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Origo Books Gallery is proud to showcase a selection of works by local visual artists JANA BACHTIK and MIKA HOLUBEC — Friday March 2, 5pm. Downtown Toronto.

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February 8, 2012 —

Origo Books Gallery is proud to showcase a selection of works by local visual artists JANA CERNA-BACHTIK and MIKA HOLUBEC.

As a reflection of her own cognitive process, JANA’s paintings strives to express and channel the feelings, thoughts, and experiences incoming from the external world. Her work recognizes the body as the script of each individual’s personal story, convinced as she is that the figurative must become secondary to the inner state of being poured on the canvas and should be constructed from within, from those thoughts and feelings that shape our lives and determine our fates.

Photography provides MIKA with a deep spiritual connection with the subject, nature, and the world at large. Her urge to capture a moment and the emotion that streams out from it like an inner voice finds resonance in her hope that people absorb, experience, and feel enriched by the beauty of the instants she has felt blessed to have experienced.

JANA CERNA-BACHTIK is a Toronto-based visual artist with a steady track of solo and joint exhibits in the last decade. She studied Art Collage in her natal Czech Republic and classical painting at her arrival in Canada. Her work has been shown at the Hittite Gallery, Laurier Gallery, Zypr Gallery, Michelangelo Gallery and Praxis Gallery (Toronto), as well as the World Fine Gallery (New York), among others.

MIKA HOLUBEC has been taking photographs since her teen years while she was living in the Czech Republic. After her arrival in Canada, she studied Art and Photography at York University, Toronto. Her photos has been featured in several collective shows around the GTA.

SOUL THRU NATURE art show & sale will continue until Saturday March 31, 2012. Located at the store’s mezzanine, the Origo Books Gallery is open Monday to Friday, Noon to 6pm.

Opening date: Friday March 2, 2012 at 5:00pm.

ORIGO BOOKS

49 Lower Jarvis St.

Downtown Toronto, ON

(Just one block south of the St. Lawrence Market)

Tel. 416-703-3535

gallery@origobooks.com

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Call for Entries for Windsor Whitney Biennial. Submission via email only. Submission deadline February 19th.
Finalists will be included in a digital art display at The Biennial Project’s Windsor-Whitney New York City Reception on March 2, 2012 at the Art Connects New York /Spattered Columns Gallery in SOHO and in a blog posting to 2,000 Art Lovers! The Grand Prize Winner will attend, as a guest of The Biennial Project (travel and hotel costs not included),the February 29th Opening Reception of The Whitney Biennial (a $250 Value!). They will also have a solo show on our website supported by a separate bold entry highlighting the winners online show.

Our guest juror is Morgan The Sucklord Phillips from Bravo’s hit TV show ‘Work of Art’. Follow link attached for entry info and form:

http://windsorwhitneybiennial.com/biennial2.aspx
Even if you do not enter please come to our
Opening Glittering Champagne Reception: March 2nd, 2012 at the Art Connects New York /Spattered Columns Gallery in SoHo.

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The Biennial Project is a collaborative project by artists Eric Hess, Anna Salmeron and our friends to explore the nature and understand the perception of biennial exhibits within the art world, and, in so doing, to develop a collective body of work that will be exhibited in as many biennial exhibits as possible – especially the really cool ones.

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LONSDALE GALLERY Unfamiliar Territories

February 9 - March 25, 2011

reception: Saturday, February 18 from 2-4pm

featuring: Sally Ayre, Jim Hake, Osheen Harruthoonyan, Joan Kaufman

Unfamiliar Territories brings together the work of artists: Sally Ayre, Jim Hake, Osheen Harruthoonyan and Joan Kaufman. Each of these artists employ ambiguous narratives in their work. Though varied in their techniques, a sense of the magical, the oblique and the bizarre presides in the work of each of these artists.

Sally Ayre is a photo-based artist employing techniques such as Van Dyke, cyanotype, photo silk-screen and photo lithography in her work. At the core of her art practice are notions of loss, longing, and the history of her Newfoundland roots. Now based in Toronto, the artist frequently returns to Newfoundland, in search of objects and information, which become the basis for the work. Organic objects such as rocks, seaweed, shells, and feathers, are the building blocks for her constructed narratives, abstractions that have their roots in the artist’s childhood and reminiscence. Jim Hake tells stories through sculpture. Although his work is dominated by clay and porcelain, he works with a variety of materials including wood, metal, plaster and glass. His work often depicts icons of the human condition with themes such as community, parenthood, and loss. Hake’s deeply personal works touch on issues that effects us all, allowing for an individual connection for each viewer. Jim Hake received his BFA in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, an MA in Sculpture at the California State University, Sacramento and an MFA in sculpture at Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe, in particular Milan, Bologna, Venice, Lugano, Stockholm and London.

Osheen Harruthoonyan is a photographer and experimental filmmaker based in Toronto. He employs a multi-faceted approach towards his practice, investigating themes such as memory, history, and the deconstructive process of time. The idea of the fragmentation of memory over time is emphasized by his use of analogue printing processes in a traditional black & white darkroom. Harruthoonyan layers and manipulates both found and personal photographs to create provocative hand-made images that straddle the line between dream and nightmare. Osheen’s work has been widely exhibited, including two Featured Exhibitions with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival (2010 and 2011). Joan Kaufman is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the mediums of sculpture, photography, video and sound composition to produce highly symbolic multi-dimensional works of art. She works in series producing multi-media installations that blur the boundaries between illusion and reality by creating both photographic and filmic constructs. Her work thus generates moments, which are continuously suspended in a larger unfolding narrative that spans the artist’s entire oeuvre. Kaufman has exhibited both nationally and internationally; is the recipient of Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Manitoba Arts Council grants; and has works in both public and private collections.

LONSDALE GALLERY
410 SPADINA ROAD
TORONTO, ON M5P 2W2
416.487.8733
www.lonsdalegallery.com

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday from 11-5
and by appointment

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Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
is pleased to offer Dana Holst
The Wishing Well, 2011
Litho on paper, 24 x 19”
(Edition is of 25)
$475

To view work, click here:
http://kmcap.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-dana-holst-lithograph-available.html

To reserve a print:
Contact Katharine Mulherin at 416-993-6510
or email
info@katharinemulherin.com

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  KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS 1086 Queen St. W. Toronto, ON Canada M6J 1H8 T: 416.993.6510 www.katharinemulherin.com

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COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE

(Pour diffusion immédiate)

Ottawa, le 6 février 2012 – Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle est fier de présenter, avec le généreux soutien du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Un mensonge encadré : le phénomène du faux en peinture, une conférence de Philippe Bensimon, criminologue, et L’art de spolier l’artiste!, une conférence de M^e Isabelle Regout. Les présentations auront lieu le 16 février 2012 dès 16 h 30, à la Salle de conférences du Musée des beaux-arts.

Au programme : ampleur du phénomène du faux en peinture, illustrations à l’appui, et raison d’être du droit d’auteur à l’ère de la nouvelle technologie numérique.

Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle remercie l’AGAVF, l’ACO, l’AAOF et BRAVO, ses partenaires, ainsi que le Conseil des arts de l’Ontario, Patrimoine canadien et la Ville d’Ottawa de leur appui. Le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada est situé au 380, promenade Sussex, à Ottawa. L’entrée aux conférences est libre avec contribution volontaire.

Renseignements : Shahla Bahrami

(613) 748-6954 ou info@voixvisuelle.ca

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PRESS RELEASE

(For immediate release)

Ottawa, February 6, 2012 – Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle is proud to present, with generous support from the National Gallery of Canada, Un mensonge encadré: le phénomène du faux en peinture, a talk by criminologist Philippe Bensimon, and L’art de spolier l’artiste!, a talk by M^e Isabelle Regout. The presentations will be held on February 16, 2012 starting at 4:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the National Gallery.

Participants will learn, thanks to illustrations, about the ever growing phenomenon of counterfeit artwork, and the principal function of intellectual property in this new era of digital technology.

Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle would like to thank AGAVF, ACO, AAOF and BRAVO, its partners, as well as the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage and the City of Ottawa for their support. The National Gallery of Canada is located at 380 Sussex Drive, in Ottawa. Admission to the talks is free with a voluntary contribution.

Information: Shahla Bahrami

(613) 748-6954 or info@voixvisuelle.ca

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For Immediate Release: February 8, 2012

Exhibitions Continue through to February 18, 2012

Gerald Ferguson
Stencils and Tasks
Painting and Mixed Media Works
January 21 – February 18

East Gallery

Gerald Ferguson Vertical chain 1, 2009, enamel on canvas 48 x 48 inches

The Gerald Ferguson exhibition at the Canada Gallery, NY is currently featured in artforum.com’s “Critics’ Picks” section, a select review of shows worldwide. The review written by Annie Ochmanek:

http://www.artforum.com/?pn=picks&section=nyc#picks30182 Critics’ Picks are live on the website until the exhibition’s closing date and can then be found in our online archive.

http://www.artforum.com/archive/id=30182

William Kurelek
Tools and the Everyday
Selected Paintings and Drawings From the Estate of William Kurelek
January 21 – February 18
West Gallery

William Kurelek Hand Saw, 1975 mixed media 16 x 28 inches
William Kurelek The Messenger, opened at the Art Gallery of Hamilton on January 28^th, it is the largest exhibition of William Kurelek’s work ever held. The Messenger is on exhibit at the Art Gallery of Hamilton until April 29^th, after which is will travel to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. The retrospective exhibition is featured in the Hamilton Spectator article:

The feature: http://www.thespec.com/whatson/artsentertainment/article/660607—a-painter-pulled-between-the-pretty-and-the-prophetic

For more information on The Messenger please visit:
http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/

http://kurelek.ca/

Upcoming Shows:

Doris McCarthy Island and Fiord 1984 oil on canvas 36 X 48 inches

Doris McCarthy
Paintings and Works on Paper
February 25 – March 31
Opening Reception; Saturday, February 25, 2-5 pm

Monica Tap
New Paintings
April 14 – May 5
Opening Reception; Saturday, April 14, Artist Present 2-5pm

Gallery Artist News:

Howard Podeswa is included in The Doris McCarthy Gallery exhibition The C Word. Opening Reception Saturday, February 11, 2-5 pm. free shuttle bus to the DMG departs 401 Richmond Street West at 2 pm, returning 5 pm. For more information please visit the Doris McCarthy Gallery website:
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dmg

For more information please contact:
Wynick/Tuck Gallery
401 Richmond St. W Suite 128
Toronto, Ontario
416-504-8716
wtg@wynicktuckgallery.ca
www.wynicktuckgallery.ca

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Art Wynwood International Contemporary Art Fair

President’s Day Weekend

February 16-20, 2012

Mike Weiss Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in Art Wynwood during this upcoming Presidents Day Weekend. If you happen to be in Miami, please be sure to visit us in booth # B20 where we will have new works by KAORUKO, Kim Dorland, Will Kurtz, Liao Yibai and Yigal Ozeri.

Scroll down for a preview of works on display and more information about visiting the fair.

Mike Weiss Gallery - Booth B20

KAORUKO / Secret Garden; Love String 1 / 2011 / Acrylic, silk screen and sumi on canvas / 60” x 53”

Kim Dorland / Untitled; Sunset Orange and Teal / 2011 / Oil on canvas / 40” x 30”

Will Kurtz / Biro / 2012 / Wood, metal wire, newspaper, glue, tape, matte medium and rope dog toy / 32” x 44” x 14”

Liao Yibai / Fake Ring, Pink Iceberg / 2010 / Stainless steel and synthetic quartz / 36 1/4” x 30” x 15”

Yigal Ozeri / Untitled; Aquabella / 2012 / Oil on paper / 42” x 60”

Location

The Art Miami Pavilion

Midtown Miami | Wynwood

3101 NE 1st Avenue

Miami, FL 33137

www.art-wynwood.com

VIP Preview

Thursday, February 16 6:00pm-10:00pm

Access for Art Wynwood VIP Cardholders & Press

To register for VIP click here

GENERAL ADMISSION

Friday, February 17 11am - 7pm

Saturday, February 18 11am - 7pm

Sunday, February 19 11am - 7pm

Monday, February 20 11am - 6pm

Complimentary Admission for Two click here for a printable pass (value $30)

Art Wynwood Shuttle Bus

Art Wynwood will be offering complimentary round trip shuttle bus service to and from Miami Beach, the Miami International Yacht and Brokerage Show and the Downtown Financial/ Residential/Hotel District of Miami.

For further information or images please contact Anna Ortt, Director at anna@mikeweissgallery.com

Mike Weiss Gallery

520 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011

Tel: 212-691-6899

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 10am to 6pm

www.mikeweissgallery.com

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Messiah(untainted), 2011, inkjet print on ragpaper, 72”x44”		Michael Dudeck M E S S I A H February 9 – March 24, 2012 Opening reception Thursday, February 9, 5-8 pm The artist will be present 254 Niagara Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J 2L8 +1 (416) 591-6464 info@parinadimigallery.com www.parinadimigallery.com hours Wednesday - Saturday 12 noon - 5pm or by appointment

Pari Nadimi Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Michael Dudeck.

MESSIAH is Michael Dudeck’s second solo exhibition at Pari Nadimi Gallery, and centers around a fictive prophet in an elaborate queer mythology Dudeck has spent the last 3 years developing. Focusing on the moment of Death of the Prophet, Dudeck explores the loss of subjectivity involved in being iconic. The Messianic figure must accept the projections of it’s public and correspond to, or retaliate against the invention that accompanies his/her own existence. MESSIAH explores the propaganda, the consecration and ceremonial aftermath of the life of the messianic figure through the lens of a queer science-fiction/fantasy blurring prehistory and futurity in a hybrid museological installation.

The exhibition includes large-scale photographic prints on ragpaper, which Dudeck has carved into, maimed, and painted over, a stylized video of the prophets death ceremony, excerpts from an invented sacred text displayed on the walls of the gallery as didactic information, as well as the mummified prophet encased in a plexiglass tomb.

MESSIAH is the sixth installment of Michael Dudeck’s RELIGION project following Parthenogenesis (Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, 2009), Cathexis (PLATFORM Center for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, 2010), WombTomb (Center for Performance Research, New York, 2011), Amygdala (ace art inc., Winnipeg, 2011), and Pharmakos (The Glasshouse, Tel Aviv, 2012). In addition to these projects, Dudeck has delivered performances, group and solo exhibitions and launched publications nationally and internationally including John Connelly Presents (NYC), The Watermill Center (New York), Art Metropole (Toronto), and Gallery Connexion (Fredericton, New Brunswick). His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Village Voice, View on Canadian Art, Fuse Magazine, and he was one of 500 young artists featured in the New Museum’s Younger than Jesus Artist Directory by Phaidon Press. In fall of 2012, Dudeck is one of 12 artists selected to participate in The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s banner exhibition Winnipeg Now, which will feature the seventh installment of Dudeck’s Religion project : The Baculum Cosmogony, curated by Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh.

For more information about Michael Dudeck or the gallery, please visit our website www.parinadimigallery.com or contact the gallery at info@parrinadimigallery.com, 254 Niagara St., Toronto, Canada or 416-591-6464.

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Monday February 6, 2012

Comment of the Week

…one of the great threats to any art network — call it a scene, a world, whatever — is the threat of suburbanization. By that I mean: making the rough “smooth”, the unpalatable “chic”, the homeless “homey”. - Michael Corris on Dallas’ institutional brotherhood weighs in on Dallas’ art scene at DMA State of the Arts

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Robert Boyd on Robert Pruitt

Robert Boyd of the revered blog The Great God Pan is Dead reviews Robert Pruitt’s show at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas.

Pruitt seems to be part of a movement of African American artists and intellectuals who proudly proclaim their nerd-hood.

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Shepard Fairey Speaks

Colette Copeland attends the Shepard Fairey talk at the Dallas Contemporary.

The last audience question was “What happens to the rebellion when the rebels win?” Smiling, Fairey adroitly replied “Power always corrupts. I’m such a bastard now.”

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“Wax by the Fire” joins Glasstire!

Rachel Hooper launches her blog Wax by the Fire on Glasstire.

“[It’s] sort of a love letter to Houston and the intelligent, diverse, and friendly community of creative people who live here.”

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Mystery Dinner with CADD

Lucia Simek attends the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas mystery dinner - and likes it.

When people started dancing, and I looked back at Barry Whistler – one of Dallas’ most respected gallerists of twenty-five years – drumming away on the stage, I wondered where I was for a moment. It was like an odd dream of Dallas where suddenly all of the pretenses about money and status and culture and success were banished. What was left was something far more essential — delight.

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Professionalizing Artists at UT

Claire Ruud discusses UT’s new MFA course Professional Practices: Staying in the Game.

To me, it sounds a little bit like a splash of cold water in the face. How will you develop and maintain a flourishing network of curators, gallerists, artists? How will you find time to read Art Power and Empire after work? How will you sustain a practice when no one’s watching you, when you have a day job, when your studio is a closet?

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Mark Manders @ the DMA

Betsy Lewis visits “Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/ Documented Assignments” at the DMA.

In “Nocturnal Garden Scene,” the most talked about work in the exhibition, a black cat is cut in half as if in a magic trick, the gap between its front and back parts loosely marked by a rope tied from two upright bottles.

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Skydive Turns Four!

Rachel Hooper remembers the origins of the Houston alt space…

Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building across from Montrose Krogers and the Chinese Consulate…

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New to Classifieds

Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse Curatorial Assistant
Deadline: ASAP
Posted in Job Listings

Triple Canopy’s Third Annual Call for Proposals
Deadline: 2/13/2012
Posted in Calls for entries

Contemporary Art Month (CAM) Video Jam
Deadline: 3/20/2012
Posted in Calls for entries

Houston’s performance art collective, Continuum
@ the Orange Show
2/11/2012
Posted in Plug Shows Here

Creative Capital 2012 Grant
Deadline: 3/1/2012
Posted in Grants

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An exhibition of works by members the Ontario Society of Artists as part of the “partners” project.

Lynn Bishop Carmel Brennan Corinne Duchesne
Judith Finch Cathy Groulx Diana Harding-Tucker
Janet Hendershot Robert Montgomery Audra Noble
Janet Read Ernestine Tahedi

Feb 10 - Mar 4.

Opening Reception: Friday, Feb 10, 7-10 pm (James North Art Crawl)
appetizers by Wild Orchid fine portuguese cuisine

gallery hours: wed-sun, 12-5
you me gallery
330 James St. North, Hamilton ON (905) 523-7754 www.youmegallery.ca

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MKG127 is pleased to present Strength Thru Embarrassment, the second solo exhibition at MKG127 by Meaford, Ontario based artist, Laura Kikauka.

Opening Saturday February 11 2-5 PM.

in Strength Thru Embarrassment, Laura Kikauka presents new work that combines the aesthetics of both intention and accident. In an act of double-appropriation, she alters a large collection of ”art” purchases (largely from thrift stores) by collaging, drawing and painting excerpts from song lyrics into the found “art”. The appropriation of found paintings and song lyrics makes the original artist and lyricist unwitting collaborators with Kikauka, thus creating a three-way collaborative process. The resulting visual works pose a game for the viewer, who may often recognize the song lyrics but might be puzzled to name the song from which the lyrics were borrowed. Kikauka appropriates lyrics from all genres of popular & unpopular song: classic rock, pop, new wave, punk, indie, country, metal, jazz and easy listening and from such musical suspects as Abba & Aerosmith to Zappa & ZZ Top and the many musicians in between.

Laura Kikauka’s body of work over the past twenty-five years encompasses various mediums including site specific installation, mixed media, electronic sculpture, drawing, photography, video, performance, music, text and costume creations. Kikauka’s installations establish a highly specific visual (and often audio) language that blends the increasingly overlapping worlds of high and low art forms. In general Laura’s ‘excessive aesthetic’ is comparable to urban archeology and addresses issues of consumer culture, and the question of good and bad taste. It also celebrates failure in a humourous and ironic manner. Kikauka’s work is inspired and derived from decades of on-going collecting of found objects. Employing the formal strategy of meticulously sorting and organizing these objects, as well as modifying or transforming them, she then creates specifically themed and coded installations that transform gallery and exhibition spaces into densely packed, highly detailed installations. Laura’s categorization speaks of similarities and differences. The Funny Farm studio in rural Meaford is a combination of living and working spaces treated as on-going installations that exemplify, through a density of detail her interest in low class consumer culture. It is with a sense of sarcasm and empathy that she explores this reoccurring theme.

The exhibition continues until March 10.

MKG127

is located in Toronto at 127 Ossington Avenue between Queen and Dundas Streets at the NE corner of Ossington Avenue and Argyle Street . Hours are Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 6 PM or by appointment. For more information call 647- 435-7682. www.mkg127.com

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ARTIST CHOICE 2012
continues until
Saturday, February 16th

NOSTALGIE - LANDES BRUMEUSES #70
16’ x 20”, mixed media on canvas
by Ariane Dubois

We hope you can join us at the gallery to
see this year’s offering of new works
by the Gallery artists. To view online, please follow this link.

Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Saturday
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

641 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1Z9
416 924 8731
info@robertsgallery.net
www.robertsgallery.net

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Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011

www.rmanyc.org | facebook.com/rubinmuseum | twitter.com/rubinmuseum

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Pragmatism and Decadence through Applied Research

Artworks by Andy Brayman and the Matter Factory

Tuesday, February 7, 2012, OCAD University, 6:30 pm

Hello World - click to see video

Join us this Tuesday, February 7^th to welcome Andy Brayman

OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto.
Room 230 (second floor)
6:30 - 7:30 pm

Free to attend!

Brayman will describe his working process and discuss the resulting objects, which are born through a unique mixture of science and art. Specifically, his research into robotic fabrication and porcelain production will be presented.

“My current work comes from research into new technologies coupled with my long-standing interest in utility. While the forms are largely defined by conventions of function, the specifics of these forms and their surfaces are born from digital tools: software and hardware.”

Andy Brayman holds a BA in sociology and a BFA in ceramics from the University of Kansas (1996) and an MFA in ceramics from Alfred University (1998). His work is a combination of traditional craft, industrial processes, and contemporary art strategies. At their best, his pots demonstrate an object’s potential to be both beautiful and cerebral. In 2005, Andy founded The Matter Factory in Kansas City. It is part artist studio, part laboratory, and part factory. In addition to producing objects of his design, the company contains a collaborative element. Guest designers and artists are invited to develop objects for production, which might otherwise have trouble finding an eager manufacturer.

matterfactory.com

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CrafTalks are programmed to provide context and depth to OCC related events, and are also hosted regularly in collaboration with OCAD’s Material Art & Design Program. All CraftTalks are open to members, makers, and the general public - there is no cost to attend and no registration is required.

CraftTalks foster ongoing discourse about the role and significance of contemporary craft, as well as to bridge the distance between craft and other creative fields such as visual art, architecture, design, sustainability and curatorial practice.

The Ontario Crafts Council gratefully acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts for their support of the OCC/OCAD presented CraftTalks series through a Jean Chalmers Special Projects Grant.

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Feb 09

Art Show & Sale - SOUL THRU NATURE, by Jana Cerna-Bachtik & Mika Holubec

Be a part of The Future of Post Modernism!! Enter The Windsor Whitney Biennial!!

Unfamiliar Territories at Lonsdale Gallery February 8- March 25, reception February 18 from 2-4pm

New Dana Holst lithograph available

Phénomène du faux en peinture et raison d’être du droit d’auteur

Exhibition Press Coverage and Upcoming Shows at Wynick/Tuck Gallery

Art Wynwood - Presidents Day Weekend in Miami

Michael Dudeck opening at Pari Nadimi Gallery Feb. 9, 5-8 pm

Robert Boyd on Robert Pruitt | Shepard Fairey Speaks | Welcome “Wax by the Fire”!

In This Issue

We pay better than the other guys.

Monday February 6, 2012

Comment of the Week

Robert Boyd on Robert Pruitt

Shepard Fairey Speaks

“Wax by the Fire” joins Glasstire!

Mystery Dinner with CADD

Professionalizing Artists at UT

Mark Manders @ the DMA

Skydive Turns Four!

New to Classifieds

OSA @ you me

Laura Kikauka Strength Thru Embarrassment opening Saturday February 11 2-5 PM at MKG127

Artist Choice 2012 Continues

Rubin Museum announces Brainwave: Cabaret Cinema series.

Andy Brayman from The Matter Factory presenting this Tuesday, February 7 at OCADU