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Category: LISTING ARCHIVE

  • Deconstructed: Works from the permanent collection

     James Wilson Morrice, Morocco-Carnival Time (detail), n.d., oil on panel, collection of the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, gift of the estate of Kathleen Gormley McKay.

    November 19, 2011 –  May 2012
    The Varley Art Gallery of Markham
    216 Main Street
    Unionville – Markham  ON L3R 2H1
    T: 905-477-9511
    www.varleygallery.ca
    Hours: Tues., Wed., Fri., Sun. 11am – 4pm,
    Thurs. 11am – 8pm, Sat. 10am – 5pm

    In anticipation of the opening of a new exhibition space dedicated to its permanent collection, the Varley Art Gallery of Markham presents a selection of works from this much-valued municipal collection.

    Formed from the initial bequest of Kathleen Gormley McKay in the mid 1990s, the Varley’s collection has grown over the years to include works dating from the 19th to the 21st century, due to the generous donations of members and patrons. With an emphasis on the works of Frederick Horsman Varley and those of his fellow members of the Group of Seven, the collection also boasts works from such artists as James Wilson Morrice, Phillip Surrey, Molly Lamb Bobak, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jack Bush and Sorel Etrog.

    After a short construction delay, the Varley will open its new $2.5 million gallery space this winter. The expansion has been made possible thanks to a major contribution from Mr. Wallace Joyce to the Varley-McKay Art Foundation in 2008. The Varley Art Gallery also wishes to thank the Town of Markham, the Government of Ontario and the Varley-McKay Art Foundation for their generous support of this project.

  • Dominique Prévost “Changing Light”

    Wind 2011 Watercolour 24 x 36"

    November 23 – December 4, 2011
    Opening: Thursday, November 24, 6-9 pm
    *Artist will be present on Saturdays & Sundays
    Propeller Centre for Visual Arts
    North Gallery
    984 Queen St. W.
    T: 416 504 7142
    www.propellerctr.com
    Hours: Wed – Sat 12 – 6pm, Sun 12-5pm

    Dominique Prévost juxtaposes colours, textures and patterns to suggest movement within the landscapes. She goes back and forth between the fore-ground and the back-ground. What was crisp and gleaming one moment becomes evanescent and furtive.The artist revels in the fluid uncertainty of watercolour. Stains mark the passing of time and emphasize the pigment’s particularities on different surfaces. 

    Prévost uses handmade papers from Japan (washi) as well as other papers from France and England, each one offering a different set of qualities.

    Artist website: www.dominiqueprevost.com

  • Small Works Sale

    Las Paterson

    November 16 – December 18, 2011
    Opening: Thursday, November 17, 7 pm
    GALLERY 1313 Process and Cell Gallery
    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

    All works no larger than 8 x 10 and all works under $150.

    This is also a fundraiser for Gallery 1313 with 50% of all sales going to Gallery 1313.

    Participating artists include:

    David Brown
    Robin Cyna
    Karen daFonte
    Deborah Fischer
    Karen Grosmen
    Amita Sen Gupta
    Monica Gutierrez
    Lindy James
    Moshe Mikanovsky
    Las Paterson
    David Sheppard
    Cortney Stephenson
    Jeff Turner
    Phil Anderson & others.

  • [re]representation By Steven Stoner

    November 16-27, 2011
    Opening: Thursday, November 17, 7pm
    GALLERY 1313 Main Gallery
    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

    [re]representation is series of 2d and 3d paintings that investigate a possible link between art, philosophy and incompleteness. This exhibition examines the idea that any art form or theory that can be visually represented is incomplete and therefore could continue to evolve. The central idea that underpins this exhibition is one of incompleteness. Art and philosophy have yet to encompass, explain or characterize our world completely. Our knowledge of the world and its relationship to art and philosophy is therefore incomplete. All art forms and philosophical theories can be perceived in different ways at different times by different people. At any point, therefore, we can decide to escape the confines of our previous perception and create a new one. In art this means a new image or perception can always be produced, regardless of current ideals or philosophical theory, creating a continuous cycle of [re]representations.

    This exhibition is made up of a continuous cycle of images where each image requires a decision in order to form the next image. The basis for each decision requires extensive research and analysis. My goal is to create a dense, cohesive and thoughtful art form, with an increasing level of meaning and complexity. Any one painting can contain up to 300 images that are presented in the gallery as large structures on layers of Plexiglas and in the accompanying books.

  • Lumina Three by Scott M2

    (3 channel video installation)

    November 11 – December 16, 2011
    Daily until 12 am
    Roadside Attractions
    911 Davenport Road,
    Toronto, ON  M6G 2B7
    info@weseeinc.com”

    Ambient photographic light paintings weave a shifting field of illumination and shadow in this three-screen edition of M2’s Lumina series. Evolving images from the edges of perception take the foreground to birth an atmosphere of enigma. Each viewer will experience a unique light triptych in the installation and a chance to spend moments with mystery or to hurry onwards.

    Three wide-screen monitors present the Lumina art, fed from asynchronous DVD players. The drifting ambient soundscape, from three discrete stereo streams, are mixed to mono for Roadside Attraction’s street-PA system.

    Scott M2 (Scott McGregor Moore) is the founder of Canadian soundscape group dreamSTATE, known for their ambient installations, albums and atmospheric live performances. Deeply rooted in the concepts of ambient music, Scott has initiated a series of investigations into the possibilities of ambient film and related multimedia to induce a slower, subtler relationship with time and space. His latest projects include Muse Concrète photography/multimedia, including the Lumina and Cloud Painting series, and Oblique Poetries wordsoundart with poet/fiber-artist Lynn Harrigan.

    Artist’s website: http://www.dreamstate.to/scottm2/index.htm


  • JULIE BEUGIN “Blaue Stunde” / AMY BOWLES “In the Gargoyle’s Head”

    Julie Beugin  “Blaue Stunde”  2011  oil on canvas  200 x 270 cm

    November 18,2011 – January 14, 2012
    Opening: Friday, November 18, 7-10 pm
    Paul Petro Contemporary Art
    980 Queen St West
    Toronto, ON   M6J 1H1
    Tel: 416-979-7874
    info@paulpetro.com
    www.paulpetro.com
    Hours: Wed – Sat: 11–5

    Paul Petro Contemporary art is pleased to present new paintings and ceramics by Toronto-based artist Amy Bowles and a body of new paintings, produced over the last year in Berlin, by Montreal-based artist Julie Beugin. Both artists will be present at the opening.

    “Blaue Stunde, or ‘Blue Hour,’ is a German phrase describing the time between night and day, the period of transition where the sky is a bright blue before the darkness of night. In the city it is the time when interior lights are turned on but before curtains are drawn. Artificial lights mingle with the glow of the sky and inside and outside appear equally lit. The city feels permeable, the everyday strange. This in between light forms the leitmotif for the exhibition.

    In my paintings, perfectly angled tables and shelving units meet city streets and institutional architecture. The carefully domesticated vegetation of gardens and potted plants are lit with electric lights, the natural indivisible from the manufactured. Transparently painted and holding inside and outside simultaneously, these composite spaces suggest mental images; desires of the recent past rendered unstable in the face of contemporary anxieties. Emerging within and around the photographic references are forms that dissolve into pools and puddles and are more paint than image: the edges of memory, a word on the tip of the tongue. The strangeness of the built world, lightly held together.”  Julie Beugin,  July 2011

     Amy Bowles is an artist, musician and actress. Born in London, UK, she graduated from the Cardiff Institute of Art and Design (1993-96) with a BA in Ceramic Design and moved to Canada in 1999. Since then she has been showing paintings, sculptures and film. Bowles is the lead vocalist for the Toronto bands Pony da Look and Permafrown. As an actress she has primarily worked with Toronto director and playwright Alex Wolfson, most recently in “And so, the animal looked back…” presented at the Art Gallery of York University (Toronto), January 28 – March 14, 2010.

  • Small treasures

    “O Me O Mi”, bronze by Maryon Kantaroff

    November 15 – December 2, 2011
    Opening: Saturday, November 19, 1:30pm
    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

    The Sculptors Society of Canada cordially invites you to celebrate the holiday season!

    Meet the artists:
    Sam Blaug
    Eamon
    Mary Ellen Farrow
    Karen Stoskopf Harding
    Judy Raymer Ivkoff
    Elaine Jaques
    Maryon Kantaroff
    Marlene Kawalez
    Evgueni Kogan
    Bastien Martel
    Richard McNeill
    Desmond Scott
    Peter Shoebridge
    Dina Torrans
    Holly Wheatcroft
    Peter Wirun
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  • Heffel’s 2011 Fall Auction

    November 19 – 24, 2011        
    HEFFEL GALLERY
    13 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto
    Live Auction: Thursday, November 24, 2011
    Park Hyatt Hotel,
    4 Avenue Road
    4:00 pm EST, Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art
    7:00 pm EST, Fine Canadian Art

    For more details on the previews and live auction, and access to the online
    catalogues, visit www.heffel.com<http://www.heffel.com>.

    Jean Paul Lemieux, Nineteen Ten Remembered, 1962. Oil on canvas. 42″ x 57 1/2 in”

    In anticipation of the upcoming Fall Auction, happening on November 24 in Toronto, Heffel Fine Art Auction House is offering the public the opportunity to preview some of the most remarkable works by Canadian artists ever available before they go up for bidding, and prior to the Toronto public viewing the following weekend.

    Lawren Stewart Harris, Rocky Mountain Sketch CXXI (Mount Robson), 1929. Oil on board. 12″ x 15″

    Included among the blockbuster items:

    Jean Paul Lemieux’s Nineteen Ten Remembered, considered the artist’s most influential piece.

    Seven works by Jean-Paul Riopelle, including the stunning Grande fête (Great Feast) that is estimated to fetch between $900,000 and $1.2 million.

    Works by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr.

    Two important works by artist Albert Henry Robinson which were recently discovered in a barn by curious owners who ‘Googled’ the artist’s name.

    The François Dupré Collection, which once hung proudly at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal, which have been rediscovered after being stored for 24 years in an Old Montreal bank vault.

    Please join us for an event that truly paints a picture of Canadian pride.

    About Heffel Fine Art Auction House
    Heffel has sold more Canadian art than any other auctioneer worldwide, with over
    $275 million in art auction sales since 1995, and has conducted the most valuable
    live auctions of Canadian art.  Heffel is led by the most experienced team of fine
    art specialists in Canada.  With offices and representatives in Vancouver, Toronto,
    Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary, Heffel provides superior client services to both
    sellers and buyers nationwide.  In addition to full-colour printed catalogues,
    Heffel publishes its entire live auction online at
    www.heffel.com<http://www.heffel.com/>, from initial promotion and illustrated lot
    listings, to the auction’s live multi-camera webcast and final sale results.

  • David Burdeny: ANCORA

    November 10 – December 20,2011
    Opening: Thursday, November 10, 7- 10 pm
     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

    Alone and moving about by foot, car, boat, motorcycle and moments caught by coincidence, are the motifs captured by Burdeny. These moments are typically felt as beautiful, delicate and mysterious, recorded with lengthy exposures shortly before dusk or dawn.

    As in much of his previous work, Burdeny once again found himself working in rain, fog and mist – marginal conditions that effectively eliminate
    extraneous background clutter and deep shadow – to provide minimal and slightly surreal presentations – all signature “Burdeny”.

  • Judith Geher: Courage

    November 10 – December 4, 2011
    Opening: Thursday, November 10, 7-9 pm
    PARTS GALLERY
    1150 Queen Street East
    Toronto, ON M4M 1L2
    T: 416.465.8500
    Hours: Wed–Sat 12–6, Sun 12-5 pm
    info@partsgallery.ca
    www.partsgallery.ca

    Judith Geher’s paintings explore contemporary images of an idealized feminine aesthetic. Working within the parameters of commonly held notions of beauty, she collects images from various fashion magazines and similar internet sites.

    This vehicle carries her impressions, thoughts and desires toward these images. Judith Geher lives and works in Toronto, Canada, and holds a Bachelor of Architecture with honours from the University of Toronto. Her practice includes

    drawing, painting, and sculpture, as well as designing thoughtful and considered architecture. Her work has been exhibited nationally