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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation, exhibit of eleven new animated works inspired by the art of the Painters Eleven.  Toronto, ON September 7, 2010 – The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, in conjunction with the Toronto Animated Image Society, is pleased to present ELEVEN IN MOTION: Abstract Expressions in Animation, an exhibition that brings together two forms of art production by two generations of artists; abstract paintings by Painters Eleven from the 1950s and experimental animations by eleven contemporary animators from across Canada.  In 2009, The Toronto Animated Image Society commissioned eleven independent Canadian animators to create experimental animated films inspired by Painters Eleven.  Showing in The Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s Painters Eleven Corridor, the animated films will be exhibited alongside Painters Eleven artworks from The Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s extensive permanent collection.  The exhibition opening takes place September 25, 2010 1-3 PM at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa in conjunction with Culture Days in Ontario.  The exhibit will be on display from September 25, 2010 to September 18, 2011. The opening of the exhibit also marks the launch of a DVD project that includes all eleven animations, as well as a booklet containing essays, interviews and images of Painters Eleven artwork.  Bonus material includes essays by Linda Jansma, Curator at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Chris Gehman, co-editor of The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema Cinema (YYZ Books, 2005), as well as an interview with Dennis Reid, outgoing Chief Curator of Research at The Art Gallery of Ontario.  The eleven animators whose works are featured in the exhibit are Ellen Besen, Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Nick Fox-Gieg, Patrick Jenkins, Pasquale LaMontagna, Craig Marshall, Lisa Morse, Richard Raxlen, Richard Reeves, Élise Simard and Steven Woloshen. The Painters Eleven were a group of groundbreaking abstract painters who joined together in Ontario in the early 1950s to provide support to one another in bringing abstract art to the forefront in Canada.  The group is of particular importance to the history of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery as founding Painters Eleven member Alexandra Luke and her husband E.R.S. McLaughlin offered major financial support and the donation of works from their collection to the creation of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.  Painters Eleven consisted of Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Tom Hodgson, Alexandra Luke, Jock Macdonald, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, William Ronald, Harold Town and Walter Yarwood.  Eleven in Motion is curated by Madi Piller.   Gallery Opening Saturday, September 25,  1 – 3 PM  The Robert McLaughlin Gallery 72 Queen Street, Civic Centre, Oshawa  Exhibit will be on Display September 25, 2010 - September 18, 2011    This program was created with financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Petman Foundation.    About Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS):  TAIS is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to exploring and promoting the art of animation and supporting animators as artists.  Founded in 1984, TAIS continues to encourage the exchange of information, facilities, ideas and aesthetics within Toronto’s animation community through lectures, screenings, workshops, art exhibitions, commissioning programs and by providing affordable access to a specialized animation studio.  The TAIS membership is made up of independent and professional animators, educators, enthusiasts and artists. TAIS is supported by its members and patrons, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.  www.tais.ca | www.twitter.com/TAIS_Animation   About The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG):  When The Robert McLaughlin Gallery was founded in 1967 the mandate stressed collection, preservation, and conservation of fine art, particularly Canadian, as well as exhibition of collection and interpretation through educational programming. The Gallery’s founders ensured that The Gallery’s resources be available for research, and that the Gallery’s mission serve the educational, intellectual, and aesthetic needs of the community both locally and nationally. In the early years the mandate was strengthened by focusing on contemporary visual art within the context of Canadian modern art, especially Painters Eleven.   The Gallery accomplishes its mission through exhibitions, educational outreach, and community programming. We tell the continuing story of Canadian art and provide challenging art experiences, formal and informal, through exhibitions and education for all ages. We strive to actively engage the community in the wider possibilities of meaning and enjoyment in art.     Media Inquiries:  Contact Tara Schorr | Toronto Animated Image Society | 416-533-7889 | tais@bellnet.ca | www.tais.ca  Contact Jacquie Severs | The Robert McLaughlin Gallery | 905-576-3000 x 109 | jsevers@rmg.on.ca | www.rmg.on.ca 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation, exhibit of eleven new animated works inspired by the art of the Painters Eleven.  Toronto, ON September 7, 2010 – The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, in conjunction with the Toronto Animated Image Society, is pleased to present ELEVEN IN MOTION: Abstract Expressions in Animation, an exhibition that brings together two forms of art production by two generations of artists; abstract paintings by Painters Eleven from the 1950s and experimental animations by eleven contemporary animators from across Canada.  In 2009, The Toronto Animated Image Society commissioned eleven independent Canadian animators to create experimental animated films inspired by Painters Eleven.  Showing in The Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s Painters Eleven Corridor, the animated films will be exhibited alongside Painters Eleven artworks from The Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s extensive permanent collection.  The exhibition opening takes place September 25, 2010 1-3 PM at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa in conjunction with Culture Days in Ontario.  The exhibit will be on display from September 25, 2010 to September 18, 2011. The opening of the exhibit also marks the launch of a DVD project that includes all eleven animations, as well as a booklet containing essays, interviews and images of Painters Eleven artwork.  Bonus material includes essays by Linda Jansma, Curator at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Chris Gehman, co-editor of The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema Cinema (YYZ Books, 2005), as well as an interview with Dennis Reid, outgoing Chief Curator of Research at The Art Gallery of Ontario.  The eleven animators whose works are featured in the exhibit are Ellen Besen, Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Nick Fox-Gieg, Patrick Jenkins, Pasquale LaMontagna, Craig Marshall, Lisa Morse, Richard Raxlen, Richard Reeves, Élise Simard and Steven Woloshen. The Painters Eleven were a group of groundbreaking abstract painters who joined together in Ontario in the early 1950s to provide support to one another in bringing abstract art to the forefront in Canada.  The group is of particular importance to the history of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery as founding Painters Eleven member Alexandra Luke and her husband E.R.S. McLaughlin offered major financial support and the donation of works from their collection to the creation of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.  Painters Eleven consisted of Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Tom Hodgson, Alexandra Luke, Jock Macdonald, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, William Ronald, Harold Town and Walter Yarwood.  Eleven in Motion is curated by Madi Piller.   Gallery Opening Saturday, September 25,  1 – 3 PM  The Robert McLaughlin Gallery 72 Queen Street, Civic Centre, Oshawa  Exhibit will be on Display September 25, 2010 - September 18, 2011    This program was created with financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Petman Foundation.    About Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS):  TAIS is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to exploring and promoting the art of animation and supporting animators as artists.  Founded in 1984, TAIS continues to encourage the exchange of information, facilities, ideas and aesthetics within Toronto’s animation community through lectures, screenings, workshops, art exhibitions, commissioning programs and by providing affordable access to a specialized animation studio.  The TAIS membership is made up of independent and professional animators, educators, enthusiasts and artists. TAIS is supported by its members and patrons, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.  www.tais.ca | www.twitter.com/TAIS_Animation   About The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG):  When The Robert McLaughlin Gallery was founded in 1967 the mandate stressed collection, preservation, and conservation of fine art, particularly Canadian, as well as exhibition of collection and interpretation through educational programming. The Gallery’s founders ensured that The Gallery’s resources be available for research, and that the Gallery’s mission serve the educational, intellectual, and aesthetic needs of the community both locally and nationally. In the early years the mandate was strengthened by focusing on contemporary visual art within the context of Canadian modern art, especially Painters Eleven.   The Gallery accomplishes its mission through exhibitions, educational outreach, and community programming. We tell the continuing story of Canadian art and provide challenging art experiences, formal and informal, through exhibitions and education for all ages. We strive to actively engage the community in the wider possibilities of meaning and enjoyment in art.     Media Inquiries:  Contact Tara Schorr | Toronto Animated Image Society | 416-533-7889 | tais@bellnet.ca | www.tais.ca  Contact Jacquie Severs | The Robert McLaughlin Gallery | 905-576-3000 x 109 | jsevers@rmg.on.ca | www.rmg.on.ca 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation, exhibit of eleven new animated works inspired by the art of the Painters Eleven. 


Toronto, ON September 7, 2010 – The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, in conjunction with the Toronto Animated Image Society, is pleased to present ELEVEN IN MOTION: Abstract Expressions in Animation, an exhibition that brings together two forms of art production by two generations of artists; abstract paintings by Painters Eleven from the 1950s and experimental animations by eleven contemporary animators from across Canada.

 In 2009, The Toronto Animated Image Society commissioned eleven independent Canadian animators to create experimental animated films inspired by Painters Eleven.  Showing in The Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s Painters Eleven Corridor, the animated films will be exhibited alongside Painters Eleven artworks from The Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s extensive permanent collection.

 The exhibition opening takes place September 25, 2010 1-3 PM at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa in conjunction with Culture Days in Ontario.  The exhibit will be on display from September 25, 2010 to September 18, 2011.

The opening of the exhibit also marks the launch of a DVD project that includes all eleven animations, as well as a booklet containing essays, interviews and images of Painters Eleven artwork.  Bonus material includes essays by Linda Jansma, Curator at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Chris Gehman, co-editor of The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema Cinema (YYZ Books, 2005), as well as an interview with Dennis Reid, outgoing Chief Curator of Research at The Art Gallery of Ontario.

 The eleven animators whose works are featured in the exhibit are Ellen Besen, Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Nick Fox-Gieg, Patrick Jenkins, Pasquale LaMontagna, Craig Marshall, Lisa Morse, Richard Raxlen, Richard Reeves, Élise Simard and Steven Woloshen.

The Painters Eleven were a group of groundbreaking abstract painters who joined together in Ontario in the early 1950s to provide support to one another in bringing abstract art to the forefront in Canada.  The group is of particular importance to the history of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery as founding Painters Eleven member Alexandra Luke and her husband E.R.S. McLaughlin offered major financial support and the donation of works from their collection to the creation of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.  Painters Eleven consisted of Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Tom Hodgson, Alexandra Luke, Jock Macdonald, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, William Ronald, Harold Town and Walter Yarwood.

 Eleven in Motion is curated by Madi Piller.

 

Gallery Opening

Saturday, September 25,  1 – 3 PM

 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery

72 Queen Street, Civic Centre, Oshawa

 Exhibit will be on Display September 25, 2010 - September 18, 2011

 

 This program was created with financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Petman Foundation.

 

 About Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS):  TAIS is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to exploring and promoting the art of animation and supporting animators as artists.  Founded in 1984, TAIS continues to encourage the exchange of information, facilities, ideas and aesthetics within Toronto’s animation community through lectures, screenings, workshops, art exhibitions, commissioning programs and by providing affordable access to a specialized animation studio.  The TAIS membership is made up of independent and professional animators, educators, enthusiasts and artists. TAIS is supported by its members and patrons, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.  www.tais.ca | www.twitter.com/TAIS_Animation

 

About The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG):  When The Robert McLaughlin Gallery was founded in 1967 the mandate stressed collection, preservation, and conservation of fine art, particularly Canadian, as well as exhibition of collection and interpretation through educational programming. The Gallery’s founders ensured that The Gallery’s resources be available for research, and that the Gallery’s mission serve the educational, intellectual, and aesthetic needs of the community both locally and nationally. In the early years the mandate was strengthened by focusing on contemporary visual art within the context of Canadian modern art, especially Painters Eleven.

 

The Gallery accomplishes its mission through exhibitions, educational outreach, and community programming. We tell the continuing story of Canadian art and provide challenging art experiences, formal and informal, through exhibitions and education for all ages. We strive to actively engage the community in the wider possibilities of meaning and enjoyment in art.

 

 

Media Inquiries: 

Contact Tara Schorr | Toronto Animated Image Society | 416-533-7889 | tais@bellnet.ca | www.tais.ca

 Contact Jacquie Severs | The Robert McLaughlin Gallery | 905-576-3000 x 109 | jsevers@rmg.on.ca | www.rmg.on.ca 

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