.m

    Foolproof Four: Superheroes of the Forest Floor is an installation of four large ceramic sculptures of mushrooms, each sitting on its own plinth. On the walls are four different posters of blank, speech bubble templates: downloadable, freeware graphic tools for comic book designers.  Around the base of each mushroom and on the floor are over 8000 custom-made buttons. There are three sets of buttons. One illustrates superhero logos for each of the mushrooms and another features empty speech bubbles in four different styles taken from comic book templates. The third set suggests possible «superpowers» of the Four with terms taken from scientific descriptions of the life-cycle of mushrooms: Autodeliquescence, Telemorph, Spore Liberation and Cytoplasmic Fusion. Perhaps Shaggy Mane with its curious character of autodeliquescence (self-digestion) is a force to be reckoned with.  And surely they have the united power of spore liberation. The buttons themselves look like mushrooms multiplying and popping up from the floor, spreading and intermingling with the buttons of the other mushrooms. Viewers are invited to take a button, allowing the project to travel spore-like outside of the gallery to other locations.

    ANNIE DUNNING received an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Mount Allison University and a MFA from the University of Guelph. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and abroad in Japan, Germany and the United States. Dunning’s practice includes collaborative projects, teaching, artist residencies and lectures and has been funded by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

  • Dil Hildebrand | Back to the Drawing Board

    Cranking, 2011, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.5cm. Photo courtesy of Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain.

    September 9  – December 10, 2011
    Opening:Friday, September 9, 8-10pm.
    YYZ Artists’ Outlet
    401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140
    T: 416-598-4546
    yyzartistsoutlet.org
    yyzbooks.com
    Hours: Tues – Sat 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

    For this, his first solo exhibition in Toronto, Dil Hildebrand presents a new body of work.  Back to the Drawing Board represents a focal shift away from the photographic and toward a diagrammatic approach to the image; an incarnation that abandons the image altogether.

    DIL HILDEBRAND was born in Winnipeg, Canada, and obtained his MFA from Concordia University, Montreal in 2008. In 2006 he won the RBC Canadian Painting Competition and has since participated in many exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States and abroad.  Upcoming exhibitions include group shows at OBORO, Montreal (curated by David Elliott) and Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi.  In 2010, Hildebrand participated in the 4th Beijing International Art Biennale 2010 in Beijing, China, and produced Long Drop: The Paintings of Dil Hildebrand, a monograph by Anteism Press. With critical texts by Louise Déry, Richard Rhodes and Christine Redfern. Long Drop surveys a selection of Hildebrand’s paintings on canvas and paper from 2006 to 2009.  His work has been collected by major museums throughout Canada, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the National Gallery of Canada.

    Dil Hildebrand is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.  He lives and works in Montréal.

  • Location location location – Gallery Hop 2011

    September 24, Saturday
    All day, all free

    Location, location, location

    —it’s the recipe for success in real estate, and also to a large extent in the art world, a phenomenon we celebrate in the theme of this year’s Canadian Art Gallery Hop, Location3. Art worth knowing about is often intertwined with a thriving in situ scene, whether it’s in London, New York or Berlin, or Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal. Powerful art is also sensitive to place, bringing the conditions of its making and showing to the forefront. Likewise, a place—be it well known or not—lends unique flavours to art produced in its bounds. At its heart, Location3 is just another way of saying that art, like us, lives and thrives in three dimensions.

    Morning Panel / 11:00 a.m – 12:30 p.m
    Cinema 3/ TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
    Reitman Quare, 330 King Street West

    Join Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes and a trio of top artists—Winnipeg’s Sarah Anne Johnson, LA’s Jed Lind and Toronto’s An Te Liu—to discuss the power that place has on art and its creators.

    Afternoon Talks & Tours / 1:00 – 5:30 p.m.
    Various locations

    Evening Magazine Launch / 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
    55 Mill Street, Building 2
    End the day with fellow art lovers at the launch of Canadian Art’s fall issue in the historic Distillery District. To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@canadianart.ca.

  • Gary Evans: spce invdrs

    “Courtyard”  2011  oil on canvas  36 x 60 inches

    September 9 – October 8, 2011
    Paul Petro Contemporary Art
    980 Queen St West
    Toronto, ON   M6J 1H1
    tel. 416 979 7874
    info@paulpetro.com
    www.paulpetro.com
    www.multiplesandsmallworks.com
    Hours:  Wed-Sat:  11 – 5pm

    On the occasion of our gallery’s tenth anniversary at our current location (eighteen years in all) we are pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by longtime gallery artist Gary Evans.

    In part to honour this milestone we are also organizing a concise fifteen-year survey of his works on paper. Texts by Rosemary Heather and Nell Tenhaaf accompany the exhibition. 

    “As with all of Evans’ work, in this new series discreet points of interest vie across the flat plane of the picture for the attention of the viewer. Working within the landscape genre, Evans creates a space invaded by competing vistas of visual possibility: alternating coloured planes, small pictorial realms nestled within thickly inscribed circles or simply solid discs of colour or smudges of paint. Evans has long worked with an all-over compositional style. Pulling against this is the artist’s inclusion of definite structure in each work through the use of the receding sightlines of perspectival space. Typically, contrasting swaths of paint appear to billow out from the surface of the canvas; in Evans’ hands, pictorial disarray is animated to resolve into persuasive coherence.” – wrote Rosemary Heather

    Please visit http://www.paulpetro.com/exhibitions/61-Spce-Invdrs  for more information and for Rosemary Heather’s text.

  • Gerald Baer: Mechanics of Touch

     
     

     

    September 10 – October 8, 2011
    CHRISTOPHER CUTTS GALLERY
    21 Morrow Avenue,
    Toronto ON. M6R 2H9
    T: 416 532 5566
    info@cuttsgallery.com
    www.cuttsgallery.com
    Hours: Tues – Sat. 11-6,

    Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition  by Gerald Baer. Baer has been exhibiting at the Gallery since the mid 1990’s.

    An enigmatic ceramic and metal sculptor; Baer has been building components, for the past two decades, for his grand amusement park inspired installation “The Ride”. The current exhibition showcases a number of elements from his ongoing corpus, such as coin operated rocking pigs, a truncated illuminated torso and other eccentric oddities.

     
     

    Additional information and publication-quality digital image files are available by calling
    Christopher Cutts or Laura Horne at 416-532-5566.
     

     

     
     
     

     

     
     
     

     

     

  • Loree Ovens: Temporal Passage: new works on paper

    Loree Ovens, Tapa (detail of work in progress), intaglio & acrylic on Japanese paper, 16″ x 20″, 2011.

    September 15 – October 22, 2011
    Open Studio Gallery George Gilmour Member’s Gallery
    401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
    Toronto ON,  M5V 3A8
    T/F: 416-504-8238
    E-mail: sara@openstudio.on.ca
    W: http://www.openstudio.on.ca 

    Temporal Passage explores the concept of time as a fluctuating geography. Depicting a journey in search of greater awareness, Temporal Passage serves as a pictorial notebook through abstract landscapes. This body of work primarily focuses on intaglio techniques on Japanese paper, however in her own practice, Ovens works in a variety of media.

    Loree Ovens is a Toronto artist who has exhibited in over forty group exhibitions since 1990. She is a Sheridan College graduate and an alumna of the Harbourfront Craft Studio. After a life-changing car accident, she returned to school and graduated in 2008 with a BFA in Printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Over the years, Ovens has received several awards including third place in the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Awards. In Oct 2010, she exhibited her first solo show Lost City Archives and in June 2011 Memory Box series, a two person show both at David Kaye Gallery in Toronto.

  • Dana Tosic: Everyday Ephemera

    Dana Tosic, Everyday Ephemera 3, screenprint, 38”x50”, 2010.

    September 15 – October 22, 2011
    Open Studio Gallery
    401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
    Toronto ON,  M5V 3A8
    T/F: 416-504-8238
    E-mail: sara@openstudio.on.ca
    W: http://www.openstudio.on.ca 

    Focusing on fleeting, intimate, moments, Dana Tosic’s Everyday Ephemera explores notions of time and memory, and the body’s potential to infer a narrative through movement. The series reveals moments in which something is happening, despite initial appearances of nothing going on—the body engages in quotidian and often solitary motions: dressing and undressing, tying shoes, peeling fruit, sewing, knitting, eating. These are learned, automatic movements that often provoke reflection and introspection, allowing the mind to be simultaneously absorbed and disengaged. Although the images reflect intimate moments not intended to be shared, the presentation draws attention to their performative nature.

    The screenprinted images are based on composites of a series of 360° 3D scans of the artist’s body performing various tasks. The movements have been broken down into stages of motion; each stage was scanned individually and subsequently combined to form a single image using 3D modeling software. As recordings of the stages of motion, plotting the passage of time through human locomotion, the images function as a digital trace of something that took place during the unspecified past. What is left is a momentary glimpse of where the body was and a suggestion of what it was doing at an unspecified moment in the past. In this way, traces of memories of the body, and the motions it employed, are left on the paper. As pointed out by J. Eric Steenbergen in the accompanying essay, the work also raises questions about surveillance and observation, and how new technologies in these areas affect our self-representation.

  • Floyd Kuptana: sculpted from stone and spirit

    September 27 – November 12, 2011
    Reception, Saturday, October 1, 2:30 – 5:30pm
    GALLERY ARCTURUS
    80 Gerrard Street East
    Toronto, ON M5B 1G6
    T: 416 977 1077
    F: 416 977 1066
    E: info@arcturus.ca
    www.arcturus.ca
    Hours: Tues-Fri 12noon- 5:30pm; Sat 11am-5:30pm

    New and recent work by Floyd Kuptana will be on view at Gallery Arcturus in downtown Toronto starting Tuesday, September 27. The exhibit includes sculpture in soapstone, some inset with metal, brass, bone – or other stones – as well as original paintings in acrylic.

    Kuptana carves figures transforming between animal and human. He says, “What I see in the stone, I make. And that’s it.”