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December 3 – 17, 2011
Opening: Saturday, December 3, 2 – 4 pm
BAU-XI PHOTO
324 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416.977.0400
E: info@bau-xiphoto.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Sun 11-5:30

This December, Bau-Xi Photo presents 1/1, an exhibition featuring never-before seen imagery by popular Bau-Xi Photo artists.

These new images will be issued as a single edition, offering photography collectors a chance to own a unique 1/1 piece by well known Canadian and International artists. These images will be available for pre-sale beginning in late November, and the exhibition will hang on the main floor of Bau-Xi Photo for the month of December.

Amanda Parker: Artifact Crochet – charcoal series, 2011, pate de verre, shadow box, 10 x 10″

November 30, 2011 – January 30, 2012
Opening Party & Holiday Cheer: Thursday,  Dec 1, 6 – 9pm
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

LIZZ ASTON – paper burn-out, porcelain
NOELLE HAMLYN – free-motion embroidery
PAM LOBB – mixed media printmaking
DORIE MILLERSON – needle lace
AMANDA PARKER – kiln cast glass

 Also attend the grand opening of ARTiculations (art supplies, workshops, exhibitions).  Same night until 10pm just down the street  (2928 Dundas St West). 

Whether inspired by a character in a contemporary novel or by the ability of thread to link elements together, a narrative quality runs through each of the works in Household Notions.   Textiles have a rich history that speaks to women and craft.   These multi-layered sculptures explore domestic textiles, (including needlework and crochet) as well as the personal relationships, memories, and attachments that are formed with handmade objects, and the narratives that can be created with them.   Alternative mediums such as glass, paper and porcelain expand upon our expectations of conventional textile patterns and constructions.   Just as fabrics can degrade and fade with time, some textile references have been deconstructed, leaving residual impressions that reflect upon the absence of the object. Overall themes of exploration in this exhibition include fragility, intimacy, strength and tension.

*Notions are small items for household use such as needles, buttons and thread.  A notion can also be a belief, an idea or a whim.  Here’s a household notion for you:  Call your mother.

Biographies

Lizz Aston holds an Advanced Diploma from the Sheridan Institute of Technology – Crafts and Design, Textiles Major (2009) and is currently completing a residency at Harbourfront Centre (Artist-in-Residence, Textile Studio).  Aston recently received the Kingcrafts/Lady Flavelle Scholarship from the Ontario Crafts Council and her work is currently featured in Love Lace, International Lace Award, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.

Noelle Hamlyn holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and an Advanced Diploma in Crafts and Design, Textile Major, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (2007).  She is currently a member of the Contemporary Textile Co-Op, 401 Richmond, Toronto, Ontario and her work is currently featured in Love Lace, International Lace Award, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.Pam Lobb holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, from the University of Guelph, Ontario (2007) and a Bridging the Gap, Certificate Course, OCAD, Toronto (2009). 

Pam Lobb has won several awards in 2011 including Best of Show, Art on the Street in Guelph, and Best of Artwork on Paper, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

Dorie Millerson holds a Master of Fine Arts in Craft, (Textiles), NSCAD University (2003) and is an Associate of the Ontario College of Art & Design (Hon.), Fibre (2000). She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and is currently Assistant Professor (CLTA), Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario.

Amanda Parker holds an Advanced Diploma, Crafts and Design, Glass Program, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (2010). She also holds a Diploma in Applied Arts, Interior Design also from Sheridan Institute (2002). Parker recently completed a printmaking in glass workshop with Jeffrey Sarmiento, Pratt Fie Arts Center, Seattle, Washington and has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Ontario and British Columbia.

November 30 – December 17, 2011
Opening: Thursday, December 1, 7 – 9 pm
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 – Sat 12 – 5 pm 

 

The Red Head Gallery is pleased to present its annual review, Red Dot Show 2011. The show provides a snapshot of the work produced by Red Head artists featured in solo shows over the course of the year. Exhibition organizer, Vanessa Nicholas, makes artist run culture her focus by inviting the artists to weigh in on working as a collective and by revisiting the Gallery’s beginnings.

Participating artists:

Janet Bellotto

Paula Braswell

Teri Donovan

Peter Dykhuis

Dana Holst

Lynn Christine Kelly

Nina Leo

Jane Martin

Sam Mogelonsky

Ram Samocha
 
Organized by: Vanessa Nicholas
 
 
A catalogue, with an essay by Vanessa Nicholas, will be available.
 
The Red Head Gallery opened its doors in 1990, making it one of Torontoʼs oldest collectively run art galleries. Over the past two decades more than 100 artists have been a part of the collective, which has produced over 200 exhibitions.

November 29 – December 24, 2011
Opening: Thursday,December 1, 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 

Hang Man Gallery is proud to announce BowsArt, the Artists’ Network members’ holiday show.

Hang Man is here to inspire and satisfy the art lover’s craving for spiritual and sensory discovery, be it the next aspiring Solomon Guggenheim.

If closer to home is your target, Bows Art is here to unleash your inner Sarah Richardson in starting or completing that renovation project with a wide variety of tastes for under five hundred dollars (taxes not included).

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. Further information about the Artists’ Network and the Hang Man Gallery, including upcoming exhibits, can be found at www.ArtistsNetwork.ca.

401 Towards London No 1, 1968-69, oil on mahagony, 183 x 244 cm. Gift of Norcen Energy Resources Limited, 1986. © 2011 Estate of Jack Chambers; Estate represented by Loch Gallery

November 26, 2011 – May 13, 2012
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

“Jack Chambers was deeply involved in the mysteries of our presence and our departures. Time was his material. His paintings are profoundly, classically static, and even the works  with motion (his films) say that they are also moments fixed by Art.”
– Michael Snow, artist
Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life, the collection surveys the varying styles and media used by the artist to create an incredible range of work. Curated by renowned Canadian art scholar Dennis Reid with art critic Sarah Milroy, the exhibition is based largely on holdings from the AGO’s permanent collection.

Situated in the Signy Eaton gallery, the exhibition is presented within four central themes, each anchored by a representative keystone piece in rooms themed “Light,” “Spirit,” “Time,” and “Place”. More than 100 works in various media make up the exhibition, including 40 paintings, 58 drawings, five films, four prints, as well as archival photos, process materials,  notebooks and letters from the AGO’s Special Collection. Featured paintings include Meadow, 401 Towards London, McGilvary County, and Lunch. A room in the centre of the space will display a selection of Chambers’ influential films including Mosaic, R34, Hybrid, Hart of London and Circle.

Born in London, Ont. in 1931, Chambers relocated to Europe in 1953 to further his artistic studies. Travelling to Spain at the suggestion of Pablo Picasso, he met his future wife and developed a strong connection to that country’s version of Catholicism which would later influence his paintings, representing a sense of the divine in the domestic and the familiar. Known internationally as an experimental filmmaker, Chambers’ varied painting style represents the wide-reaching scope of his vision. Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life organizes Chambers’ works with interconnected themes that were present throughout his career, and permeated his images.

“Jack Chambers is one of Canada’s most recognizable and renowned painters, and has been highly influential internationally both in this regard and as a filmmaker. His role in Canadian art cannot be underestimated,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, the Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO of the AGO. “It is an honour for the AGO to offer this unique presentation of Chambers’ life’s work at this time, and to provide the opportunity for our visitors to engage with it.”

An accompanying catalogue edited by Dennis Reid will be published for the exhibition. Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life, is co-published by Goose Lane Editions and the AGO. The soft cover, 240-page volume features 100 full colour images of works by Chambers, and contains essays by Mark Cheetham, Christopher Dewdney, Gillian MacKay, Sarah Milroy, Ross Woodman and Dennis Reid. It includes additional contributions by Eric Fischl, Susan Crean, Michael Ondaatje and John Scott, as well as chronology by Greg Humeniuk. The catalogue is available at ShopAGO for $45.00 and will be celebrated with a public launch in shopAGO on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 6 p.m.

Programming highlights for Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life include:
 
SHORT FILMS BY JACK CHAMBERS

Wednesday, January 18, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Jackman Hall at the AGO
Members $20.50/Public $22.50/Students $17

Jack Chambers’ reputation as an innovator of experimental film is based on the five works he completed between 1966 and 1970. Bruce Elder will screen and discuss four of his short films: Mosaic, 1966; Hybrid, 1967; R34, 1967; Circle, 1968-1969.

Bruce Elder is a filmmaker, writer, and teacher of film studies at Ryerson University. His films have been screened internationally, and he is a recipient of the 2007 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

THE HART OF LONDON BY JACK CHAMBERS

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Jackman Hall, AGO
Members $20.50/Public $22.50/Students $17

The Hart of London (1968-70), Chambers’ last and longest film, combines newsreel footage of natural disasters and urban rural landscapes, evoking the cycles of life and death. Rarely screened, it will be presented by Bruce Elder.

BEHIND THE SCENES: THE ART OF JACK CHAMBERS

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 7 – 8 p.m.
Signy Eaton Gallery, AGO
Free

Join art historian Dennis Reid, curator of Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life, for a tour of the exhibition.

JACK CHAMBERS: AN INTIMATE REMEMBRANCE

Wednesday, Mar. 7, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Jackman Hall, AGO
Members $20.50/Public $22.50/Students $17

Art critic Christopher Dewdney presents an evening of insights into the work of Jack Chambers along with personal, often humorous, anecdotes from Dewdney’s long familial acquaintance with the artist.

Dewdney has been writing art criticism for more than three decades. He is the author of four books of non-fiction as well as 11 books of poetry. His most recent non-fiction title is Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time. Dewdney teaches creative writing and poetics at the Glendon Campus of York University in Toronto.
This exhibition is supported by PACART.

Additional support generously provided by Al and Malka Green, Ethel Harris, The Judith Rachel Harris Foundation, and the Budd Sugarman Foundation.

November 23 – December 4, 2011
Opening: Thursday, November 24, 6-9 pm
Artist will be present on Saturdays & Sundays
Propeller Centre for Visual Arts
984 Queen St. W.
T: 416 504 7142
www.propellerctr.com
Hours: Wed – Sat 12 – 6pm, Sun 12-5pm
Frances Patella explores issues of time, perception and permanence.  She questions the conventional idea that a photograph represents just one instant and point of view. Using photographs of the same areas taken at different intervals of time, she integrates them into larger mosaics.

Patella photographs prescribed burns of the endangered Oak Savannah environments of Southern Ontario. Her work interprets Marshall Mcluhan’s term, “all-at-once-ness”, to show growth and change of these ephemeral environments simultaneously.

 

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

In this new series of encaustic and mixed media paintings, Pieter Bakker’s work deals with abstraction as an approach towards semi-recognizable imagery.
Bakker represents a world where the lines between “order” and “genus”, in the taxonomical sense, disintegrates. There is also allusion to the ever-present genetic manipulations that our world is now facing.
The artist’s work enhances free association in order to allow the mind to be creative in its interpretation and understanding of reality.

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