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Product Line and Website Launch The pleasure is...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:18:13 -0400

Product Line and Website Launch

The pleasure is back multiples and website

by Adam Medley

Thursday, July 22, 2010, 7-9pm at Art Metropole

Art Metropole is pleased to host the launch of Adam Medley’s inaugural The pleasure is back product line. The first multiples to ever be created for the irreverent and long-running consumer satire project, this collection of posters, t-shirts and zines coincides with a redesigned and revitalized The pleasure is back website.

The pleasure is back

Finding its beginnings eight years ago in the first of what would become a library of text/image collage combinations numbering over half a thousand, The pleasure is back is an ongoing effort to spread the radical emancipatory ideology of irrational exuberance through both contemporary and traditional channels of (North) American consumerism. While assuring itself thousands upon millions of converts through a new and improved thepleasureisback.com website, the simultaneous release of this generous assortment of value-priced novelties marks The Pleasure Is Back’s enterprising leap from the online sphere to the physical world, as well as its much-anticipated transition from desktop wallpaper to dorm room wall-saver (among other things). Effectively nullifying any doubts that may have yet lingered, this cyber-space/retail-space one-two punch cements The Pleasure Is Back’s trailblazing position as “official brand of the twenty-first century.”

Art Metropole, 788 King Street West 2nd Floor, Toronto, Canada M5V 1N6
http://www.artmetropole.com

Keith W. Bentley: New Sculpture, Thursday July29, 6pm

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:15:09 -0400

Keith W. Bentley

New Sculpture

July 29 - August 21, 2010

Opening : Thursday, July 29, 6 - 9pm

Keith W. Bentley has bound tires, hose, air filters, and punching bags with hide and horse hair to create a suite of enigmatic sculptures. Born in Burlington, Vermont and raised just over the Canadian border in New Brunswick, Bentley’s practice is influenced as much by his east-coast heritage as it is by his love for the inorganic and the morbid. His multi-disciplinary approach and bizarre use of materials seek to immortalize bodies and practices that have since passed: everything from dead animals and salvaged industrial objects, to the most obscure of Victorian traditions.

This is Bentley’s first solo exhibition at p|m Gallery. We are excited to be showing this body of work and are looking forward to the series of white sculptures he is creating to be premiered at the Toronto International Art Fair in October. Keith W. Bentley’s monumental sculpture, Cauda Equina 1995 - 2007, is currently on exhibition in Dead or Alive at the Museum of Art and Designin New York, April 25- October 24, 2010 and was featured in the New Yorker and the New York Times.

p|m Gallery is located at 1518 Dundas Street West, half a block west of Dufferin Street.

We’re open: Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5:30pm
In person:    1518 Dundas Steet West, Toronto
Via email:   powell@pmgallery.ca
Call us:        1.416.937.3862
Browse:      www.pmgallery.ca

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:16:58 -0400

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rustbelt | new work by Paul Elia

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:10:00 -0400

Solo show at Culturshoc this August!

New, never before seen pieces will be on display at Culturshoc from August 13-31, 2010.

Opening Reception: Friday, August 13th, 2010 from 7-11pm
Cutlurshoc
1205 Queen Street West
Toronto ON 416-588-SHOC(7462)

The Hamilton Strip series has evolved to include more cities in the Ontario rustbelt that face similar challenges as they cope with contemporary industrial / manufacturing realities.

(ic-toronto) instant coffee: close for comfort

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:21:48 -0400

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01. CALL | Call: Public Space ARTivism Initiative
02. PUBLICATION | FILLIP | Once More on Publicness
03. CALL | Gallery 1313 | Calls for Proposals for fall 2010/spring 2011
04. CALL | Hang Man Gallery | The Little Art Show
05. CALL | switch | Open Call: “The Scale of Things”
06. EXHIBITION | The Bluffs Gallery | Janos Buda
07. EDUCATION | LIFT | JULY 2010 Workshop: Final Cut Studio | JUL 19
08. OPENING | Textile Museum of Canada | Drawing with Scissors : Molas
from Kuna Yala | JUL 21
09. OPENING | Art Metropole | The Pleasure is Back | JUL 22
10. OPENING | Double Double Land | The Homey Show | JUL 22
11. FUNDRAISER | O’Conner Gallery | White Night— Nuit Blanche
Fundraiser | JUL 22
12. EXHIBITION | LIFT | Co-presents w/ Shinsedai Japanese Cinema
Festival | JUL 23
13. SCREENING | Modern Fuel and Screening Room get animated | JUL 24
14. PERFORMANCE | FADO Performance Art Centre | Dunk a Performance
Artist | JUL 24
15. OPENING | Paul Petro Special Projects Space | Caroline Larsen | JUL 24
16. OPENING | SITE 3 | WE HAVE A SHOP! | JUL 24
17. EXHIBITION | Stephen Bulger Gallery | GILBERT GARCIN | JUL 24
18. CALL | The Puzzle Project CANADA is calling for entries | JUL 25
19. JOB | Under the Radar | LOFT Sound Studio Engineer | JUL 26
20. JOB | Under the Radar | Visual Artist | JUL 26
21. OPENING | IX Gallery | Summer 2010: A cornucopia of emerging talent | JUL 29
22. FESTIVAL | Electric Eclectics Festival | Experimental Music, Sound
Art and Media Art | JUL 30
23. JOB | Cape Breton University Art Gallery | Art Gallery &
Collections Technician | AUG 11
24. FUNDRAISER | Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre | Yoga Fundraiser | AUG 12
25. CALL | OCAD | OCAD University Alumni: Call for submissions | AUG 31
26. CALL | Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 | ARTS FOR ALL:
PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY | SEP 13
27. CALL | WIAprojects | Feminist Research Performance Project | SEP 15
28. CALL | MASS MoCA / Cabinet | An Exchange with Sol Lewitt | OCT 15 ————————————————————————————————————
01. CALL | Call: Public Space ARTivism Initiative
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Have you been involved in the production of a community
mosaic, labyrinth or street theatre performance? Do you know of
projects that use art to transform public space or related events?
The Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space
(STEPS) Initiative, is a group of artists, activists, architects, and
academics, collectively promoting sustainable and community-
centred public spaces. We are committed to using art to
challenge and change the ways in which public spaces are
currently being used, especially in urban environments. STEPS
aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration
between individuals and grassroots collectives using art to
engage citizens in transforming their local environments.
In service of our mission, STEPS is developing a series of tools
which includes an online meeting ground where citizens can
experience the work of their peers in other communities, and
engage in dialogue on the growing movement of ‘Public Space
ARTivism’ (the use of art to enliven the relationship between
people and their local places). STEPS is also developing tools
for those who are interested in starting initiatives in their own
communities, but who are unsure of where to begin, such as a
Public Space ARTivism Manualfesto and a documentary film.
We are conducting interviews with ARTivists, activists, and
community groups and individuals supporting this type of work
to collect information on the successes, challenges and lessons
learned in grassroots public space ARTivism across Canada. Our
findings will inform the creation of an international network of
public space ARTivists.
If you have been involved in ‘Public Space ARTivism’, have an
interest in partnering with STEPS on a project, or are interested
in interning with our organization, let us know.
More information: www.stepsinitiative.com (soon to be re-
launched)
Become a fan of STEPS on Facebook
Contact: Alexis Kane Speer, Founding Director - Info [at]
stepsinitiative [dot] com
http://www.stepsinitiative.com

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02. PUBLICATION | FILLIP | Once More on Publicness
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Fillip is pleased to announce the immediate online availability
of Once More on Publicness: A Postscript to Secret Publicity by
Sven Lütticken — the first in a series of essays on art and
publicness, which thematizes the majority of texts in Fillip 12.
Developed in conjunction with the commission of a site-specific
project by Dutch artist Mark Manders, Fillip 12 weighs
publicness against a range of topics including New
Institutionalism; affect, critique, and the city; riot shows; public
art; digital scans and exports; and the photographic legacy of
Hurricane Katrina, among other considerations. Leading up to the print release of Fillip 12, scheduled for
September 2010, essays will appear on the Fillip website every
week for the next two months as a way to build an open
dialogue around the interaction between art and its publics.
Links to these texts will be sent out every Monday through this e-
mail list. To opt out of these messages, please let us know.
Letters of response may be sent to letters@fillip.ca.

Fillip 12 includes pieces by Sven Lütticken, Jeff Derksen, Julian
Myers, Lorna Brown with Anne Pasternak, Sean Dockray,
Kristina Lee Podesva, and others. It is available for pre-order at
$15 postage paid international, and through Motto Distribution
(Europe), Textfield Distribution (USA), and Disticor
(Canada/USA). Subscriptions are available for $25 / €25 for one
year (three issues) via the Fillip website. Subscribe before
August 1st to be entered to win a small library from Motto Books
worth over 300 dollars! Forthcoming Texts:
July 19: Jeff Derksen
July 26: Lorna Brown and Anne Pasternak
August 2: Julian Myers

Fillip
305 Cambie Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6B 2N4 Canada
604.781.4417
http://www.fillip.ca ————————————————————————————————————
03. CALL | Gallery 1313 | Calls for Proposals for fall 2010/spring 2011
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Gallery 1313 is a not-for-profit, charitable artist-run centre
exhibiting local, national and international contemporary art.
We are currently looking for new and challenging exhibition
proposals or this coming fall 2010 and spring of 2011:

THE PROCESS GALLERY:
With 33 feet of running wall space, the process gallery provides
an intimate space perfect for Emerging, video, new media,
installation and performance art. Gallery 1313 envisions the
Process Gallery as a site for transformation and exploration.
Emerging, video, new media, installation and performance
artists are encouraged to propose projects for this space. Dates
available: Aug.18 - 29 THE MAIN GALLERY:
Approximately 1300 square feet with 14 foot-high ceilings, the
main gallery is suitable for larger exhibitions, panel discussions,
artist talks, small conferences, launch parties, receptions and
more. Dates available: Sept. 22 - Oct.3

All proposals should include:
A Recent CV
5-8 digital images or videos of proposed work
Accompanying image list
Artist statement Works in all media will be considered.
Please drop off your submission at Gallery 1313 during opening
hours or by email to the attention of executive director Phil
Anderson.

director@g1313.org 1313 Queen St W
Toronto, Ontario|
M6K 1L8
Phone: (416) 536-6778

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04. CALL | Hang Man Gallery | The Little Art Show
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The Little Art Show is Toronto’s affordable boutique art auction.
Original and limited edition works donated by established and
emerging artists (and no bigger than 8” x 10”) are selected by
jury and auctioned off at Mercedes-Benz Downtown (Dundas &
River) on Saturday, November 13th. Event proceeds fund the
operations of the Artists’ Network, a dedicated member-driven
not-for-profit with a mandate of supporting visual artists and
their practice through a program of professional development,
studio and exhibition opportunities and operates the Hang Man
Gallery and the annual Riverdale Art Walk. The LAS is an accessible platform to promote your practise.
Here’s what you get as a donor artist if your work is selected for
inclusion by our jury:

Donor artists have their work featured in the online LAS gallery
(with links to your website) and are featured in the special Little
Art Show keepsake catalogue Free admission + one 1/2 price ticket for the guest of your choice

Donor artists’ business cards will be placed at the auction table
with their artwork Eligibility for the Viewer’s Choice Award and the Mercedes-
Benz Little Smart Art Award (details to be announced)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
-Open to both Artists’ Network members and non-members,
worldwide
-All fine art accepted (painting, photography, mixed media,
sculpture)
-Submission must be ready for hanging (wire hanger, no clip
frames)
-Final size to be no larger than 8” x 10” - larger pieces will not
be accepted
-One-offs are especially encouraged. Painters/Mixed Media
Artists - pick up your free 8” x 10” canvas at Hang Man Gallery
(while supplies last). Photographers - your piece must be
submitted ready to hang. You can mount it (wood panel,
canvas) or frame it (final frame size 8” x 10”). Sculptors - your
piece must be able to sit on a plinth. Final footprint of piece to
be 8” deep x 10” wide x 10” high. EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION
September 1, 2010
Members - free, maximum of 3 pieces
Non-Members - 1st piece free/$20 for up to 2 additional pieces

FINAL SUBMISSION
September 19, 2010
$25 admin fee You can download your submission form here:
http://www.artistsnetwork.ca/las or pick it up at the gallery along
with your canvas (while supplies last).

Bring (or mail) your submission(s), along with the submission
form to:
Hang Man Gallery
756 Queen St. E.
Toronto, ON
M4M 1H4
Tuesday - Sunday, noon-5pm For more information about the show please contact
artistsnetworkevents@gmail.com. Hang Man Gallery and the
Artists’ Network are not responsible for damages to work incurred
through couriers or other delivery services during transport.
http://www.artistsnetwork.ca/las

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05. CALL | switch | Open Call: “The Scale of Things”
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switch is now issuing an open call to artists working with film,
lens based work and moving image to submit work responding
to: ‘the scale of things’

switch is: 8 artworks in 8 vacant spaces in a town centre for one week,
from 5pm to 11pm in the evening.
A temporary public intervention that shows contemporary visual
art in a public context.

running from 1st-7th November 2010, Nenagh, Co Tipperary,
Ireland. switch shows contemporary works of moving image, selected
through open submission to a particular theme.

2008: inside-out
2009: playfulness
2010: the scale of things -

The event itself will be accompanied by a publication & a
website.
An artist fee of Euro 250 [incl. VAT] will be paid per selected
artist . to apply, please send applications to: switch, c/o The Arts
Office, North Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Limerick
Road, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.
digital applications please send to:
switch.information@gmail.com

Details for the application can be had on the website:
http://www.s-w-i-t-c-h.org Closing date for receipt of submissions is 18th August 2010 at
4pm.

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06. EXHIBITION | The Bluffs Gallery | Janos Buda
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A life in art will be revisited at Scarborough’s Bluffs Gallery this
month. Drawings, paintings and prints from the estate of
Hungarian-born artist Janos Buda will be shown in the
Scarborough Arts Council’’s gallery from July 17 – 27.

Buda’s life was consumed with art-making, and his early years as
an artist included numerous exhibitions in European galleries.
From his arrival in Toronto in 1955, Buda was involved in this
city’s art community, and was a well-recognized visitor to
concerts and exhibitions. He was an active member of many
groups, including Scarborough Arts Council, where he remained
a faithful volunteer until shortly before his death. After Buda’s body was discovered in his Toronto Community
Housing apartment in 2005, friends and colleagues rallied to
save his life’s work. Thousands of drawings and paintings were
pulled from the apartment, as well as many photographs and
albums created by the artist to document his career. Many of his
Toronto drawings and personal documents were donated to the
City of Toronto Archives by Scarborough Arts Council, after they
had retrieved the work from the Office of the Public Guardian
and Trustee.

The exhibition at The Bluffs Gallery this month will be the first
show from the artist’s estate since his death. It is a fundraising
sale for the Janos Buda Memorial Association, a volunteer
group who are preserving the artist’s memory through his work.
The Association’s current project is to raise a headstone for
Buda’s unmarked grave in Scarborough’s St. Margaret’s in the
Pines cemetery. Sales from the exhibition will also support the
community arts programs of Scarborough Arts Council. Drawings, Watercolours and Prints from the Buda Estate opens
at The Bluffs Gallery during Scarborough Arts Council’s annual
Art in the Park outdoor art fest on Saturday, July 17 from 10
a.m. – 4 p.m.

Drawings, Watercolours and Prints from the Buda Estate
The Bluffs Gallery
1859 Kingston Road
Saturday July 17 - Friday July 27 Art in the Park: Scarborough Arts Council annual outdoor art
fair Harrison Estate Grounds
1859 Kingston Road
Saturday July 17, 10 am - 4 pm.

For information, call Scarborough Arts Council at 416-698-7322
or email artistbuda@gmail.com. ————————————————————————————————————
07. EDUCATION | LIFT | JULY 2010 Workshop: Final Cut Studio | JUL 19
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Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
SUMMER 2010 FILM AND DIGITAL WORKSHOPS

We have over 45 workshops this season on Super 8mm, 16mm
and 35mm filmmaking. Registration CONTINUES at our facility located at
1137 Dupont Street (at Gladstone Avenue), Toronto ON

Space is limited! Register early! A complete workshop schedule (PDF) is available at:
http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/workshops.html

========== FINAL CUT STUDIO 2
Navigate through Final Cut Studio 2 in this all-inclusive course

SCHEDULE:
Monday, July 19th, 6pm - 10pm
Tuesday, July 20th, 6pm - 10pm
Wednesday, July 21st, 6pm - 10pm
Thursday, July 22nd, 6pm - 10pm COST: LIFT Members $195, Non-members $225
Enrollment is limited to 6

In this intensive four-evening workshop you will get to know the
range of applications available in the professional video and
audio production suite, Final Cut Pro Studio. On the first
evening students will develop a short project in Final Cut Pro
and thereafter navigate that project through Soundtrack Pro,
Color, Motion, Compressor and finally DVD Studio Pro. A
general overview on the relationship with the different digital
video and audio software will prepare ambitious students to
confidently explore the creative potential of these programs.
Topics will include Final Cut Pro; setting up a project, importing
files, editing techniques, rough audio mixing, basic text and
exporting. Soundtrack Pro; sending your file to Soundtrack Pro,
adding compression and other filters to your audio clips, using
noise reduction, creating a final mix and conforming your mix
back into Final Cut Pro. Colour; understanding the interface of
colour, colour balancing your material, colour correction,
adding secondary grades to your material to give it a ‘defined’
look and transferring your footage back into Final Cut Pro.
Motion; using the interface, generating and creating an
animated background, adding behaviors and filters, using Live
Type fonts in Motion and exporting your work back into Final
Cut Pro. Compressor; importing your video, creating web files
for YouTube, email and websites, and encoding an MPEG-2 for
DVD. DVD Studio Pro; setting up your DVD Project, importing
your video into DVD Studio Pro, adding chapter markers,
creating and programming menus, then finally burn your
project. This class is perfect for filmmakers, video editors, designers,
wedding and sports videographers, and anyone else who wants
to learn how to maximize the full potential of Final Cut Studio.
http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/workshops.html

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08. OPENING | Textile Museum of Canada | Drawing with Scissors : Molas
from Kuna Yala | JUL 21
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Drawing with Scissors : Molas from Kuna Yala
July 21, 2010 – Feb 13, 2011
Curated by Max Allen Join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
6:30 – 8:00 pm; remarks 6:45 pm

The graphic panels on mola blouses – done in reverse appliqué
and embroidery – depict everything the Kuna see around them,
a world view encompassing details from ancient plant and
animal spirits to reimagined television news and Disney
characters. Drawing with Scissors includes nearly 200 molas
extending from those that are among the earliest known to most
contemporary, including work by Domitila De Leon De
Fernandez, the granddaughter of the leader of the 1925
Revolution. Photos in the exhibition show the matrilocal Kuna
world of the San Blas Islands where, in order to protect old and
successful traditions from the negative impacts of globalization,
no outsider may own property. Later this summer, please join us
for a curatorial tour of the exhibition offered by Max Allen on
Wednesday August 11, 6:30 pm. A mola-making workshop with
Kuna expert Domitila De León De Fernandez will be offered
Saturday August 21, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. Please contact
apearcey@textilemuseum.ca for more information. Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue
(Dundas & University, St. Patrick subway)
Toronto, ON M5G 2H5

t: 416-599-5321 x. 2239
f: 416-599-2911
http://www.textilemuseum.ca ————————————————————————————————————
09. OPENING | Art Metropole | The Pleasure is Back | JUL 22
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Thursday July 22, 7 p.m.- 9 p.m.

Art Metropole is pleased to host the launch of Adam Medley’s
inaugural The pleasure is back product line. The first multiples
to ever be created for the irreverent and long-running consumer
satire project, this collection of posters, t-shirts and zines
coincides with a redesigned and revitalized The pleasure is
back website. Adam Medley first launched his consumer satire project eight
years ago with a series of text and image collages. These works
can now be purchased in the form of posters, printed on t-shirts,
mugs, and within the pages of his zines. This ongoing effort has
culminated in a new series of products and a completely
redesigned website at thepleasureisback.com.

A renewed focus on accessibility permeates the project with the
release of new, value-priced novelties and a website designed
for the viewing pleasure of a potential audience of billions. The pleasure is back’s enterprising leap from the online sphere
to the physical world, as well as its much-anticipated transition
from desktop wallpaper to dorm room wall-saver places The
pleasure is back in the running for the title of the “official brand
of the twenty-first century.”

For more info call (416) 703 4400 or info@artmetropole.com Art Metropole, 788 King Street West 2nd Floor, Toronto,
Canada M5V 1N6
http://www.artmetropole.com

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10. OPENING | Double Double Land | The Homey Show | JUL 22
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**Opening reception:: Thursday July 22, 7pm-10pm** We cordially invite you into our Homey Show, an exhibition of
domestically-inspired sculptures, installations, drawings and
crafts by 35 artists from Toronto and abroad.

The work assembled for exhibition recreates the domestic
environment in its various forms, from functional home
furnishings such as lamps made by Michael Comeau and Hugh
Alexander Scott-Douglas, to reupholstered chairs by Jacob
Horwood and ceramic dinnerware by Amy Bowles. The
decorative, such as a handmade rug by Anthony Record and
crocheted wall hangings by Eden Veaudry, are also included,
as well as work that examines what makes a space a home,
including family portraits by Adrienne Kammerer, and a
blessing ritual performed in proxy by Mary Kidd. The exhibition also features work by:
Cameron George Lee, Nikki Woolsey, Maryanne Casasanta,
Mark Delong, Sebastian Butt, Tara Downs, Anna May Henry,
Georgia Dickie, Sandy Plotnikoff, Matt King, Xan Hawes, Julia
Kennedy, Life of a Craphead (Amy Lam + Jon McCurley), Xenia
Benivolski, Romy Lightman, Liam Crockard, Vanessa Rieger,
Terrarea (Janis Demkiw, Olia Mishchenko, Emily Hogg),
Augustina Saygnavong, Abby McGuane, and Zeesy Powers.

All work is for sale. __________________________________________________

On July 25th the Homey Show will also host an event as part of
Double Double Land’s monthly FOOD series. Artists Agnieszka
Forfa and Julia Kennedy will create a homey meal and
atmosphere. Reservations will be required, and more info TBA. __________________________________________________

The Homey show is curated by Sarah Butterill, Arielle Gavin,
Jesjit Gill and Laura Mccoy. __________________________________________________

July 20-29, 2010
Opening reception July 22nd, 2010, 7pm – 10 pm
Gallery hours daily: 12pm-6pm
Double Double Land
209 Augusta Ave. (Down the Alley)
http://www.doubledoubleland.com ————————————————————————————————————
11. FUNDRAISER | O’Conner Gallery | White Night— Nuit Blanche
Fundraiser | JUL 22
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Invitation to White Night- a Fundrasier for Nuit Blanche projects
Sightings and Fragments

WHEN: July 22nd 8pm-1am
WHERE: O’Connor Gallery (Queen at Berkeley, 145 Berkeley St)
WHAT: Fundraiser for Nuit Blanche projects Sightings and
Fragments
WHO: Hosted by the Canadian Centre for International Justice and
O’Connor Gallery RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?
eid=140701129274890&ref=ts
Purchase your advanced ticket online at
http://whitenightfundraiser.wordpress.com/

Organized by Sarah Tam and Steve Khan.
http://whitenightfundraiser.wordpress.com/ ————————————————————————————————————
12. EXHIBITION | LIFT | Co-presents w/ Shinsedai Japanese Cinema
Festival | JUL 23
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The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s (LIFT)
CO-PRESENTATION AT THE SHINSEDAI CINEMA 2010
FESTIVAL

Shinsedai Cinema 2010 Festival
The New Generation: Japanese Film Festival
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
6 Garamond Court
http://shinsedai-fest.com/directions-location “Island of Dreams” (Yume no Shima)
Co-presented with the Liaison of Independent Filmmaker of
Toronto
TORONTO PREMIERE
Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:15pm
$12.00 admission

Police detective Terayama and his partner Nomura mobilize
after a remote mountain shack is blown up by remote control.
The duo puzzle over why such a non-descript target was
destroyed by such hi-tech. As they investigate they are pulled
deeper into the world of eco-terrorism and we delve deeper
into the psychology of the young man behind the bombing, a
young foreign man named Alan. Working on the “Island of
Dreams,” a man-made island in Tokyo Bay where all the refuse
of the city is piled, has left Alan with an overwhelming hatred
for modern life and the pollution it spews into the air. He feels
no other choice but to take action, that is if Terayama and
Nomura can’t stop him first. Released: 2009
Running time: 83 minutes

For full details about ticketing and film schedule visit:
http://shinsedai-fest.com/tag/shinsedai-2010
http://www.LIFT.on.ca ————————————————————————————————————
13. SCREENING | Modern Fuel and Screening Room get animated | JUL 24
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Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is proud to present the Ottawa
International Animation Festival’s Best of 2009, in partnership
with The Screening Room. The program features some of the
best-animated shorts from Canada, Poland, Ireland, France,
Estonia and the United States.

Here are a few highlights from the package: Best Narrative Short Award Winner “Please Say Something” by
David O Reilly. Set in the distant future, the film chronicles the
troublesome relationship between a Cat and Mouse. This
stunning animation also won the Golden Bear at the 2009
Berlin International Film Festival. Director David O’Reilly has
produced videos and visuals for U2 and M.I.A.

“Postalolio” by Marv Newland follows the journey of Gerald, set
to the melody ‘Apple Blossoms’. Each frame consists of a hand-
traced animation on a postcard, which then traveled through
the international postal system before the film was completed. “The Art of Drowning” by Diego Maclean is based on a poem by
American Poet Laureate Billy Collins. The Art of Drowning also
screened at South by Southwest, Toronto International Film
Festival and was deemed one of thirteen must-see student films
at Sundance.

There will be two separate screenings of this stunning package
of fourteen animated shorts: Saturday, July 24th 2010 at
1:00PM and Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 9:00PM. The cost per
screening is $8. Both screenings will take place at The
Screening Room (120 Princess St.). So, bring all of your friends
and feel free to wear your pajamas! For further information, contact:
Michael Davidge or Bronwyn McLean
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen St, Kingston, ON, K7K 1A1
(613) 548-4883
modernfuel@bellnet.ca

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:00:24 -0400

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

Oscar Wilde

Narrative / Identity – Open Call for group exhibition

As a means of grappling with the flux of identity, narratives are a necessary part of individual and social constructs. Whether internal or external, narratives define how we see ourselves and others.

Which facts construct our identities?

Do we have a variety of identities and what makes us change them?

Is the identity we display in public different than our private one?

What happens if we take an identity of another person?

Does an ID or passport tell the most important things about us? If you don’t have one does it mean you are invisible?

Does education and knowledge about society and politics change our identity?

For the first group show of 2011, February 3 – March 12, curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter, The AC Institute seeks to investigate the ways in which narrative is used by contemporary artists to construct or demolish our ideas of self and other. Whether through guerrilla-like disruption, ambiguity or fantasy inspired story-telling, we are seeking artists who see narrative as essential to their artistic identity.

Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encouraged to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of narrative and identity; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both.

Email submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by Sept. 15th, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):

-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces

-Your standard CV and contact information

-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible

NO ATTACHEMENTS PLEASE

About AC Institute:

The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.

Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.

AC Institute [Direct]

547 West 27^th street, # 610, 6^th floor

New York, NY 10001

You are invited to White Night- a fundraiser for Nuit Blanche...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:08:26 -0400

You are invited to White Night- a fundraiser for Nuit Blanche projects Sightings and Fragments on July 22nd from 8pm-1am at the O’Connor Gallery.

The Canadian Centre for International Justice wants to bring awareness to refugees living in Canada, and has received approval for two art interventions during Nuit Blanche.

To raise money for these projects we are having an underground video lounge, dj, and live auction of art work donated by artists, as well as an open bar and light white coloured refreshments. All proceeds will fund the Nuit Blanche projects.

Please RSVP for the event on Facebook.

Advance tickets are $20 and you can pay online using Pay Pal at http://whitenightfundraiser.wordpress.com/. You will be added to the guest list and not have to wait in line.

NOTE: Tickets at the door will be $25.

Nouvelles expositions / New exhibitions - Art Mûr - Dès le jeudi 15 juillet / Starting Thursday, July 15

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:21:35 -0400

Sixième édition de Peinture fraîche et nouvelle construction
Du 15 juillet au 21 août 2010
Vernissage : jeudi 15 juillet, 17h - 20h

Universités participantes : Université Concordia (Montréal, QC), Université Laval (Québec, QC), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, NS), Université d’Ottawa (Ottawa, ON), Université du Québec à Montréal (Montréal, QC), Université de Waterloo (Waterloo, ON), University of Western Ontario (London, ON), Université York (Toronto, ON).

The sixth edition of Fresh Paint / New Construction
July 15 - August 21, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, July 15, 2010 from 5-8pm

Participating universities: Concordia University (Montréal, QC), Université Laval (Québec, QC), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, NS), University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON), Université du Québec à Montréal (Montréal, QC), University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON), University of Western Ontario (London, ON) and York University (Toronto, ON).

Image: Mike Spencer, Somewhere Between LaGuardia and MSP International, 2009, acrylique sur toile / acrylic on canvas, 162.5 x 224 cm

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:18:38 -0400

12 Ossington Avenue, Toronto, Canada, 416 530 0444, open Wed–Sat 12–5 or by appointment

July 22 to August 21, 2010

Angell Gallery is pleased to present three exciting new exhibitions opening Thursday July 22nd, 2010 from 6-9pm.

Scroll down for additional information on each exhibition.

The West Gallery – Summer Group Show: Bonnie Baxter, Jessica Eaton, Derek Evans, and Alex Kisilevich.

The East Gallery – Allison Freeman: “Memorandum”

The Project Room – Gertrude Kearns: “Architectural Digestions”

Summer Group Show

Bonnie Baxter, Jessica Eaton,
Derek Evans, & Alex Kisilevich

The West Gallery

July 22nd – August 21st, 2010
Opening reception Thursday July 22nd, 6–9 PM

For Immediate Release

ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present its annual Summer Group Show featuring the photographic work of artists Bonnie Baxter, Jessica Eaton, Derek Evans, and Alex Kisilevich. The exhibition will be on display in the West Gallery from Thursday, July 22 to Saturday, August 21, 2010. An opening night reception will be held on Thursday, July 22 from 6 – 9pm.

Summer group shows are the perfect time to try things out and test ideas, to draw links between variables we suspect will mesh perfectly. When the results are positive, the new combinations we find can provide momentum and food for thought for both the public, and artists alike. Summer is best most of all for giving us the chance to expose ourselves to possibilities – both experientially and imaginatively – that are just out of reach most of the time.

From the suggestively haunting, semi-autobiographical fictions of Bonnie Baxter to the rich, quasi-abstract work of Derek Evans; and from the uninhabited science-fiction dreamscapes of Jessica Eaton to the ironic society pop of Alex Kisilevich, this summer’s show features a selection of photo-based artists whose highly developed styles merge in a sequence that is at once heterogeneous, and a textbook example of a classic summer group exhibition. These are artists who, although in widely different ways, all exploit traditional notions of beauty: their work complements each others’ because each is able to give us a powerful aesthetic experience, while making us doubt that beauty is all it’s cracked up to be, much less all there is to take pleasure in.

At the heart of their practices is a conceptual kernel that combines the camera’s registration of reality with a tell-tale re-imagining of what that “reality” may be, or may involve. As such, they fit together like a four-part harmony that retains the individuality of its parts, but comes together with a flourish.

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Summer Group Show - Exhibition Images

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Alex Kisilevich, “Untitled” c-print, 2009.	Bonnie Baxter, “Fog 1,” digital print, 2008
Jessica Eaton, “Shadow 9,” archival pigment print, 2009	Derek Evans, “Onde,” c-print, 2010.

Allison Freeman, “Vestibule 2,” oil on canvas, 14” x 17”, 2010

Allison Freeman, “Document 4,” oil on canvas, 12” x 9”, 2010

Allison Freeman

“Memorandum”
The East Gallery

July 22nd – August 21st, 2010
Opening reception Thursday July 22nd, 6–9 PM

For Immediate Release

ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present the upcoming show in the East Gallery, Memorandum by Allison Freeman. This will be Allison’s first showing at with Angell Gallery and will run from July 22 to August 21. An opening night reception will be held on Thursday, July 22 from 6 – 9pm.

In the traditional view, paintings were conceptually likened to windows. The artist was said to record what was hypothetically real, and didactically could be taken to be literal. In Allison Freeman’s new body of work, done while finishing her graduate degree at Yale University, a next-generation twist has been added to that idea: in her series of elevators located in the hallways or garages of office buildings, we are slyly denied the ability to infer what is or is not, or could be going on. The images she works with are in fact of an actual place, but have been painted in a richly post-impressionist manner in such a way as to make identification unlikely.

And in her “Document” series, in which she makes an oil painting by transcribing a bureaucratic form or a bill of sale, she adds a conceptual window to the idea of the surface of her paintings: we see the document once removed in the first-hand fact of the painting. This distancing tactic, in which the whole of her painters’ toolbox is engaged, brings clearly to mind the experiential gap between seeing and knowing; between presence and action, absence and mere awareness.

Beyond the elevators’ transitional movement, action and non-action are seemingly deemed to be in essence indistinguishable. In such a way as to bring our attention to the self-referential fact of this “reality”, our gaze is directed not to a scene or any activity, but the possibility of a place which could be anywhere; or non-existent, effectively an abstraction, much like the document pieces in their use of the shallow space and gridded structure of much geometric abstraction.

And while this interpretation may be strengthened by the artists’ rhetorical demonstration of technical prowess, we should also note the self-conscious nod in the direction of critical theory, in the subtle menace of the putative business offices or private bedrooms these elevators may bring us to; or in what seems like the innocuous content of the documents. The insight this ironic, tongue-in-cheek literalism programs into the work is that in rendering what she calls “a transitional space of entrances and exits, but never a destination”, alongside the paintings they inhabit, Freeman’s elevators and documents become ciphers standing for an interpretation of art; for the uncertainty of subjectivity, and the strange, hidden beauty of our quotidian lives.

A recent MFA graduate at Yale University, Allison’s work has been exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, and at a recent MFA exhibition in New Haven, CT. Her work has been reviewed in the Concordia Journal, the Yale Daily News, and in the Globe and Mail by esteemed art critic Gary Michael Dault.

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Gertrude Kearns, “Orange-Green Abstract,” mixed media on board, 60” x 40”, 2010.

Gertrude Kearns, “Red Abstract,” mixed media on paper, 76” x 42”, 2009.

Gertrude Kearns

“Architectural Digestions”
The Project Room

July 22nd – August 21st
Opening reception Thursday July 22nd, 6–9 PM

For Immediate Release

ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present the upcoming show in the Project Room, Architectural Digestions, by Gertrude Kearns. This will be Gertrude’s first time showing at Angell Gallery and will run from July 22 to August 21. An opening night reception will be held on Thursday, July 22 from 6 – 9pm.

Gertrude Kearns’ work is centered in a belief in the positive interaction between painting and architecture. For her this is representative of an idealist striving toward a better social future, one in which art can and would play an important role; when it would be self-evident that art - and the image of art - is central to life because of its unique power to remind us of our humanity, as both creators and creations. We are admonished to stay grounded but too, to maintain our sense of humour, with a light touch and in a graceful painterly tone of voice. These paintings remind us of things, first visually, and then subjectively, spiritually; they seek to edify without moralizing, and do so with both zest and self-awareness. All the formal elements of two-dimensional art, especially color and line, show themselves to be helpful agents for Kearns, in pursuing the logic of her aesthetics.

Space unfolds in these mixed-media works along swooping architectonic lines, defying gravitational and positional logic within the purview of their vast mindscapes. Seeming to be located both “inside” and “outside”, to be both lyrical and geometric, and most importantly to be somehow keyed both in major and minor chords, the work swings between these poles effortlessly, engaging us because it is itself so engaged. And if it tacitly acknowledges, most especially in its sheer visual attractions, the distance between the functional role it plays in the world, and what by its nature it wishes to do, it is all the more at home, being and creating at once the thing it is and the thing it suggests.

Gertrude’s work has been exhibited in Toronto, Ottawa, and Washington. Her work is included in such notable collections as: the Portrait Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS), Art Collection Canada (Toronto, ON), the Department of National Defense (Ottawa, ON), and the Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, ON). Gertrude’s work has received critical review in Canadian Art magazine, as well as in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.

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Soul Revival: A Poetic and Visual Experience of Renewal

Art Exhibit Through August 1 at the Meroe Art Gallery in Baltimore

ArtScape Open House on Saturday July 17, 2 t o 7 p.m.

(Baltimore, MD) – Renew your soul this summer during “Soul Revival: A Poetic and Visual Experience of Renewal. “ This art and poetry exhibit, co-sponsored by Meroe Art Gallery and Authentic Contemporary Art, opened on May 1 and extends through August 1 at the Meroe Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. A free Open House is on Saturday, July 17 from 2 to 7 p.m., featuring poetry, musical performances, face-painting and visual art presentations from some of the most-accomplished and creative artists and poets on the East Coast. The Meroe is located at 1623 West North Avenue Baltimore, MD 21217.

One of Baltimore’s own, Nina “Lyrispect” Ball has been invited to perform for the Open House of Soul Revival. Also performing are James Terrell, a Washington, DC visual artist and musician and DJ Fusion of the Fusebox Radio will spin R&B and Hip Hop music. Face painting for the kids will be offered by Baltimore’s Art-N-Soul. The event will reflect a powerful visual, poetic and musical call for renewal that we hope will inspire everyone.

“It’s always been a dream of mine to curate a show featuring emerging visual artists and poets in the metropolitan, Washington-Baltimore area. The Open House on July 17th will give people who are visiting Baltimore for Artscape an opportunity to visit the gallery and experience the work of emerging visual artists and various types of art, from abstract to realism.” said Curator Sharon Burton, Founder of Authentic Contemporary Art.

For more information and a complete lineup, visit: http://authenticartonline.com/art/category/events

Connect with a world of art:

Visit Authentic Contemporary Art (ACA) online at www.authenticartonline.com or follow ACA on Twitter www.Twitter.com/ArtVisions. Learn more about the Meroe Art Gallery at http://www.meroeart.com/.

About Authentic Contemporary Art

Authentic Contemporary Art (formally Authentic Art Consulting) was founded in 2005 and now serves as an alternative source for emerging and contemporary art. Based in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, Authentic Contemporary Art (ACA) creates opportunities for art collectors and emerging contemporary artists to connect through exhibitions and through a juried online art gallery. We also work with a variety of design and art professionals to find the right artwork to fit the right space.

ACA also provides opportunities for individuals who are interested in visual art to learn more about collecting and conserving art through workshops, gallery visits and special events. ACA partners with a variety of art and interior design professionals and organizations to present contemporary art that is accessible and affordable to the novice collector and attractive to established art connoisseurs.

About Meroe Art Gallery/ The West Baltimore Center for Urban Art

The West Baltimore Center for Urban Art is a center for artistic expression and culture in the West Baltimore community. The center serves as a haven where emerging and established artists can create and present their work. WBCUA artists also interact with the local community to assist them in appreciating the visual arts and expressing their own artistic potential. The center is located in a three story row-house at the corner of North and Pennsylvania avenues, adjacent to the Historic Arch Social Club and the Penn-North Subway station.

This area was at one time the nexus for African-American culture and artistic expression in the city of Baltimore, and there are several ongoing initiatives to revitalize this area. The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is within walking distance from the WBCUA. The center is easily accessed by bus, car, or subway.

New images from Marc Stanes forthcoming exhibition

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:52:52 -0400

Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery is pleased to announce ‘Naked
Sculpture,’ a new exhibition from acclaimed South African based
photographer Marc Stanes. The exhibition will be on show from 15
September- 2 October 2010. As official photographer to Mandela Rhodes
Foundation, Stanes also continues to record the life of Nelson
Mandela. 5% of sales will go to Positive Heroes, an AIDS charity in
South Africa. http://positiveheroes.org.za/ . A new book, ‘In Still Light’ focusing on Stanes still life and flower
photography is also being published in September, which explores his
relationship with natural forms over the last 20 years. This will
include forewords by art critic Godfrey Barker and Bronwen Heath.

Each photograph is a large format, silver gelatin print in an edition
of 5, with 1 artist’s proof. Jonathan Cooper
Park Walk Gallery

20 Park Walk
London
SW10 OAQ
020 7351 0410 alicephillimore@jonathancooper.co.uk
www.jonathancooper.co.uk

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Look, Listen + Live: this summer at the Drake

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:17:30 -0400

Drake hosts a series of events and installations to cool your heels and fire up your mind, gotta love summer in the city!

TODAY_doors @ 6:30_$5

+ Movies in the Messhall: The Goonies hosted by Dean Baldwin

July 11_doors @ 8:30_$10

+ Everything Is Terrible!

July 12_doors @ 6:30_$10

+ Even more, even earlier Everything Is Terrible!

July 13_doors @ 6pm_FREE

+ C Magazine / C School Forum: The Supernatural

July 13_doors @ 8:30_$5

+ Movies in the Messhall Late Show: Camp hosted by Meghan Bissonnette, Anastasia Hare, and Colleen O’Reilly

July 20_doors @ 6:30_$5

+ Movies in the Messhall: Stand By Me hosted by Jen McNeely

July 20_doors @7pm_$60

+ Art + Dine presents: Animals in Today’s Art w/ Betty Ann Jordan

July 27_Performance @ 6pm_FREE

+ Let’s Paint TV LIVE!

July 27_doors @ 6:30_$5

+ Movies in the Messhall: Donny Darko hosted by Camilla Singh

PREVIEW:

August 5_meet at the gates to Trinity Bellwoods Park @ 6:30_FREE

+ Gallery Spin w/ The Deadly Nightshades

+ Bicycle Film Festival preview

+ Art For You

NEW INSTALLATIONS: The Sky Yard has been transformed with new murals by Micah Lexier and Balint Zsako come see what everyone is talking about.

SUMMER EXHIBITION: Earnest Reverie

Drake’s Public_Spaces take a seriously frivolous look at camp with works by Andrew Harwood, Laura Kikauka, Lynne Heller and Bonnie Lewis, check it out till August 30, 2010.

DRAKE HOTEL
HOT BED FOR CULTURE
1150 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 1J3
www.thedrakehotel.ca
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ROM Release: From the Soul: Caribana Art Exhibit Opens July 23

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:15:39 -0400

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From the Soul: Caribana Art Exhibit

Largest juried display of African Canadian art presented at the ROM

(Toronto, Ontario – July 6, 2010) The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
joins in the excitement of the Scotiabank Caribana Festival and
presents From the Soul: Caribana Art Exhibit, July 23 to August 15,
2010, Canada’s largest ever single juried display of works of art by
African Canadian artists. Curated by renowned African Canadian artist
and activist, Joan Butterfield, the exhibition is produced by the
Association of African Canadian Artists, in conjunction with
Scotiabank Caribana and the ROM. From the Soul will be on display in
the Museum’s Bronfman Hall, Level 2 during the 12-day citywide
festival, which takes place from July 15 to August 15, 2010. “The Scotiabank Caribana Festival is a significant annual event
advancing cultural celebration in the City of Toronto. The ROM is
proud to present From the Soul and offer festival attendees,
Torontonians and visitors to the city the opportunity to experience a
unique and powerful exhibition celebrating African Canadian art,” said
William Thorsell, ROM Director and CEO.

(More…) For the full Press Release please see attached PDF or click:

http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php?mediakey=jhxx5mztu2 For more information, please contact:

Anne Marie Todaro, Publicist, Royal Ontario Museum,
amtodaro@rom.on.ca, 416.586.5558

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INSIDE/OUT at The Beverly Owens Project

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:48:45 -0400

The Beverly Owens Project Presents

INSIDE/OUT
Steven Lewis
Miyoshi Kondo
Beverly Owens July 15-August 1. 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, July 17. 2010 3-5 pm

image credit: Dragon Fruit-Miyoshi Kondo Murmuring Spirits Steven Lewis

gallery hours: wednesday-friday 12-6pm| saturday-sunday 11-5 pm

647-402-3570

www.thebeverlyowensproject.com

info@thebeverlyowensproject.com

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Call For Artists - Intersections Part 4

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:45:25 -0400

Intersections is an exhibit series curated for the gallery 1313 Window
Box, centred around the concept of the “mash-up”; where two or more
voices/mediums/styles are combined to create a single work. The focus
of these exhibitions is on the changeability of environment and
exploring the limits of creation. We extend the challenge to artists
to forget accepted “rules” and work in a fashion that includes an
understanding of flexibility in relation to the immediate environment.
This approach should bring about new and exciting projects that push
beyond the restraints of the traditional gallery milieu and the
confines of set artistic disciplines. Artists are welcome to submit work in any media, including but not
limited to: drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation,
participatory, performance, video, and new media. Artists should
note, however, that sound elements are discouraged due to the
limitations of the box.

This series encourages artists to push the boundaries of their comfort
zones and take the opportunity to experiment with new mediums or
styles.
Keeping with the theme of the “mash-up” artists applying
collaboratively with significantly different practices will be given
special consideration. Artists applying independently may be matched
by the curators with other applicants to produce a collaborative work. For more information about the series, visit the Intersections
website: www.intersectionsg1313.worpress.com

Deadline for submissions is Friday July 16, 2010.

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La Petite Mort Gallery presents: FIVE DAY EXHIBIT KARA WILLIAMS New Paintings July 16-22, 2010 Vernissage: Friday July 16, 2010 / 7-10pm

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:39:37 -0400

La Petite Mort Gallery presents…

FIVE DAY EXHIBIT

KARA WILLIAMS

New Paintings

July 16-22, 2010

Vernissage: Friday July 16, 2010 / 7-10pm

Tunes by Big Mac Daddy

Proudly Sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM & Cheesy Luigi’s Pizzeria

“Continuing in our month long journey into the private and highly psychological inner world of self, we bring you Kara Williams. Tearing through heavily stifled inner secrets, Kara deconstructs the adult self in a playful manner. Her works boldly confront the viewer with subject matter that displaces societal propriety, fleshing out long lost fears and dark secrets. Come and share in this psychological cleansing and participate in this ritual of self exposure and release.”

-Christina Anastassopoulos, 2010

Artist Statement:

“This exhibit is made up of images containing private rites, twisted fairy tales, early sexuality, youthful fears and dreams, biographical and autobiographical narratives. I enjoy getting inside people’s heads, mine and those of people close to me. We all have a confused, wicked little child within us, but how often do we admit the true nature of this beast? Selfishly sexual, eternally curious and imaginative, these paintings show adults in their childhood guise. Secret ways that friends masturbated when they were children, distorted rumors and fears about what sex is, terror of the monsters and the dark, this is a fun and psychologically fraught exhibition.”

-Kara Williams, 2010

FACEBOOK INVITE:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103580796361488

Thank you,

Christina Anastassopoulos, art consiglieri

La Petite Mort Gallery

306 Cumberland Street

Ottawa, ON K1N 7H9

www.lapetitemortgallery

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Jordan Dolman Paints Up A Storm In Toronto’s East End

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:32:02 -0400

Jordan Dolman Paints Up A Storm In Toronto’s East End

EXTREME PAINTING @ GALERIE D’ESTE July 14 - August...

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:31:50 -0400

EXTREME PAINTING @ GALERIE D’ESTE

July 14 - August 15

Vernissage Wednesday July 14 from 5 pm to 8 pm

Galerie D’Este is proud to present the group show “Extreme Painting”, part of a series of exhibitions uniting sixteen Montreal galleries. The gallery will present works by Paul Bourgault, Ángel Mateo Charris, Costa Dvorezky, Drew Simpson and Jean-Pierre Ruel on the theme of the human figure. Each painter places the figure in context (or out of context) to elaborate on the body with his own vision.

Paul Bourgault uses vibrant colours and modeled flesh and draperies to create dynamic sacred spaces spilling over with abundance. The fragmented, Classicizing bodies swirl among food wrappings, labels, print cutouts and enlarged dot-matrix textures in dense compositions that are truly excessive.

In widescreen figuration, the work of Ángel Mateo Charris surprises with cinematic angles and simple but equivocal compositions. His costumed figures skulk anonymously at the centre of bizarre and irrational circumstances under a sky reminiscent of De Chirico, confronted inconclusively with symbols drawn from popular culture.

Costa Dvorezky’s « Jump » series explores the figure at the apex of a movement, floating against an abstract ground which drips down around them. Broad strokes define the play of light on muscles in a tribute to the Mannerist technique of distorting anatomy to enhance the sense of gesture. Through his amalgamation of genres, Dvorezky’s contemporary practice honors his heritage as a painter.

Drew Simpson’s arrangements of objects, resembling curiosity cabinets, reveal the interior spaces of homes in the hyper-naturalist tradition of classical Dutch still-life painting. The lush textures of wood paneling, velvet, flowers and fruit are set on edge by elements of strangeness referring to war and death, be it a human jawbone in a floral arrangements or a miniature Spitfire, guns blazing, arcing around an antique chair. This human element disturbs the space, troubling the viewer and offering an ironic comment on the relationship between the human being and his “interior”.

Jean-Pierre Ruel’s works provoke passion and reflection with his extraordinary brushwork and destabilizing content. The artist paints with an inspiration that is as much visceral as spiritual, his stroke at once instinctive and controlled. He presents silent, emotionally charged interactions between figures who seem to suddenly have fallen silent. The viewer is left to situate herself within these strange meetings, intrigued by the sensation of having just walked in on something.

Address: 1329 Greene Ave., Montreal (Quebec)

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