PAST EXHIBITION
THINGS THAT MEAN THINGS AND THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY MEAN THINGS
Ryan Gander
6 November 2009 - 12 December 2009
Opening Reception 6 November 2009 7pm
Back Gallery: Things That Mean Things And Things That Look Like They Mean Things In this recent video by Ryan Gander, the artist imbeds a work within a work. Key elements in the hall of mirrors include an interview with writer and filmmaker Dan Fox, art students sketching Francis Bacon paintings installed at the Tate […]
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WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM
Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan with Steven Leiber and Ted Purves
6 November 2009 - 12 December 2009
Opening Reception 6 November 2009 8pm
Front Gallery: We Interrupt This Program The artworks grouped in this survey exhibition originally circulated by alternative distribution, appearing through the platform of a magazine ad or TV spot rather than through the formal avenues of gallery or museum display. Many evidence a conceptual tendency, preferring to disseminate ideas over objects and each performs a […]
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NATURE MORTE
Taku Dazai
11 September 2009 - 24 October 2009
Opening Reception 11 September 2009 7pm
Back Gallery: Nature Morte In this solo exhibition of installation-based works, Taku Dazai employs a taxidermied cast of characters—a rattlesnake, an owl, a mountain goat and a mouse—in order to explore boyhood fascination with animals in battle. Download the exhibition brochure
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THE CHINATOWN FORAY
Diane Borsato
11 September 2009 - 24 October 2009
Opening Reception 11 September 2009 8pm
Front Gallery THE CHINATOWN FORAY In this exhibition, Diane Borsato will present a new series of public actions and discreet interventions. In works such as The Chinatown Foray (2008), Borsato invited the Mycological Society of Toronto to hold one of their weekly mushroom identification excursions in Markham supermarkets and medicinal shops; and in Italian Lessons […]
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You Don’t Love Me Yet / Toronto 2009
15 August 2009
Saturday 15 August, 3PM YOU DON’T LOVE ME YET / Toronto, 2009 Toronto-based musicians and artists will perform an afternoon of Johanna Billing’s ongoing project, You Don’t Love Me Yet. Fascinated by the ritualized potential inherent in performing cover versions of pop songs, Billing conceived a concert format based on one song only, to be […]
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A FUN TIME IS A GREAT TIME
Sarah Gregg Millman
3 July 2009 - 15 August 2009
Opening Reception 3 July 2009 7pm
Front Gallery: A Fun Time Is A Great Time In her first solo exhibition in Toronto, Millman expands on her ongoing, cinema-inspired lexicon of single working girls. Millman’s work portrays a fantasy world inhabited by characters going about daily life⎯where light and airy narratives mask the presence of oppression and anxiety lurking beneath the surface. […]
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THIS IS HOW WE WALK ON THE MOON
Johanna Billing
3 July 2009 - 15 August 2009
Opening Reception 3 July 2009 8pm
Back Gallery: This Is How We Walk On The Moon In the video This Is How We Walk on the Moon (2007), a group of local musicians learns to sail in the Firth of Forth, off the coast of Edinburgh, Scotland. Set to the 1980s song of the same title by the late experimental musician […]
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GOODBYE TO ROMANCE
Katie Bethune-Leamen, Dave Dyment, Lars Laumann, Jimmy Limit, Tony Romano, Alvin Lucifer, Brian Joseph Davis & Steven Kado
Curated by Elaine Gaito
1 May 2009 - 13 June 2009
Opening Reception 1 May 2009 8pm
Goodbye To Romance Popular music is rife with fan-generated legends and myths pertaining to premature exits and mortal excess. Invoking the logic of paranoia, the group exhibition Goodbye to Romance brings together works that harness obsessive musical fandom and highlight the romantic futility of conspiracy theory. Going beyond simple narrative explication, the artists assembled employ […]
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MAGNETIC RESONANCE ON ABISSOLOGIC EXPERIMENTS
João Maria Gusmão And Pedro Paiva
6 March 2009 - 18 April 2009
Opening Reception 6 March 2009 7pm
Front Gallery: Magnetic Resonance On Abissologic Experiments Described as “poetic philosophical fiction,” João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva’s 16mm film installations explore pseudoscience through an odd alchemical compound: equal parts early silent cinema, archaeological dig, and late-60s land art. The films are often performative and though suggestive of narrative, ultimately revel in illogical and surprising […]
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RED SHIFT
Sylvia Matas
6 March 2009 - 18 April 2009
Opening Reception 6 March 2009 8pm
Back Gallery: Red Shift A series of sculptural works (a rope made of dental floss, for example) alongside a grouping of small sun prints, all exploring themes of perception, time and cycles. Sylvia Matas is a visual artist from Winnipeg, Canada. She received her BFA from the University of Manitoba in 2003 and her MFA […]
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AMUSICOLOGY
Craig Leonard
9 January 2009 - 14 February 2009
Opening Reception 9 January 2009 7pm
Back Gallery: Amusicology A series of mini-installations, charting art/rock coincidences and convergences through mixed dosages of sculptural inquiry, archival impulse and audio experiment. Subjects of exploration include King Tubby, DNA, Harry Partch, Jimmy Page, the Screamers and more.
PAST EXHIBITION
STREET POETS & VISIONARIES: SELECTIONS FROM THE UBUWEB COLLECTION
Kenneth Goldsmith
9 January 2009 - 21 February 2009
Opening Reception 9 January 2009 8pm
Front Gallery: Street Poets & Visionaries: Selections From The Ubuweb Collection Talk by UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith at 7PM preceding the opening reception at 8PM. Street Poets & Visionaries: Selections from the UbuWeb Collection, an exhibition of posters and ephemeral writings from the streets of New York City. In the tradition of Jim Shaw’s “Thrift […]