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LOW TABLE : HIGH CHAIRS
Walter May
15 November 1990 - 15 December 1990
Opening Reception 15 November 1990 8pm
East Gallery: Low Table: High Chairs Opening Thursday November 15 at 8:00 pm, Mercer Union presents ‘Low Table: High Chairs,’ a new sculptural work by Calgary artist Walter May. Incorporating fabricated components with found and salvaged vernacular items, May’s recent work effects formal elegance, discretion and resonant significance. The combination of these elements with mass […]
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WHISTLE REEL HOVER PLUCK PLUMMET FLICKER STIR
Paul Smith
15 November 1990 - 15 December 1990
Opening Reception 15 November 1991 8pm
West Gallery: Whistle Reel Hover Pluck Plummet Flicker Stir Montreal artist Paul Smith’s solo exhibition at Mercer Union, WHISTLE REEL HOVER PLUCK PLUMMET FLICKER STIR, opens on Thursday November 15 at 8:00pm and continues through to December 15. The artist will be exhibiting a number of large illustrative paintings that experiment with the existent relationship […]
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ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ
Angela Grauerholz
11 October 1990 - 10 November 1990
Opening Reception 11 October 1991 8pm
East and West Galleries: Angela Graurholz – Solo Exhibition A major solo exhibition of photographs by Montreal artist Angela Grauerholz opens in Mercer Union’s East and West Galleries Thursday October 11 at 8:00 pm and continues through to November 10. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Toronto and will offer local audiences […]
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CELINE SURPRENANT
Céline Surprenant
6 September 1990 - 6 October 1990
Opening Reception 5 September 1990 8pm
West Gallery: Celine Suprenant Montreal artist Céline Surprenant’s painted artefacts present the viewer with the problematics of identity, seduction and intimacy. Balancing poetry and meaning with the rendering of the artefact she creates works of great simplicity. Her recent work is comprised of a series of monochromatic relief sculptures which refer to “personal objects” and […]
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EXPEDITIONS
Janis Hoogstraten
6 September 1990 - 6 October 1990
Opening Reception 6 September 1990 8pm
East Gallery: Expeditions Opening Thursday September 6 at 8:00pm, Mercer Union presents an installation by Toronto artist Janis Hoogstraten entitled Expeditions. Involved primarily with the interaction between remembered image and verbal text, Hoogstraten’s recent works investigate the influence of one image on another. The juxtaposition of related and seemingly unrelated images and ideas illustrate shifts […]
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DISCORDIA CONCURS
David Blatherwick, David McClyment, Natalie Olanick, David Sylvestre
Curated by Andy Fabo
28 June 1990 - 28 July 1990
Opening Reception 28 June 1990 8pm
East and West Galleries: Discordia Concurs DISCORDIA CONCORS presents paintings and drawings by four emerging artists from Toronto and Montreal: David Blatherwick, David McClyment, Natalie Olanick and David Sylvestre. Curated by Andy Fabo, this exhibition brings together these diverse works under the art historical term ‘discordia concors’. The term identifies a pictorial strategy of the […]
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PRINTS 87/88/89/90
Julie Voyce
24 May 1990 - 23 June 1990
Opening Reception 24 May 1990 8pm
West Gallery: Prints 87/88/89/90 “Six months into making photo-etchings I was blackened by a thought: “Well cup-cake, this ls what happens when you’ve read the National Enquirer for ten years. A third of your life: Babying up on truth, as in bad collages peddled off as fact.” And you bet it has to be. Photographs […]
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THE DREAMING
Tim Watkins
24 May 1990 - 23 June 1990
Opening Reception 24 May 1990 8pm
East Gallery: The Dreaming Tim Watkins, a native of Calgary currently residing in Brooklyn, New York, will exhibit a new multi-media installation entitled ‘The Dreaming.’ Opening in Mercer Union’s West Gallery Thursday May 24 at 8:00 pm, this exhibition represents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Toronto. Watkins’ installations are concerned with the tenuous relationship […]
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Recently Constructed Works
Lynda Gammon
19 April 1990 - 19 May 1990
Opening Reception 19 April 1990 8pm
East Gallery: Recently Constructed Works Opening Thursday April 19 at 8:00 pm, Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art presents sculpture by Victoria artist Lynda Gammon. Victoria artist Lynda Gammon constructs sculptural assemblages that are developed through a complex process of building, rebuilding, constructing and destructing. Collaging together household debris she resists the preciousness […]
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MNEMOSYNE
June Clark-Greenberg
19 April 1990 - 19 May 1990
Opening Reception 19 April 1990 8pm
West Gallery: Mnemosyne Opening Thursday April 19 at 8:00pm, Mercer Union presents Mnemosyne, an exhibition of recent work by Toronto artist June Clark-Greenberg. The photo-etchings by Clark-Greenberg combine images of her own chlldhood and domestic life with archival photographs, documentlng the joy and pain of the Black experience in North America. Her solo exhibition at […]
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JOHN MCKINNON
John McKinnon
15 March 1990 - 14 April 1990
Opening Reception 15 March 1990 8pm
East and West Galleries: John McKinnon Opening Thursday March 15 at 8:00 pm and continuing through to April 14, Mercer Union presents a major solo exhibition of works by Toronto sculptor John McKinnon. This exhibition, in both gallery spaces, offers Toronto audiences an opportunity to view an extensive selection of the artist’ s new sculptures […]
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NOTHING UP MY SLEEVE
Sarah Stevenson
8 February 1990 - 10 March 1990
Opening Reception 8 February 1990 8pm
West Gallery: Nothing Up My Sleeve Montreal artist Sarah Stevenson’s solo exhibition at Mercer Union takes the form of two related groups of sculptures collectively titled ‘Nothing Up My Sleeve’. These sculptural groupings of found objects and materials appear simultaneously fragile and indestructible, contemporary and historical, abstract and familiar. Employing non-traditional art materials to create […]
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LA VERITE FOLLE
Nicole Jolicoeur
8 February 1990 - 10 March 1990
Opening Reception 8 February 1990 8pm
EAST GALLERY: La Vérité Folle This recent body of work developed by Montreal artist Nicole Jolicoeur is one which undermines, through the use of drawing, the effect of reality and truth deriving from the ‘objective’ character of the photographic image. This work represents part of an ongoing investigation which concentrates on the ideas of Jean-Martin […]
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ALL AND NOTHING
Margaret May
4 January 1990 - 3 February 1990
Opening Reception 4 January 1990 8pm
East Gallery: All and Nothing Opening Thursday January 4 at 8:00 pm, Mercer Unions A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art presents a series of mixed media works by Calgary artist Margaret May. Margaret May will be presenting works from the Vignette Series, an intensely personal series that evokes images of memory, longing, sexuality, joy and […]
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THE HEART IS SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF THE CHEST BECAUSE CONDITIONS ARE MORE TEMPERATE THERE
Lee Dickson
4 January 1990 - 3 February 1990
Opening Reception 4 January 1990 8pm
West Gallery: ‘The heart is situated at the centre of the chest because conditions are more temperate there’ Opening Thursday January 4 at 8:00 pm, Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art presents sculpture by Toronto artist Lee Dickson. Lee Dickson’s installation, The heart…, combines humour and diversity in the form of thirty-six variously […]