June 28 - July 28, 2012
Opening: Thursday, June 28, 7-9 p.m.
Artist Talks: Thursday, June 28, 6-7 p.m.
OPEN STUDIO GALLERY
401 Richmond Street West #104
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T: 416.504.8238
E: office@openstudio.on.ca
Hours: Tue – Sat 12 – 5 p.m.
Open Studio is pleased to present the second of two 2012 Visiting Artists’ Exhibitions featuring Toronto-based artists Tom Ngo and Derek Sullivan.
Each year, Open Studio selects four professional artists with or without printmaking experience to create works in the print medium of their choice, working closely with a professional print artist to realize their projects. These exhibitions by Ngo and Sullivan are the result of this intensive work period.
Derek Sullivan’s recent solo exhibitions include Albatross Omnibus at The Power Plant, Toronto and Young Americans at KIOSK in Ghent, Belgium (both 2011), and his work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. His collaboration with Gareth Long, The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas, has been performed at numerous venues including PS.1,Queens, NY; Art Metropole, Toronto; Artexte, Montréal; and Wiels, Brussels. Sullivan was recently short-listed for the 2012 Sobey Art Award.
During hisVisiting Artist Residency at Open Studio, Derek Sullivan produced Surplus Portfolio 2012, a suite of seven relief prints printed on Japanese Kozuke paper using two woodblocks carved into variously shaped parallelograms. Each edition within the suite mimics the open spread in a book, with paired parallelograms as abstract book pages. Each print shares one block from the
previous edition, so looking through the suite evokes the act of turning pages in a book. The prints can be read as pages or fragments from an artist’s book; as Sullivan writes in his artist’s statement, the most obvious way to read a book is front-to-back, and blank books are endlessly written.
A text by Jen Hutton accompanies the exhibition.