*new* gallery exhibitions 2008
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November 26 - December 21, 2008
Opening reception Saturday November 29 2-5pm
Doug Adams, Candice Osborne Bell, Monica Bodirsky, Susan Carr, Martina Edmondson, Thea Haines, Chris Mack, Melinda Mayhall, Toba Shapiro, Lily Yung
* new * invites curious viewers to experience the joy of innovative thinking brought to limited edition work in mixed media from painting to textiles. All priced for holiday giving, the work of 10 visual artists investigates intriguing ideas through the use of multiples, pattern and repetition in original interpretations that play off each other in interesting ways.
Adams builds up colour and texture through the layering of paint and collage. Osborne Bell explores layers of identity, while Bodirsky converts fleeting moments into preserved nostalgia and Shapiro critiques society’s pressure on women’s lives. Edmondson’s “withdrawal bracelets” help people deal with bad habits; and Haines’s embroidery uses texts from correspondence and household manuals. Yung’s hybrid designs of natural and imaginary forms explore notions of alien species at the same time as Mack’s photographs revisit timeless and romantic classics. Carr cages and traps things to save or remember them and Mayhall replicates in beads the line of colour of the jerseys of Tour de France riders.
October 29 – November 16
Mary Lou Freel
Cosmology myths
Creation forms derived from fact, tradition and intuition – needlework/felt/textile
October 8 – 26
Lily Yung
Mass-customization in jewellery and design generation
this exhibit highlights Toronto artist Lily Yung’s recent jewellery fabricated by Rapid Prototyping systems as well as work resulting from a design generation software developed during her Artist in Residence for Research project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Research Council of Canada to promote collaborations between the arts, science and engineering.
Artist also showing with McClure & Egan at OBJECToronto 2008 at Gladstone Hotel.
Artist present Saturdays and Sundays
Opening reception: Saturday October 11, 2-5pm
September 17 – October 5
Sally Ayre and Gaye Jackson
Drift
An exhibition of photography and mixed media work.
Opening reception: Saturday September 20, 2-5pm
August 27 – September 14
Susan Carr and Toba Shapiro
Books and Boxes
Mixed media
Books and boxes are containers and bridges for
our ideas - both combined and separate.
Gardens, journeys, art, and world events have
been our paths; and the mutual enjoyment has been
immense and powerful.
Opening reception: Sunday, August 31, 2-5pm
August 6 – 24
Kurt Rostek
Words of Wisdom
A selection of works on paper that explore the meditative mind.
Opening reception: Saturday, August 9, 2-6pm
July 4 - 27
Sarah Peebles, Rob King, Anne Barros and Robert Cruickshank
Resonating Bodies - Bumble Domicile (part 1)
Resonating Bodies is a series of mixed media installations and community outreach projects that focus on the biodiversity of pollinators indigenous to the natural and urban ecosystems of the Greater Toronto Area. Bumble Domicile (part 1) highlights the distinct features of bumble bees through an observation hive, adjacent garden, visual and audio transformations, scent, touch, and biological information. Co-presented by InterAccess and New Adventures in Sound Art.
Opening reception and garden party: Saturday July 12, 4-6pm
Talk: July 12 at 7pm, "The Forgotten Pollinators" by Dr. Stephen L. Buchmann, author/researcher (U-AZ, Tucson), at InterAccess Studio, 9 Ossington Ave (at Queen St. W.)
Details at interaccess.org
May 28 – June 22
What's *new* in Washi
Gallery members join over 30 Toronto venues in the World Washi Summit for an exhibition of Washi (traditional handmade Japanese paper).
*new* 5th Anniversary Reception: Saturday, June 14, 2-5pm.
May 14 – 25
Nieves Carrasco, Valerie Knapp & Carolynn Bloomer
Wrap, Stitch & Burn
Explorations in mixed media: In Carrasco's work, a monochromatic palette captures the unique qualities of resist-dyed Japanese paper. Knapp's textile and paper-based work examines sewing, breathing and other everyday pursuits. Bloomer shows assemblages combining pop icons with ancient archetypes, alongside larger porcelain forms.
Opening reception: Thurs. May 15, 5-8 pm
April 30 – May 11
Wilma Needham
BRINK
Brink presents close-up images of rushing water, falling, rolling into space. The photographs, largely panoramic in format, create an almost physical disorientation. There is no solid ground.
Opening reception: Thurs. May 1, 5-8pm
April 16 – 27
Jon McKee
WORKS IN STONE – Exploring a Medium
Opening reception: Saturday April 19, 2-3pm
April 2 – 13
Yael Brotman, Amanda Burk, Judith Geher, Lois Schklar Drawing On This exhibition of drawings, organized by Lois Schklar, brings the work of these four artists into dialogue about contemporary human experience.
Yael Brotman’s new drawing installation explores the state of having the ability to take action but feeling helpless, hoping that action will be taken on our behalf. Amanda Burk’s figurative graphite drawings investigate the subtlety of communication through gesture. Judith Geher’s drawings capture the quietness of the human figure and speak to a malleable human nature. Lois Schklar’s work shifts from wall to paper, tracing surface and shadows both real and illusory, playing with the physical and psychological space the work occupies and our perceptions of it.
Opening reception: Sunday April 6 from 2-4pm
March 12 – 23
Peter Shoebridge
Paintings and sculptures
February 27 - March 2
IT’S ABOUT TIME II
Second annual artist fundraising event for the Al and Malka Green Artists’
Health Centre at the Toronto Western Hospital. The event is supported by over 50 visual artists through their donations of one of-a-kind clocks. This is a silent auction.
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 6-8 pm. (Preview: 1-6pm) Bids begin! Viewing continues daily Thursday to Saturday, 1-6pm.
Closing event: Sunday March 2, 2008, from 2-4 pm (final bids: 4pm).
For more information, please contact: 416.351.0239 or www.ahcf.ca.
January 30 - February 17
Monica Bodirsky, Margaret Lim and Annie Tung
Integrateassimilate
Winners of the gallery's Emerging Artists competition for 2008 explore how their ancestral memories merge, collide, and sometimes diverge from who they are as first-generation Canadians. The work examines identity, memory and finding a space within a diverse urban society.
Opening reception: Thursday, February 7, 6:30-9:30pm
February 21 - 24
Birdhouses
Third annual fundraising exhibition to support *new* gallery's emerging artist program. Birdhouses in mixed media, some habitable, others not so, by over thirty artists. We all nest in some form or other.
Reception: Sunday Feb. 24, 2-5pm