{"id":12210,"date":"2012-06-19T19:31:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T23:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=12210"},"modified":"2012-07-02T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T15:44:58","slug":"sincerely-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=12210","title":{"rendered":"Sincerely Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\nJune 20 – July 1, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday, June 21, 7 – 10 p.m.
\nPropeller Centre for the Visual Arts
\n<\/strong>984 Queen Street West
\nToronto, Ontario M6J 1H1
\nT: 416-504-7142<\/a>
\nE: gallery@propellerctr.com<\/a>
\nHours: Wed\/Sat: 12-6 pm, Sun: 12-5 pm<\/p>\n

Propeller Center\u00a0for the Visual\u00a0Arts is pleased to host\u00a0the 15th Annual Curated Exhibition Sincerely Yours <\/em><\/strong>on Thursday, June 21, 7 – 10\u00a0p.m. at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kernel, the soul\u2014let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual valuable material of all human utterances\u2014is plagiarism.\u201d – <\/em>Jonathan Lethem<\/p>\n

\u201cI fake it so real that I\u2019m beyond fake.\u201d <\/em>-Courtney Love<\/p>\n

\u201cEver wondered what an authentic experience felt like? You know\u2014a feeling that you were reasonably sure was yours\u2019 and yours\u2019 alone; a gesture that didn\u2019t inevitably collapse into a set of chiches; having an idea that didn\u2019t already have a citation index attached to it; the premise that you, your thoughts and your actions were in any meaningful way unique? I keep thinking at some point in my past, I must have had an authentic feeling\u2014but certainly not lately.\u00a0For the most part, I\u2013like most artists I know\u2013have come to an uneasy peace about the whole thing, figuring that \u201cmediation is me\u201d and besides, authenticity is so twentieth-century. But I continue to be haunted by one particularly troubling aspect of this equation: if authenticity is now accepted in most quarters as a cultural construct rather that an existential truth, then how the hell do we recognize sincerity anymore. Or is sincerity, like its corollary authenticity, contingent on a world outside ourselves? And if so, what does it mean for individuals who produce work based on notions of intuition and self-expression?<\/p>\n

The exhibition has taken as its premise the idea that sincerity is a contested term in contemporary art practice. All of the artists chosen for the exhibition have in some way addressed the challenge of the authentic in a particular way, each coming to the problem with a specific critical strategy. A number of works in the show address a certain longing for a graspable authentic experience that seems somehow just out of reach. There are others for whom our thoroughly mediated world of experience is what constitutes the \u201cnew\u201d authentic. Still others see authenticity as simply a social construction, and thus the act of addressing it in art is, at its core, ironic. Together, the works in this exhibition provide an intriguing snapshot into the challenge of being an artist\u2013and in essence locating the self\u2013in this complicated thing we call contemporary art.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 John Kissick<\/p>\n

Participating Artists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ashleigh\u00a0Bartlett
\nTammi Campbell
\nSarah Carney
\nSarah Comfort
\nCandice Davies
\nStephanie Deumer
\nJoel Fullerton
\nDavid Griffin
\nBailey Govier
\nTadaaki Hozumi
\nPat Dumas-Hudecki
\nSteven James Brown
\nRachel Ludlow<\/td>\n		<\/td>\nEileen\u00a0MacArthur
\nMatt Macintosh
\nBrad Muir
\nFrances Patella
\nJenna Faye Powell
\nTony Saad
\nGiovanni Senisi
\nRichard Smolinski
\nShawn Stovell
\nLaura Taler
\nMaria Whiteman
\nRoss Winte<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 20 – July 1, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday June 21, 7-10pm<\/p>\n

PROPELLER CENTRE FOR THE VISUAL ARTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

A number of works in the show address a certain longing for a graspable authentic experience that seems somehow just out of reach. <\/p>\n

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