PAST EXHIBITION
JENNIE WHITE
Jennie White
14 November 1991 - 14 December 1991
Opening Reception 14 November 1991 8pm
East Gallery: Jennie White Jennie White’s paintings of a deforested landscape endeavor to effect language, to be sensual objects articulating emotions and thoughs. Yet there is no hand-wringing angst to these panoramas, rather a sort of sly stillness, or a stubborn patience that may or may not be justified. By merging elemental images with intensely […]
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MICHEL ARCHAMBAULT
Michel Archambault
14 November 1991 - 14 December 1991
Opening Reception 14 November 1991 8pm
West Gallery: Michel Archambault Archambault’s unexpected use of familiar materials such as upholstery vinyl contributes to the evocation of abstract, minimal concepts without obvious connection, identification, or identity. Archambault’s ironic inhabitation of these Minimalist tropes implies a consideration of materiality, presence and calls into question the hierarchy of values that the viewer brings to the […]
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BORDER CROSSINGS
Carel Moiseiwitsch
10 October 1991 - 9 November 1991
Opening Reception 10 October 1991 8pm
East Gallery: Border Crossings Border Crossings is a bold new series of large scale drawings by Vancouver artist Carel Moiseiwitsch. Each of the grand black, white, and single tone triptychs represents a life threshold as well as a transition point — illegal or legitimate — a political or conceptual boundary, a zone where human rights […]
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IRIMI – AM I GONNA DIE?
Toby MacLennan
10 October 1991 - 9 November 1991
Opening Reception 10 October 1991 8pm
West Gallery: “IRIMI – Am I Gonna Die?” IRIMI “Am I gonna die”, is a new installation by Toby MacLennan. Drawing upon experiences arising from encounters with illness and death, MacLennan boldly and poetically conflates the feelings of loss and longing to nurture personal growth through self-awareness. Originally from the United States, Toby MacLennan now […]
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UNION LANGUAGE
Therése Bolliger/Colette Whiten, Robert Flack/Christian Morrison, Oliver Girling/Roland Jean, Ian Carr-Harris/Patricia Homonyo, Richard Banks/Tom Dean, Janice Gurney/Kim Maltman
Curated by Ihor Holubizky and Regan Morris
5 September 1991 - 5 October 1991
Opening Reception 5 September 1991 8pm
East and West Galleries: Union Language Mercer Union a centre for contemporary art is pleased to present, Union Language, an exhibition of collaborative works by a select group of Toronto artists. Union Language will include works by artists involved in contemporary design, architecture and visual art. Curator Ihor Holublzky and visual artist Regan Morris have […]
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POSTERITY – PINK FOR A GIRL
Alina Martiros
4 July 1991 - 3 September 1991
Opening Reception 4 July 1991 8pm
East Gallery: MEDIA RELEASE Mercer Union A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Toronto artist Alina Martiros. This first solo exhibition by Alina Martiros will present recent figurative paintings and sculpture. Martiros works largely within the formal concerns of eastern European iconography and traditional Western oil painting. […]
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RESIDUE
Kartz Ucci
4 July 1991 - 3 August 1991
Opening Reception 4 July 1991 8pm
West Gallery: Residue Mercer Union A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of an installation by Toronto artist Kartz Ucci. Kartz Ucci’s installations deal with the experience of being Italian-Canadian, of maintaining two identities, two cultures and two languages in a predominantly anglo environment. Ucci explores practices that […]
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MARTIN PEARCE
Martin Pearce
30 May 1991 - 29 June 1991
Opening Reception 30 May 1991 8pm
East Gallery: Martin Pearce Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Toronto artist Martin Pearce. Pearce subtly layers images appropriated from such diverse sources as Venetian motifs and Chinese decoration. Pearce scrubs and scrapes the surfaces of his painting, forcing the original imagery to […]
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VIRAL LANDSCAPES
Helen Chadwick
30 May 1991 - 24 June 1991
Opening Reception 30 May 1991 8pm
West Gallery: Viral Landscapes Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of a photo based series by British artist Helen Chadwick entitled Viral Landscapes. This is Chadwick’s first solo exhibition in Toronto. The series consists of five large scale photographic montages, each 4′ high and 10′ long, displayed as a […]
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MAKING UP STORIES/FAIRE DES HISTOIRES
Annette Messager
18 April 1991 - 25 May 1991
Opening Reception 18 April 1991 6pm
East and West Galleries: Making up stories/Faire des histoires Mercer Union and Cold City Gallery, centres for contemporary art, collaboratively present a survey exhibition of Annette Messager’s work from 1972 to present. Annette Messager is an international artist whose work, history, methodology and concerns are pertinent to Canadian art and artists. Messager’s ironic humour unrelentingly […]
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CREATIVE DEVIGNS
Trevor Dawkins
14 March 1991 - 13 April 1991
Opening Reception 14 March 1991 8pm
East Gallery: Creative Devigns Rastafarian Trevor Dawkins’ vibrant, mandela-like tempera paintings incorporate praise for JAH and encouragement for humankind. Each vivid geometric design is an inspired mediation on the truth that joins a centre, through line and colour, to a higher source. Trevor Dawkins is a member of Kitchen Jahm, a multi-media artists’ collective. He […]
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SHELTER
Perry Bard
14 March 1991 - 13 April 1991
Opening Reception 14 March 1991 8pm
West Gallery: Shelter Artist talk Wednesday March 13, 8 pm New York artist Perry Bard combines eloquent use of materials with passionate concern for the plight of New York’s homeless. Her powerful sculptures and installations address a society that ignores and condemns its disenfranchised. Bard combines contemporary media (bronze, plexiglass, slide projections) with concrete blocks, […]
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THE SEVEN SISTERS
Mike MacDonald
7 February 1991 - 9 March 1991
Opening Reception 7 February 1991 8pm
East Gallery: The Seven Sisters Seven Sisters is a multi-screen video installation aligning video monitors to replicate the contour of the Seven Sisters mountains of British Columbia. The visual footage documents the grandeur of the landscape and the tragic impact of clear cut logging on the region. The sound track of drums and healing songs […]
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STEPHEN YEATES
Stephen Yeates
7 February 1991 - 9 March 1991
Opening Reception 7 February 1991 8pm
West Gallery: Stephen Yeates Stephen Yeates’ assemblages of Victorian Christian artifacts are haunting reminders of the missionary mind that measured, parcelled and sold the natural world. Yeates meticulously integrates his materials until they re-emerge as exquisite individual objects, each lost in its own gothic purgatory. His works comprise a poetic treatise on Death, Time, Memory, […]
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LARGER THAN LIFE
Shonagh Adelman
3 January 1991 - 2 February 1991
Opening Reception 3 January 1991 8pm
East Gallery: Larger Than Life The women in Shonagh Adelman’s larger than life portraits are more than the labels given them: “femme,” “smart,” “special,” “fatale.” They may be frozen-like figures in a wax museum forced to adopt the limited roles of characters in a B movie, but their sheer visual presence belies the definitions ascribed […]
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MONSTERCHICK
Diane Gagné
3 January 1991 - 2 February 1991
Opening Reception 3 January 1991 8pm
West Gallery: Monsterchick Diane Gagné combines terms we take for granted–“sister,” for example– with everyday names for body parts to coin new terms of address such as “sisterhead.” For this installation, Gagne has constructed a curved wall ten by sixty feet in which the image of one of these idiomatic words occupies fifty running feet. […]