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Loree Ovens, Tapa (detail of work in progress), intaglio & acrylic on Japanese paper, 16″ x 20″, 2011.

September 15 – October 22, 2011
Open Studio Gallery George Gilmour Member’s Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
Toronto ON,  M5V 3A8
T/F: 416-504-8238
E-mail: sara@openstudio.on.ca
W: http://www.openstudio.on.ca 

Temporal Passage explores the concept of time as a fluctuating geography. Depicting a journey in search of greater awareness, Temporal Passage serves as a pictorial notebook through abstract landscapes. This body of work primarily focuses on intaglio techniques on Japanese paper, however in her own practice, Ovens works in a variety of media.

Loree Ovens is a Toronto artist who has exhibited in over forty group exhibitions since 1990. She is a Sheridan College graduate and an alumna of the Harbourfront Craft Studio. After a life-changing car accident, she returned to school and graduated in 2008 with a BFA in Printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Over the years, Ovens has received several awards including third place in the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Awards. In Oct 2010, she exhibited her first solo show Lost City Archives and in June 2011 Memory Box series, a two person show both at David Kaye Gallery in Toronto.

September 27 – November 12, 2011
Reception, Saturday, October 1, 2:30 – 5:30pm
GALLERY ARCTURUS
80 Gerrard Street East
Toronto, ON M5B 1G6
T: 416 977 1077
F: 416 977 1066
E: info@arcturus.ca
www.arcturus.ca
Hours: Tues-Fri 12noon- 5:30pm; Sat 11am-5:30pm

New and recent work by Floyd Kuptana will be on view at Gallery Arcturus in downtown Toronto starting Tuesday, September 27. The exhibit includes sculpture in soapstone, some inset with metal, brass, bone – or other stones – as well as original paintings in acrylic.

Kuptana carves figures transforming between animal and human. He says, “What I see in the stone, I make. And that’s it.”

September 27 – November 12, 2011
Artist’s talk on Wednesday, September 28, 5:30 – 7pm
Opening: Saturday, October 1, 2:30 – 5:30pm
GALLERY ARCTURUS
80 Gerrard Street East
Toronto, ON M5B 1G6
T: 416 977 1077
F: 416 977 1066
E: info@arcturus.ca
www.arcturus.ca
Hours: Tues-Fri 12- 5:30; Sat 11-5:30pm

Come view an epic mural … and the sculptures that inspired it.

Is everything connected?

Painter/sculptor Jeremy Gordaneer explores this question, as he asks us to follow an emerging and disappearing train, travelling through unfolding landscapes. This continuum of impressions is painted on eleven 4 by 6 foot panels creating an epic 44 foot mural entitled, ‘There is No There’. The work began January 2010 in Jeremy’s Mile End studio in Montreal and will be completed as it hangs on the walls of Gallery Arcturus during the last week of September.

Visitors are invited to meet with the artist and view the work as it is completed during regular gallery hours.

Jeremy will answer questions and describe the process of his work on Wednesday, September 28 from 5:30 – 7pm.

September 22 – November 6, 2011
Opening with performance by the artist, Thursday, September 22, 6 – 9pm
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

 
Join us Sept 22 for the opening reception, featuring an unforgettable painting performance by this exciting New York artist! 

Miriam Cabessa’s Canadian debut “in her wake” complements an impressive CV, including representing Israel at the ‘97 Venice Biennale.

Cabessa paints using the movement of her body, her hands, simple objects, and pieces of fabric, guided by rhythmic meditative breathing.  During the performance, she will work on multiple large canvases.  Synching movement with breathing & heartbeat, Cabessa will share her signature technique of dragging objects & fabric over washes of oils or graphite. Patterned, stunning, haptic & complex describe these Slow Action Paintings & Drawings. Using oil on linen or masonite or powdered graphite and turpentine on paper, Cabessa creates surface wash that is sensitive to her touch in the same way that photographic paper is sensitive to light.  The image is always created by exposing negative spaces: pulling or scraping paint aside to heighten the contrast of her compositions. Markmaking, for Cabessa, is in fact the kinetic subtraction, wiping, and blurring of pigment—making the relationship between the art and the artist very intimate.  The pressure, duration, and directionality of each gesture is analogous to both automatic writing and mantra.  Cabessa has refined her haptic technique over the course of sixteen years. 

The resulting paintings and drawings are focused abstract explorations of her own heartbeat and isoelectric line.  They are the traces of movement that emerge from stillness; essentially they are drawings in light.  These works are often characterized as feminine action paintings, or feminine abstracts. Critic John Yau writes that, “Cabessa’s composition is a record of a single, sustained and segmented gesture, a discrete performance.”  Her artistic lineage includes Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, and Yves Klein, while her paintings reflect a background in photography, and reference the alluvial sensuality of Robert Mapplethorpe.
In 2009 she was invited by the PULSE Art Fair to create a 24-foot painting on site, which underlined the performative nature of her works.  Miriam Cabessa was also featured in an Israeli documentary film titled Dreamers featuring nine Israelis working in the Arts living in the United States.  Cabessa is currently involved with several projects based in New York City, the Hamptons, and San Diego, as well as Milan, Italy and Tel Aviv.