Author: artoronto

September 13 – October 14, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 13, 6 – 9 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, September 15, 12 p.m.
JULIE M. GALLERY
15 Mill Street Building 37, Suite 103
Toronto ON M5A 3R6
T: 416 603 2626
E: info@juliemgallery.com
www.juliemgallery.com

The opening reception of No Way Back from 6 – 9 pm on Thursday, September 13 will feature a live metalpoint drawing performance by the artist.

No Way Back builds on a radical technique developed in 2010 by Ram Samocha in Guelph, Ontario. It will be the first solo exhibition to exclusively present Samocha’s unique three-dimensional metalpoint works. Samocha has reinvented the forgotten art of metalpoint, vigorously working on rugged sheets of rock paper until what began as two-dimensional abstract drawings distend into sculptural objects. Since moving to Brighton, England in 2011, Samocha has refined the unique skill set of metalpoint, and placed it at the heart of his drawing and video practice. He is the only artist creating sculptural metalpoint drawings in the world today. Despite the works’ singular technique and materials, they are products of continuity, experimentation and unwavering commitment—the pillars of Samocha’s innovative artistic career.

The exhibition title No Way Back refers both to the permanence of a mark once it has been made in metalpoint, and to our inability to efface or redact our actions. The present invariably slips into the past, and there it remains, no matter how much we wish we could change it. Like time, metalpoint is a demanding mistress: no mark can be erased and redrawn, no flaw can be rubbed out. Each work is a perfect archive of the artist’s creative process. Ram Samocha’s metalpoint practice investigates this trope of time further through the gradual discoloration of his works caused by oxidation. Since moving to Brighton, the gradual tonal shifts of the metalpoints have been accelerated by Britain’s legendary damp. In No Way Back, Samocha revisits imagery from his time in Ontario alongside a suite of works that directly reference the day-to-day experience of living in Britain. Patchwork fields are juxtaposed against European roundabouts and the pastoral magnificence of craggy cliffs.

Well known for his drawing performances, Ram Samocha invites reception attendees to contribute to the genesis of a metalpoint from 6 to 9 pm on Thursday, September 13th—what an ideal photo op!

3D Metalpoint Drawings Reception: Thursday, September 13, 6 – 9 p.m.

Artist Talk: Saturday, September 15, 12 p.m.

September 12 – 29, 2012
Opening: Wednesday, September 12, 7 – 9 p.m.
DE LUCA FINE ART GALLERY
217 Avenue Road
Toronto, ON, M5R 2J3
T: 416-537-4699
E: corrado@delucafineart.com
www.delucafineart.com.
Hours: Tues–Sat 11–5 p.m.

De Luca Fine Art is pleased to announce How We Roll a cohort exhibition by Harley Valentine and George Whiteside.

How We Roll is an inspired exhibition based upon the lyrical playful nature of line. Valentine presents two new sculptures that evoke the female form in abstractions of motion. Whiteside crafts his hand in a synthesized medium melting lyrical lines over analog film scans.

In exhibition the works slip into a seamless aesthetic much in the same degree to the two artists longstanding friendship.

September 26 – 30, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 29, from 7 p.m.
THE RED HEAD GALLERY
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115
Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8
T: 416.504.5654
E: art@redheadgallery.org
www.redheadgallery.org
Hours: Wed–Sat 12–5 p.m.

The Red Head Gallery invites you to participate in our annual Nuit Blanche event: Insomnia (Redux)

Nuit Blanche: Saturday, September 29, beginning at 7:00pm
Submissions Accepted: August 29 – September 21
Exhibition Dates: September 26 – 30

What is Insomnia (Redux)? The Red Head Gallery invites the public to submit two-dimensional wall items, with the opportunity to see them transformed over the course of Nuit Blanche by select local artists who will be working in the gallery itself.

What would I submit? You might submit an old photograph, a discarded painting/canvas, a page from a magazine, an unfinished drawing or found image – even a blank piece of paper…really anything that can be hung on a wall up to a maximum size of 24” x 24” that you are eager to see re-imagined by established and emerging artists working in a variety of mediums.

…And in return? In return for your submission and modest entry fee of $25, your work might be sold at a fixed price (for which you will receive all funds) or you will receive an entirely new work of art from your submission, as produced by one or more of our participating artists.

Featured Artists: Jaime Angelopoulos, Marta Chudolinska, Cameron Lee, Derrick Piens, Jennie Suddick, artists from The Red Head Gallery and other active members of the visual art community.

Curated by Donia Almassi.

To prepare a submission for Insomnia (Redux) download our submission form here http://www.redheadgallery.org/images/stories/Insomnia_Redux_Submission_Contract.pdf.

Insomnia (Redux) is generously sponsored by Above Ground Art Supplies.

For more information, please contact: Donia Almassi, Director at 416.504.5654 or art@redheadgallery.org or visit www.redheadgallery.org

Else Marie Hagen, Panorama, 2009, 123 x 254 cm chromogenic print

 

September 14 – October 13, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, September 14, 6 – 9 p.m.
GALLERY 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T: 416.979.3941
E: stu@gallery44.org
www.gallery44.org
Hours: Tue-Sat 11 – 5 p.m.

“An engagement with the materiality of the image is at work in Norwegian artist Else Marie Hagen’s photographs—the image itself is the subject of her photographs. She subverts conventions of pictorial representation through surprisingly low-tech means: sculptural presentations of images that oscillate between three dimensional and two dimensional space, compositions that challenge the distinction between the surface of the image and the pictorial space that it constructs, and images that deliberately obstruct the viewers identification with, or imaginary access to the image.”  Amish Morrell, exhibition essay writer.

Else Marie Hagen, born 1963 in Stavanger, Norway, works with photography and photography based installations. Based on a conceptual approach, Hagen’s work explores and analyzes features of today’s normative visuality. It questions the image, both the meaning that might be derived from its formal qualities and the condition of the image as it appears in a wider social context. Hagen’s work has been acquired by public and private collections in Norway such as The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Nordnorsk Art Museum, Bergen Art Museum, Preus Museum, Statoil Art Collection, Storebrand Art Collection, Nordea Norway Art Collection.

Amish Morrell is Editor of C Magazine, a quarterly journal on contemporary international art, and Special Lecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He has written for publications including Art Papers, Ciel Variable, Fuse Magazine, History of Photography and Prefix Photo. His curatorial projects include The Frontier is Here, an exhibition of works by contemporary Canadian and international artists that explore landscape and identity, and Nightwalks with Teenagers, a collaborative project to produce new artworks that investigate walking as aesthetic practice, produced by Mammalian Diving Reflex. He recently edited The Anti-Catalogue (The Model, 2010), a book on contemporary artists collectives, and is published in Byproduct: on the excess of embedded art practices (YYZBooks, 2010), edited by Marisa Jahn.

Richard Ibghy & Marliou Lemmens the murmur of the crowd Tools That Measure the Intensity of Passionate Interests

 

September 14 – October 13, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, September 14, 6 – 9 p.m.
GALLERY 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography Vitrines
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T: 416.979.3941
E: stu@gallery44.org
www.gallery44.org
Hours: Tue-Sat 11 – 5 p.m.

Tools That Measure the Intensity of Passionate Interests is a series of large format silver gelatin prints representing imaginary tools designed to produce data on a wide variety of economic phenomena. This series explores how desire and belief influence economic discourse and practice, sustain current economies, but also carry the potential for subjects to imagine and enact other economies.

This series is being compiled into a book work by the same name co-published by the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and Gallery 44 in Toronto. A second launch for the publication will take place in Toronto at Gallery 44 in September 2012.

 

 September 6 – October 6, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 4 – 8 p.m.
ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY
1267 Bloor St. W.
Toronto, ON, M6H 1N7
T: 416.289.8855
E: info@robertkananajgallery.com
www.robertkananajgallery.com
Hours: Tues–Sat 11–6 p.m.

“None of These Things” solo exhibition; Drawings by Mike Parsons

Mike Parsons’ solo exhibition at the Robert Kananaj Gallery will have complete body of work from drawings, comic books, to interactive video projection. Mike uses black and white ink drawings, comic books, street art, murals, and animation to explore the relationships between man, technology, progress, and the natural environment. He depicts the monstrous metropolis as a giant gear, sometimes invaded by towering trees, or overrun by cars, or swarms of unique and strange individuals. Mike’s work emphasizes the role of the individual and challenges consumerist ideologies.

Award winning Toronto-based artist Mike Parsons and video game programmer MichaelPeters have created a collaborative interactive video installation, a Virtual Metropolis, which promises to be an exciting feature of this year’s Nuit Blanche festival. September 29, 2012, 7 pm to 7 am, “The Virtual Metropolis”, interactive video project.

See the Mike Parsons and Robert Kananaj Gallery event page for Nuit Blanche at the following link: zone A # 28 http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1021

September 15 – 24. 2012
Opening Reception: Friday September 14, 5 – 8 p.m.
Studio 42
1444 Dupont Street
Building D, buzzer 42 (East entrance)
Hours: 2 – 6 p.m.

“I would like to invite you to the reception for the exhibition unseen/SEEN, on Friday, September 14th from 6-8P.M.

I organized this exhibition to give unseen artists the opportunity to be seen by Galleries, curators and art enthusiasts.” Dionne Simpson

This years line-up includes work by:

Sandra Brewster
Erika Defreitas
Delio Delagado
Insoon Ha
Stephen Fakiyesi
Thelia Shelton
and Dionne Simpson

There is also a catalogue accompanying the show with an article written by Sally Frater.

Artists will be in attendance!

Walks, 2011-12, lightjet prints, 36″ x 36″ (each)

September 13 – October 27, 2012
Opening Reception:Thursday, September 13, 6 – 9 p.m. Artists present
PARI NADIMI GALLERY
254 Niagara Street
Toronto, ON, M6J 2L8
T:416-591-6464
E: info@parinadimigallery.com
www.parinadimigallery.com
Hours: Wed-Sat 12-5 p.m. or by appointment

For their exhibition at Pari Nadimi Gallery, Weppler and Mahovsky present new sculptures and photographic works presented as forms of still life. These series further the artists’ larger quixotic project of representing the endless field of material culture, a task that slides from the selective depiction of things to the mechanical recording of a laborious process as it unfolds in time.

Their new series of photographs document walks the artists have undertaken in cities around the world – including Hong Kong, New York and Sydney – collecting bought and found objects. Shopping and scrounging is made analogous with street photography, and the taking of an object is equated with the taking of a picture: the impulsiveness of the artist’s choices is recast as a variant of Cartier-Bresson’s decisive moment. Each resulting collection is laid upon the floor of a hotel to be photographed as a map-cum-still life, offering a record of the area passed through. This recalls Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and the manner in which Marco Polo uses objects to describe distant cities of the Mongol empire to Kublai Kahn. Each final picture is auto-stitched from up to 60 individual overhead shots: both the gathering of the objects and the photography of the ensemble attenuate the moment of the image. The collections result from a capricious set of choices, but they nevertheless testify to what was found along each route, and as such they speak to the indeterminate way the digital image might retain a documentary sense of the world as it is.

Paired with these photographs are new wall-hanging sculptures, that are comedic representations of mesh bags full of objects, built up over time by a slathering of plaster and epoxy over thin wire and mesh armatures. The droopy materiality of these bagged still lifes is played against their reference to representational painting, in particular a tradition in still life in which objects such as powder horns and game are depicted as if hanging directly on the wall that supports the canvas itself, in trompe l’oil illusion.

Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky are San Francisco and Vancouver based collaborative artists. Exhibits include: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Power Plant (Toronto), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax) and Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo). Upcoming exhibitions include the 2012 edition of Nuit Blanche (program of curator Christina Ritchie) and the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2011 they completed a residency at Artspace in Sydney, Australia. Their work is represented in collections including the Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal and the National Gallery of Canada, and they recently completed “A False Creek” a public work commissioned by the City of Vancouver.

Nuit Blanche September 29, 2012, 7.03 p.m. to sunrise Weppler and Mahovsky’s work will be featured in Nuit Blanche curated by Christina Ritchie Art Gallery of Hamilton The Searchers August 25, 2012 – ongoing. Curated by Melissa Bennett. http ://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/ex_upcoming.php#3

 

 

Morley Shayuk “River Scene” , 2012,  oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches

 

September 7 – October 6, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 7 – 10 p.m.
PAUL PETRO CONTEMPORARY ART
980 Queen St. W.
Toronto, ON, M6J 1H1
T: 416 979 7874
E: info@paulpetro.com
www.paulpetro.com
Hours: Wed – Sat 11 – 5 p.m

With an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and sculpture, Morley Shayuk says of his new work, ” “New World” is a new body of work that employs familiar compositional devices drawn from traditions of landscape painting to invite viewers to experience unhindered states of joy. Loosely responding to notions of community, healing and re-growth, a trellis sculpture conjures images of suns, turtles and butterflies in an unabashed attempt to express a fundamental condition of peace. It seeks single moments of truth and communion with nature via landscape paintings of southern Ontario.”

Morley Shayuk is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist from Aurora, Ontario. He has exhibited paintings, drawings, sculpture and video annually with Paul Petro Contemporary Art since 2009, and most recently has published “EWW”; an artist booklet on Canadian modernist sculptor Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1903-1966) in collaboration with writer Adam Lauder. Shayuk has been featured in Hunter and Cook magazine.

For complete biographies and exhibition histories, additional images and forthcoming information about these shows please visit our web site  www.paulpetro.com.

Peter Bowyer,   still from “Space Program”, 2011, dvd running time 17:30

 

September 7 – October 6, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 7 – 10 p.m.
PAUL PETRO CONTEMPORARY ART
980 Queen St. W.
Toronto, ON, M6J 1H1
T: 416 979 7874
E: info@paulpetro.com
www.paulpetro.com
Hours: Wed – Sat 11 – 5 p.m.

Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to present new work by Toronto-based artists Peter Bowyer.

Peter Bowyer exhibits some work that the he produced in Holland last year – a galvanized steel sculpture, a video loop and a text piece that stems from his investigation into dimensional boundaries.

Peter Bowyer is a Toronto based sculptor. He holds an honors BA from Central Saint Martins and an MA from HKU in the Netherlands. Since the 1980s he has produced installations that combine drawing and sculpture, large works realized in public sites, hand drawn animated film loops, simulated furniture, and now a performative form of sculpture. His current work explores sensory aspects of the higher dimensions, particularly intra-dimensional areas, where one dimension crosses over into another. He was represented by Cold City Gallery in Toronto through the 80’s and 90’s and has had solo exhibitions at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (1995), The Toronto Sculpture Garden (2000), The Art Gallery of York University (2003), and The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (2006). “Five” is Bowyer’s fourth solo exhibition at Paul Petro Contemporary Art.

Later in the month, Peter Bowyer’s most recent sculpture “Flat Space” will be presented at Bay St and Queen St West in Toronto. Commissioned for Nuit Blanche, this work will, for one night, create an optical and physical interference zone in the downtown core.

Mixed Media work by Eddd  Kyred

 

September 5 – 16, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 7 – 10 p.m.
GALLERY 1313 Main Gallery
1313 Queen St. W.
Toronto, ON, M6K 1L8
T: 416.536.6778
E: director@g1313.org
www.g1313.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1 – 6 p.m.

NOW PLAYING

A group exhibition of artists whose work has been inspired by film and television.

Artists include:

Emma Arkell
Minhee Bae
Amanda Baron
Robert Caspary
Anne Chun
Mel Coleman
Danny Hussey
Eddd Kyred
Diane McGrath
Nikki White
and others.

Curated by Phil Anderson