Category: LISTING ARCHIVE

July 7 – July 10, 2011
Opening :Thursday, July 7, 7 – 10pm
Propeller Centre for Visual Arts
984 Queen St. W.
T:416 504 7142
www.propellerctr.com
rejected@torontorejects.com
Hours: Fri – Sun 10 – 7

The shear number of applicants every year to the massive Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition at Nathan Phillips Square means that some of the most dynamic and expressive artists are necessarily rejected. For the last two years a group of these passionate artists have turned their disappointment to opportunity and participated in the Rejects show.

Sixteen talented artists will be selling work that includes painting, drawing, encaustic, sculpture, and photography. The Rejects show is a must see event for anyone looking to see “the other side” of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

As Napoleon III said: “Let the people judge”

Chris Shoust

July 6-17, 2011
Opening: Thursday July 7, 7-10pm
GALLERY 1313
1313 QUEEN STREET WEST,
TORONTO, ON M6K 1K8
T: 416 – 536-6778
E mail: director@g1313.org
www.gallery13131.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6

Main Gallery

SHARING THE BURDEN: A Collective Photographic Experience collected by Stephan Briones

Stephan Brioras was a drug addict and criminal for 16 years and isclean now for four years. He gave cameras to people he meets on the street and asks them to take pictures of what they see.
Photographs have a way of telling a story that isoutside the realm of language. The overall purpose of this initiative is
to collect a series of photographs that reflect the lives of those who live on the margins of our society.
Special thanks to The Gerstein Crisis Centre , Toronto Image Works andVoices From The Streets.

Process Gallery

Chis Shoust: COMMUNICATING WITH THE MENTALLY ILL

The black and white imagery speaks of the desperate times the illness causes. The imagery speaks of  the need for shelter, to be counted, to be veiled. Cursive gestures communicate a language that is incommunicable. Blocks of colour bring a light to the scenario, showing a potential of what these people can do. Shoust’s works try to bring the viewer into the environment, into the language of a person with the illness and throughthe language that allows a viewer to see just a glimpse of what is possible with them.
See image above

Cell Gallery

Group exhibition -Works by Members of Gallery 1313

Gerry Richards, Michelle Montague, Lesley Harries-Jones, Paul Brandjs, Joanne Maikawa and Diana Dixon

 Window Box Gallery

Come Play with Us, Danny.  Tapestry by Brette Gabel curated by Xenia

Brette Gabel is a not so recent graduate of the University of Regina. While avoiding schoolwork Brette began embroidering, quilting and watching horror movies. Following school, Brette moved to Toronto where she participated in the Toronto School of Art’s Independent Studio Program. After which she became a contributing member to the White House Studio. Currently Brette is researching farming accidents, taxidermy and organizing alternative community interventions. Brette’s work strives to connect love, fear, heartache and the grotesque with craft and social interventions.

June 18 – July 8, 2011
Opening: Saturday, June 18, 10am – 6pm
GALLERY GEVIK
12 Hazelton Ave
Toronto, ON M5R 2E2
T: 416.968.0901
Hours: Tues – Sat 10-6
E-mail: natasha@gevik.com
www.gevik.com

It’s the first Toronto retrospective of Montreal-born Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924-1987).  She started her career in Canada, but then travelled to Italy in 1960 to learn the “lost wax” bronze sculpture casting proces.  The exhibition features paintings and sculptures from her time in Italy.

 Lefkovitz is renowned for her murals, graphics, oils, drawings, lithos and sculpture rendered in bronze, silver and marble. Lefkovitz was described by one critic as “having an affinity with the earth.”  Another termed her work “profoundly humane.” She mastered mural technique while living in Mexico, and applied it to her series of murals on the “Life of Louis Riel” (on permanent exhibition in North Battleford, Saskatchewan), and “The Acadians,” now housed at Ste-Anne’s University in Nova Scotia.

Lefkovitz moved to Italy in 1960, and soon won Florence’s Porcellino Award as Best Resident Foreign Artist; critical acclaim throughout the country quickly followed. After a long series of Italian exhibits and retrospectives and two decades of awards and commissions in both Europe and North America, Lefkovitz returned to Montreal in 1981. She died there in 1987.

Sylvia Lefkovitz’s life and work in both Italy and Canada were profiled in the National Film Board of Canada’s documentary “In Search of Medea.”

July 6 – 31, 2011
Opening: July 6, 7pm-12am
Steam Whistle Gallery
255 Bremner Ave
Toronto, ON
416.362.2337
info@steamwhistle.ca
http://www.steamwhistle.ca/events/eventdetail.php?id=491

Daniel Martins, Erick Castenada, Jaime Capell, Jordan McKie, and Matt Dyck
Also featuring Tommy Zee and Paolo Diaque

‘Sympathy for our Devils is an exploration of the conscious and unconscious representations of masks in our society and culture. Masks transcend our conceptual limitations and boundaries and deliver us from societies trappings.

Masks have for eons allowed people to protect themselves, disguise themselves and free themselves. Masks told stories, created magic, and turned myth into reality. Placing a mask over ones face allows for an exchange of power between the mask and the wearer. Masks are the conduit through which the artists message flows.’

June 24 – Aug. 13, 2011
Fly Gallery (a window for art)
1172 Queen St. W.
Toronto,ON
tanyaread@yahoo.ca

Fly Gallery group exhibition in conjunction with Paradise Now/This is Paradise

Fly Gallery is a storefront window, offering a free alternative exhibition space for artists. Tanya Read and Scott Carruthers are the co-directors.

After 12 years Fly Gallery is packing it in. Our mandate has been to keep art accessible and contribute to the cultural life of the street. Since 1999 the development of this stretch of Queen St. has changed the dynamic of that culture. One may call this development ‘Gentrification’. Often associated with negative connotations it is a reality of many urban neighbourhoods. Whether the development is a good or bad thing, it is a factor in why Fly is leaving Queen West. Is this Paradise Lost or a new beginning? The spirit of Fly will live on and we have invited artists to say goodbye with us.

Participating artists: Shinobu Akimoto, Dave Anderson, Myfanwy Ashmore, Adam Brown, Tara Bursey, Julia Burton, Rita Camacho, Maureen Carruthers, Scott Carruthers, Carlo Cesta, Mark Connery, Rob Cruickshank, Rebecca Diederichs, Michael Enzbrunner, Matt Evans, Sybil Goldstein, Clint Griffin, Libby Hague, Katherine Harvey, Kathleen Hearn, Robert Hengeveld, Gordon Hicks, Sanja Huibner, Tina Huibner, Marcia Huyer, Matt James, Michelle Johnson, Rae Johnson, Kristiina Lahde, Mark Laliberte, Gary MacLeod, Allison McCall, Gavin McMurray,  Lorna Mills, Caroline Mosby, Katharine Mulherin, Lisa Neighbour, Stephen Niblock, Sandy Plotnikoff, Warren Quigley,Tanya Read, Kat Roy, Rupen, Lisa Deanne Smith, Fiona Smyth, Phil Taylor, Michael Toke, Jason Van Horne, Ehrling White

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Curated by Rae Johnson and Herb Tookey.
This Is Paradise/ From the National Gallery of Canada Collection
Curated by Rae Johnson and Jonathan Shaughnessy.

 This is Paradise/ Place as State of Mind: The Cameron House and 1980′s Toronto presents a selection of groundbreaking visual art, fashion, performance, music and theatre created by artists whose playground, sometime-home, laboratory, stage, gallery and canvas was the infamous Cameron Public House of the Queen Street West art scene of 1980’s Toronto. The exhibition provides an overview of 1980s Toronto and an art scene marked by collusion between creative angst, experimentation and vanguard explorations of a burgeoning image-based, media-saturated culture. Curated by active participants in the scene, Rae Johnson and Herb Tookey, the exhibition features an eccentric array of work in all media produced mostly in the 1980s by 47 artists who were key players on the scene, including Cathy Daley, Tom Dean, Lynn Donoghue, Andy Fabo, Eldon Garnet, General Idea, the Hummers (Deanne Taylor, Janet Burke Jennifer Dean, Alan Bridle), Tim Jocelyn, Evan Penny, John Scott, Joanne Tod and Renée Halm, and many more.

Abstract Expressionist New York

 Willem de Kooning: Woman I, 1950-1952, oil on canvas, 192.7 x 147.3 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

May 28 – September 4, 2011
Opening: Saturday, May 27
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

Jackson Pollock. Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Joan Mitchell. Franz Kline. Lee Krasner. Willem de Kooning. These are just a few of the legendary 20th-century artists whose artwork is now on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in an unprecedented international exclusive. Abstract Expressionist New York: Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art,  and on view until September 4, features more than 100 works from the unparalleled collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) by the legendary artists whose drips, splatters, and fields of incredible colour catapulted New York to the centre of the international art world in the 1950s and changed the course of art history forever.

“We are delighted to be able to share this exhibition with the Art Gallery of Ontario. The Museum of Modern Art has long and deep ties with the AGO, and I, of course, have a very personal one, and I can think of no better exhibition than Abstract Expressionist New York to reaffirm our admiration for what the AGO has achieved over the years, and especially since its reopening in 2008,” says Glenn Lowry, Director of MoMA. “These masterworks reflect MoMA’s preeminent collection of Abstract Expressionism, and include not only the most important and well-known works, but also key works by lesser-known artists such as Norman Lewis and William Baziotes. Taken together they provide an extraordinary overview of Abstract Expressionism in New York and a unique insight into one of the most important American art movements of the 20th century.”

Abstract Expressionist New York is drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection of works by the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, from its beginnings in the 1940s through its zenith in the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition features works across a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawings, and photographs, including 12 era-defining works by Pollock, and multiple works by Rothko, Motherwell, de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Barnett Newman, Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, David Smith, and others.

Abstract Expressionist New York was organized by the curatorial team of Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture; Jodi Hauptman, curator, department of drawings; Sarah Suzuki, The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books; Sarah Meister, curator, department of photography; Michelle Elligott, museum archivist; Anne Morra, associate curator, and Sally Berger, assistant curator, department of film; and Paulina Pobocha, curatorial assistant, department of painting and sculpture. The AGO’s presentation, curated by former AGO curator of modern and contemporary art David Moos, draws works from MoMA’s wide-ranging presentation, with a focus on the masterworks that epitomize the pivotal moment in modern art history.

National Bank and Metropia are supporting sponsors of Abstract Expressionist New York.

Remains, mixed media on Mylar, 7 x 15ft.

June 22 – July 16, 2011
Opening: June 24, 7-10pm
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.

Teri Donovan’s new body of work deals with time and memory and its impact on identity and culture. According to John Lock, there is no identity without memory. It follows therefore, that there is no memory without time.
In this exhibition Teri Donovan focuses on cultural as well as family histories, and incorporates the use of wallpaper as a signifier of temporal context. Parallels are drawn between the repeat patterns of wallpaper and the repetition of personal and cultural histories. These repetitions speak to the long half-life of influence exerted by some histories, alongside the ever increasing speed at which contemporary developments are relegated to the past tense.

June 23 – July 3, 2011 Opening: Thursday, June 23, 7-9pm
GALLERY 1313
Main Gallery1313 QUEEN STREET WEST,
TORONTO, ON M6K 1K8
T: 416 – 536-6778
E mail: director@g1313.org
www.lccatoronto.com or www.g1313.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6

LCCA PRESENTS A VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION:
“BEYOND OUR ROOTS” is a Visual Arts Exhibition presented by the Latino Canadian Cultural Association that shows the fusion between the different cultures and roots of the Latin American artists involved and the influence of the multicultural society where they work and reside. The artists’ starting point is their own cultural background and experiences, going through the discovery first, and then the sharing of other cultures, to finally, develop and transform them into a new and original product. 

Curator: Alejandro Freeland