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  • 50th TORONTO OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITION

    Photo: Imre Hajagos

    Artist, Esther Simmond-Mac Adam winner of the Telford Penton Memorial Award in Painting Photo: Emese Krunak-Hajagos

    Artist, Clint Griffin Photo: Phil Anderson

    Artist, Amy Shackleton. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Artist, James Nye. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Artist Jane Duncan. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Artist, Ross Bonfanti, Honourable Mention in sculpture. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Artist Igor Sinitar. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Artist, Elva Hook. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Artist, Jean-Sebastien Massicotte-Rousseau, Quebec. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Lila Karim, executice director of TOAE. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Fibre Art winner Amanda McCavour’s site. Photo: Emese Krunak Hajagos

    Mike Parson’s site. Photo: Imre Hajagos

    Lex Buchanen’s display Photo: Imre Hajagos

    Photo: Emese Krunak-Hajagos

    Photo: Imre Hajagos

    Photo: Imre Hajagos

  • SURFACES:Explorations with a Threaded Needle:Robin Laws Field

     
    July 12 – 31, 2011
    Opening: July 14, 7 – 9 pm
    HANG MAN GALLERY
    756 Queen Street East (at Broadview Avenue)
    Toronto, ON M4M 1H4
    T:  416-465-0302
    Hours:  Tues to Sun 12 – 5 pm
    Surfaces: Explorations with a Threaded Needle, exploring Robin Laws Field “true love”  Fibre art, that aims to spread the awakening of spiritual pleasures.
     
    This art exhibition of 22 pieces explores the free-wheeling and combining of paint, ink, photo transfer, collage,natural and synthetic fibres, paint sticks, ribbons, foil, beads and all manner of found objects – the whole held together by a needle and thread.
    Robin Laws Field is  a member of the Kingston Fibre Artists since 2003, SAQA (Studio Art Quilts Associates), a founding member of Art Options Kingston and Innovative Textiles Kingston/
     
    Amongst the stimulating cultural scenes in Toronto’s July, Hang Man’s SURFACES will offer a visual spiritual feast to awaken your senses.

  • This is Paradise / Installation views by Biserka Livaja

    artoronto.ca thanks BISERKA LIVAJA  for her generosity of  the following photographs

  • Contact 2011-Figure and Ground: Deaf View Photography

    Miguel Aguayo, Dancer 1, 2011

     

    Figure and Ground: Deaf View Photography

    May 17-December 31

    Distillery Historic District – Deaf Culture Centre
    55 Mill St Bldg 5, Ste 101
    Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
    Tue – Sat 11am – 6pm
    Sun 12 – 5pm

    416.203.0343
    info@deafculturecentre.ca

  • Contact 2011-Gauri Gill: The Americans

    Gauri Gill, Kundan Singh. Yuba City, California, 2001, Courtesy the artist and Bose Pacia, New York

     

    Gauri Gill: The Americans

    May 1 – July 31
    Opening: May 1, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

    Mississauga Central Library
    301 Burnhamthorpe Rd W
    Mississauga, L5B 3Y3
    Mon – Fri 9am – 9pm
    Sat 9am – 5pm
    Sun 1 – 5pm

    info@savac.net

  • Contact 2011-Stephen Cruise: Share the Moment

    Stephen Cruise, Share the Moment (photo samples), 2011

     

    Stephen Cruise: Share the Moment

    May 5-August 28
    Opening: May 8, 2:00 – 5:00 pm

    Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Sheppard Plaza
    4400 Bathurst St
    Toronto, ON M3H 3R8
    Daily 24 hours

    416.638.1881
    kofflergallery@kofflerarts.org

  • Contact 2011-Abel Boulineau: “Where I was born…”: A Photograph, a Clue, and the Discovery of Abel Boulineau

    Abel Boulineau, Aix-les-Bains: the Hautecombe boat, Grand Port, around 1910, gelatin silver printing-out-paper, 13.3 x 17.8 cm, Anonymous gift, 2005 © 2011 Art Gallery of Ontario

     

    Abel Boulineau: “Where I was born…”:
    A Photograph, a Clue, and the
    Discovery of Abel Boulineau

    March 5–August 21

    Art Gallery of Ontario
    317 Dundas St W
    Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
    Thu – Sun 10am – 5:30pm
    Wed 10am – 8:30pm

    416.979.6648

  • Contact 2011-Josef Schulz: Sachliches and Formen

    Josef Schulz, Halle blau #4, 2007, © Josef Schulz / VG Bild-Kunst. Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

     

    Josef Schulz: Sachliches and Formen

    May 1–August 29

    Toronto Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1
    3111 Convair Dr
    Toronto, ON L5P 1B2

  • Contact 2011-Kevin Schmidt: A Sign in the Northwest Passage

    Kevin Schmidt, A Sign in the Northwest Passage, 2010, Courtesy the artist and Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

     

    Kevin Schmidt: A Sign in the Northwest Passage

    May 1–August 21

    The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, South Facade
    231 Queens Quay W
    Toronto, ON M5J 2G8
    416.973 4949
    info@thepowerplant.org

  • Contact 2011-What Isn’t There: Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky

    Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky, Isdud, 2009

     

    What Isn’t There: Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky

    May 1–August 31

    Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, courtyard
    952 Queen St W
    Toronto, ON M6J 1G8

    416.395 0067
    info@mocca.ca

  • Contact 2011-Giorgio Barrera: Battlefields 1848 – 1867

    Giorgio Barerra, Battaglia di Montebello 20 Maggio 1859, 2005, Courtesy of the artist

     

    Giorgio Barrera: Battlefields 1848 – 1867

    May 1–July 17

    Consulate General of Italy, garden
    136 Beverly St
    Toronto, ON M5T 1Y5

    416.977.1566
    ancip.toronto@esteri.it

  • Contact 2011-Edward Burtynsky: Oil

    Edward Burtynsky, Alberta Oil Sands #2, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007, photo © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier, Toronto

     

    Edward Burtynsky: Oil

    April 9–July 3
    Opening: April 30, 7–9 pm

    Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum
    100 Queen’s Park
    Toronto, ON ON M5S 2C6
    Mon – Thu 10am – 5:30pm
    Fri 10am – 8:30pm
    Sat & Sun 10am – 5:30pm

    416.586.5524
    icc@rom.on.ca

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