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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Professional Development – "Idea Exchange: Selling artwork – Pricing +". Roundtable discussion on how to establish prices, where to sell, and more. People, product, price and place.

Free Public Exhibitions Tour.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visit the exhibition, 19th Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada with James Borcoman, Curator Emeritus. Included with Gallery admission.