Canadian Art Gallery Hop 2010: Schedule Panel and Gallery Talks

Canadian Art Gallery Hop Gala Panel Talks: Saturday September 25, 2010 - All Free All Day

True North, true story, true aim: these are phrases that mean devoted, dependable, accurate — or something that in its own way is just convincingly right. For the 2010 Gallery Hop, enter the world of True. It is a word keyed to the recognition of quality, to the idea of a work that is true to itself and true to the viewer. It is the touchstone for connecting with art that has an embrace wide enough to accommodate the real and the fanciful, the exact and the loose. True art sets its own context (its own truth), and in recent contemporary art there has been a return to themes and subjects that also bear witness to the truth of the times in which we live. This new realism is framed by a wholly mediated cultural world set within an increasingly fragile natural one. Contradictions and complications abound, yet the trueness of art offers a resolving anchor that seems ever more relevant. True story.

— Richard Rhodes, Editor, Canadian Art

Myfanwy MacLeod is a Vancouver artist who has exhibited widely. Last year, she was commissioned to create a sculpture for the City of Vancouver's Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program, generating an installation of larger-than-life sparrows that both delight and provoke viewers. Recent exhibitions include Nomads at the National Gallery of Canada and Cue: Artists' Videos at the Vancouver Art Gallery. MacLeod has represented Canada at international biennales and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Museum London in 2013. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries in Vancouver.

Donald Weber is a prizewinning Canadian photographer whose work has appeared in publications and institutions worldwide, including the United Nations in New York, the Musée de l'Armée in Paris and the Portland Museum of Art. Major awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography and a World Press Photo Award. Weber has been included in PDN's 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch and was also named an Emerging Photo Pioneer by American Photo. His first book, Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl, was released in 2008.

Pierre Dorion is a Montreal artist whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 1997, he received the Prix Louis-Comtois from the City of Montreal and the Contemporary Art Galleries Association; from 2002 to 2004, a survey of his work organized by the Galerie d'art de l'Université de Sherbrooke toured several Canadian venues. In 2010, the Musée des beaux–arts de Montréal opened a new space for contemporary art, the Carré d'art contemporain, with a solo show of Dorion's recent paintings. Dorion is represented by Galerie René Blouin in Montreal and Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

EXPERT ART KNOWLEDGE

Take in free mini-lectures by art-world experts as they explore and illuminate the best exhibitions on view in Toronto.

GUIDED DISTRICT WALKS

Tour different gallery areas with key critics, curators and collectors—insiders who will introduce you to the artists and dealers who make the art scene tick.

EASY PLANNING TOOLS

The easiest way to plan your afternoon is to check the full Gallery Hop schedule, check back here September 9 for complete details.

Angell Gallery I 12 Ossington Avenue

End the day with fellow art lovers at the launch of Canadian Art's fall issue.

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Call (416) 368-8854 x101 or email galleryhop@canadianart.ca.