Author: artoronto

June 23 – July 3, 2011 Opening: Thursday, June 23, 7-9pm
GALLERY 1313
Main Gallery1313 QUEEN STREET WEST,
TORONTO, ON M6K 1K8
T: 416 – 536-6778
E mail: director@g1313.org
www.lccatoronto.com or www.g1313.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6

LCCA PRESENTS A VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION:
“BEYOND OUR ROOTS” is a Visual Arts Exhibition presented by the Latino Canadian Cultural Association that shows the fusion between the different cultures and roots of the Latin American artists involved and the influence of the multicultural society where they work and reside. The artists’ starting point is their own cultural background and experiences, going through the discovery first, and then the sharing of other cultures, to finally, develop and transform them into a new and original product. 

Curator: Alejandro Freeland

Hugo Arias

 

GALLERY 1313
Main Gallery
1313 QUEEN STREET WEST,
TORONTO, ON M6K 1K8
T: 416 – 536-6778
E mail: director@g1313.org
www.lccatoronto.com or www.g1313.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6

LCCA PRESENTS A VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION:
“BEYOND OUR ROOTS” is a Visual Arts Exhibition presented by the Latino Canadian Cultural Association that shows the fusion between the different cultures and roots of the Latin American artists involved and the influence of the multicultural society where they work and reside. The artists’ starting point is their own cultural background and experiences, going through the discovery first, and then the sharing of other cultures, to finally, develop and transform them into a new and original product.
Curator: Alejandro Freeland

June 10 – 30, 2011
Opening: June 10 5-8pm
art Works art Gallery
238 Jane Street
Toronto, ON M6S 3Z1
T: 416-766-0662
www.artworksartschool.com
Hours: Monday – Saturday 9-5pm

Ideas of these painting come from the artist’s imaginary world. First these images of houses and plants just lived in his mind then he gave them form in clay. He decided later to use them as models for his painting, mixing them with images of nature and underwater plants. Nazmi’s compositions are inspired by the Persian miniatures as well and the outcome is a unique style combining abstraction, figuration and fantasy.

(TORONTO – June 6, 2011) Michael Snow, one of Canada’s most internationally celebrated artists, is the winner of the 2011 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Canada. The AGO and the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation will commemorate the award at a reception on June 10, and next year, the AGO will host an exhibition of Snow’s work. The cash prize has been increased by $15,000 for 2011, and Snow will be the first artist to receive a $40,000 award.

Born in 1928 in Toronto, Snow has led a prodigious career, spanning eight decades and including painting, drawing, sculpture, photo works, film, video, projection, sound installation, experimental jazz, and book works. Snow’s work continues to be shown in galleries and museums around the world, including recent solo exhibitions at Le Fresnoy in France, Angels in Barcelona, and the British Film Institute in London.

“Michael Snow’s contribution to art in Canada is unparalleled,” says Matthew Teitelbaum, the MIchael and Sonja Koerner Director and CEO of the AGO. “The breadth, innovation and creative vision of his work have been consistent throughout his career. The Art Gallery of Ontario is pleased to collaborate with the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation in presenting this prize to Michael, who’s specific genius permeates each medium he interacts with.”

With 82 of Snow’s works housed at the AGO, including several of the Walking Woman Works, early drawings, sketchbooks, films, music, and sculpture, the artist and the institution share a unique history. In 1994, Snow was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition titled The Michael Snow Project, with installations at the AGO, The Power Plant and other public venues. That same year, the AGO collaborated with Alfred A. Knopf Canada to publish four books about Snow’s work.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 6-8pm

BAU-XI PHOTO
324 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416.977.0400
E: info@bau-xiphoto.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Sun 11-5:30

Join us for a special limited time viewing of Barbara Cole’s ‘Chromatics’ series. This one night only event will be recorded for a documentary on the artist for TVO and the Knowledge Network.
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Opening at Fran Hill Gallery
Thursday evening June 2, 2011

Forester Charles Kinsley, Steve Rockwell, and film maker Ben Marshall

Myra Fried speaks with Charles Kinsley

Artist Tim Deverrel, Fran Hill, and author/painter Leon Rooke

Art dealer/gallery owner Corrado de Luca and artist Peter Templeman

Kathleen Munn, Untitled (female nude in forest setting), around 1923, oil on canvas, 54.5 x 45 cm, Collection of Bernard and Sylvia Ostry, promised gift to the Art Gallery of Ontario, © 2011 Kathleen Munn Estate

June 4 – August 28, 2011
Free tour: July 17, 2pm by curator Georgiana Uhlyarik and artist David Urban
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
317 Dundas Street West,
Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
T:416-979-6648
www.ago.net
Hours: Tue & Thurs – Sun 10 – 5:30, Wed 10 – 8:30

“I am very hopeful that my art will be rediscovered again.” – Kathleen Munn, 1974

 The Passion of Kathleen Munn will features nearly 40 works by Munn, including her highly regarded Passion Series drawings, as well as paintings and prints. In addition, the exhibition will be supported by archival material from the AGO’s collection, including sketches, notebooks, diagrams, collages and a custom-made light box.
 
Born in 1887 in Toronto, Kathleen Munn was one of the first Canadian artists to embrace abstraction. Little known yet much admired by fellow artists, Munn studied in New York, and during the 1920s travelled to Europe and exhibited with the Group of Seven. Around 1939, she stopped making art due to family obligations and an unresponsive art public in Toronto. She spent the rest of her life here in relative obscurity, only to be rediscovered a decade after her death in 1974.

Curated by , assistant curator, Canadian art at the AGO, The Passion of Kathleen Munnfocuses on the artist’s work and life and is augmented by important additional loans from private collections as well as archival material. Selected works from the exhibition Kathleen Munn and Lowrie Warrener: The Logic of Nature, the Romance of Space, conceived and organized by Cassandra Getty, form the foundation of the AGO installation. That exhibition has traveled across Canada since 2008, when it first opened at the Art Gallery of Windsor (AGW).

Munn’s landmark works are widely considered to be a group of ten large ink and graphite drawings inspired by scenes from the Passion and Resurrection of Christ that together form The Passion Series. She laboured for a decade, from 1928 to 1939, to produce these intricate final drawings that represent the culmination of Munn’s artistic vision and ambition. A gallery space in the exhibition is devoted exclusively to this series.

“Kathleen Munn is extraordinary in many ways,” explains Uhlyarik. “She created art for art’s sake, was highly meticulous and methodical, and pursued a style and way of thinking about art that was yet to be acknowledged in Canada. Art for her was not a goal to be arrived at, but a way of life.”

A 177-page catalogue titled The Logic of Nature, The Romance of Space: Elements of Canadian Modernist Painting accompanies the exhibition and is published by the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. The publication includes 80 full-colour illustrations and essays by Uhlyarik and Getty, among others. It is available at shopAGO for $50.

This exhibition is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Windsor and supported by the Museum Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The AGO installation is generously supported by Gretchen and Donald Ross.

June 4 – 18, 2011
Opening: Saturday June 4, 2-4pm (with the artist present)

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David Alexander, Pop Goes The Water, acrylic on canvas, 56.5 x 65.5 in.[/column]
[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]BAU-XI GALLERY
340 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416.977.0600
E: toronto@bau-xi.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Sun 11-5:30

This new exhibition presents Alexander’s signature landscapes and water reflections. These striking water-scapes represent his significant career through a bold palette and gestural paint application over four decades.
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June 4 – 18, 2011
Opening: Saturday June 4, 2-4pm (with the artist present)

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Casey McGlynn,The Simple Things You See Are All Complicated, 2011. Mixed media on canvas, 72 x 60 in.[/column]
[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]BAU-XI GALLERY
340 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416.977.0600
E: toronto@bau-xi.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Sun 11-5:30

McGlynn’s current series is a continuation of his narrative style with his familiar cast of characters; telling stories of life, profound moments in childhood and human-animal connections.
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June 2 – 18, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday June 2, 6-8pm

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Anthony Redpath, Red Stacks, lightjet output on chromogenic print, 51 x 72 in.[/column]
[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]BAU-XI PHOTO
324 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416-977-0400
E: info@bau-xiphoto.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Sun 11-5:30

Redpath toys with themes of allusion, paradox and unexpected juxtapositions to create often darkly humorous portrayals of the human condition. The Vancouver-based artist’s new series explore the deterioration of structures and resources in contemporary coastal life through beautifully composed, crisp and resonant images.
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