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  • Gallery 44 | Call for Submissions

    Gallery 44 installation views of works by Nathan Cyprys, Marc Audette, Emmanuelle Léonard

    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

    Gallery 44 | Call for Submissions from Artists and Curators

    Deadline: October 1st, 2012     

    Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi faceted and ever-changing art form.

    We encourage the submission of exhibition proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists and curators who are innovative in their use of materials and approach to subject matter.

    Gallery 44 views photography within the larger context of contemporary artistic practices and relevant cultural issues in today’s society.

    Submission Guidelines:

    Please submit the following items 1. through 5. on a disk by mail or by email as a zipped folder to submissions@gallery44.org (mailto:submissions@gallery44.org) (images as jpegs, video as .mov and documents as PDFs):

    1. 10-12 images (both single image views and installation views) representing a recent body of work or a specific project. Images should be jpeg files no more than 1024 pixels wide. Please do not send original work and do not use CD sticker labels.

    2. An image list indicating artist name, title, medium, dimensions in inches and year, as a PDF file.

    3. An artist’s statement, curatorial statement, or other written description, as a PDF file.

    4. A physical description of the proposed exhibition, including the number of works, the space required, equipment needed and/or provided, and any unusual installation requirements, as a PDF file.

    5. A curriculum vitae, resume or biography of the artist(s) and/or curator (including all artists if it is a curated exhibition), as a PDF file. And any other supporting material you would like to include (web links, reviews, catalogues, etc.) 6. A self-addressed envelope (SASE) with sufficient return postage for mailed submissions.

    Without an SASE we will not return submission packages and will dispose of submission materials appropriately.

    Please note:

    ·  Gallery 44 welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with other arts and community organizations.

    ·  Gallery 44 gives priority to works that have not been exhibited in Toronto.

    ·  Gallery 44 handles all material with care; however we cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage of materials.

    ·  Late or incomplete submissions will not be accepted.  Please clearly label your envelope/email as “G44 annual call submission”.

    ·  Due to the volume of submissions we receive please allow 4 to 6 months to receive a response.

    ·  Selected artists are paid in accordance with the CARFAC Fee Schedule.

    Visit www.gallery44.org/submissions (http://www.gallery44.org/submissions) for a floor plan of the gallery and further info.
    Contact for submissions: Alice Dixon, Head of Exhibitions and Publications alice@gallery44.org (mailto:alice@gallery44.org) or 416.979.3941

  • Charlie Katz – a memorial exhibition

    Untitled, 1998, oil and marble dust on canvas, 43 x 54 inches

    July 20 – August 11, 2012
    Opening Reception: Friday, July 20, 6 – 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 a concise survey exhibition of paintings by Charlie Katz (1956-2008) in aid of the newly-established Charlie Katz Painting & Drawing Fund at OCAD University.”Charlie grew up in Toronto and in the early 1970s attended Forest Hill Junior High and Northern Secondary schools before going to OCA in 1976 to study painting. He moved to New York City’s lower east side and from 1978 to 1980 studied at OCA’s New York City campus. Charlie returned to Toronto and lived and worked in a warehouse at Bathurst St and Richmond St West. He managed the property on a part time basis and we met when I moved into the building in the summer of 1981. We remained friends throughout the years until he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in January 2008. Charlie is remembered for his optimism and great sense of humour, his selflessness and sense of community.” Paul Petro, June 2012″In 1992 Charles was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia and his prognosis was not good. After two rounds of very difficult chemotherapy Charles decided to “break the context” and abandon traditional medicine and feel alternative Chinese and Vedic therapies and in some cases eccentric and strange brews. Much to the amazement of his physicians, the cancer went into remission. Charles turned this experience around, became part of the vanguard and spent years studying alternative medicines including cranialsacral therapy. As well as being a healing practitioner, Charles spent countless hours working with cancer and AIDS patients at Toronto’s Wellness Centre. He continued to paint while working as a healer” from “Charles Lawrence Katz: Paintings & Works On Paper” 2009  (Toronto: Duncannon Press), page 4.”At OCA, Charlie and I both ended up in New York City for a couple of years. He’d show me around New York because he was there first and knew the ropes. …When we came back to Toronto, we both lived at 620 Richmond Street West. We had large live-in studios and the place was crawling with artists and musicians. To make ends meet we both ended up working for the owner of the building. …We’d move Charlie’s furniture on a weekly basis and set up the place so it was functional for whatever project he was working on. I suggested that  he come with me to summer camp near Parry Sound to teach art. He agreed, and he was hired. It was his first experience teaching. It was a hoot having Charlie at camp. We really had a blast! The kids loved him. …He had a kind and giving nature. Charlie really loved life. He was a curious guy and was always up to something. He was free and joyous. He’d romp around excited by everything around him.” Alan Glicksman, 7 January 2008

  • Marie Finkelstein / Recent Works

    Pool (Buoy), 2012, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

    July 18 – August 11, 2012
    Opening Reception Wednesday, July 18, 6 – 9 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 paintings by Marie Finkelstein. We were first introduced to Marie’s work by Sadko Hadzihasanovic, an artist with our gallery and a mentor of Marie’s. During the years that we were programming thesis exhibitions and a broad range of invited artists in our Special Projects Space at 962 Queen St West (2005 – 2010) Marie exhibited there on three past occasions. In the spirit of our past Project Space ventures and in conjunction with a memorial exhibition of paintings by Toronto artist Charlie Katz, we are pleased to present Marie’s new work.

    The paintings on exhibition are from two recent series of works, Pool and On Display. In both series, she continues her interest in observing people in public spaces as she explores two iconic leisure pastimes, swimming and viewing art.

    “The Pool series explores the relationship of people to their surroundings. Here, I am interested in the ways in which people experience the familiar but foreign element of water, whether treading, swimming laps, staying afloat, or holding onto the side of the pool. The flattened surfaces of the pool deck are juxtaposed against the variegated surface of the water, providing both a visual and metaphorical anchor.
    “The paintings in the On Display series depict how visitors in museums and galleries relate to art, as well as the surrounding spaces. The flattened backgrounds create the sense that the figures are also part of the art on display. The act of viewing art, like the making of it, is a uniquely human experience – an attempt to make sense of our world. The “real life” figures gaze intently at the art as they try to understand and appreciate it. Like the people in the Pool series, they are experiencing the sensations of a different environment.” Marie Finkelstein, June 2012

    Marie Finkelstein is a Toronto-based artist who has had several solo exhibitions in Toronto and Ottawa, and has participated in numerous juried group exhibitions. She was a finalist in the 2005 Kingston Portrait Prize Competition, and appeared as one of the selected artists in the 2009 BRAVO! television series, Star Portraits. She recently completed a major commission of four paintings for Osgoode Hall Law School at York University which were presented in October 2011. Marie studied art in Montreal where she was born and raised, and in Banff, Boston and Toronto.

  • FAT CHICKS CORNER

    July 28 -August 10, 2012
    Opening reception: Saturday, July 28, 7 – 10 p.m.
    ACADIA BOOKSTORE
    The top floor of Acadia Bookstore,
    232 Queen St. East,
    Toronto, ON M5A 1S3
    T: 416.364.7638
    Hours: Mon – Sat, 11 – 6 p.m.

    Selected prints, postcards and books available in-store July 21st – August 10th.

    Ashley Lil and Allison Philp present FAT CHICKS CORNER, an exhibition of prints, books, installations and more at Acadia Bookstore, 232 Queen St. East.

    Allison and Ashley met three years ago at OCADU, since then, the two have become great friends and mutual muses. The two will be showing work made in close proximity to each other, their styles and themes constantly echoing from one to the other, producing a body of work too large for just one person.

    FAT CHICKS CORNER will be Ashley’s last showing in Toronto before her big move to England and Allison’s 23rd birthday bash, so come and celebrate the work of these creatively phat ladies once and for all!

    Acadia Bookstore has been a long-time love of Allison and Ashley, providing fantastic sources of inspiration, research, collection and vacation.

    Acadia has been providing artists, bookworms and collectors with only the finest art books, magazines, and antique prints since 1931.

  • REACH OUT for OUTREACH 2012

    Open till July 28, 2012
    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.

    REACH OUT for OUTREACH 2012

    Every year, Gallery 44’s OUTREACH program provides up to 50 under-served youth the experience to learn and produce photographs in our black and white darkroom.  This program could not be possible without the generous support of our donors! Please help us raise $5,000 for the REACH OUT for OUTREACH Campaign 2012!  We also hope you will come to the gallery to see the work produced in this year’s OUTREACH program by youth from: Eva’s Phoenix, Harmony Movement, Native Learning Centre, NIA Centre for the Arts, 519 Church St. Community Centre.  The OUTREACH exhibition is on display at G44 until July 28!

    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 of creative self-expression.
    Your donation of $25 or more can help us democratize photography!

    For more info about OUTREACH visit:  www.gallery44.org/outreach2012

    Donate now – go to charities list (Donation site is open till July 31, 2012).

  • Two Day by Abby McGuane and Mark Peckmezian

    JULY 21 – AUGUST 25, 2012
    Opening reception: Friday, July 20, 6–9 p.m.
    O’BORN CONTEMPORARY
    131 Ossington Avenue,
    Toronto, ON
    T: 416.413.9555
    E:info@oborncontemporary.com
    www.oborncontemporary.com
    Hours:Tues–Sat 11–6 p.m. or by appointment.

    O’BORN CONTEMPORARY presents: TWO DAY,
    A two-person exhibition of works by
    ABBY McGUANE and MARK PECKMEZIAN

    McGuane and Peckmezian share a critical interest in the consideration of the ordinary: McGuane’s sculpture and collage works elevate everyday household materials by suggesting the iconic. Peckmezian’s photographs of peers, plants and pets work in a similar way: Through quantity and repetition, his photographic collection transcends the subject to reach a simultaneously individual and universal perspective of daily life.

    McGuane’s photocopy transfers on fabric require a physical massaging to bond the two elements. The artist welcomes both calculated and unexpected abstractions: An incomplete portion of a transfer or a seam in the fabric fragments a man’s face and undulations in a bed sheet are exemplified through layered collage of a similar image. McGuane’s visible hand in the abstraction of masculine archetypes reclaims the authorship of idealistic imagery.

    Similarly, Peckmezian collaborates with his darkroom, allowing printing flaws and expired papers to modify his prints. He embraces the accidents and limitations analog photography presents and therefore, concedes his negatives partially to chance. Test strips, ripped edges, and dog-eared corners are anything but dogmatic and can be approached without pretention. His small photographic works form a community of images with a bond between them that is the artist’s complete devotion to his medium.

    It is necessary to also consider both artists’ works and broader practices individually. In an effort to bring the two practices together for exhibition, one must not accidentally deny the underlying gender philosophy that seems to push McGuane’s work well beyond the formal.

    Similarly, Peckmezian’s work exists within a well-established tradition of portrait and vernacular photography, which ought not be shrouded in a conversation of his subject matter. Peckmezian’s worldview is still too young to be absorbed by contemporary art theory but quickly one senses that his particular eye for the everyday is anything but conventional. Art-making practices and philosophies are too complex to be deduced to a single aspect. As curators, we invite you to use this as your starting point and challenge yourself to follow the work, wherever it might take you. Two Day, we begin in every day life.

    ABBY McGUANE received a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2010. Her practice undertakes a sculptural negotiation of pictorial concerns. In her work, found objects and images are fused with raw materials and pushed into a state of partial transformation through painterly means, blurring the distinction between image and support. McGuane is currently based in Toronto.

    MARK PECKMEZIAN is a Toronto-based artist and commercial photographer. Working within portraiture and documentary photography, Peckmezian attempts to leverage the analog-digital divide, producing work that draws into relief the enduring value of analog processes. He recently completed his BFA in Photography from Ryerson University in Toronto, and is represented for commercial work by Lisa Bonnici in Canada, and Webber Represents in the US and Europe.

  • ‘…Decades….’ a group show

    Christian McLeod, The Getaway Car, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

    July 10 – August 19, 2012
    LA PARETE GALLERY
    1086 Bathurst
    Toronto, ON M5R 3G9
    T: 416. 533.8292

    La Parete Gallery – Canadian Abstract Art & Custom Framing


    info@laparetegallery.com
    Hours: Mon-Sat 10-6 p.m.

    Showcasing works by:

    Carl Beam

    Richard Gorman

    Gerson Iskowitz

    Christian McLeod

    William Ronald

    Rolph Scarlett

    Arthur Shilling

    Ronan Walsh

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    http://laparetegallery.com/ info@laparetegallery.com

  • MIA Gallery’s “Collectors’ Nights”

    Friday, July 20, 2012, 7 – 9 p.m.
    MUSEUM OF INUIT ART GALLERY
    207 Queens Quay West,
    Toronto, ON M5J 1A7
    T: 416.603.7591
    E: info@miagallery.ca

    Here at the Museum of Inuit Art Gallery, down by Toronto’s harbourfront, we are launching a new series of events called “Collectors’ Nights.” The first one is on Friday July 20th from 7-9pm.

    The Director of Education will give a private tour of the museum followed by a special talk with the Gallery Director on collecting contemporary Inuit art. Then guests are served Canadian wines and hors d’oeuvres.

    When: Friday evenings, 7-9 p.m.

    Where: Museum of Inuit Art Gallery, home of the Global Inuit Art Project, 207 Queens Quay West, Toronto

    Tickets: $10/person

    Registration: Go to http://miagallerycollectorsnight.eventbrite.com, click the event date you would like to attend, pay using Paypal (includes credit cards)

    Contact: info@miagallery.ca or 416-603-7591

     

  • The Paper Show

    Gerald Gladstone, Untitled drawing, marker on paper, 6″ x 4″

    July 14 – August 26, 2012
    Opening reception:Saturday, July 14, 4–8 p.m.
    FRAN HILL GALLERY
    285 Rushton Road
    Toronto, ON, M6C 2X5
    Tel: 416.363.1333
    E: franhillgallery@bellnet.ca
    Hours: Fri–Sun 11–6 p.m. or by appointment

    The Paper Show is a trove of new, archival, and secondary market works on paper.

    Features literally hundreds of small drawings from the Estate of Gerald Gladstone.

    Artists represented include:

    Steve Armstrong
    Robert Chandler
    Tien Chang
    Tim Deverell
    Clive d’Oliviera
    Michael Gerry
    Imre Hajagos
    John Howlin
    Inez
    Gershon Iskowitz
    Christopher Kier
    Jennifer Linton
    Adam Lodzinski
    Barbara McGivern
    Wayne Moore
    Robert McNealy
    Robert Nowacki
    Jessie Oonark
    Steve Rockwell
    Leon Rooke
    Rochelle Rubinstein
    John Scott
    Blair Sharpe
    Peter Templeman
    Erin Torell
    Michael Warren-Darley
    Y.M. Whelan

  • Paint Slam

    Paint Slam

    From left: Leon Rooke, Michael Warren-Darley and Tim Deverell in 2011

    July 14, 2012, 4–8 p.m.
    FRAN HILL GALLERY
    285 Rushton Road
    Toronto, ON, M6C 2X5
    Tel: 416.363.1333
    E: franhillgallery@bellnet.ca
    Hours: Fri–Sun 11–6 p.m. or by appointment

    Paint Slam returns to the Fran Hill Gallery for its 3rd year!

    From 4 pm to dusk on Saturday, July 14, five teams of four artists will step gladiator-style onto eight canvasses with fistfuls of brushes and the occasional pallet knife, to duke it out.

    What’s at stake? Perhaps it’s their artistic reputations, as the jibes and howls of on-lookers punctuate every slash and stab until the empire rings the final bell. Who will be painted into a corner? Who lives to paint another round?

    Works remain in the gallery till the end of August.

    Hosted by Leon Rooke.

    Music provided by Odradek

    3rd Annual Paint Slam Participants Include:

    Steve Armstrong
    Robert Bachalo
    Claude Breeze
    Kathryn Bemrose
    Tom Campbell
    Robert Chandler
    Tien Chang
    Tim Deverell
    Michael Gerry
    Clint Griffin
    Ashley Johnson
    Rosalie Lam
    Barbara McGivern
    Steve Rockwell
    Leon Rooke
    Blair Sharpe
    Lanny Shereck
    Peter Templeman
    Michael Warren-Darley
    Y. M. Whelan

  • Life Serial / An Exhibition Inspired by the TV Shows

    July 18 – 29, 2012
    Opening: Thursday, July 19, 7 – 10 p.m.
    PROPELLER CENTRE FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
    984 Queen Street West
    Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H1
    T: 416-504-7142
    E: gallery@propellerctr.com
    Hours: Wed/Sat: 12-6 pm, Sun: 12-5 pm

    Life Serial | An Exhibition Inspired by the TV Shows we all grew up with and love! |

    Featuring:

    Nicole Bazuin
    Ellen Bleiwas
    Mel Coleman
    DNA Dodds
    Philip Hare
    Cheryl Hsu
    Tai Kim
    Wendy MacMillan
    Madeline Mathews
    Pixel Dreams Team (PDT)
    Kendra Sartorelli
    Andres Vosu
    Benjamin Wieler
    Ross Winter
    Erin Zimerman

  • Rob Croxford “City & Country”

     City Girl 2

    July 15 – August 9, 2012
    Opening reception: Thursday, July 19, 7 – 9 p.m.
    HANGMAN ART GALLERY
    756 Queen Street East (east of Broadview Avenue)
    Toronto, ON M4M 1H4
    Gallery Hours: Tues – Sun, 12 – 5 p.m.
    T: 416.465.0302
    E: hangmangallery@gmail.com
    Facebook: Hang Man Gallery
    Twitter:@hangmangallery

    Hangman Art Gallery is proud to announce City & Country, works by Rob Croxford exploring the relationship between city and country by juxtaposing retro-styled imagery with urban and rural landscapes.

    Croxford’s necessity of looking to the past to help shape the future is summed up in the vintage ’poster art’ look with the sense of nostalgia done by combining collage-like techniques used with mix media for an entertaining and challenging engagement.

    “I employ humour and word play to address environmental and sociopolitical issues. By integrating comedic devises I am able to convey my ideas in a highly accessible way. I call this a ‘spoon-full of sugar’ approach to activism!” Rob Croxford

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