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Press release for Thrown Forth Art and Art History Grad Shows at Blackwood Gallery at University of Toronto Mississauga Campus.
Can the integrity of video artwork shown on the Web or on television be compromised? Transmitted out of the control of their author, to what fate are these works devoted? Izabel Barsive, visual artist, independant video maker and professor, questions the fragile relationship she maintains with the broadcasting industry and its platforms, in her exhibition Une minute pour un carré blanc (One minute for a white square), presented at Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle from March 13 to April 20, 2010.
With one-minute excerpts of transformed videos (by censure processes, for example), she examines the role played by television and Web broadcasters, as well as the role of the artist. According to her, the latter can consent to all kinds of compromises in exchange for one or many minutes of glory, glory inexorably ephemeral since also subjected to oblivion in the hubbub of virtual images polluted by advertising.
Come and meet the artist at the opening reception, which will be held Saturday, March 13, at 1 p.m., at Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, located at 81 Beechwood Avenue, in Vanier. The gallery’s regular hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., from Tuesday to Saturday.
Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle thanks the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage and the City of Ottawa for their support.
www.voixvisuelle.ca
“Signs Along The Way” Photography Exhibition
From March 3rd to April 3rd, Silver Circle Studio in Putnam, CT, is hosting “Signs Along The Way,” an exhibition featuring the work of Willimantic-based artist Harrison Judd. The Opening Reception is Friday, March 5th from 6 – 8PM, with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres.
Harrison Judd is a photographer, new media artist, and archivist whose clients have included the NFL, Southern CT Gas, Danbury Hospital, the New Haven Symphony, Jock Sturges and Maurice Sendak.
OCCCA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art presents
The Inexpressible
Artists: Dalibor Polivka, Rob Mintz, Guillemette Buffault, Chau Thuy
April 3- May 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3-2010, 5:00-11:00PM
at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 117 North Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
; 714.667.1517, www.occca.org
Inexpressible is an exhibition of works by the important French contemporary artist Guillemette Buffault, orchestrated in space brought to life by the graphic and installation interventions of Dalibor Polivka, with wall texts by Rob Mintz presented by master Vietnamese calligrapher Chau Thuy. In a spiritually-charged atmosphere, gallery-goers will discover the inexpressible within themselves. This exhibit seeks insight into the nature of a mysterious, shared universe described by mystics, philosophers and physicists. A creative alliance between artists from different countries, it will be a model of contemporary practice, a hybrid with exalted aims.
Dali Polivka
No form an artist might use is equal to the unbounded void where the phantoms of memory arise. To represent the absolute in a manner that does not instantly betray its transcendental meaning is the challenge that motivates Dalibor Polivka. The beauty and depth of the historic cultural traditions of his native Slovakia inform a restless pursuit of the underpinnings of perception, across contemporary disciplines, in painting, sculpture, installation, performance, digital imaging and graphic design.
Rob Mintz
Rob Mintz’s writings are influenced by the history of the avant-garde in all its manifestations. Evolving spontaneously and organically with a series of decisions that embellish or obliterate each line, they exude subjectivity, authenticity, anxiety, and the drift of autonomous introspection, the philosopher’s first step.
Guillemette Buffault
The “fold” (le pli) is the structure at the center of Guillemette Buffault’s research, taking form in paper, cloth, metal, sheets of lead, woven polyester, graphite, bronze, and glass, depicted in prints, or captured in photographs. The fold is both an object and a means of investigation. In her hands it becomes paradoxical, material and immaterial simultaneously. The fold is a connective discontinuity. When multiplied, its implications become metaphysical. Like apparitions, Buffault’s art oscillates between the opaque and the transparent.
Châu Thuy
Inspired by the Vietnamese calligraphic tradition, Châu Thuy’s popular and widely-exhibited work incorporates stylized figurative elements to symbolically express personal, historical and spiritual themes.
More details about Inexpressible at www.daliborpolivka.com/inexpressible
Suki Falkner is a boundaries-breaking artist that revisited India to explore contemporary, ancient, and folk traditions.
As a young woman Suki worked as a CUSO teacher in an ashram. Her explorations included Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Vadovara, as well as tours in Orissa, and Kutch. Tentatively, she began to take photographs. She was conscious of the danger of an outsider, even an attached outsider, imposing a foreign gaze. She tried to stay close to the concrete.
The resulting photographs form the basis of the present exhibition. They have been laboriously photo-transferred onto encaustic-coated squares. The resultant squares, with their images, were then built up, brick-like, into incomplete and disrupted grids. Monochromatic squares in each piece allow the viewer’s eye not to lose itself in India’s detail, but rather to construct a whole of its own which may even be viewed as abstraction. She presents these pieces as her vision of a place like no other in her exhibition PASSAGE TO INDIA.
Opening at PROOF Studio Gallery on January 30 from 12-4 PM, and running from Jan 27-February 7.
PROOF Studio Gallery, Studio 104, Bldg. 74,
55 Mill Street in Toronto’s Distillery District.
fineart@proofstudiogallery 416-504-6761.
Selected Toronto art dealers featured in a suite of portraits by artist Viktor Mitic
In this remarkable portrait-survey of thirty-six of Toronto’s most distinctive and influential art dealers, artist Viktor Mitic has captured and illuminated the unique individual personalities of his subjects. Depicting by turns their passion, insouciance, vivacity, shrewdness, eccentricity, geniality, and more, these portraits successfully reflect the rainbow of human emotion and expression. As Gary Michael Dault says in his insightful introductory essay, “there isn’t a portrait here that doesn’t provide not only a fine likeness of its subject, but also a telling, charming, incisive route into the sitter’s essential nature.”
Tightrope Books and Odon Wagner Contemporary are pleased to invite you to a ground breaking art show/book launch at the Odon Wagner Contemporary, 198 Davenport Road in Toronto, 6pm to 9pm December 10th 2009. The show will continue until December 24th 2009.
For more info please call 416-962-0438 or email info@odonwagnergallery.com
The Jerusalem Gallery, in Washington, DC is happy to announce a solo art show by Ammar Qusaibaty scheduled to open on Nov 20 under a theme of Mental Mediations. These abstract images, two-sided painting on transparent sheets, express the artist’s dual influences of metaphor in the Arabic language and the rigor of abstract mathematics.
According to the artist the world is best exposed as a system of processes, change, and motion. It is a continuous and dynamic exchange between an observer and an observed that encodes states in multi-hierarchal cognition unlimited by the sequential sense of time and space. Exposing this interaction through the whole body of the canvass and its minutia becomes the primary purpose of expression.
Influenced by selective causality, automatism, action painting, minimalism, and situationism, the art thesis is characterized by continuous and long strokes, fluid motion, incomplete geometric compositions and emergence. The artist has stretched the boundary of the canvass by two-sided painting on transparent sheets allowing realization of infinite forms. In addition to painting on reflective sheets, the work depicts disjoint unity to show relationships between a whole and its parts.
An artist with unconventional training, Dr. Ammar Qusaibaty received his Doctoral degree in Cognitive Informatics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He holds two Masters degrees from Oxford University and the University of Michigan.
Dr. Qusaibaty has exhibited in Europe and North America. He lives and works in Washington D.C.
Opening reception to meet the artist: Friday, 20 November 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
For more information visit:
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/EventDetails/i/7200/pid/1459
Media Contact:
Natalie O’Connor
Email: art@zaygal.com
Contemporary Pictorialist Photography of Roberta Murray.
At Rocky Public Library November 3 - December 5, 2009
4922 - 52 Street, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
Opening Reception: November 6th 7 - 9 PM.
