The Past is Never Dead – solo exhibition – Wendelien van Oldenborgh.
Co-presented by A Space Gallery and the Images Festival, with support from the Mondriaan Foundation and the Netherlands Consulate. Images Festival and A Space Gallery are very pleased to present the premiere North American exhibition of Rotterdam artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Through her rich and layered strategies of combining social research with documentary methodologies, van Oldenborgh creates both still and moving image projections that examine the role of individuals within broader political and social environments. Examining notions of women, work and cultural production, Après le reprise, la prise (2009) is rooted in the story of the labour strikes and subsequent closure of four Levi's factories in Belgium and France in the 1990s. Also on view will be the recent work, Instruction, which addresses the unresolved, traumatic events of the Dutch military intervention in Indonesia following World War II.
Biography – Wendelien van Oldenborgh was born in Rotterdam and bases her practice there. After graduating from Goldsmiths' College in London, she worked in Belgium and Germany for many years. Van Oldenborgh investigates the political, social and cultural relationships in our society and how these are openly manifested through everyday social intercourse. During the past few years, Wendelien van Oldenborgh has had solo exhibitions in Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Muhka (Antwerp), Tent (Rotterdam), Casco (Utrecht) and the Musée des Beaux Arts (Mulhouse), Witte de With, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart, 10th Istanbul Biennal and the 28th Biennial of São Paulo.

Goran Lucic: Agedness Wears Patina – an exhibition of new encaustic works by Lucic, his second show at the Alison Smith Gallery.
The canvases, in a range of sizes, render a confident command of technique, featuring abstracted figurative elements emerging from background fields that evoke the networked dysfunction of contemporary life.

Spring Group Show – In this exhibition more than 40 artists come together to show the meaning of Spring.
International artists include: Olga Roehl, A. Koukinova, N. Pobedina.
Local Canadian artists include: M. Ouzikov, Jax Rula, Anya Romanenko, Ludmila Lupovskaya, George Rubahin. Artists' submissions for future exhibitions and shows are welcomed.

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.

Toronto Now – a new exhibition series featuring the works of emerging and established Toronto artists. The rotating series features a different local artist every two months in the Young Gallery, a free street-level space adjacent to Frank restaurant, facing Dundas Street West. Inaugural installation is The Dork Porch by Dean Baldwin.

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.

FRAGMENTS – an exhibition of paintings by Karin Lapins and photography by Bob Sikma.

Sheri Bakes: The Special Places Initiative.
Sheri Bakes' moody abstracted landscapes are full of rich colours that blend and swirl into an emotional scene. A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Sheri works in a style that captures the formal aspects of light and distance, and reflects the West Coast landscape. In this series, Bakes' paintings shed light on the places and moments in life that often go unnoticed, yet in trying times are ultimately revealed to be the most special.

Anthony Redpath. Vancouver photographer Anthony Redpath produces meticulously staged photographs, often in a highly ambitious large scale. This melancholic series explores contemporary coastal life and consequences of industrial expansion. These melancholic photographs are a must-see in person as their dramatic scale and crisp sharpness allows the viewer to feel like they are part of the scene.

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.

Richard Storms: Moment of Inertia.
Toni Hafkenscheid: Relics of the Future.

Richard Stipl: Humors.

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.

Bruce Cochrane: Thirty Years Later – new work in clay.
This exhibition represents a synthesis of Bruce Cochrane's skills and knowledge acquired over the last 30 years of making clay works, traveling, researching, teaching and living. The work reflects Bruce's passion for historical examples from the ceramic culture of the Han Dynasty, China. This series of lidded vessels has been an ongoing interpretation of the formal elements within the Chinese models. The containers in the exhibition are constructed from thrown sections with strict attention to proportion and articulation of edge. Surfaces are detailed with embossing techniques, which soften the planes within the more rigid structure of the form. (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.

ENGINE GALLERY group show. We are thrilled to be presenting the work of 11 new exceptional, accomplished artists. Our new artists include Dana Bentley, Eugenie Davis, Sean Downey, Ron Eady, Lori-Ann Bellissimo, Raymond Waters, Susan Collicott, Janice Colbert, Melissa Divine, Pamela Goldfarb, photographer Karen Perlmutter, and sculptor Tamara Weller. We will also have selected new works from those artists who have been the "oil in our ENGINE" including Costa Dvorezky, Myriam Levy, Margaret Glew, Martha Fleury, William Lazos, Martin Oulette, Judy Raymer-Ivkoff, Cory Fuhr, Richard Watts, Rachel Ovadia, Robert Daniel, Scott Johnston, and Caroline Marshall.

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.

Gallery 533 is showing the work of Heather Murray – My Ephemeral Imagination.
Heather Murray's roots stem from her studies in editorial illustration at OCAD. She has always been drawn to the story behind the painting. Mixed media frees her to expand on an illustrative element without being bogged down by her own private censor. She enjoys the tactile feeling of textured papers, grooves in layers of paint and the simple act of overlapping for a new effect. Mixed media allows her to play with materials and liberate her subjects while expanding on her imagination and fondness for preserving elements from the past. She strives for a realistic touch and achieves this through her medium without heartbreak. Her art becomes in fact an interesting hybrid of collage and painting – with a twist of whimsy and realism. She is naturally drawn to the rural landscape as her backdrop of choice, where captivating portraits of people from the past intersect with beloved farm animals.
She works steadily out of her historical studio in the Old Courthouse Arts Building in Owen Sound while drawing her inspiration from her own backyard, just outside of Chatsworth, Ontario.

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.

Marija Barac Jandric: The Shape of Money – oil paintings. Jandric's work comes from observing the natural world. In this new series, she examines the relationship between memory and images of nature.

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.

23rd Images Festival. Toronto, Canada.

International Experimental Media Congress.
Information at www.experimentalcongress.org.

Cause & Effect: Ontario Society of Artists – 136th Annual Open Juried Exhibition.

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.

I'm So Pleased With Myself. Year-end exhibition by current and graduating students of TSA's Digital Art Certificate program.

Mark Adair: Death's Children. A new series of small charcoal drawings that completes Death Drinks, a narrative about the adventures of Death in the modern world. The series has been developed episodically over the course of a decade and has been exhibited in many shows in various stages of development. Both the subject matter and the labour-intensive and detailed style of the work are inspired by the art of the difficult and dangerous 14th century in Western Europe.

Mary Catherine Newcomb: Chocolate. A 4'-long reclining "chocolate" hare on a marble-topped table. The hare actually consists of a home-made plasticene that smells slightly of motor oil and regards the viewer suspiciously. The rabbit is accompanied by a suspended oversized apple blossom crown made from copper, bronze and aluminum. While heralding the beginning of Spring this exhibition juxtaposes ideas about beauty, illusion, consumption and a complex and often romantic relationship with nature.

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).

Untitled Seven – Benedict Drew and Emma Hart (UK). Programmed by and presented in conjunction with the 23rd Images Festival. Live performance co-presented with Pleasure Dome. Live performance: $10 general; $8 students, seniors & Pleasure Dome members; free to MOCCA members.
London UK-based Emma Hart and Benedict Drew's Untitled series of works explore and destabilize moving image, sound and performance. By inverting the technologies used to create and project images, Hart and Drew create anarchic systems, making the process of their creation explicit.

Cinema X: I Like to Watch. Curated by Paco Barrágan (Spain).
Carlos Aires (Spain), Regina Galindo (Guatemala), Bruce LaBruce (Canada), Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova (Czech Republic), Dani Marti (Scotland / Australia), Erwin Olaf (The Netherlands), Steve Reinke (Canada) & Jessie Mott (USA), Santiago Sierra (Spain / Mexico).
Presented in conjunction with the 23rd Images Festival.
A selection of works by Canadian and international video artists representing their diverse perspectives on sexual representation.

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.

Bobbie Oliver: Night and Day – new paintings.

Education – Check website for details.

Open Studio Gallery – Stephanie Cormier: The Reconceptualized Universe of The Anti-Logo League Girls.
George Gilmour Members' Gallery – Vicki Cowan: Quadratic Choreographies.
Print Sales Gallery – Mary Baranowski Lowden: Themes and Variations.

William Griffiths – new acrylic paintings.

Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever.
This first Canadian gallery exhibition by American boy wonder Ryan Trecartin will debut his sprawling video cycle, Any Ever. In what will be Trecartin's most ambitious work to date, numerous characters, themes and storylines from the several videos – brought to life with a frenetic, insomniac energy – overlap and merge in a candy-coloured techno-whirlwind.
Support Sponsor: The Drake Hotel.
Support Donors: Bruce Bailey, Paul E. Bain & Isa Spalding, Michael Cooper, Shanitha Kachan & Gerald Sheff, Steven & Lynda Latner, Laura Rapp & Jay Smith.

Sharon Lockhart: Podwórka.
Podwórka is an intimate and meditative film portrait capturing a group of neighbourhood youths in Lódz, Poland. Shot with a fixed camera, this single-channel video projection highlights American artist Sharon Lockhart's interest in the interrelationship between the still and moving image, and in portraying identities both individual and collective.
Co-presented with the 23rd Images Festival.

Peter Campus: Reflections and Inflections.
American artist Peter Campus has consistently explored the formal properties and possibilities of video since the early 1970s. Reflections and Inflections juxtaposes Campus's iconic early work with a new multi-channel video, spanning thirty-five years of his pioneering practice and his move from treating video as a sculptural to a pictorial medium.
Co-presented with the 23rd Images Festival.

Joachim Koester: Hypnagogia.
"Hypnagogia" – the threshold between consciousness and sleep – is evoked in the three 16mm-film loops that comprise Danish artist Joachim Koester's first Canadian solo exhibition. They explore conscious and unconscious states and gestures, irrationality, loss of control and possession, and the "fringes of the body" that Koester terms "the grey zone."
Cultural Agency Supporter: Danish Arts Council.

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.

Synesthesia. Graduating students from the B.F.A. program at York University, featuring twelve diverse works of art selected from the graduating class.

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Wedgwood: Artistry and Innovation.

East Asian Paintings & Prints: Recent Acquisitions.

Dan Perjovschi: Late News. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

Stitching Community: African Canadian Quilts from Southern Ontario.

Bamiyan. "the heart that has no love / pain / generosity is not a heart". Institute for Contemporary Culture. Contemporary art installation examines the 2001 destruction of the colossal 5th-century Buddhas of the Bamiyan Valley in central Afghanistan. Bamiyan, co-created by Vancouver-based artist Jayce Salloum and Afghan artist Khadim Ali, explores the story through photographs, miniature paintings and video.

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.

ONE 2 MANY. This dynamic art show brings together the creative forces of ten emerging Toronto artists. Their varied backgrounds and disciplines amalgamate paint, illustration, collage, digital work, design, print, tapestry, and mural creation to echo their cohesive theme: a provisional attempt to survive in the world we've created.
ONE 2 MANY examines the formation of makeshift communities in the natural world as they collide with the urban sprawl and technological advancements that make our human populace possible. The title ONE 2 MANY alludes to the amount of people collaborating in the show, the theme of co-existing populations, and the imbibing that is sure to take place in the celebration. It can mean one to many, one too many, or one, two... many.

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.

Free Saturday afternoon screenings at Camera – 3pm.
Camera is located at 1028 Queen Street West, Toronto.
Environmental Surroundings Film Series –
Mar 6: An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim (USA: 2006), 100min.
Mar 13: Who Killed the Electric Car? Dir. Chris Paine (USA: 2006), 92min.
Mar 20: Blue Gold: World Water Wars, Dir. Sam Bozzo (USA: 2008), 90min.
Mar 27: Manufactured Landscapes, Dir. Jennifer Baichwal (Canada: 2006), 80min.
Apr 3: The End of the Line, Dir. Rupert Murray (UK: 2009), 85min.
Apr 10: Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, Dir. Peter Mettler (Canada: 2009), 43min.

Please note: Film schedule may be subject to change. Please contact the gallery at 416 504 0575 to confirm. www.bulgergallery.blogspot.com. www.camerabar.ca.

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.

Person Place Thing – featuring Lia Cook, David R. Harper and Stephen Schofield.
The artists create displays of intimacy, exploring portrait-based iconography as a lens to cast light on themselves and reflect it on the viewer. Person Place Thing – where textiles and sculpture meet. Cook, Harper and Schofield make work that is tactile, physical and large in scale – qualities that intensify a sensory encounter. They draw the viewer into embroidered, sewn and woven narratives of nature, identity and history.
Skin & Bone: David R Harper and Stumble: Stephen Schofield are curated by Sarah Quinton, Curatorial Director at the Textile Museum of Canada.
Faces & Mazes: Lia Cook is curated by Wendy Weiss and organized by the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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.

Reading the Garden – by Josh Thorpe and David Court. During the period that TSG will be closed for brick repairs, this text-based work about the nature, experience and history of the TSG and its site is available free in newspaper boxes positioned at each entrance to the Garden.

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.

University of Toronto MVS Programme 2010 Graduating Exhibition.
Rebecca Diederichs: Telling of Green – explores the "materials" of writing, of language, and images embodied as text, displayed with a random deliberation that holds onto fragments that connect and sound across to each other.
Kathleen Boetto LaFlamme: Media(ted) Performance – works in photo and video stage attempts at the embodiment of celebrities as seen in media.
Bogdan Luca: Unmoorings – paintings address the visual as the subjective experience forming the basis for stories structured through any one or combination of culturally specific narrative frameworks.

More Than Flesh: Embodiment of Abstraction – A Museum Studies, Faculty of Information Thesis Project, curated by Valentine Moreno. Featuring artists represented in the University of Toronto Collection including: Jean Bridge, Eldon Garnet, Richard Gorman, Alex Javier, Deborah Koenker, Rick McCarthy, Michael Merrill, Ron Martin, and Saul Williams. This exhibition explores ideas of the body as an unknown and mysterious place in which reason, culture, experiences, emotions, and spirituality are inseparably intertwined with the organic quality of human condition.

University of Toronto MVS Programme – Curatorial Studies 2010 Graduating Exhibition. Pan-Americas – curated by Arlan Londoño. Exhibition of contemporary art projects examines the political, economic and colonialist ideas behind the dream of integration between North and South America, featuring art works by Pablo Helguera, Eugenio Salas and Beehive Collective.

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.

F/22 – "DON'T F-STOP BELIEVING" – a showcase of promising young Canadian photographers.
Graduating students from the Image Arts stream of the University of Guelph-Humber's Media Studies program host F/22 – Don't F-Stop Believing, an exhibition of contemporary photography, at the Whippersnapper Gallery.
This exhibition showcases the work of twenty-two up-and-coming photographers and offers a broad cross-section of work, including commercial photography and other more experimental and expressive forms of photography. Industry personnel and photography enthusiasts alike are invited to attend.

Monica Tap: Here and also elsewhere – new paintings.

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

Waiting – by Anda Kubis. Strategizing colour as a prime agent, Kubis engages the viewer with billowing form and incidental moments of realism as "waiting" figures make choices. The colour of creative thought must compete with multitasking. Is there a gain?

Please visit our website for September show and further info.

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

Landscapes – Group show of gallery artists: Canadian seascapes, landscapes, and cityscapes. Paul Chester, Graham Fowler, Christian Deberdt, Peter Gough, William Kurelek, Jeff Willmore, and historical artists.

Spring Group Show – gallery and guest artists' work.

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.

Andrew Bell: Moterwerks 8: Entropika. Moterwerks is an evolving multi-media arts project that was created in 1994. Based on an alternative version of history, Moterwerks recounts the saga of the "Aeronaut", a reluctant hero caught in a world of militant corporate conspiracies and warring tribal factions. As primary visuals, the Moterwerks "Artwerks" are presented as historical icons – mural relics from an alternate time. A fusion of propaganda imagery and mass media advertising, the result is reminiscent of both science fiction and antiquated past.

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.

Theatre of Stills – Dovrat Amsily-Barak, Michael Steinhauser, Vivian Tserotas.
STUDIO VOGUE Gallery proudly presents Israeli fine art photographer Dovrat Amsily-Barak in her first North American exhibition. Her staged scenes are déja-vu fantasies adapted to present day life where she has designed the interiors as disciplined institutions to include monasteries, hospitals, asylums and orphanages. Her intimately moving scenes are reminiscent of 17th-19th century Dutch painters such as Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Amsily-Barak is joined by Toronto-based international fine artist Michael Steinhauser. Originally from Brooklyn, Steinhauser, has been painting since he was twelve. Having studied classical realism with some of North America's most celebrated masters his interest in everyday objects and the predominant role they play in our lives is evident in his oil on canvas still life series, where he enjoys working out of the formal classical tradition and links that tradition with the present.
A perfect complement to the Theatre are the intricately detailed and highly sought-after textile works of Vivian Tserotas who uses various shades of fabric as her medium. Her use of silks and velvets create a deeply visceral effect, allowing the audience to experience her passion and enthusiasm for the textures of textiles.

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.

Biomorphism and Abstract Vision, Mixed – featuring new paintings by Vitali Zelinski.

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.

Joanne Mitchell: Goin' Coastal: An Exploration of Canadian Shores. www.joannemitchell.com.

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.

Peter Freeman: New Work. Peter Freeman is a multi-media artist showing a range of work.

Please visit our new website for more information.

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.

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.

Daniel Barrow: Emotional Feelings.
Come celebrate the opening of Daniel Barrow's exhibition and the Images Festival's pre-festival launch party!
Emotional Feelings expands the dualistic themes of Barrow's manually animated performance works: good versus evil, shame versus pride, experience versus innocence, and the balancing of one's belief in miracles with an increasingly bleak and rapidly advancing future, in four commissioned works for AGYU.
Get on the Performance Bus on opening night. Get your harnesses on for a radical ride with maximalist artist Allyson Mitchell. She'll take you there – urrrr... out there – to Daniel Barrow's opening her way. No way you'll want to miss this... it's her story in the making, on top of the emotional feelings! The FREE Performance Bus departs OCAD 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.

AGYU Lobby – Allyson Mitchell's legendary Performance Bus of Mar 31, 2010, Goddess by the Balls, footage and installation.

Audio Out – Apr 8-Aug 27: (UN)FRAMING SOUND.
“Field recording” projects realized as part of Sound for Artists (Fine Arts Cultural Studies FACS 3937) with Prof. Marc Couroux. Artists: Lisa Conway, Konrad Karczewski, Alexandra Majerus, Jason Kogler, Brock Wreford, Amanda Connell, Mat Laporte, Nicholas Konieczko, Sissel Marie Tonn-Peterson, Fareena Mookshah, Jasmeet Mudhar, Michael Anobile, Irina Mui, Sebastian Shinwell.

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.

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.

Humber Valley Art Club. Since 1951 this group has provided a milieu for painting and highest quality art instruction. The Club presents their annual juried exhibition. Artworks in a variety of media are sure to please everyone.

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

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

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

In the Main Gallery, Studies in Heavenly Things. Henna Hyunhwa Kim has had extensive training in Korea and Canada, has participated in many group exhibitions and is currently teaching art privately. This is her third solo exhibition. Her images are created in an emotional and spiritual state using mixed media on large panels. She experiments with traditional Korean paper and watercolour then applies transparent resin in waves of monochromatic colour to create an effect of texture and layers. She uses sticks, sprays and gloves instead of brushes to create unusual texture and a sense of depth... Kim says, "My artworks offer cathartic pleasure and spiritual consolation to the viewer as well as to me."

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.

Aurora Cultural Centre presents ... Albert Chiarandini: York Region Vistas. Chiarandini paintings generously on loan from the Georgina Arts Centre & Gallery. "Landscapes allow me to explore the profound beauty of nature, echoes of light and the smell of the countryside."

Carved by Hand – projects by the Aurora Seniors Centre Woodworking Club.

3rd Annual Open Juried Show.

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

Sheridan Institute / UTM Art & Art History Graduate Exhibitions – Group #2. 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.

Celebrations 2010: The Young at Art – an exhibition of art by local school children.

Walk the Art! Towards Social Justice: Empowerment = Change. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Walk The Art! is a Peel-wide secondary school student art exhibition giving youth an opportunity to examine social justice issues through their artwork. WTA! has adopted "The Future We Want", a Peel District School Board approach to equity as a framework to help students' voices to be heard in the discourse surrounding these tough issues.

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.

Durham Board of Education Student Exhibition. An exhibition of students' art offering a vast array of talent developed within the Durham District School Board.

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.

Susan Wallis: Transitions – solo exhibition. Celebrating the seasonal changes of the Canadian landscape.

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.

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.

Tracey Durrani.

Matt Drury.

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.

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.

Latow Photographers Guild: Annual Members' Exhibition.

GUILD EXHIBITIONS – F. R. Perry Gallery –

Manon De Pauw: Intrigues. Curated by Louise Déry. Organized by Galerie de l'UQAM.
Manon De Pauw: Intrigues is a mid-career survey featuring a range of artworks that the artist has completed since 2001. Featuring photograms, photographs, performative setups, single-channel videos, and multi-channel video installations, the artist uses time-based media to investigate the use of light and shadow to manipulate images in ways that are as varied as they are poetic. Her manipulation of materials, colours, and gestures using various surfaces of inscription from paper, to tables, screens and light boxes suggests a form of visual experimentation akin to writing with images.
Organized by Galerie l'UQAM – Université du Québec à Montréal – the exhibition will travel to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta; Cambridge Galleries (2010); Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbroooke, Sherbrooke, Québec (2011); Langage Plus, Alma, Québec; and Canada et Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France (2011).

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.

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.

Michèle Karch-Ackerman: FOUNDLING – honours the lives of unwed mothers and the babies they were asked to give up. Inspired by her grandmother's experience as an unwed mother staying at the Misericordia Home in the 1920s, the exhibition sheds light on a secret chapter in Canadian history. By working with "domestic acts of love" the artist stitches a meditation on loss. Foundling is an acknowledgement and prayer for those young mothers, their babies, and their sorrows.
Susan Low Beer: STATE OF GRACE – interpretive clay sculptures of children capture the buoyancy, movement and lightness of innocent joyful exuberance. An intentional ambiguity about specifics adds mystery, much depth, and meaning.
Cristian Raduta: RHINOS – Romania is in a transitional period after 50 years of communism and its aftermath. Young artists are finding their voices by combining their individual views and experiences with the social and political environment and transferring these back into their work. Against this backdrop, Romanian artist Cristian Raduta is fascinated by the "confrontation of the bestiary" (compendium of beasts made popular during the Middle Ages). His rhino sculptures hover over the realms of fables and myths, and oscillate between their world and ours. Still, they remain well-grounded, solid, and hold their space; they seem timeless as they invite us to some unreachable other world.

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.

Carnegie Gallery Artist Members' Exhibition. Please join the Carnegie Gallery artist members as they present their work and thirty years of memories.

Dundas Valley School of Art – 40th Anniversary Art Auction. A live and silent auction consisting of over 1500 original works of art from established and new artists. Oils, pastels, watercolours, sculpture, pottery, jewellery.
Free previews – Thur Apr 8 & Fri Apr 9: 9am-9pm; Sat Apr 10: 9am-5pm. Silent auction bids accepted during these hours.
Admission is $25 in advance or $30 at the door.

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.

TIME, SHADOW and LIGHT – Teri Donovan, Rey Baecher, Barbara Rehus, John Ide.
Time, Shadow and Light hosts four artists who are concerned with memory, reflection, and invisibility.
Barbara Rehus is interested in the way our institutions can make people disappear from society remedying this with a glimpse into their personal stories.
John Ide's drawings reflect on collective memory through juxtaposed elements borrowed from famous works of art in ways that both honour their original intent and stimulate new meaning.
Rey Baecher's pastel paintings embody reflected light and sensuous colour in his series, The Subject is Clear.
Teri Donovan is a mixed media artist concerned with identity in relation to time and circumstance. Her work is layered, faded and under renovation to reveal past lives within a new framework.

J. C. Heywood: A Life in Layers.
This important retrospective exhibition ... chronicles Heywood's evolution as a Canadian visual artist who has chosen to express himself by making art on paper. His prints, whether they are executed through the processes associated with etching, lithography, screen or digital means, provide an opportunity for discourse in relation to their origin, relationship to one another, and the process in which the artist has chosen to execute his work. J. C. Heywood: A Life in Layers draws together seventy-five works, spanning four decades, from various private and public collections across the nation.
We are particularly pleased to have this exhibition in Grimsby to coincide with Wayzgoose 2010, our own special contribution to the art of the print.
This exhibition is circulated by the Burnaby Art Gallery and was curated by Geraldine Davis.

The French Suites and Narnia by mixed media artist Liz Davidson, and an exhibition of new jewellery by Aggie Beynon, RCA.

The French Suites are inspired by Liz Davidson's travels through Paris, France where she encountered repaired walls of buildings with marks that reveal a "...history and language...". Davidson's mixed media work explores and asks "what is their story, this ancient graffiti, this visual passage of time?" Narnia marks Davidson's first time presenting photographs – "...bare, unadorned and unphotoshopped and unlayered", capturing otherworldly images from nature.

The latest exhibition of jewellery by metalsmith, Aggie Beynon, showcases her continued desire to create tension in her – "...a gentle tug to the eye that begs a second or third look." Beynon's process-driven work includes use of her signature powdered metal process and / or combining various precious materials and enameling to create rich surfaces and technically complex structures.

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.

Expressions 35: A Celebration of Student Work from the Region of Waterloo. Organized by KW|AG. An exhibition of student artwork incorporating KW|AG's Permanent Collection and showcasing the talents of young artists in the region.

Is There No One In The World Who Can Fly? Featuring new video work by Dyan Marie. In her Mammal video projection and the series of images titled Life on Earth, we encounter a hybrid body – part artist as performer and part digital animation. In Worknest, multiple projections of tunnel-like openings appear on the gallery floor, the artist appearing to burrow through the surface. Touching on the monstrous, the inquisitive and the generous nature of symbiotic relationships, Is There No One in the World Who Can Fly? questions why we work the way we do, and how the value of work might be interpreted by others.

Re-mix – students from school-based programs exhibit artwork inspired by the Gallery's winter 2010 exhibitions.

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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.

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.

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.

Muse Me: Summa 2010 – annual exhibition of art work by graduating students from McMaster University's School of the Arts Studio Art Program.

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.

Alex Cameron: Recent Paintings.

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

Gallery services: custom picture framing and frame restoration.

Michael Allgoewer: Iconic.

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.

WOODSTOCK COLLECTS... 2010. Guest curated by Maya Dynna. This exhibition offers Woodstock and area an opportunity to view the fine treasures from private collections within the community and works seldom seen from the Woodstock Art Gallery's Permanent Collection. Woodstock Collects... was a project initially developed by the Friends of the Woodstock Art Gallery and revisited in 2010 at the community's request. Ms. Dynna and Woodstock Art Gallery staff would like to thank all of the collectors who have loaned works in this exhibition.

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.

Masterworks Southwest – presented by the Ontario Crafts Council.
Masterworks Southwest offers a glimpse into S-W Ontario's thriving world of contemporary craft. Featuring thirty-nine pieces of work from thirty-two artists, this juried exhibition introduces spectators to distinguished creations in all craft mediums. It proudly sings of the beauty found in wood, clay, fibre, glass and metal. It whispers secrets that are often hidden beneath a workbench, slab of clay or bolt of fabric. It reveals the triumph that follows years of trial and error in the studio. It demonstrates innovative techniques, elegance, wit and beauty. But above all, Masterworks Southwest represents excellence in craftsmanship.

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".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

New works by Liz Devries.

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.

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.

Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Gallery B109.

"Emily Carr (1871-1945), Graveyard Entrance, Campbell River, 1912" – mini-talk by Sheila Chappell.