{"id":3783,"date":"2011-10-05T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2011-10-28T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:06:30","slug":"after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=3783","title":{"rendered":"After All"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>October 5 – 27, 2011<\/strong>
\nOpening: Wednesday, October 5, 7-10 pm
\nSteam Whistle Gallery<\/strong>
\n255 Bremner Ave
\n(just south of the CN Tower)
\nToronto, ON
\n416-362-2337 ext.246
\ninfo@steamwhistle.ca<\/a>
\nwww.steamwhistle.ca<\/a>
\nHours:\u00a0Mon\u00a0– Thurs 12\u00a0– 6, Fri\u00a0– Sat 11 -6, Sun 11 –\u00a05pm<\/p>\n

After All is a colloquium of micro-disasters and subtle apocalypses, little mistakes and lonely wanderers, absences and distortions, created by eight young visual artists. Both melancholy and acerbic, the works speak to the aftermath of arbitrary and fictitious disasters. Darkness has already descended, and the sensation is one of being unsettled for goo…d, and yet, escape routes and alarm-bells appear to be built-in to each misfortune.<\/p>\n

Anouk Desloges\u2019 work depicts airplane crashes and ship collisions with delicately embroidered threads on cold, transparent plastic. The unfinished lines are simultaneously intimate and dispassionate, leaving us unsure how to feel about these calamities. Clare Samuel\u2019s photographs create an ambivalent relationship between the figure and landscape, and a sense that \u2018civilization\u2019 is something long forgotten. Allison Rowe\u2019s recycled quilt pieces constrast bright fabric colours with urgent words: \u2018The Time to Try and Convince Them is Over,\u2019 speaks one; and \u2018Save Yourself,\u2019 warns another. Alisha Piercy presents large-scale drawings of excessive fountain scenes in unnatural colours, a kind of post-apocalyptic alchemy that is both enticing and intimidating. Leanne Eisen\u2019s \u2018Scan\u2019 project pushes technology beyond its limits, tricking, bating and teasing the machine to produce beautiful shapes. The outcomes bear scant relation to the objects they should represent, and instead become sublime errors. April Maciborka\u2019s distorted sea imagery brings to mind tidal waves of biblical proportions, pertinent to recent events in our climate. Candice Purwin\u2019s dense ink drawings illustrate childhood terrors, dark worlds ever present in individual memories. Marcy Chevali\u2019s tiny crocheted figures hang together, yet are isolated from each other, little grey creatures who have lost their way in the storm.<\/p>\n

About Steam Whistle Gallery:<\/strong>Steam Whistle Brewing hosts monthly art exhibitions in their Retail & Hospitality area to showcase local creative talent. Although many exhibitors are established artists, some are showing for the first time. Steam Whistle does not charge rent for their gallery space, nor is a commission earned on any works that are sold. At the close of each show, one piece from the show (of the artist\u2019s choice) is donated to their permanent collection bringing further profile to artists through the thousands of visitors to the brewery annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 5 – 27, 2011<\/strong>
\nOpening: Wednesday, October 5, 7-10 pm<\/p>\n

STEAM WHISTLE GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

After All is a colloquium of micro-disasters and subtle apocalypses, little mistakes and lonely wanderers, absences and distortions, created by eight young visual artists<\/p>\n

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