Wendy Cain: Fluid Paper

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 6:00am to Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 5:00am

John M Parrot Gallery in Belleville presents new work by Chair, Printmaking, Wendy Cain.

Venue & Address: 
John M Parrot Gallery 254 Pinnacle Street, Belleville, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Sarah Nind: Mnemonic Structures

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Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 5:00am to Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 4:00am

Leo Kamen gallery in Toronto presents new work by OCAD Drawing & Painting Instructor, Sarah Nind.

Venue & Address: 
Leo Kamen Gallery 80 Spadina Ave., Suite 406, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Mnemonic Traces: Sarah Nind

Sarah Nind
Saturday, February 2, 2008 - 5:00am to Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 5:00am

Newzones gallery in Calgary presents new work by Faculty of Art Instructor Sarah Nind.

Venue & Address: 
Newzones 730 Eleventh Ave SW, Calgary, Ontario
Email: 
info@newzones.com

Lyla Rye: Closed for Renovations

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Thursday, February 7, 2008 - 5:00am to Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 5:00am

Fly Gallery presents new work by Lyla Rye. Lyla Rye is an installation artist based in Toronto who studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, then received her B.F.A. from York University and her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her practice uses video and sculptural devices in space to explore the nature of perception. Her work has been exhibited across Canada including at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Textile Museum of Canada, The Dunlop Gallery, The Mendel Gallery and The Power Plant. Internationally she has had exhibitions in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Berlin and Adelaide, Australia. Since the beginning of her career, she has been involved in exhibitions in non-gallery sites and with a number of collectives, including Nether Mind, hic and Persona Volare.

Venue & Address: 
Fly Gallery 1172 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
Lyla Rye
Cost: 
Free

Laura Millard: Precipitate

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Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 5:00am to Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 4:00am

Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto presents new work by OCAD Drawing & Painting Chair Laura Millard.

Venue & Address: 
Leo Kamen Gallery 80 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Kathleen Vaughan: Finding Home

Friday, February 1, 2008 - 5:00am to Friday, February 29, 2008 - 5:00am

TYPE Books presents Finding Home: a Collage Installation about Self, Place, Community and Belonging by Kathleen Vaughan, OCAD Drawing & Painting Instructor.

Venue & Address: 
TYPE Books 883 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
kathleen@akaredhanded.com
Cost: 
Free

STOP.

STOP.
Friday, January 25, 2008 - 5:00am to Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 5:00am

STOP. is the second part of START STOP., a project on rhythmicity begun in 2007, which features and examines various manifestations of continuities and discontinuities, of finitude and infinitude.

STOP., the determined terminal, the waning towards cessation'that final gasp of air. STOP., followed by a period adding closure to the arresting word. STOP. examines strategies of resolution and termination in the form of a heterogeneous mix of works that thrust the viewer towards the wall delimiting the finite and the infinite. The installations, objects and videos featured in STOP. plot endpoints and stage endgames. The appearance of corpses as well as the discussion of entrapment and mortality is broached with an implicit and incongruous irreverence. Whether marking an ultimate end or a momentary hold, STOP. acts as the snapshot of an incessant rhythm. The exhibition abounds in repetitions and multiplicities, all summoning abundance over paucity.

Entering the gallery, the visitor is faced by a phrase, repeated and piled. Th'r'se Mastroiacovo's Untitled (John Baldessari, 1972) (2002 ' ongoing) presents a pile of Baldessari's famous declaration, I will not make any more boring art, with the qualifier erased and converted into a lump. Samuel Roy-Bois, with the installation J'ai entendu un bruit, je me suis sauv' / I heard a noise and I ran (2003), proposes a room within a room within the main gallery space. Every surface of the interior room is thoroughly holed, it poignantly punctuates a blurring between inside and outside. The conventional frontal framing of a video projection is subverted in Simone Jones and Lance Winn's Knock (2006), for the piece invests the room on several surfaces and thereby acquires virtual volume through its actual movement. In Patrick Beaulieu's Bruissement (2007), a delicate and solitary leaf moves subtly, almost imperceptibly. It exhibits faint signs of life amidst an overwhelming funereal background. The Beginning (2004), the stop-animation film by Helen Tak, further accentuates the nocturnal ambience. The largely depopulated film foregrounds the sonic as a protagonist with its penetrating and pulsating room tones. Concluding the trajectory of the exhibition is an entrapment in the form of a pair of video works by Charlemagne Palestine. Island Song and Island Monologue (both from 1976) stage a performative angst-ridden voyage where the refrain is I gotta get out of here! Confined by island, fog and his own psychological demons, there nevertheless is hope, however faint, that seems to emanate from the journey: I don't know where to go... I guess I'll just stand here.

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery's contemporary exhibition program is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Venue & Address: 
The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University 1400 blvd. de Maisonneuve West, LB-165, Montreal, Quebec
Email: 
ellengal@alcor.concordia.ca
Cost: 
Free

State of Grace: Recent Sculpture

Susan Low-Beer at David Kaye Gallery
Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 5:00am to Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 5:00am

David Kaye Gallery in Toronto presents new sculpture works by former OCAD faculty member Susan Low-Beer.

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

Portrait

Jennifer Long
Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 5:00am to Saturday, February 9, 2008 - 5:00am

Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto presents new work by Photography Instructor Jennifer Long.

Venue & Address: 
Leo Kamen Gallery 80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 406, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Zwarte Piet: Legends of the Sea

Zorica Vasic
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 5:00am to Monday, January 7, 2008 - 5:00am

Zorica Vasic, a Toronto-based artist, merges folklore, historical fascinations, and popular culture in her new series 'Zwarte Piet: Legends of the Sea' exhibiting at LandymoreKeith Contemporary Art in Toronto, Ontario from December 7, 2007- January 7, 2008. The artist will be present at the opening event taking place on December 7 from 6-9 pm.
'Zwarte Piet: Legends of the Sea' claims it's title from fairy-tale figure Zwarte Piet, Santa Claus' helper servant who on December 4th of every year sails on a boat from Spain to Holland. The exhibition features imaginary portraits of Zwarte Piet combined with portraits of documented historical pirates who were adventuring in the seas of Europe from the 15th -19th Century: inventing names and personas for themselves, becoming self-appointed nobles and perishing in the tropical circuit. Vasic' series confronts the viewer with human-size cultural symbols of the exotic: on the one hand repulsive, brutal and barbaric, on the other hand attractive, colorful and seductive. The exhibition blends the historical with the imaginary, falling somewhere between a thrilling yarn of the sea and an illustrated encyclopedia, creating a reading of history as entertainment.
Vasic has exhibited her work internationally at private galleries, public spaces and film festivals including Gallery TPW (Toronto), Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Amsterdam) and City Hall Gallery (Hong Kong). Her work spans multiple artistic mediums including drawing, painting, collage, photography and film. She has received a B.F.A. from Akademy voor Fine Arts in Arnhem, Holland and an M.F.A. from Jan Van Eyck Akademy in Maastrict, Holland. She currently teaches at Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada.

Venue & Address: 
LandymoreKeith Contemporary Art 800 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
info@landymorekeith.com
Cost: 
Free

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