She – Female Images in Art.
In the exhibition She, more than 40 international contemporary artists present their works in the collaborative theme of modern female images. The exhibition joins different media such as art dolls, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture and graphic drawings etc. uniting all media pieces with one magnificent theme.

Giuseppe Penone: The Hidden Life Within. Sculpture installation in the Galleria Italia.

King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs.

Thirty years after the wonders of King Tut had their celebrated Canadian debut at the Art Gallery of Ontario, an even bigger exhibition – King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs – makes its sole Canadian appearance at the AGO.
With an almost entirely different selection of treasures and more than twice the number of artifacts as were displayed in the 1979 exhibition, King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs features more than 100 remarkable pieces from the tomb of King Tut and ancient sites representing some of the most important rulers throughout 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian history. Derived from royal and private tombs and temples from 2600 B.C to 660 B.C., most of these artifacts had never before been seen in North America prior to this exhibition, which is currently breaking venue attendance records in Indianapolis.

Organized by The National Geographic Society, Arts and Exhibitions International and AEG Exhibitions with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. Northern Trust is the proud cultural partner of King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the AGO. American Airlines is the official airline of the exhibition. Funding support provided by the Government of Ontario.

Rembrandt / Freud: Etchings from Life.
This exhibition creates an opportunity for dialogue across the centuries between two great masters of the human form, Rembrandt van Rijn and Lucian Freud. Both artists regarded printmaking as an integral part of their art practice and created extraordinary images using the etching process. Uncompromising and direct, their etchings of the human face and the human body go beyond surface appearance to the underlying "truth". The exhibition juxtaposes self-portraits, naked portraits (nudes) and portraits of family and friends. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Françoise Sullivan: Inner Force – Winner of the 2008 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO.
Pioneering multi-media artist Françoise Sullivan (born 1925) is the recipient of the 2008 Gershon Iskowitz Prize and is the focus of this exhibition. Among the featured works is a remarkable series of photographs dating from January 1948 when Sullivan, who had just returned from New York where she had studied dance with Martha Graham, staged her famous Danse dans la neige – a self-choreographed performance in the wintry landscape of Quebec. Plunging down slopes and striking dramatic poses, her footwork traced in the snow offers a parallel to Jackson Pollock's full-body movements that were required for creation of his monumental drip paintings. At root, Sullivan is a painter, and in this exhibition her recent majestic abstract works are the focus. Sullivan's ongoing Homage series has yielded a remarkable tribute to her artist colleagues such as Jean Paul Riopelle and her husband of several decades Paterson Ewen. In respiring and rhythmic fields of colour, Sullivan finds movement that conjures the memory of creativity's first spark. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Wed 10 Feb, 7pm: Dance performance choreographed by Françoise Sullivan. In Walker Court. Free with admission. Two of Sullivan's choreographies from 1947-48, as well as two later works from 1981 and 1993, will be performed by Ginette Boutin, Rober Racine and Daniel Soulière.

With a permanent collection of more than 79,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is among the most distinguished art museums in North America. In 2008, with a stunning new design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the AGO opened its doors to the public amid international acclaim. Highlights include Galleria Italia, a gleaming showcase made of wood and glass running the length of an entire city block along the Gallery's façade; and the feature staircase, spiraling up through the roof of Walker Court and into the new contemporary galleries above. From the extensive Group of Seven collection to the dramatic new African art gallery; from the cutting-edge works in the Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art to Peter Paul Rubens' masterpiece The Massacre of The Innocents, a highlight of the celebrated Thomson Collection, there is truly something for everyone at the AGO.

American Prints of the Great Depression. This exhibition in gallery 140 features thirty prints that take viewers from the roaring 1920s through the dirty 1930s, from New York to the American Midwest, through a time of great political and social change in America. Featuring works by American artists such as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, George Kenneth Hartwell, as well as the iconic "Four Freedoms" posters by renowned artist and Saturday Evening Post illustrator, Norman Rockwell.

The Art of Drawing: Summer Intensive. Instructor: Kelley Aitken. $195 general public, $155 members. HST will be applied to course fees.

The state-of-the-art Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre is dedicated to the study of prints, drawings and photographs, and houses a collection of over 15,000 works on paper which date from the 13th century to the present day. Find out more about the AGO's Prints and Drawings Collection.
To make an appointment, please call: 416 979 6660 x250 or email: Brenda_Rix@ago.net.

The Study Centre offers a variety of opportunities for visitors:
Prints and Drawings: Open Door program – Wednesdays 1-4pm. Enjoy behind-the-scenes tours and see your favourite prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs.
Prints and Drawings: Visits by appointment – Fridays 1-4pm. For individuals interested in studying the collection in depth. Please call 416 979 6660 x250 to make an appointment.
Close Encounters 2010-2011 – an intimate first-hand experience with treasures from the AGO's collection of works on paper. For information call 416 979 6660 x261. Subscribe to the series and save: four talks for $65 / $55 members.
The Centre is closed Mon, Tues, Thur, Sat & Sun.

Current programming features:
Collection X: The Art of Collection Building. This exhibition explores the evolution of the print and drawing collection through the personalities, artworks and stories that make it unique.

The AGO is open Civic Holiday Monday, 10am-4pm.

Jamie Evrard: Italian Days. Evrard's art is inspired by the elegant dark Spanish and Italian still-life paintings of the 17th century, with rich, inviting colours and a sensuous paint application. Evrard works on canvas, copper and panel, each medium offering an exciting take on her still-life subject matter. Evrard has participated in countless solo and group exhibitions across Canada, and her paintings have been included in many collections.

Ferit Kuyas: City of Ambition. Swiss photographer Ferit Kuyas' most recent project features the sprawling land and cityscapes of Chongqing, China, nicknamed “The City of Fog” throughout other parts of China. This dense fog permeates the city, and in Kuyas images, provides a complementary backdrop to the richly coloured earthy patches, roads, and construction sites that fill the foreground of the scene. Kuyas will arrive from Switzerland to give an artist talk at 3pm on Feb 6th in the gallery.

Ksenia Wooster (Russia / Kazakhstan), DemarK (Russia) and Kasiopea Naumoska (Macedonia) present their inaugural Canadian exhibitions. Wooster introduces a celebration of emotion and colour, DemarK steps away from peacekeeping to celebrate peace while Naumoska explores the depths of human relations.

BBG brings Eastern Europe to its new home. Its founders worked and traveled extensively in the former Soviet and Yugoslav Republics celebrating its art and people. Household names there are soon-to-be household names in Canada through a series of breathtaking exhibitions tapping into a wealth of recognized European talent.

Will Gorlitz: new / old / new.
Just as the title indicates, this exhibition at Birch Libralato includes an installation of new works, some revisiting older imagery and others very new.
Do not miss Will Gorlitz's survey exhibition, nowhere if not here, Feb 4-Mar 28, 2010, at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (952 Queen Street West, Toronto). The exhibition, with accompanying catalogue, includes paintings from the past 20 years of Gorlitz's career, as well as an installation of new animal-themed paintings, Always Ready, in the MOCCA Project Room. Organized by the Kitchener | Waterloo Art Gallery, and in partnership with the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, nowhere if not here is a nationally touring exhibition. For more info: www.mocca.ca.

Ed Pien: Vanishing.
Vanishing plays out Ed Pien's fascination with light and shadow, presence and ephemerality. Vanishing celebrates enchantment and imagination while exploring the potentials of paper-cut-based art. The gestures in each piece enact ambiguous narratives, inviting viewers to participate in formulating their own interpretations of the inexplicable while variations of depth of field and movement hint at a cinematic experience, touching on the realm of the uncanny. Continually innovative, Pien combines drawing, digital image manipulation, and diverse materials to his cutouts, evoking dreamlike states and visions.

LUST. Mixed media works examine the power of human desires extolling St. Valentine's Day rituals. Artists: Samuel Blaug, Mary Ellen Farrow, Marc André Jaques Fortier, Camie Geary-Martin, Marina Guglielmi, Karen Stoskopf Harding, Heitham Hossen, Elaine Jaques, Saulius Jaskus, Bastien Martel, Desmond Scott, Xiaojing Yan, Daniel Yu.

David Bolduc: Days and Nights in the Forest.

Flirting with Bling is a delightful and thought-provoking exhibition that explores representations of culture, beauty and fashion through contemporary and historical artworks. It provides an opportunity for viewers to question how we create and celebrate culture through photography, painting, and installation.
Flirting with Bling offers an array of accomplished and provocative artists, some of whom are widely known here, and others who may be new to Toronto audiences. The inspiration for the show was Set of Calabashes, by contemporary Brazilian artist Marepe. This 24-piece installation of abstract calabashes made of aluminum exercises a magnetic pull on the viewer, as does Iain Baxter&'s inflatable signature Ampersand, rising and falling in the centre of the Gallery.
Other fascinating works include Ramón Serrano's Horizonte drawings, which evoke the skyline of utopia as seen from his native Cuba; paintings by automatist Françoise Sullivan and Natalie Munk; text and pixel-art video work by Sharon Switzer, photography artists such as Frank Mädler, Lori Newdick, Grit Schwerdtfeger, Roxanne Lowit, Barbara Astman, Sarah Moon, Erwin Blumenfeld, George Platt Lynes, Edmund Kesting, Horst P. Horst and Irving Penn.

Susan Warner Keene: Water Line – recent paper work.
Keene is using the fluid medium of papermaking to observe the power of water to form and imprint our world. On its way to becoming an object, paper consists of a water-infused membrane sensitive to flow, stress, passages of light – much like our own bodies, like the Earth's crust. Intervening in this state, she contends there are many ways to contemplate permanence and change. For several years her work has concentrated on the membrane of the “page” as an expressive form in its own right, not simply as a support. As a medium, papermaking attracts her because the material and the process it undergoes seem to embody a kind of lived experience not unlike our own. At the same time, paper is culturally linked to ideas, language, and communication, crucial features of our humanity. (West Gallery).

Jesse Boles: New Work. Main Gallery.
Boles has been working in the Hamilton area to create an extension of his Crude Landscape series with new large-scale photographs depicting 21st-century interior landscapes of the industrial spaces. The majority of the work exhibited arrives from the Art Gallery of Hamilton where curators Melissa Bennett and Sara Knelman organized Boles' solo exhibition for the AGH, Sept 2009 -Jan 2010. The curators state that Boles' "compositions consciously build upon the tradition of the 19th-century landscape painting, and impress us with the sublime scale of modern industry... Boles also calls to mind cinematic scenes; his images often trace zones of industrial activity through artificial light..."
Dianne Bos. North Gallery.
Edward Day gallery is pleased to introduce photographer Dianne Bos whose timeless images capture fleeting, intuitive moments of sublime reminiscence. Bos says that her work "challenges the view of photography as a way to capture an instant in time. By using pinhole cameras and long exposure times I record, not an instant, but rather the passage of time at a site. Viewers have said that my work evokes the memory-image that remains for them long after they have viewed a familiar location".

Edward Day Gallery news:

Penelope Stewart's Cloche (2008) is part of afterLandscape at The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Ontario, opening Sun 5 Sep 2010, 2-5pm, continuing all year round (http://www.thetreemuseum.ca/treemuseum/pages/exhib2010.php).

Visit Haliburton Sculpture Symposium 2010 (Aug through Oct) and experience Penelope Stewart's Camera Obscura (2009) (http://www.haliburtonforest.com/artproject.html).

Penelope Stewart's Canopy (2005) is on view at The Military Museums, Calgary, Alberta, Sep 11, 2010 - Jan 31, 2011 (leading to the Founders' Gallery and suspended over the walkway) (http://www.themilitarymuseums.ca/explore).

Penelope Stewart's Apian Screen (2010) is part of Beyond | In WNY 2010: Alternating Currents at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Sep 24, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011 (http://www.albrightknox.org and / or http://www.beyondinwny.org).

James Ridyard: Framing Memory marks the opening of Yorkminster Park Gallery's (Toronto) fifth season – Sep 11-Oct 8, 2010; artist talk & reception Sun 12 Sep, 12:15-2pm (http://www.yorkminsterpark.com).

Dan Kennedy is one of three participating artists in Ticket to Ride at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Sep 13-Oct 30, 2010; reception Thur 16 Sep, 5-9pm (http://www.artgallery.uwaterloo.ca).

Melissa Doherty is part of the Rafael Sottolichio-curated group exhibition L'Anti-Sublime at Maison de la Culture Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec, Sep 3-Oct 3, 2010; opening Thur 2 Sep, 5pm (http://bit.ly/cy6qlC).

Melissa Doherty – solo exhibition at Le Musée de Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Québec, Oct 9, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011 (http://www.mbas.qc.ca).

Doug Guildford – The Intertidal Zone: Prints by Doug Guildford at the Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia, Sep 14-Nov 21, 2010 (http://www.burnabyartgallery.ca).

Exhibitions –

Copper Thunderbird: The Art of Norval Morrisseau – a private collection of over 40 paintings never before exhibited publicly together. An outstanding overview of the work of a national treasure, spanning over four decades, and including a number of his masterpieces. Copper Thunderbird is available for viewing by spa guests and by appointment. Those wishing to schedule an appointment to view the exhibition are encouraged to call Dominique Giliberti at 416 323 4275 or email dgiliberti@elmwoodspa.com. For more details visit us at www.elmwoodspa.com/spa-events/copper-thunderbird-exhibit.

DRAWNONWARD: New Work. The seven artists of the Drawnonward collective "over the past few years... have taken part in voyages throughout the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Labrador and Newfoundland. Six unique adventures... have brought, and continue to bring Canada to the forefront of our creative expression." – D. Marshak.

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition: Best of 2009. Don't miss First Canadian Place's annual presentation of innovative works by award winners from the 48th Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Congratulations to the represented artists, including: Dave Hind, Reuben Looyenga, Dan Driscoll, Scott Everingham, Alex Anagnostou, Jennie Suddick, Julia Hepburn, Min Hyung, Lesley McInally, Carmen Schroeder, Emily Gill and more. www.torontooutdoorart.org.

Norval Morrisseau, 1932-2007.

Works by Paul Lipman Andre, Bedros Aslanian, John William Beatty, Ginette Beaulieu, Christian Bergeron, Cynthia Blair, Daniel Bombardier, Patricia Bourque, Norm Brown, Serge Brunoni, A. J. Casson, Marie Claire, Bruno Côté, Maurice Cullen, Emily Elliott, Lloyd Fitzgerald, Vladimir E. Gebauer, P. Harris, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Jason Kronenwald, Gilles Labranche, Claude Langevin, Clement Lemieux, Yvon Lemieux, Nathan Letovsky, Fred Loveroff, Helen Lucas, J. E. H. MacDonald, Henri Masson, Mario Mauro, David Mazal, David Milne, William E. Morris, Norval Morrisseau, Jean E. Nerfin, Joseph Norris, J. Ouisius, Sophie Paquet, Gilles Pelletier, U. Ringlib, Goodridge Roberts, Paul Rodrick, Peter C. Sheppard, Henry Simpkins, Ron Simpkins, E. Spence, Victor Stampatori, Tom Stone, Armand Tatossian, Frederick Taylor, David Thauberger, D. Thompson, André Turenne, Robert Wakeham, Alicia Wishart, K. Woodman, David Wright...

Gallery 533 deals in contemporary art, Japanese prints, international fine prints, ceramics and estate art.

Summer Gallery Collection – international and Japanese prints, acrylic and oil on canvas and more... Artists include: Alexander Calder, Jean Arp, Enrico Baj, Andrea Bolley, Charles Albert Despiau, Eric Freifeld, Charles Keller, René Marcil, Charles Maurin, Rick McCarthy, Jack Nichols, Hasui Kawase, Kunisada, Yoshitoshi, Koitsu Tsuchiya, and more.

Laurie De Camillis – Winter Landscapes. New paintings by gallery artist Laurie De Camillis. This season De Camillis continues to explore rural Ontario with a fresh series of winter landscapes from the Escarpment area.

Jae-Hong Ahn – New Paintings. Oil paintings by Toronto-based artist Jae-Hong Ahn. In his newest works, Ahn uses his unique combination of traditional figurative painting styles with a contemporary narrative to explore the darker side of the human condition.

William Ronald. Important Late Paintings.

Group Show – Karel Appel, John Anderson, Oscar Cahén, Ken Danby, Scott Ellis, Sorel Etrog, Dennis Geden, Robert Hedrick, Gershon Iskowitz, William Lazos, Evan Levy, Sandra Manzi, Jean-Paul Riopelle, William Ronald, Tony Scherman, William Scott, Thaddaeus.

Summer group exhibition – Karel Appel, John Anderson, Peter Aspell, Ken Danby, Sorel Etrog, Dennis Geden, Robert Hedrick, Candida Höfer, Gershon Iskowitz, Evan Levy, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Thaddaeus, Kevin Tranh.

DRAWING 2010: 11th Annual Juried Drawing Exhibition.

"how good are your dwelling places" – Rita Bakacs, Susan Lakin, Ross Racine, Allan Topolski. Guest curator: Cyril Reade.

"how good are your dwelling places" brings together four artists from diverse backgrounds, who often examine architectural and domestic environments, attempting to decode cultural specificity within a homogenizing context. Although they themselves are not Jewish, Rita Bakacs, Susan Lakin, Ross Racine and Allen Topolski were invited to reflect on the fluidity of Jewish identity in North America. Taking as departure points shared experiences of community, individuality, displacement, continuity and assimilation, they examine connections and differences.

The title of the exhibition is derived from an exclamation of the non-Jewish prophet Balaam: "How good are your tents, Jacob, and your dwelling places, Israel! (Numbers 24:5). Balaam had been sent to curse the Israelites camped on the east side of the river Jordan after their forty years of wandering in the desert, but upon seeing their encampment, the prophet could not but utter his wonderment. This declaration was incorporated into the Mah Tovu morning prayer, recited upon entering the synagogue. Decoupled from the Biblical source, the statement becomes equivocal, shifting from a pronouncement of praise to a question about the moral, ethical and ecological environment provided by the home.

Berlin-based Hungarian filmmaker Rita Bakacs takes us to the European origins of many North American Jews with a new video piece about the Schloss Börnicke, a former residence of the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy family situated in a Berlin suburb. New York-based artist Ross Racine digitally renders bird's-eye views of suburbia, orderly and prosperous at first glance but revealing limited choice upon closer observation. Rochester photographer Susan Lakin leads us inside the home where she takes portraits of the inhabitants as reflections in one of North America's ubiquitous appliances, the television screen. Sculptor Allen Topolski transforms found domestic items, marrying the familiar and the uncanny while using humour to remind of religious ritual embedded in the everyday.

The building hosting the exhibition is a former residence, later transformed into a commercial space and now planned for redevelopment. A few doors down is the childhood home of architect Frank Gehry, born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, who recently renovated the Art Gallery of Ontario just up the street. The row of houses is slated for demolition to make room for new constructions; the inhabitants of the early 20th century have long gone, soon to be replaced by yet other residents. The art works gathered here offer a snapshot of one of the trajectories of North American city dwellers – where we have come from, how we have lived, and how we live now. This space and the images and objects created by these artists can lead us to ponder on how good we make our dwelling places.

Margins. Contemporary art unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls. Curators: Francisco Alvarez and Mona Filip. Presented at the Royal Ontario Museum by the Institute for Contemporary Culture and the Koffler Gallery of the Koffler Centre of the Arts.
Concurrent with the ROM's major exhibition, Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World, Margins (Jun 27, 2009 - Jan 3, 2010) is a newly commissioned installation and the first Canadian exhibition by acclaimed New York-based artist Joshua Neustein. Engaging visual art in a poetic reflection on writing, religion and archaeology, Neustein's project shapes a dialogue with the historical and cultural contexts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among these ancient manuscripts are the oldest-known copies of the Hebrew Bible, hymns, prayers and other writings providing a link to the origins of Judaic, Christian and Islamic faiths.
Positioning the thematic of the Scrolls within a contemporary discourse, Margins references prominent Jewish poet Edmond Jabès and his critical texts concerned with the nature of writing, of silence, of God, and the Book. Jabès's mysterious meditations, the revealed knowledge of the historical texts and Neustein's own visual vocabulary converge in an installation that conveys the passion and impossibility of writing.
Through drawing, sculptural and textual elements, Neustein's installation re-enacts the emergence of the word piercing the silence with luminous presence. A sumptuous chandelier embedded into the gallery wall radiates as the core of the work – a strange archaeological relic excavated into visibility. Unraveling towards its brightness, transparent acrylic sheets lie collapsed on the floor, bearing shimmering texts. Drawn out by light, handwriting becomes typography, coalescing words into crystallized form. The script escapes the page, crossing margins into the space where writing struggles to uncover the unwritten.
Archaeology unearths dormant traces of history. Writing pushes at the edge of silence to bring forth the unsaid. Similarly, Margins explores manifest and concealed ideas of the Dead Sea Scrolls, exposing them to the light of our times.
Margins is presented on the ROM's Level 3, Centre Block.

Natalie Castellino: I think this is for you. Through a series of photographs, Castellino captures the shifts that take place in people's lives due to miscommunication.

Sung Ja Kim: Nest. Borrowing imagery from the natural world, this exhibition communicates the idea of being sheltered from the inevitable storms of life through a growing spiritual awareness.

Jane LowBeer: Light on Little Things. A new series of monotypes, examining the various small objects around the house. The exhibition conveys an atmosphere of wonder – at the infinite possibility but random and fleeting nature of form.

Fall workshops schedule is now online. Check website or contact Andrea for details: www.andreamaguire.com, info@andreamaguire.com, 416 917 1958.

Mercer Multiples – Our latest series of artists' multiples are by Johanna Billing, Jonathan Monk, and Scott Rogers; also available: the CD compilation, Mercersound 09.

Front Gallery – Days of the Eclipse – Gary Beydler, Kristan Horton, Marie Jager, Euan Macdonald, Will Rogan, Elizabeth Zvonar. A group exhibition that explores the formal and conceptual possibilities of the eclipse: cancellation, conflation, switch, erasure.

Back Gallery – 50 Light Fixtures from Home Depot – Christian Giroux and Daniel Young. A 35mm film loop cycles through static shots of a white-cube room illuminated by the varying glow of 50 distinct light fixtures, displayed one by one. The image is projected at life-size, suggesting a lived architectural dimension. The project derives from the artists' interest in the production of space, of lighting fixtures, and the beauty of projected light filtered through celluloid.

Christian Giroux and Daniel Young have been making art together since 2002. They produce sculpture, public art and film installations. Their work has been shown at Scope Miami Beach (2004), Ace Art Inc (Winnipeg, 2004), The Power Plant (Toronto, 2006), the EXiS festival (Seoul, 2009) and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2009). Following its premiere at Mercer Union, their film installation 50 Light Fixtures from Home Depot will be exhibited in Forum Expanded at the Berlinale (Berlin, 2010) and Beyond / in Western New York (Hallwalls, Buffalo, 2010). They are represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto. Currently, they are artists in residence at the York University Digital Sculpture Lab.

Mercer Union Online Shop is now open! Click here: http://bit.ly/9DD3PA.
The latest addition to our inventory of artists' books, editions and multiples is: The Weight of the Sky by David Beattie. ISBN 978-1-926627-09-0. $15. 60pp. Full colour printing, foil-stamped cover.
This illustrated monograph includes a foreword by Sarah Robayo Sheridan and an essay by Sherman Sam. The volume is published on the occasion of David Beattie's first solo exhibition in North America. David's sculptural works combine the use of sound, movement and physics to create unlikely alliances.
David Beattie was born in Northern Ireland in 1979. He graduated in 2006 with an MA in Visual Art Practices from Dun Laoghaire IADT and in 2001 received his BA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
He has received a number of awards including an Arts Council Artists Bursary in 2009. He has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Butler Gallery (Kilkenny, 2009); Oonagh Young Gallery (Dublin, 2009); Mermaid Arts Centre (Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2008) and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (Dublin, 2006).

Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here.
Organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in partnership with Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to present Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here. Spanning a period of nearly twenty years, nowhere if not here presents a comprehensive cross-section of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Will Gorlitz. In conjunction with this exhibition, MOCCA will present a new, previously unseen body of work by Gorlitz in the project room.
Through a rigorous painting practice, Gorlitz has examined a range of iconographic subjects. His choice of subjects – as seen in his Road Paintings, Numerals, and Not Everyone series – broadly evoke considerations of place, both within the internal context of the painting but also in terms of geographic, social and theoretical positioning. Curator and writer Peggy Gale has observed: "For Will Gorlitz, perception is both visual and physical: image and touch. The technology of handling and representation – form, structure, medium, texture – is always at issue." To examine the practice of Will Gorlitz is to carefully consider the specific purpose of representation, presentation and interpretation in the world of images and image-making.

WIRED – Susan Carr. Captivated and captured by wire. Books, necklaces, sculptures, and paintings are presented to create a "wired" environment.

15th Anniversary Exhibition.
O'Connor Gallery is proud to celebrate 15 years of exhibitions in 2010. Our group anniversary exhibition includes work by Daniel Barkley, Michael Chambers, Mary Dykstra, George Hawken, Megan Hinton, Chris Ironside, Nathan Smith, Jeff Szuc, and John Webster. Each artist was invited to reflect on their art of 15 years ago and to then reapproach that work from their current perspective.
O'Connor Gallery is also exhibiting new work by Mark Reid, Anthony Batten and Pamela Dodds.

Please note: The Jack Butler show has been postponed. Please call the gallery for more information.

Greg Murdock.

Education – Check website for details.

Open Studio Gallery – Lisa Turner: Shelf Life.
George Gilmour Members' Gallery – Louise Vezina: Daydreams...at once long and brief.
Print Sales Gallery – The Cat's Pyjamas and Other Tales, group show featuring Christopher Hutsul, Isabelle Mignault and Jacob Rolfe.

Edith Dakovic: An In-Depth Look at the Surface.

Recent Snow: Projected Works by Michael Snow. Curated by Gregory Burke, Director of The Power Plant.
Opening on the artist's 81st birthday, this exhibition surveys the legendary Canadian artist's forays into video installation from the past nine years. With seven projection works on display – most never before seen in Toronto – the exhibition includes the world premiere of two new pieces. A pioneer particularly in experimental film, Michael Snow has broken ground in every medium imaginable, from photography to improvisational music. The exhibition attests to the ongoing relevance of Snow's playful and experimental practice, and the influence it continues to exert on the international contemporary art world.
Presenting sponsor: Rogers.
Support sponsor: Drake Hotel.

Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada. Curated by Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs.
The exhibition highlights the renewed interest of contemporary Canadian artists in humble objects, unassuming materials and entropic tendencies. Emerging, mid-career and senior artists include Valérie Blass (Montréal), James Carl (Toronto), Liz Magor (Vancouver), Luanne Martineau (Victoria), Tricia Middleton (Montréal), Gareth Moore (Vancouver), Michael Murphy (Toronto), Kerri Reid (Toronto), Brendan Tang (Kamloops), Kara Uzelman (Vancouver / Berlin), Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky (Vancouver).
Presenting sponsor: Royal Bank of Canada.

Institutional Donor: Nancy McCain & Bill Morneau.
Primary Education Sponsor: CIBC Wood Gundy.
Corporate Leaders: BMO Financial Group, Morneau Sobeco, Rogers.
Government Funding: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council.

The One I Love The Most – Propeller's annual juried Valentine's Day exhibition.
In honour of Valentine's Day, Propeller Center for the Visual Arts presents The One I Love the Most, a group exhibition featuring both gallery members and a juried selection of non-members. Each artist displays one piece (any medium) which they feel connects to the theme of "The One I Love the Most". It could be a favourite piece of artwork, or a representation of a person, place, item, moment etc. that the artist loves more than any other. The theme is open to interpretation.

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Wedgwood: Artistry and Innovation.

Hamra Abbas: Read. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

Canadian Content: Portraits by Nigel Dickson. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

East Asian Paintings & Prints: Recent Acquisitions.

Kings of Punjab – Two life-size oil-on-canvas portraits by Manu Kaur Saluja, offering contemporary imaginings of two significant historical figures – Maharaja Duleep Singh (1838-1893) and Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) – are depicted alongside artifacts from the Punjab. In the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery (Level 3).

Fakes and Forgeries: Yesterday and Today.

Stitching Community: African Canadian Quilts from Southern Ontario.

City-produced exhibition highlights –
The City-produced exhibition projects will be positioned directly on the Yonge-University TTC subway line. Yonge Street will be entirely closed to car traffic between Bloor Street and Front Street, giving pedestrians safe and easy access to the exhibitions.

Curator Gerald McMaster's exhibition, entitled The Good Night, features 10 projects in and around Yorkville, from Yonge Street to St. George. Highlights include the Lower Bay Station, which will become an interactive landscape of light in Daan Roosegaarde's installation Interactive Landscape Dune, while the Village of Yorkville Park will feature a billion-year-old chunk of the Canadian Shield transformed into the pulsing heart of Mother Earth by Kent Monkman's alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testikle in Iskootao.

Anthony Kiendl will curate seven projects along the west side of Yonge Street from Dundas Street to Queen Street West in Sound and Vision. Nathan Phillips Square will be transformed into a sensory oasis as Daniel Lanois prepares, produces and performs the soundtrack to a multi-channel, multi-screen media experience in Later That Night at the Drive-In. Atop the new Podium Green Roof at City Hall, Dan Graham's Performance Café with Perforated Sides will feature one of the artist's world-renowned reflective pavilions, beckoning as a space for human interaction on a grand or intimate scale.

Sarah Robayo Sheridan's exhibition, entitled The Night of Future Past, will be located on the east side of Yonge from Carlton Street south to Queen Street. She will curate eight projects, including Ryan Gander's Just Because You Can Feel It, Doesnt Mean It's There, which will set Yonge-Dundas Square ablaze in a social sculpture of ambiguous designation but of unmistakable scale and presence. In Reunion, on the Ryerson Theatre Stage, the historic artistic convergence of the same name that occurred in 1968 will be celebrated and remounted by local and international performers influenced by the twin legacies of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage.

Christof Migone will curate 15 projects in the Financial District, straddling Yonge Street from Queen Street to Front Street. Should I Stay or Should I Go will feature Max Streicher's Endgame (Coulrophobia), which will either delight or frighten audiences who discover the giant inflatable clown heads wedged between two buildings in a back alley.

At Commerce Court, Davide Balula's performance, entitled The Endless Pace, will feature 60 dancers mimicking the passage of time in a clock formed from human movement. Kim Adams' Auto Lamp will become a beacon of light for night owls – a sculptural lighthouse on land at the corner of Yonge and Queen. At Brookfield Place, Martin Arnold and Micah Lexier have collaborated to present Erik Satie's Vexations - two pianos playing a score simultaneously 840 times over 12 hours – the first time this difficult score has been played in such a way and in such short a time.

Community-produced independent project highlights –
The community-produced portion of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will feature new or existing installations created by cultural and educational institutions, neighbourhoods and individual artists that extend the boundaries of the event city-wide and showcase the diversity of Toronto's arts community. Casa Loma, CN Tower, the Bata Shoe Museum, Ryerson University, TIFF and many more organizations are hosting important projects in their unique venues. Entire neighbourhoods like Parkdale, Liberty Village, Queen West, the Distillery District and the area in and around Trinity Bellwoods Park will feature multiple installations by local artists.

O CANADA – A Group Exhibition.
This is the gallery's first exhibition of historical photographs that it has been collecting for many years. Made by famous photographers, as well as photographers unknown, these vintage photographs cover a wide range of topics and offer a visual history of Canada spanning nearly 150 years. Coming at a time when modes of recording have changed drastically, this exhibition offers a trove of analogue representations of the land, the people and the events that have shaped Canada's history.

Kaleidoscope: Antique Quilts from the Collection of Carole and Howard Tanenbaum presents 43 dazzling quilts collected, over a 4-year period, by Carole and Howard Tanenbaum. Many of the quilts, from England, Canada and the United States, were made by individuals working alone. Others were created collectively, by groups of women who contributed individual sections to create a textile journal of the life and times of the 19th century. Curated by Max Allen.

In Touch: Connecting Cloth, Culture + Art is an exhibition based on our newest web project. In Touch explores how textiles are created and the characters that bring them to life. Visitors have the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the website's featured objects, as well as compare them to their digitally rendered and animated counterparts.

Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls. Curated by Natalia Nekrassova. This exhibition traces the origins of the shawl from the noble courts of India, where finely woven pieces were made and worn for several centuries, to the high-fashion market in Europe, where shawls were desired for their unusual beauty and exquisite weaving. With 32 beautiful examples from the Textile Museum's permanent collection, the exhibition examines how in Europe the shawl became a symbol of femininity, integrating the romantic exoticism of the 18th century with the Victorian values of innocence and decency of the mid-19th century. With their warm colours and luxurious softness, the Kashmir shawl and its European imitations embody a cross-cultural phenomenon with roots in India but identified with France and Great Britain.

The Textile Museum of Canada is open on Labour Day.

Contemporary artists include: Bélanger, Bernier, Besner, Case-Fox, Chenier, Corno, Dalceggio, Durocher, Fortin, Gélinas, Lafrance, Nerbonne, Ruel, Rohrer, Roy, Rivière, Taillefer, Tremblay, Zekoff and Zen.

The Thompson Landry Galleries specialize in the very best of contemporary Quebec art. With two locations in the Distillery District, you can find even more internationally acclaimed artists and sculptors from Quebec, as well as the "Masters" of Quebec.

Dean Drever: Bear Hunt. Explores power as it is represented in one of the natural world's most impressive creatures. Acid-orange bears move in communion, towards and through a wall, and disappear.

The Art of Devotion: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Icons.
This exhibition, drawn from the University of Toronto's Malcove Collection, is organized around two central themes: icons dedicated to Mary and the Christ Child, and icons representing Christ and important saints in the Christian tradition.

Portrait of Patron: The Dukszta Collection. Curated by Gordon Hatt.
Janusz Dukszta first commissioned a portrait of himself from Olaf von Brinkenhuff in 1953, and has repeated this exercise on a regular basis since that time. Portrait of a Patron comprises approximately 60 to 70 works from a collection of almost 100 portraits. By examining Toronto art through the lens of one collector, the exhibition offers a somewhat alternative view of Toronto art practice, and also underscores the importance of the patron in shaping collections, and through them, public institutions and the collective understanding of art history. Equally, it presents an opportunity to explore the nature and varieties of portraiture, and provides a fascinating foil to the extensive collection of “portraits of record” held by UofT.
Portrait of a Patron is supported by a benefactor group of close to 70 individuals and foundations. The exhibition catalogue is supported by The Scott Griffin Foundation and UTAC's educational program, Art with Insight, by Peter Allen.

Arthur Shilling. Self-Portrait: The Most Important Signature of an Artist.
Significant numbers of works by Arthur Shilling will be on display at upcoming exhibitions in Toronto and Ottawa. Please contact us to receive an invitation.
We are looking for art loans for our Arthur Shilling exhibition.
We also buy art by Arthur Shilling and other Canadian masters.

Armand Tatossian.
Please contact Varasmus® at 613 247 9373 or visit www.varasmus.com to receive the complete catalogue.

Angela Leach: New Works.

Please contact the gallery for further information on scheduling and hours.

KOKI TANAKA | RANDOM HOURS, SEVERAL LOCATIONS.
YYZ, which turned thirty this year, responds to contemporary discourse about the breadth of artist support at artist-run centres by working beyond the crate and offering Koki Tanaka a four-week residency this winter. Random Hours, Several Locations is the culmination of Tanaka's residency and spans both the Y and Z Galleries. Combining video work and an architectural installation, his work deals largely with reconstructing the past to address the abstract moments of reality, with the belief that facing the reality of life leads to a deeper understanding of the world.
Koki Tanaka is a Japan-based multimedia installation artist whose work has exhibited internationally, including at AOYAMA | MEGURO (Tokyo), Museum of Modern Art (Takasaki), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima), The Gallery of The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo), Suntory Museum (Osaka), quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier (Vienna), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris), and Centre A (Vancouver). Tanaka has received numerous fellowships and residencies, including from Location One (New York) where he was an artist in residence in 2004. His work deals largely with reconstructing the past to address the abstract moments of reality, with the belief that facing the reality of life leads to a deeper understanding of the world.
The exhibition is proudly supported by The Japan Foundation, Toronto.

Please visit our website for September show and further info.

Figurative Expressions – Gallery artists: Karo Alexanian, Alexandr Kachkin, Henry Wanton Jones, Harold Town (1924-1990) and Carol Wald (1935-2000). Group show of figurative works – from Carol Wald's psychoanalytic and emotive paintings to Wanton Jones' "equestrian nudes", the simplicity of line and colour in Karo Alexanian's portraits, together with the whimsical and rich paintings of Alexandr Kachkin. We also have a collection of historically charged and energetic works from Painters Eleven artist, Harold Town.

Gallery One is exhibiting their collection of American and Canadian masters including (but not limited to), Jack Bush, Wolf Kahn, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Lawrence Poons, Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, Douglas Haynes, Stanley Boxer, Anthony Caro, Alice Teichert, Barry Oretsky, Graham Peacock, Roy Lerner and Hans Hofmann. Please note that this ongoing exhibition will be displayed on a rotational basis. Not all of the above listed artists will be displayed at the same time. We will also be showing work by newly acquired artists Yury and Tania Darashkevich. Both painters demonstrate excellence in the realist tradition.

Gallery One's collection of American and Canadian masters including (but not limited to), Tony Scherman, Jack Bush, Wolf Kahn, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, Anthony Caro, Roy Lerner, Barry Oretsky, Graham Peacock and Hans Hofmann.

Scott Owles | Sara Sniderhan | Rachel Berman. www.ingramgallery.com/February_2010.html.

Jane Burns and John Long. This exhibition, featuring painter Jane Burns and photographer John Long is a preview of upcoming exhibitions planned for 2010, highlighting a variety of media and styles.
Jane's recent work reflects on her life-long interest in bird life. A tension is built in these powerful multi-layered paintings between earth-bound and sky-free.
John Long with his strong passion for 3-D photography uses medium-format film; his images possess a sharpness and depth that will captivate the viewer.

For more than a decade, Leonardo Galleries has been building a reputation among art collectors for the exceptional quality of its original art and photography, as well as for museum-standard custom framing and expert art restoration services.
Located in the Yorkville district of midtown Toronto, Leonardo Galleries participates in regularly scheduled group exhibitions and events, such as the Yorkville Art Walk and the CONTACT Photography Festival. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the gallery can be rented for exhibitions, workshops, conferences and other events. For details, please contact the gallery.

Maslak McLeod Gallery also features works by Norval Morrisseau, Christian Morrisseau, Carl Beam, Goyce Kakegamic, Kov Takpaungai, Ahmoo Angeconeb, Adam Alorut (Inuit Artist of 2008 – Canada Council).

Inuit Art – Lucy Tasseor and Floyd Kuptana (Canada, USA, Switzerland) – In-depth retrospective of Kuptana's push toward the future with a surreal depiction of ancient Inuit myth.

Norval Morrisseau within the milieu of his contemporaries. In addition to several outstanding early Morrisseaus dating from the 1960s, other artists featured include Carl Ray, Goyce and Josh Kakegamic, and Roy Thomas.

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Alfred Villeneuve: New Works. Villeneuve paints his world in a striking technique. The colours are vibrant, the work has a quality of magical realism, and we believe he is a young artist to watch.

Clifford Maracle: Works Selected by Joseph McLeod. "The late Clifford Maracle's acrylic paintings might be homely or primitive if it weren't for his very deliberate, and oftentimes surprising, treatment of colour and form." – Joseph McLeod of Maslak McLeod Gallery.

Odon Wagner Gallery, established in 1969, is Toronto's premier gallery for historical art, specializing in 18th- & 19th-century European paintings, as well as paintings by Modern Masters.

Odon Wagner Contemporary is one of Toronto's foremost contemporary galleries, featuring leading Canadian, American, Chinese, and Spanish artists in painting, photography and sculpture. Please contact Rafael Wagner with your artist submission.

On-site conservation studio offers: Restoration and conservation of painting, sculpture, prints and frames. Appraisal and authentication for individuals, corporations and insurance companies. Sell your fine painting outright or on consignment with a name you can trust. Contact Nicholas Wagner for further details.

John Macdonald: New Paintings. Painting in a loose and light-infused scheme of bright colour and bold brush strokes, Macdonald captures the every day moments of people with an immediacy akin to our modern life. Figures on the beach sunbathing, swimming or enjoying a lazy afternoon make up a large part of this second solo exhibition at Odon Wagner Contemporary.

The Way I See It – Scott Manning & Katya Belilovsky.
A two-person exhibition featuring Maritime acrylic expressionist Scott Manning and Toronto-based fine art photographer Katya Belilovsky as they explore the lighter side of things. Manning's expressionistic landscapes are passionate satires of everyday life, many of which are reflections of his earlier years in Nova Scotia. Each painting offers viewers a peek into the comedy and, at times, the tragedy of the everyday.
A perfect complement to Manning's musings is Belilovsky's Amusement series which examines the humour in the contrived notion of entertainment. Her camera captures the absurdity of mass-produced fun. The meticulously fashioned stage of the "amusement park" mocks the instinctual human pursuit of happiness. Fun in its purest state is neither staged nor produced. While moments of joy often shine through, something real remains missing at the happiest place on earth.

Linked by Landscape – invitational group show. Artists: Aysha Adams, Vera Bobson, Tessa Griffin, Barbara Kalmuk, Jan Kelly, Jane Lester-Gordon, Heather Pegg, and Natalka Zyla. The two commonalities are subject matter and their instructor, Marija Barac-Jandric. All of the work is landscape based in watercolour, oils or acrylics.

Abstraction I. A survey of abstract works by selected gallery artists Robert Murray, Taras Polataiko, Jessica Stockholder and Tim Zuck.

Historical Canadian Painting – Beatty, Borduas, Coburn, Cullen, Gagnon, Ferron, Fortin, Group of Seven, Krieghoff, Lemieux, Milne, Morrice, Pellan, Pilot, Riopelle, Roberts, Suzor-Coté, and others.

New Acquisitions: Contemporary Canadian Painting – Nihan Basak, Don Besco, Martin Blanchet, Jerry Campbell, Simon Carmichael, David Cheung, David Disher, Kate Domina, Brian Harvey, H. Jou-Lee, John Joy, Louise Lauzon, Carolyn Megill, Bonnie Miller, Angela Morgan, Yangyang Pan, Scott Pattinson, Athanase Pell, Matt Petley-Jones, Teodora Pica, Ina Puchala, Ernestine Tahedl, John Webster, Valerie Roos Webster, Deborah Worsfold, Jack Zhou.

Goal! Miniature Soccer Game – Selections from The Hanni Sager Mexican Folk Toy Collection.

Creative Works Studio is a community art program of St. Michael's Hospital which operates in partnership with the Good Shepherd Non-Profit Homes Inc. It offers healing and recovery through creative arts. Our mandate is to provide an oasis from the rigors and challenges of life for people living with long-term mental illness or addictions. The studio believes in educating the public to reduce the stigmatization of mental illness.

Representing: Steve Armstrong, Tony Calzetta, Robert Chandler, Tien Chang, Joan Frick, Gillian Frise, Michael Gerry, John Howlin, Steve Rockwell, Rochelle Rubinstein, Lanny Shereck, Michael Warren-Darley, Y. M. Whelan.

mmmmmm ... POP! Sensualty and Sexuality for the Masses.

Recent Acquisitions – Alex Katz: "Anne", Robert Goodnought 1950s work on canvas, Miriam Shapiro, Eberhard Ross recent work on canvas, William Perehudoff 1970s work on canvas, Rafael Barrios sculpture.

Oversize works on paper.

Julian Schnabel. Coinciding with Julian Schnabel: Art and Film exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario Sep 1, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011.

Eberhard Ross – Organic Geometries.

Please visit our new website for more information.

A collection of recent works by Vicki Carruthers, Matt Durant, Julia Hepburn, Scott Johnston, Ryan Kerr, Sean Kerrigan, Sophia Muller, Angela Petardi, Janet Potter, Kerry Shaw, Donna Zekas.

Our gallery continues to combine unique works of art with master-crafted furniture pieces, bringing contemporary art & design together in a welcoming and inspiring environment.

Gallery artists – Marianne Botha, Jack Butler, Reynald Connolly, Sandro D'Ulisse, Sheryl Dudley, Matt Durant, Robert Farmer, Kathleen Finlay, Terrance Finnegan, Renato Foti, Francesco Galle, Jacquie Green, Larry Hahn, Michael Harris, Julia Hepburn, Scott Johnston, Kevin Kelly, Ryan Kerr, Sean Kerrigan, Leric Lauermeier, Kagame Murray, Sean Carl Newman, Angela Petardi, Janet F. Potter, Heather Raymont, Philip Read, Tyler Rock, Dave Sheppard, Shawn Skeir, Patrice Stanley, Miguel Deras Zapata, Donna Zekas.

New to the gallery in Aug – sculptures by Lauren Blakey, Toronto; and lamps by Emmanuel Cognée, Montréal.

Nancy Oakes: Drawing in Ten Seconds or More – vigorous yet sensitive line drawings in pen and graphite. Portraits as well as studies of people in the urban environment, including "walking drawings" whereby the artist walks and draws simultaneously, letting the motion of her own body animate the lines.

Oliver Husain: Hovering Proxies.
You are surrounded by the late summer in Tandun's garden in downtown Jakarta where two dogs, Ziggy and Uma, scuffle on the dry grass. Ziggy, the husky, is a bit crazy from the heat. Elegant wrought iron furniture balancing on thin legs, withered vines, broken flowerpots: this is the set for a tropical drama. You are part of the action: invited to step behind the flapping curtain where you might find yourself in the position of an understudy, waiting for the star's fatal slip... As always, the really exciting part happens backstage. Or rather, the really exciting part is that one step through the curtain, that thin in-between space, that slice of a moment.
Make the familiar trip out there stranger on the one and only Performance Bus with Toronto performer Mantler (a.k.a. Chris Cummings). Mantler's tour bus is your free ticket to Oliver Husain's and Brendan Fernandes' opening night and your serious comic relief for the evening! Part tour guide and part musician, this "childman" is all entertainer! You don't want to miss this performance! The free AGYU Performance Bus departs OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) on Thur 21 Jan at 6pm sharp and returns downtown at 9pm.

Alex Wolfson and Bojana Stancic: And so, the animal looked back...
Shuttle out there on the Performance Bus to the Jan 28th and Mar 11th presentations of And so, the animal looked back... departing OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) at 6pm sharp and returning downtown at 9pm. Seating is limited; please call 416 736 5169 to reserve free tickets. Jan 28th & Mar 11th tickets are reserved for individuals on the free Performance Bus. (There is no bus for Jan 29th & Mar 12th performances).

Writer / Director: Alex Wolfson. Set Designer and Visual Concept: Bojana Stancic. Costume Designer: Vanessa Fischer. Sound Designer: Matt Smith. Actors: Amy Bowles, Lindsey Clark, Vanessa Dunn, Nika Mistruzzi, Liz Peterson, Evan Webber.

One day Max begins to speak. Then to write. The primatologists are unsure of what to do with this new development. Soon Max begins to compose a long essay on the subject of the separation between man and animal, chimpanzee and animal, man and chimpanzee. Word leaks out to the world at large about Max. People become frenzied. Strange things begin to occur as the world starts slowly to fall apart. Pairs of animals, both human and otherwise, begin to congregate around the laboratory. Finally it becomes clear, Max's essay is the last words to be spoken before a new flood, a new apocalypse, but unlike the deluge that occurred before the first play, this flood does not simply destroy, it also reconfigures new identities, new share subjectivities. The play ends not with a prescription of what must come but simply with an understanding that things must change, and what will come is a mystery to them all.

And so, the animal looked back... is a unique venture of the AGYU into the world of experimental theatre, a theatre that has its roots equally in the art world and queer performance. The AGYU has commissioned two new plays under the overall title of And so, the animal looked back..., the performance of which opens and concludes an installation that will retain props, performance elements, and projections from the first play.

Audio Out – Gwen MacGregor and Lewis Nicholson in the production of New Time, a 24-hour sound loop building on recordings of sea clocks made by John Harrison between 1735 and 1759 for reliable global ocean navigation

AGYU Vitrines – Brendan Fernandes: Relay League, 2010.
Flashing from the wings, Relay League signals sympathetically to the AGYU's current exhibitions and is staged as a choreographed light performance. As well, it spills out there onto the York University campus acting as a primitive communications device.
• • • - - - • • • Relay League is a chain of forwarding optical telegraphs used to convey messages of distress or celebration. • - - - • • • Pulsing within the AGYU Vitrines, SOS messages are sent and received. - - - - - Morse Code patterns pulse softly and slowly. Neon African mask vibrates more rapidly. The flashes of this optical trance are less scientific than supernatural, less advertising seduction than Voodoo probe. A searchlight manoeuvering through an unidentified space adds to the mystery.
A text by Kenneth Montague accompanies the exhibition, published in another coded format as a free take-away item at the AGYU.
Make the familiar trip out there stranger on the one and only Performance Bus with Toronto performer Mantler (a.k.a. Chris Cummings). Mantler's tour bus is your free ticket to Oliver Husain's and Brendan Fernandes' opening night and your serious comic relief for the evening! Part tour guide and part musician, this "childman" is all entertainer! You don't want to miss this performance! The free AGYU Performance Bus departs OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) on Thur 21 Jan at 6pm sharp and returns downtown at 9pm.

Artists' Book of the Moment – See all the submissions and the one book that has risen to the top of the ABoTM – the winner of this year's Book of the Moment! http://theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/.

Studio Blog – Chance meetings and strange encounters inspire Colombian artist Daniel Santiago for his ongoing Studio Blog exchange – www.yorku.ca/agyu/studioblog/.
AGYU's summer curatorial intern Fiona Wright will be doing an exchange with Montréal-based musician, producer, composer, magician, filmmaker, and visual artist Josh Dolgin (aka Socalled) about his photography, drawings and films.

Publications –
New Series – Pieces.
Conversation Pieces – Brendan Fernandes in conversation with Kenneth Montague.
Pieces of Paper – Astrid Bastin on Miler Lagos.

New:
no. it is opposition. (essays by Emelie Chhangur and Carla Zaccagnini).

Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman: Project for a New American Century (essay by Philip Monk).

and while I have been lying here perfectly still: The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files (by Philip Monk).

Projecting Questions? Mike Hoolboom's Invisible Man: between the art gallery and the movie theatre (includes contributions from Mike Hoolboom, Philip Monk, Chris Kennedy, Yann Beauvais, and an online component from Steve Reinke).

Recent:
Carla Zaccagnini, Catalogue Traduit (consisting of ten French essays on themes bifurcating from and illustrated by, works by the artist).

Matthew Brannon: To Say the Very Least (essay by Philip Monk).

AGYU Vitrines – Take the pilgrimage to AGYU this fall as to see the bad girl of ceramics – Julie Moon's newly commissioned work transforms the niches into devotional altars to contemporary craft.

Red Dot Rental – Affordable Art for Your Home or Office.
Arts Etobicoke is pleased to present Red Dot Rental, an ongoing exhibition featuring a selection of artwork by the acclaimed artists of Arts Etobicoke's Art Rental and Sales Program. This show highlights a sampling of the more than 60 artists who are involved in the program and who work in a wide variety of media, including photography, painting, mixed media and sculpture.
Visit www.artsetobicoke.com to view more samples from our growing collection and for more information on renting or buying art.

Gellien Lai – mixed media / watercolour.
Mondy Stevenson – acrylic / mixed media.

Summer Art Camp: Expressions. Please call Cedar Ridge Creative Centre at 416 396 4026 for more information.

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Jon Sasaki: Good Intentions. Curated by Ann MacDonald.
Utilizing film, video, objects, performance and installation, Jon Sasaki investigates an eternal optimism that, while being endearing and charming, is filled with the trappings of failure. Given that all things that pass do not end in a result that one might hope for, the inherent possibility for failure becomes an opportunity to find some beauty, or to discover a sweetened sense of the human condition. An unfulfilled promise still has its origins in an earnest belief and still delivers the notion of one who tries... really, really hard.

Spatial Networks by Charles Beamish. Curator: Marc Audette. For this artist, perspective is more than a matter of an optical phenomenon or a geometric construction. The artist gives to the viewer the opportunity to discover a series of works where the vanishing points, the horizons and even the frames bring us a constant flow of impressions and sensations which revitalize our aesthetic experience.

Cape Dorset: Celebrating 50, 1959-2009. 50th Anniversary Print Collection.

Celebrated gallery artists: Bedros Aslanian, Robert Genn, Brent Heighton, Alex Janvier, John Joy, Jim Logan, Maxine Noel, Daphne Odjig, R.C.A. (limited edition prints), Athanase Pell, Michael Robinson, Roy Thomas (1949-2004), and recent drawings from Ningeokuluk Teevee and Shuvinai Ashoona.

Gallery Phillip continues to offer an extensive collection of Inuit sculpture, drawings, prints, and graphics; First Nations sculpture and Woodland Indian art; as well as Woodland Indian and Northwest Coast masks.

In the Main Gallery, Squared – Etobicoke Art Group. Members of the Group were challenged to interpret the concept of the square and "squareness." The results are paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, collage, and mixed media art produced by over 40 artists.

In the Hall Gallery, Twelve Palettes. A group exhibition by members of Neilson Park Creative Centre many of whom are award-winning artists. Marie Manger Beamish, Barbara Kendrick, Liz Fijalkowski, Jen Snyder, Camille Muller, Pam Pols, Marie Prospero, Renee Norris Middleton, Helen Jones, Marilena Isacescu Carlea, Sheena Simons and Sharon Jorgensen are exhibiting works in acrylic, watercolour, oil, mixed media and collage.

Group show including landscapes by French expressionist-colourist Jean-Claude Roy.

Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition – works by a dozen artists including bronzes by Israeli sculptor Yael Erlichman.

Visual Arts Mississauga 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts. Juried by Chris Finn, Doug Purdon and Andrew Sookrah.
Since 1987, the Art Gallery of Mississauga has hosted this popular annual event organized by Visual Arts Mississauga (VAM).
The VAM call for entry is one of the region's most anticipated events, bringing in hundreds of submissions from working artists across Ontario. It is an annual opportunity to survey a variety of practices by artists who range from graduating students to senior members of the visual arts community.
"Visual Arts Mississauga strives to enrich community life by fostering an appreciation in the arts through active involvement in a variety of creative experiences".
VAM is a community arts organization providing classes in printmaking, sculpture, watercolours, drawing and painting, children's art camps and rental space for weekend art exhibitions and sales.
The exhibition serves to foster a sense of connection between the artists, Visual Arts Mississauga and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. In addition, honours are awarded to selected works in the exhibition. This year's award sponsors are: Visual Arts Mississauga – First Place. Curry's Art Store – Second Place. DeSerres Art Store – Third Place. Curry's Art Store – Honourable Mention. Art Gallery of Mississauga – People's Choice Award.

Michael Smith: Wresting Vision, Conjuring Place. This exhibition showcases recent work by Montreal painter Michael Smith. Although based on landscape referents, Smith's paintings defy conventional pictorial interpretation and focus rather on elemental natural forces. Curated by James D. Campbell; catalogue available with essay and artist interview.

The Art Gallery of Peel and Peel Heritage Complex are currently undergoing an exciting renovation and expansion of our facilities. The expansion will establish a regional centre of arts and heritage expertise, and create a new Art Gallery of Peel with increased exhibition, community and storage spaces. As a result, the Complex – Art Gallery, Museum and Archives are temporarily closed to the public between March 1, 2010 and April 2011. While we are closed, staff will be working to improve programs, exhibitions, resources and community connections.
Please note: Our popular Annual Juried Exhibition will be on hiatus until 2012. For more information about the expansion, updates on construction and outreach programs, please visit our website at www.peelheritagecomplex.org or contact: Judy Daley, Acting Curator; 905 791 4055 x3631.

Beaux-Arts Brampton includes three distinct galleries, ten artists' studios, plus a variety of classes / workshops for both adults and children.

LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! Collaborative work by Christine Swintak and Don Miller. Curated by Christof Migone.
Three sites. Three stages. Three locations, and one event intertwines the three.
First, in one location, a cottage is gutted.
Second, the cottage's interior is reconstituted in our two gallery locations as a temporary display which functions simultaneously as an architectural autopsy, a time capsule, a resuscitation, a dump display, a scavenger manual, a surgical dismantlement, a reverse gentrification, an erased erasure, and a memento mori. The second stage enacts a delayed forgetting, it forestalls the inevitable discarding, it impedes the third unknowable stage of oblivion from ever occurring. The cottage in question, the Thomas Cottage, is a small late 19th-century building that sits in the middle of the UTM campus and precedes the establishment of the campus. Christine Swintak and Don Miller methodically take apart the dilapidated and maligned cottage and stage a slowing down in anticipation of its impending demolition. The installation presents a portal to a pastoral past, and also reflects its university-based gallery setting as a white cubed cog in the knowledge industry. The Cottage is dead! Long live the Cottage!

Services – Exhibition spaces available (700 or 1600 sq. ft.).

The Eden Art Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery and possesses many kinds of paintings and sculptures.

Canadian artists: Armand Tatossian, Luc Deschamps, Jack Reppen, Donald Jarvis, Albert Rousseau, P. C. Sheppard, A. M. Urquhart, Serge Lemoyne, P. V. Beaulieu, William Ronald and more.

Canadian Native artists: Norval Morrisseau, David Morrisseau, Eugene Christian Morrisseau, Allen Sapp, Jane Ash Poitras, Moulton and more.

International artists: Sangnam Lee (Korea), Duckhyun Cho (Korea), Yeohyun Kwon (Korea), Hangryul Park (Korea), Insun Choi (Korea), Soocheon Cheon (Korea), Geneuk Choi (Korea), Namnong (Korea), Woonbo (Korea), Yonngja Yoon (Korea), Yongmyun Kang (Korea), In Yoo (Korea), Seok Kim (Korea), John Orth (USA), Gordon Chabot (USA), Gus Nall (USA), Sue Coe (USA), Paul Henlie (USA), Jean Nerfin (Switzerland), P. W. Millenaar (Germany), Jacob Wexler (Israel), P. LeBoeuff (France), Chienshih Lin (China), Tsengying Pang (China) and more.

Kipling Gallery provides restoration and repair of Inuit sculpture, and private and corporate art consultation.

Artists represented: Abraham Anghik Ruben, Joseph Capicotto, Francesca DiCarlo, Michael Close, Daniel Diaz, Giuseppe Pivetta, Bernice F. Martin (1902-1999), Langley Donges (1901-1992), Peter C. Sheppard (1882-1965), Johnathan Ball, Ernesto Manera, Sam Paonessa, Robert Potvin, David Ruben, Manasie Akpaliapik, Elijah Michael, Iola Ikkidluak, Temela Okpik, Jaco Ishulutak, Lucy Tasseor, Bart Hanna, Lukie Airut, Manasie Atsanik, George Arluk, Simon Tookoome, Abe Ukuqtunnuaq.

Artists represented: Pietro Adamo, Lukie Airut, Manasie Akpaliapik, Alberto Alvarez, George Arluk, Joseph Capicotto, Francesca DiCarlo, Michael Close, Brett Davis, Daniel Diaz, Ron Eady, Langley Donges (1901-1992), Salvatore Gallo, Bart Hanna, Iola Ikkidluak, Jaco Ishulutak, Ernesto Manera, Bernice Fenwick Martin (1902-1999), Elijah Michael, Kris Nahrgang, Temela Okpik, Sam Paonessa, Giuseppe Pivetta, Peter C. Sheppard (1882-1965), Abraham Anghik Ruben, David Ruben, Alan Sakhavarz, Lucy Tasseor, Simon Tookoome.

HINDSIGHT: 2010 Resident Artist Exhibition. In the premier 2010 exhibition HINDSIGHT, The Living Arts Centre resident artists re-examine the artistic triumphs of the past through the lens of the present. Each artist has been challenged to choose a movement from art history in order to update it with their own creative sensibilities. HINDSIGHT presents a remarkable collection that reinvents iconic works through a variety of media.
The Resident Artist Program is an innovative resource for emerging and mid-career artists. Applicants are accepted based on the merit of their studio practices and may work across eight professional studios including glass, flameworking, wood, textiles, photography, ceramics, sculpture and painting & drawing.

Child's Play.
Based exclusively on MCAC's permanent collection, Child's Play is an educational exhibition exploring the theme of children in Canadian art. The exhibition features nearly twenty works, some rare pieces, like the small endearing sketch from 1902 of the young Thoreau MacDonald by Group of Seven member J E H MacDonald, or the poignant composition Interior at Night, painted in 1964-65 by Christiane Pflug. Other works are well-loved masterpieces, such as the powerful spiritual portrait, Artist's Wife and Daughter, created in 1975 by Norval Morrisseau, and Canadian impressionist Helen McNicoll's charming 1912 composition, Cherry Time. Strongly narrative in character, the presented works offer a glimpse into the intimate world of childhood and parenthood, where along the usual conveyance of love, joy and dreams, there is a somber anxiety or a sense of struggle in coping with reality.

Woodland School.
This exhibition examines the vibrant artworks of Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, Alex Janvier, Blake Debassige, Saul Williams, Martin Panamick, Goyce Kakegamic and other Woodland School artists.

Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings.
Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Explore the "magical realism" of Tom Forrestall's paintings, drawings, and journal sketchbooks by examining themes of nature and tensions between reality and the imagination. This retrospective exhibition chronicles the artist's curious observation and exploration of his surroundings, the nature of his creativity, and the source of his visions, through his works.

Maurice Cullen and His Circle. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Comprised of nearly forty oil paintings, this exhibition features works by Maurice Cullen together with those of some of his contemporaries, James Wilson Morrice and William Brymner, and the future generation of artists he inspired, including his stepson, Robert Pilot, and future member of the Group of Seven, A. Y. Jackson. These works reveal the complex relationships between the urban and rural boundaries which existed around such cities as Montreal and Quebec in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Uneasy Pieces. Curated by Marnie Fleming.
Fretfulness, anxiety and apprehension are hardly new concerns in contemporary art, but they are quickly gaining currency in light of present global woes. Uneasy Pieces showcases works from Oakville Galleries' permanent collection that grapple with the fragile state of our world. From anxiety about economic recession, military warfare and global warming to concerns about consumerism, surveillance and the decentered world of global capitalism, the works in Uneasy Pieces examine states of uncertainty and unease in contemporary life.

Therese Bolliger: Four Echoes. Curated by Shannon Anderson.
This exhibition brings together a selection of recent drawings and sculptures by Toronto artist Therese Bolliger. Occupying the four gallery spaces of Gairloch Gardens, Four Echoes is an exploration of the essence of form, as Bolliger articulates memory's place between past and present, translates mathematical and philosophical constructs into objects, and explores the outer reaches of the body.

Peter Sager: Rediscovered. Curated by Linda Jansma, this exhibition is part of a yearly series that explores early Canadian abstraction. Peter Sager was born in Vancouver and was the youngest person to have a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery (at the age of 17 in 1937). Taught by Painters Eleven member Jock Macdonald, Sager produced prints, sculptures, paintings and drawings that would be shown internationally.

Kathleen Munn and Lowrie Warrener: The Logic of Nature, the Romance of Space. Curated by Cassandra Getty, organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Windsor. The work of Kathleen Munn and Lowrie Warrner represents some of the earliest abstract art in Canada as it first emerged during the 1920s and 30s. This exhibition presents a unique opportunity to see the little-known works of two of Canada's most innovative modernists.

Shelagh Keeley. Curated by Linda Jansma and Carol Podedworny in collaboration with the McMaster Museum of Art. Shelagh Keeley came to prominence in Canada, and subsequently, in the U.S. and internationally, in the early 1980s. At a very early point in the debates that challenged and, ultimately, changed the global art world, Keeley was investigating issues such as access, representation and diversity. The retrospective includes work from Keeley's most recent bodies of work.

Arresting Images: Mug Shots from the OPP Museum.
Once upon a crime...
Launched in May of 2009, Arresting Images is continuing its travels across the province, and Canada. Arresting Images features 100 historic mug shots from The OPP Museum's permanent collection, dating from 1886 to 1908. The exhibition provides a first and rare opportunity for the public to view these historical photographic portraits since they were originally collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection was assembled by the Niagara Falls "Ontario Police" – precursors of today's Ontario Provincial Police.
Arresting Images highlights historical themes and social circumstances of the period, addressing the subjects of crime and law enforcement as well as the emerging use of photographic portraits as a police identification tool.
Represented in the collection are pickpockets, confidence men, escaped fugitives, shoplifters, horse thieves, burglars, safe blowers and others. These images are compelling, fascinating and thought-provoking.
Arresting Images is The OPP Museum's inaugural travelling exhibition. In October of 2009 it received an Award of Excellence from the Ontario Museum Association for its innovative approach, exhibition design and curatorial quality.
For more information about Arresting Images and The OPP Museum visit www.opp.ca/museum.

This year Station Gallery celebrates 40 years of providing the community arts experience. Drop in for 10 minutes or stay and explore, Station Gallery has something for everyone. Admission is free.

Janos Gardonyi. In Yourspace Community Gallery.

Erika Takacs. In Lobby Display Case.

NEWS –

Located in the heart of downtown Oakville's renowned arts and culture scene. The gallery features an exceptional collection of original works of art by both established and emerging Canadian and International artists presenting a wide variety of subject and media.

Representing painters and sculptors: Monika Aebischer, Erika Baempfer Deery, Sacha Barette, Bozena Bar, Ilona Biernot, Tadeusz Biernot, Israel Broytman, Peter Colbert, Marie-Eve Cournoyer, Nancy DeBoni, Iosif Derecichei, Claude Dorval, Nahum Flores, Jean Gaudet, Narelle Gibbs, David Grieve, Beverley Hawksley, Christopher Hayes, Heather Haynes, Sonja Hidas, Vladan Ignatovic, Karoline Varin-Jarkowski, Yuri Kaplunovich, Julia Klimova, Louise Laroche, Myriam Levy, Hugh Malcolm, Gilles Marcou, Dina Shubin-Panov, Igor Panov, Peter Panov, Andrew Pawlowski, Provenzano, Linda Schneider-Granatstein, Shwan, Dragan Sekaric Shex, Nicole St-Pierre, Marcelo Suaznabar, Susan Valyi, Susan Wallis, Nava Waxman, Mary Wright, Roman Zuzuk and others...

The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960. Curated by Roald Nasgaard.
Marcel Barbeau, Paul-Émile Borduas, Marcelle Ferron, Claude Gauvreau, Pierre Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc, Rita Letendre, Jean McEwen, Guido Molinari, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Maurice Perron, Jeanne Renaud, Thérèse Renaud, Françoise Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Françoise Sullivan, Claude Tousignant.
Accompanying publication available for purchase.
Don't miss the "Top Exhibition of 2009" as chosen by Canadian Art Magazine!

Art On Public Lands Outdoor Sculpture Program 2009-2010 – John Dickson has installed a large sculptural work entitled Lands End on the grounds of Soper Creek Park.

Art from the High Schools. This annual community exhibition features selected works by art students from Clarington's high schools.

Anastasia Tiller.

Anthony Randall.

Fibrications II: Dreams, Memories and Obsessions. F R Perry Gallery. Curator: George Wale. Selected works by members of Burlington Fibre Arts in celebration of their 15th anniversary.

ARK. Collection Corridor. Ann Roberts (Conestogo ON), Irit Lepkin (Toronto ON), Laurie Rolland (Sechelt BC), Danuta Weisenbluth (Toronto ON) and Judi Dyelle (Victoria BC). Curator: Jonathan Smith. This group exhibition explores the symbolic nature of the boat (vessel) form that appears in the work of five women artists. Themes of birth, life and death – the voyage of time – are examined from a feminist viewpoint.

GUILD EXHIBITIONS – F. R. Perry Gallery –

Jeremy Drummond: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere uses photography and video to examine issues surrounding land development, cultural diversity, and our mediated experience of contemporary suburban environments. Drummond's project straddles the relationship between perception and representation, reality and imagination within the generalized, seemingly homogenous context of the suburbs. Featuring selections from a series of thematically connected bodies of work including: Street Signs, Intersections, This Could Be Anywhere, This Could Be Everywhere, and the more recent 65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living, the artist's work encourages us to be critical of development while acknowledging the breadth of cultural diversity that the suburbs are home to.

Fall Studio Art Programs – for youth, teens and adults. We offer courses for all ages at our four Cambridge Libraries and Galleries locations and the Design at Riverside Printmaking Studio. To view our full studio course listings please visit: www.cambridgegalleries.ca.

Upcoming Day Trip. The Warrior Emperor and China's Terra Cotta Army at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Please call Margaret at the Gallery for more information at 519 621 0460 x127.

Snow, Rain, Light, Wind: Weathering Architecture by Filiz Klassen is an investigation of material innovation that is intended to generate awareness of issues in architecture related to climate change. The exhibition documents the application of weather-sensitive, textile-based prototypes onto various built structures and the response of these "building skins" to weather elements. The interior exhibition included multiple video projects, lenticular photographs and textile prototypes. The exterior installation consists of a multi-layered 10' x 20' light reflective "skin". The work, affected by the shifting of light levels, is comprised of notes from a weather diary written by the artist, as well as 100 years of weather data gathered from the City of Cambridge.

Portraits From Above: Hong Kong's Informal Rooftop Communities. North American premiere of this award-winning exhibition and book.
Rufina Wu (Canada) and Stefan Canham (Germany) utilize the tools of an architect and the tools of a photographer to document the rooftop communities of five buildings located in older districts in the Kowloon Peninsula and slated for redevelopment by the Urban Renewal Authority of Hong Kong. Text records of the residents' stories, measured drawings of each distinct rooftop structure, and high-resolution images of the domestic interiors of more than twenty households offer an unprecedented insight into the everyday life of Hong Kong's rooftop residents.

Fausta Facciponte: Reliable.
Following on the heels of her inclusion in this year's Showcase.09 exhibition of emerging artists to keep an eye on, Reliable marks the second presentation of a body of work that focuses on images of found dolls. The artist uses digital photography as a means of reclaiming these common childhood playthings, many of which have been found or purchased second-hand on ebay. Her luminous enlargements capture the fine details of each doll's expression, revealing their individual quirks and personalities. Facciponte's images function as memento mori – a Latin phrase that translates as “remember that you are mortal”. Her images are both haunting and nostalgic.

INTROSPECTIVE EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEYS TO THE SELF.
Jane Adeney: TRANSUBSTANTIATION – Fire and the Search for Meaning. Focusing on controlled states of transformation and alchemical metamorphisis Adeney is fascinated with clay's various stages of being. Using fire imagery to explore the uniquely human search for transcendental meaning, this exhibition reaches into the depths of our inner selves, and touches the internal worlds of our desires and, possibly, our fears.
Louise Pentz: BROKEN... BUT STILL STANDING. Celebrating the human experiential dimension, Louise Pentz uses smoke-fired ceramic sculpture to take us to the world of contradictions embodying the legacy of mothers. Conceived in the headwaters of our ancestors, these vessels shape and transport personal gifts of identity and unique knowledge along the voyage of existence guiding us through the challenges of today.
Sin-Ying (Cassandra) Ho: ONE WORLD / MANY PEOPLE. Describing the path of encounters between cultures that collide, Ho is influenced by contemporary post-colonial theory. She examines 21st-century politics, technology, and economic globalization, resulting in the merging of people from many nationalities and cultures.

Sin-Ying Ho: ONE WORLD / MANY PEOPLES. Describing the path of encounters between cultures that collide, Ho is influenced by contemporary post-colonial theory. She examines 21st-century politics, technology, and economic globalization, resulting in the merging of people from many nationalities and cultures.

Oils and acrylics by Gallery artists.

Works on paper by Gallery artists.

Also available: Lustreware by Scott Barnim.

Representing: Scott Abbott, Wesley W. Bates, Andrea Blanar, Ronald Boaks, Paul Cvetich, David Laing Dawson, Michael Dobson, Patricia Gagic, Catherine Gibbon, Barry Hodgson, Trevor Hodgson, Jody Joseph, Heather Keenan, Karen G. Kulyk, Duane Nickerson, Tibor Nyilasi, Marla Panko, Janice Peshke, Elena Roginsky, Chelo Sebastian, Toby Snajdman, Holly Sneath, and the Estate of Conrad Furey.

Family Art Sundays. Free art activities!

DROWNING OPHELIA poses several questions such as: How do artists tell stories in their work? How does contemporary art reflect and reveal narrative traditions? How does the art of today record and describe the world around us? And must "the real" be fictionalized in order to be thought? This group show delves into the timely and timeless allegory of Ophelia's loss of judgment and her subsequent watery demise, in an exhibition of new media, video, photography, painting, and sculptural works by contemporary artists, provoking an exploration and analysis of the influence of water in our time, as well as the possibilities and potentialities found throughout literature and art. Janet Bellotto, John Dickson, Janieta Eyre, Sue Lloyd, Paulette Phillips, Mélanie Rocan, and Sharon Switzer.

WATER MARK is composed of works by three artists who explore the Grand River and the surrounding organic environments, exploring the appearance of water in the natural world and its contemporary representation in an array of printmaking techniques and styles. Gerard Brender à Brandis' work, Water: The Great Giver and the Great Taker-Away, derives from a series of images of the Grand River. Brian Holden's series, Water in the Wilderness: Northwestern Ontario, comes from his fascination not only with landscape, which is a prominent component in many of his images, but also from the structures and forms found in the many varieties of organic life. In Experiencing Water, Lucinda Jones' approach to evoking underwater scenes viewed during aquatic passage recalls Islamic Art, where repeated patterns and forms constitute an infinite pattern that extends beyond the visible material world.

These exhibitions were curated by Carla Garnet.

EXTRAVAGANCE and PRUDENCE – MEDIA with MESSAGE – Susan Detwiler and Fiona Kinsella.
Susan Detwiler creates installations and videos based on her interaction in the natural environment. Using head-cam technology carried by her dog – currently working with a horse – she creates intriguing explorations of the terrain. In her sculptural pieces she invites the viewer to explore ideas of minimalism by using suitcases to create transient living spaces.
Fiona Kinsella's cake works appeal to the viewer on a subconscious level. Cakes garnished with such relics as teeth, quills, and cicada wings evoke notions of ritual and consumption. In a second body of work, the fat 3D layered surfaces of her oil paintings rise into peaks and swirls – almost edible – certainly spiritual.

The New American Century Project – Tobey Anderson. In The New American Century Project Anderson seeks to expose the cultural vacuum surrounding the current "War on Terror". Since the events of 9/11, he has looked to the media as inspiration for this on-going body of work, using appropriated images and colours inspired by the glow of television to cast a new light on the subject.
As commentary on the "War on Terror" Anderson started painting individual portraits of the dead and wounded from both sides; the portraits are presented in an ever expanding, wall covering grid that brings a systematic and solemn order to the chaos of war, but also reflects the death toll that continues to rise. Several of his larger scenes, again based on images appropriated from the media, are also included.

Harbinger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of mixed media sculpture by Virgil Burnett and Nicholas Rees. Burnett and Rees have collaborated to create a body of work that is demonstrative of their common love of "...antiquity and myth with a perception of the transitory nature of both life and love...".
Harbinger is also pleased to present new sculptures and paintings by Erin Robertson. Rooted in the artist's interest in "...the science behind natural phenomena and mythology of the land", Robertson presents Fata Morgana.

Gallery Artists.

Being Magnified: Heroes and Villains from KW|AG's Permanent Collection. Works that depict the fully realized being: those who through exceptional ability in the physical, intellectual or spiritual realms, are considered heroic by the multitude.

Pandora's Box. Guest curator: Amanda Cachia. Organized and toured by Dunlop Art Gallery with the financial assistance of the Regina Public Library, The Canada Council for the Arts and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

International artists challenge myths and fairy tales to make them a more accurate mirror of female experience in new contexts. We are invited to reflect on larger human issues such as birth, death, parenthood, relationships, rites of passage and multiple identities through an engagement with other worldly creatures and everyday environments. Artists: Laylah Ali, Ghada Amer, Shary Boyle, Amy Cutler, Chitra Ganesh, Wangechi Mutu, Annie Pootoogook, Leesa Streifler, Kara Walker, Su-en Wong.

Ground Level: Works from KW|AG's Permanent Collection. Organized by KW|AG. Works are assembled around the subject of "terra firma" and are either "of the ground" or "from the ground". Artists: John Chalmers, Richard Lanctot, Stanley Lewis, Graham Peacock, Don Proch, Gordon Rayner, Jim Reid, Klaas Verboom, Peter von Tiesenhausen.

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Sculpture Park. Open daily from dawn to dusk. Featuring 35 permanently sited outdoor sculptures, including, Short Life, Long Branch by Michael Davey.

Gunilla Josephson: E.V.E. Absolute Matrix.
Gunilla Josephson's video, E.V.E. Absolute Matrix, is constructed from 86,400 frames selected and manipulated from footage of a studio performance by Toronto musician Eve Egoyan playing Inner Cities, a contemporary five-hour epic for solo piano by composer Alvin Curran. Josephson focuses on Egoyan's face for the duration of the video, as an examination of the unbridled emotion of the musician's performance. This is the first showing of E.V.E. Absolute Matrix at a public art gallery. Co-curated by MSAC assistant curator Dawn Owen and Scott McGovern of Ed Video Media Arts Centre.

Risking the Void: The Scenography of Cameron Porteous.
Risking the Void features the work of Cameron Porteous, who is one of Canada's most distinguished stage designers. A master of design technology, Porteous employs both projections and architectural structures in his work. This touring exhibition features extraordinary stage and costume designs, props, and set models from major productions across Canada. The exhibition is a collaboration between Theatre Museum Canada, the University of Guelph's L W Conolly Theatre Archives, and the Shaw Festival.

Natalka Husar: Burden of Innocence – features the work of Toronto artist Natalka Husar, who takes her lifelong obsession with painting and with Ukraine, her ancestral home, into new territory and presents three interwoven, though unresolved, narratives in the form of a history play in three acts. Organized for circulation by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the exhibition is co-produced by the MSAC, McMaster Museum of Art, and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.

The Gulf in Historic Maps (15th-19th Centuries). Historic maps from the collection of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council – Ruler of Sharjah.

Fierce: Women's Hot-Blooded Film / Video. Curated by Janice Hladki. A group exhibition of video and experimental film works by Maureen Bradley, Dana Claxton, Allyson Mitchell, and b h Yael.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Fashion and Mimesis. Curated by Gary Genosko.
Cardoso is a Sydney-based multi-media artist who was born in Colombia. Her best-known works involve video and photo-sculptural installations that deal with the lower orders of creatures, namely, insects. In her work, mimesis plays a vital role as a lens through which inter-species relations may be examined. In this exhibition Cardoso uses emu feathers to construct unique women's fashions and home accessories, while accompanying pieces reference stick-insect mimesis.

Adad Hannah: Cuba Still (Remake).
Born in New York in 1971, Adad Hannah lives and works in Montréal. Cuba Still (Remake) can be seen as a continuation of his series of video-recorded tableaux vivants, begun in the early 2000s. The artist calls these videos "Stills". Starting with a publicity photo for a banal and forgotten film purchased in Havana in 2003, Hannah re-stages the scene, filming individual sequences of each of the six characters from the original photo. The resulting six videos are then simultaneously projected so as to fabricate a single cinematic scene, a tableau vivant, from the separate and apparently motionless video images. An ingenious method of projection – six crafted wooden stands with a system of cutout masks – plus the original photograph and the images of the six characters complete this installation, which crystallizes the notions of the photographic moment and of duration, the contrasting merits of the fixed and the moving image, and the particular nature of photography and film.
This exhibition is part of the MOMENTUM series, a touring project from the Collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.

Simon Frank: View.
Incorporating elements of action and performance, the natural world has been Frank's frame of aesthetic reference for the past ten years. The idea of the scenic view, of "landscape" as such, and the use-value it creates are all central points of enquiry in his work. Using a log marking hammer – designed to brand logs destined for the lumber mill with a proprietary symbol – Frank creates a ghost-like dream forest in the Niche Project Space at Rodman Hall.

Group Show. – features selected works by Hagop Khoubesserian, Howard Day, Sean Yelland, Beverley Hawksley, Kate Grigg, Barker Fairley, Leonard Brooks, Lawrence Nickle, Michael Clay, E. B. Cox, Michael Kiriakis, Andrew Olscher, Shao-Pin Chu, Tony Leung, Patrycia Zwierzynska, Pamela Lauz, plus numerous historical prints. For more info call or email Tom Goldspink at tom.goldspink@tagartgallery.ca.

Revolving Group Exhibition – featuring Doug Dolman, Scott Pattinson, Aidan Urquhart.

Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, featuring Antje Laidler – Recent Drawings.

Gallery services: custom picture framing and frame restoration.

Amy Creighton: woman – Recent photographs.

Gallery artists: Michael Allgoewer, Robert Creighton, Michael Davidson, John W. Ford, Don Jean-Louis, Laurie Kilgour-Walsh, Fiona Kinsella, Harold Klunder, Steve Mazza, Andrew McPhail, Martin Pearce, Leslie Sorochan, Matthew Varey, Pearl Van Geest.

Florence Carlyle Gallery. This permanent gallery features the rotating works of Post-Impressionist Florence Carlyle, supplemented by family artifacts and photographs.

KEEP'N IT REAL – Cathy Groulx & Mary Anne Murphy. Our first exhibition in 2010 features an array of artworks by two Woodstock artists, Cathy Groulx and Mary Anne Murphy, which offers viewers an opportunity to explore the genres of realism or representational art.

Open Air Painting and Fundraiser at Jesse Ashbridge House (1444 Queen Street East in Beach area of Toronto).
Several of the famous landscape painters in the Group of Seven were founding members of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). You have a unique opportunity to see current members of the OSA paint outdoors, on location, in the beautiful gardens of the Jesse Ashbridge House in Toronto. All paintings are for sale at $75. each. Proceeds go to the pARTners Project.
Through the pARTners Project, the OSA and the Woodstock Art Gallery aim to establish an ongoing mentorship program where members of the OSA will work with some of Ontario's top graduates of fine arts programs in universities and colleges, as they begin their art careers.

Celebrating 41 years! Circle Arts represents some of Canada's finest artists and artisans, many of whom are inspired by the unique energy, spirit and landscape of Georgian Bay and the Bruce Peninsula.

Frances Thomas: but wait.
Working within the traditions of modernist painting, Barrie artist Frances Thomas employs and advances the language of gestural abstraction. Using fluid acrylics on wood panel, she relies on an improvisational playing out of materials and ideas to arrive at a poetic distillation of thought and sensation.
Curator: Carolyn Bell Farrell. Catalogue with an essay by James D. Campbell.

Jude Norris: a horse called Memory. This video by Norris, a multi-disciplinary Cree / Métis artist, combines documentation of painted horse and voice-mail messages, creating a personal glimpse into the social life of the artist's community in Edmonton. Curator: Sandra Fraser.

Karilee Fuglem: Wild History.
This site-specific installation by Montreal artist Karilee Fuglem combines a network of threads and reflective parts with textual elements from her research into the local history of Simcoe County, the Wyandot people and European settlers, and the winter skies over Barrie. Curator: Sandra Fraser.

Free Public Exhibitions Tour at 1pm.
Family Sunday 1:30-3pm: Valentine's Day activity in Rotary Education Centre; admission: $5 per child; free to Family Membership holders.

Exhibitions –

Community Curators Select. Tom Thomson Art Gallery patrons take their turn as curators in the Thomson Room. Selections of our permanent collection are on display with written statements by the curators of why they were drawn to their particular piece. If you would like to participate in our next Community Curators Select, email ttag@owensound.com.

Convergence 2010: 47th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. This exhibition aims to reward excellence and innovation in artistic production while taking the pulse of art making in the region. It is an opportunity to survey current visual arts practice by a wide range of artists, from graduating students to senior members of the visual arts community, and encompasses all fine art media including traditional painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture, as well as the contemporary craft, media and time-based formats.

Voyage of Discovery: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection. The Tom Thomson Art Gallery's permanent collection consists of over 2,000 works that have been purchased or donated to us over the last four decades. A number of these pieces have spent a great amount of time “living” in our permanent collection storage area. This exhibition provides an opportunity to present artworks that have not been on display for several years, giving viewers a chance to discover anew the wealth and breadth of the works in our holdings.
It is a challenge for almost every gallery or museum to provide ample opportunities for exhibiting the works in their permanent collections, yet it is something that is vitally important, for a collection is the heart of an institution. Marcel Proust wrote: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes". Voyage of Discovery: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection provides an opportunity to exhibit the richness and diversity of works within our collection and give visitors the opportunity to enjoy and engage with older works and to discover new favourites.

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Ere Ibeji: Twin Figures of the Yoruba. African Gallery.

Poet, Priest, Dauber: The Renaissance and Baroque Arts. Bader Gallery.
This selection from the permanent collection explores the cultural and social roles attached to the art of painting during the 1500s and 1600s. Some of these works show the ambition to compete with established arts like poetry, others the desire to serve the Church or the layperson in the religious turmoil of the Reformation. Still others aimed to supply the steady market for genres like portraiture which despite their aesthetic achievements still had to contend with the former status of painters as artisans, or "daubers".

It's Alive! Bertram Brooker and Vitalism. Historical Feature and R. Fraser Elliott Galleries.

Grand Figures: Jan Lievens (1607-1674). Samuel J. Zachs Gallery.

Of Human Concern. Frances K. Smith Gallery.

Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control – Contemporary Feature and Davies Foundation Galleries, Etherington House and an off-site installation at the Union Gallery Project Room.

The Sorting Daemons Symposium (Jan 16 & 17) is held in conjunction with Camera Surveillance in Canada: A Research Workshop (Jan 14-16) hosted by the Surveillance Camera Awareness Network (SCAN) and The Surveillance Studies Centre. Selected sessions of this workshop are open to the public. For information on the Camera Surveillance Workshop, see www.surveillanceproject.org/projects/scan.

Sorting Daemons is curated by Jan Allen and Sarah E. K. Smith. This exhibition and its associated programs and publication are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council (an agency of the Government of Ontario), the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council through the City of Kingston Arts Fund, The New Transparency SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen's University, the Rita Friendly Kaufman Lecture Fund and the Department of Art.

William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague. R Fraser Elliott, Historical Feature and Samuel J Zacks Galleries.

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is open on Labour Day, 1-5pm.

Arbor Gallery – Centre for Contemporary Art.
We exhibit contemporary art side by side with traditional fine arts for a mix that is always fresh and stimulating. We feel rural art goers deserve exhibitions as sophisticated and as interesting as any downtown gallery. Come enjoy a relaxing gallery experience in the heart of the village... Exciting visual art in a warm historical setting.

Main Gallery, Allyson Mitchell: Ladies Sasquatch. Allyson Mitchell's newest installation presents an epic gathering of figures, each one a monumental symbol of female brains, brawn and sexuality – a community of Lady Sasquatches. The freestanding, sculptural works by this Toronto-based artist marry feminist theory with her favourite material, fun fur. Organized and circulated by the McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton). Curator: Carla Garnet.

Middle Ramp, Elemental: Abstract Landscapes from the Permanent Collection. A series of historical and contemporary paintings, prints and drawings exploring the natural world through abstraction.

Upper Ramp, Body: IMAGES – Photo-based work exploring the theme of representation, distortion and the body by students at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School in Peterborough. Organized by artist and educator Micky Renders in partnership with Reframe Film Festival.

Robyn Love: Knitting Sprawl. This textile, ceramic and video installation is a work-in-progress that grows out of the series of organized meetings or “knit-togethers” that the artist attended with groups of people who knit in suburban communities across Canada, including Peterborough.

The best kind of trail is one that leads you to new and exciting places.
The Arts Trail in Prince Edward County is like that. Come, follow a trail that leads you to 27 artists, artisans and galleries dotted around this beautiful island. They say artists are attracted to islands, and the County is home to a vibrant creative community.
The Arts Trail is a journey of discovery to the studios of painters and sculptors, potters, blacksmiths, glassblowers and jewellery makers, stained and fused glass artists and a photographer who still prints by hand.
Travel the Arts Trail at your leisure. You'll find beautiful artworks and a warm welcome at every stop. www.artstrail.ca.

The gardens are in bloom at Galerie 240, and that is where you will find painter Brenda Gale Warner all summer long, as she continues her series, Flowers from my Secret Garden.
There is a small collection of "Flowers" on public display at the Rideau Underpass at Rideau and Sussex Streets until July.
Stop by and paint with Brenda, or simply enjoy a cup of tea in the gardens and relax on the porch!

New works by Valerie Ashford.

Representing: Simon Andrew, Bonnie Brooks, Tim De Rose, Frank Edwards, Grace George, Heather Haynes, Jordan Hicks, Harold Kaufmann, Michael Minthorn, Evelyn Rapin, Maureen Sheridan, Peggy Morley, Verna Vowles, and Gerry Wright.

VAGA is the largest cooperative-run gallery in Eastern Ontario, with original art for sale by 29 members. Visit the gallery on the waterfront and see a variety of original works of art in watercolour, oil, acrylic, collage, graphite, etchings, mixed media, printmaking, and miniatures painted on Ivorite.
Representing: June Anderson, Beth Bailey, Ann Blodgett, Linda Brady, Françoise Boisvert, Barb Carr (www.barbcarr.ca), Kay (Cookie) Cartwright, Judy Cornell, Mary E. Crawford, Liz Evans, Helma Gansen, Marg Grothier, Cathie Hamilton, Margaret Kelk, Jim Kraemer, Layne Larsen (www.larsenart.com), Pat MacAulay, Betty Matthews, Beatsie McLean, Joan Labron Palmer, Karen Schaack, Marion St. Denis, Ingrid Schmidt (www.ingridschmidtart.ca), Barbara Simard, Martha Stroud, Maria Tilford (http://home.cogeco.ca/~treetopstudio), Jane Topping, Henry Vyfvinkel, and Teri Wing.

Natasha Doyon: Héros & Héroïnes. Some famous, some not, these images represent different people and places throughout history. The artist's use of different source materials has resulted in paintings that are metaphorical constructions of identity which embody the meaning we give them, rather than objective representations.

Part II: Rethinking Abstraction from an Indigenous Perspective. In Gallery B104.

General Idea: One Year of AZT. Gallery B204.

David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream. Curator: Jonathan Shaughnessy. Galleries B107 and B109.

Maurice Denis: Journeys. Library and Archives.

Ottawa Collects Edward Burne-Jones. Gallery C218A.

Nicolas Baier: Paréidolies. Galleries B102 and B103.

19th-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada. Prints, Drawings and Photographs Galleries.

Pierre Huyghe: A Journey That Wasn't. Gallery B106.

Louise Bourgeois: Cell (The Last Climb). Gallery B109.

The National Gallery of Canada is open on Labour Day, 10am-5pm.

The Oeno Gallery represents over 40 contemporary sculptors and painters. Please visit our website for additional information and to view artists' images or to watch videos.
The Oeno Gallery also provides complimentary residential and corporate art consultation services. Private viewings of selected work can be scheduled in Toronto and throughout Eastern Ontario.

The Oeno Gallery represents more than 40 contemporary artists. Visit our website for complete list.

Metrospective – Graham Metson. 50 years of drawings and paintings, presented by the Oeno Gallery in partnership with the John M. Parrott Art Gallery at the Parrott Gallery, 254 Pinnacle Street, Belleville. Born in 1934, Metson was part of the 60s Pop bravado of British art. He has been exhibited in Europe, the US and Canada, engendering debate, controversy and fierce fans. "Metson's projects, his drawings, photomontages and paintings are like topographies of the technological era he lives in. The ambiguity and paradox we see is wholly intentional... It's about the times we live in." – John K. Grande.

What Keeps You Sane? New sculptures by Sophie DeFrancesca, Edward Falkenberg, Po Chun Lau and Camie Geary-Martin. New paintings by Christopher Langstroth, Scott Pattinson, JT Winik. Mixed media by Nancy Zboch. New series of photo-based works on steel by Sylvain Louis-Seize. At Oeno Gallery.

Fibred Optics. Curated by Andrea Fatona.
Artists: Frances Dorsey (Halifax), Jérôme Havre (Montreal), Ed Pien (Toronto), Michèle Provost (Gatineau).
Fibred Optics is a group exhibition that explores the multi-sensorial nature of visual narration and perception. The artists employ natural and synthetic fibres as well as technologies to engage the viewer in an open-ended discussion about the ways in which narratives are layered and sutured together in an attempt to produce coherent meaning.