Some of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival shows are opening on this weekend. Please look at our suggestions for a gallery walk focusing on the Queen West area.
We would be interested how did you like the shows so please let us know.
Lee & Mei Lee Ogden: Sign Languages / Ester Pugliese: Disfluency and Delay
April 27 – May 19, 2013
loop Gallery
1273 Dundas Street W JJ Lee & Mei Lee Ogden, My Little Pony, mixed media on watercolour paper, 60″ x 70″, 2013
Using gouache, glitter paint, wax crayons, watercolour, and pencil crayons, Lee and her daughter explore the space between high and low art, visual and spoken language, mark making and representation, hearing and Deaf, narrative and abstraction.
Ester Pugliese, Impromptu Performance: Branson School Chamber Singers and Singing Iceberg, acrylic, chalk, conté, carbon, and chalkboard paint on panel, 22 x 30 inches, 2013
The mixed media works in Pugliese’s Disfluency and Delay consider the human inclination to adjust outward appearances, illustrating this tendency with contrasting examples from nature. Each work presents audio graphs of impromptu performances culled from YouTube videos.
Lauren Luloff
May 1 – May 25, 2013
Cooper Cole Gallery
1161 Dundas Street W
Lauren Luloff, Plants and Eyes, oil, bleached bedsheets and fabric on muslin,71 x 57.50 inches,2013
New York Arts Magazine listed her as one of the top 30 artists to watch in 2012. Luloff currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her large scale work use organic elements like leaves, grass, fruits represented in a somewhat abstract way on ornamental rugs or in front of decorative backgrounds.
Edith Maybin: The Girl Document
May 11 – June 8, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, May 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
O’Born Contemporary
131 Ossington Avenue
Edith Maybin, Untitled, from the series The Girl Document, 2013
Edith Maybin continues to explore the liminal space between girl and woman, this time through the use of still life photography. Beautiful and troubling, these in-camera constructions engage the viewer with both lucid detail and incomplete dreams. Fold upon fold, a singular portal unveils a deceitful truth, double-minded (untrustworthy) like photography itself.
The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon
May 11 – June 15, 2013
Opening Reception: May 11, 2 – 5 p.m.
STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY
1026 Queen St. W
Danny Lyon, Crossing the Ohio Louisville, 1963-67
These images chronicle the activities of the motorcycle world from 1963–67. Lyon documented the life of the American bikerider in the Midwest from the seat of his Triumph motorcycle, equipped with a Nikon, a Rolleiflex, and a seven-pound portable tape recorder. The resulting black-and-white images provide a window into the rough, counterculture lifestyles of bikers on the road, also paving the way for the film Easy Rider (1969).
I Was Already Lost by Botto + Bruno
May 8 – June 29, 2012
Pari Nadimi Gallery
254 Niagara Street
Botto + Bruno, Lost Time II., 2013, graphite, white pencil, photographic collage on cardboard collage, 12 x 13 inches
Known for their constructed photographic and video works which, at times, used as material for creating their large installtions, Botto + Bruno continue to be interested in investigating the revolts, wishes and dreams of teenagers who live in the immense suburbs of our planet.
Orion Tide by Kelly Richardson
May 2 – June 8, 2013
Birch Libralato
129 Tecumseth St
Kelly Richardson, Orion Tide, 2012-2013
Like much of Richardson’s work, the landscape pictured in Orion Tide is digitally constituted, evoking grandiosity, ruggedness, and a sense of being in an unspecified but decidedly unfamiliar place. Richardson plays with the conventions of science fiction cinema by depicting a scene based in a sublime visual realness, unmoored from a clear point in time – both beautiful and terrifying.