PAST EXHIBITION
THE WEIGHT OF THE OCEAN
Krista Buecking
29 October 2010 - 4 December 2010
Opening Reception 29 October 2010 8pm
The Weight of the Ocean Starting from an interest in history as a site of continuous formation, erosion and fossilization, Buecking’s work often explores the physical and metaphorical iterations of geology and the effects of time. For this exhibition she presents a series that traces a specific understanding the artist has of the phrase “all […]
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IF YOU RECEIVE THIS, YOU WILL SOON BASK IN GLORY
Kara Uzelman
29 October 2010 - 4 December 2010
Opening Reception 29 October 2010
Kara Uzelman has evolved a form of sculptural installation driven by a strong research-based inclination and fondness for narrative. Her new body of work relates to research she completed in a recent residency in Marseille, France, regarding the Chappe semaphore tower, a system of optical communication that was developed in France during the French revolution. […]
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ALL RAG, NO BONE
Fennel Plunger Corporation
(Jean-Paul Kelly, Steve Reinke, Anne Walk)
10 September 2010 - 16 October 2010
Opening Reception 10 September 2010 8pm
Hard times, these are hard times. All rag, no bone. Fennel Plunger has everything, of course, but it would not do to rub it in people’s faces, so this exhibition is dedicated to all of you working class heroes. We say, “Keep up your good work,” and in return Fennel Plunger will continue to provide […]
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RG-RG ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH WILL HUFFMAN AND LISA WÖHRLE
20 July 2010
Opening Reception 20 July 2010
Please join us at Mercer Union on Tuesday July 20th 2010 at 7PM for an informal roundtable discussion with the Toronto Arts Council’s associate director William Huffman and the Ontario Arts Council’s visual and media arts officer Lisa Wöhrle! Will and Lisa will be available to answer questions about grants, grant-writing, funding, application, and much […]
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SOL LEWITT: A MERCER UNION LEGACY PROJECT
Sol LeWitt
Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan
10 July 2010 - 28 August 2010
Opening Reception 10 July 2010 2pm
Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #349 will be exhibited to mark the culmination Mercer Union’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The work was originally installed by Sol LeWitt in our founding exhibition space on Mercer Street in 1981. The 2010 exhibition of the work pays tribute to the importance of the artist’s legacy within Mercer Union’s innovative history […]
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CONTENT 1.0
James Carl
10 July 2010 - 16 October 2010
Mercer Union’s side billboard space presents a project by James Carl. The work relates to the artist’s book Content 1.0 co-published by Mercer Union and Art Metropole. Content 1.0. stakes the materially indispensable against the graphically insignificant. The black and white drawings are taken from an ongoing series of disposable product containers rendered in a […]
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THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Erin Thurlow
14 May 2010 - 19 June 2010
Opening Reception 14 May 2010 8pm
Front Gallery: The Bermuda Triangle The title of this exhibition of sculpture and photographs by Erin Thurlow alerts us to the torqued sensibility guiding the production of the work. With a close eye to the tight linguistic mechanics governing the delivery of a sharp joke, Thurlow stages his own particular triangulation of the uncanny, the […]
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LOST LOOSE ENDS
Alex Hubbard
Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan
14 May 2010 - 19 June 2010
Back Gallery: Lost Loose Ends New-York based artist Alex Hubbard makes work that combine performance, painting and video. The exhibition concentrates on two recent videos Lost Loose Ends and Weekend Pass, both based on the successive addition or subtraction of matter. The effect is that of a mobile picture plane populated by a roving orbit […]
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THE WEIGHT OF THE SKY
David Beattie
19 March 2010 - 1 May 2010
Opening Reception 19 March 2010 7pm
Front Gallery: The Weight of the Sky David Beattie’s sculptural works combine the use of sound, movement and physics to create unlikely alliances. For his exhibition The Weight of the Sky the artist explores notions of elementary physics to illustrate the human desire to comprehend and question what surrounds us. Incorporating an array of found […]
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HEREAFTER
Brenda Goldstein
19 March 2010 - 1 May 2010
Opening Reception 19 March 2010 12am
Back Gallery: Hereafter Brenda Goldstein’s 35mm film installation Hereafter is a spare portrait – a woman in blue operating gown and white mask in a starkly lit environment carries out detailed preparations over an unseen body. On first consideration, this assemblage of elements – the fluorescent lighting, the sterile furniture and the medical garb – […]
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DAYS OF THE ECLIPSE
Gary Beydler, Kristan Horton, Marie Jager, Euan Macdonald, Will Rogan and Elizabeth Zvonar
Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan
22 January 2010 - 6 March 2010
Opening Reception 22 January 2010 6pm
Front Gallery: Days of the Eclipse “In the bleak mid-winter frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone” —Christina Rossetti, 1872 Two concurrent exhibitions at Mercer Union pay tribute to the wintry theme of the waning of light. With the winter equinox now passed, the cycle reverses: we are gaining […]
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50 LIGHT FIXTURES FROM HOME DEPOT
Christian Giroux and Daniel Young
22 January 2010 - 6 March 2010
Opening Reception 22 January 2010 8pm
Back Gallery: 50 LIGHT FIXTURES FROM HOME DEPOT Premiere of the new 35mm film by Christian Giroux and Daniel Young “In the bleak mid-winter frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone” —Christina Rossetti, 1872 Two concurrent exhibitions at Mercer Union pay tribute to the wintry theme of the waning […]