Category: LISTING ARCHIVE

September 6 –  25, 2011
Opening: Thursday, September 8, 7 – 9 pm,
HANG MAN GALLERY
756 Queen Street East (at Broadview Avenue)
Toronto, ON M4M 1H4
T: 416-465-0302
hangmangallery@gmail.com
www.ArtistsNetwork.ca.
Hours: Tues to Sun 12 – 5 pm

The Hang Man Gallery is proud to Announce “Something In-between”, Jordan Clarke’s self-portraiture series exploring her mixed-race identity as both a physical and a psychological state.
Her paintings explore a biracial woman’s 21st Century perspective about constant pressures to assume predetermined racial and gender roles created by society.

“My art is both a reflection of and a reaction to my society.  Through the act of painting, I aim to create striking pieces of art that provoke debate, thought, and emotion. Painting has always been the most natural way for me to express myself ”. Jordan Clarke

Forecasted is Toronto’s majority population to be more multicultural and diverse, “Something In-between” is sure to stir heated issues and debate about identity and race this fall.

About the Hang Man Gallery
The Hang Man Gallery, an Artists’ Network initiative, is a venue where artists from all stages of their career can showcase their struggles with the gritty realities of contemporary life.

Artur Zmijewski, Them, 2007. NGC Collection. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

September 9 – October 30, 2011
Opening: Friday, September 9, 8:00 – 11:00 pm
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
Media / Retail Space
925 Queen Street West,
Toronto,ON M6J 1G8
T: 416-395-0067
www.mocca.ca
Hours: Tues – Sun 11-6

 Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the National Gallery of Canada

Polish artist Artur Zmijewski’s powerful video Them (2007), a highlight of Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, in 2007, documents the results of a social experiment bringing together four different groups within Polish society. As with many of Zmijewski’s projects, Them engages directly with dogma and prejudice to reveal profound insights into human behaviour and relationships.

ANTUAN

September 9 – October 30, 2011
Opening: Friday, September 9, 8:00 – 11:00 pm
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
Main Space
925 Queen Street West,
Toronto,ON M6J 1G8
T: 416-395-0067
www.mocca.ca
Hours: Tues – Sun 11-6

On Patriotism, Immigration and Populism
Curated by Paco Barragán

Adel Abidin, ANTUAN, Maja Bajevic, Marc Bijl, Alexander Apóstol, Iván Candeo, Emilio Chapela, DEMOCRACIA, Jen DeNike, Nezaket Ekici, Karlo Ibarra, Kaoru Katayama, Elena Kovylina, Carlos Motta, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay & Pascal Lièvre, Johanna Reich, Krisdy Shindler, Shahzia Sikander, Santiago Sierra, José Angel Toirac, Katri Walker 

As a consequence of immigration, globalisation and economic recession, patriotism is on the rise around the world. How we deal with love of country and nationalism is an important challenge of our time. ¡Patria o Libertad! presents video works by 22 international artists, all investigating the diverse forms that patriotism embodies.

August 23 – September 4, 2011
Opening: Thursday, August 25, 7-9 pm,
HANG MAN GALLERY
756 Queen Street East (at Broadview Avenue)
Toronto, ON M4M 1H4
T: 416-465-0302
hangmangallery@gmail.com
www.ArtistsNetwork.ca.
Hours: Tues to Sun 12 – 5 pm

Artists interpret the realities that surround them, attempting to convey these concepts, struggles, and stories to their audience through their chosen medium. These interpretations can take the form of the direct through the techniques in Realism of Expressionism, or they can play with emotions and ideas through the altered realities of Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract or Non-Objective art.

We challenged member artists to interpret their own altered realities using their chosen medium – photography, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and other fine art – and submit their best abstract interpretations on the theme.

About the Hang Man Gallery
The Hang Man Gallery, an Artists’ Network initiative, is a venue where artists from all stages of their career can showcase their struggles with the gritty realities of contemporary life.

August 31st – September 24th, 2011
Opening: Thursday, September 8, 6 – 9pm
THE RED HEAD GALLERY
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115.
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T:  416 504-5654.
Email: art@redheadgallery.org.
www.redheadgallery.org.
Hours: Wed – Sa. 12 – 5 pm.

The Red Head Gallery is pleased to present Wish you were here, the first solo show by emerging Canadian artist Samantha Mogelonsky.

By developing her own form of naïve sculptural language, Mogelonsky constructs environments to transport the viewer into an imaginary space, outside and beyond the everyday. These humorous and sinister sculptural forms seek to investigate storytelling and repetition with the viewer becoming both participant and observer of an invented narrative: where the heroically crafted and time-consuming elements coexist.
 
Drawing conceptual influence from Utopian literature, theories, and tall-tales, and Susan Stewart’s ‘On Longing’, she will present sculptural ‘island’ forms, thereby building an imaginary ‘little world’ for the viewer to experience. These islands retain the so-called child-like qualities of construction, but reflect the intricate details of her practice and merge the ‘made’ with found kitsch objects.

The exhibition will also include neon signage, resin castings, postcards and trinkets from this imaginary place. Also in the space is a bronze cast of a typewriter that appears as if it has magically melted, which speaks to the changes in narrative perception and the relationship of storytelling to the overall narrative.
 
Mogelonsky plays with the vernacular of travel, while creating largely desolate, lonely and haunting images, thereby evoking a tension between the expected present and the uncertain future. For more information, please visit her website at www.sammogelonsky.com

The artist acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council. The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario. Sam also thanks Fifth Leg, from Treasury Wine Estates, LMA Communications Inc and Maximum Graphics for their support of the exhibition.

 Saturday, August 27 · 2:00pm – 6:00pm
ANTIX – Centre for Art Crime and Neoism
276 Crawford Street, Toronto
through drive way towards garage
www.istvankantor.com
http://home.interlog.com/~amen/
http://www.hungarianpresence.ca/Culture/Media/kantor-215.cfm

Special feature: 50 brand new, shrink wrapped, MONTY CANTSIN “Born Again In Flames” vinyl, 1987, Maldoror Records, NYC, 10buxeach!

Come and celebrate the end of the summer with mindblowing ideas at the Temple of Desperadoes and learn more about the Diabolic Personalia and Secret Archives of Istvan Kantor / Istvan Kantor’s ANTIX Depot is Istvan Kantor’s storage space and summer gallery, archive of Kantor’s life and crimes, a meeting place for secret conversations, future projects, conspiracy plans, also amazing deals on bloody canvases and many other beautiful Neoist Monty Cantsin artifacts! It is “the Vatican of Neoism”, the secret emergency exit to Neoist eternity… an archive of over three decades of works, from mail-art to machinery, anti-drawings, re-mixed-media paintings, stolen information, broken sculptures, hypersex-manifestos, flaming banners, burned flags, 1001 broken irons, … a spot for revolutionary ideas, conspiratorial gatherings, great deals, mind blowing conversations with Neoist Genii / mostly every saturdayday aft from 2pm to 6pm/ with special invited guests /Come with a juice or beer, bring your friends, look around, sit down, have a great afternoon… while the Rentagon is out on vacation, we R right into revolution!

Istvan Kantor’s artistic practice incorporates robotic sculpture, video, performance, mixed-media installation, painting, sound, and various other action-based social-mediums like the open-pop-star movement of Monty Cantsin and the world wide network of Neoism. Neoism is a transmission interface and revolving platform to gain public support and media attention for its users.
Kantor employs all his skills and talents to constantly surprise and fascinate. “I swear to God, I’ll never make any boring art!” he declares with bold determination, irony and wit, holding up a picketing sign.
His main interest lies in creating work that establishes a discussion within and around the conflicting territories of institutional authority and cultural gentrification. In this regard Kantor’s work investigates the revolutionary and scientific aspects of artistic practices that attempt to surpass the conventional models of creative experience.
Istvan Kantor is Hungarian-born, Toronto-based artist. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Monty Cantsin Was Here, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, febr/2011; Made in Estonia, installation, Tallinn, may/2011; Selected works, St.Istvan Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary, oct/nov 2011 Upcoming group exhibitions include: Interakcje Festival, Piotrkow, Poland, may/2011; WRO Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, may/2011

Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin is also known as a noise/music artist, electro-instrumentalist and singer of the Toronto based Red Armband. He has recorded and released over a dozen albums of songs and noise works since the early 80s.

September 7 – October 8, 2011
Opening  and our First Anniversary! *let them eat cake*: Sat, Sept 10, 2 – 4pm
TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
3148 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6P 2A1
(The Junction, Dundas at St. John’s Rd.)
T: 647.270.7903
E: sharlene@telephoneboothgallery.ca 
www.telephoneboothgallery.ca
Hours: Tues by appt., Wed and Sat 11-6, Thurs and Fri 11-7

SNEAK PEEK AT IMAGES IN EXHIBITION  (more to come)

Possible Outcome is a body of work comprised of prints created using screenprint, linocut, collograph and lithographic processes.  Influenced stylistically by fin-de-siècle art and literature, and by the domestic workings of her own family, Laura Peturson’s prints present a vision of childhood based in both reality and fiction.  These works capture and examine the expectations and sentiments placed upon very young girls. Each print depicts a child or children engaged in introspective play, often with objects that are commonly viewed as feminine.  In selected prints, the girls have been inserted compositionally into reproductions of 18th-century paintings.  A toddler reads in front of a Jacques Louis David reproduction taped to the wall of her nursery.  A little girl holds a shadow puppet as she stands amongst Ingres reproductions littered across the floor.  These neoclassical paintings reference a heroic male ideal and present the girls with a differently gendered possibility from their surroundings.  In addition to the narrative aspect of the work, the prints deal with formal elements, such as pattern, colour and the tension between illusory space and a flat, silhouetted aesthetic. 

Laura Peturson received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, New York in 2005 and a BFA from York University, Toronto in 2002.  She lives and works in Callander, Ontario and is an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Nipissing University, specializing in printmaking. 

Working from a melding of memory and fantasy, Kasia Czarnota’s glass works are inspired by family relationships, childhood and the tiny but wondrous moments that make up a day in a young life. Kasia Czarnota is a sculptor concentrating primarily in the mediums of kiln cast and blown glass. She attended Sheridan College Institute’s Crafts and Design Glass Program and her sculptural practice involves image and object manipulation that play with glass’ various qualities, including granular delicacy on one level and unique transparency on the other. An award winning artist, Czarnota’s work was recently exhibited at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in South Korea.

September 7 – 18, 2011
Opening: Wednesday, September 7, 6 – 9  Artist in attendance
Thompson Landry Gallery
The Distillery District
55 Mill Street, Building 5, #102
& The Cooperage Building #32
Toronto, Ontario, M5A 3C4
Tel: 416-364-4955
E-mail:info@thompsonlandry.com
www.thompsonlandry.com
Hours: Tues – Sat 11-6, Sun 12-5

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Elisabetta Fantone has always demonstrated tremendous ability in all things creative.  In her early career, Elisabetta’s passion for performance art has lead her to excel in both modeling and acting, however, she was always drawn to the visual arts.  Having studied interior design at LaSalle College, her love of the arts developed into a strong talent for portraiture.  Fantone’s foray into portraiture began with a series of expressive abstract faces she created in 2006.  Soon after, she began developing her figurative skills by depicting identifiable icons of pop culture.

Fantone’s contemporary approach to portrait painting has been described as “modern pop art”.  Using acrylic on canvas, and a minimalist palette, she paints iconic faces in a close-up and cropped composition.  Limiting herself to three or four bold colours per piece, she separates the face of her subject by hand into large planes of colour that she fills in with an opaque layer of paint.  She finishes the work with a thick coat of glassy varnish, sealing her icons in space and time.  Fantone’s style is one which reflects her personal interest in and experience with pop culture, cinema and the concept of celebrity.  Her pieces explore the beauty which is often broken down by the media, but is reborn and timelessly preserved in her artwork.  The result is a dazzling stylized portrait of brilliant colours that captivates the viewer. 

 Since gaining artistic success in 2006, Elisabetta Fantone has had solo exhibitions in both her home town of Montreal and Miami.  She has also produced special commissions for celebrities such as the Thomas Flohr, Kardashian sisters, Gretchen Rossi and Russell Peters. She is the newest addition to the Thompson Landry Gallery’s all-Quebec roster, and a rising star on the international art scene. 

This year, the Toronto Film Festival has inspired the artist to produce a brand new series of works based on the faces of film.  Her portraits will include a combination of classic and modern icons which will undoubtedly draw a crowd during the city’s exciting and dynamic festival.