Ancestry and Artistry:
Maya Textiles from Guatemala

Textile Museum of Canada
May 29 - October 13, 2013

Join us for the opening reception Wednesday May 29, 6:30 – 8 pm

Cloth holds great importance for Guatemala's indigenous communities, and traditional dress still plays an essential role in Maya identity today as a vital link with the ancestral past and a means of cultural reinvention in the present. Through an array of textiles patterned with evocative designs rich in visual imagery, Ancestry and Artistry traces a century of dynamic change as well as remarkable continuity in Maya traditions in the face of significant modernization, political upheaval, and religious transformation.

Curated by Roxane Shaughnessy and organized by the Textile Museum of Canada with the support of the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage and Joan VanDuzer. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue with essays by Roxane Shaughnessy, James C. Langley, Rosario Miralbés de Polanco, Ann Pollard Rowe, Donna E. Stewart, and Mary Anne Wise. The Textile Museum of Canada is grateful for the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport.




Image credits:
top: Andrea Aragón, photograph (detail). From the Home series, 2009-10. Collection of the artist.
bottom: Man's jacket (detail), Chichicastenango, Guatemala, mid 20th century. Gift of Norman Dahl, T00.13.16

Programs & Events

Special Workshop
Guatemalan weaver Maria Xoch Ajcalon
Saturday June 8, 2013, 10:00-3:00 pm

Join us for a hands-on introduction to backstrap weaving with Maria Xoch Ajcalon, master weaver and production manager for Asociación Maya de Desarrollo, a women's weaving cooperative in Guatemala. No weaving experience required! Members $68, Non-members $82, Full-time students $45. Materials $15. Advance registration required, class size is limited.
To register, call 416-599-5321 x2228.

Curator's Tour
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 6:30 pm

Join curator Roxane Shaughnessy for a tour that reveals the ways in which Maya textiles maintain a vital link to the ancestral past while embracing contemporary conditions. Free with admission.

Telling Stories: Conversations with Collector Donna Stewart and Curator Roxane Shaughnessy
Thursday, July 18, 6:00 pm

A guided visit and cocktail reception – hear the stories behind the exhibition and learn how key pieces from the Stewart collection provide insight into narratives of continuity and change. TMC Members $25, Non-members $30. Advance registration is required (Age 19 +), space is limited. To register, call 416-599-5321 x2228.

Textile Seminar: Maya Textiles from the TMC Collection
Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 6:30 pm

A behind-the-scenes session with curator Roxane Shaughnessy in our collections storage area and an opportunity to learn about the distinguishing features of Maya dress. TMC Members $20, Non-members $25, Full-time students Pay-What-You-Can. Advance registration is required, space is limited. To register, call 416-599-5321 x2228.




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Abraham Anghik Ruben, Odin, Shape Shifter

Bronze 1/9, 93.0 x 92.0 x 53.0 cm

ARCTIC JOURNEYS / ANCIENT MEMORIES:
The Sculpture of ABRAHAM ANGHIK RUBEN
June 6 to September 8, 2013

Opening Reception and Artist Talk
Thursday June 6, 2013 at 7pm

The Art Gallery of Algoma is the first Canadian venue to host the exhibition by renowned contemporary Inuit sculptor, Abraham Anghik Ruben, organized by The Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.

The Art Gallery of Algoma (AGA)'s 2013 exceptional summer exhibition, Arctic Journeys Ancient Memories, will be the first major Canadian exhibition of works by the internationally recognized Inuit artist since his solo show last year at the Smithsonian Institution's American Indian Museum in Washington, D.C. In what promises to be a truly unique exhibition, visitors to the Art Gallery of Algoma will have the opportunity to discover Abraham Anghik Ruben's exceptional sculptures, in an intimate setting. Ruben invites viewers to explore his historical narrative on the cultural, social and spiritual life of two Arctic peoples: the Inuvialuit (Inuit) and the Norse.

Arctic Journeys Ancient Memories will feature some 20 masterfully carved sculptures in bone, stone, ivory and bronze from private and public collections. This exhibition offers the opportunity to view what has been one of the Smithsonian's most successful exhibitions to-date attracting over 500,000 visitors. To find out more about the exhibition, visit http://www.artgalleryofalgoma.com/abrahamanghikruben.html

Ruben grew up in Paulatuk in Canada's Northwest Territories amongst a family of storytellers. His maternal great-grandparents, who worked in the commercial whaling industry, had been respected for their shamanic abilities. A wealth of cultural legends and beliefs were passed down to the children. Ruben would draw on these oral histories; coupled with an interest in Norse mythology that was sparked by a circumpolar conference he attended in Irkutsk, Russia to result in the mixed stylization that he employs in his carvings.

Two Cultures Meet
In Arctic Journeys Ancient Memories Ruben attempts to tell stories of contact between the ancient Inuit and Viking Norse from a thousand years ago. Although there is little archeological record of this interaction, the artist uses the common practice of shamanism by these two circumpolar societies to transcend the cultural and geographical divides. The shaman serves as prophet and leader to the respective communities and is a central figure throughout his work. This leadership is of significance today as the peoples of the Polar Regions face challenges in a changing environment. Ruben's work is especially poignant as he uses ancient myths and legends in a contemporary fashion to convey his present feelings and concern.

Art Gallery of Algoma
10 East St. Sault Ste. Marie ON P6B 3C3
(705) 949-9067
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Media inquiries:

Jasmina Jovanovic
Executive Director
Art Gallery of Algoma 10 East Street Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 3C3
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On view now at the Art Gallery of Hamilton




Simon Willms
Juan Manuel Aquino 2009
from the series Beisbol
Courtesy of the artist

The Spectacle of Play

Curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art,
Tobi Bruce, Senior Curator, Canadian Historical Art, and
Dr. Benedict Leca, 18th and 19th-century French art specialist

Play: the word and related concepts yield a dizzying array of meanings, activities and states of mind. In considering this thicket of meanings one might enact a behavior, fulfilling a role in a single event (play) that might be both sporting match and theatrical performance, or indeed part of a constructed persona played out in the real world. Play therefore can mean that we remove ourselves from our conventional contexts, refashion ourselves and our usual roles. But just as one might actively participate in play, the term can also denote a less active time spent in leisure, one more cerebral than physical.

In this special exhibition, the flagship presentation of the AGH 2013 theme World at Play, historic and contemporary artworks present these variations in tandem. An 18 foot salon-style installation of 19th-century paintings redolent of the Parisian Salon—the epitome of period spectacle—is juxtaposed with a dramatic, oversized black and white film devoted to chess by contemporary Canadian artist Marcel Dzama. Portraits of sports players, and memorable moments in sports history, as well as a contemporary sculpture by Graeme Patterson depicting Daryl Sittler's famous 10-point hockey game in 1976 take us into the heart of the most literal meaning of play: the sports world.

The notion of chance, integral to another facet of play—the gambling table—is represented by such works as Canadian artist Barbara Steinman's Roulette, an etched glass and brass sculpture in the shape of a roulette table.

In all, the exhibition will range across a multitude of contexts, as well as media, to have us ponder anew the relationship between art and 'play.'

Also on view:
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: The Collaborationists
Co-curated by Melissa Bennett and Linda Jansma
Co-produced by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery

Contact:
Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King Street West, downtown Hamilton L8P 4S8
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Gloria Vanderbilt

June 6 - 22, 2013

De luca fine art is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Toronto by American artist, writer and fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt. Produced over the last 10 years, the paintings in the exhibition reflect the extraordinary events of her life.

"If Gloria Vanderbilt were a dilettante, seeing her work would be like looking into a kaleidoscope, with the loose bits of colored glass arranging themselves in predictably changing, pretty, and boring combinations. But in her hands, old and expected patterns can be wrenched, and any prettiness will have a sense of torque to it and even, maybe, a frisson of something violent.

Over time Vanderbilt's work has gone in many different directions, has sustained, and continues to surprise. She works in different media (oil, acrylic, egg tempera), and her palette has always been bright with varieties of pink, red, lavender, yellow. It is vibrant, with intelligence as present in vivid, but has only been in the service of an idea, a composition, a feeling, an emotion, and is never after just prettiness.

In her work there is nothing of sentimentality, even when the subject is tender: a contented couple with two children in the background, or a mother with a child, or a woman in a hat. They and hundreds more have a kind of power to them, with a sense not of melancholy but of what the passage of time means, of how the present will one day be a memory."

Excerpt from Welcome to the Dollhouse, Town & Country by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.




de luca fine art | gallery
217 Avenue Road, Toronto [map]
Wed - Sat. 12 - 6 pm or by appointment
www.delucafineart.com

For further information, please contact:
Corrado De Luca
Director, de luca fine art
corrado@delucafineart.com
T: (1) 416-537-4699

Images: Visitor (2006), acrylic on canvas, 45.5" x 46.5"
Girl at the Window (2006), acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16"

The Birth of Post-Modernism
(the social history of art as read in a photograph)

The Birth of Post Modernism
21st century social networks with love entanglements, business considerations, nasty thoughts and counter-arguments.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but what happens when you add more words?

Legrady brings psychology to photography in this directorial series as well as in nine other photo groups covering a spectrum from meme to math.

http://www.mikloslegrady.com/photography.html

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Online Exhibition Dates: Summer and Fall 2013
Studio visits by appointment

Contact
Miklos Legrady
310 Bathurst st.
Toronto ON
M5T2S3
647-292-1846
legrady@sympatico.ca

The Guild Shop

Of Stories Passed
An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Ningeokuluk Teevee

June 6 - July 7, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 6, 5:00 - 8:00pm
The Guild Shop

Meet the artist at the opening reception! Ningeokuluk will be in attendance to sign limited edition posters of Extreme Makeover.

"With the passing of many of Cape Dorset's most venerable and long established graphic artists, Ningeokuluk Teevee has now taken on the mantel of Kinngait Studio's pre-eminent print artist.

Her forthcoming show at The Guild Shop comprises a selection of fresh, bold and resplendent new drawings certain to place her in the vanguard of emerging artists now living and working in Nunavut."

John Westren, Associate Director, Dorset Fine Arts

The Guild Shop
118 Cumberland Street
Toronto, Ontario
www.theguildshop.ca

Images left to right: Extreme Makeover, graphite and coloured pencil on paper, 2013; Haul Out (Walrus), Graphite and coloured pencil on paper, 2012.

OCC Gallery

Surface and Symbol: Works by Jean Marshall

August 8 - September 28, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 8, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery

Surface and Symbol is a solo exhibition of new works by Northwestern Ontario-based artist Jean Marshall. This exhibition focuses on Marshall's use of materials such as beads, fabric, and leather to express ideas about identity and to address relationships between the artist and her family.

In her work, Marshall draws upon skills and processes that she has learned through personal research and through conversations and experiences with other artists. Working in this way Marshall has developed a distinctly recognizable style of beadwork using bright colours to form unique designs and motifs, such as rosehip and berry forms.

In this exhibition Marshall draws upon her appreciation for materials and process. Her work responds to the character and stories of family and friends from places such as her mother's home community, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake) and Thunder Bay. Marshall's work is guided by her impression of these people and places to construct designs that operate like abstract portraits on wearable objects such as moccasins.

Artist's Biography:
Jean Marshall is a professionally practicing visual artist who lives near Thunder Bay on Fort William First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. Marshall received her HBA in Native Studies from Trent University of 2000. Marshall works primarily with textiles and beads, although she is also known for her work with natural materials such as birch bark, porcupine quills, and pine needles. Her practice is inspired by sharing and learning about new processes with other artists.

From 2010-2011 Marshall worked at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery where she was responsible for organizing Celebrating the Creators, an exhibition of works by artists throughout Northwestern Ontario. Her recent curatorial project From the North: Traditional and Contemporary Craft took place at the Ontario Crafts Council in Toronto. She is a founding member of the Anemki Art Collective, a group which seeks to create opportunities for, and advocate on behalf of artists in Northwestern Ontario.

Curator's Biography:
Suzanne Morrissette is a Cree-Métis Artist, Curator and Writer from Winnipeg Manitoba. She received an MFA from OCAD University in Toronto Ontario in 2011 and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver British Columbia in 2009. Recent curatorial projects include Blueprints for a long walk (Urban Shaman Gallery, 2013) Something About Encounter: works by Duane Linklater (Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 2013), Setting: land (Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 2012), and Concealed Geographies (A Space Gallery/imagineNATIVE, 2012), which was co-curated with Julie Nagam.

Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
www.craft.on.ca

Craft Awards 2013
Bringing you the contemporary edge on craft practice

Deadline to apply is June 14, 2013!
Each year's selection presents accomplished and dedicated practitioners in the field of craft and design. From makers that create innovative and exceptional work to curators, administrators, writers and volunteers who support the craft community, each award recipient is recognized as an important contributor to contemporary craft practice.

The Craft Awards program is a resource for finding out about who's doing what, and how craft is situated as a complex and engaging cultural endeavor. You will find makers at all stages of practice that are pushing boundaries and offering a distinct experience in their work. Be sure to join us every October for the Craft Awards ceremony where winners are announced, and we celebrate the achievements of those deserving recognition for their ingenuity and expertise.

2013 Craft Awards are now open for application

The Craft Awards program takes place annually, and consists of two components: awards by nomination and awards by application. All nominations and applications are due mid-June, at which point a jury of seven established professionals working in the field of craft and design will review and select the final recipients. In mid-August applicants will be notified of the jury decision, and the names of those selected for an award will be publicly announced.

The final announcement of who has won which award will not take place until the Craft Awards ceremony the first week of October. During the ceremony winners will receive their awards, and we'll wrap everything up with a terrific celebration.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY TODAY PLEASE CLICK HERE!

Questions? Contact awards@craft.on.ca, or 416-925-4222 x 225

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Keep updated on OCC events and programming by checking out our Facebook page - we'd love to see you there! Or join the discussion on Twitter @OntarioCrafts.

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OUTREACH 2013 – FLUX
An exhibition of photography by youth from:
519 Church Street Community Centre, Eva's Phoenix, Native Learning
Centre, NIA Centre for the Arts, UrbanArts

June 21 – July 26, 2013
Opening reception: Friday, June 21, 6–9 pm
David Barker Maltby Award presented at 7pm

www.gallery44.org/outreach2013

OUTREACH is Gallery 44's award-winning education program designed specifically for youth with limited access to photography as a medium of creative self-expression. In partnership with five community organizations, Gallery 44 offers black and white photography workshops to over 50 young people in the Greater Toronto area. The workshops have a new thematic focus each year, which guides the youth from concept, through to production, and exhibition at Gallery 44. OUTREACH breaks down barriers to the arts and encourages youth to develop their creative voice and understand the power of the photographic image.

During the opening reception, the David Barker Maltby Award will be awarded to two OUTREACH participants. We will also launch the OUTREACH zine – FLUX on the same night. Please join us in celebrating the artists' creativity and talent!

Gallery 44 gratefully acknowledges Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, the CEP Humanity Fund, Toronto Image Works, TD Bank Group, Sprint Systems of Photography, and REACH OUT for OUTREACH campaign donors for their support of OUTREACH.




Would you like to REACH OUT for OUTREACH?

Photography has been called the most democratic art form but not everyone has access to the medium. Gallery 44's OUTREACH program breaks down existing barriers to the arts, offering B&W photography workshops to up to 50 youth who have traditionally not had access to photography as a medium for creative self-expression.

Your donation of $25 or more can help us democratize photography!

Donate via Canada Helps: www.bit.ly/reachout2013 or call 416-979-3941

Image credit: Nakisha Millien, 2013 (Eva's Phoenix)

For more information please contact:
soJin Chun, Head of Education and Community Outreach
(416) 979-3941
sojin@gallery44.org

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
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Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
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Admission is always free

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing artform. Founded in 1979 to establish a supportive environment for the development of photography, Gallery 44's mandate is to provide a context for reflection and dialogue on contemporary photography and its related practices. Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, award-winning education programs, and affordable production facilities for artists. Through its programs, Gallery 44 is engaged in changing conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.

Selected works from the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection, 2002
The Spectacle of Play, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2013
Photo: Mike Lalich


AGH Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception
Thursday, June 13 from 7 pm to 9 pm
Opening remarks at 7:30 pm
Free admission to the opening

On view now at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
The Spectacle of Play

Curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art,
Tobi Bruce, Senior Curator, Canadian Historical Art, and
Dr. Benedict Leca, 18th and 19th-century French art specialist

Also on view:
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: The Collaborationists
Co-curated by Melissa Bennett and Linda Jansma
Co-produced by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery

Contact:
Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King Street West, downtown Hamilton L8P 4S8
[w] www.artgalleryofhamilton.com
[e] info@artgalleryofhamilton.com
[t] 905.527.6610

Installation featuring works by Graeme Patterson and Simon Willms
The Spectacle of Play, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2013
Photo: Mike Lalich

Barbara Steinman, Roulette
The Spectacle of Play, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2013
Photo: Mike Lalich

drawing by Jeff Morton, 2013

The Dunlop Art Gallery presents:

Kathleen Irwin and Jeff Morton:
PLAY
Organized by the Dunlop Art Gallery
June 14 to August 25, 2013
Opening Reception and Concert: Friday, June 14 at 7:00 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 15 at 1:00 pm
Full Moon Community Choir and Processional: Sunday, June 23 at 9:00 pm

PLAY is a multi-part installation developed in collaboration between theatre practitioner Kathleen Irwin and sound artist Jeff Morton. The project is centralized around the installation of two shiny red upright pianos that encourage interaction, improvisation, performance, and literal play, blurring the boundaries between spectator and performer. The two pianos are located on either side of a threshold, one claiming public space as a site of creativity, the other claiming the gallery as a site of community.

The first piano is installed outside the doors of Regina Public Library Central, located in the heart of the city's downtown core. The piano is available for anyone to play and enjoy, day or night. The artists do not provide a directive, but rather, extend an open-ended invitation to respond to an object that they have curiously inserted into a common space. The piano's presence in an unfamiliar setting underscores the multitude of creative and performative possibilities inherent within it, possibilities that may reach far beyond playing a simple melody. By extension, its presence asserts that the everyday is a social, cultural, and physical environment rich with potentiality and promise.

Inside the gallery there is another red piano, dramatically staged in austere and elegantly minimalist surroundings. The gallery is painted black, formally replicating the conventions of a concert hall or theatre, and the piano stands on a circular red carpet, lit by a sparkling chandelier. It too may be played, but approaching it is tantamount to taking the stage. Outfitted with speakers, a microphone, and a webcam, it will record the sound and image of everyone who sits down to play. Operating on a delay, one will hear the recorded sounds and see the projected images of previous participants as they play, offering the possibility for temporally-unbounded collaboration with others to ensue. The work creates its own document, a collective portrait in the form of an improvised and collaborative composition.

Irwin and Morton have also extended invitations to sound and video artists, composers, performance artists, and theatre practitioners to participate by creating new work for the indoor and outdoor pianos. On the evening of June 14, concurrent with the opening of the exhibition there will be a concert of works developed for the gallery configuration by Ian Campbell (Regina), Kenn McLeod (Regina), Ellen Moffat (Saskatoon), Jeff Morton (Ottawa), and Alain Perron (Regina).

On the afternoon of June 15, Jeff Morton will lead a graphic notation and experimental composition workshop, culminating in a gallery performance of piano scores created by workshop participants.

Finally, on June 22, artist Amber Phelps Bondaroff (Regina) will lead a costume, prop, and instrument making workshop, gathering members of the public to form a community choir. The following evening, she will lead a processional that will gather around the outdoor piano to sing Saskatchewan folk songs under the perigree moon, honouring vernacular creativity and celebrating longstanding traditions of making music together.

About the Artists:

Kathleen Irwin is a scenographer, writer and educator whose practical and theoretical research focuses on site-specific, community-based practice and alternative performative spaces including found space and the internet. As co-artistic Director of Knowhere Productions Inc., she produces large-scale, site-specific performances. She presents regularly at international conferences and has given workshops in Helsinki, Belgrade, Tallinn, Utrecht, Munich, Istanbul and Melbourne. Her research is published in Canadian and international journals, anthologies and is disseminated through documentaries and web-based archives. Irwin holds a Doctor of Arts from Aalto University and is Head of Theatre at the University of Regina.

Jeff Morton is a composer, musician, performer, writer, and media artist from Saskatchewan who currently resides in Ottawa. His music and art are playful, experimental explorations of sound, sound-making, communication, and compositional processes using found and musical objects and materials. In performance, composition, and installation, his work has been presented by ensembles and in galleries across Canada and internationally. Jeff completed a Masters Degree in Music Composition at the University of Victoria in 2008, where he studied with Christopher Butterfield.





Dunlop Art Gallery
Regina Public Library Central
2231-12th Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3Z5

Hours:
Monday through Thursday 9:30 am to 9:00 pm
Friday 9:30 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:30 to 5:00 pm
Closed statutory holidays
http://dunlopartgallery.org

For more information, please contact:
Blair Fornwald, Assistant Curator
Tel.: 306.777.6144
Email: bfornwald@reginalibrary.ca

The Dunlop Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, and Saskatchewan Lotteries. The artists wish to thank the Saskatchewan Arts Board, University of Regina Faculty of Fine Arts, Richardson Lighting, Jan Bell, Floyd Gadd, William Hales, and Mason Roth for their support and assistance with this project.

Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario présente
john price | the sacred and the profane # 1-5

En 2011 et 2012, au cours de récents voyages à Cape Dorset dans l'Arctique canadien, l'artiste-vidéaste torontois John Price a utilisé la vidéo et le film comme un hublot à travers lequel il épia le paysage et les conditions de vie de communautés qui demeurent peu familiers pour la plupart d'entre nous. Tout de même, l'impression imaginée du Grand Nord reste tout de même étrangement fascinante.

Price considère The Sacred & The Profane comme étant des films documentaires alors que ces cinq vidéos, et un film de 16 mm, ne suivent aucune des conventions habituellement associées avec le genre. Elles contiennent peu ou pas de dialogue. On ne s'attend pas à ce que le spectateur adopte une prise de position sur un sujet particulier, d'autant plus que d'identifier le point de vue du réalisateur sur un quelconque sujet serait impossible. Nous sommes tout simplement invités à faire comme l'artiste et observer silencieusement certains aspects du paysage et de la vie quotidienne de ce coin de la planète.

Autant ces œuvres portent sur le Nord, elles rappellent aussi tout ce qui est perdu en résultat de l'empressement et l'avidité du luxe de la vie moderne. Si, de prime abord, le rythme « en temps réel » de ces vidéos semble intolérablement lent en contraste avec nos attentes vers l'image en mouvement, le visionnement nous saisit davantage lorsqu'on s'aperçoit que notre perception devient plus ciblée, aiguisée, plus active que passive, plus à l'affût du détail. Notre intérêt est soutenu de façon constante au lieu d'être incessamment stimulé. Si les documentaires The Sacred & The Profane de Price demandent quelque chose de nous, c'est que nous prenions le temps de regarder, de voir, de percevoir plus astucieusement et de chercher une compréhension plus profonde de tout ce qui nous entoure, que ça soit dans le Nord ou ailleurs.

David Liss
Commissaire invité
Directeur artistique et Commissaire
Musée d'art contemporain canadien
 

John Price est un cinéaste indépendant. Depuis 1986, il produit des films documentaires expérimentaux, des films de danse et des films de journal intime. Son amour de la photographie analogique l'amène naturellement à de profondes expérimentations alchimiques avec une vaste gamme d'émulsions de film cinématographique et de formats de caméra.

Le vernissage de The Sacred and The Profane # 1-5 aura lieu à la GNO, au 174 Elgin, Sudbury, le vendredi 14 juin, à 17 h, en compagnie de l'artiste John Price et du commissaire invité David Liss. L'exposition est présentée jusqu'au 12 juillet 2013. Les heures d'ouverture sont les mardis, mercredis et samedis de 12 h à 17 h et les jeudis et vendredis de 12 h à 19 h. L'entrée est libre.

Cette exposition est commanditée par Castellan James + Partners, Little Montreal et Bélanger Ford. Nos commanditaires de saison sont CBON, la Première Chaîne, Espace musique, Radio-Canada Télévision | Internet, 50 Carleton, Le Voyageur et Le Loup 98,9 La voix du Nord. Merci à nos bailleurs de fonds : le Conseil des arts de l'Ontario, la Fondation Trillium de l'Ontario, le Conseil des Arts du Canada, Patrimoine canadien et la Ville du Grand Sudbury.

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La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario presents
john price | the sacred and the profane # 1-5 

During recent trips to the Canadian Arctic in 2011 and 2012, Toronto-based film artist John Price used video and film to observe the land and living conditions of communities that we are vaguely aware of yet remain unfamiliar to most of us. Nevertheless, the remote North is often imagined and perceived from a distance as being fascinating in unusual ways.

Price considers The Sacred & The Profane series to be documentaries but these 5 videos and one 16mm film do not adhere to the standard conventions associated with the genre. They contain little to no dialogue. Viewers are not expected to take a stand on specific issues nor is it possible to interpret the filmmaker's position on any particular topic. We are merely invited to quietly observe, as the artist does, aspects of the landscape and everyday existence in this part of the world.

As much about the North as this body of work may be, through these works Price also suggests that much may be overlooked in the haste and convenience that our modern lives have become. If the 'real-time' pace of these videos at first seems uncomfortably slow compared to what we have come to expect from moving pictures, watching becomes more compelling as we eventually find our perception focussed, sharpened, more active than passive, more attuned to detail. Our interest is consistently sustained rather than perpetually stimulated. If The Sacred & The Profane documentaries suggest anything, it is that we take the time to look, to see, to perceive more astutely, and to understand more deeply all that is around us.

David Liss
Guest Curator
Artistic Director and Curator
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

John Price is an independent filmmaker. His love of analog photography led naturally to extensive alchemical experimentation with a wide range of motion picture film emulsions and camera formats. His engagement with these materials is a key feature of his work.

The opening reception of The Sacred and The Profane # 1-5 will be held at the GNO, 174 Elgin St., Sudbury, Friday June 14th 2013 at 5pm, in company of the artist John Price and guest curator David Liss. The exhibition runs until July 12th 2013. The gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday from noon to 5pm and Thursday and Friday from noon to 7pm. Admission is free.

The exhibition sponsors are Castellan, James and Partners, Little Montreal and Bélanger Ford. Our season sponsors are CBON, la Première Chaîne, Espace musique and Radio-Canada Television | Internet, 50 Carleton, Le Voyageur and Le Loup 98,9 La voix du Nord. Thanks to our funding partners at the Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Canada Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, and the City of Greater Sudbury.

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Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
174 rue Elgin
Sudbury ON P3E 4N5
Canada

Kurt Bigenho: The Disorganizers
June 7 - July 13, 2013
Opening Friday, June 7, 6-9pm

"My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier."
Lin Yutang

"I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses."
Arthur Rimbaud

"Poetry should be made by all"
Comte de Lautreamont

Introducing (The Disorganizers), a new project from the NYC-based conceptual artist Kurt Bigenho, debuts at p|m Gallery on June 7, 2013. The Disorganizers is framed as a fictional service organization, one that architects localized scenarios of disorder, disorganization, and chaos - in the home, office, or in public space.

Referencing equal parts Monty Python skit (The Ministry of Silly Walks), Apple and American Apparel era marketing savvy, Surrealist parlor games, the Cutup Method of Burroughs and Gysin, as well as Trickster mythologies (Loki, Seth, Coyote), The Disorganizers is the latest in a series of fictive companies and organizations that Bigenho has invented.

In its role as a service organization, The Disorganizers offer a variety of products which the consumer can purchase (i.e. commission) after a short consultation. Sample products include: "#24 - During a dinner party instruct all guests to speak at the same time and slightly faster & louder than they normally would," and "#33 - Take a long sleeve shirt and a pair of pants. Remove the arms and legs - sew back on opposite garment. Proceed to wear."

In p|m Gallery, the installation consists of a wall of dozens of signs advertising these potential 'disorganizations'. Images, videos and artifacts of previously realized disorganizations are also displayed, along with example sculptures (a disordered hopscotch pattern, video, table), as well a custom designed uniform (jumpsuit and cap) worn by the Disorganizer employees.

With The Disorganizers, Bigenho is experimenting with the breakdown of structure - social conventions, the ego, powerful, calcified frameworks - in order to make conditions ripe for mysterious, unexpected, magical, creative results. New experiences, new insights, new epiphanies - bloom in the chaos and rubble of The Disorganizers wake.

The artist will be in attendance at the opening.

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Once Upon A Time On Queen Street





Miklos Legrady2005-2013
Exploring paradigms in painting in the 21st century

http://www.mikloslegrady.com/paintings.html

Work In Progress; adding text to image takes the guesswork out of reading the art.
Splashed Paintings; a conflict between chaos and order.
Unfinished Paintings could be, or not:

While we think of seeing as a vision of the external world, we actually see what we expect, know, or think.(¹) To explore how this works in painting, signs are added to change the reading.

The splashed paintings took months of work; the worst thing that could happen to these photorealistic pictures is an accidental splash of paint, a destruction of chaos and entropy. But then the laws of chaos step in. Ever seen a raindrop that was the wrong shape? Or fell the wrong way? When an event consists entirely of accidents there can be no mistakes.

Text on the painting tells the viewer this siz art, applying art theory directly to the canvas so there's no doubt, confusion or ambiguity. Would we know if we weren't told? As for the unfinished paintings, is a painting ever done or will it always be a Work In Progress?

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Online Exhibition Dates: Summer and Fall 2013
Studio visits by appointment

Contact
Miklos Legrady
310 Bathurst st.
Toronto ON
M5T2S3
647-292-1846
legrady@sympatico.ca

Iara Freiberg: where I'm waiting from

Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Jack Layton Ferry Terminal
9 Queens Quay West, Toronto
June 13, 2013 – October 27, 2013
Curator: Mona Filip

OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, June 13, 2013 | 6 – 9 PM | FREE

Brazilian artist Iara Freiberg creates site-specific interventions that explore the ways in which urban spaces are used, playing with perceptions of the built environment. Intimately entwined with the structures they occupy, her spatial drawings rely on the rigors of geometry, revealing harmonious or opposing tensions within the architecture and soliciting the viewer's awareness. The Koffler Gallery has invited Freiberg to create where I'm waiting from, her first commissioned work in Canada, engaging with one of Toronto's main civic portals – the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal.

Creating a monumental yet minimalist vinyl drawing that responds to the complex geometry of the site, Freiberg enables a new way of looking at this built structure, generating dialogue about the public and private places we dwell in and navigate. where I'm waiting from proposes an outsider's gaze encountering the peculiarities of the Terminal's architecture, highlighting structural harmonies and tensions that become evident only when one is situated within the space.

The intervention overlays a unifying structuring principle across the existing architecture by imagining an incision that virtually traverses the entire compound. Reacting to each section of the site with its specific elements, the conceived incision exposes a rhythm integrated to the play of crossing angles and plunging perspectives. The colour yellow marks the poured concrete surface as a beam of light that intersects the Ferry Terminal, tracing a luminous presence and transforming the location into a beacon on the city's shore.

Iara Freiberg is a Brazilian/Argentinean artist, born in 1977 in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned a degree in Fine Arts from the University of São Paulo in 2003 and has since participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as artist residencies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, England, South Africa, and Uruguay. In recent years, Freiberg's work has focused on site-specific architectural interventions in public and private spaces, with participations in unconventional exhibitions and independent projects. She has received the Acquisition Prize at the 32nd Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil in 2004 and the Prize Visualidade Nascente at the 13th Projeto Nascente, University of São Paulo, Brazil in 2003.

CONTEMPORARY ART BIKE TOUR | Sunday, July 7, 2 – 5 PM | FREE
Led by artist Corwyn Lund in conversation with historian and critic Kenneth Hayes, the tour explores two Koffler Gallery Off-Site projects and several public art works in between. Tour starts with Lund's site-specific installation Word Count at Epic Condominium Development, 48 Abell Street, and then travels by bike to Iara Freiberg's where I'm waiting from, at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. (Rain date: Sunday, July 21, 2 – 5 PM)

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where I'm waiting from is presented in partnership with StART and the City of Toronto. The Koffler Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Koffler Centre of the Arts acknowledges the support of Cultural Season Sponsor CIBC Wood Gundy, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council through the Community and Multidisciplinary Arts Organizations Program, our patrons and members.

Image: Iara Freiberg, where I'm waiting from (rendering detail), 2013.

MEDIA CONTACT
Tony Hewer, Head of Communications and Marketing, 416.638.1881 x4228, thewer@kofflerarts.org



Koffler Centre of the Arts
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Preview selected images and additional information on our website:
telephoneboothgallery.ca/mise-en-scene.html

"The city is haunted," the artist says of Paris, "by captured images of many who have come before me."

Among these images were French realist paintings and their relationship to mid-19th century photography. During her recent residency in Paris, Willans acquired Parisian black-and-white postcards and photographs dating from 1830 - 1930 whose compositions are familiar to the paintings by Corot, Courbet, and their contemporaries. The photographs appear like stage sets. One depicts a house with a path perfectly framed within curtain-like trees. Others contain a compilation of a mise-en-scène inside a mise-en-scène; interiors that include a painting on the wall, often a framed idealized landscape of the French countryside.

The cinematic term mise-en-scène describes the art of setting the scene. Willans is mindful of the staging at work in these found photographs; while some are chance observations on life, others are carefully arranged scenes.

This way of seeing became the source for Willans' studio explorations. Informed by French realism, Willans imposes colour and paint into these found vignettes, resurrecting the haunted spaces and the traditions of the past. Simultaneously, direct references to traditional French subject matter tap into the viewer's own familiarity and memory, thus eliciting a déjà vu experience.





BIOGRAPHY

After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta (2000) and a diploma in Arts Administration, Gillian Willans relocated to Toronto where she worked as an art gallery administrator for five years. In 2003, Willans co-founded an Artist-Run Centre, Eastern Front Gallery, where she was actively involved as an artist, administrator, and curator. While working towards her Masters of Fine Art at the University of Alberta, Willans exhibited work in several Edmonton galleries including Latitude 53, Arts Hab, and the Art Gallery of Alberta. Willans successfully completed her MFA degree in painting in 2008.

Willans has been the recipient of numerous grants including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts 2006 Painting Award, Visual Arts Project Grants in 2007 and 2009, and The Edmonton Arts Council Travel Grant in 2011. Willans has successfully completed several commissions including for the City of Edmonton Architects Office and Alberta Arts Days. In 2011, Willans spent six weeks in Paris, France in a self directed Artist Residency facilitated by Parsons Paris. Currently she is working as an Instructor in Painting and Visual fundamentals at the University of Alberta and the Faculty of Extension.


MISE-EN-SCÈNE: THE PARIS SUITE
Recent paintings by GILLIAN WILLANS
June 14 - July 21, 2013
telephoneboothgallery.ca/mise-en-scene.html

RECEPTION:
Friday, June 21, 6 - 9pm





TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
3148 Dundas St. W, Toronto, ON M6P 2A1

Contact:
Sharlene Rankin (647) 270-7903
sharlene@telephoneboothgallery.ca
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Image details:
Mise-en-scène: Devenir clair, acrylic, oil on canvas, 20 x 16" (detail)
Mise-en-scène : The Library, acrylic, oil on board, 13 x15" (detail)

Join us for an intoxicating preview of the North American premiere of CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, an exhibition celebrating 20 years of design, artistry and magic, with Christian Louboutin in attendance. Have your photograph taken at the Flare Photostar booth, enjoy complimentary make up retouches at Shu Uemura's Bar, and celebrate with exclusive, signature cocktails by Grand Marnier. After being the first in North America to see this incredible exhibition, unwind in the Lexus Lounge where you can dance, mingle and wear your Christian Louboutins in style.

Limited tickets remain. $175 or $150 for DX Members, are in support of the museum
and now available at dx.org/louboutin

For the first time in North America following record-breaking attendance at the Design Museum London, this 20 year retrospective exhibition, running from June 21 through September 15, presents the mastery of the French iconic shoe designer Christian Louboutin. Curated by The Design Museum London in conjunction with Christian Louboutin, this exhibition presents iconic French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, celebrating a career that has pushed the boundaries of high fashion shoe design. This exhibition celebrates Louboutin's twenty years of designs and inspiration, revealing the artistry and theatricality of his shoe design from stilettos to lace-up boots, studded sneakers and bejeweled pumps. It is a magical journey of style, glamour, power, femininity and elegance.

Design Exchange
234 Bay St, Toronto, ON
M5K 1B2

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

Upcoming Exhibitions
June 22 – August 11, 2013


Main Space



Louise Bourgeois, Cell (The Last Climb), 2008, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Louise Bourgeois Trust. Photo © National Gallery of Canada.

National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Louise Bourgeois 1911 - 2010
A special presentation of our NGC@MOCCA program

Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world's most celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC's recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced.

The National Gallery of Canada @ the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art program


Project Room



David Armstrong Six, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and PARISIAN LAUNDRY, Montreal.

David Armstrong Six | Three Known Points
Curated by David Liss and Jonathan Shaughnessy

Three Known Points is an exhibition of recent sculptural work and photographs by Berlin and Montreal-based – and former Toronto – artist, David Armstrong Six. Working in a diverse range of materials, including wood, bronze, plaster, metal and glass, this new body of work, referred to as "associative abstraction" was produced in Berlin within the last year and first exhibited in Canada at PARISIAN LAUNDRY in Montreal this past May. David Armstrong Six is represented by PARISIAN LAUNDRY, Montreal.


Media/Retail Space



Barbara Astman, Dancing with Che: Enter Through The Gift Shop (detail of merchandise), 2011. Courtesy of the Corkin Gallery. Photo: Jennifer Rose Sciarrino.

Barbara Astman
Dancing With Che: Enter Through The Gift Shop

Dancing With Che: Enter Through The Gift Shop is an intervention-installation of Che Guevara souvenirs. Artist Barbara Astman considers what it means for a cultural icon to appear on a multitude of mass-produced consumer items. The artist entices visitors with her retail display, but does not allow them to satiate their consumer desire - none of the objects are for sale. Barbara Astman is represented by Corkin Gallery, Toronto.

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 8 – 10pm

FREE OPENING RECEPTION SHUTTLE BETWEEN MOCCA AND THE POWER PLANT: The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery are excited to offer a free shuttle service that will operate between the two locations during Friday night's openings so you can double up on your art experience­­! Details to follow on our website.

ARTIST TALKS: Saturday, June 22, 3:00pm – Join artists Barbara Astman, David Armstrong Six, and National Gallery of Canada curator Jonathan Shaughnessy for a tour of the exhibitions.

All programs and activities of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art are supported by Toronto Culture, the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, BMO Financial Group, Cisco Canada, individual memberships and private donations. MOCCA also acknowledges the support of the Government of Ontario, through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport and its Museum and Technology Fund program.

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Gallery Hours | Tuesday - Sunday 11-6 | Admission: Pay What You Can
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Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

July 5-7, 2013, Nathan Phillips Square

For more information on these artists please visit www.torontooutdoorart.org

For booth locations see map in Featured tab at the bottom of the akimbo app. 

Watercolour

	Jeremy Browne	Booth #256
	Atanur Dogan	Booth #183
	Riad Jisri	Booth #245
	Laura Kingsbury	Booth #321
	Marilyn Kutsukake	Booth #230
	Jaymie Lathem	Booth #197
	Cori Lee Marvin	Booth #129
	Dominique Prevost	Booth #310
	John Shea	Booth #314
	Christy Shin (Student)	Booth #377
	Daniel St-Amant	Booth #258
	Debra Tate-Sears	Booth #263
	Yaohua Yan	Booth #132
	Youngeun Yun	Booth #171
	Micheal Zarowsky	Booth #341

For more information on these artists please visit www.torontooutdoorart.org