A new exhibition by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans encompasses everything from third world poverty to shiny cars and witchy, psychedelic sunsets.
OPENING TONIGHT at OZ STUDIOS
There, Not There
“There, Not There is a collaboration by two photo based artists who each explore a journey, one national and one local, through both analogue and automated digital processes.
In 2010, Josh MacDonald and his brother embarked on a vagabond road trip across Canada with ten rolls of expired Kodachrome and a point-and-shoot camera. The resulting images are snapshots that document their journey. There, Not There is a nostalgic reflection on their trip, in which MacDonald’s photographs are paired with a corresponding image from Google Street View.
Andrew Williamson’s work uses Google Street View as a database to trace a local journey along Dundas West in Toronto while representing the collection of images together from the recent past.”
Opening Reception: May 8th, 6pm-12am
Exhibition Dates: May 1st-15th, Mon-Fri 12-7pm or by appointment
Oz Studios | 134 Ossington Ave, Toronto
RSVP on Facebook.
We are hosting a panel discussion featuring 7 Emerging Creatives in dialogue on the topic “New Modes of Image-Making”
All of our participants are at the beginnings of their creative careers and working in the Toronto area, and it is our goal to create an environment for these new and up-and-coming voices to converse about their experience and observations in the image-based arts community.
Topics of Concern:
- Screen image saturation and the rebirth of tactility
- Use of the archive and found images as a medium
- Growth of interactive, experiential and immersive artworks
- Self-referential art and concerns with honesty and trust within photography
- The increased use of video and/or motion within image-based exhibitions
- The possibility or impossibility of finding “the original” within photography
- Photography as an creator of objects, and an object itself
Presented in conjunction with our exhibition Lessons in Photography: Appropriations by Jackson Klie & Michelle O’Byrne, a Featured Exhibition in the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2013.
Please RSVP to laidbareart@gmail.com if you plan on attending as space is limited.
Go to the Facebook event page.
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The Panel:
SAM COTTER
Sam Cotter is a Toronto-based artist, writer and critic; his practice employs photography, film, installation and sculpture to focus on issues of visual representation and relationships between art and culture. He currently works for Canadian Art magazine and Gallery TPW.
www.sam-cotter.com
www.canadianart.ca/author/scotter/
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BENJAMIN FREEDMAN
Benjamin Aaron Freedman is an emerging photo based artist presently working in Toronto. He is a recent graduate of Ryerson University’s Image Arts Program and currently exhibiting his work at Alliance Française as part of the CONTACT Photography Festival. All of Ben’s artistic work uses analogue materials including small, medium and large formats. Ben is also a co-founder of NOMADS, an outdoor street art initiative that launched in 2010.
www.benfreedmanphotography.ca
www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/featured-exhibitions/1354
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AARON FRIEND LETTNER
Aaron Friend Lettner is a Toronto-based artist. His work derives from an incessant curiousity about the world and the different ways it can be represented through art. Combining photographic prints, projections and sound installations he creates experiential situations where artwork is treated as a gift. His work can be seen in the collaborative exhibition The Pensive Spectator at Alliance Française until May 31st. He is also co-creator of NOMADS, a public art initiative founded in 2010.
www.aaron-friendlettner.com
www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/featured-exhibitions/1354
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LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
Lili Huston-Herterich is an artist and gallerist working in Toronto. Her work has been exhibited at Mercer Union, Gallery TPW and XPACE. She was the Co-Director of O’Born Contemporary and is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Butcher Gallery. Butcher Gallery was founded in 2009 and has a determined commitment to positioning Toronto’s young artists’ community within the broader international contemporary dialogue.
www.lilihustonherterich.com
www.butchergallery.com
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FELIX KALMENSON
Felix Kalmenson is a Toronto-based artist and curator. Kalmenson works in a variety of media including; installation, film, photography, and collage, within public space, as well as, in the gallery setting. His work engages in conversations surrounding publicness, memory, myth and how these are mediated by complex social, economic, and urban landscapes.
www.felixkalmenson.com
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JIMMY LIMIT
Jimmy Limit is a photo based artist living in St Catharines Ontario. His most recent exhibition Show Room “combined his long-standing interest in self-publishing and photography with a new fascination: ceramics and sculpture, examining photography as both a purveyor of commodities and a commodity in itself.” (Sam Cotter. “Jimmy Limit Pushes Photo Boundaries at Clint Roenisch.” Canadian Art. 19 February 2013.) He is represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery.
www.jimmylimit.com
www.clintroenisch.com
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VANESSA RUNIONS
Vanessa Runions is an artist and writer working in Toronto. She co-edits Carbon Paper, an emerging Toronto arts and culture publication trying to bridge the gaps of access through conversation, critique, humor, and humility. Vanessa is also a Board Member at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.
www.carbonpaper.ca
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The Moderator:
ANDREA LEIGH PELLETIER
Andrea Leigh Pelletier is an artist, curator and writer based in Toronto. She began curating shortly after finishing her BFA in Photography from Ryerson University in 2011. Since then, she has curated six exhibitions of image-based work in various Toronto venues, at Galerie Coatcheck in Montreal and Underground Gallery in London, UK. She teaches artistic promotion through social media at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and is co-founder of Laid Bare: Curations and Other Concerns.
www.andrealeighpelletier.com
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LAID BARE: CURATIONS AND OTHER CONCERNS
Laid Bare: Curations and Other Concerns is a Toronto-based not-for-profit curatorial collective dedicated to sharing art that is innovative, visceral, untapped and site-specific. Like a gallery but without the physical space, Laid Bare organizes exhibitions, publishes zines and plans other artistic events while maintaining a strong social media presence. Through periodic concerts and events, Laid Bare fundraises for their artistic projects, subsidizing the cost of exhibiting for emerging artists.
www.laid-bare.com
THIS WEDNESDAY IN A LAUNDROMAT
Private as Public
A group photography exhibition and UNOFFICIAL CONTACT Photography Festival after party.
HARBORD COINWASH | 292A Harbord St | 8pm - 2am
ft. cheap PBRs, sweet tunes and new work by:
Christopher Wahl
Dominic Nahr
Jeff Bierk
Alexi Hobbs
Eamon Mac Mahon
Mikael Cosmo
Mike Berube
Jennifer Osborne
Steve Veilleux
Vuk Dragojevic
Nick Kozak
Jamie MacDonald
Nancy Pavia
Jennifer Roberts
Pawel Dwulit
Edward Terry
Erin Brubacher
Meghan Rennie
Marta Iwanek
Adam Rysyk
Yeounjung Kim
Bob Black
Daniel Neuhaus
Adnan Saciragic
John Goldsmith
Johan Hallberg Campbell
Stephanie Noritz
Tobias Wang
Jaime Hogge
Stephen Crosby
Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Ian Willms
Jesse Louttit
Chloë Ellingson
Jess Baumung
Vanessa Heins
Lindsay Lauckner
Brett Gundlock
Image: Jeff Bierk
If you’re in Toronto for the month of May, the CONTACT Photography festival will be happening. Over 175 venues participate by programming photo-based content all month.
We are excited to be coordinating one of the Featured Exhibitions this year, Lessons in Photography: Appropriations by Jackson Klie & Michelle O’Byrne.
Opening May 9th, 6-10pm at Beaver Hall Gallery at 29 McCaul.
Exhibition Hours: May 10th-28th, 12-6pm
Artists Talk: May 11th, 2pm
“New Modes of Image Making” Discussion Panel: May 18th, 2pm
RSVP on Facebook
Currently showing at O’Born Contemporary:
SECOND ANNUAL EMERGENT ARTIST COMPETITION
Highlighting 10 of Toronto’s best up-and-coming talent, including three artists LB has previously exhibited, the exhibition is a must-see.
Featuring work by:
Jeff Bierk
Kyle Brohman
Maryanne Casasanta
Candice Davies
Phil Delisle
Benjamin Freedman
Lindsay Lauckner
Aamna Muzaffar
Charlotte Stewardson
Yshia Wallace
Make sure you check out this exhibition before it closes on January 19th.
JUST ANNOUNCED!
We are now accepting OPEN SUBMISSIONS for our unofficial Nuit Blanche project.
Simply email us your sexiest, sweatiest, creepiest, trashiest, grainiest and most banal cellphone images to take part.
International submissions are encouraged.
EMAIL: laidbareart@gmail.com
PLEASE INCLUDE:
Your name
Your website/blog (if available)
Up to 5 jpeg images
*filename: yourname_summer2012.jpg
*extra points if the photo was taken in Trinity Bellwoods
DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 21st 2012
All images will be printed low quality black and white.
You will be notified by September 25th if you have been selected!
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.
UK photographer Annie Collinge currently lives in New York, and shes fantastic with colour.
“Colour plays a huge roll in my work, I think when I first got a medium format camera and started taking colour photographs there was no turning back. My work generally has a common theme of a sombre sort of, off mood, contrasted with intense colour, it’s that conflict that I look for.”
Amanda Jasnowski is a 19 year old Spanish photographer, who currently lives in the MidWestern USA. Huh. She shoots film and digital, 35mm and medium format. Her photos are hauntingly gorgeous and eerily candid.
Norman Wong is a Toronto commercial photographer. Some of his personal photos give us access to some of the coolest Torontonians.
