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Illustrator Anson Liaw, who resides in the Graphic Design Program, is one of 25 artists to exhibit 2 pieces of illustration artwork for the Art Below Summer Show 2016 in London, England.

Art Below now in it's 10th year presents its 2016 Summer Show featuring a variety of work by 25 emerging and established international artists. 

The Summer Show will open with a Private view launch event on the 28th of June at the Tabernacle Gallery in Notting Hill, West London. For two weeks time and during the show at The Tabernacle art gallery, a different selected piece of artwork created by each selected artist and aside from the artwork shown at The Tabernacle gallery will also be available to view on billboard spaces across major London Underground stations. 

Heralded as 'The Taj Mahal of Kensington', the Tabernacle was originally built as a church in 1887. Today the Tabernacle serves as a cultural arts and entertainment venue, including a theatre, meeting rooms, music studio, art gallery, bar and kitchen, conservatory and a garden courtyard. 

Anson is pleased to have his selected illustration artwork entitled, Destiny to be on exhibition and available to view for two weeks time as a large size print on a billboard space within one of the major London Underground stations from June 20 to July 3, 2016 and to have his selected framed portrait illustration of American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor, Prince Rogers Nelson, entitled, Purple Rain Forever to be on exhibition as a framed piece of artwork at the Tabernacle art gallery.

Events:
Private View - Tuesday June 28, 6.30 - 9.30 pm

Visitor Information:
The Tabernacle, 34-35 Powis Square, London W11 2AY
Exhibition opening hours: 11am - 6pm (including weekends) 
Exhibition runs from June 20th to July 3rd, 2016

Selected artist List: 
Nasser Azam
Francis Akpata
Jim Anderson
Louise Barrett
Holly Carlson
Olly Chaplin
Noah Da Costa
Anthony Ferreira
Nina Fowler
Carne Griffiths
Keith Haynes
Natalie Ioannou
Antoon Knaap 
Robert Lee Davis
Anson Liaw
Alex Lovell
Leo Moore
James Mylne
Ernesto Romano
Eloise Wall
Amanda Wigglesworth
Kerry Zacharia

"Directional art with an unorthodox backdrop lends Art Below its fresh, original edge thats currently causing a creative awakening amongst commuters."

- THE GUARDIAN

Exchange Student Exhibition

The end of the 2016 winter term is upon us and our incoming exchange students would like to invite you to attend an exhibition they have organized.  This term we were very pleased to have 20 talented students join us from our partner institutions in China, Australia, the UK, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany and France.  Please come and celebrate their achievements during their time at OCAD U!

Learning Zone, Level 1, 113 McCaul St (Village by the Grange)
Opening Night: Friday, April 15, 2016 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Exhibition runs Friday, April 15 to Thursday, April 21

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Message from the students:

The time in Toronto has been for all of us very intense and rich.  After twelve weeks of intense work at OCAD U, we say goodbye to the University, to professors, to students and friends.  Before leaving, we would like to show the fruits of the work to the world and make sure that we keep connected for the future.  

The exchange students of Winter 2016 are very pleased to invite you to the exhibition of our work.  The Opening Event will be in the Learning Zone at 5 p.m. on Friday 15th of April.  Refreshments will be served. 

APRIL 6 + 7  STANZIE TOOTH

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

Stanzie Tooth is an MFA candidate at the University of Ottawa 2015. In 2007 she received her BFA  from the Ontario College of Art & Design with an award for excellence in painting. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada including “60 Painters” at Humber College, an ambitious overview of contemporary Canadian painting. Stanzie is represented by General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto.  www.stanzietooth.com

The Series is organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes ANNA ROSE

APRIL 6 + 7 ANNA ROSE

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

Anna Rose (b. 1982, Massachusetts, USA) has lived and worked in Florence, Italy since 2004. She received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2014. Her work spans video, photography, costume and installation with a sensibility towards the relationship between body and environment, entering into conversation with historical, psychological, and cultural mythologies of place. She has recently exhibited her work in Munich (Das KloHäuschen), Salzburg (Periscope), Prato (Tuscan Art Industry), and Denver (Center for Photographic Arts Center) among others, and has been awarded artist residencies in Iceland (Gamli skóli) and Hungary (D’clinic).  www.annamrose.com

The Series is organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes Lauren Hall

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

INTAC (International Art Collaborations) is a network allowing those of us at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada to create collaborative artworks with partner universities in South Korea, India, Germany, Japan and Finland.

Each year INTAC curates a culminating exhibition to show the final collection of works. This year INTAC has been given the opportunity to install the exhibition in Toronto, Canada and Tampere, Finland

Although installing two shows of this scale is an incredibly exciting and welcomed opportunity, the printing and organizing of these events will be a costly endeavor. The group has therefore organized a silent auction to help cover some of the costs involved.

A silent auction will be set up on the second floor of 100 McCaul in the hallway South of Ada Slaight Gallery. If you are interested in any of these items, please write down your bid and email address/ contact information, along side which item you are bidding on. The silent auction runs from March 21st- April 9th. The winner of each item will be contacted by the April 10th. In Ada Slaight Gallery, we have our INTAC group show installed which includes work from students all over the world.

Please join us for our opening party Thursday March 24th from 6-9pm.

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

Samantha Stout

Samantha Stout is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in scientific investigation of works of art and cultural heritage. She graduated in 2015 from the University of California, San Diego with a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, completing her doctoral thesis with Prof. Maurizio Seracini.  In 2013, she was an invited participant in the CLIR/Clark Colloquium on Preservation and Its Intellectual Framework, which brought leading scholars together to focus on scientific and philosophical discourses surrounding the preservation of Art. Samantha has been working on field projects in Florence since 2011, and is particularly interested in the development of methodological practice for the comprehensive study and preventative conservation of works of art.www.linkedin.com/in/samstout1

The Series is organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series II brings eight international artists, academics and gallerists from Berlin, Florence, Glasgow, London and Milan to OCAD University’s Florence campus studio to engage in artist talks, lectures, workshops, individual studio visits and critiques over the winter semester. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving constructive feedback on their process and in-progress and final outcome independent studio work. 

Fabrizio Affronti is the gallery director and owner, of Brand New Gallery in Milan, Italy. The Gallery is a space devoted to Contemporary Art, suspended halfway between a gallery and a center for cultural promotion, a platform where artists, curators, and collectors can meet and exchange ideas. Brand New Gallery is the brainchild of two art historians, Chiara Badinella and Fabrizio Affronti, whose aim is to promote the work of foreign artists known internationally, but as yet unseen in Italy. Availing themselves of the collaboration of important American and European Contemporary Art galleries, Brand New Gallery commissions individual artists to do site-specific projects. The gallery features five to six exhibitions per year, in addition to lectures and seminars on Contemporary Art. www.brandnew-gallery.com

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

APRIL 6 + 7  RM VAUGHAN

RM Vaughan is a Canadian writer and video artist based in Berlin. He is the author of many books and contributes articles on culture to a wide variety of publications. Vaughan’s short videos play in festivals and galleries across Canada and around the world. http://momus.ca/author/rmvaughan/, www.rmvaughan.ca

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

APRIL 6 + 7  STANZIE TOOTH

Stanzie Tooth is an MFA candidate at the University of Ottawa 2015. In 2007 she received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art & Design with an award for excellence in painting. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada including “60 Painters” at Humber College, an ambitious overview of contemporary Canadian painting. Stanzie is represented by General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto. www.stanzietooth.com

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University