Author: artoronto

June 3 – July 2, 2011
Opening: Thursday, June 16, 2011 from 6-9 pm

DE LUCA FINE ARTS / GALLERY
1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1J4
T: 416-537-499
E: info@delucafinenart.com
www.corrado@delucafinart.com
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5

In occasion of the participation to the Venice Biennale’s Padiglione Italia in the World, De Luca Fine Arts / Gallery presents Vincenzo Pietropaolo in Retrospective.

The exhibitions shows over 40 years of works by Toronto based photographer Pietropaolo. His honest and poetic images move us, documenting instants of Italian immigrants’ challenging everyday life (Not Paved With Gold); telling the little-known story of Canada’s migrant workers (Harvest Pilgrims); and, more recently, capturing images and telling stories of an invisible minority whose members often live and die unacknowledged and unremembered (Invisible No More: A Photographic Chronicle of People with Intellectual Disabilities).

June 2 – 26, 2011

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“Patiently Padded into the Fog of Myth”, 2011, collage with cigar box lid, 15″x 18″ paper size
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[column width=”200px” padding=”5%”]FRAN HILL GALLERY
285 Rushton Road
Toronto, ON M6C 2X5
T: 416.363.1333
E: franhillgallery@bellnet.ca
Hours: Fri, Sat & Sun 11 – 6 or by appointment

“I summarized my work as something that may be apprehended through reading, eating, and playing. All are the themes that have grown out of an abiding fascination with a pivotal movement of Cubism,” wrote the artist. This exhibition embedded Dutch Panter cigar tins, food lids, and wine corks into essentially minimalist paintings.[/column]
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June 8 – 19, 2011
Reception: Saturday June 11 3-6pm

GALLERY 1313
1313 Queen St. West
Toronto, Ontario
T:416.536.6778 (Media Inquiries: Phil Anderson, 416.525.7688)
www.g1313.org
Hours: Wed-Sun 1-6pm

MAIN GALLERY
Where – paintings by Freddie Towe

Freddie Towe’s new abstract work is an exploration into the world of colour and shape. No story to tell, just place to go. A process of trying to connect with spirit.

CELL GALLERY
Men at Work II – photo based works by Alex Liros

This series continues the artist’s interest in relationship between men and technology.The drawings are enriched by an addition of collage elements of images pulled from the internet.

WINDOW BOX GALLERY
Video Installation by Anna May Henry

Curated by Xenia Benivolski

PROCESS GALLERY

Small Works Sale

Philip Beesley Architect Inc
June 8-18, 2011 all day

Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place
181 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5J 2T3

A visionary architectural pioneer creates a responsive landscape to infuse one of downtown’s busiest spaces with astonishing new life.

Presented by LUMINATO

June 10-11, June 13-19 at 11:00 am
David Levine (artist in residence)

Produced in association with OCAD
OCAD University, Great Hall, 2nd Floor
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1

Live theatre meets reality TV and avant-garde visual arts, as a daily drama unfolds within an installation created by Berlin-based artist David Levine.

Presented by LUMINATO

June 15-30, 2011

Produced in Association with
Toronto Pearson International Airport
Terminal 1, International Departures
3111 Convair Drive, Toronto, ON L5P 1B2

World Premiere
Bruce Mau
A photography exhibition that reaches for the sky, to portray the unexpectedly complex world above us.

Presented by LUMINATO

June 9 – July 24, 2011
Opening: Thursday June 9, 7-10pm (with the artist present)

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Reverse Glass Paintings, No. 56, 2009. Acrylic, Plexiglas, Wood, Aluminum. 180 x 150 cm (70.9” x 59.1)
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[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY
326 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416-516-4440
E: toronto@galerie-lausberrg.com
www.galerie-lausberg.com
Hours: Tues-Sun 12–6 or by appointment

Burges began working on his Reverse Glass Painting series in 2007, inspired by the shiny surface of Diasec mounting technology prevalent in contemporary photography. Burges’ non-figurative paintings can be called “lyrical” or “expressionist”, “informal” or “gestural” at the same time. Burges painting follows an almost scientific plan and development, systematically exploring the aesthetic possibilities of colour and space and their relations, as well as those of the painting to the viewer and vice versa.
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Aleksandra Mir: The Seduction of Galileo Galilei
June 18 – August 6, 2011
Opening: Saturday, June 18
Artist’s talk at 3 pm, reception 4-6pm

MERCER UNION
A Centre for Contemporary Art
1286 Bloor Street West,
Toronto, Ontario M6H 1N9
T: 416-536-2955
E: info@mercerunion.org
www.mercerunion.org
Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6

International artist Mir is interested in the specific dynamics of technologies. Her new work is inspired by Galileo Galilei’s experiments with gravity. Mir in a gravel lot will perform a gravitational feat on her own – the stacking of a single column. Mir is concerned with the space of play that opens when failure is permanent. It is an experiment for experiment’s sake, for the sheer joy of watching the tower to be built and topple over and over again.

June 16 – July 16, 2011

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Black Box, 2010. Copyright: Sarah Anne Johnson / Stephen Bulger Gallery[/column]
[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY
1026 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H6
T: 416.504.0575
E: info@bulgergallery.com
www.bulgergallery.com

During October 2009, Sarah Anne Johnson participated in an artist’s residency in the Norwegian territory of the ArcticCircle. Each of the twelve days at sea the group visited a different site on land, ranging from untouched vistas of pure landscape to abandoned mining camps. The photographs she took have become the basis for her new body of work entitled “Arctic Wonderland.” The imagery is celebratory with an ironic underside. Fireworks, confetti, cheerleaders and banners inhabit the landscape. Wonderland has the double meaning of referring to the brilliant beauty of the landscape, but also the absurdity of some of the notions of how to colonize this place.
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Alia Toor, 99 Names of Aman, 2004. Dust masks with cotton embroidered by the artist

May 18  – November  20, 2011
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA
55 Centre Avenue
Toronto, ON, M5G 2H5
T: 416.599.5321 x. 2239
E: alopes@textilemuseum.ca
www.textilemuseum.ca
Hours: daily 11-5, Wed 11-8

Artists: Jamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Alia Toor and Tim Whiten

 
Curated by Patricia Bentley

Four contemporary artists explore the relationship of patterns, communication and spirit in conversation with textiles and symbols from the Museum’s permanent collection of Islamic African artifacts. Magic squares, known all over the world as mathematical games like Sudoku and Kenken, become carriers of powerful and diverse cultural meanings when they are painted, woven or embroidered on textiles in Muslim Africa.

80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
Toronto, ON M5V 2J4
416.539.9595
info@scotiabankcontactphoto.com

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Current Exhibitions

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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
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