Category: LISTING ARCHIVE

Secret of the Innocent, mixed media

July 25 – August 5, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 25, 6-9 p.m
GALLERY 1313 Cell Gallery
1313 Queen St. W.
Toronto, ON, M6K 1L8
T: 416.536.6778
E: director@g1313.org
www.g1313.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1 – 6 p.m.

Currents of Being works by Audrey Smith www. audreysmithartist.com

Audrey wrote, “This exhibition reflects my goal to communicate the tides of movement and change that pulse just below the outward realities of our existence. In this body of work this energy is manifested in color, line, brushstroke, form and symbolism. A secret thought or glance, a subtle movement, often a stillness are juxtaposed with the rich and passionate brush stokes and lines. Change, growth and evolution, both personal and societal, define who we are, how we live our lives and give color to our dreams. They are our birthright and they are our legacy. Everything is possible, everything, with the willingness and ability to grow and evolve.

Inspired by the human form, my artwork focuses on the concepts of transition and transformation. My personal vision is expressed through fluid, spontaneous layers of medium and imagery. Evocative and serendipitous mark making create a turbulent context for otherwise serene characters. “

Gerald Gladstone, Untitled drawing, marker on paper, 6″ x 4″

July 14 – August 26, 2012
Opening reception:Saturday, July 14, 4–8 p.m.
FRAN HILL GALLERY
285 Rushton Road
Toronto, ON, M6C 2X5
Tel: 416.363.1333
E: franhillgallery@bellnet.ca
Hours: Fri–Sun 11–6 p.m. or by appointment

The Paper Show is a trove of new, archival, and secondary market works on paper.

Features literally hundreds of small drawings from the Estate of Gerald Gladstone.

Artists represented include:

Steve Armstrong
Robert Chandler
Tien Chang
Tim Deverell
Clive d’Oliviera
Michael Gerry
Imre Hajagos
John Howlin
Inez
Gershon Iskowitz
Christopher Kier
Jennifer Linton
Adam Lodzinski
Barbara McGivern
Wayne Moore
Robert McNealy
Robert Nowacki
Jessie Oonark
Steve Rockwell
Leon Rooke
Rochelle Rubinstein
John Scott
Blair Sharpe
Peter Templeman
Erin Torell
Michael Warren-Darley
Y.M. Whelan

Matt Leines / WPA / Mixed media on paper / 30″ x 22″ / 2011

July 12 – August 18, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 12, 6 -9 pm
COOPER COLE GALLERY
1161 Dundas Street West,
Toronto ON, M6J1X3
T: 647 – 347 – 3316
E-mail: info@coopercolegallery.com
www.coopercolegallery.com
Hours: Wed–Sat 1–7, Sun 1–6 p.m.

Zagga Zow 1st Annual Summer Group Show
The reception will feature the musical stylings of DJ Michelle Williams and a performance by GYM Zsahib.

The Urban Dictionary defines Zagga Zow as “A word with literally no definition”

Participating artists include:

Devin Troy Strother
Charlie Roberts
John Riepenhoff
Anders Oinonen
Taylor McKimens
Matt Leines
James Kirkpatrick
David Jien
Sara Clendening
Marc Bell
Larissa Bates

Harumi NAKASHIMA  “Struggling Form” (1994).

July 6 – October 13, 2012
The Japan Foundation, Toronto
131 Bloor Street West, 2nd floor of the Colonnade
T: 416.966.1600 / 229
www.jftor.org
Hours:Mon,Thurs 11:30- 7, Tue,Wed,Fri 11:30-4:30, Sat 12-5 p.m

Japan Foundation Touring Exhibition

The history of Japanese crafts can be traced back to ancient times and is filled with a variety of influences from sources such as China and Korea. These influences have been gradually absorbed and further developed, eventually resulting in works that reflect the Japanese artistis temperament. In modern times, with the rapid introduction of Western social systems and culture,

Japanese crafts have not simply retained the traditional forms and decorative embellishments that had been handed down from previous generations. Instead, artists who attempt to express their own artistic temperament through their work have appeared. These artists have demanded a variety of footholds on which to anchor their own creativity. Some make a traditional artistic view the basis for their own work. Some incorporate artistic ideas from Europe and the United States, such as Art Deco or Constructivism, into their creations. Some intend their creations to be used as part of our everyday life, and they therefore emphasize practical functionality while infusing their work with creativity. Others, taking an avant-garde stance, seek to express new artistic concepts in concrete form in their work. And others attempt to re-examine the meaning of the materials themselves.

Just as the values of the Japanese people became more diverse following World War II, crafts also developed in ever more complex ways and branched out in many directions; so much so that it is now considered impossible to state what the salient characteristics or common attributes of Japanese crafts are. However, even though contemporary Japanese crafts may appear to be completely disparate, it is possible to identify several common themes. Therefore it is these common themes that indicate the state of contemporary Japanese crafts.

This exhibition consists of 64 pieces in six sections revealing examples of the characteristics of Japanese contemporary crafts: Ostentation (Use of outstanding colours, and gold & silver), Wabi(Quiet refinement, natural expression of the materials), Crispness (Strong forms and captivating colours), Fine Detail (Elaborate workmanship), Deformation (Beauty of unevenness), Kacho (Flowers and birds, Traditional ornamental motifs).

May 26, 2012, 9:30 p.m.
$5 cover
The Trash Palace
89B Niagara Street
Toronto, ON, M5V 1C3
T: Kathleen Reichelt, 416.561.2951 or 647.344.4690
E: Kathleen Reichelt, kfreichelt@gmail.com

253469 presents BURNING BIRCH X3: the Worldwide Film Festival of Short Art Films By Artists.

Toronto-based artist project 253469 presents a one night only worldwide film festival of short art films by artists on Saturday May 26 at the Trash Palace. This program includes 15 films by 13 artists from NYC, Paris, Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, Argentina, Latvia and Germany.

Multi disciplinary artist and art filmmaker Wesley Rickert selected the films from Vimeo channel 253469, an online community he created to exhibit short art films made by artists. The films range from computer animated experiments to direct painting on the film surface. Made of punk poetry aesthetics, these shorts are decidedly not documentary in nature.

The films screening at the Trash Palace on May 26th “are the misfits and hard to categorize that don’t get shown at other film festivals” says Rickert, “Many films often don’t fit with the themes that festivals have in mind. These films are unorthodox, avant garde efforts independently produced by artists from around the world. The films share surrealism, absurdity and the aesthetics of raw punk poetry.”

Audiences can expect films with titles of Hack Your Own Leg! (Latvia, 12 mins) and Sommeil Paradoxial (France, 2 mins). In addition to the screening, the punk jazz noise band 253469 will perform with the silent projection of two new short films by Wesley Rickert:  Blue Whiskey, 2012 (15 mins) and Black Plastic Fork, 2012 (2 mins).

About 253469

253469 is not ruled by commerce, academia, politics or common sense. The artist project 253469 began in 2009 and has created opportunities for collaboration and participation in short art films, live performance, screenings, exhibitions and installations with artists pursuing experimental and avant-garde work. Based in Toronto, the 253469 project has worked with such artists as Maggy Perry, Art Szombarthy, Ullysses Castellanos, Eugénie Cliche, Istvan Kantor, Jubal Brown, Brooke Stubbings, William Davison, Christina Kozak and Henry “Banger” Benvenutti.

May 3 – 27, 2012

Opening: Saturday, May 5, 2 – 5 p.m.
DAVID KAYE GALLERY
1092 Queen Street West
(entrance on Dovercourt)
Toronto, ON M6J 1H9
T: 416.532.9075
E: info@davidkayegallery.com
www.davidkayegallery.com

Jim Tubb’s pure-abstract  paintings are based on musical compositions, composers, and performers. Some of  the paintings express the characteristics of the music, while others refer to the ‘personality’ of the composer or performer.

In this series he has set out to capture the light, colour, texture and atmospheric effect of the music. His idea is to show art that discards symbolism for abstraction and that he does most  admirably. (West Gallery)

April 28 – May 12, 2012
Opening and Book Launch: Saturday, April 28, 2-5 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 28, 4 p.m. (in the Gallery Two)
STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY
1026 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON, M6J 1H6
T: 416.504.0575
E: info@bulgergallery.com
www.bulgergallery.com
Hours: Tues–Sat  11–6 p.m.

Please find attached the press release for the launch of Hank O’Neal’s new book of photographs, XCIA’s STREET ART PROJECT: The First Four Decades¸ published by Siman Media Works. An exhibition featuring photographs from the book will be held in Gallery Two.

Before becoming a photographer, Hank O’Neal was an agent with the Domestic Operations Division of the Central Intelligence Agency. In the mid 1970s, encouraged by his friend and mentor the legendary American photographer Berenice Abbott, and inspired by Walker Evans Depression-era photos of peeling posters and hand-painted signs, O’Neal left the CIA and devoted himself to documenting the burgeoning street art scene.

“The street art I photograph,” says Hank O’Neal, “must be in a public place, must be visually captivating and perhaps beautiful, must be the product of an informed intellect (not of a vandal), and must be purposeful. It can be a jolt by a single artist or a chaotic improvisation by dozens of different hands in unexpected places, in unexpected ways.” Part of O’Neal’s talent lies in his ability to find and recognize art in often surprising places, whether it’s in a cemetery in Paris or a doorway on Madeira Island, a lifeguard station in Venice, California, or on a piece of the Berlin Wall”.

Perhaps most important, in many cases, O’Neal’s photograph is the only visual record of a masterful work of street art, an art form that is ephemeral by its very nature. The photographs in XCIA’s STREET ART PROJECT capture hundreds of never-beforepublished photos showcasing the work of the most established street artists of several generations, including: Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, Toofly, JR, Armyof1/jc2, and of course, “Artist Unknown.”

The gallery will sell the book in hardcover ($40) and in limited edition ($1000).

Barbara Cole, Same Difference, chromogenic print face-mounted on plexiglass

April 14 – April 28, 2012
Opening: Saturday, April 14, 2–4 p.m.
BAU-XI PHOTO
340 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1G5
T: 416.977.0600
E: toronto@bau-xi.com
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Hours: Mon-Sat 10–5:30, Sun 11–5:30

Pointing her camera upwards from below the surface of the water, Cole captures figures demonstrating love, anger, remorse and joy, their movements abstracted by the refracting lens of the water.

About the Artist: Barbara Cole is a self-taught photographic artist who has built an extraordinary career in image making since beginning her practice in the 1980s. She is best known for her still images and her lenticulars. This latest series from Barbara Cole’s ongoing underwater photographic work is inspired by choreographed dance, and in- vestigates the nature of emotional expression and gesture within a relationship.

Cole’s artwork is extensively collected by both public and private institutions, and has been exhibited worldwide in such venues as the Canadian embassies in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Japan. Throughout her career, Cole has worked internationally on commercial projects and large-scale art commissions including installations for the Breast Cancer Centre in Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital and for Trump Hollywood, Florida. She has won prestigious awards such as the Grand Prize at the Festival International de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes, and third prize at the International Photography Awards in new york. Barbara Cole lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

February 14 – March 4, 2012
Opening: Thursday, February 16, 7 – 9 p.m.
HANGMAN GALLERY
756 Queen Street East (at Broadview Avenue)
Toronto, ON, M4M 1H4
T: 416.465.0302
E: hangmangallery@gmail.com
www.ArtistsNetwork.ca.
Hours: Tues to Sun 12–5 p.m.

Hangman Art Gallery is proud to announce “ With a Little Help From My Friends”. This is an Artists’ Network volunteer’s art show, in appreciation of the many that have helped with RAW, Little Art Show, plus programs and other committees.

The Hangman Art Gallery is located in the middle of a exciting neighbourhood of creative and visual arts professionals. It is the home of the Artists’ Network.

It supports a thriving fine arts community by providing exhibition spaces to connect art lovers and collectors with members and non-members artists alike. It is a venue where artists from all stages of their career can meet and showcase their personal perceptions of the realities of contemporary life. artistsnetwork.ca/hangman