Gallery 44 Vitrines
August 1 to 31, 2013

I FELT ANXIOUS AT THE VERNISSAGE
Mariana Lafrance

www.gallery44.org/lafrance 

We often wear masks to hide our social anxiety. Well I certainly do when I feel socially anxious, which happens especially in unstructured social situations, like vernissages. The worst part of social anxiety is other people's masks: everyone else looks calm and confident, and I am alone.

I wanted to know what a vernissage would look like if all people took off their calm and confident masks and showed me the anxiety I imagine lurking underneath. So I photographed people at a series of vernissages, made prints, and cut out their calm and confident masks. I then made photographs of my own anxious face and placed them behind the prints to peek out from behind all the removed masks. And there. Everyone is anxious like me. At least the isolation is gone.

I think of photography as a social tool. There is a kind of voodoo-doll power in being able to produce a photographic representation of a person, and then play with or manipulate that representation... to do good in the world, of course.

– Mariana Lafrance

Mariana Lafrance is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based on Manitoulin Island. Her photographic work centres around social phenomena, human vulnerability and transformation, and is strongly anchored in her native Northern Ontario. Lafrance published in 2008 a book of photos entitled La ville invisible/Site Unseen. She has exhibited her work extensively in Northern Ontario and is the recipient of a Northern Arts grant and an Emerging Artist grant from the Ontario Arts Council.

Image: I felt anxious at La Petite Mort (detail), inkjet on cut paper, 2012


This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant




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For more information please contact:
Alice Dixon, Head of Exhibitions and Publications
(416) 979-3941
alice@gallery44.org

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
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Gallery 44 main space will be closed until Sept 13, but our Vitrines Exhibition is viewable Mon-Sat, 9 AM to 7 PM

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.

Art Spin is proud to present:

The Fernanda Faria Collection


For the last twenty plus years Fernanda Faria has been a staple in the Toronto art community. Since 1990 she has been the proprietor of Akau Framing & Art, a highly regarded framing shop that has been providing quality service to both artists and art lovers alike. Her vocation as an art framer has facilitated, perhaps even fueled, her passion to trade and collect art, her care and appreciation for art is evident in both practices.

This prolific collection – not even she knows exactly how many works she owns - represents a unique and highly personal perspective on the history of the Toronto art scene since the late 1980's, a history which Faria herself has contributed to through her dedicated support as a collector.

Art Spin is excited to present a selection of works from this collection, many of which are on view to the public for the first time, from Thursday July 25th until Sunday July 28th at 1093 Queen St. W. (just west of Dovercourt). Don't miss this rare opportunity, as this exhibition will be on display for four days only.

Opening reception Thursday, July 25th 7pm – 1am

Exhibition runs from July 26th until 28th, from 12pm to 7pm.

Join us on Saturday July 27th at 3pm for a special talk on the topic of private art collections, followed by a guided tour led by Fernanda Faria herself of some of the works in this exhibition.

Some of the artists whose works will be on display include:

Stephen Andrew, Daniel Barrow, Shary Boyle, Max Dean, Catherine Heard, Karen Henderson, Hanna Hur, Wanda Koop, Micah Lexier, Jed Lind, Howard Lonn, Ken Nicol, Julie Moon, Finn O'Hara, Ben Reeves, Derek Sullivan, Jacob Whibley.

Art Spin would like to acknowledge the support from the Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council as well as Ten93 Queen St. West and Pemberton Group.

Media contact:

info@artspin.ca
416-532-5274
www.artspin.ca

The White Water Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming presentation of REBEL, a multi-faceted media arts installation featuring two of Canada's most infamous contemporary artists, Istvan Kantor and Terrance Houle.

(LEFT) Wartime Stripper, video production stills, may/2013 with Nina Arsenault. (RIGHT) Action shot from "The National Indian Leg Wrestling League of North America"

Kantor and Houle consistently push the boundaries of their art form and continue to spark an abundance of critical commentaries around their art practices. White Water Gallery is bringing them together to ignite similar critical discourse in their local community of North Bay, Ontario. Rebel is a term we use for individuals that push against the tide in defence of their own opinions and concepts. These people create controversy and use unconventional methods to disseminate their ideas. Kantor and Houle are two artists that definitely fit this definition of rebel, though their rebelliousness manifests itself in different ways. Kantor's work tends to be very aggressive and visceral in terms of the performative gestures he uses to convey his ideas, while Houle's work, though still aggressive, is more subtle in its attempts to provoke his audience. Both artists, however, are champions at challenging existing structures within modern day society and subsequently find themselves often classified as "trouble makers." Both artists' work will be displayed in linked spaces within the gallery, allowing the work to be seen simultaneously and yet independently. This will create a juxtaposition of artistic methodologies while enabling discussions about the connections between them.

REBEL will be on display from October 4th to November 16th with an opening reception featuring performances by the artists on October 4th starting at 7 pm.

This exhibition was made possible through funding from the Canada Council for the Arts' Media Arts Project Grants Program and the Ontario Arts Council's Multi and Integrated Arts Projects Program.



For more information, please contact Clayton Windatt, Programming Director, at the White Water Gallery by phone at (705) 476-2444 or by e-mail at programming@whitewatergallery.com.

OCC Gallery

Surface & Symbol: Works by Jean Marshall

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

Surface & 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, hide 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 create unique designs and motifs, such as rosehip and berry forms. Her beadwork reoccurs throughout the exhibition on forms such as moccasins, and drum hides.

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. The works in this exhibition operate as abstract portraits guided by her impression and acknowledgement of these people and places.

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 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.

Thank you to the funders:



Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
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The Guild Shop

FISHTANK: Roger Wood

July 8 - August 4, 2013

FISHTANK is an exciting new series of site specific installations housed within the front window of The Guild Shop. Offering a nearly 360° view, FISHTANK provides a new perspective on craft and challenges the popular notion of dimensionality. By consuming the space within the window these installations are a true departure from the traditional window display and are, in essence, without limit.

The Guild Shop is proud to host Roger Wood in the FISHTANK for this inaugural exhibition.

Roger Wood's fantastical clocks are like portals into another world. Like stepping through the wardrobe, or onto an invisible train platform, Roger's timepieces transport you into another realm of the imagination. A self-taught artist who lives and works in a former flower shop in Hamilton, Ontario, Roger madly collects odd, forlorn, mysterious, lonesome, intriguing, usually weathered and tarnished things - things with a history.

Roger's FISHTANK installation offers a rare glimpse into an artist's most intimate environ — the studio. Filled with several hundred boxes and drawers brimming with ineptly catalogued artifacts, Roger's studio is where these objects lay dormant, waiting to be given new life. Nothing is safe or sacred - his entire studio/home and even his garden have become a large environmental assemblage. Through this display, one can imagine what it's like to be in Roger's world.

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

Event

Craft Awards 2013
Bringing you the contemporary edge on craft practice

Every year award recipients are honoured with a special event - the Craft Awards Ceremony - a night dedicated to makers and objects, and to celebrating the very best of contemporary craft. Recipients of both awards by application and awards by nomination will be announced.

Please join us in finding out who the 2013 award winners will be, and celebrating their accomplishments!

Craft Awards Ceremony 

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 7:30pm
Edward Day Gallery
952 Queen St W, Toronto
Refreshments will be served with a cash bar
Dress: Business/formal

We couldn't make this program possible without the generous support of so many donors, and we'd like to extend our deepest thanks to the following organizations and people: RBC Royal Bank, the OCC Volunteer Committee, the One of a Kind Spring Show & Sale, Kingcrafts, The Pottery Supply House, Tuckers Pottery Supplies Ltd., the Women's Association of the Mining Industry of Canada, A & M Wood Specialty Inc., Lacy and Co. Ltd, and the Copeland, Walker, Gregor, Yung, McPherson, Robertson and Diamond Butts families.

For more information about the Craft Awards program and Ceremony, please contact awards@craft.on.ca, or 416-925-4222 x 225.

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The Power Plant presents more great programs in August, including performances by artists, writers and curators in Toronto

Book Club
Wednesday, 7 August, 7 PM
FREE Members, $10 Non-Members
A group of local conceptual artists, writers, curators, and others interested in artists' books have gathered as "Book Club." Members include Bill Clarke, Dave Dyment, Wendy Gomoll, Michael Klein, Micah Lexier, Derek McCormack, Roula Partheniou, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Derek Sullivan, and Paul Van Kooy, and they will hold their second public gathering in conjunction with the exhibition Postscript. More info

Poetry Salon
P.P.S: Do You Copy?
Thursday, 8 August, 7:30 PM
FREE
A cash bar will be available
Five accomplished Toronto-based writers will perform their own conceptual poetic texts in response to works they each have selected from the exhibition Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. Gary Barwin, Sonja Greckol, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jenny Sampirisi and Adam Seelig are Canadian writers whose compositional innovation and post-lyric stance situate them within the larger conceptual writing movements celebrated by this exhibition. Springboarding from works in Postscript as source material, these poets will create a lively dialogue that copies lavishly, compromises originality, steals associations, reroutes meaning, and translates through local interpretations. Moderated by Margaret Christakos, the readings will take place in the galleries alongside of selected works, and will include audience discussion. More info

Power Kids: I Wear My Heart on My Sleeve
Sunday, 11 August, 3-5 PM,
FREE – call 416.973.4949 to reserve a spot
For children ages 8-12 and their younger siblings and adult companions.
Connecting to ideas of the body and theatricality as presented by artist Jimmy Robert in the current exhibition Draw the Line, participants will explore their own identity by making wearable self-portraits. More info

Power Tours
Saturdays, 4 PM, FREE
Learn more about contemporary art and the current exhibitions on a free, interactive guided tour led by gallery attendants.
More info

Sunday Scene Tours
Sundays, 2 PM, FREE
Speakers from the world of art and beyond offer their responses to the current exhibitions. Whether focusing on a single work, a specific artist or on multiple exhibitions, guest presenters draw provocative connections between our programs and broader cultural and intellectual debates. More info

Continuing Exhibitions

JIMMY ROBERT: DRAW THE LINE
On view through 2 September 2013

The Power Plant is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by French artist Jimmy Robert. Robert's practice typically explores the corporeal potential of a range of media including photography, drawing, film, video, sculpture, and performance. In his first Canadian solo exhibition, Robert addresses questions of limits: of his body, of the media he uses, of our understanding of exhibitions, and the various disciplines his work encompasses. At the centre of Draw the Line is a commissioned performance project that takes place within this installation of new and past work.

Movement is evoked in every sense of Draw the Line: in the works we see, in the performing body and in the exhibition framework. Above all else, Draw the Line is an attempt to rethink the limitations of an exhibition, challenging viewer expectations as it unfolds and transforms over time. More info

Curated by Julia Paoli, Assistant Curator, The Power Plant
In partnership with the Consulate General of France in Toronto with support from the
Institut Français as part of Paris-Toronto
Supported by Air France


POSTSCRIPT: WRITING AFTER CONCEPTUAL ART
on view through 2 September 2013

Participating Artists: Mark Amerika & Chad Mossholder, Carl Andre, Fiona Banner, Erica Baum, Derek Beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Jen Bervin, Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw, Christian Bök, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Büchler, Luis Camnitzer, Ricardo Cuevas, Tim Davis & Robert Fitterman, Monica de la Torre, Craig Dworkin, Tim Etchells, Ryan Gander, Michelle Gay, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dan Graham, Alexandra Grant, James Hoff, Bill Kennedy & Darren Wershler, Seth Kim-Cohen, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Tan Lin, Gareth Long, Michael Maranda, Helen Mirra, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, João Onofre, Michalis Pichler, Paolo Piscitelli, Vanessa Place, Kristina Lee Podesva, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Joe Scanlan, Dexter Sinister, Frances Stark, Joel Swanson, Nick Thurston, Triple Canopy, Andy Warhol, Eric Zboya

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art is a group exhibition featuring the work of more than fifty Canadian and international artists and writers. It is the first exhibition to examine the work of conceptual writing, investigating the roots of the movement in the art of the 1960s and 70s and presenting contemporary examples of text-based art practices. The Power Plant brings Postscript to the gallery to explore the place of language within contemporary art and broadly examine its relationship to history. More info

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
Co-curated by Nora Burnett Abrams and Andrea Andersson.
Sponsored in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Support for the exhibition provided by the 2013 Power Players Program: BMO Financial Group, Manulife Financial, Rogers and TD Bank

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ALL YEAR, ALL FREE: BMO Financial Group
Power Players: BMO Financial Group, Manulife Financial, Rogers, and TD Bank
2013 Power Kids Sponsor: Hal Jackman Foundation
Major Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council


GALLERY ADMISSION:
ALL YEAR, ALL FREE thanks to the support of BMO Financial Group

NEW GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday to Wednesday 10 AM – 6 PM
Thursday - Saturday 10 AM – 8 PM
Sunday 10 AM – 6 PM
Open holiday Mondays

Media Contact: Robin Boyko, +1.416.973.4927, rboyko@thepowerplant.org

The Power Plant
231 Queens Quay West
Toronto, ON Canada M5J 2G8
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Image: Christian Bök, Protein 13, 2012. Plastic components. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid.

Concordia University's FOFA Gallery presents:

FREE | TRADE



Free | Trade is a curatorial project by Tina Carlisi, Joshua Fourney, Eli Kerr, Katerina Lagassé. At the project's conceptual basis, three distinct spaces are created to reflect the geo-positioning of the FOFA Gallery's location in Montréal's downtown shopping district. The FOFA Gallery courtyard is turned into an open-air café with Dispatch Coffee along with a weekly public access cinema space while the interior of the gallery is an installation with invited artists titled General Public, which borrows methods of presentation from the surrounding retail environment.

Within this context, the gallery transforms into distinct spaces that nuance cultural and economic capital codes and expectations. By creating these distinctions, the project draws from and disrupts the function of networks and art in raw capitalist structures by momentarily, at random times of the project, replacing monetary transactions with a system based in gift economy.^[1]

The constant slippage between object-based and conceptual or experiential artwork is a point of consideration in our thinking about the shift in labour trends from object driven production labour to service driven labour. The project both borrows from modes of outsourcing and inclusion, from social and economic exchange, and responds to the possibilities that emerge from experiments in capital structures and the intersections between them. Free | Trade surveys the tension between the social economies of both the interior and exterior public spaces surrounding the gallery.

OPEN AIR CAFÉ: DISPATCH COFFEE

The FOFA Gallery courtyard will become a temporary café in collaboration with Chrissy Durcak from Dispatch Coffee. This collaboration explicitly negotiates the bureaucratic policies of private and public spaces that influence the movement of nomadic commerce practices. It also parallels the first summer of Montréal's pilot food truck project, which dismantles the sixty-year ban on street food resulting in multiple conversations about the politics of exclusion.

Hours of operation:
August 5th - 18th         | 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
August 8th & 15th        | 7:00 am - 10:00 pm

PUBLIC ACCESS CINEMA : WEEKLY OUTDOOR SCREENING SERIES

On Thursday evenings, the courtyard will become an outdoor public cinema space featuring one-hour National Film Board film screenings. The screening series provides thematic frameworks for considering the intersections between labour, art and place.

Screening Information:
In the FOFA Gallery's Ste-Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtyard*

A reception follows each screening at 10:00 p.m.
*In case of rain, the screening will take place in the York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605.

GALLERY : GENERAL PUBLIC

General Public, is an installation within the interior of the gallery displaying invited artists works: Julien Ceccaldi, Charmant et Courtois [Alexis Coutu-Marion, Mathieu Dionne and Florian Pétigny], Julian Garcia, Matt Goerzen, Brad Tinmouth, and Brad Troemel. In this context, the selected works formally and materially respond to, interfere with, and move between systems of value.

Opening hours:
August 5th - 18th         | 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
August 8th & 15th        | 7:00 am - 10:00 pm

^[1]"In a gift economy, there is no concept of value-based exchange, only reciprocity-based exchange... In a capital economy and overarching system of absolute value (monetary systems) is assumed so that exchanges have no leftover relations when they are finished. The transaction is over, and you can move on to the next one. In a gift economy, transactions are never really over because each one produces more reciprocal ties." Purves, Ted. Ed. What We Want Is Free: Generosity And Exchange In Recent Art. Albany: New York State University Press, 2005. 43.


YORK CORRIDOR VITRINES : MARCELINO BARSI : WUNDERKAMMERJAMMER


Opening hours:
August 5th - 18th        | 7:00 am - 7:00 pm

Marcelino Barsi will install himself within the York Corridor Vitrines of the FOFA Gallery. His project is to interact with objects of the everyday, from chip bags to coffee lids, and through a process of material manipulation, augmentation, as well as de and re-contextualization, he renders the detritus of consumer culture into art objects and experience. His mode of production intersects the traditions of "found object" and arte povera and produces situations of equal parts humour and poetry. Situated in the liminal space between the FREE | TRADE exhibition and the main corridor of the university, Barsi's actions and objects are infused by the interior activities of the gallery while equally influencing the potential reception and interpretation of the works within. This cross-pollination acknowledges the affect and effect of spaces public and private and the complexity of architectural codification. His presence within the vitrine asserts the role of the user in the space, in this case, an artist engaged in production.

Where:
FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine Street West, EV 1.715
Montreal, Quebec (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.

Information:
fofagallery.concordia.ca

gallerywest presents:


TEXTING


August 2 - 28, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, August 2 from 7-11 pm


Inspired by the various uses of language and symbol, Timeanddesire produces text-based art that aims to highlight the psychological, philosophical and poetic.

This body of work focuses on the relationship between language and cognition. Language contributes significantly in shaping how we perceive the world. Accordingly, much of this work can be seen as an attempt to utilize this conceptual framework to adjust and direct the ideology of the observer.

Furthermore, Timeanddesire explores text as a visual object — paying close attention to the medium — at times creating a meaningful relationship between the medium and the text itself.

Also part of the exhibition TEXTING Timeanddesire has invited collaboration with Pascal Paquette and a highlighted piece by Stephanie Rond.

Bios:

Timeanddesire is a pseudonym was created originally for outdoor work done independently and now collaboratively by St Marie and Walker. Denise St Marie has practiced her iconographic/text-based style for over a decade. She has created street art interventions in places such as Chicago, Las Vegas, Japan, China, across the Canadian Prairies, Victoria BC, Windsor and Toronto. She graduated from the University of Victoria attaining a BFA.

Timothy Walker views Conceptual Art as experience, play, and insight into the human condition. His practice is a means of exploring emerging philosophical notions and issues within our contemporary society. He is a graduate from the University of Toronto where he specialized in Philosophy.

Together Timeanddesire has been featured in various outdoor showings including Art of the Danforth 2012, PARK(ing) DAY Mississauga 2012 and a large scale installation at Yonge & Dundas Square for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012.

Pascal Paquette has spent the last decade exploring the contemporary art scene, while expanding on his graffiti-writing practice under the pseudonym Mon Petit Chou. In his work, he examines the various cultural transformations that occur when economic, social or cultural realities collide. He works primarily as a painter, but also employs street art, graffiti and photography in projects that are often site-specific or location-dependent. Most recently, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto, and at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto. His work has been exhibited and commissioned internationally. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Stephanie Rond was born in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School and went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University in 1997. Recently, the Columbus Dispatch deemed her work as comprising one of the best art shows of 2012, and the Columbus Alive tapped her as a Person to Watch 2012. You may have most recently read about Stephanie's artwork in Bitch magazine. When she grows up, she'd like to be a crossword puzzle guru and a domestic cat herder.

Denise St Marie would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support of her work:

gallerywest
1172 Queen Street West,
Toronto, ON M6J 1J5
416-913-7116
info@gallerywest.info

Erika Dueck
The Ephemeral Mind (detail), 2013
mixed media

Fresh Paint / New Construction– 9th edition
39 artists | 130 works | 10 universities

Art Mûr
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Montreal, Quebec
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Until Saturday, August 31, 2013

Art Mûr's ninth annual summer group exhibition Fresh Paint / New Construction presents the latest trends in painting, sculpture and installation from students working towards their Bachelor's or Master's degree in Canada. This year, we are bringing together 130 recent artworks from thirty-nine emerging artists selected by professors from some of the best universities in the country including: Emily Carr University of Art + Design, University of Manitoba, University of Western Ontario, University of Waterloo, York University, University of Ottawa, Concordia University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Université Laval and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Every year, a significant number of participants become finalists in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and BMO Financial Group's 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition. This year, Neil Harrison and Brendan Flanagan are finalists in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Erika Dueck won the BMO Financial Group's 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition National prize and Hillary Smith was awarded a Regional Prize. Erika Dueck and Hillary Smith's work will also be exhibited this fall at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto.

Participating artists:
Eddy Hofbauer, Lynn Price, Kellen Deighton, Brigitte Lochhead, Erika Dueck, Hillary Smith, Marijana Mandusic, Patrick Klassen, Barbara Hobot, Danielle Fricke, Jared Peters, Rebecca Chin, Amanda Rhodenizer, Audrey D'Astous, Nicholas Breton, Tiffany Fehr, Neil Harrison, Nicole Clouston, Rachel Ludlow, Victoria Murawski, Ali Kramers, David Kaarsemaker, Victoria Ransom, Aidan Pontarini, Brendan Flanagan, Kevyn Deroucher, Philippe Caron Lefebvre, Blanche Louis Michaud, Cassandre Boucher, David Martineau Lachance, Frédérique Duval, Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron, Cynthia Fecteau, François Raymond, Guillaume Tardif, Sarah Booth, Annie Onyi Cheung, Conor Fagan, Thomas Seymour



François Raymond
Tylenol Art, 2013
mixed media
41 x 41 cm
edition of 10



David Kaarsemaker
Through 3, 2013
oil and charcoal on canvas
41 x 66 cm

Henna Kim: Pilgrim
Gallery M
Opening Reception: Tuesday, August 6th, 7:30~9:30pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, August 6th~ Sat., 31, 2013, Hours: Tues ~ Sat 1:00~6:00pm

Henna Kim's exhibition titled Pilgrim, held at Gallery M, located at Yonge and Steeles. The show is an exploration of the colorful and dynamic ways in which spirituality can be visually represented. Kim refers to this month-long exhibition as a visual fiesta that is both thrilling and contemplative. In her pieces she utilizes a technique of layering and dying Korean paper in order to achieve her delicate yet brilliantly coloured imagery.

Originally from South Korea, Henna Kim currently resides in Canada. She received a B.F.A. from Korea University and a M.R.E. from Knox College, University of Toronto. She has also studied Fine Arts at several universities including OCAD University in Canada. Kim's main inspiration for visual arts comes from invisible-spiritual experiences. As an artist, she wishes to gain the understanding of the viewers through her artwork by sharing the same experience of spiritual sensation that she encounters. She thinks of her work as the therapeutic pleasure and the spiritual comfort for viewers. Practicing artist, Kim has focused on developing a body of work and actively exhibited her artworks throughout Korea, Canada and USA.

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NAISA is proud to present a summer full of Sound Art
Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art

July 15 - August 24, 2013
15th Anniversary
Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie St) & on Toronto Island

www.soundtravels.ca

Workshop Intensive Pass $175 / Symposium/Performance Pass $70/$40
Single Concerts: $15/$10 / Outdoor events free / Installations Pay What You Can (recommended $5)

The 15th annual Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art will open with the NAISA Youth Summer Sound Art Camp and end with the 5th annual Sound Travels Intensive. It will also include interactive installations, performances, and the 7th annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium.

In a world that often focuses too much on the visual, Sound Travels brings about a refreshing change as it presents works by sound artists that extract compelling musicality and wordless dramas from everyday sounds often taken for granted. From this lush auditory experience, audiences author their own imaginary world in their mind's eye –Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art.

REMAINING SOUND TRAVELS PERFORMANCES

August 14 & 15, 2013, 8pm, $15/$10
August 15 & 16, 2013, 2pm, $15/$10
Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (TES) Concerts
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie St #176

This series of TES concerts include works chosen by an international jury of electroacoustic practitioners, which provide a snapshot of the latest research and exploration in sound art happening around the world.

August 16, 8pm, $15/$10
Sound Travels Concert - Places Real & Imagined part 1
Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie St #176

The first night of a two night listening journey that slips in and out of reality and imagined space. Featuring works by Francis Dhomont and Barry Truax alongside artists emerging on the international scene for a thematic evening program curated on the theme of Sonic Geography.

August 17, 8pm, $15/$10
Sound Travels Concert - Places Real & Imagined part 2
Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie St #176

The second night of a two night listening journey that slips in and out of reality and imagined space. Featuring works by Francis Dhomont and Barry Truax alongside artists emerging on the international scene for a thematic evening program curated on the theme of Sonic Geography.

August 24, 2013, 8pm, $10
Sound Travels Intensive Concert
NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252

Performances of work by artists and composers attending the Sound Travels Intensive (a series of workshops over a 5-day period).

INSTALLATIONS

Synthecycletron by Barry Prophet
between the pier and the boardwalk on Centre Island
ongoing annual interactive installation open 24/7 June 27 to Oct 15 FREE

(E)scapes: exploring the sonic relationship between body and space
An installation exhibit with works by Satoshi Morita and Hill Hiroki Kobayashi
Exhibition times: Aug 10 & 17 - 10 am to 3 pm; August 14 - 17 - 6:30 to 8 pm, PWYC
Toronto Artist Salon August 11 @ 1pm by Satoshi Morita, PWYC
The NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252

(E)scapes: exploring the sonic relationship between body and space is an exhibition featuring two interactive sound sculptures that explore the relationship of the human body to the soundscape. New Adventures in Sound Art is grateful for the support of the Japan Foundation in making this exhibition possible.

Sonic Suit (2012) by Satoshi Morita
By wearing "Sonic Suit," audible sound reaches the ears through the air, while vibrotactile sonic vibrations excite sense receptors of the skin on several locations in the upper torso. Sonic Suit provides audiences with a heightened physical perception of the everyday world. On August 11th, Satoshi Morita discusses his work Sonic Suit that is on exhibition at the NAISA Space and introduces audiences to his unique work using tactile sound.

Tele Echo Tube (2011) by Hill Hiroki Kobayashi
Tele Echo Tube is a speaking tube installation that vocally interacts with a remote forest through a networked remote-controlled speaker and microphone through the slightly vibrating lamp-shade like interface. On the first day of the Sound Travels Intensive, Hill Hiroki Kobayashi will give a guest lecture about his work Tele Echo Tube and insight into the technological methods used in it and his other works.

SOUND TRAVELS INTENSIVE / TES SYMPOSIUM

7th Annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
(includes concerts on Aug 14, 15 & 16)
Aug 14-17 @ Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie #176, $70/$40

The Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, presented by New Adventures in Sound Art and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, includes a selection of refereed papers and presentations and concerts as well as a keynote lecture by Francis Dhomont. The proceedings will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC's online journal, eContact!. For more information, go to http://www.naisa.ca/soundtravels/symposium.html.

5th annual SOUND TRAVELS INTENSIVE (5-day series of workshops)
for Sound & Media Artists
August 20-24, 2013, $175, 9am - 7pm daily with an 8pm concert on August 24
@ NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252

Pre-registration required - go to https://www.naisa.ca/eshops/eintensive.php
For more information go to http://www.naisa.ca/soundtravels/intensive.html

The Sound Travels Intensive is an opportunity for artists of all disciplines to realize new work, exchange ideas with others, and hone their skills in diverse aspects of sound and media practice. Five intense days of workshop sessions, private instruction and creative activity culminate in a public concert presentation. This year's Intensive features masterclasses by world renowned composers Francis Dhomont and Barry Truax, alongside core workshops in audio production (Darren Copeland), interactive audio & MaxMSP (David Ogborn), and DIY electronics (Ian Jarvis). Participants must apply by Friday July 5 at 12 pm Toronto time to be eligible for a limited number of scholarships.

New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. NAISA is partially funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the SOCAN Foundation.

Media Inquiries: Mike Postma info@naisa.ca
Festival information: www.naisa.ca/soundtravels

Inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7
416 652 5115; naisa@naisa.ca

THE MIRACLE OF FLIGHT– etchings and paintings by RUDOLF KURZ

AUGUST 1 – 31, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION
THURS AUGUST 8, 6-9 PM

This exhibition of well established master etcher and surrealist painter Rudolf Kurz presents images that depict birds, insects, wings, feathers or just the act of flying: the evolution of birds from dinosaurs – snails with wings – a hot air balloon – a parachute carrying an embryo – the artist himself, thirty years ago, when he still had feathers...

Rudolf works with a delicate touch and a macabre sense of humour. His small, exquisitely detailed prints and offbeat, elegant paintings are inspired by surrealism and the art of Medieval and Renaissance Northern Europe. This is his fifth solo exhibition.

He is also known as a muralist and as an author and illustrator of books for children and adults. Looking for Snails on a Sunday Afternoon, a monograph of his etchings, was short listed for best book design from all over the world 2006 at the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs.

Originally trained as a medical doctor in his native Germany, Rudolf later studied painting at the Art Student's League in New York. After travelling extensively in Europe and South East Asia he emigrated to Canada thirty years ago. Rudolf and his wife Catherine now divide their time between Toronto and the village of MacTier in the Muskokas.

The artist will attend the opening.

For more information please see:
www.gravenfeather.ca
www.rudolfkurz.etsy.com

This exhibition is supported by the Ontario Arts Council.

For images and interviews please contact Erin Candela at 416.858.4401.




GRAVEN FEATHER GALLERY
906 QUEEN ST. W., TORONTO
AT QUEEN AND CRAWFORD
OPEN THURS, FRI, SAT 12-7

Left image: Thea Yabut, A Form of Extension (detail), April 2013, 213 x 140 cm, graphite, chalk pastel, charcoal, pencil crayon, paper, photo: Brad Isaacs
Right image: Giles Whitaker, Structural Breakdown 2013, installation with computer-controlled, audio-synthesis devices in found electrical boxes (image courtesy of the artist)

Thea Yabut: Lines of Necessity / Giles Whitaker: Listening Space
August 16 to September 14, 2013
Closing Reception: Thursday September 12 at 8 P.M.

Thea Yabut: Lines of Necessity explores the complexity of identity through drawing. Delicate webs of intersecting lines, fluid passages of pale colours and swathes of graphite marks push abstract drawing in unexpected directions. Yabut expands drawing's vocabulary by making her own tools and devising new methods of application. She drags, scratches folds, cuts, erases, pins and scores her drawings to reveal the physical act of their construction while maintaining a cohesive compositional integrity.

These large, exquisitely-rendered works evoke the varied ways in which the artist relates to the contingency of fluctuating social realities. Historically an ephemeral practice most often associated with preparatory sketches for other media, Yabut exploits drawing's tradition of marginality and its limitless dimensions and modalities to embody the complex, intersectionality of her experience as a Chinese Filipino Canadian woman.

Yabut holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design. She has exhibited at ArtLab in London, Ontario and The Marion Nicoll Gallery in Calgary. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Calgary and TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary, and at Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate within the Department of Visual Arts at Western University.

Giles Whitaker: Listening Space uses sound recordings, video and software to examine the politics of public and institutional space. Whitaker's computer-controlled, sound-generating devices confound and engage unsuspecting audiences, whether installed in the gallery or on the street. Due to the unprepossessing, easily overlooked physical presence of the work, sound is the key element of these site-specific installations. Sound's anarchic nature: its ability to define, yet infiltrate and overflow a given space, is critical to the artist's practice.

With his piece Structural Breakdown 2013, installed on a major commercial street in downtown London (pictured), Whitaker becomes the fourth annual McIntosh Artist in the Community. Previous installations by artists Lea Bucknell, Kyla Brown and Jeremy Jeresky have engaged audiences in various London neighbourhoods with thought provoking, participatory projects. We thank the City of London Culture Office for facilitating Whitaker's public installation.

Whitaker trained and worked as a scientist before completing a fine arts degree in 2007 at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has exhibited in New Zealand and Canada, and his videos are held in the New Zealand Film Archive. He is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate within the Department of Visual Arts at Western University.

Meet the exhibiting artists and other Department of Visual Arts graduate students at the closing reception, Thursday, September 12th at 8:00 P.M. For more information, contact James Patten at jpatten2@uwo.ca or call 519 661-2111 ext. 84602




McIntosh Gallery
1151 Richmond Street
London, ON
N6A 3K7
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TORONTO ART EXPO - April 10th to 13th 2014

The Toronto Art Expo returns for its 12th year to the foremost venue for art in Toronto, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre - style and elegance. This is a show that art connoisseurs anticipate all year. It brings the best in Canadian and international art from both juried and invited artists and galleries presenting the world's leading-edge art forms. On top of the most intense promotional campaign of any art exhibition we bring to the Expo the business of art by sponsoring major international art galleries and houses to attend and contribute to this fair's reputation as one of the major art trade destinations in North America. New this year will be features that are expressly highlighting Glass art and also the Art of Design, functional art as fine art, the spring locale for this in North America. Check website, go to Participate and Application for deadlines at current pricing.

Website info: www.torontoartexpo.com
Contact: info@torontoartexpo.com
Tel: 416 265-6988
Toll-free: 1 866 228-4238

Image: Joi T. Arcand, Through That Which is Scene (detail) 2012; installation
Photo by D. Barbour

The Dunlop Art Gallery presents:

Joi T. Arcand: Through That Which is Scene
Curated by Blair Fornwald

August 17 to October 17, 2013
Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, August 17 at 1:00 pm

Through That Which is Scene is a solo exhibition by Joi T. Arcand, bringing together select projects produced by the artist over the past decade. In this work, Arcand reframes photographs of herself, her family, and her home community of Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, poignantly addressing the potency of images and their influence on one's memory and conception of self. The earliest work, Postcard Series, features images of Arcand, her father, and her home on postcards inscribed on the reverse with anecdotes that reflect her experience as a mixed-race Cree/Métis woman. In her later work, Arcand inserts her present-day self into childhood photographs through performative restaging and digital image manipulation. In her current work, the titular Through That Which is Scene, Arcand combines cutout figures from childhood family photos with miniatures, toys, and other ephemera to construct dioramic narrative tableaux that address identity, memory, and the interstices between.

About the Artist:
Joi T. Arcand is a photo-based artist who was raised in her home community of Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan and currently resides in Saskatoon. Drawing from her family narratives, Arcand's photo work connects memory and landscape with humour and nostalgia. Her work has been published in BlackFlash Magazine and exhibited at Gallery 101 in Ottawa, the York Quay Gallery in Toronto, the Mendel Art Gallery and Paved Arts in Saskatoon, and grunt gallery in Vancouver. Arcand received her BFA with Great Distinction from the University of Saskatchewan in 2005. She was the co-founder of the Red Shift Gallery, a contemporary Aboriginal art gallery in Saskatoon and is the founder and editor of kimiwan, a quarterly publication that showcases words and art from emerging and established Indigenous, First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers and artists.




Dunlop Art Gallery
Sherwood Village Branch
Regina Public Library
6121 Rochdale Boulevard
Regina, Saskatchewan S4X 2R1

Hours:
Monday 9:30 am to 6:00 pm
Tuesday 9:30 am to 9:00 pm
Wednesday 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Thursday/Friday 9:30 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm (closed Sundays in July and August)

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, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, and Saskatchewan Lotteries.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

loop Gallery presents:




Ian McLean

Conditions

Norm Barney 

Original Aboriginal Art

August 17 - September 8, 2013
Reception: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 2-5PM

loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by member artist Ian McLean entitled Conditions and guest artist Norm Barney entitled Original Aboriginal Art.

McLean'sConditions explores relationships between social and natural worlds. The environments contain elements of the familiar but are usually imagined places. At all times, these images suggest efforts to contain, control, manipulate, or avoid circumstances of nature as evidenced in highly groomed and domesticated environments. The implied narratives usually reflect a deep-seated desire for comfort or beauty or distraction.

Based in Bright's Grove, Ontario, McLean studied at the University of Guelph and has exhibited widely at several public and commercial galleries. He is a recent recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Visual Artist Grant and his work is found in collections across Canada and internationally. Ian is represented in Toronto by loop Gallery.

Barney'sOriginal Aboriginal Art explores and subverts the stereotypes of 'Indians' as shown through tourist kitsch objects. These mixed media artworks reflect the artist's complicated relationship with his own Native heritage. This poignant, comedic, and political body of work uses bizarre combinations of antique figurines repurposed with modern materials and bright colours to give new meaning to old, but still contemporary, issues of identity.

Barney was born in Saginaw, Michigan. Presently his studio is in Petrolia, Ontario. He has been an active artist for thirty years. Since he has a background of Chippewa heritage, much of his recent work explores this side of his identity.

Please join the artists to celebrate the exhibition opening on Saturday, August 17th from 2-5 PM.

Images: Ian McLean, Guy Wire, 2013; Norm Barney, Time, 2013.

Find out more on the loop blog.

loop Thanks

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loop Members

_John Abrams . Mark Adair . Elizabeth Babyn . Gareth Bate . Yael Brotman . Kelly Cade . Lynn Campbell . Catherine Carmichael . Gary Clement . Tara Cooper . Tanya Cunnington . Elizabeth D'Agostino . Sheryl Dudley . Larry Eisenstein . Martha Eleen . Eric Farache . Adrian Fish . Maria Gabankova . Candida Girling . Sandra Gregson . Charles Hackbarth . Libby Hague . Linda Heffernan . David Holt . John Ide . Sung Ja Kim . Jenn Law . JJ Lee . Jane LowBeer . Ian McLean . Suzanne Nacha . Mary Catherine Newcomb . Ester Pugliese . Barbara Rehus . Rochelle Rubinstein . Richard Sewell . Lanny Shereck . Sandra Smirle . Kim Stanford . Adrienne Trent_

loop Gallery
1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1X8 (3 doors west of Dovercourt).
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 12 to 5 pm and Sun 1 to 4pm.
Artist is in attendance on Sundays and for the reception.
For more information please contact the gallery director at (416) 516-2581 or loopgallery@primus.ca. Website: www.loopgallery.ca

Blog: http://loopgallery.blogspot.com/

Alcor + Mizar, Ink, 2013

Alcor + Mizar, Meichen Waxer
August 16 - 29
Opening August 15th 6pm - 10pm

Alcor + Mizar, Waxer's premiere solo exhibition, presents a series of large scale ink and oil works that explore pivotal moments of transformation. Through investigations of pan-cultural mythology, astronomy and proto-scientific practices, Waxer conflates stark graphic imagery, abstracted forms, and ornate floral pattern to create uncanny relationships that invite you to reflect on ideas of power and these decisive transformative moments.

The development of Alcor + Mizar began while Meichen was a resident at Treignac Projet in Treignac, France where she spent time researching and developing her ink on paper works. Director at Treignac Projet, Sam Basu says, "Her joining of geometric and floral motifs conflates the worlds of early astrological research, modernist or progressive social ambition and a community of those who have been excluded. Siting secret female societies and the unsanctioned wisdom of vernacular and folk life, Meichen Waxer's references range from Indian mythology to alchemical lore... setting the tone for elaborating an esoteric space."

By invoking the lore of potent women who are faced with external forces of mediation and control, such as Circe, Kali and the Pleiades, Waxer unfurls graphic meditations on myths that are both universal and highly personal. She says, "As I am drawn to these grand tales of power struggle, I reflect on my own dynamic, [and] reduce my personal imagery to a series of shapes and distances."

Meichen Waxer is a graduate of OCAD University with a major in photography and is a recipient of the Toronto Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant. She is currently Toronto based, but has spent time developing her practice in Montreal and over the course of two international residencies. For more of Meichen's work, visit www.meichenwaxer.com
and her blog, and Facebook.

A limited edition of prints will be available over the course of the exhibition.

Press Contact: Mila Volpe, 416-450-0160, milavolpe@gmail.com

Milk Glass Gallery
1247 Dundas Street W. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
416.536.MILK(6455)
www.milkglassco.com

Valkyrie, Ink, 2012



Distance Between, Ink and Oil, 2013

Home Away From Home
M9 Contemporary Art Centre's
Annual Art Exhibition

Artists: Michael Davey, Delwyn Higgens
August 17th - September 2nd

The cottage. Top summer destination for Canadians. Why?  Escaping the city, hanging out with friends and family, water, woods and wildlife --  we know.  But what don't we know about this drive to leave home for another place that we temporarily call home?  From here to there.  What does that look like and what happens once we arrive?  This exhibition explores the home away from home as a destination mediated by needs and habits as much as cultural imperatives, a seasonal migration inevitably modelled on the bird, insect and other animal-like behaviours that are so much in evidence in the home away from home.

M9 Contemporary Art Centre
Dyers Bay, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
Hours 11- 5 Saturday - Monday
Or by appointment
Contact: delwynh@rogers.com to book a viewing time and for more information