Category: LISTING ARCHIVE

 “In the Beginning”, by Lea Vivot

September 14 – October 14, 2011
Opening Remarks: Rossana Magnotta, Sept 17, 1:30pm
Artist Talk (Canadian Art/Gallery Hop) Sept 24, 2pm
CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE
500 Church Street
Toronto ON M4Y 2C8
Tel: 647.435.5858
Email: gallery@cansculpt.org
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 12-6; Saturdays 11-4

Radiant Emotions explores the divine energy of creation.

Lea Vivot is an internationally-renowned artist who resides in Kleinburg, Ontario. She was born in Sumperk, Czechoslovakia and is active in sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Presently she creates in Kleinburg, New York, Acapulco, and the Czech Republic.

Vivot studied at the Prague School of Stage Design in Czechoslovakia, the Academia di Brera in Italy, the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and the Art Student’s League in New York. Her career as an artist began in the seventies when she began working on bronze sculptures. She quickly became internationally known for her over life-size bronzes, such
as the “Lover’s Bench” and has since made “benches” her trademark. Vivot’s sculptures are full of humanity as she often depicts families, couples, mothers, and children. The large scale of her work calls for interaction with her viewers who naturally enjoy occupying the same space
as the bronze figures. On her benches, Vivot likes to include inscribed messages by people from all walks of life. For example, various additions of The Secret Bench, Lost Paradise, found in Montreal, Toronto and New York, all have handwritten messages expressing the hopes and fears of children.

The Secret Bench of Knowledge, which is in front of the National Library of Canada, in Ottawa, bears a message of the joy and value of reading. Writers from Canada and abroad, as well as the general public have left inscriptions on this bench. Vivot’s desire to have her work invite interaction from viewers demonstrates both the importance of sculpture and its role in society. The Secret Bench of Knowledge, like all of her sculptures, tells a story. She once said; “knowledge belongs to all, and what is not written is forgotten.”

Radiant Emotions will showcase some of her more intimate works on public view for the first time.

Saturday & Sunday, September 17 & 18
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day
It’s worth the drive to Highways 9 and 27
only 45 minutes North of Downtown Toronto
For further information contact:
Greg Locke – Co-Chair
T: 905 939-7147
greg@gothamglassworks.com or
Jane Binions at info@artssocietyking.ca

Visit the Schomberg Village Street Gallery and enjoy this outdoor juried fine art sale along Schomberg’s historic Main Street. King Township has one of the highest per capita populations of artists in Ontario, and Schomberg is where they gather! Come and meet them.

This show celebrates local AND regional artists across media including oil, acrylic, glass, photography, jewellery and intaglio. Artists’ styles range from traditional to contemporary to abstract.

Schomberg’s eclectic Main Street has proven itself an ideal outdoor setting to explore and buy great, original art for any setting. Main boasts one of King Township’s best restaurants and several eateries, pubs, gourmet coffee shop and decorator stores.

Many other local events are happening in town during the show – see Schomberg.ca for more – but be careful – you might just “Fall In Love With Schomberg!”

Have a look at this year’s artists and location map at SVSG.ca.

September 24 – November 20, 2011
Opening: Friday, September 23rd, 8-11PM

THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
231 Queens Quay West
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2G8
T: 416.973.4949
E: info@thepowerplant.org
thepowerplant.org
Hours: Tues-Sun 12-6, Sat 12-8, Open holiday Mondays

The Power Plant’s 2011 commission Albatross Omnibus by Toronto-based artist Derek Sullivan involves new artist books, and a drawing and installation project. The commission’s core is a series of 52 limited edition books produced through print-on-demand technology. One full set of books is displayed in a grid-like formation hanging from wires at a height that visitors must use a stepladder to reach. Fourteen copies of each book will be available for purchase in the gallery shop, with each title exclusively available for a single day of the 52 days of the exhibition. Each of the 52 books has its own title, while the full set shares the name Albatross Omnibus.

To read more about the exhibition, please visit thepowerplant.org.

HARLAN HOUSE, EE-I-EE-I-O (two views), 2011, mixed media, 40 X 22 7/8 X 13 3/4 in.

August 18 – September 25, 2011
Opening: on Saturday, September 10th, 2-5pm
DAVID KAYE GALLERY
1092 Queen Street West
(entrance on Dovercourt)
Toronto, ON M6J 1H9
416.532.9075
www.davidkayegallery.com
Hours: Mon., Tue. by appointment
Wed. – Fri. 11:00 – 6:00; Sat., Sun. <11:00 – 5:00
NOTE: Gallery closed August 28 – September 6

This exhibition of new work by Harlan House is the culmination of his two years of research (facilitated by a Canada Council grant) studying large-scale ceramic production – a particular specialty of the Sèvres porcelain factory in France. Combining his first love of painting with his expertise in making fine porcelain ceramic objects, Harlan House tackles issues that address the insidious and widespread spread of ubiquitous fast-food products. In addition, he takes to task large discount department stores that have insinuated themselves into the marketplace thereby displacing smaller shopping establishments.

 Meet the artist at the exhibition’s opening reception on Saturday, September 10th. Harlan is also giving a lecture at the Gardiner Museum on Friday, September 23rd. (West Gallery)

Tatjana Hutinec: Aurora

September 10 – October 5, 2011
Heliconian Club
Opening: Sept. 10, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue,Toronto, ON
www.heliconianclub.org
For viewing at other times by appointment only,
contact Heliconian Club
T: 416-922-3618
or Tatjana Hutinec
T:647-465-3040
www.tatjanahutinec.

Come savour a colourful edgy exhibit revealing a rich palette of talent by these five new members.

It combines an exciting array of art by five accomplished artists:

Tatjana Hutinec presenting expressive and exploratory paintings

Tina Dadouch’s colourful acrylic paintings,

Hyla Fox’s award-winning still life and portrait photography,

Kate Hawkins’ nature and imagination-inspired oil paintings,

Liz Russ: mixed-media abstracted-realism landscapes

August 20, 2011 – April 29, 2012
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
317 Dundas Street West,
Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
T:416-979-6648
www.ago.net
Hours: Tue & Thurs – Sun 10 – 5:30, Wed 10 – 8:30

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario traces the history of Canada’s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country’s most extraordinary photographers from the past 150 years. Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today  includes more than 100 photographs by such artists as Alexander Henderson, William Notman, John Vanderpant, E. Haanel Cassidy, Ralph Greenhill, George Hunter and Edward Burtynsky.

Depicting railway and bridge building, quarries and mines, and the lumber, pulp and paper, and concrete industries in Canada, Songs of the Future traces the shifting perspectives on industry and the Canadian landscape from the Industrial Revolution to today. The exhibition highlights the ways in which the photographers’ perspectives on industry have shifted along with those of society at large, as celebratory images of human domination over nature give way to more critical views of industrial impact.

The exhibition is curated by Sophie Hackett, the AGO’s assistant curator of photography, who integrates works from various periods into thematic concentrations, including images featuring: the construction of the Victoria Bridge over the St. Lawrence River in the late 1850s; the building of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, a pulp-and-paper mill located in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in 1912; and the development of the railroad in Canada.

“The exhibition explores the history of Canadian photography through the topic of industrial imagery,” says Hackett. “Featuring sites from the Maritimes to the west coast, and rooted in the fundamentally Canadian genre of landscape, the photographs bear witness to the various aesthetic techniques and styles emphasized by Canadian photographers over the past 150 years.”

The exhibition,  comprises chiefly works from the AGO collection, augmented by a selection of key loans — marking the first time that the Gallery has displayed its vast collection of Canadian industrial photographs.

Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. The AGO is deeply grateful for the late Mira Godard’s support of the Gallery’s photography collection from 2007 to 2011.

September 10-24, 2011
Opening: Saturday, September 10th, 2-4pm
BAU-XI GALLERY
340 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416.977.0600
E: toronto@bau-xi.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Sun 11-5:30 

Bobbie Burgers returns to her lusciously painted larger-than-life florals for her current exhibition ‘A Story to Be Told’. Heavy rose and hydrangea bushes bow and sway under their own weight as Burgers generously applies paint with a revamped colour palette and new expression of freedom.

Bobbie Burgers was born in 1973 in Vancouver, B.C. She received a B.A. in Art History in 1996 from the University of Victoria. She has studied in Aix-en-Provence, France and returns often to recapture the life, light and spirit of Provence that she imbues into her painting. Burgers is known for her luscious bouquets, blown up botanicals and pastoral landscapes which focus on sumptuous colour and wild movement. Believing that the tragedy of beauty is its inevitability to fade, she captures that fleeting moment and makes one pause and absorb the wonder of what surrounds us. Burgers’ strong, assured brush work and keen sense of colour are the essence of her work, which has become richer, denser and more complex as her ideas rapidly evolve. With over 60 solo exhibitions, Burgers has attained international stature.

Giraffe, Smithsonian Museum,  San Francisco, 2005

September 10-24, 2011
Opening: Saturday, September 10th, 2-4PM
BAU-XI PHOTO
324 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416.977.0400
E: info@bau-xiphoto.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Sun 11-5:30

 With a background in archaeology, Barnes’ work is largely informed by his interest in artefacts and the role of the museum. His photographs are in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the Harvard Photographic Archive. He was a recipient of the Rome Prize for 2005-06, and his photographs have been shown in solo exhibitions at numerous prestigious institutions. Richard Barnes lives and works in New York.

In Animal Logic, Richard Barnes has photographed the museum in between installations, highlighting the artificial components in recreating the natural world. In photographing storage spaces and crated animal sculptures, the artist also explores the ideas of categorizing and collecting. Barnes peels back layers of artifice to reveal the tangle of artistry, craftsmanship, and curatorial decisions inside every lifelike diorama and meticulously arranged glass case. The images hinge on the edge of absurdity, with familiar scenes captured in unfamiliar contexts.