here alone together, new paintings by Stella Cade

colourful abstract image of two figures
Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 5:00am

November 5, 12, 19 and 26 2016

2 -­ 6

here alone together

new paintings by Stella Cade

Join us Saturdays in November. The Artist will be present. Essay by Michael Davidson

"Picture this.

You and I, sitting on the couch. I'm at one end, you're at the other. We haven’t spoken a

word in a while. The room feels silent, but it’s not really. The sounds of the building are

around us. The clock is ticking, the whir of the lights is faint. We are hearing all of this on our

own but also know it is shared experience. We are both in this air, this light, this space

around us.

Picture this.

You and I engaged in thought. Completely and comfortably lost in our own moment in time.

Picture this.

Here we are. Alone, together."

Stella Cade 2016

About the Artist:

Stella Cade (1988, Toronto) has studied at the Art Students League, Concordia University and

received her BFA from OCADU in 2013. Her expressive figures create a dialogue regarding the

complications of intimacy and identity. Cade was awarded the People's Choice Award at the

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in 2011 and The Donna Maclean Award for portraiture and

representational painting from OCADU in 2013. Cade is the Co-­Founder of Nest

Collective. www.stellacade.com

26 is a domestic viewing space for contemporary art in the Beaconsfield neighborhood of Toronto, Canada.

A curatorial collaboration between artists Nicole Collins and Michael Davidson, 26 features an open program

of diverse local and international artists and seeks to engage the viewer in a critical and relaxed experience

with art.

26 Mackenzie Crescent, Toronto, ON, M6J 1T1

Saturdays, 2-­6 or by appointment

416 346 3246

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Venue & Address: 
26 Mackenzie Crescent, Toronto, ON, Saturdays, 2-­6 or by appointment
Website: 
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Phone: 
416 346 3246

Newzones is pleased to present "Chrominance", a solo exhibition by Anda Kubis, Faculty of Art

Series of colourful abstract digital paintings installed in a gallery
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 5:00am to Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 5:00am

Newzones is pleased to present "Chrominance", a solo exhibition by Anda Kubis.

October 22, 2016 - November 26, 2016

--> Anda Kubis    in attendance -->Artist reception: Saturday, October 22, 2016, 12:30-3:00 PM

Part of the new Abstraction movement in Canada, Kubis continues her play with colour, space and illusion. Due to the prominence of colour in her work, her research considers how a conscious engagement with aesthetics and creativity positively impact human flourishing and quality of life.

In addition to her painting practice, Kubis explores new media through a digital process that creates the foundation from which this new body of oil paintings and digital prints are produced. In finished form, the digital paintings exist beyond the screen where they are entirely informed by the digital software, chroma and layers, which modelled their creation. Although inspired by a digital source, the colour is material and substantial. The luminance - the glow within - is created through Kubis’ intentional play on hue and value perception. Colour is a positive means of aesthetic expression through mixing new and traditional approaches to image making.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Anda Kubis received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and her MFA at York University. For eight years, Kubis taught at York University and at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. Currently, Kubis is the Associate Dean of Outreach and Innovation in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. In this role, she manages and develops the many external relationships that support rich opportunities for students and faculty members in the Faculty of Art.

Kubis' paintings have been widely exhibited across Canada in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout North America.

 

Venue & Address: 
Newzones 730 Eleventh Avenue Southwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Website: 
http://newzones.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=382#!prettyPhoto

IAMD Florence Residency - David Constantino Salazar

In-progress bird sculpture by David Constantino Salazar
Friday, October 14, 2016 - 4:00am

Current Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design student David Constantino Salazar shares his expereince studying in Florence this past summer as part of the OCAD U Florence Off-Campus Study Program:

"My Independent Study in Florence, Italy, began in the spring of 2016, with my research and studio production overseen by Professor Dr. Martha Ladly.

The Independent Studio was a focus on how in both painting and sculpture, narratives and allegory come together through form and matter in the work of the Renaissance masters, such as Michelangelo, Donatello and Lorenzo Ghiberti.  The visual study in Florence was fundamental to my studio practice as a sculptor, where I use a traditional hand modeling technique of clay and wax that are directly linked to the studio practice of many of the Italian Renaissance artists.

In Florence, with the help of art resident historian Dr. Katharina Giraldi. I studied the anatomical techniques and compositional approaches used by artists in the representation of both human and animal.  I gained an understanding of the symbolic imagery used to communicate cultural ideologies.  My proposal was to digest the research through a series of miniature plasticine clay studies. The choice to model on a small scale gave me the ability to fluidly work through ideas both structurally and conceptually.  My research in the IAMD program explores allegorical narrative through anthropomorphic animal sculptures. I am interested in how the physicality of matter through form and gestures bring characters to life.

In Florence, I developed a series of bird sculptures at the moment of impact of having crashed into a wall. The work is ignited by the viewer’s imagination when my offerings of forms and gestures become characters, narratives, metaphors and allegories in the mind of the viewer.

My research also involved traveling to, Pietrasanta, in order to visit contemporary artist Fernando Botero’s frescos (Heaven – Hell). 

I left Italy with an enormous amount of gratitude for having the privileged experience to further my research with the assistance of Professor Dr. Martha Ladly."

More about the IAMD Program: http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/interdisciplinary-masters-in-art-media-and-design.htm 

More about David Constantino Salazar's work: http://www.projectsalazar.com/

Poster: 
Series of small sculptures sitting on a workbench in a sunny room with an open window overlooking a rooftop

Uniformitarian Principle

Uniformitarian Principle
Friday, November 28, 2008 - 5:00am to Saturday, January 3, 2009 - 5:00am

Angell Gallery in Toronto is pleased to present “Uniformitarian Principle,” the first solo exhibition by new gallery artist and current OCAD student, Min Hyung.

Drawing from the energy of the unpredictable yet inevitable geological events that contour the earth, Min Hyung’s spontaneous/logical paintings address the indelible links between our past and the present. Like tectonic plates, the varied layers of paint shift over one another, creating rumblings and disturbances, constructing and deconstructing spaces and depths. Each layer—whether composed of fine, linear drawings; thin washes of colour; or chunky, generous dabs of paint—alternately emerges or disappears in relation to one another. Among these shifting layers lies an exploration of the evolution of need and an awareness of how these emergent desires alter our environment.

Hyung describes her brightly coloured paintings as worlds of motion, flux, shifting languages—old and new—and contemporary references that are evolving and finding new translations. The canvases speak both to physical structures and to the foundations upon which contemporary society is built: the desire for and pursuit of protection, of secure living spaces. The sprawling villas, the cars, the idle times by the poolside, she suggests, are gestures back to humanity’s long-fought odyssey for comfort and shelter. Deploying these contemporary visual references—architecture, luxury commodities—Hyung’s paintings are concerned with space and how space can describe us individually or collectively, as a culture.

The most striking element to Hyung’s work is perhaps the vibrant populations of her signature “blobs” which undulate through paintings like Oe Island or Where is "In the line of fire playing" in glossy waves. The blobs operate as a language through which the viewer is invited to navigate and resolve the painting: they form sentences, statements, and stories; they play against each other, humming, conflicting, stimulating, and unifying in a gestalt of colour. Ultimately, each bright marble of paint relates to one another individually and communally; they each require space, have their own evolutionary needs, and yet exist necessarily within a collective.

In Blow Spaces Away From The Whirling Blades of The Fan and The Curtain Rises, the blobs are openly connected to the individual; they exist within the sinuous outlines of swimming and diving female figures. The contrast of these organic figural lines with sharply geometric architectural lines references our longing to exist within a golden mean of carefully articulated spaces. In the end, Hyung’s vivid and shifting picture planes address the search for a balance in our environmental desires. We exist simultaneously within our own bubbles of physical and psychological space as well as within the spaces needed to be part of a collective culture and society.

Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Min Hyung is a Toronto-based artist.

Venue & Address: 
Angell Gallery 890 Queen Street W, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Painters

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 5:00am to Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 5:00am

Painters is an exhibition of new paintings by Sybil Goldstein, David Joron, Kristi Ropeleski and OCAD Instructor Natalie Waldburger. The four painters use their very developed and personal styles to create works that address the figure with an impetus towards a narrative.

All the artists have strong academic background and are currently teaching drawing or painting at various post secondary institutions. They are also being featured, in their respective categories, in the upcoming Carte Blanche volume on Canadian painters being released by Magenta Publishing for the Arts this November.

Venue & Address: 
Lennox Contemporary 12 Ossington Ave., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Looking at Nature

Chinkok Tan
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 4:00am to Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 5:00am

Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum & Art Centre presents an exhibition of paintings by Faculty of Art Professor Chinkok Tan.

Biography
When I began to paint over 40 years ago, the basic elements of art, as I view them, had not been established in books. Nor had I been taught them in a satisfactory manner.

Later, I discovered that it was because the elements themselves had not been understood or articulated in their simplest form. The basic elements of visual art should function much like musical scales do for the composer.
They establish a vocabulary by which the artist communicates. They provide a foundation that supports experimentation, enabling students/artists to create their subjects using a personalized style or technique. My strongest contribution as an artist and educator is that I have distilled the various elements of art, as I view them, into their purest expression, namely Shapes & Light Value.

Venue & Address: 
Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum & Art Centre 67 Pottery Road, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
todmorden@toronto.ca
Cost: 
Free

Composing Toronto

Composing Toronto
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:00am to Sunday, January 4, 2009 - 5:00am

The 4th annual Lynn Donoghue Artist in Residence Program is a presentation of the Historic Houses of Old Toronto Board as part of City of Toronto Cultural Services, in partnership with the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) and with the support of Romspen Investment Corporation.

Venue & Address: 
Spadina Museum 285 Spadina Road, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
spadina@toronto.ca
Cost: 
Free

Summer Smoke & Paint

Image for Ina Puchala
Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 4:00am to Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 5:00am

Join OCAD alumna Ina Puchala for sparkling wine and chocolate truffles at the opening reception of "Summer Smoke & Paint."

“Being able to take the paint right to the hard edge and then over is exciting,” says Puchala about her leap to a larger format, and from mylar to wood panel.

Independent curator and art writer EARL MILLER references this “definitive notion of edge” in Puchala’s work by recalling how Pollack and DeKooning “attempt to visualize in abstraction the sensation of standing on the edge of an abyss.”

Gripping these peripheries, Puchala paints the power surge that connects the abstract to the visceral. “By doing so,” writes Miller, “Puchala proposes that the act of painting bears equal significance to the finished project,” noting also that in Puchala’s exposure of the underpainting, she reveals her connection to the work’s unique history and process.

About Puchala’s work, GARY MICHAEL DAULT writes: “Every smear, sweep, swirl, pool, puddle, coagulation, hook or eye of it, every impress of one hue upon another, every juxtaposition of one hue to the next hue, speaks to the whole work, and, ultimately, to the viewer.”

SUMMER SMOKE & PAINT is Puchala’s sixth solo exhibition in 12 years. She has exhibited at Mittica Gallery, Mercer Union, John B. Aird, Gallery 1313, and the Art Galleries of Mississauga, Peel and Woodstock [London, Ontario.]

The exhibition continues through Saturday, November 15, 2008.

Special thanks to the Ontario Arts Council

Venue & Address: 
Rebecca Gallery 317 Grace Street, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

STEVE DRISCOLL: Conversations

video still, credit Steve Driscoll
Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

STEVE DRISCOLL: Conversations surveys the work of OCAD alum Steve Driscoll, showcasing the changes and developments of his paintings from 2000 – 2008. Presented in full colour, the works are accompanied by text drawn from video interviews with artists, arts writers, gallerists, designers and friends of the artist. The collection of imagery, coupled with interview text edited by Laurel MacMillan, gives readers insight into Driscoll's creative visions and mild eccentricities.

A free PDF version of the book and highlights from the video interviews can be found at www.SteveDriscoll.com.

The artist will be in attendance at the reception.
The exhibition continues until October 6, 2008.

Venue & Address: 
David Mirvish Books 596 Markham St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Penance & Devotion

Penance & Devotion
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 4:00am to Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 4:00am

How Do You Cope With Environmental Guilt?
Would You Crawl Along The Street With A Field On Your Back In Penance?

In November 2007, OCAD alumnus Gareth Bate crawled along Toronto's Queen Street West from Soho Street to Spadina Avenue with a field of grass on his back. It was painful and tiring. This bizarre act of self-punishment and humiliation for the guilt of environmental destruction has been captured in the performance video Penance. The exhibition also features Bate's large-scale paintings. His Lament series deals with a sense of personal sorrow, loss and hope in relation to the destruction of the natural world.

Curated by Faculty of Art Professor Colette Laliberté.

Biography:
Gareth Bate graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 2007. He is the winner of the 401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize, a 500 square foot studio given to one OCAD BFA graduate every year. He has won several awards for painting and art writing, and received an Ontario Arts Council Grant. He has shown at a number of Toronto galleries including Loop, Bau-Xi, Gallery 44, Gladstone Hotel and exhibited in Nuit Blanche.

Acknowledgements:
The artist would like to thank guest curator Colette Laliberté for all guidance and support. Glendon Gallery would like to thank its media partners: L'Express & Le Métropolitain newspapers, Radio-Canada TV & radio CJBC 860 AM, Première Chaîne and Clic Toronto. Special thanks go out to the Advising Committee: Marc Audette, Nadine Bariteau, Omid Fekri, Anna Husdon and Colette Laliberté.

Venue & Address: 
Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University 2275 Bayview Ave., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

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