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- Alison Smith Gallery
- 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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- Art Square
- 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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- Bau-Xi Gallery
- 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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- Bau-Xi Photo
- 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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- Birch Libralato
- 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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- Clark & Faria
- 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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- Corkin Gallery
- 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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- David Kaye Gallery
- 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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- Diaz Contemporary
- 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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- Drake Hotel
- 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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- Engine Gallery
- 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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Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.
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- Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
- 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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- Gallery 533
- 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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- Gallery Gevik
- 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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- Gallery Moos
- 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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- Gardiner Museum
- 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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Georgia Scherman Projects. Shaun Gladwell, Endoscopic Vanitas, 2007, Mechanical sculpture with endoscope, closed-circuit TV and human skull Installation view Courtesy the artist / photo Josh Raymond
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- Georgia Scherman Projects
- 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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- Harbourfront Centre
- 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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Nicolas Baier, Photons, 2010, Digital inkjet print on archival paper 60” x 72”.
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- Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
- 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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Julie M. Gallery for Contemporary Art .
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- Julie M. Gallery for Contemporary Art
- 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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N.E. Thing Co., Simulated Photo of the Moon’s “Sea of Tranquility” Filled with Water and N. E. Thing Co.’s Sign Placed Beside It, 1969, Silver gelatin print and ink 60.7” x 86.3”. Courtesy Vancouver Art Gallery
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- Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
- 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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Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects.
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- Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
- 1082 Queen Street West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 993-6510
www.katharinemulherin.com
- Wednesday to Friday 11am to 6pm, Saturday 12pm to 6pm, Sunday 1pm to 5pm
- Michael Harrington, “New Paintings”
- Michael Harrington graduated from Toronto’s Ontario College of Art and Design in 1989. Until 1997, he painted at night and in the daytime works at his father’s human resources company in Ottawa. The day job honed his observation skills and provided insights into the working world, and his night drives supplied the moody settings for his paintings. More recently, family vacations to sun-filled American towns have added some bright notes to his palette. While all the world is a stage for Harrington, he leaves out much of the information needed to piece together a coherent story. The inscrutable activities of his figures thwart viewers’ prejudices and interpretations. Since 1998, Harrington has been painting full-time, still mostly at night. His paintings are featured in the collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and Canada Council Art Bank, as well as numerous corporate and private collections.
- September 9 to September 26, 2010
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Emelie Chhangur, Mixed is Beautiful, 2010.
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- Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Balisi locations
- Balisi locations: 711 Queen Street West, 668 College Street, 439 Danforth Avenue and 2507 Yonge Street
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 638-1881
www.kofflerarts.org
- Queen West: Monday to Thursday 11am to 9pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 9pm, Sunday 11am to 6pm
College Street: Monday to Saturday 10am to 9pm, Sunday 11am to 6pm
Danforth: Monday to Saturday 10am to 9pm, Sunday 11am to 6pm
Yonge Street: Monday to Thursday 10am to 8pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 9pm, Sunday 11am to 6pm
- Various artists, “Mixedfit”
- Bearing a written message, an iconic image, a familiar or an eccentric brand, the T-shirt makes a statement, expressing individual choice in creating a personal image. As a basic clothing item, the T-shirt has become established as one of the most ubiquitous identity-defining elements. Five Canadian and international artists—Millie Chen, Emelie Chhangur, Hannah Claus, Stefan Hoffmann and Dan Perjovschi—have been invited by the Koffler Gallery to explore notions of migration and displacement between geographical territories, cultures and identities, designing silkscreen-based T-shirts to be disseminated through several Toronto stores.
Presented in conjunction with Open Studio.
- September 21 to November 28, 2010
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- Lonsdale Gallery
- 410 Spadina Road
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 487-8733
www.lonsdalegallery.com
- Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm
- Decadent Revelry
- Decadent Revelry brings together artists Nicholas Shick and Tyler Vipond. Coming out of postmodern trends of self-reflection and deconstructive narrative, these artists each examine human behaviour and relationships in their own unique ways. Both artists employ photographic images as a base, however, their interventions of these photographs present individual takes on process and image making.
- August 12 to September 26, 2010
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- Loop Gallery
- 1273 Dundas Street West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 516-2581
www.loopgallery.ca
- Wednesday to Saturday 1pm to 5pm; Sunday 1pm to 4pm
- Maureen Paxton, “Wish Well”;
Barbara Rehus, “Saints”
- Opening reception: September 25, 2pm to 5pm. Q&A at 3pm.
Religious icons and risas inspire Rehus to keep saints and ordinary people from harm. Traits and histories determine who’s chosen and how they remain safe.
Paxton’s paintings reference the oval, symbolic of both presence (existence) and absence (zero). Paxton places particular emphasis on the locket as a personal and secular reliquary.
- September 25 to October 17, 2010
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- OCAD Student Gallery
- 285 Dundas Street West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 977-6000 ext. 263
www.ocad.ca/mini/student_gallery
- Wednesday to Saturday 12pm to 6pm
- Various artists, “Somewhere”
- Dianne Davis, Joanne Ho, Dylin North, Vanessa Maltese and Janie Reed’s photographs, paintings, sculptures and animations leave us with the desire for somewhere in between, where differences are able to coexist and depend on each other to be complete. Somewhere not quite here.
- September 8 to October 2, 2010
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- Olga Korper Gallery
- 17 Morrow Avenue
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 538-8220
www.olgakorpergallery.com
- Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 6pm
- Christine Davis, “As if his throat opened into the void of stars…”
- Both new works in this exhibition by Christine Davis grapple with the limits of scientific and poetic language. As if his throat opened into the void of stars... is an HD video projection that interweaves atmospheric footage to explore the predicament of a highly connected world teetering between extreme interiority and exteriority. The work takes seismic activity as a starting point for reflection upon scientific rationality and the place of the human within new discourses of planetary apocalypse. Already at war within (Ovid) is the opening chapter of the artist’s Euclid project first exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2009. A 19th century edition of Elements of Geometry is stripped of explanatory language, leaving the diagrams to interact with words of another genre. In this instance it is Erysichthon, a tale of greed and calamity from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, that infects Duncan’s boldly coloured propositions.
- September 11 to October 16, 2010
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YoRodeo, St. Holden’s Gate, Screenprint on paper, 18” x 24”.
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- Open Studio
- 401 Richmond Street West , Suite 104
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 504-8238
www.openstudio.on.ca
- Tuesday to Saturday 12pm to 5pm
- YoRodeo (Paul Hammond & Seth Smith) “Three Dee Realms”;
Open Studio Members, “40 Years, 40 Prints, 40 Printmakers”
- “Three Dee Realms Plus” by YoRodeo (Paul Hammond & Seth Smith) features large-scale screenprints of a fantasy realm viewed with 3-D glasses. “40 Years, 40 Prints, 40 Printmakers” is a members’ exhibition celebrating Open Studio’s 40th anniversary. Both exhibitions are part of the Printopolis International Printmaking Symposium.
More information on the symposium is available at www.openstudio.on.ca/printopolis.html
- September 16 to October 30, 2010
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- Pari Nadimi Gallery
- 254 Niagara Street
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 591-6464
www.parinadimigallery.com
- Wednesday to Saturday 12pm to 5pm, and by appointment
- Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg
- For this exhibition, the artists exhibit buckets and lamps constructed from discarded New York municipal street signs with inkjet-on-paper collages. Each bucket/lamp is comprised of a myriad component signs (like “Yield,” “One Way,” and “No Parking”) bolted together in a seemingly rudimentary and provisional fashion. It is as though these buckets are attempting to be useful (and most sincerely at that, for what else is a quotidian object like a bucket to aspire to?) but they fail (and most blatantly: there are gaping holes in each bucket, not one would hold water). These are buckets bereft of use, made out of metal signs that no longer indicate direction; when inverted to become lamps, they illuminate. The street signs used for these sculptures have been relieved of their former purposes by bending, sanding and painting over by the artists. The results are either absurd—mirroring a kind of doubled-over futility—or enlightening, as a lamp.
- September 8 to October 16, 2010
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- Paul Petro Contemporary Art
- 980 Queen Street West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 979-7874
www.paulpetro.com
- Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm
- Melanie Rocan, “In Limbo”
Janet Morton, “Return, Shift”
- As Melanie Rocan observes, “My work brings a personal perspective to difficult issues while exploring the relationships between the physical and the spiritual. My works reveals a preoccupation with issues of the temporal and of the human condition while focusing on feelings of foreboding in our existence, both within our memory and within our lives. Coupled with this sense of foreboding, I emphasize the inconsistency of emotions.” And as Janet Morton explains, “‘return, shift’ is a site-specific mixed media installation in the upstairs gallery. An old Underwood typewriter sprouts a garden of unfinished thoughts, incomplete sentences and hybrid fakery, all struggling towards insufficient language. Heavy hand-knit vines parody organic growth while playfully examining the nature of deliberate creative production.”
- Rocan: September 10 to October 9, 2010
Morton: September 20 to October 9, 2010
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- Peak Gallery
- 23 Morrow Avenue
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 537-8108
www.peakgallery.com
- Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm
- Dan Brault, “A Luscious Mind”
- As artist Dan Brault writes, “My work hinges on the confrontation of varied and aesthetically dissimilar images. The paintings I produce come in a wide range of styles and techniques, from hard edge to cartoons, while borrowing from such traditional genres as portraiture, landscape and still life. I compare my exhibition to a music album, where each painting is a soundtrack. As with a musical piece, the painting has its own signature, flavour and colour, and certainly has a life of its own. Yet insofar as it contributes to the atmosphere of the exhibition, it takes on new meaning and cogency through the other elements of the whole.”
- September 8 to October 2, 2010
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- Petroff Gallery
- 1016 Eglinton Avenue West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 782-1696
www.petroffgallery.com
- Monday to Saturday 10am to 6pm; Sunday 12pm to 5pm
- Various artists, “Forever Young”
- "Forever Young" explores the wonderful, innocent beauty of childhood through the eyes of various Canadian artists in kaleidoscopes, acrylics and oils on canvas and photography. Romanticize and daydream, and make the impossible possible. See www.petroffgallery.com for images.
- September 1 to September 30, 2010
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- Stephen Bulger Gallery
- 1026 Queen Street West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 504-0575
www.bulgergallery.com
- Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm
- Gilbert Garcin "Mister G."
- Gilbert Garcin’s first commercial exhibition in Canada commemorates his 80th birthday and his 15th year as an artist. In his photographs, Garcin poses as an ordinary ‘Mr. Everybody,’ dressed in an old overcoat. By placing himself, via the character he embodies, in absurd and inextricable situations, he invites us to ponder such philosophical quandaries as time, solitude and the weight of existence.
His work raises a number of universal questions about the meaning of human existence. The crudeness of his technique, combined with the intelligence of his themes, reflects an earnestness that embodies both the character and the creator. In regards to his use of humour, Garcin believes, “The kind of exercise I am doing with my photographs can easily become pompous, pedantic, or overly serious. It’s important to put a layer of humour right away, to let people enter into contact with the subject. Humour for me is not an end in itself, but thank goodness it’s there!”
- July 22 to September 25, 2010
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- The Beverly Owens Project
- 1140 Queen Street West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(647) 402-3570
www.thebeverlyowensproject.com
- Wednesday to Friday 12pm to 6pm; Saturday and Sunday 11am to 5pm
- Beverly Owens, “EYE-SHOT”
- Taryn Black of The Globe and Mail's Lush Magazine states "(Owens) makes a statement about the way women are typically represented. ... She displays men to be inspected, intimately and disarmed which is probably really how they want to be seen."
- September 9 , 2010 to October 6, 2010
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The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
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- The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
- 231 Queens Quay West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 938-4949
www.thepowerplant.org
- Tuesday to Sunday 12pm to 6pm, Saturday 12pm to 8pm, open holiday Mondays
- Group Show, “12th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition”
- The Power Plant is pleased to again host the 12th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Established in 1999, the competition, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, is a unique initiative that helps to nurture and support promising new artists in the early stages of their careers—a time when they need both recognition and financial support. One national winner and two honourable mentions will be selected by a jury panel of distinguished members of the arts community.
Opening October 9, 2010: Ian Wallace and Pae White
- September 23 to October 3, 2010
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- The Red Head Gallery
- 401 Richmond Street West , Suite 115
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 504-5654
www.redheadgallery.org
- Wednesday to Saturday 12pm to 5pm
- Dianne Pearce, “Tusovchiks: Indisciplined Meetings”
- In her work, Pearce encourages “indiscipline,” which she translates into unruly encounters between the public and the work. Visitors use the materials provided in Polyphonic Novel and Indisciplined Meetings (rubber stamps and colouring books) to make their own pieces in this Mexican schoolroom. Language and translation are explored, a result of working in Mexico City for 13 years.
- September 1 to September 25, 2010
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- Thompson Landry Gallery
- 55 Mill Street, Buildings 5 and 32
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 364-4955
www.thompsonlandry.com
- Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm; Sunday 12pm to 5pm
- Nicolas Ruel, “Carnaval”
- Nicolas Ruel’s honed artistic vision marries the vibrancy of the Venetian landscape with the allure of the anonymous masked reveller in his latest series, Carnaval. Each photograph, printed on stainless steel, captures a momentary encounter between artist and costumed carnaval-goer, set against the architectural delights of Venice. Ruel’s cinematographic process and complete immersion in this ancient masquerade has produced works of startling beauty and mystery; it’s his most alluring and captivating series yet.
- September 16 to October 17, 2010
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“Improperties,” 2010 Installation view Altered antiques, collage and paint / photo Niels Vis.
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- YYZ Artists’ Outlet
- 401 Richmond Street West , Suite 140
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 598-4546
www.yyzartistsoutlet.org
- Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm
- Hadley + Maxwell, “Improperties”
Barbara Balfour, “Living & Dying”
- “Improperties” focuses on elaborating and complicating a threshold of figuration: separation. The desire arises from a curiosity about what kind of literal material sensibilities might lend to sculptural installation. The result is an accumulation of varied objects and artifacts of differing significances that have been separated from themselves in some form and brought together as such.
- September 4 to October 23, 2010
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