Sara Sniderhan

Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 4:00pm to Sunday, November 1, 2015 - 12:00am

Illustration Faculty Sara Sniderhan's show "A Room of Her Own" runs October 15-31, 2015
Opening Celebration with the Artist is Thursday, October 15th at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Venue & Address: 
Ingram Gallery 24 Hazelton Avenue Toronto, ON 416-929-2220
Website: 
http://www.ingramgallery.com
Image of a woman sitting on the ground

Alumna reaches finals in RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Graphite, oil and linen on panel depicting blue jug and leaf
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 4:00am

Claire Scherzinger (BFA, Drawing & Painting, 2013) is one of 15 artists vying for the top prize of $25,000 in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

The finalists were chosen from a pool of 615 competitors from three regions of Canada — Western Canada, Central Canada and Eastern Canada.

Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition is an initiative developed by RBC with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation (publisher of Canadian Art).

This year, the competition will award $85,000 in prize money. In addition to the top prize of $25,000, two honourable mentions will receive $15,000 while the remaining finalists will receive $2,500. The winner and two honourable mentions will be announced on November 16, 2015.

The top three works become part of the RBC Corporate Collection which holds more than 4,000 works of art collected over the past century.

The initiative nurtures and supports promising new artists in the early stages of their careers, offering financial empowerment and professional mentorship.

Another OCAD U alumna, Vanessa Maltese (BFA, Drawing & Painting, 2010) was named national winner of the competition in 2012.  

Otino Corsano: Banner Year

Image of a banner
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 5:00am to Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 5:00am

OCAD U Continuing Studies intsructor Otino Corsano continues to reconstruct cinematic elements into new genres for his latest Banner Year solo exhibition presented by pm Gallery. These new paintings feature celluloid-like images of scrolling banners both with and sans mottos. Undulating forms relate to the analog essence of both cinema and painting in the digital era. Contemporary heraldry of corporate branding is also referenced. Corsanos recent work tracks new dialogues through a fusion of oscillating film structures and the highly archival medium of painting as a perpetually resurfacing discipline.

In early 2008, Corsano commissioned the creation of twelve wood panels to be constructed at three times the scale of the original 2007 iPhone. These solid wood forms were produced prior to any public knowledge of the development or release of the first iPad in 2010, although they are similar in dimensions. Featuring rounded edges and silver casing, the resulting series of wood-burned paintings document inspirational quotes from artists, collectors, dealers and other art world insiders culled from the artists memory.

Linked to the Los Angeles art community, Corsano's visual art practice consists of neo-conceptualist, new genre work. He explores areas of meaning production in a variety of media and established Ocean Course Films as an entity to consolidate his collaborative multimedia projects. Corsano has taught at the University of Toronto and is an Instructor at OCAD University. He completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 2000. Banner Year is Otino Corsanos fourth Toronto solo exhibition with pm Gallery. The artist personally thanks Pete Commanda for his wood burning expertise. Otino is grateful to Powell McDougall for a decade of professional representation of his work.

Opening Thursday, February 5, 6 to 9 p.m.

Venue & Address: 
p|m Gallery 1518 Dundas Street West
Website: 
http://pmgallery.ca/
Phone: 
<p>416.937.3862</p>

A Riveder le Stelle: Mary Hambleton and Sara MacLean

Photograph of a blurred light object
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 5:00am to Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 5:00am

A Riveder le Stelle | Mary Hambleton and Sara MacLean
January 22 – February 22, 2015

TYPOLOGY is thrilled to announce the launch of our guest curating program with the two person exhibition, A Riveder le Stelle. Featuring rarely seen works on paper by the late New York painter Mary Hambleton, and a video installation by Toronto-based Sara MacLean, the exhibition is curated by interdisciplinary artist and independent curator Heather Nicol.

Taking its name from the final line of Dante’s Inferno (1314), A Riveder le Stelle, “to gaze once more upon the stars,” is conceived as a virtual conversation between two artists, separated by time, place, and practice, whose work nevertheless manifests striking formal and conceptual correspondences. Among the many such convergences are a mutual interest in the body, the scientific gaze (particularly as it relates to diagnostic medicine), relationships between the infinitesimal and the celestial, and the sense of wonder such scrutiny engenders.

Public opening reception: Thursday, January 22nd from 6–8 pm
Join us for an opening reception with guest curator Heather Nicol and artist Sara MacLean (same night as Koffler Gallery’s opening for Kristiina Lahde downstairs). Refreshments will be served and all are welcome!

About the Curator and Artists
Toronto-based guest curator Heather Nicol received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts (NY), MA in art education from NYU, and interdisciplinary MFA from OCADU. Her curatorial projects often engage conditions specific to decommissioned and repurposed sites, and have fostered opportunities for large groups of artists working across a wide range of disciplines.

Mary Hambleton (1952–2009) was based in Brooklyn and exhibited her work in the US and abroad at venues including Leslie Heller Gallery, Littlejohn Contemporary, and Pamela Auchincloss Gallery (New York), and the Machida City Museum (Tokyo). Her many honours include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial, Adolph Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and two Pollock-Krasner awards.

Toronto-based Sara MacLean (b. 1974) employs embodied camera techniques, darkroom experiments, sculpture, and set design to create subtly choreographed encounters with her time-based media projections. She has exhibited in North America, Europe, and Asia at festivals and venues including Anthology Film Archives (New York) and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

Venue & Address: 
TYPOLOGY Projects No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
Website: 
http://typology.ca/exhibition/a-riveder-le-stelle/
Email: 
info@typology.ca
Phone: 
647-930-6930
Cost: 
Free

Jody Hewgill wins Society of Illustrators gold

Before Midnight by Jody Hewgill
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 5:00am

Assistant Professor in Illustration Jody Hewgill has recently been awarded a Society of Illustrators gold award for her work Before Midnight. The award was given in the editorial category of the Society’s 57th Annual Exhibition.

The painting was commissioned by Entertainment Weekly creative director Kory Kennedy for a review of the film by the same name by director Richard Linklater for the magazine’s top ten issue. The painting will be exhibited at New York’s Museum of American Illustration opening gala and award presentation on February 6, 2015.

“This is an extraordinary honour in the Illustration profession and a feather in the cap of OCAD’s Faculty of Design,” said Illustration Chair Paul Dallas. The exhibition is considered the premier showcase for illustrators.

Public Presentation by Etienne Zack

Poster with Etienne Zack's name in white type against background of printed sheets of paper
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 4:00pm

 

Contemporary Painting and Print Media, Faculty of Art, is proud to present a public presentation by Etienne Zack, recent paintings and and research practices.

Biography 

Etienne Zack had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada (with catalogue) in spring 2010. His work has also been shown in numerous solo exhibitions including Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England; Marina-Miranda, Madrid, Spain; Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada. Zack’s work was also been included in East International 2004 (selectors: Neo Rauch and Harry Gerb Lybke), Norwich, England; The Model, Sligo, Ireland; the National Gallery of Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, United States; Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria, and was part of the 2008 Quebec Triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada. 

In 2012, Etienne Zack’s was included in Oh, Canada, at Mass. MoCA, USA, the largest survey of Canadian art in the US. The Oh, Canada exhibition will be touring until 2015. 

Etienne Zack is the 2005 winner of the RBC Painting Competition, the 2008 City of Montreal's Pierre-Ayot prize and the recipient of the 2014 Emily Award in Vancouver, Canada. 

His work is collected by major institutions and museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, National Fine Arts Museum of Quebec, Montreal Fine Arts Museum, Surrey Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum and The Model, Ireland. His work can also be found in corporate and private collections in the United States, Europe, Scandinavia and the UK. 

Etienne Zack’s work uses fictitious possibilities and historical moments that are staged into paintings that are reminiscent of fabricated environments. Each painting operates within its own systems and logic. A painting is made up of a succession of ideas that are performed using paint. In effect, the paintings function as a way to activate and pry open different pictorial, cultural, and historical forces in order to experience them yet again in unique ways. 

Etienne Zack lives and works in Los Angeles, USA since 2010. 

 

 

 

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Auditorium 100 McCaul St.
Cost: 
Free

Outsider

Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 4:00am to Sunday, October 26, 2014 - 4:00am

 

OCAD U Faculty of Design instructor Jon Todd presents his latest show Outsider

Gallery: Hermann & Audrey. 1506 Dundas St West, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: October 16th– 26th, 2014
OUTSIDER, the latest exhibition by contemporary painter Jon Todd, will be on display for public viewing at Hermann & Audrey from October 16th - 26th, 2014.
Inspired by naïve artist values discovered in Central America, OUTSIDER is multi-layered
portraits adorned in symbolic imagery and presented in light box, lenticular installation, collage and mixed media. Jon Todd has revealed his artistic process by unveiling abstractions and expressed brush strokes within each of the pieces.

Venue & Address: 
Hermann &amp; Audrey Gallery 1506 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

INTRINSIC

Friday, October 17, 2014 - 4:00am to Sunday, November 23, 2014 - 5:00am

 

SHEA CHANG | INTRINSIC |Opening Reception

Referencing time lapse footage of growing plants, of underwater life forms in movement, this painting series aims to condense naturally existing forms and their movement into one image frame. Abstractions of feathers, jellyfish, tsunamis or overgrown foliage, these constructed forms describe the lapse between disparate natural environments and bring to focus what is inherent in all of nature.

ARTiculations | Earl Selkirk Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 11 AM - 7 PM
Saturday: 11 AM - 5 PM
Sunday: 12 - 5 PM

2928 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6P 1Y8

For more information visit:
www.ARTiculations.ca
www.sheachang.com

Please join us for the Opening Reception of "INTRINSIC" Friday October 17th 7-10pm.

Venue & Address: 
Earl Selkirk Gallery 2928 Dundas St. W. Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Scott Sawtell: There is a light that never goes out

Painting of an alligator hanging from vines.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 4:00am to Saturday, June 28, 2014 - 4:00am

Reception: Friday, June 13, 7 to 11 p.m. during art crawl)

OCAD U alumnus exhibition

B Contemporary presents their first solo exhibition of recent paintings by Scott Sawtell. Each painting in the series “there is a light that goes out” shows a majestic animal in situ, with flowers blooming from them.

The paintings are purposefully uncanny. The animals might be sleeping or they might be waking. They might be alive or they might be dead. The flowers might be growth or funereal flowers placed upon them. The animals could be metaphors for people, or they might just be animals. Sawtell’s goal is for them to exist in no particular space which allows the viewer to place them wherever they imagine.

About the Artist:
Scott has an M.F.A from the University of Waterloo and is a graduate of OCAD University. As well as maintaining a vital artistic career showing work across Canada and the United States, Scott has previously curated exhibitions for The Town of Newmarket, the City of Kitchener and Oakville Galleries. He also organized and participated in 60 Painters; an ambitious exhibiton of contemporary Canadian painting which was held at Humber College in May of 2012.

Scott Sawtell is also an art instructor at Brock University in St. Catharines, as well as Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario. He previously taught at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario.

Image: Hidden Behind Moonlight. 2014. Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. 47 x 63.5 inches.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The second Friday of the Month (Art Crawl)
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 to 11 p.m.

Venue & Address: 
b contemporary 226 James Street Toronto, Ontario
Website: 
http://www.bcontemporary.ca
Email: 
<p><a href="mailto:davidbrace@bcontemporary.ca">davidbrace@bcontemporary.ca</a></p>
Cost: 
Free

Rebound

Rebound
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 4:00am to Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 4:00am

Opening Reception, Friday September 6th, 6-9pm

Luke Painter

Luke Painter’s new solo exhibition, titled Rebound, investigates the dramatic and often-bizarre ways in which historical styles are translated through design and architecture practices. Investigating specific revivalist trends in his ink on paper works, Painter digs into Louis Comfort Tiffany’s resuscitation of medieval glass techniques in late 19th century commercial applications; the 1980’s filtering of Art Deco, Pop and Minimalism in the work of designer and architect Michael Graves; and the continual mutation of Gothic architecture in the 20th century. In his new body of work including ink drawings on paper and stained glass sculpture, Painter both references and re-contextualizes these chameleonic sources. Recent exhibitions of his work include numerous exhibitions throughout Toronto, Montreal, Par Nature at Bonneau-Samames Art Contemporain in Marseille, France (solo 2009), Pulse New York Art Fair (2009), Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (2009) and the Athina Art Fair in Greece (2009). Luke has received numerous research and artist grants from Hexagram/Concordia, Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. His work has been reviewed by many notable publications including: Canadian Art, Border Crossings, The Globe and Mail, and The National Post.

Visit Studio Beat at the link below to view a great studio visit with Luke Painter: http://www.studio-beat.com/artists/luke-painter-interdisciplinary/
 

 

www.studio-beat.com/artists/luke-painter-interdisciplinary/

 

Free

Venue & Address: 
LE Gallery 1183 Dundas St. W. Toronto, Ontario

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