New work by 4 sisters: Teresa Porter, Laura Koch, Michal Tkachenko, and Anna Vandas.
(small scale) is running as an un-official East Side Culture Crawl Exhibit, Officially at Little Mountain Gallery.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 18, 7-11pm.
Show runs from Nov. 18th -29th.
www.littlemountainstudios.ca
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- Sarah Milroy, Globe and Mail
The Whodunit? OCAD Mystery Art Sale is OCAD's signature fundraising event. It’s an exhibition and sale of pieces of original art by well-known and celebrity artists, OCAD faculty, alumni and students.
Gaining in popularity year after year, the Whodunit? OCAD Mystery Art Sale offers hundreds of original pieces of art donated by artists who are famous and not-yet-famous. Every piece measures 51⁄2 x 71⁄2 inches. Like it - buy it - turn it over and see Whodunit!
View hundreds of pieces of art during the Public Preview and write down the numbers of the pieces you would like to buy. Then be first in line on the day of the sale to make sure you get the pieces you want. Buy the art at the Public Art Sale. All art is sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early with the list of the pieces you like so that you can get your top choices.
Public Preview (online & onsite): November 18 to 20, 2009
Gala Preview: November 18, 2009 Buy Tickets
Public Art Sale: November 21, 2009
All events take place at 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
www.ocad.ca
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and to view the new billboard commission by Nicola Pemberton now on the Bloc Billboard.
Bloc Projects presentsMichal Tkachenko
Antoinette
9 - 24th October
Bloc Space
71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield, S1 4RB, UK
www.blocprojects.co.ukThere are similarities between cooking and painting, both of which I use to explore the way food influences community. Painting seems as much about creating sensations to please the senses, as does cooking. It is a material process that transforms the ‘raw to the cooked’ for the consumption of a viewer. Each in turn have a ‘picture’ to create, a fact to influence, and an idea to contribute. Both utilize the seduction of ‘hunger’, bringing a delicious quality that inspires desire, and is consumed or digested by being physically incorporated into a processing audience.It is no surprise that both cooking and painting are both culturally loaded symbols that we use in a variety of ways in relating to others.
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The Lookout Gallery at Regent College (on the University of British Columbia campus) presents Metal Head, a series of new work Opening on September 23, 2009 from 4:30 to 7:30pm. The exhibition runs until October 29, 2009. Gallery Hours are Mon.-Fri. 8am-5pm and Sat. 12-4pm.Regent College, 5800 University Blvd., Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1-604-224-3245
METALHEADIn 1991, I packed my bags and boarded a plane to Haiti to live and work as the pharmacist in a small hospital of a village called Limbé. I was 18 years old with no pharmacy background. Upon arrival, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn into power and life dissolved into a series of military coups, evacuations of foreigners, machete attacks and the complete disintegration of law and order. I stayed put through it all and survived. Then came the blow: a car accident in the Haitian countryside that would kill the person next to me, shatter my skull and half of my face, leaving me with three permanent, stainless-steel plates in my head. These are my markers.
Years after Haiti, I passed by a mirror and caught sight of my reflection. The fractures and misalignments were evident, and suddenly aware of how stripped-down life is, it seemed vital to reflect and re-look. The Metal Head series comes through continuous hours in front of a mirror, face-mapping for signs and markers that follow a journey.
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AWOL Gallery presents Square Foot 2009, a dynamic annual art exhibition, which showcases the work of hundreds of local and international artists. The Square Foot show has become one of the foremost community art events in Toronto, Canada. With each artist creating work in a 12x12 inch format, the show is hung in a grid forming an installation of overwhelming proportions. Each year the Square Foot Exhibition has grown in scale and reached a larger audience. This year’s exhibition will be held at a larger off site venue. Located at 100a Ossington, just steps from AWOL Gallery. This 2,500 square foot room will be transformed into AWOL’s largest square foot show to date, showcasing over 700 artists from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Australia.
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'Ambrosia'
Selected Mixed Media Group Exhibition
Exhibition Runs: Friday 14th August - Saturday 19th September 2009
Open Evening: Friday 14th August. 7.30pm onwards
The title of this exhibition is a direct reference to the mythic food of the Greek Gods, rather than the cream rice! Food is a very potent symbol in art and has historically been used to symbolise everything from spiritual purity, sexuality, power or fragility to decadence, greed, poverty, mortality and death! This is a selected exhibition of work by artists who have either responded directly to the title of the show or who regularly use 'food' either in their work or as inspiration for their work. Work across all media.
Artists participating include Catherine Boyne-Whitelegg, Jessica Briggs, Hazel Burnham, Corinna Button, Jackie Harold, Lyn Hodnett, JUO Glass, Angela Knipe, Anne Menary, Bruce Rimmell, Paul Schatzberger, Kate Sully, Michal Tkachenko, Jane Wheeler and Ali White.____________________________________________________________
Event Details: Free entry, 13 August 2009, 6-9pm
Venue: ICA, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, UK
Graduating students from Chelsea College of Art and Design, have joined forces with leading contemporary artists, for a postcard auction to be held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts later this month.
The auction is called ‘Going Postal’ – Chelsea College of Art and Design’s Postcard Auction and has been organised by Chelsea MA Fine Art students, to raise money for the MA Show in September.
The auction will include postcards designed and created by both contemporary artists and MA Fine Art students, including work by John Baldessari, Gary Hume, Tom Gauld, Paul McDevitt, Quentin Blake, Vic Reeves, Richard Long, Lawrence Weiner, Georgie Hepton, Laura Oldfield-Ford and many more.www.arts.ac.uk
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PICK N MIX
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Open Studios 09: Bow Arts Trust
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The Canadian Portrait
" portraiture”-noun, A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer.
"etymology", French, from Old French, image, from past participle of portraire, to portray.
While we wait for Ottawa to create a proper Portrait Gallery, Cube Gallery has decided to celebrate this often overlooked genre with a show honouring the history, the impact, the importance of the portrait. From the subtly magnificent to the shockingly modern. Portrait art has always been a vanguard in the art world.
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, March 8, 2 - 5pm. (Live music and refreshments)Gallery Hours:
Wednesday to Sunday from 10am - 5pm.
Monday - Tuesday by appointment
1 613 728 1750
www.cubegallery.ca
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The Human Right
Under The Bed
Cupola Gallery presents the group show, Under the Bed.Cupola Contemporary Art
178a Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, Sheffield, S6 1TD
Tel/Fax +44 (0)114 285 2665
www.cupolagallery.com
EXHIBITION: January 12 - 31, 2009
OPENING: Friday 16th January, 7:30-9:30pm
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