Catherine Jones, The Red Shoes, photography
October 6 – 14, 2012
TTC subway platform screens
throughout Toronto
Pattison Onestop, Art for Commuters (A4C) and Workman Arts co-present, Beneath the Surface, a collection of artist projects exploring what is hidden, sublimated, or just out of reach, to mark World Mental Health Day on Wednesday, October 10, 2012.
In the very public milieu of the subway platform, visual stories created by 6 Toronto-based artists will play every 10 minutes on the network of Pattison Onestop’s TTC subway platform screens throughout Toronto from October 6 to October 14, 2012.
“Beneath the Surface highlights the unique vision of these artists. We are very pleased to help celebrate Workman Arts’ 25th anniversary by presenting this special programme,” states Sharon Switzer, Arts Programmer and Curator, Pattison Onestop.
With an aim to change the public’s perceptions of mental health each participating artist has created a series of 8 or 9 sequential images that tell a particular story, or express their personal interpretation of the project’s theme. Beneath the Surface reveals real and imagined moods, states of mind, obsessions, fears, and joys lying beneath the surface of our individual and collective urban experience. “It is a privilege for the artists to have such a prominent venue to show their work. We salute Pattison Onestop and Art for Commuters for presenting this exhibition,” says Lisa Brown, Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Workman Arts.