AMOMO presents fine art photography and digital art. Its inaugural show features the work of photographer Eric Weiner entitled Who Am I? a look at what is the "self" and whether photography can ever capture it.

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.

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.

Sculpture as Time: Major Works. New Acquisitions.
The exhibition explores the subjectivity of time and how it is experienced through various art works by considering a group of artists who use common material to realize their work that unfolds in time. Sculpture is no longer an inert mass but rather an interactive machine-activated form, an object that
implies actual use, or a work that reflects the passage of time. Video artists use the medium of film to evidence and even foreground the passage of time. Artists include: Joseph Beuys, Geoffrey Farmer, Robert Fones, Micah Lexier, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kelly Mark, Kelly Richardson and Tino Seghal. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Anselm Kiefer: Palmsonntag.
Anselm Kiefer ranks among the most important artist to emerge from post-war Europe. Palmsonntag (Palm Sunday) is a monumental installation consisting of a 30-foot-long palm tree cast in fiberglass resin, its roots clotted with mud, surrounded by a cycle of 44 large paintings encased in glass and framed in lead. Overwhelming in scale and sweeping in content, Palmsonntag conveys the operatic scope of Kiefer's creative enterprise that crosses through spiritual, religious and mythical cultural territory.

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.

Sculptors Society of Canada is proud to present – Head to Toe. Capturing the essence of the human body and form. Featuring works by John Clinton, Eamon, Barbara Fletcher, Roger Golden, Marina Guglielmi, Elaine Jaques, Karen Stoskopf Harding, Saulius Jaskus, Marlene Kawalez, Richard McNeill, David Paolini, David Salazar, Robert Tannahill.

Paintings by Xiao Guo Hui in South Gallery; Peggy Kouroumalos in North Gallery.

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.

Eva Ennist: A Curious Development – new mixed media sculpture.
This new series of mixed media sculptures has developed through Eva's exploration of both industrial materials (concrete and wire mesh) and organic fibres, namely bamboo, reed and handmade paper pulp. The contrasts and similarities of these chosen elements reflect the influences and observations from Ennist's latest travels to Southeast Asia. The dualities of heavy and light, dense and open, natural and manmade, inherent in her materials, have also been compelling motivators in the development of this new work. (West Gallery).

CANADA vs RUSSIA: Era to Era, an eclectic March shinny. Canadians: Christopher Broadhurst, Catherine Heard, Leonard Brooks, Michael Toke, Dan Hughes, Frank Nulf, Don Maynard, Tony Scherman, Sophie Jodoin. Russians: Misha Kouzakov, Paul Veshev, Victor Anufrayev, Oleg Koulikov, Amercanian, Eugene Tykotsky, Dobrovolsky. Draft picks: Leslie Dill (USA), Bartolomeus Dos Santos (Portugal).

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.

James Ridyard: New Landscapes: Essence of the Earth. James Ridyard's paintings capture the essence of the earth through his sublime distillation of light and air on land. Learn about his continued exploration of the historical landscape, using Degas's technique of obsessively employing repetitive overlays of warm & cool colours that fuse the image into a dream-like atmosphere. Presented in association with Edward Day Gallery. Register at www.fcpevents.com to attend the lunchtime "meet the artist" and walkabout tour of the exhibition.

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.

Kate Domina – The Day They Blew Away. In her newest series of oil paintings, Kate Domina's unique whimsical style and childlike subjects find a narrative to call home, as Illustrations for a children's book titled, The Day They Blew Away.

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.

Anat Betzer: Purple Rain.
Anat Betzer paints snow fields, dark morbid deep forests, huge trunks and wooden huts. The layers which cover, drip and "dirt" the painting's surface, hint this is not an innocent landscape, but rather one which hides, potentially at least, archaeology. She paints a forest, as an icon or a concept, draws it in details, under every kind of light and in many aspects, examines each and every leaf. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in Canada.

Installation by Adrian Blackwell – Model for a Public Space, [knot]. In Reading Room, Hart House, University of Toronto.

"Two conversations on the intersections of love and politics in contemporary art practices". Organized by Christine Shaw and Adrian Blackwell. The conversations will take place in Model for a Public Space [knot], in Reading Room, Hart House. Each conversation will begin with an introduction, six five-minute contributions by invited guests, followed by an open conversation.
Mar 18: "Love is the motive force of every emancipatory politics" – with Adam Bobbette, Christof Migone, Allyson Mitchell, Helena Reckitt. Alessandra Renzi & Laura Kane, Kika Thorne.
Mar 25: "Love is an event ignited by the distance between two polarities" – with Abbas Akhavan, Mike Hoolboom, Luis Jacob, Michelle Jacques, Christie Pearson, Etienne Turpin.

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.

Nadine Prada: Flow. A series of fluid acrylic works explores the connection between a meditative state, the action and reaction of water, and the effects of texture and gravity over varying lengths of time.

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 – David Beattie: The Weight of the Sky. David Beattie's sculptural works combine the use of sound, movement and physics to create unlikely alliances. For his exhibition, The Weight of the Sky, the artist explores notions of elementary physics to illustrate the human desire to comprehend and question what surrounds us. Incorporating an array of found objects and electrical devices, such as electric motors, metal tubes and computer fans, Beattie transforms these elements into unique arrangements and creations. His reapplication of domestic objects and technologies offers a fresh reading of their use and function and allows a reinterpretation of the specific identity and history of these redundant objects. 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).

Back Gallery – Brenda Goldstein: Hereafter. Brenda Goldstein's 35mm-film installation, Hereafter, is a spare portrait – a woman in blue operating gown and white mask in a starkly lit environment carries out detailed preparations over an unseen body. On first consideration, this assemblage of elements – the fluorescent lighting, the sterile furniture and the medical garb – all conjure the visual atmosphere of operating room-based television dramas. Yet, unlike those forms of representation, Goldstein's image trains our eye not on the spectacular image of death, often violently portrayed on television, but rather on the social meaning of caring over the dead. Goldstein highlights the lack of a contemporary vocabulary and rituals around death.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with the 23rd Images Festival. Brenda Goldstein, born 1973, lives and works in Toronto. A prolific artist working in diverse media, she has received numerous Canadian grants and commissions. Her short films, videos, installations, and performances have been shown at galleries and festivals nationally and internationally.

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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.

Martina Edmondson and Monica Bodirsky: Altered: A mixed media installation honouring our roots. Edmondson and Bodirsky explore the evolution, preservation and alteration of narrative over time.

Portraits and Figurative Works – Paintings by Bogdan Luca & Stefan Berg | Printmaking by Colin Rogers & George Walker.

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

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.

Meghan McKnight: Sunshine 'til Wednesday.

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.

PS: Art Out Loud – TSA Professional Studio Program Exhibition. Features twelve emerging artists: Linda Chen, Huma Faiz, Gwyneth Fischer, Louise Kiner, Pegi Kosa, Dorothy Krouski, Susy Martins, Cathy Mills, Suzanne Moreau, Elaine Stewart, Thiffany Belda Wilmouth, Bernadette Wong.

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Wedgwood: Artistry and Innovation.

Hamra Abbas: Read. 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.

Toronto Calling: Photographs of the British New Wave. Never before displayed, these photos offer a front row perspective on the underground Punk era in Toronto's music history. Images shot by former Torontonians Simon and Nick White, these photos capture a moment in time before the internet and before corporate sponsorship; a unique and exciting time which still seems to resonate with a raw energy and passion. Included are some of Punk's most iconic bands, including The Clash, The Ramones, Johnny Rotten, U2, The Specials, and many more.

Benoit Aquin: Chinese Dust Bowl.
In Chinese Dust Bowl, Benoit Aquin documents one of the largest conversions of productive land into sand anywhere in the world. Today, deserts cover 18% of China and of those, 78% are natural, while 22% were caused by ecologically damaging human activities such as the over-exploitation of arable land, over-grazing and increasingly, deep drilling for water. China's situation is quickly becoming the world's most massive and rapid conversion of arable land into barren sand dunes. The resulting dust is picked up by the wind and transported, in the form of giant sandstorms, all over China and into Japan, Korea and even North America. In an effort to reverse the situation, the Chinese government has initiated the largest environmental restoration initiative the world has ever seen and has begun a mass exodus of "environmental refugees," displaced by the advancing dust.
Aquin's photographs explore the impact of this great environmental disaster on the Chinese people and landscape. Sepia and subdued in colour, the images depict a landscape that is normally vibrant and colourful. He finds beauty in the destruction of the land, while also raising awareness about the environmental state of our world.

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

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

The Textile Museum of Canada is open on Labour Day.

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

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

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

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

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.

Doris McCarthy: Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Prints.

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

Please visit our website for September show and further info.

Collector's Special: Historical – Important collection of fine art from historical Canadian artists: Group of Seven, J. W. Beatty, Beaulieu, Brigden, Coburn, Franck, Johnston, Lismer, Mount, Vickers, and more. Original paintings, works on paper, & rare drawings.

Gallery Gevik presents a special exhibition of new works by Sandra Hawkins.

Spring Group Show – gallery and guest artists' work.

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.

Derek von Essen: Topographic Flux. Derek von Essen, a photographer, painter, graphic designer, video and mixed-media artist, has had his work published in books and magazines, has been profiled on CBC television, and honoured by the BC Business and Arts Awards. He also has facilitated artist workshops and presentations. Derek is interested in what we do with our living spaces, the environment we choose to nurture, and the changes which occur over time.

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.

[It's time for an update on your collection appraisal.]

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.

Days of Winter – Paintings by Glen Priestley.

Musings – Asoudeh Novin & Marilyn Chapman.
Asoudeh Novin, originally from Tehran, says her greatest inspiration has come from several years of travel in Europe while she was based in France in the 1990s. Experiencing art as part of life on a daily basis made a lasting impression on her, causing her to begin painting professionally. Novin's compelling figurative works show her subjects in their most contemplative state, allowing us to experience the intimacy of a quiet moment. While the subjects may appear one way to us, we can never know the true complexity within.
The expansion of these "musings" is evident in the intricate movement and colour renderings of Victoria-based artist Marilyn Chapman. Her work is a culmination of the cloudscapes she watched in the Manitoba skies of her youth and the organic flow of the BC coast where she now lives. Chapman believes that life moves through us and through all that is living. Her work explores the delicate, yet complex life systems upon which we all rely.

Tim Zuck. Tim Zuck's dedicated approach to painting and drawing has produced a distinct body of work that eludes classifications of abstraction or representation. In this exhibition geometric forms seem deceptively simple, but upon focused looking they reveal complex formal relationships that underscore the process of perception, subtly examining the codes of representation.

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.

Selections from the Art Brut & Outsider Art Collection – art by Barry Woo, Peter Smith, Joan La Mantia, Martin Owen, Glen James, Kristine Erglis, Gilles Arseneault, and Gabe Anderson.

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.

The AGO SHOW: Artists of the Gallery – 4th Annual Exhibition by Staff and Volunteers of the AGO.

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.

DNA / Group Exhibition. From abstraction to portraiture, DNA features new work by a group of artists who share a meticulous attention to detail and process. Who seem to relish in manipulating the genetic codes of their work.
We see this in Shawn Skeir's paintings – frenetic grids of colours and textures, layers upon layers of paint evoking movement and light. And in Heather Raymont's landscape, an emotional expanse of textures and oils. Materials are deceiving in the work of Terrance Finnigan, whose large-scale mirrors appear, at first glance, to be oxidized metal. A closer look will reveal their true material form: wood that has been painted on through a painstaking process. In Marianne Botha's painting, at first glance you will see a self-portrait. Yet, look more closely beneath the layers and you will find, as if resurfacing from the depths of the painting itself, a second, ghostly face. The use of humour and allegory is applied in the portraits of Quebec artist Reynald Connolly, which though seemingly cryptic, communicate a deep sense of the subject's identity.

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.

Toronto Watercolour Society's AQUAVISION – TORONTO caps off TWS's silver anniversary year for this artists' association. This spring show features member artists' work that depicts subjects, locales, scenes, vignettes and / or impressions from the Toronto theme. Jurors have selected 120 of the best water media paintings from TWS members.
The opening reception and the entire exhibition of beautiful, exciting and original paintings on display, from varied artistic impressions and interpretations of Toronto, is open to the public for viewing and purchase.
For more information and Toronto Watercolour Society events, and to view our website, visit www.torontowatercoloursociety.com.
For map and hours of operation for the venue, Todmorden Mills, visit www.toronto.ca/culture/museums/todmorden.htm.

Judith Livingston: Compilations. A passion for trees, an obsession with chairs, and a love of collage, all come together in Compilations by Judith Livingston. Images simultaneously appear and disappear into intricate patterns and textural layers, while the familiar, but forgotten, re-emerge for us to reconsider and examine with fresh eyes.

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.

Cedar Ridge Creative Centre Students Exhibition.

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

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Peter Smith: You May Find Yourself. Curated by Ann MacDonald.
Peter Smith thoughtfully receives the overabundance of information swirling around us in our modern world. He grapples with and translates the inherent complications and idiosyncrasies of life, representing the macrocosm in prints and assemblages that are comprised of the detritus of our days – scrap wood, dollar store surplus, stickers, plastic globes, and building blocks. His works unite throwaway culture with aspirations for comprehension and transcendence.
Organized by the Doris McCarthy Gallery in partnership with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

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.

Cine-Seder Roundtable. In Alumni Hall (Room 112), Victoria College, University of Toronto, 91 Charles Street West, Toronto.
A Passover happening with artist Melissa Shiff. Times Square Seder, The Medium is the Matzo and Cine-Seder Plate are all art-activist Passover happenings created by artist and Ajdunct Professor at Univ of Toronto, Melissa Shiff. For this event, Shiff wil install her award-winning video sculpture, Cine-Seder Plate, and invite local scholars to respond to the questions raised in her video projection.
Special guests: Professors Doris Bergen, Ritu Birla, Harriet Friedmann and Michelle Murphy.
Admission: FREE. In the tradition of Passover seder, we will recline on pillows during the discussion, so.... BYOP (Bring Your Own Pillow)... or buy a Crush Oppression Passover Pillow that night or online at www.japshopper.com.
Presented together with the Centre for Jewish Studies, Univ of Toronto.

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

Spring Awakenings – juried group exhibition of local artists.

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.

Cal Lane: Sweet Crude. Organized and circulated by Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec.

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.

Thrown Forth: Sheridan Institute / UTM Art & Art History Graduate Exhibitions – Group #1. Dynamic and multi-disciplinary group exhibition featuring works by graduating students.

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.

Abstract Painting Exhibition – from Korea: Hosup Hwang, Hoon Kwak, Tchoonsu Kim, Insun Choi, Haenam Yoon, Seobo Park, Doosik Lee and others; from Canada: Ronald York Wilson, Serge Lemoyne, William Ronald, Bernard Vanier, Charles Gagnon, Peter Howorth, Guy Michon, Ronald William Bolt, Frank Leonard Brooks and others.

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

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.

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.

Canadian Stories Tours. Explore the narrative of the McMichael collection and your favourite artists in depth with these lecture-based tours. Expand your knowledge and participate in lively discussions facilitated by an experienced McMichael docent.
Feb 21: The Art of the First Peoples.
Mar 21: The Group of Seven.
Apr 18: The Art of the First Peoples.

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.

Silent as Glue. Curated by Micah Lexier.
Silent As Glue brings together the materially rich work of Lynda Gammon (Victoria BC), Matt Harle (Beacon NY) and Elspeth Pratt (Vancouver BC). These artists' sculptures – comprised of a variety of materials including concrete, fabric, cardboard, photographs, paint, tape, plastic, foam, vinyl, and metal – forego common usage of materials to question ideas of value and permanence associated with traditional sculpture, while at the same time negotiating the line between abstraction and representation.

Betty Goodwin: From the Collection of Salah J Bachir. Curated by Marnie Fleming.
This exhibition from the collection of Salah J Bachir highlights the originality and scope of the work of celebrated Canadian artist Betty Goodwin (1923-2008). Life, death, presence, absence, love and anguish are but some of the grand themes that Goodwin tirelessly examined in her multidisciplinary practice, which includes drawing, printmaking, collage, painting and sculpture.

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.

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture. Curated by Jan Allen, organized and circulated by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. This overview of the extraordinary art practice of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge features a selection of major photographic projects spanning their thirty-year career of active engagement with organised labour and a spate of issues emerging in the wake of globalising economies. Condé and Beveridge's formulation of left-perspective discourses and their innovations in artistic form reflect current practices in which art-making is understood as a symbolic articulation of conditions, and perhaps more importantly, as a tool of community formation.

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...

Brenda Joy Lem: Homage to the Heart. Curated by Linda Jansma, Robert McLaughlin Gallery.
Inner Landscapes: The Portraits of James MacDougall. Curated by Tara Marshall.
Varley in Unionville – Selections from the Permanent Collection.

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.

Liz Parkinson: Field Work: Pattern and Preoccupation – prints on Japanese paper and large installation work. Parkinson is interested in the display, collection and categorization of the natural world. She is a master printmaker who is closely affiliated with Open Studio in Toronto.

Anne Garrett.

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.

Latow: Burlington Photographers Guild Annual Juried Exhibition. F R Perry Gallery. Coordinator: Brad Isaacs.

GUILD EXHIBITIONS – F. R. Perry Gallery –

ELEMENTARY! Art From The Schools. Our popular annual March Break exhibition is back! Featuring over 100 artworks by kids from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8, the show includes submissions from over a dozen Cambridge area public, private and separate schools. This family-friendly exhibition celebrates the exuberance, joy and unabashed creativity of young people.

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.

Studio 30. The long-standing Cambridge-area artists' group, Studio 30, returns with their annual group exhibition. From landscapes to abstraction, in watercolour, oil and acrylics, the exhibition features new paintings by long-time studio members: Elizabeth Ackford, Maureen Brissett, June Bulmer, Margaret Grapes, Ann Harvey, Dorothy Harvey, Marnie Kelly, Lily Sumiye Lummiss, Lillian MacKenzie, Christine MacLeod, Connie Meyer, Mary Mitchell, Josephine Murphy, Daphne Nicholls, Marion Pearson, Tiina Price, Jill Summerhayes, Elizabeth Wiegand, and Jane Wright.

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.

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.

New work by painter Shi Le, and metalsmith / jewellery artist Erin Dolman.

"...Scenes of pastoral beauty formed around immediate surroundings in South Ontario" continue to inspire painter Shi Le in his latest body of work. Le states that "... landscape for me is a recreation of the moment in memory that captures my emotion in response to the truthfulness of nature. From the creek series to the inner woods and grass lands, the personal response and understanding to my surrounding are central. Through a palette knife-stroke and flat brush-stroke, I hope to reactivate on the canvas the fascination that the landscape of Ontario has drawn on me."
Shi Le is a professional artist and an art educator. Le received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. Over the last twenty-five years, Shi Le has taught painting at various post-secondary institutions including Lakehead University and Queen's University, Ontario, and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China.
Le's paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in many private and public collections all over the world, including Bank of Montreal, the Canadian Embassy to the USA, BMG Music Canada, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
The artists lives and works in Ontario, Canada and Chongquing, China.

Stories and dreams of yesteryear unravel in each of Erin Dolman's evocative, reliquary-like jewellery pieces. An "avid gardener, bird watcher and amateur naturalist...", Dolman's interests influence her jewellery, creating pieces that "speak" to its owner and other viewers in different ways. Dolman often creates each piece using both traditional materials, such as silver and gold, and non-traditional materials such as bones, vintage photos, seeds, insect wings, and other natural and man-made objects she finds in her daily life. Inside her jewellery pieces, "'protected by their layers of metal and acrylic, these fragile, delicate objects become fragments of a story, preserved like specimens under glass."
Over the past 16 years Erin has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in both Canada and internationally. In 2004 a craft scholarship enabled her to attend the prestigious Haystack Mountain School of Crafts for a 3-week course with jeweller Marcia MacDonald. Erin has also been the recipient of a number of grants and awards including the Rosen Group's Niche Award in 2002, one of five inaugural BC Creative Achievement Awards in 2005, and 1st place in the brooch category for Lapidary Journals' annual Jewellery Arts Awards in 2006.

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.

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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.

Oil Cloth Lunch, and other reasons to be cheerful. Curated by Ihor Holubizky.
The historical pursuit by the artist to both learn and break from the art of the past is explored in this exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints from the permanent collection, including works by Willem Claesz Heda, Philips Breughel, Hiroshige, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet, Tony Scherman, Eric Atkinson, Richard Hamilton and Rick Pottruff.

Further Than Confederation. Curated by Ihor Holubizky.
John Abram's Canadian History Trilogy and Shelley Niro's untitled drawing are the keystone and counterpoint works for this permanent collection exhibition examining images of the Canadian nation-form as a work in progress. Includes works by Robert Harris, Tom Thomson, A. Y. Jackson, Adamie Alako, David Blackwood, John Hartman, Ed Burtynsky and others.

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.

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.

Around the Frayed Edges. Curated by Laurie Carmount. Group exhibition of fibre artists from across North America. This exhibition delves into the outer edges of fibre arts.
Fibre arts is a style of fine arts made with textiles and is more concerned with creativity and skill in the end product than functionality. In Around the Frayed Edges a narration is spun through work that pushes the confines as to what an artist can do with fibre today.
Similar to social misfits that sit on the outskirts of society, like mad inventors experimenting, and geniuses with universal knowledge, this exhibition encourages the far reaches of thought and imagination. Does society hang by a thread, will the Fates cut the cord, oh what a tangled web we weave... here is an opportunity to create a piece that follows a string into a world on the periphery.
Twenty-seven fibre artists from across North America have created works for this exhibition. From sculptural to painterly to installations, this leading edge exhibition addresses all of the visual arts elements – all in fibre.

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.

Steeples, Silos and Towers – Albert Chiarandini, OSA-FIAL, and Bruce Smith 1925-2005.

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.

Janet Jones: DaDa Delirium.
Toronto painter Janet Jones probes our fascination with the future, her imagery inspired by sterile public spaces such as the lobbies of multinational corporations or hyper-lit passages on the Las Vegas casino strip-along with the destabilizing yet ecstatic blur of technology. Curator: Stuart Reid. Originated by the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.

Exhibitions –

Donald Woodman: The Selling of the West.
Landscape is a subject to which Woodman has repeatedly returned over the years. The photo tradition he comes from has been characterized as the "Ansel Adams School" of the idealized landscape. Of course today one has to travel to areas with sparse populations, and often inaccessible by motorized vehicle, in order to find unobstructed vistas like those in Adams' photographs. The works on view here record the landscape as it is – being sold, closed off and/or developed, complete with trash, weeds, roads and powerlines. In doing so Woodman has had to shed the mantle of traditional landscape photography, instead reveals the real world in which we live.

Alan Glicksman: What It Is.
Glicksman roots his work in a personal exploration of his life and self, often embedding intimate language and private symbols in his worked compositions. His drawings are playfully totemic, and channel the frenetic energy of a classroom doodle as much as the earnest expressionism of Picasso and Dubuffet. His work may also be seen as a long trail of clues about the churning imagination at the centre of this process of image-making, resulting in an endless, fractured, fragmentary narrative of psychological inquiry involving text, image, color, line. In terms of composition, colour and sheer vitality of visual and literary language, there is probably no artist in Canada who does this kind of thing better than Glicksman does.

Spirit, Idea, Symbol: The Image of Canada.
Selections from our permanent collection of historical and contemporary art exploring the myriad of ways that Canada has been represented by her artists.

Special experimental musical performance by Alan Glicksman and artist friends, in conjunction with the exhibition, Alan Glicksman: What It Is.

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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".

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.

Comfort Zones: BFA Select '10. Curated by Jan Allen. In the Atrium.
Selected from the 2010 class of Queen's Bachelor of Fine Art program, this exhibition reflects the freshly forged artistic personalities of these emerging artists, infused with the issues, attitudes and visual language of our time. The featured artists are: Kimberly Armstrong, Pansee Atta, Simone Aziga, Monique Baena-Tan, Carlyn Bezic, Mary Macdonald, Vanessa Noller, Min Shin, Tim Simpson and Justin Steinburg.

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

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

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

Cartographies – Dionne Simpson. Toronto-based Dionne Simpson's distinctive works are created through a process inspired by the West African art of thread pulling – the removal of thread from material in order to create patterns and images. Employing her canvas as a metaphor for the underlying fabric of Canadian society, Simpson embeds fragments from contemporary culture – from corporate logos, images of media personalities to remnants of daily life – into these self-portraits and landscapes. Co-curated by Sally Frater.

Delio Delgado: Discarded Plans. Lower Ramp. Delio Delgado presents a new series of mixed media drawings created over found blueprints, which serve as a support for his narrative. The discarded blueprints bear the weight of their actual or potential consequences. In urban Ontario, newcomers already live over the lives of those who not so long ago displaced Aboriginal inhabitants. Yet the continuous imprint of their existence is stamped on the landscape, as illustrated in Delgado's (himself an immigrant from the Dominican Republic) work.

Photovoice Youth Arts Project. Upper Ramp. The YMCA's Youth Gambling Awareness Program has collaborated with The Carriage House Alternative Education Program and the Art Gallery of Peterborough for the Photovoice Youth Art Project, which is the result of efforts to engage youth in the use of photography to record and reflect their strengths and problems.

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.

Galerie 240 is proud to present this very important show, featuring the works of Pascal Smarth, a Haitian artist living in Montreal. Several of his works which hung at the Port-au-Prince Airport, were either destroyed or damaged. Galerie 240, with the help of local artisans, is endeavouring to recover and restore art works by Pascal and other Haitian artists. Along with this ambitious undertaking, the money raised from the sales of Pascal's work at Galerie 240 is being donated for the rebuilding of the YM / YWCA in Haiti.

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!

Gallery ArtPlus solo exhibition – Ivan Unwin: Do Least Harm. Included in this collection is a set of political and environmental activist works, with human rights and land abuse as subjects.

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.

Jennifer Stead: A long, drawn out story. This evolving exhibition will result in a final image that is as much a discovery to the artist as to the observer. That's because from mid-March to the end of April, artist Jennifer Stead will turn City Hall Art Gallery into a studio as she creates a charcoal landscape that fills its walls. Working in consecutive sections, the completed drawing will be on view the final week of the exhibition. In the spirit of Rosenberg's action painters, Stead approaches each artwork she makes as an event.

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.

Mary Macdonald and Justin Steinburg | human condition.
The exhibition, titled human condition features artists Mary Macdonald and Justin Steinburg who are in their 4th year of the BFA program at Queen's University. Both Macdonald and Steinburg are interested in what it means to be human. Mary Macdonald uses large-scale sculptural installations that encourage the viewer to enter and participate in the environments she creates. Justin Steinburg uses colour as a way of portraying what he sees, an external expression of the internal being.
Light has many meanings in many cultures, but for Steinburg it is the source of his art. For him, colour is a manifestation of light and a chief component in the expression of the soul. Light is made up of a spectrum of colours, where each colour creates a different intensity and tone. He uses colour to represent a feeling or emotional response to a specific moment, event, person or image.
Justin Steinburg plans to complete his MFA after graduation. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he has lived in seven different countries, from Trinidad and Tobago to Seoul, South Korea. His extensive travels have influenced his work; he creates artworks that speak universally to all cultures and people through images that evoke visual and sensory responses.
Mary Macdonald's primary interest as an artist is to invite the audience to engage – with her art and art in general – but more importantly, to encourage the viewer to make the choice to see what is going on around them. Through the use of salvaged materials, she hopes that one might see their own connection to the processes and pathways through which we in the modern world proceed. She seeks to provoke an emotional or physical response, which in turn might lead to intellectual inquiry. Macdonald is interested in creating beauty and is inspired by works which are life-affirming and evoke the grace of being human.

Lawrence Molloy | Test-bed for Trees – invites the audience to simultaneously view the production and destruction of meticulously crafted bonsai trees made of match heads. Performance artist and sculptor Lawrence Molloy presents documentary objects, in a range of artistic media, in an attempt to make the audience ask the following questions: What in the exhibition is art, and what is document?
An endurance performance will take place within the project room between the 23rd March and 10th April, when Molloy, stopping only for toilet breaks and to answer visitors' questions, will work tirelessly to make one of these match trees in record time. On the 10th April at 7pm sharp there will be an event at NGB Studios (12 Cataraqui Street, Kingston), when the tree will be set alight.

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.