Main Gallery – We Came in Droves – Insoon Ha, Jimm Tran. Curated by Reena Katz.
We Came in Droves features the sculpture and performance of Insoon Ha and the self-portrait photography of Jimm Tran. Both artists approach the body as a dynamic site of history, culture, gender and power. In Tran's images, wounds become hardened scars, sexy selves and kindred spirits. His photographs birth a stunning multiplicity of identities. Ha explores her connection to American military presence in Korea as a youth with visceral repetition and metonym. Her sculptural forms are at once removed and deeply visceral. Curator Reena Katz pairs these artworks as reflections on the internal workings of subjectivity, and power of artwork to refuse social borders.

A Space Windows – Caitlin Erskine-Smith: The Tugged Warp.
The Tugged Warp explores the transformative process wherein autonomous agents became collaborative partners through the sruggle of bound weaving. The performance and remnants on exhibition bear witness to the negotiated processes of production.

Nicole DeBrabandere: In Beautiful Disguise – emerging ceramic artist DeBrabandere's first show at the Alison Smith Gallery.
Using a variety of materials, from majolica to constructed paper, DeBrabandere examines the human impulse to collect and fetishize objects, playfully subverting aesthetic conventions that include kitschy salt shakers, high-end designer goods, and the fine-art trope of the sculptural bust. The works, as quirky and humorous as they are, are executed with sophistication and élan – worthy collectibles in their own right.

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.

Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?
The alluring, stunningly intricate collages of Wangechi Mutu draw the viewer into narratives of beauty, consumerism, race, identity, and gender politics. Focused upon imagery of the human body, Mutu's work offers a radical deconstruction of traditional figuration, supplanting convention with a dazzlingly complex oeuvre that bridges her Kenyan upbringing with contemporary American reality. This You Call Civilization? surveys Mutu's oeuvre by featuring both video and large works on paper produced since 2001. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Canadian Olympic Athletes: A Dialogue in Art – Portrait Society of Canada.

"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.

Tara Cooper: Off-Season. Tracing the route that 95-year-old Doris Rittinger has taken for the past forty years, from Southern Ontario through Ohio, Kentucky and Alabama to Panama City Beach, Florida, this exhibition looks at the migratory habits of the retired along with the impact of aging.

Elizabeth D'Agostino: Artifacts of the Self-Made – investigates the transitional place, and the various stages that surround the transformations and adaptations of an object and the rooted structures that have formed their environment displayed as objects of curiosity.

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.

Noelle Hamlyn: Uncovering – The Blanket Form. The blanket form is one of the most basic of all human creations; it covers, it comforts, it warms and it celebrates. We are swaddled in it at birth and shrouded in it at death. When crisis or trauma strikes, the blanket is one of the first objects to be offered – considered essential to human survival. Yet today the blanket is mundane and unrecognized. The intent will be to offer the opportunity to pause and consider the simplest of textile forms under which we conduct a great deal of our lives.

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.

Jeff Szuc: 5x7. A special exhibition of paintings by Jeff Szuc coincides with the launch of The Five by Seven Book by Jeff Szuc, a complete anthology of the art and blog writings from Jeff's successful 5x7 Project.

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

Denyse Thomasos.

Education – Check website for details.

Open Studio Gallery – Janne Laine: Silence.
George Gilmour Members' Gallery – Lucinda Chen: Scrolls of Memories.
Print Sales Gallery – group show featuring Lorène Bourgeois, Ryan Price and Pawel Zablocki.

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.

SUNDAY SCENE. FREE with gallery admission. Speakers from the world of art and beyond offer their responses to the current exhibitions, sometimes focusing on a single work or artist, at others relating our programs to cultural and intellectual debate.
Jan 24: Ian Carr-Harris.
Jan 31: Marc Losier & Vanessa Nicholas.
Feb 7: Gord Thompson.
Feb 14: Christof Migone.
Feb 21: Bart Testa.
Feb 28: Kelly Jazvac.
Mar 7: Power Plant Animateurs.

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.

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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.

Dan Perjovschi: Late News. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

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.

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.

In Cooperage Space, exhibition of new works by Laurence Nerbonne, Montreal artist. This incredible 24-year-old talent has taken portraiture onto a completely new level, manipulating each canvas into an emotional landscape of her characters. This young artist is seemingly able to see inside each of her models; capturing their very essence, and bringing them to life with the brushstrokes of her skilled hand.

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.

Director's Gallery Talk Series: Issues in Modern Art. "Endurance of Traditional Forms" – lecture by Niamh O'Laoghaire, UTAC Director. Location: UTAC art lounge. FREE.

Master of Museum Studies Graduate Exhibition – ArtiFACTS of Belief: The Collection of Charles Denison Aldridge. Curated by Carri MacKay, Erika Wilson and Yael Filipovic. In UTAC lounge.
Drawing from the tradition of institutional critique, ArtiFACTS of Belief challenges visitors' notions of the authority and objective knowledge presented by the museum. Presented through the personal collection of Charles Denison Aldridge, an affluent Victorian gentleman, this exhibition invites questions about the trustworthiness of the traditional display methods used in natural history museums.
An archetypical collector, Charles Denison Aldridge's fascination with the natural world led him to the four corners of the globe in search of unusual and unbelievable specimens. This unique natural history collection includes zoological and geological specimens as well as extraordinary skeletons.
The presentation of these specimens within the constructed narrative of this collector, challenges our perception of natural history displays. ArtiFACTS of Belief reveals the questions that remain prevalent within museum practice: how are artifacts valued, what is objective knowledge and who has authority? For more information please call the University of Toronto Art Centre at 416 946 3029 or email questions to projectkringle@gmail.com.
This exhibition was created by Master of Museum Studies graduate students with support from the Faculty of Information.

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.

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

Please visit our website for September show and further info.

Canadian Abstract Expressionists – Group show: Garen Bedrossian, Pierre Gauvreau, Gershon Iskowitz, Serge LeMoyne, Jean-Paul Jérôme, Rita Letendre, Neal McLeod, Harold Town, Pierre Patry, William Ronald & Jeff Willmore.

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.

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.

Face Value – Shoot With This collective in collaboration with Andrea Marcus. The Al Green Gallery presents an exhibition of portrait photography by the artists from Shoot With This, an arts-based film mentorship collective in the Jane / Finch community.
Mike Adoma, Jessica Agnew, Marshan Beals, Sarah Bertie, Alex Brazeau, Shelby Brown, Jade Clarke, Cordell Farmer, Jancy Dong, Tanisha Evans, Naura Fathi, Noterlee Johnson, Sean Kanhai, Jade Khiev, Justine Khiev, Marie Kim, Curtis McCleary, Jayson N., Jessica Nguyen, Kim Nguyen, Emmanuel Obuobi Jr., Daniella Palmer-Mark, Danielle Scott, Luxshanaa Sebarajah, Jenny Thich, Ricky Tran, Kevin Williams, Jenny Wu.

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.

Kevin Friedrich: Beating Around the Bush (under-planned, over-painted). "This body of work takes a slightly dark, yet humorous look at the human condition in response to over-mechanization, and fast-obsolescence."

Eden Bender: Bearing Weight – sculpture / painting.
Eden Bender's sculpture is both conceptual and figurative; it often relies on scale to draw the observer into a surreal world of transformation, metamorphosis, a world where unusual juxtaposition of static and dynamic is the norm. Eden's work has been influenced by the adversity of the human condition. This series of work will also include Eden's paintings.
"This particular body of sculptural work, Bearing Weight, focuses on the human capacity to endure mental or physical load and the significance of its impact. The pieces evoke both a feeling of light and darkness and the jagged layered surfaces invite you to touch."
Eden studied at George Brown and at York University where in 1990 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours. She has received numerous awards including the L. L. Odette Sculpture Award and the Ontario Arts Council Award.

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.

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.

Erik Bennink – mixed media.
Josef Kursky – acrylic on canvas.

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

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SAGAMIE – L'imprimé numérique en art contemporain. Curator: Marc Audette. Group exhibition: Yvan Binet, Marcel Blouin, Mario Duchesneau, Jocelyn Philibert, Catherine Sylvain.
This exhibition showcases the work of five photographers with the intention of benefiting from the reflections developed by the art centre on the evolution of modes of visual expression. This coincides with the launch of a publication through which artists, curators and theorists share their reflections on current challenges and the effects of new digital design tools in the art world.

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, Etobicoke Art Group – Members' Choice Exhibition. Recent works in a variety of media.

Click: In Studio and in the Field – fine art photography by Ron Pitts and Pete Paterson.

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.

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!

The Blackwood Breaks – Join us for a short guided tour of the current exhibition led by UTM staff and faculty members. Admission is free for everyone. All tours start at 1pm at the Blackwood Gallery, and continue to the e|gallery and Thomas 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.

Hockey Town – Liz Pead, Liss Platt, Leah Modigliani.
Since Canada's early days, ice hockey has been closely tied to ideas about our national identity and it continues to be an important forum for community spirit. In much the same way that hockey creates a sense of unity in communities across the country, the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson sought to express our diverse nation by painting the wilderness. Artists and athletes embody a lifestyle that revolves around play, passion and an innate gift or genius. They represent dreams of greatness in our society, and as such reveal expectations for individual achievement and the power of collective identity. In this exhibition, three artists combine their passion for hockey with their passion for making art, while challenging the stereotypes that surround gender, class, sport and culture.
This exhibition was curated by Sandra Fraser and organized and circulated by the MacLaren Art Centre.

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.

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.

Family Art Day. Experience the wonders of art as a family! A professional artist leads participants through fun, hands-on art activities. Each workshop features a different artistic medium, an interactive Treasure Hunt and a self-guided tour of our current exhibition. Our CIBC Children's Performance Series will be scheduled at 2pm, allowing families to choose 1pm or 3pm for the hands-on studio activity. Fee includes materials – programs from 1-3pm or 2-4pm.
Sun 31 Jan: Faces.
Sun 28 Feb: Mixed Media.
Sun 28 Mar: Natural Creations.
Visit www.whitbystationgallery.com for full details.

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.

NEWS –

Bonnie Devine: Medicine Basket, Body Bags – compelling new installation along with drawings, sculptures and video works.

Don Chase. Yourspace Community Gallery.

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...

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.

Anthony Randall.

Anne Garrett.

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.

Linda Towart: Hanging with the Best.

Pars Pro Toto: A Sundry – Ceramic installations by Catherine Paleczny. AIC Gallery. Curator: George Wale.
Artist's statement: My work is devoted to the microcosm of the organic world and through my personal hybridization, I am to create a new visual language. The sculptural [ceramic] installations fuse organic crossbreeds in order to establish a new environment that focuses on the integration of bulbous shapes, projections and carved incisions.

Lorne Toews: Figurative Painting. AIC Gallery. Curator: George Wale.
A survey of the figurative paintings by this senior regional artist. Toews has been painting, teaching and mentoring for over thirty years.

GUILD EXHIBITIONS – F. R. Perry Gallery –

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.

Selections from the Permanent Collection. An annual showcase of select works from Cambridge Galleries' extensive permanent collection of contemporary Canadian fibre art. The collection also represents an important link to the textile heritage of Waterloo region.
Work by Ellen Adams, Ilse Anysas-Salkaukas, Margaret Ballantyne, Sharon Buchanan, Tom Burrows, Dorothy Caldwell, J. Lynn Campbell, Karen Chapnick, Barbara Cohen, Carole Gauron, Freda Guttman, Tamara Jaworska, Arounna Khounnoraj, Sheila McMath, Janet Morton, Gordana Olujic-Dosic, Andrew J. Smith, John Andrew Schweitzer, Chrysanne Stathacos, Ursulina Stepan, Yvonne Wakabayashi, Susan Warner Keene.

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.

The Art of Conrad Furey – paintings and prints from the Estate of Conrad Furey 1954-2008 – "His people work and play and dance, with courage, humility, and wonder, reflecting, as great art always does, the artist's own life and heart."

Paintings and prints 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.

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.

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.

Steve Mazza: Anxious Constructs - experiments in paper.

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.

Tony Romano: Notary Moon.
Much like a laboratory for experimentation, Romano's exhibition of audio and installation work focuses on a playful and engaging exploration of language. Curator: Sandra Fraser.

Exhibitions –

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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.

Thursday Tour. These 45-minute gallery tours cover highlights of Art Centre exhibitions. Tours are free and admission is free for all on Thursdays.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Exploded View. Curator: Emily Falvey.
Artists: Aganetha Dyck (Winnipeg), Howie Tsui (Ottawa), Diana Thorneycroft (Winnipeg), Wim Delvoye (Ghent, Belgium), Jennifer Angus (Madison, Wisconsin).
This exhibition explores the re-emergence of grotesque motifs from historical periods, such as the Renaissance, in the work of contemporary artists.

Subjecting Figures. Artists: Edmund Alleyn, André Biéler, Jacques Bussière, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Paraskeva Clark, Joyce Devlin, Clarence Gagnon, Melanie Garcia, Chantal Gervais, Lawren P. Harris, Edwin Holgate, Henri Masson, Louis Muhlstock, Philip Surrey, York Wilson. Curator: Catherine Sinclair.
Subjecting Figures displays a sampling of the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art's holdings of over 150 drawings of nude models, including anatomical studies by Clarence Gagnon, models posed as prototypes of actions or emotions by Philip Surrey, and nudes placed within narrative scenarios by Edmund Alleyn, placed in the context of contemporary work by artists Chantal Gervais (Ottawa) and Melanie Garcia (Montreal), both of whom address issues pertaining to the body.

2010 artist-in-residence Givemore Mashaya, who has created an exceptional body of work for Rice Lake XI, is leading sculpting workshops at the gallery during the month of Aug.

Rice Lake XI is the 11th annual public outdoor exhibition and sale of stone sculpture from Zimbabwe.

Now in our fifth year of operation, Studio22 is dedicated to the celebration of art in our lives. Studio22 endeavours to represent a broad spectrum of styles, media and expression.

Kathleen Ritter | Hidden Camera. Vancouver artist Kathleen Ritter's work reflects the traditions of conceptual art, photography and site-specific performance. Hidden Camera, is a large photographic work of a prop, which the artist used in the production of several performance pieces, that document sites (including, airports, grocery stores and elevators) that the artist took using a camera and microphone visibly "concealed" in her purse.
Hidden Camera is being presented at the Union Gallery as part of the exhibition, Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control curated by Jan Allen and Sarah E. K. Smith and on display at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre Jan 16-Apr 18, 2010.
Kathleen Ritter is an artist and a writer based in Vancouver. Her work has been exhibited at Prefix (2009), Modern Fuel (2008), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2008), Western Front (2004), Skol (2000), and Access (2000). Her writing has been published in the anthology, Places and Non-Places of Contemporary Art (2005), and the journals ESSE, Fillip Magazine, Open Letter, Prefix Photo and SWITCH.

Cecily Jane Taylor and Andrea Por | The Breath of It All. Cecily Jane Taylor and Andrea Por's works examine the human emotions of fear, isolation, and anxiety. Both artists are current BFA students at Queen's University.

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.

Representing contemporary Canadian artists – Michael Adamson, Barbara Babinski, David Bolduc, Mark Cartile, Paul Chester, Teresa Cullen, Hugh Cunningham, Blaise DeLong, Jennifer Dickson, Patricia Doyle, Dale Dunning, Paul Healey, David Peter Hunsberger, Duncan de Kergommeaux, Brian Kipping, Jaya Krishnan, Karen Kulyk, Danièle Lemieux, John Macdonald, Robert Marchessault, Neil McClelland, Shelley Mitchell, David Pelletier, Joe Plaskett, Daniel Ross, Blair Sharpe, Kelvin Smith, David Sorensen.

A Passion for Art ... Kingston's newest fine art gallery features contemporary and abstract works (Art on the Walls) by established and emerging artists from the Kingston area and across the country, including Tristan Adams, Iman Azhari, Hanna Back, Anne Barkley, Nicholas Crombach, Julie Davidson-Smith, Oleg Dergachov, Sheena Graham, Rose Hirano, Michele LaRose, Connie Morris, Sophia Muller, Erika Olsen, Kim Ondaatje, William Rusedski, Jan Swaren, Otis Tamasauskas, Raymond Vong, and J. T. Winik.
The gallery collection also includes older works by John Bechtel, Rita Letendre, Ingeborg Mohr, Takao Tanabe, Anthony Thorn and Gwyneth Travers.

Patrick McNeill, the gallery's owner, looks forward to serving new and established collectors and lovers of art! Visit the gallery's website to see a list of art shows starting Aug 19th and continuing throughout the fall. The gallery in collaboration with Upper Canada Art Consulting will be hosting the Revealing Art Seminar Series starting Oct 14 running for three weeks – all very exciting!

Art 11 is pleased to present Sweet, an exhibition of new paintings by Peter G. Ray. Also included in the exhibition are a series of paintings, including deep blue (2007), brake through of colours (2007), and resurrection (2006), shown together here, for the first time.

Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour.

Global Warming: Scenes from a Planet Under Pressure.
Napoleon – Gift of the Ben Weider Collection to the MMFA.
Sacred Africa: Ancient Art from Sub-Saharan Africa – works from the collections of the Cirque du Soleil, the MMFA, and the Redpath Museum, McGill Univ.

Exodus – Marc Chagall and Pnina Cohen Gagnon.

Cubes, Blocks and Other Spaces. Exhibition of works from the Collection sets out to dscribe the role of art in our perception of the world. Artists: Josef Albers, Alice Aycock, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Ian Carr-Harris, Fischli & Weiss, Gilbert & George, Peter Gnass, Pierre Heyvaert, Joan Jonas, Kurt Kranz, Guillermo Kuitca, Suzy Lake, Sherrie Levine, El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alex Morrison, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Gunter Nolte, Anders Oinonen, Nam June Paik, Giulio Paolini, Mary Pratt, Richard Prince, Keith Sonnier, Haim Steinbach, Lotte Stam-Beese, Paul Strand, Françoise Sullivan, Joanne Tod, Serge Tousignant, Ian Wallace, Weegee, Gordon Webber, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, and Bill Woodrow.

Major Gifts. Anselm Kiefer, Yves Gaucher, Rober Racine, Lorna Simpson.

Projection Series – Karl Lemieux.

Montreal Reflections on Art and Aesthetics Workshop. Selected Wednesday evenings in the Museum's foyer.
Wed 2 Dec, 6pm: Keith Moxey and Michael Ann Holley.
Wed 10 Feb: Jean-Pierre Cometti and Jerrold Levinson.
Wed 10 Mar: Alex Neill.
Wed 24 Mar: Daniel Townsend.

Marcel Dzama: Of Many Turns.
Etienne Zack.
Luanne Martineau.

The Raza Group: Full Circle – Francis Caprani, G. Scott McLeod, Gerald Pedros.

In the Project Room, PSUKHÔ – Jean-François Laporte.

Art Classes & Workshops for Adults at the Art Centre.
Classes and workshops are open to Queen's students and adults from the community, and include access to our exhibitions.
To register by phone: call 613 533 2190 and pay with VISA or Mastercard.
To register in person: visit our Reception Desk during regular hours and pay with credit card, cash or debit card. Space is limited; registration is confirmed with payment.

Painting Course. Ben Darrah leads a course in painting en plein air. For further information
on the course and how to register please see