Produced in association with OCAD
OCAD University, Great Hall, 2nd Floor
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
Live theatre meets reality TV and avant-garde visual arts, as a daily drama unfolds within an installation created by Berlin-based artist David Levine.
Presented by LUMINATO
Produced in Association with
Toronto Pearson International Airport
Terminal 1, International Departures
3111 Convair Drive, Toronto, ON L5P 1B2
World Premiere
Bruce Mau
A photography exhibition that reaches for the sky, to portray the unexpectedly complex world above us.
Presented by LUMINATO
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Reverse Glass Paintings, No. 56, 2009. Acrylic, Plexiglas, Wood, Aluminum. 180 x 150 cm (70.9” x 59.1)
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[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY
326 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416-516-4440
E: toronto@galerie-lausberrg.com
www.galerie-lausberg.com
Hours: Tues-Sun 12–6 or by appointment
Burges began working on his Reverse Glass Painting series in 2007, inspired by the shiny surface of Diasec mounting technology prevalent in contemporary photography. Burges’ non-figurative paintings can be called “lyrical” or “expressionist”, “informal” or “gestural” at the same time. Burges painting follows an almost scientific plan and development, systematically exploring the aesthetic possibilities of colour and space and their relations, as well as those of the painting to the viewer and vice versa.
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MERCER UNION
A Centre for Contemporary Art
1286 Bloor Street West,
Toronto, Ontario M6H 1N9
T: 416-536-2955
E: info@mercerunion.org
www.mercerunion.org
Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6
International artist Mir is interested in the specific dynamics of technologies. Her new work is inspired by Galileo Galilei’s experiments with gravity. Mir in a gravel lot will perform a gravitational feat on her own – the stacking of a single column. Mir is concerned with the space of play that opens when failure is permanent. It is an experiment for experiment’s sake, for the sheer joy of watching the tower to be built and topple over and over again.
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Black Box, 2010. Copyright: Sarah Anne Johnson / Stephen Bulger Gallery[/column]
[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY
1026 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H6
T: 416.504.0575
E: info@bulgergallery.com
www.bulgergallery.com
During October 2009, Sarah Anne Johnson participated in an artist’s residency in the Norwegian territory of the ArcticCircle. Each of the twelve days at sea the group visited a different site on land, ranging from untouched vistas of pure landscape to abandoned mining camps. The photographs she took have become the basis for her new body of work entitled “Arctic Wonderland.” The imagery is celebratory with an ironic underside. Fireworks, confetti, cheerleaders and banners inhabit the landscape. Wonderland has the double meaning of referring to the brilliant beauty of the landscape, but also the absurdity of some of the notions of how to colonize this place.
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TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
3148 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6P 2A1
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
Birds inspired by literature and created from books. Switzer’s recent drawings and sculptures attempt to address the complex relations we have with animals and the way we have charged them with symbolic and anthropologic characteristics.
(above) Word Bird: Motimer, 2008, glass, wood and book page 4 x 1 x in.
(below) Bird Lolou, 2011, glass, wood, book pages 4 x 7.5 x 11.5 in.
Alia Toor, 99 Names of Aman, 2004. Dust masks with cotton embroidered by the artist
May 18 – November 20, 2011
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA
55 Centre Avenue
Toronto, ON, M5G 2H5
T: 416.599.5321 x. 2239
E: alopes@textilemuseum.ca
www.textilemuseum.ca
Hours: daily 11-5, Wed 11-8
Artists: Jamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Alia Toor and Tim Whiten
Curated by Patricia Bentley
Four contemporary artists explore the relationship of patterns, communication and spirit in conversation with textiles and symbols from the Museum’s permanent collection of Islamic African artifacts. Magic squares, known all over the world as mathematical games like Sudoku and Kenken, become carriers of powerful and diverse cultural meanings when they are painted, woven or embroidered on textiles in Muslim Africa.
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
Toronto, ON M5V 2J4
416.539.9595
info@scotiabankcontactphoto.com
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Figure and Ground: Deaf View Photography
May 17-December 31
Distillery Historic District – Deaf Culture Centre
55 Mill St Bldg 5, Ste 101
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
Tue – Sat 11am – 6pm
Sun 12 – 5pm
416.203.0343
info@deafculturecentre.ca
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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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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.
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.