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  • GALLERY HOP / TORONTO / 2012

    Gala Dinner & Auction  September 20 / Talks & Tours September 22

    Gala Dinner & Auction: Totonto’s Smart Art Party
    Thursday, September 20, 6 – 11 p.m.
    The Carlu
    444 Yonge Street, Toronto
    For more information please check http://galleryhop2012.canadianart.ca/gala/

    HOP DAY: Saturday, September 22, 2012

    MORNING: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    CONVERSATION WITH CANADIAN ART EDITOR RICHARD RHODES AND PANEL
    Cinema 4 | TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West

    Begin your Gallery Hop with a conversation featuring artists Micah Lexier, Alain Paiement and Laurel Woodcock, moderated by Canadian Art Editor Richard Rhodes. Visit this page to view more panel details.

    AFTERNOON: 1:00  – 5:00 p.m.
    FREE GALLERY TOURS AND TALKS
    Various locations across Toronto

    Engage with the art and artists of Toronto through a series of free tours and talks. Special guests and speakers include Canada’s representative at the 2013 Venice Biennale, Shary Boyle, and Toronto Star art critic Murray Whyte. Members of the Canadian Art editorial team, including Richard Rhodes, Bryne McLaughlin, Leah Sandals and David Balzer, will also be speaking across the city. Visit this page to plan your afternoon, choose a tour, several talks or a combination of both: http://galleryhop2012.canadianart.ca/hop-day/tours-talks/.

    EVENING: 5:30  – 7:30 p.m.
    MAGAZINE LAUNCH
    Diaz Contemporary, 100 Niagara Street

    End the day with fellow art lovers at the launch of Canadian Art’s fall issue. Please RSVP for the magazine launch by email to rsvp@canadianart.ca by September 17

  • 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

  • Luis Jacob “Spirits of the Grotto”

    Luis Jacob “Spirits of the Grotto”

    Offical launch: Friday, May 18, 2012, 5 – 5:30 p.m.

    Luis Jacob in front of his mural. Photo: Phil Anderson

    The official Launch of Luis Jacob s Spirits of the Grotto at the Dufferin Underpass took place May 18 5:30pm with politicans, City of Toronto councillors Gord Perks and Ana Bailao, MPP Cheri DiNovo, MP Peggy Nash and other City Official from the Culture Department.

      Zuly Jacob (Luis’ s mother), Peggy Nash (Member of Parliament), Luis Jacob and Jose Jacob, (Luis’s father). Photo: Phil Anderson

    Many interested residents and friends of Luis Jacob as well as media were also in attendance. The long awaited opening of this public art work was worth the waiting. The Dufferin Underpass is to be the envy of other areas of Toronto with underpasses.

    The “Spirits of the Grotto”, Dufferin Underpass. Photo: Luis Jacob

    Artist Luis Jacob said in his interview to artoronto.ca, “The project at the Dufferin Underpass is titled “Spirits of the Grotto”.  It consists of 34 panels that look like a series of large masks.  Each panel has two colourful “eyes”; together they look like spirits residing inside the walls of the tunnel and watching us as we make our way inside.  I imagine that some of these masks will remind people of the fabulous costumes of the Caribana parade, or the demons depicted in Tibetan silk paintings.  Some panels feature depictions of mirror balls, which remind me of places like the Beaver Café, Stone’s Place, and Wrongbar, on Queen Street West.” The read the interview please go to http://www.artoronto.ca/?p=10910.

     The “Spirits of the Grotto”, Dufferin Underpass. Photo: Luis Jacob

    Text: Phil Anderson

  • Call for Submissions

    Call for Submissions

    Online Sale & Event

    Come celebrate with us!

    Artoronto.ca is an online visual art publication started May 29, 2011. As we near our first year anniversary we have decided to have a fundraiser where art works will be on display both online and at our event venue at Fran Hill Gallery.

    Place: Fran Hill Gallery, 285 Rushton Road. Toronto
    Date: June 13 – June 24, 2012.
    Gallery hours: Friday – Sunday, 11-6 p.m.
    Opening reception: Wednesday, June 13, 6–9:30 p.m.
    Drop off: Sunday, June 10, 6–8 p.m. and Monday, June 11, 2–5 p.m.
    Pick up: Sunday, June 24, 5–8 p.m.

    We are looking for recent art works.
    Size restriction: no larger than 36 inches in width or height.
    All medium accepted. Works must be ready to hang.
    All works under $800.
    Artists will receive 50% of the asking price after the sale.

    Please contact artoronto.ca ASAP if you are interested at philanderson@rogers.com.  or at admin@artoronto.ca. Artists are asked to submit 1–3 low resolution jpeg images, a CV and a brief introduction about themselves and their work (maximum 100 words) to philanderson@rogers.com, attention Phil Anderson.

    Deadline for submission is June 3. Works will be posted online as they are accepted.
    More information is available at admin@artoronto.ca or call Phil at 416-525-7688.

  • Artist Proof Sale

    Isabelle Hémard, Floating Things (detail), linocut with gold leaf, diptych, $200.

    December 1 – 17, 2011
    Opening Night Fundraiser & Open House:
    Thursday, December 1, 6 – 9 pm
    Open Studio Gallery
    401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
    Toronto ON,  M5V 3A8
    T/F: 416-504-8238
    E-mail: sara@openstudio.on.ca
    W: http://www.openstudio.on.ca

    Forgo the rush and hassle of mall shopping, and choose instead from hundreds of original, affordable works of art during Open Studio’s annual Artist Proof Sale. Open Studio—one of Canada’s premier printmaking studios and galleries—hosts a celebration of printmaking every December, giving art lovers a chance to connect with and purchase unique works of art. Attend the grand opening of the sale on Thursday, December 1st, and you will also have a chance to meet many of the artists who created the artwork in the sale. On the opening night of the sale, the Preview and Open House kick off at 6:00 pm; at 6:30, the cash registers are opened for those who have been anxiously waiting to take home artwork by both old and new favourites. During the Open House, enjoy food, cash bar and festivities, including printmaking demonstrations by special guest artists. To make your holiday gift shopping really easy, Akau Framing will be on site to take framing orders during the Open House on December 1st. Also available will be an exclusive range of t-shirts, aprons, posters and original artists’ greeting cards, perfect for the holidays or any time of year, as well as Open Studio’s artist-designed playing cards and pins, which make great stocking stuffers for the art-lover on your holiday gift list.

    The Artist Proof Sale provides art lovers with an exciting opportunity to purchase original, one-of-a-kind fine art prints, at prices ranging from $50 – $300. Hundreds of original works of art – including screenprints, etchings, lithographs and relief prints – will be available over the course of the sale. An amazing variety of artistic styles and types of work will be available by both established and up-and-coming artists from around the country. The Artist Proof Sale is an excellent opportunity for those who are looking to start or add to their art collections. It’s also a terrific way for those who are looking for original holiday gift ideas or who prefer to shop locally to check items off gift lists while also supporting a worthy cause.

    The Artist Proof Sale and Open House is an important fundraiser for Open Studio, with fifty per cent of the sale price of each print going to Open Studio, a charitable organization that works to provide affordable access to printmaking facilities, programs and services for artists from across Canada and abroad. Open Studio’s fundraising activities help to support this artist-run centre’s vital artistic programming, which includes exhibitions, artist talks, tours, demonstrations, hands-on workshops for the public and professional development opportunities for artists, including scholarships and residencies. This is always a popular and busy event, with fierce competition for some works, so come early!

  • Adrienne Fonda: Personal Diaries

    October  19 – 30, 2011
    Opening: Thursday,  October  20th,  6pm
    GALLERY 1313 Process Gallery
    1313 QUEEN STREET WEST,
    TORONTO, ON M6K 1K8
    T: 416 – 536-6778
    E mail: director@g1313.org
    www.gallery13131.org
    Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6

    Personal Diaries are oil on canvas works by Adrienne Fonda.

    “These very large and very small paintings form a visual  diary of the painting problems that I have been trying to resolve in the past few months. The text and language in them is part of my thought process as I try to construct the picture plane for the viewer’s eye. Titles like “Oil Spill”, and Velasquez- Massacre of the Innoncents, are attempts that I have made to try to situate myself in an art historical context. It  also ties in to what the world subjects  me to today. The bright “in your face” coulours are nonetheless my way of offering beauty to the spectateur, for whom I paint.” – Adrienne Fonda

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