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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  
Jul 20
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  

he Theatre Centre in partnership with Cooking Fire Theatre Festival presents
Z’s by the C: a radical crafting and public napping project
By Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton + You!
Saturday July 17 – Sunday July 18, 2010
 
Come decorate a sleeping mask before catching some Z’s in downtown Toronto!

The residents of Toronto are invited to come personalize a sleeping mask using simple crafting techniques before covering their eyes and dozing off in the city.  By creating a safe sleeping zone on the site of a proposed park in the Queen West neighbourhood, Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton seek to legitimize public napping under the aegis of art - just sweet public dreams!

Z’s by the C is a project in art and social engagement that playfully, but critically, aims to destabilize public and private space by performing a highly intimate act - napping in the city. Increasingly, neoliberal economic and cultural policies have led Western cities to implement social strategies that prohibit loitering and consequently limit public sleeping. Rushton and Moschopedis perceive this criminalization of everyday behaviour as not only an affront to our society’s marginalized and fatigued citizens, but also as an attack on public dreaming. As a public intervention, Z’s by the C seeks to rectify this situation, if only temporarily.

Mia Rushton is a printmaker, crafter and collector. By combining the elements of silk screening, sewing, knitting, and drawing, Rushton is among a new generation of do-it-yourself, indie artists who have embraced handcrafting as a way out and a resistance to the overly technocratic art industry. A graduate from Alberta College of Art & Design, Rushton has shown her work at Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Choose Yer Own Fest and in Truck Gallery’s CAMPER.

Eric Moschopedis is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer, facilitator, educator, and curator. A graduate of Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia, Moschopedis creates community-specific, relational, and participatory works that invite audiences to become active collaborators in the creation of community. He also maintains a performance practice that oscillates between staged performance, performance for video, installation, performative work, intervention, and walking, finding, and collecting.

Since 1979, The Theatre Centre has been Toronto’s home for experimental performance. Serving as an arts incubator, the centre provides emerging and established artists with the facilities, funding, mentorship, profile and sense of community to enable new work to be created, explored and developed. www.theatrecentre.org

Z’s BY THE C LISTING INFORMATION
COST: FREE.   DATES: Saturday July 17 - Sunday July 18, 12-4pm
VENUE: At the proposed park located at Lisgar Street, kitty corner to Queen Street West, Toronto (googlemap)
MORE INFORMATION: www.theatrecentre.org

 The Theatre Centre is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The Ontario Arts Council. The Toronto Arts Council, George C Metcalf Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation.The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and The McLean Foundation.
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Jun 10
he Theatre Centre in partnership with Cooking Fire Theatre Festival presentsZ’s by the C: a radical crafting and public napping projectBy Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton + You!Saturday July 17 – Sunday July 18, 2010 Come decorate a sleeping mask before catching some Z’s in downtown Toronto!The residents of Toronto are invited to come personalize a sleeping mask using simple crafting techniques before covering their eyes and dozing off in the city.  By creating a safe sleeping zone on the site of a proposed park in the Queen West neighbourhood, Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton seek to legitimize public napping under the aegis of art - just sweet public dreams!Z’s by the C is a project in art and social engagement that playfully, but critically, aims to destabilize public and private space by performing a highly intimate act - napping in the city. Increasingly, neoliberal economic and cultural policies have led Western cities to implement social strategies that prohibit loitering and consequently limit public sleeping. Rushton and Moschopedis perceive this criminalization of everyday behaviour as not only an affront to our society’s marginalized and fatigued citizens, but also as an attack on public dreaming. As a public intervention, Z’s by the C seeks to rectify this situation, if only temporarily.Mia Rushton is a printmaker, crafter and collector. By combining the elements of silk screening, sewing, knitting, and drawing, Rushton is among a new generation of do-it-yourself, indie artists who have embraced handcrafting as a way out and a resistance to the overly technocratic art industry. A graduate from Alberta College of Art & Design, Rushton has shown her work at Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Choose Yer Own Fest and in Truck Gallery’s CAMPER. Eric Moschopedis is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer, facilitator, educator, and curator. A graduate of Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia, Moschopedis creates community-specific, relational, and participatory works that invite audiences to become active collaborators in the creation of community. He also maintains a performance practice that oscillates between staged performance, performance for video, installation, performative work, intervention, and walking, finding, and collecting.Since 1979, The Theatre Centre has been Toronto’s home for experimental performance. Serving as an arts incubator, the centre provides emerging and established artists with the facilities, funding, mentorship, profile and sense of community to enable new work to be created, explored and developed. www.theatrecentre.org Z’s BY THE C LISTING INFORMATIONCOST: FREE.   DATES: Saturday July 17 - Sunday July 18, 12-4pm VENUE: At the proposed park located at Lisgar Street, kitty corner to Queen Street West, Toronto (googlemap)MORE INFORMATION: www.theatrecentre.org The Theatre Centre is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The Ontario Arts Council. The Toronto Arts Council, George C Metcalf Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation.The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and The McLean Foundation.———————————-30——————————

Rock ‘n Draw presents: CARNIVAL THEMED LIFE DRAWING
June 16th, 7pm-11pm, $5 entry at door.
@ culturshoc gallery
1205 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
http://www.culturshoc.com 
Jun 08
Rock ‘n Draw presents: CARNIVAL THEMED LIFE DRAWINGJune 16th, 7pm-11pm, $5 entry at door.@ culturshoc gallery1205 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontariohttp://www.culturshoc.com 

The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by  

Margie Kelk 

TITLE: Beyond Absurd 

LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West 

Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8

416 504 5654

http://www.redheadgallery.org

DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19

Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010

Beyond Absurd

With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure.

www.margiekelk.com
May 29
The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by   Margie Kelk  TITLE: Beyond Absurd  LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West  Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 416 504 5654 http://www.redheadgallery.org DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19 Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010 Beyond Absurd With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure. www.margiekelk.com

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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  
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  

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  

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Media contact Natasha Brown Think Brown INK 240-304-6354 Natasha@thinkbrownink.com   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.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Media contact

Natasha Brown

Think Brown INK

240-304-6354

Natasha@thinkbrownink.com

 

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.

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

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

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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)
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)

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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For Immediate Release Art exhibition “Abstract Experiences” Thursday, July 8th The Samsung Experience at the Time Warner Center 3rd Floor 10 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019-1158 Matt Nahoum’s debut has been a long time coming. Born and raised in the Bronx, the Rabbit, as he is known, is the quintessential New York artist: inspired by everything around him, yet with a slightly twisted interpretation; his city roots lend him a context afforded only to “actual” New Yorkers. The Rabbit is by no means new to art- indeed, he spent his entire youth, all the way through high school, painting and drawing- but after moving upstate to attend college, and then to San Diego to pursue a job opportunity, he “just stopped painting,” as he puts it. “There was a lack of inspiration, and I just couldn’t find my voice.” Four years after moving back to his hometown, though, the Rabbit has found his voice and he is ready to speak. “When I left New York I was somewhat disillusioned with the city and it was kind of like we broke up,” he says. “But art heals and when I came back, the new burst of creativity I had almost felt like therapy, and that allowed me to come to terms with who I really am-both as a person and an artist.”  Held at the Time Warner Center’s Samsung Experience,  “Abstract Experiences” is both retrospective and reawakening. He has revisited old works and created new ones, tapping in to his newfound maturity as an artist. The exhibition will be held Thursday, July 8th from 6pm-8pm.   About the Rabbit Eager to create the world through his eyes, Matt Rabbit has been expressing his most inner thoughts and expressions since he was a child. Matt Nahoum is textural abstract artist, living in Brooklyn New York. His work comes from chaotic places in his mind that come to life as he puts feeling to canvas. Art heals, and Matt uses creativity as therapy. It keeps him here. Keeps him from running. Run rabbit, run.   About the show “Abstract Experiences” marks the debut of emerging abstract artist Matt Nahoum, and brings to life his unique vision and expression. The show will feature some of his most visionary works as well as some of Samsung’s cutting edge visual display technology.   About the Samsung Experience The Samsung Experience is an interactive brand emporium that provides a creative experience through Samsung’s vision of digital convergence. Captivate both your senses and imagination. Explore the art of the possible within the new digital culture. Touch, hear, and engage the latest technology to create your own digital lifestyle and discover a fusion of new ideas in art, entertainment, and design. www.samsungexperience.com    Media Contact Venue – Sarah Horn; sarahh@cheilusa.com  Artist – matt@mattsrabit.com 

For Immediate Release

Art exhibition “Abstract Experiences”

Thursday, July 8th

The Samsung Experience at the

Time Warner Center

3rd Floor

10 Columbus Circle

New York, NY 10019-1158

Matt Nahoum’s debut has been a long time coming. Born and raised in the Bronx, the Rabbit, as he is known, is the quintessential New York artist: inspired by everything around him, yet with a slightly twisted interpretation; his city roots lend him a context afforded only to “actual” New Yorkers.

The Rabbit is by no means new to art- indeed, he spent his entire youth, all the way through high school, painting and drawing- but after moving upstate to attend college, and then to San Diego to pursue a job opportunity, he “just stopped painting,” as he puts it. “There was a lack of inspiration, and I just couldn’t find my voice.”

Four years after moving back to his hometown, though, the Rabbit has found his voice and he is ready to speak. “When I left New York I was somewhat disillusioned with the city and it was kind of like we broke up,” he says. “But art heals and when I came back, the new burst of creativity I had almost felt like therapy, and that allowed me to come to terms with who I really am-both as a person and an artist.” 

Held at the Time Warner Center’s Samsung Experience,  “Abstract Experiences” is both retrospective and reawakening. He has revisited old works and created new ones, tapping in to his newfound maturity as an artist. The exhibition will be held Thursday, July 8th from 6pm-8pm.

 

About the Rabbit

Eager to create the world through his eyes, Matt Rabbit has been expressing his most inner thoughts and expressions since he was a child. Matt Nahoum is textural abstract artist, living in Brooklyn New York. His work comes from chaotic places in his mind that come to life as he puts feeling to canvas. Art heals, and Matt uses creativity as therapy. It keeps him here. Keeps him from running. Run rabbit, run.

 

About the show

“Abstract Experiences” marks the debut of emerging abstract artist Matt Nahoum, and brings to life his unique vision and expression. The show will feature some of his most visionary works as well as some of Samsung’s cutting edge visual display technology.

 

About the Samsung Experience

The Samsung Experience is an interactive brand emporium that provides a creative experience through Samsung’s vision of digital convergence. Captivate both your senses and imagination. Explore the art of the possible within the new digital culture. Touch, hear, and engage the latest technology to create your own digital lifestyle and discover a fusion of new ideas in art, entertainment, and design. www.samsungexperience.com 

 

Media Contact

Venue – Sarah Horn; sarahh@cheilusa.com 

Artist – matt@mattsrabit.com 

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Posted on Thursday July 1st 2010 at 03:00pm. It's tags are listed below.

The Keyhole Sessions is holding it’s first gallery exhibition, entitled SneakPeek. It’s an exhibition to celebrate the loss of inhibition, and will be showcasing over a year’s worth of debaucherous drawing and photography.The Keyhole Sessions are life-drawing with edge. Our models come with attitude, and enjoy being there as much as the artists do. We love the art of restraint, and our Sessions incorporate Shibari, the act of Japanese rope-tying. Our community in Toronto has grown into one where artists can enjoy the nude form, with that added bit of kink they won’t get anywhere else; all free to draw in a respectful, warm and extremely creative atmosphere.We have just finished our first Season, and are celebrating with this art show, held at The Gladstone Hotel’s ArtBar. The opening reception is held on Saturday, July 10, from 7 to 10 pm. The show runs from July 8th to the 13th.You can find more of what we’re about at thekeyholesessions.com. We hope to see you there!
The Keyhole Sessions is holding it’s first gallery exhibition, entitled SneakPeek. It’s an exhibition to celebrate the loss of inhibition, and will be showcasing over a year’s worth of debaucherous drawing and photography.The Keyhole Sessions are life-drawing with edge. Our models come with attitude, and enjoy being there as much as the artists do. We love the art of restraint, and our Sessions incorporate Shibari, the act of Japanese rope-tying. Our community in Toronto has grown into one where artists can enjoy the nude form, with that added bit of kink they won’t get anywhere else; all free to draw in a respectful, warm and extremely creative atmosphere.We have just finished our first Season, and are celebrating with this art show, held at The Gladstone Hotel’s ArtBar. The opening reception is held on Saturday, July 10, from 7 to 10 pm. The show runs from July 8th to the 13th.You can find more of what we’re about at thekeyholesessions.com. We hope to see you there!

The Keyhole Sessions is holding it’s first gallery exhibition, entitled SneakPeek. It’s an exhibition to celebrate the loss of inhibition, and will be showcasing over a year’s worth of debaucherous drawing and photography.
The Keyhole Sessions are life-drawing with edge. Our models come with attitude, and enjoy being there as much as the artists do. We love the art of restraint, and our Sessions incorporate Shibari, the act of Japanese rope-tying. Our community in Toronto has grown into one where artists can enjoy the nude form, with that added bit of kink they won’t get anywhere else; all free to draw in a respectful, warm and extremely creative atmosphere.
We have just finished our first Season, and are celebrating with this art show, held at The Gladstone Hotel’s ArtBar. The opening reception is held on Saturday, July 10, from 7 to 10 pm. The show runs from July 8th to the 13th.
You can find more of what we’re about at thekeyholesessions.com. 
We hope to see you there!

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he Theatre Centre in partnership with Cooking Fire Theatre Festival presentsZ’s by the C: a radical crafting and public napping projectBy Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton + You!Saturday July 17 – Sunday July 18, 2010 Come decorate a sleeping mask before catching some Z’s in downtown Toronto!The residents of Toronto are invited to come personalize a sleeping mask using simple crafting techniques before covering their eyes and dozing off in the city.  By creating a safe sleeping zone on the site of a proposed park in the Queen West neighbourhood, Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton seek to legitimize public napping under the aegis of art - just sweet public dreams!Z’s by the C is a project in art and social engagement that playfully, but critically, aims to destabilize public and private space by performing a highly intimate act - napping in the city. Increasingly, neoliberal economic and cultural policies have led Western cities to implement social strategies that prohibit loitering and consequently limit public sleeping. Rushton and Moschopedis perceive this criminalization of everyday behaviour as not only an affront to our society’s marginalized and fatigued citizens, but also as an attack on public dreaming. As a public intervention, Z’s by the C seeks to rectify this situation, if only temporarily.Mia Rushton is a printmaker, crafter and collector. By combining the elements of silk screening, sewing, knitting, and drawing, Rushton is among a new generation of do-it-yourself, indie artists who have embraced handcrafting as a way out and a resistance to the overly technocratic art industry. A graduate from Alberta College of Art & Design, Rushton has shown her work at Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Choose Yer Own Fest and in Truck Gallery’s CAMPER. Eric Moschopedis is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer, facilitator, educator, and curator. A graduate of Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia, Moschopedis creates community-specific, relational, and participatory works that invite audiences to become active collaborators in the creation of community. He also maintains a performance practice that oscillates between staged performance, performance for video, installation, performative work, intervention, and walking, finding, and collecting.Since 1979, The Theatre Centre has been Toronto’s home for experimental performance. Serving as an arts incubator, the centre provides emerging and established artists with the facilities, funding, mentorship, profile and sense of community to enable new work to be created, explored and developed. www.theatrecentre.org Z’s BY THE C LISTING INFORMATIONCOST: FREE.   DATES: Saturday July 17 - Sunday July 18, 12-4pm VENUE: At the proposed park located at Lisgar Street, kitty corner to Queen Street West, Toronto (googlemap)MORE INFORMATION: www.theatrecentre.org The Theatre Centre is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The Ontario Arts Council. The Toronto Arts Council, George C Metcalf Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation.The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and The McLean Foundation.———————————-30——————————

he Theatre Centre in partnership with Cooking Fire Theatre Festival presents
Z’s by the C: a radical crafting and public napping project
By Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton + You!
Saturday July 17 – Sunday July 18, 2010
 
Come decorate a sleeping mask before catching some Z’s in downtown Toronto!

The residents of Toronto are invited to come personalize a sleeping mask using simple crafting techniques before covering their eyes and dozing off in the city.  By creating a safe sleeping zone on the site of a proposed park in the Queen West neighbourhood, Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton seek to legitimize public napping under the aegis of art - just sweet public dreams!

Z’s by the C is a project in art and social engagement that playfully, but critically, aims to destabilize public and private space by performing a highly intimate act - napping in the city. Increasingly, neoliberal economic and cultural policies have led Western cities to implement social strategies that prohibit loitering and consequently limit public sleeping. Rushton and Moschopedis perceive this criminalization of everyday behaviour as not only an affront to our society’s marginalized and fatigued citizens, but also as an attack on public dreaming. As a public intervention, Z’s by the C seeks to rectify this situation, if only temporarily.

Mia Rushton is a printmaker, crafter and collector. By combining the elements of silk screening, sewing, knitting, and drawing, Rushton is among a new generation of do-it-yourself, indie artists who have embraced handcrafting as a way out and a resistance to the overly technocratic art industry. A graduate from Alberta College of Art & Design, Rushton has shown her work at Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Choose Yer Own Fest and in Truck Gallery’s CAMPER.

Eric Moschopedis is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer, facilitator, educator, and curator. A graduate of Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia, Moschopedis creates community-specific, relational, and participatory works that invite audiences to become active collaborators in the creation of community. He also maintains a performance practice that oscillates between staged performance, performance for video, installation, performative work, intervention, and walking, finding, and collecting.

Since 1979, The Theatre Centre has been Toronto’s home for experimental performance. Serving as an arts incubator, the centre provides emerging and established artists with the facilities, funding, mentorship, profile and sense of community to enable new work to be created, explored and developed. www.theatrecentre.org

Z’s BY THE C LISTING INFORMATION
COST: FREE.   DATES: Saturday July 17 - Sunday July 18, 12-4pm
VENUE: At the proposed park located at Lisgar Street, kitty corner to Queen Street West, Toronto (googlemap)
MORE INFORMATION: www.theatrecentre.org

 The Theatre Centre is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The Ontario Arts Council. The Toronto Arts Council, George C Metcalf Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation.The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and The McLean Foundation.
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Posted on Tuesday June 8th 2010 at 05:09pm. It's tags are listed below.

Rock ‘n Draw presents: CARNIVAL THEMED LIFE DRAWINGJune 16th, 7pm-11pm, $5 entry at door.@ culturshoc gallery1205 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontariohttp://www.culturshoc.com 
Rock ‘n Draw presents: CARNIVAL THEMED LIFE DRAWINGJune 16th, 7pm-11pm, $5 entry at door.@ culturshoc gallery1205 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontariohttp://www.culturshoc.com 

Rock ‘n Draw presents: CARNIVAL THEMED LIFE DRAWING
June 16th, 7pm-11pm, $5 entry at door.
@ culturshoc gallery
1205 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
http://www.culturshoc.com 

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WORLD REFUGEE WEEK CELEBRATIONSFor Immediate Release | Contact Graham Thompson Email: refugeeweek2010@gmail.comWeb: www.refugeeweek.com WORLD REFUGEE WEEK 2010, A FESTIVAL OF THEATRE, DANCE, MEDIA AND MUSIC - FREE ADMISSION International NGOs and activists gather for a festival of theatre, dance, media and music from June 16-20 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street Ottawa. “Live performances start at 3PM daily within a theatrical backdrop of large scale portraits and video displays involving artists from Africa, Canada, Central Asia and the Americas,” says organizer Graham Thompson. “We have fashion from East Africa, folk music from Venezuela, belly dancing from Persia, spoken word from Darfur, revolutionary song writing from Guatemala, body painting from Sudan and feminist poetry from Afghanistan.”  Mixed with the installation of film loops and colourful banners, the paintings of Hawa Kaba, Hamid Ayoub, Sherry Tompalski, Martin Mbesha and Victor Fuentes will set the stage for talks by Hy Shelow of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Adnan Turegun of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, Dr. Susan Walsh of USC Canada, Philip Landon of the World University Service of Canada, JP Melville of the Coalition of New Canadians for Arts and Culture, Jayne Stoyles of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Dr. Hamdi Mohamed of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. As well, the multimedia event will feature readings by Dr. Monia Mazigh from her book Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, enactments by Sarah Mahoney from the classic drama Lemkin’s House, video testimonies by local refugees who have survived wars abroad and performances by lawyers of Peter Showler’s play Excluding Manuel.  The 3-year old collaborative project, which was exhibited last year at the Parliament of Canada, can be viewed on Youtube, FLICKr,  MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter. The detailed events schedule and the links to the social media sites are available through www.refugeeweek.com.” ### If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview contact Graham Thompson at 613-253-7007 or refugeeweek2010@gmail.com 
WORLD REFUGEE WEEK CELEBRATIONSFor Immediate Release | Contact Graham Thompson Email: refugeeweek2010@gmail.comWeb: www.refugeeweek.com WORLD REFUGEE WEEK 2010, A FESTIVAL OF THEATRE, DANCE, MEDIA AND MUSIC - FREE ADMISSION International NGOs and activists gather for a festival of theatre, dance, media and music from June 16-20 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street Ottawa. “Live performances start at 3PM daily within a theatrical backdrop of large scale portraits and video displays involving artists from Africa, Canada, Central Asia and the Americas,” says organizer Graham Thompson. “We have fashion from East Africa, folk music from Venezuela, belly dancing from Persia, spoken word from Darfur, revolutionary song writing from Guatemala, body painting from Sudan and feminist poetry from Afghanistan.”  Mixed with the installation of film loops and colourful banners, the paintings of Hawa Kaba, Hamid Ayoub, Sherry Tompalski, Martin Mbesha and Victor Fuentes will set the stage for talks by Hy Shelow of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Adnan Turegun of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, Dr. Susan Walsh of USC Canada, Philip Landon of the World University Service of Canada, JP Melville of the Coalition of New Canadians for Arts and Culture, Jayne Stoyles of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Dr. Hamdi Mohamed of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. As well, the multimedia event will feature readings by Dr. Monia Mazigh from her book Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, enactments by Sarah Mahoney from the classic drama Lemkin’s House, video testimonies by local refugees who have survived wars abroad and performances by lawyers of Peter Showler’s play Excluding Manuel.  The 3-year old collaborative project, which was exhibited last year at the Parliament of Canada, can be viewed on Youtube, FLICKr,  MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter. The detailed events schedule and the links to the social media sites are available through www.refugeeweek.com.” ### If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview contact Graham Thompson at 613-253-7007 or refugeeweek2010@gmail.com 

WORLD REFUGEE WEEK CELEBRATIONS
For Immediate Release | Contact Graham Thompson 
Email: refugeeweek2010@gmail.com
Web: www.refugeeweek.com

WORLD REFUGEE WEEK 2010, A FESTIVAL OF THEATRE, DANCE, MEDIA AND MUSIC - FREE ADMISSION

International NGOs and activists gather for a festival of theatre, dance, media and music from June 16-20 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street Ottawa. “Live performances start at 3PM daily within a theatrical backdrop of large scale portraits and video displays involving artists from Africa, Canada, Central Asia and the Americas,” says organizer Graham Thompson. “We have fashion from East Africa, folk music from Venezuela, belly dancing from Persia, spoken word from Darfur, revolutionary song writing from Guatemala, body painting from Sudan and feminist poetry from Afghanistan.” 

Mixed with the installation of film loops and colourful banners, the paintings of Hawa Kaba, Hamid Ayoub, Sherry Tompalski, Martin Mbesha and Victor Fuentes will set the stage for talks by Hy Shelow of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Adnan Turegun of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, Dr. Susan Walsh of USC Canada, Philip Landon of the World University Service of Canada, JP Melville of the Coalition of New Canadians for Arts and Culture, Jayne Stoyles of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Dr. Hamdi Mohamed of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization.

As well, the multimedia event will feature readings by Dr. Monia Mazigh from her book Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, enactments by Sarah Mahoney from the classic drama Lemkin’s House, video testimonies by local refugees who have survived wars abroad and performances by lawyers of Peter Showler’s play Excluding Manuel. 

The 3-year old collaborative project, which was exhibited last year at the Parliament of Canada, can be viewed on Youtube, FLICKr,  MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter. The detailed events schedule and the links to the social media sites are available through www.refugeeweek.com.”

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If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview contact Graham Thompson at 613-253-7007 or refugeeweek2010@gmail.com 

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Posted on Saturday May 29th 2010 at 10:27am. It's tags are listed below.

The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by   Margie Kelk  TITLE: Beyond Absurd  LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West  Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 416 504 5654 http://www.redheadgallery.org DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19 Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010 Beyond Absurd With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure. www.margiekelk.com
The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by   Margie Kelk  TITLE: Beyond Absurd  LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West  Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 416 504 5654 http://www.redheadgallery.org DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19 Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010 Beyond Absurd With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure. www.margiekelk.com

The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by  

Margie Kelk 

TITLE: Beyond Absurd 

LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West 

Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8

416 504 5654

http://www.redheadgallery.org

DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19

Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010

Beyond Absurd

With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure.

www.margiekelk.com

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THE COOPER UNION END OF YEAR SHOW  Students unveil pioneering work at architecture, art and engineering exhibition Opening night: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5–9 pm. With the 43rd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their works in the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square, the college’s state-of-the-art new academic building. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Irwin S. Chanin School of ArchitectureThrough June 26, 2010 Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves. An exhibition of student works that explore the role of architecture in contemporary culture and society through conceptual and scaled drawings, detailed three dimensional models and digital renderings.  Proposals range from new projects in New York City to sites in Haiti, Israel, Iran and others. The Cooper Union End of Year Show has a rich tradition of showcasing projects by emerging architects that has helped launch the careers of such well-known alumni as Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Shigeru Ban, Laurie Hawkinson, Diane Lewis, Stan Allen, Daniel Libeskind, Toshiko Mori and Rolf Ohlhausen.  The School of Art Through June 19, 2010Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves. A display of compelling individual and collaborative projects, illustrating the school’s continuing role as an incubator of significant artists from historically influential artists such as Alex Katz and Lee Krasner to recent alumni including Leslie Hewitt, Piotr Uklanski and Matthew Monahan, to name a few. On multiple floors, a diverse array of sculpture, painting, graphic design and video installations will be on view in several gallery spaces Albert Nerken School of Engineering Through May 26, 2010 41 Cooper Square, 3rd Ave, b/w 6th and 7th Sts. An exciting variety of projects representing the different engineering disciplines ranging from a Formula 1 race car, battling robots, computer musical compositions, 3D printing, tissue engineering, stress distribution on a ballerina’s toe, electrical generating using waves and a steel bridge building. The installation in Cooper Union’s new academic building at 41 Cooper Square will showcase the inventive and important outcomes generated by the fields of mechanical, electrical, civil, and chemical engineering.   EXHIBITION HOURS:  Monday-Thursday 12 - 7 pm, Saturday 12 - 5 pm; Closed Fridays, Sundays and Memorial Day FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit www.cooper.edu for a detailed schedule of events,Follow Cooper Union on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cooperunion. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a distinguished private college of art, architecture and engineering founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper, an inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Since its founding, all admitted students have received full-tuition scholarships.

THE COOPER UNION END OF YEAR SHOW
  Students unveil pioneering work at architecture, art and engineering exhibition

Opening night: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5–9 pm.

With the 43rd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their works in the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square, the college’s state-of-the-art new academic building. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Through June 26, 2010 
Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.

An exhibition of student works that explore the role of architecture in contemporary culture and society through conceptual and scaled drawings, detailed three dimensional models and digital renderings.  Proposals range from new projects in New York City to sites in Haiti, Israel, Iran and others. The Cooper Union End of Year Show has a rich tradition of showcasing projects by emerging architects that has helped launch the careers of such well-known alumni as Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Shigeru Ban, Laurie Hawkinson, Diane Lewis, Stan Allen, Daniel Libeskind, Toshiko Mori and Rolf Ohlhausen. 

The School of Art
Through June 19, 2010
Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.

A display of compelling individual and collaborative projects, illustrating the school’s continuing role as an incubator of significant artists from historically influential artists such as Alex Katz and Lee Krasner to recent alumni including Leslie Hewitt, Piotr Uklanski and Matthew Monahan, to name a few. On multiple floors, a diverse array of sculpture, painting, graphic design and video installations will be on view in several gallery spaces

Albert Nerken School of Engineering 
Through May 26, 2010 
41 Cooper Square, 3rd Ave, b/w 6th and 7th Sts.

An exciting variety of projects representing the different engineering disciplines ranging from a Formula 1 race car, battling robots, computer musical compositions, 3D printing, tissue engineering, stress distribution on a ballerina’s toe, electrical generating using waves and a steel bridge building. The installation in Cooper Union’s new academic building at 41 Cooper Square will showcase the inventive and important outcomes generated by the fields of mechanical, electrical, civil, and chemical engineering.  

EXHIBITION HOURS:  Monday-Thursday 12 - 7 pm, Saturday 12 - 5 pm; Closed Fridays, Sundays and Memorial Day

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit www.cooper.edu for a detailed schedule of events,
Follow Cooper Union on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cooperunion.

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a distinguished private college of art, architecture and engineering founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper, an inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Since its founding, all admitted students have received full-tuition scholarships.

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ZOMBIE UN-LIFE DRAWING @ culturshoc, 7 - 10 p.m., May 19th, 2010 1205 Queen Street West, Toronto www.culturshoc.com $5 entry fee, please bring your own supplies and easelssome chairs available 
ZOMBIE UN-LIFE DRAWING @ culturshoc, 7 - 10 p.m., May 19th, 2010 1205 Queen Street West, Toronto www.culturshoc.com $5 entry fee, please bring your own supplies and easelssome chairs available 

ZOMBIE UN-LIFE DRAWING @ culturshoc, 7 - 10 p.m., May 19th, 2010 
1205 Queen Street West, Toronto www.culturshoc.com 
$5 entry fee, please bring your own supplies and easels
some chairs available 

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SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOPMAY 2010 EVENTS Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American DreamWith series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.Sunday May 23, 7-10PM[FREE]Photo Silk Screen Printing WorkshopLed by Ari PottensSaturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch[$40 materials fee]Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.comTHURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT
SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOPMAY 2010 EVENTS Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American DreamWith series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.Sunday May 23, 7-10PM[FREE]Photo Silk Screen Printing WorkshopLed by Ari PottensSaturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch[$40 materials fee]Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.comTHURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT

SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOP
MAY 2010 EVENTS 
Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American Dream
With series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.
Sunday May 23, 7-10PM
[FREE]

Photo Silk Screen Printing Workshop
Led by Ari Pottens
Saturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch
[$40 materials fee]
Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.
Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.
Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.
SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.com
THURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT

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