On a beautiful spring weekend it is fun to walk the city from gallery to gallery. Some of the Contact Photography Festival shows are just opened or opening on Saturday. Please look at our suggestions for a gallery walk starting on the West end but focusing on downtown this weekend. Enjoy the shows and have a cup of coffee on a nice patio when you are getting tired of walking. We would be interested how did you like the shows so please let us know.
Georgia Dickie: Stivverin’
April 18 – 27, 2013
Cooper Cole Gallery
1161 Dundas Street West
Artist talk: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 3 – 4 p.m.
Working with an endless array of found objects, Dickie’s sculptural assemblages seek to map a new history through the conflation of their parts, re-examining their inherent properties to identify new orders of knowledge and information. She uses collage and its essence of abstraction as a way to establish anonymity on behalf of the materials by creating new roles for them. WWW.COOPERCOLEGALLERY.COM
Grow Op
April 26 – 28, 2013
Gladstone Hotel 2nd Floor Gallery + public spaces throughout hotel + exterior/offsite
NEW APPROACHES TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, ART AND EXHIBITION
Opening Reception: Friday, April 26, 2013, 7 – 10 p.m.
The Gladstone Hotel cultivates Grow Op, a new four-day, juried event challenging preconceived notions of landscape architecture, garden design, art and place making. The only exhibition of its kind in Toronto, Grow Op participants will be bringing some high art to outdoor design culture. www.gladstonehotel.com
Outworld by Alex McLeod
April 27–June 1, 2013
Angell Gallery
12 Ossington Ave
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 27, 1–4 p.m.
In Outworld, McLeod uses the video game’s virtual unreality as a jumping-off point for the creation of new territories at the extreme ends of colour. Like postcards from another dimension, these lustrous visions of rainbow-hued crystalline islands, shimmering artificial beaches, and shadowy villages tantalize with their offer of impossible worlds made manifest. http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/1355
Lost in the Memory Palace: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
April 6 – August 18, 2013
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
The multimedia artworks of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller emphasize aural and visual experiences that transport the viewer to other realms of consciousness. Their work is highly scripted, meticulously detailed and often cinematic in scope, breaking down distinctions between fiction and everyday reality. Through various levels of engagement, the viewer becomes a participant, either witnessing a phenomenon or becoming immersed in a scenario and vitally activating it. http://www.ago.net/lost-in-the-memory-palace
Sebastião Salgado
April 25 – May 25, 2013
Nicholas Metivier Gallery
451 King Street West
Nicholas Metivier Gallery presents Salgado’s inaugural exhibition in Canada, which includes influential photographs from Workers (1986–1992), Migrations (1993–2000), and Genesis. Salgado is the recipient of many prestigious awards and his work has been exhibited in museums worldwide. http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/1136
Meryl McMaster: In-Between Worlds
April 27–June 1, 2013
Katzman Kamen Gallery
80 Spadina Ave 406
Opening Reception: April 27, 2 – 5 p.m.
In-Between Worlds is an expression of one of McMasters bicultural Aboriginal-European heritage, which she views as a synergistic strength rather than a struggle between opposing forces. http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/1178
Toronto Time by Harry Enchin
April 27 – May 22, 2013
Bezpala Brown Gallery
17 Church Street
Toronto Time uses photo-based collages that digitally combine archival source material with modern-day images of the exact same locations, to examine the passing of time in Toronto. www.bezpalabrown.com