ARTORONTO.CA CONTACT picks:
With so much choice, 150 venues and a 1000 photographers it isn’t easy picking just ten exhibits to see.
Phil Anderson: I look forward to seeing much more than the ones listed but these ten caught my interest and everyone is sure to have their own list as well. In no particular order here are the ten that I chose to see.
1. All Present or Accounted For by Beverly Owens /Atti Gallery / 2152 Yonge Street / May 1-31
2. Yonge Street Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis by Peter MacCallum /Eric Arthur Gallery / 230 College St. / May 10-August 10
3. Full Frontal T.O. by Patrick Cummins / Urbanspace Gallery / 410 Richmond St. 1st floor / May 1-31
4. Two and A Quarter – group exhibition / Lomography Gallery Store / 536 Queen St. / May 3 -31
Rebecca Cairns, Untitled, 2012
5. iPhonegraphy – group exhibit / 1X Gallery /11 Davies Ave / April 26- May 25
6. Forgotten Places by Marcos Lins / Galleria 814 / 814 St. Clair W./May 1- June 1
Marcos Lins, Medieval Darkness, 2011
7. New Suburban Photomat by Chris Grismer / Don’t Tell Mama /108 Ossington Ave / May 1-31
Chris Grismer, Landscape #1, 2011
8. Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Spaces – group exhibit / MOCCA 952 QueenSt. W. / April 28-June 3
9. Berenice Abbott: Photographs / AGO / 317 Dundas / May 23- August 19
10. Photographie – group exhibit / Arsenal Toronto / 45 Ernest Ave. / April 20-June 9
Emese Krunak-Hajagos: It is more than you can see in just a few days, so this will be my program for May, day after day. It is really hard to chose, they are all interesting in some way.
1. Lynne Marsh: Upturned Starry Sky / Contact Gallery /80 Spadina Ave 310 /April 28–June 15
2. Berenice Abbot: Photographs / AGO / 317 Dundas / May 23- August 19
3. Gender and exposure in contemporary Iranian photography- group show /Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography/401 Richmond St W 120 / May 4–June 9
4. Matilda Aslizadeh: Still life / Pari Nadimi Gallery /254 Niagara St / April 5–May 26
5. Looking Askance by Jamie Campbell /Gladstone Hotel 4th floor / 1214 Queen St W / May 2–June 2
Jamie Campbell, Lay the ghost to rest, 2011
5. Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Spaces – group exhibit / MOCCA 952 QueenSt. W. / April 28-June 3
6. Toronto Transformed – group show /Akasha Art Projects / 511 Church Street St 200 / April 26–May 26
7. Forgotten Places by Marcos Lins / Galleria 814 / 814 St. Clair W./May 1- June 1
8. Toronto: The Bones of you by Mandeep Flora /Hart House /7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto / April 30–May 27
9. Memory by Nancy Rose/Wychwood Barns Community Gallery /76 Wychwood Ave /May 22–31
Nancy Rose, I hope you don’t fall, 2011;2012
10. New Suburban Photomat by Chris Grismer / Don’t Tell Mama /108 Ossington Ave / May 1-31
Steve Rockwell:
1. Lynne Cohen: Nothing is Hidden / Design Exchange / 234 Bay St / May 3–June 30
2. Disembodied Landscape by Victoria Piersig / Arcadia Gallery / 680 Queens Quay W / May 5–27
Victoria Piersig, Penguin and Bark Europa, 2011
3. Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Spaces – group exhibit / Richard Mosse, Noh Sontag / MOCCA 952 QueenSt. W. / April 28-June 3
4. Between Fantasy and Reality: Contemporary Photography from Cambodia (Chan Moniroth, Vandy Rattana) / Art Square Gallery / 334 Dundas St W / May 8–June 4
5. Vantage by April Hickox / Katzman Kamen Gallery / 80 Spadina Ave 406 / May 10–June 2 /
April Hickox, Porthole 1, 2011, Courtesy of Katzman Kamen Gallery.
6. Glass Ceiling by Jill Greenberg / O’Born Contemporary / 131 Ossington Ave / April 28–June 2 /
Jill Greenberg, American Girl Doll, 2010, © Jill Greenberg, courtesy of O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada.
7. Suzy Lake: Untitled / Georgia Scherman Projects / 133 Tecumseth St / April 20–May 26
8. Elegy by Deborah Samuel / Royal Ontario Museum / 100 Queen’s Park Cres / March 29–July 2
9. Yonge Street Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis by Peter MacCallum /Eric Arthur Gallery / 230 College St. / May 10-August 10<
10. Crumbled Empire by Andrew Rowat / Elaine Fleck Gallery / 888 Queen St W / May 1–29