WORK x 4

Thursday, November 1, 2007 - 4:00am to Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 5:00am

The Ben Navaee Gallery in Toronto presents a group exhibition including work by alumnus Kelly Kehoe.
WORK x 4 is a collective of four exciting young Toronto artists: Megan Fostka, Kelly Kehoe, Kendra Sartorelli and Julia Zander. Our first show together as a collective will feature several new pieces of work by each artist. The exhibition takes place at Ben Navaee Gallery in Toronto and will be on display from November 1st to 11th, 2007. Please join us for our opening reception on Saturday, November 3rd from 3-6pm, when gallery guests can enjoy refreshments, live music and other surprises!

Venue & Address: 
Ben Navaee Gallery 1111 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Monika Aebischer: New Work

Monika Aebischer
Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 4:00am to Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 5:00am

Towne Square Gallery in Oakville presents an exhibition of new mixed-media work by alumna Monika Aebischer.

Venue & Address: 
Towne Square Gallery 94 George Street, Oakville, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Mixed Metal/Media Objects

Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 5:00am to Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 5:00am

Includes work by Anne Barros, alumna Suzanne Carlsen, Shelley Gaffe, Andrew Goss, Vivienne Jones, Barbara Klunder, Van McKenzie and Lily Yung.

Venue & Address: 
David Kaye Gallery 1092 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Martina Edmondson: Second Chance

Martina Edmonson: Second Chance
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 4:00am to Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 5:00am

*new* gallery in Toronto presents a solo show by alumna and OCAD Class Assistant Martina Edmondson. The work in this exhibition references a second chance for both materials and subject matter through reincarnation or transformation. Underlying materials that were designed to be disposable -- used coffee filters, teabags and dryer sheets -- are transformed by manipulation into new forms. Left natural or screen printed with siblings' handwriting and portraits, or embroidered with words and/or portraits, the subject matters include relationships with family, time and objects.

Venue & Address: 
*new* gallery 906 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Kai Chan: To Please the Eye

Kai Chan
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 4:00am to Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 4:00am

David Kaye Gallery in Toronto presents new work by OCAD alumnus Kai Chan.

Venue & Address: 
David Kaye Gallery 1092 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Folie ' Deux

Waldburger, That depents...
Thursday, November 1, 2007 - 4:00am to Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 5:00am

A condition in which two closely related persons, usually in the same family, share the same delusion.
Implicit in the idea of the double madness of Folie ' deux is the twin.
This twinly madness, as the term was originally referred to, is a doubling of
singular delusions. This work makes a case for the double madness of the
single person, an illusion of twin. The folly lies in the delusion shared with
a phantom twin.
It is possible that many singletons, that is, people born alone -- not as a
twin, started life as a twin in foetal development. It has been suggested
that, in competition for resources, one foetus absorbs the other during
pregnancy. Several medical and scientific theories make a case for this
possibility by citing the frequent discoveries in adults of cysts containing bits of hair, teeth and spinal tissue. These are believed to be signs of a "Vanished Twin".
The Vanished Twin is that 'perfect other'. The 'other' that is at once equal but different, promising eternal companionship and understanding because it is, although other, identical. It is an Other that exists as a potential. The vanished and vanquished twin bridges the lamentable loss of identity. The
flipside of this coin is the conjoined twin, the 'Siamese' twin, the
Doppelg'nger. This is the inescapable twin. The uncanny, perfect Other that
can never be eluded. It is a twinship into which one is born and the death of
which marks one's own demise.
A twinning of one, a delusion of two. These tightropes are crossed with some
trepidation as they call into question a singular self-identity but they also
muse on the nature of madness and companionship. It is a bittersweet idea, "while the vanished twin assures us of a sempiternal human link, it affords us also the pathos of inexpressible loss."
Natalie Majaba Waldburger

Natalie Majaba Waldburger received her B.A. specializing in Women's Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 1996, she graduated with Honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design receiving the Drawing and Painting Department Medal, the highest award in her department. Natalie has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the Media Arts Department where she completed an MFA in 2004.
Since graduation Natalie has received provincial and federal grants for her artwork, which she has been exhibiting since 1994. Her paintings are represented in various public, private and corporate collections in Europe, North America, and Australia.

Venue & Address: 
Bau-xi Gallery Toronto 340 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Elena Viltovskaia & Shea Chang

Elena Viltovskaia & Shea Chang
Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 11:00pm to Friday, October 26, 2007 - 1:00am

Alumni Elena Viltovskaia and Shea Change present an exhibition of new works, some collaborative.

Their mixed media/collage paintings are currently on display in Yorkville in the RE/MAX Unique Office at 101 Yorkville (at Bellair).

Venue & Address: 
RE/MAX Unique Office 101 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
elena@viltovskaia.com
Cost: 
Free

Superplastic

Superplastic
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 4:00am to Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 4:00am

Drabinksy Gallery in Toronto presents a group exhibition of work by alumni Jay Gazley and Amanda Reeve, and faculty members Vlad Spicanovic and Anda Kubis. The exhibition is curated by Anda Kubis.

"'Going Superplastic!' is what my 4 year
old son exclaims when he wants to go
faster. We all need to go faster ' there's just not enough time.
At the Ontario College of Art & Design
expansive thinking has embraced the community. Superplastic reflects this shifting attitude ' where dissolving disciplinary boundaries are causing students and faculty to exchange learning and look outward in the advancement cultural understanding. With this exhibition I wish to reveal an existing dialogue between artists that has grown out of a time of change within OCAD's long history. Amanda Reeves and Jay Gazley are former
students of Vladimir Spicanovic and mine
at OCAD. From the beginning, our conversations always revealed a belief in painting as a platform for worldly investigation and an understanding of painting as a model for contemporary experience.

Venue & Address: 
Drabinsky Gallery 122 Scollard Street, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Polyphony

Polyphony
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 4:00am to Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 5:00am

New media artist OCAD alumna Andres Pang announces the opening of Polyphony, a public artwork which extends from Toronto to New York. Installed at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto and Polytechnic University in New York, Polyphony utilizes state of the art VOIP to broadcast sounds in public spaces from one city to another, allowing the listener-participant to be in two places at once in Real Time.

Through the use of sound, Pang explores the concepts of presence and distance. Not only does sound make a place feel vast, it is a presence whose absence is felt the moment it stops. Both a cognitive and psychological medium, sound as a carrier of elusive information stimulates the mind and memory, and elicits association more effectively than vision. In addition, sound changes as it travels through a space and challenges one's perceptions of that space.

Continuing the historical trajectory that began with the telegraph, Polyphony explores the use of cutting edge sound technology to bridge space and time. Polyphony is a many facetted work that makes the most of a technology's perceptual and conceptual dimensions.

Venue & Address: 
Ontario College of Art & Design 100 McCaul Street, Lobby, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Plan B

Whiteout, by Brynley Longman, oil paint, canvas, 48" L x 60" W, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 4:00am to Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 5:00am

XEXE Gallery would like to invite you to join us in celebrating Brynley Longman's exhibition entitled Plan B, a wonderful series of lush oil paintings cunningly depicting civilization's encroachment onto untouched environments.
"Power lines are many things to me. They represent the expansion of the human race, they are everywhere yet hardly noticed, accepted as everyday landscape but inexorably expanding. Our species plows into nature and leave hooks that resist all but the strongest of winds, they stand impervious to snow and rain. We talk of impending doom due to our treatment of the earth. One side claims loudly that climate change is all just environmental bandwagoning, and that we are experiencing a natural cycle, the other greener side shout that natural cycles don't happen over such a short course of time, and that we must mend our ways today and not tomorrow. Would we let world economies suffer to fix our planet? Plan B as a series is meant to capture this mood, using power lines, satellite poles and wind turbines as symbols of a changing world." (Longman, 2007)

Venue & Address: 
XEXE Gallery 624 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

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