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401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 979-9633
www.aspacegallery.org
Tuesday to Friday 11am to 6pm; Saturday 12pm to 5pm
Resistance is Fertile
A Space Gallery and ON.Fire, Independent Media Arts Alliance 2010 National Conference + Festival are pleased to present Resistance is Fertile, an exhibition that brings together works dating from the 1980s to the present, by artists who have taken on Canadian identity politics with intelligence, insight, and biting humour. Curated by Steve Loft, these groundbreaking works by Dana Claxton, Thirza Cuthand, Richard Fung, Shani Mootoo, Ho Tam, and Paul Wong showcase the ways that artists built on the foundations of the 1970s video revolution using the accessibility of the medium and non-exclusive practices to create new aesthetics, identities, and definitions.
June 17, 2010 to July 31, 2010
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1410 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 516-8859
www.alisonsmithgallery.ca
Thursday and Friday 11am to 3pm, Saturday 12pm to 5pm
Nicole DeBrabandere, “Dressed for the Occasion”
This exhibition offers a series of sculptural explorations combining bricks, glaze, porcelain, fabric and paint. These small-scale works transform the decorative and the utilitarian into unlikely hybrid forms, held together in gestural relationships suffused with a playful, subversive theatricality. The result is something uniquely alive and animated by the complicated process of its own birth.
September 18 to October 23, 2010
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334 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 595-5222
www.artsquaregallery.ca
9 am – 10 pm daily
Art Polinica, “In – Line – Out”
Polishedarts is proud to present “In – Line – Out”, the second annual Art Polinica exhibit dedicated to building Canadian awareness of contemporary Polish artists. This year Art Polinica Two celebrates drawing as an art form. The exhibit brings together an exceptional group of established and emerging artists from both Poland and Canada who have chosen this honest, unforgiving medium to explore different subjects—from the socio-political to the narrative to the self-expressive.
In the gallery for Hop day on September 25 is Erwin Rummel, an artist with an interest in well-structured figurative and representational work. With emphasis on classical compositional rules, Erwin Rummel evokes both realism and impressionism in his canvases.
Erwin Rummel: until September 26
Art Polinca: September 27 to October 10, 2010
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460 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 961-1502
www.avenueroadartsschool.com
Monday-Saturday 10-6, Sunday 12-6
Alice in Wonderland Arts Camps for JK-Grade 4
Take a journey down the rabbit hole this summer and experience a magical world! Our integrated arts camps offer kids the opportunity to explore their creativity through visual art, music and drama activities. We have both 2 week full-day programs and 1 week half-day classes.
Classes for Kids & Teens
For those children in grades 3-12 we offer a variety of specialized classes, including Photography and Mixed Media, Architecture and Jewelry Design. These programs give students the opportunity to further explore the elements and principles of design while also looking deeper into their creative side.
Classes for Adults & Teens
We offer programs for both the beginner and the more experienced artist. Classes are taught by knowledgeable and practicing artists and vary in style and medium. Choose from a wide range of programs including Abstract Painting to Figure Drawing and much more.
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340 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 977-0600
www.bau-xi.com
Monday to Saturday 10am to 5:30pm; Sunday 11am to 5:30pm
Bobbie Burgers
Bobbie Burgers’ new exhibition showcases the artist’s distinct style, revealing the beauty of paint and flowers through luscious gardens, vast tulip fields and blossoming trees. With almost 50 solo exhibitions to date, Burgers is one of Canada’s most sought-after contemporary painters.
September 18 to October 2, 2010
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324 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 977-0400
www.bau-xiphoto.com
Monday to Saturday 10am to 5:30pm, Sunday 11am to 5:30pm
Toby Smith, “The Renewables Project”
In “The Renewables Project,” Toby Smith examines the kinetic energy instilled in the highlands of Scotland, creating large-scale still images and innovative video works of hydroelectric and wind energy terrains. By using time-lapse cameras with only subtle moonlight, Smith’s photographs take on a haunting setting while revealing the incredible forces harnessed by the industry.
September 18 to October 6, 2010
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129 Tecumseth Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 365-3003
www.birchlibralato.com
Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm
Martin Golland, “Skins & Skeletons”; Eric Glavin, “I'm New Here”
September 8th – October 16th
Opening reception Wednesday September 8th 5–8 PM
September 8 to October 16, 2010
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55 Mill Street, Building 2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 703-1700
www.clarkandfaria.com
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 6pm; Sunday 12pm to 5:30pm
Scott McFarland, “Sans Souci”
The exhibition will feature new photographic work concentrating on a dilapidated marina on Georgian Bay’s Sans Souci Island. Central to the exhibition will be two large landscapes that depict the marina and its environs as identical photographs with different skies, renewing the concept McFarland used in his Hampstead series. Accompanying these two large works will be six to eight smaller photographs shot mainly with a pinhole camera.
September 22 to November 7, 2010
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55 Mill Street, Building 61, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 979-1980
www.corkingallery.com
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 6pm; Sunday 12pm to 5pm
Iain BAXTER&
Two contemporary installations by IAIN BAXTER& debut in Toronto, “Fahrenheit 450 (homage to Bradbury and Orwell)” 2002 - 2009 and “The Lecture” 2009. These installation works celebrate a society of information exchange and the quest for knowledge while playfully personifying some of the vehicles of this dialogue.
Opening: September 22, 5:00 - 9:00 pm
September 22 to December 22, 2010
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1092 Queen Street West, (entrance on Dovercourt), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 532-9075
www.davidkayegallery.com
Monday and Tuesday by appointment; Wednesday to Friday 11am to 6pm; Saturday and Sunday 11am to 5pm
Elemental: New Painting and Drawing
Artist Donna Boyko says this of her work, "Elemental--of the four elements; of the powers of nature; essential; a force manifested by occult means. The translations brought about by the impinging of the forces that exist upon the mind of the artist..." Now a resident on the east coast, this exhibition illustrates her take on new land-and-seascapes that enthrall her on a daily basis. She is able to filter these visuals and transcribe them in her oils on canvas. Her lively, energetic, colourful and heavily impastoed surfaces will leap from the walls and into your psyche. This is a full body experience!
August 12 to September 26, 2010
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100 Niagara Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 361-2972
www.diazcontemporary.ca
Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm or by appointment
Ricardo Rendón and Georgina Bringas
Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present two solo shows by Mexico City–based artists Ricardo Rendón and Georgina Bringas. Rendón offers interventions in the gallery space and sculptures of manipulated industrial felts, and Bringas features works that represent her interest in numerical expressions as an evocative approach to the world.
September 8 to October 16, 2010
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1150 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 531-5042
www.thedrakehotel.ca
Daily 8am to 2am
Various artists, “For Now”
We often think of works of art withstanding the test of time, objects that will remain unchanged long into the future. But that isn’t always the case; “For Now” looks at contemporary art that is temporary, changing over the course of the show or alluding to dramatic change over time.
Artists in the exhibition include Maslen & Mehra, Mateo Riviano, Alena Skarina and Stefan Hoffmann.
September 2 to November 15, 2010
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37 Mill Street, Building 105, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 531-9905
www.enginegallery.ca
Tuesday to Sunday 12pm to 6pm
Nava Waxman, “New Works”
As Waxman puts it, “I am interested in portraying a landscape of our time, as well as the timeless qualities of nature. Human narratives are constant in my work. Raw images, personal experiences and thoughts, no matter how abstract or fleeting they may be, all contribute to the delicate balance.”
September 16 to October 17, 2010
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14 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 323-1373
www.feheleyfinearts.com
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5:30pm
North Meets South
Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition that focuses on the innovative ways that contemporary Inuit artists are approaching their work. This group of sculptures and graphics depicts both cutting-edge themes in Inuit art and original artistic techniques. Includes work by Alec Tuckatuck, Idris Moss-Davies, Shuvinai Ashoona, Pudlo Pudlat, among others.
June 12, 2010 to July 10, 2010
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401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 979-3941
www.gallery44.org
Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm
Melanie Friend and Lara Rosenoff, “Border Country”
Through the photo, sound, video and mixed media artworks of Melanie Friend and Lara Rosenoff, the exhibition “Border Country” engages critical questions around testimony, witness and human rights in the wake of increasing global migration.
Curated by Katie McCormick.
September 14 to October 16, 2010
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533 Richmond Street West, Suite 203, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 955-0004
www.gallery533.ca
Wednesday to Thursday 12pm to 5pm; Friday 12pm to 6pm; Saturday 11am to 5pm
Joe Sampson, “Water Alive”
Drawn to shorelines, beaches, lakes, oceans and streams, Joe Sampson uses water imagery to depict the dichotomy between movement and immobility. A detailed understanding of light’s ability to create colour, shadow and tone is utilized to set mood in each painting—beautiful meticulous works that are sure to please all.
September 1 to October 2, 2010
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12 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 968-0901
www.gevik.com
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 6pm
Catherine Perehudoff, “Light and Colour in Landscapes”
Catherine Perehudoff has developed a distinctive approach to the Canadian landscape. Her work is based upon a close reading of open prairie, Rocky Mountains, northern woods, the east coast and lake scenes combined with her unique study of nature. Catherine works in both acrylic on canvas and extraordinary large-scale watercolours. Her landscapes are alive with light and movement and intense colours, and they are animated by the play of cloud, mist, trees and bushes.
September 24 to October 15, 2010
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622 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 504-5445
www.gallerymoos.com
Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 6 pm
Victor Mitic, “Art of War”
Opening reception and book launch: September 23, 5pm to 8pm. Artist present.
Victor Mitic has made headlines with his controversial gunshot paintings that feature portraits of celebrities. Shocked by incidents in which sacred works of art were fanatically defaced—like the Taliban’s 2001 destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas—Mitic has attempted to use weapons in his art to create rather than destroy.
September 23 to October 22, 2010
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56 Ossington Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 645-1066
gallerytpw.ca
Tuesday to Saturday 12pm to 5pm
Journey to the Moon
Gallery TPW is pleased to announce our first collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival's Future Projections programme with the Toronto premiere of Journey to the Moon (2003) by acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge. With Journey to the Moon Kentridge pays homage to French director Georges Méliès' classic Voyage dans la Lune (1902), also on view at the gallery and widely considered cinema’s first science fiction film. Combining live action and stop motion animation, Journey to the Moon depicts the creative process as Kentridge performs for the camera, playing the scientist/artist who dreams of worlds afar but ultimately cannot escape.
September 7 to September 19, 2010
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111 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 586-8080
www.gardinermuseum.com
Monday to Thursday 10am to 6pm; Friday 10am to 9pm; Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm
Various artists, “Modern and Contemporary Ceramics”
See ceramic works by Shary Boyle, Jean-Pierre Larocque, Gertraud Möhwald, Léopold Foulem, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and more in the Gardiner Museum’s Modern and Contemporary Gallery.
September 1 to December 31, 2010
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133 Tecumseth Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 554-4112
www.georgiascherman.com
Tuesday to Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 11am to 5pm, and by appointment
Shaun Gladwell, “Portrait of a man: alive and spinning/Dead as a skeleton dressed as a Mountie”
Curated by Ihor Holubizky.
Opening September 8, 6pm to 8pm
Shaun Gladwell’s work weaves together a complex and nuanced orchestration of thoughts about the physical and social body with cues drawn from popular culture, literature and philosophy. The exhibition keystone is a new video work and installation based on his footage of professional Canadian freestyle skateboarder Kevin Harris performing 360-degree spins. Also central is a continuation of Gladwell’s ongoing Centered Pataphysical Suite with subjects engaged in different types of sport or street culture activity.
September 8 to October 16, 2010
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235 Queen's Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 973-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Outdoor photography exhibition space open daily, 24 hours
Various artists, “Beyond Imaginings: Eight Artists Encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt”
Harbourfront Centre commissioned eight emerging contemporary photographers to create 72 large-scale images that document their exploration of Ontario’s Greenbelt. Each photographer has been asked to explore three specific areas of importance to the Greenbelt: working the land, natural beauty and people of the greenbelt.
Artists in the exhibition include Becky Comber, Keesic Douglas, Martie Giefert, Mark Kasumovic, Rob MacInnis, Erin Riley, Meera Margaret Singh and Garett Walker.
These photos occupy Harbourfront Centre’s outdoor photography exhibition space.
June 18, 2010 to July 17, 2011
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1450 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 537-3125
www.jessicabradleyartprojects.com
Wednesday to Saturday 12pm to 5pm or by appointment
Nicolas Baier, “New photographic works and sculpture”
Nicolas Baier has become known for his inventive use of digital imaging techniques. Drawing on his vast personal collection of images, details of everyday objects and situations he finds remarkable, Baier produces photographic works from the point of view of a painter.
Exhibition opens September 11
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55 Mill Street, Building 37, Suite 103, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 603-2626
www.juliem.com
Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm; Sunday 12pm to 5pm
Various artists, “Summer Sale”
The Julie M. Gallery’s “Summer Sale” includes works by Oren Eliav, Deganit Berest, Anat Betzer, Shai Kremer, Yoram Merose, Yehuda Porbuchrai, Eran Shakine, Alma Shneor, Shaoul Smira, Alina Speshilov, Karin Mendelovici and Joshua Neustein.
June 18 to September 26, 2010
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7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 978-8398
www.jmbgallery.ca
Monday to Saturday 12pm to 5pm
Group Show, “Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada c. 1965–1980”
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada c. 1965-1980” is the first major account of the development of conceptual art in Canada from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s. By far one of the most important and long-lasting art movements of the 20th century, conceptual art originated within the social and political turmoil of the 1960s—from feminism and gay liberation to anti-racism and anti-war movements—and presented a profound challenge to the institution of art. This exhibition focuses on specific manifestations of conceptual art practices in urban centres across Canada, with particular attention to the inter-regional and international traffic that facilitated fertile cross-pollinations and exchanges amongst artists in this country.
September 11 to December 5, 2010
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Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.
Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.
The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.
Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.
Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists
Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”
Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide
In recent years, both the Dia and MASS MoCA have mounted tribute exhibitions to late American artist Sol LeWitt. This week, Mercer Union wraps up its own notable homage, which recreates a 1981 wall drawing LeWitt did for the then-fledgling space.
For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.
Play and strife come together, DIY style, in Todd Tremeer’s Little Wars (Make Me), an interactive project that debuted this month at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In it, viewers can collaborate on a wall-sized battle mural and “bring the war home” via paper-cutout soldiers.
Summer is often marked by contrasts, a dynamic that the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery seems to pick up on in its current pairing of solo shows: John Kissick’s manic, multifaceted paintings and Gwen MacGregor’s calm, geoscience-toned fieldwork.
MKG127 acknowledges Toronto’s above-average summer temperatures with “Heat,” an exhibition that ironically offers some cool respite while displaying works that evoke bubbling tar, existential crises and blistering guitar solos.
