FUN!
If you’re in Toronto this weekend, Patricia No will be part of a 3 day seminar at Art Metropole discussing the social life of books.
OPENING TONIGHT at OZ STUDIOS
You are invited to attend A Collection, the visual and audio experience exploring the realms of a collected unconscious. Through examining the fetishization of the natural world, age, and memory this exhibition attempts to uncover the origin of sentiment. By allowing chance and intuition to play a part in this exhibition A Collection brings together the work of over 20 different artists to form an exhibition where art honors origin and life is given to the otherwise lifeless.
Ginette Lapalme’s playful i
Jennifer Murphy’s show Monkey’s Recovery is currently on at one of our favourite Toronto spaces, Clint Roenisch Gallery. Definitely worth the trip.
“This work is often called gothic, fantastical, surreal. And yes, it is often some or all of these things. But one thing you don’t always hear it called is psychedelic – at times phenomenologically dazzling, but more important: involved in an open question about material, representation, perception, and consciousness. It is this level of subjective complexity that allows the work to radically complicate image, presentation, representation, and narrative, and yet to take pleasure in it all.”
—Josh Thorpe, 2008 (revised 2010)
Ghada Amer is an Egyptian artist now living in New York working with material arts. Her work is on exhibition at the Musee de l’art Contemporain in Montreal. We had the pleasure of seeing the exhibition and were blown away. Her canvasses are large incorporating fine embroidery of images of woman in positions of leisure influenced by pornagraphic imagery. Her contemporary ideas translate well onto the canvas and the work is very beautiful.
WE ARE OFF TO MONTREAL!
The Lonely Coast by Neil Fenton and curated by LB opens this THURSDAY at Coatcheck Gallery, 5-9pm.
Did we mention there is also a Lonely Coast zine? Those of you at the opening will be getting the first peek at our first official LB publication.
I little preview of Flash Forward 2011, a publication of Canadian, American and British emerging photographers. Containing many of our fellow Torontonians.
Book Launch & Opening: Nov 9, 2011, 7-10pm
Photo: From the series Party Alone by Laurie Kang
Neil Fenton is an insatiably curious Toronto-based photographer who loves photographing foggy days. His current project, The Lonely Coast, is a documentary examination of Californian identity. He is fundraising in Kickstarter to continue the project, with only 5 days left! Any donation will help.
Photo: Navarro-by-the-Sea on the Navarro River, California, 2010
Petra Collins is COOL.
The ardorous is a fab collective put together by Petra featuring amazing female artists from toronto and abroad… they’re the young & the beautiful …
Untitled (Sam) from the series Untitled (pictures, things) from photographer Deanna Pizzitelli, an artist featured in our last show Are You Afraid of The Dark?
ARTBOMB - Great new opportunity for Toronto-based emerging artists to sell their work!
Image: Patrick Hughes, Colour Process, 1984.
New work-in-progress from Toronto-based photographer Ben Freedman.
Dream Interpreter,
From a new series i started today. These are my lighting tests. But i like em
Excited to announce the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for our first show, the yet-to-be-named Untitled Snapshot Show which will be exhibited at Forgetus Collective in January 2012! You are all invited to submit!
New zine “Friend Zone” from Blood of The Young looks amazing.
Yup. Friend Zone, homies! We sifted through the few hundred (?!) submissions and narrowed it down to an even thirty. We have lots of our long-standing pals mixed in with new, exciting names and… well, we’re really stoked on this.
Contributing artists include:
Joey Skilton, Chunks, Brad Tinmouth, Andrew Kwerty, Ben Pobjoy, Peter Puklus, Chris Hadzipetros, Elise Windsor, Alicia Nauta, Brian Bielawa, John McCarthy, Juan Gabe, T. Reilly Hodgson, Jonathan LeBlanc, Wesley Robert, Dimitri Karakostas, Rob Stewart, Johannes Gierlinger, Nigel Jones, Yan Copelli, Evan Steele, Sasha Kurmaz, Sarah Jacobs, Ryan Florig, Alan Yuch, Maurizio DiIorio, Justin Jernigan, Brad Wescott, Val Karuskevic, and Jesse Untracht-Oakner.30 artists
32 pages + insert
cardstock cover / medium-weight high-gloss inside
unnumbered edition of 100
hand-drawn envelope + stickersWe’re putting half of these available right now in the shop, but they will go fast. We’re going to hold off on the rest until after CanZine, which you Toronto cats should come and visit us at!
two great opportunities for artists:
TEPSIC mag is looking for art about or by cats for their november issue. submit here.
the magenta foundation just posted the submissions for flash forward 2012, an exhibition of the best of canadian, american and british emerging photographers. submit here.
there should be more submission news (FROM US!) later this week. so keep reading.
