{"id":148,"date":"2011-05-31T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-07-10T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:50:56","slug":"raw-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"RAW ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>June 18 \u2013 July 9<br \/>\nOpening Reception: June 18, 7 &#8211; 10 pm<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Bezpala Brown Gallery<\/strong><br \/>\n17 Church Street (Front and Church)<br \/>\nFor inquiries, please contact: Fariz Kovalchuk at 416.907.6875 \/ 647.929.4878<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:fariz@bezpalabrown.com\" target=\"_blank\">fariz@bezpalabrown.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bezpalabrown.com\/exhibitions\/view\/June2011\" target=\"_blank\">Official Exhibition Page<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=118661744883399\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Event Link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Must be 18+ to attend. Admission: Free.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The reception will be followed by a Party Night with the artists &#8211; from 10 pm till 5 am, exquisite compilation of music, the bar will stay open till 1 am. <em>Admission: Free.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/878x1283_red_rawmeposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-149\" title=\"878x1283_red_rawmeposter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/878x1283_red_rawmeposter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Hunter<\/li>\n<li>Francis Luta<\/li>\n<li>Nickolas Hadzis<\/li>\n<li>Fariz Kovalchuk<\/li>\n<li>Donald Vaillancourt<\/li>\n<li>Olena Sullivan<\/li>\n<li>Drasko Bogdanovic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RAW ME<\/strong> is an eclectic group show exposing a collection of intimate stories of self-acceptance, self-identity and sexuality by seven Toronto-based queer artists. A collection of expressionistic mixed-media paintings and drawings by Hunter emerged into a visual journal that reflects the artist\u2019s coming out. Luta&#8217;s Door series use two pieces of dismembered history to revisit the corral world of pubescent fears &#8211; in contrast with the razed disclosure of self-acceptance and openness. Deeply personal images by Vaillancourt and Kovalchuk depict the sensitivity and fragility of human body and a contemporary twist to the psyche of body image. Hadzis displays exotic shirts covered with original art and a series of multiple drawings transformed into one single installation piece. Whether still or motion photography, Bogdanovic&#8217;s message is simple &#8211; there are no rules, sexuality has no bounds, all is right with the perverse. Inspired by pin-up photography and fetish art, Sullivan\u2019s black-and-white images depict women in bondage. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, photography, video, collages, installations, and hand-painted shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>June 18 \u2013 July 9<br \/>\nOpening Reception: June 18, 7 &#8211; 10 pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bezpala Brown Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RAW ME<\/strong> is an eclectic group show exposing a collection of intimate stories of self-acceptance, self-identity and sexuality by seven Toronto-based queer artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=148\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}