Currently at the Union Gallery...
Someone.ca presents Nuit Blanche 2008 & 2009 original prints
The Shore - This limited edition fine print broadside, first in a series of nine pieces in Someone's Water series, was produced for Cabbagetown's 2009 Nuit Blanche.
Cabbagetown resident and author A.F. Moritz won the Griffin Poetry Prize in summer 2009, and generously contributed his poem, 'The Shore'[Anasi] to begin Someone's Water series. Someone designed the work with illustration by Susana Wald and Deborah Barnett, to print 2 colours from photo polymer plates for Nuit Blanche 2009.
Seth Scriver's Opposites Attract - This limited edition fine print set of broadsides was produced for Cabbagetown's 2008 Nuit Blanche
Toronto's exhibiting gallery artist Seth Scriver created seven candid and humorous illistrations especially for Someone's original broadside series. The drawings were scanned and then reproduced on a range of fine papers from photo-polymer plates, in an edition of 350 copies. The display type was handset from lead and wood type, and together with the images, was designed to produce three pairs of Opposites and a title page. Twenty-six copies of the broadsides have been set aside for limited edition boxed sets, to be produced in 2010.
Deborah Barnett.ca presents a selection of paintings and sculptures
Reverberations - Creating images: Exquisite Corpse
Working together in Cabbagetown, Susana Wald and Deborah Barnett began their artistic collaboration, creating a set of 10 Reverberations. The series was inspired by the surrealist game Cadavre Exquis, where participatns write or draw in on a sheet of paper, then fold it to conceal what they've done, and pass it on to the next player for a further contribution. Apparently, Andre Breton, principal founder of Surrealism, remarked on the playful origins of the game, and later attested to it being an enriching experience - Susana and Deborah would agree.
December 10th, 2009
Talismans by Leslie Peters
Toronto based artist Leslie Peters has been working in video, multi-channel installation and sculpture for the past 12 years. Alongside her artistic career she runs an energy healing practice, Opal Owl, and provides Crystal Resonance Therapy and Reiki treatments.
The are from the exhibition titled Talismans for the Home. Essentially
these small sculptures are woven curios that contain the combined recollections and emotions of the individual artifacts as well as the “charge” and intention generated by the artist/energy worker through the actual creation process.
December 4th, 2009
Love Radiance Joy - a selection of fibre works by Kalyna Pidwerbesky
February - March 18th, 2009
SANDRA SMIRLE
Pelouse Interdite: The grass is always greener somewhere or other, some other place. We are, after all, everywhere but here. After all is stripped away, woven together, torn down and reconstructed, this place is nothing but our own: a collection
of all we’ve been able to carry with us or drag behind us from some other place, and that which was left behind here for us. Let’s make this place ourselves – let’s put down a heavy foot, make us a big old thumbprint of the topography, let it become us. Go, mark this territory: it is nothing, but our own. Go on, walk the perimeter; it always circles back. We’re in orbit now, don’t you feel the gravitational pull of some better place other than here?
The increasing mobility and portability of a globalizing society propels our endless quest for some utopian place.
This exhibition is an exploration of that place – place as self, location, nature, memory and home. By deconstructing and recreating real geographies of personal importance, by fusing them with attitudes and ideas that are transferable from one
environment to another, I have made new places that feel closer to where I might want to be.
Sandra Smirle is a mixed media artist, whose work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions, juried group shows and is in private collections in Canada, Australia and Europe.
Recently, her work was selected for inclusion in CARTOGRAPHY: Artists + Maps, to be published by Princeton Architectural Press in late 2009. Sandra graduated from Concordia University with a B.F.A. in Experimental Design.
Saturday & Sunday September 6 & 7, 2008
Deborah Barnett's Bless * The Feminine
"a multi-disciplinary art show featuring my recent paintings and
live performance / presentations by yoga, movement and dance
practitioners, poetry and soundscapes. It promises to be a rich
experience, over two days – for two wonderful afternoons."
The show [replete with angels!] is open from 1-7pm and coincides with The Cabbagetown Festival (so be prepared for crowds - and plenty of additional attractions).
For more and late-breaking information check out the show section at my site - or email me at deborah@deborahbarnett.ca. I'll be posting again just before the event with a complete line-up of performances and events."
Hope to see you there,
Deborah Barnett
Visual Art Show: September 6th -October 13th, 2008
Reception: September 19th, 2008 7pm.
February 16th - March 31st, 2008
Winston Lau's Chairs
The chairs embody a period of time and history in our lives. We save and save to purchase our first piece of significant furniture. We throw parties, watch movies, spend our Saturday afternoons and so on.
While they rest curbside, I like to imagine these narratives within each chair before being discarded. In addition, abandoned, they embody aspects of life from the elderly, to the environment, to consumer culture to name a few.
• These pieces are for sale for $550
Jan 26 - Feb 15, 2008 The First Union
is a gallery installment hosted by Christy Shapley and Sarah Oliver. It opens on January 26th 2008, and a silent auction on the work will be available for bids at The Union's 1st Anniversary party on January 26, 2008 from 6-9pm.
"The first month of the year always brings out a time of self-reflection and helps us to take stock of what we have been doing for the past year and what we want out of the next. January 2008 is the first anniversary of the Union and there is much to reflect on."
The artists showing here have reflected and revealed themselves in context of their own work, and identity: Christy Shapley (downward facing dog), Carmen Shroeder (Tile/Self-portrait), Ryan Marmoreo (Platters), and Kate Jackson (quilted soldiers).
November 11th, 2007 8-10pm - Silent Auction Opening - Theme: "remembrance"
Dictionary.com defines as the
following:
- A retained mental impression; memory.
- The act or fact of remembering.
- The power or faculty of remembering.
- The length of time over which recollection or memory extends.
- The state of being remembered; commemoration: to hold someone's name in remembrance.
- Something that serves to bring to mind or keep in mind some place, person, event, etc.; memento.
- A gift given as a token of love or friendship: I sent her a small remembrance on Mother's
Day. - Remembrances, greetings; respects.
Why? The purpose for the fundraiser
is to raise funds for accessible yoga and community outreach programs.
The following artists have donated work to remember and celebrate inclusive community.
- Matt Schofield
- Jason Milligan - Petra Triptych
- Winston Lau www.chairs.carbonmade.com From the series: Chairs - Over the last little while, Winston Lau has been documenting discarded chairs around Toronto. The project started after a long break from street photography. In my Mr. Lau's mind, the chairs, like fleeting street scenes served as an excercise in looking, waiting and patience. They reflect untold memories and stories around living room conversations, parties and dinners.
- Roxane De Longo Campbell is a certified make-up artist
specializing in film, theater, television, photography and special
effects. She has worked alongside photographers, such as Brandon Baghan
(magazine photographer), and has done makeup for fashion shows, in the
Toronto fashion scene. She has worked on many television personalities
at Rogers Cable and has also worked as a freelance makeup artist for
Lancome Paris.
- J.J. Martyn - Artists Statement: "Watching a bump on a tummy grow into a walking (running + hockey playing), talking (singing + laughing) little boy is incredible. The amount that his memory retains blows my mind. My "What's In Grandpa's Pocket" series comes from watching him learn that Grandpa always has a toy car in his pocket. Dedicated to Lil' Joshua T. and Bill Woodgate." For more work please visit: www.jjmartyn.com
For more info on the silent
auction/fundraiser contact
Winston Lau | (416) 841-2216
| winston_lau@sympatico.ca
JULY 4TH TO AUGUST 31ST
Opening Reception July 14, 2007, 7PM
The Urban Dumpster by Christine McAvoy: Photography, Ryerson Universty 2007 Graduate.
"These pieces address the issue of discarded objects in urban environments. They bring light to just how much we consume and throw away."
Christine also makes handmade hemp and wood jewelry for Salty Dog Arts and Crafts.
