A Space Gallery presents –

A Space Gallery and the 11th anniversary edition of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival are proud to co-present an exhibition curated by Cheryl L'Hirondelle. This group exhibition is a timely contextualization of Aboriginal new media from a variety of locations, including New Zealand. For full details please visit www.aspacegallery.org.

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CARFAC publications –

Artists' Contracts: Agreements for Visual and Media Artists.

Information for Artists: A Practical Guide for Visual and Media Artists.

The Visual Artists' Guide to Estate Planning.

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Exhibitions & Events –

All Rag No Bone – Fennel Plunger Corporation – collective production of Jean-Paul Kelly (Toronto), Steve Reinke (Chicago) and Anne Walk (Vancouver).

Opening night features a performance by Anne Walk.

Artists' talk Sat 11 Sep, 3pm – all three members will be present to discuss their work.

Hard times, these are hard times. All rag, no bone. Fennel Plunger has everything, of course, but it would not do to rub it in people's faces, so this exhibition is dedicated to all of you working class heroes. We say, "Keep up your good work," and in return Fennel Plunger will continue to provide you with straightforward, edifying art in a range of genres / price ranges. We've learned a lot in the past few years from the whirlwind ascendancy and subsequent fall of relational aesthetics. We've learned that McLuhan did it better, or thought it better. In 1967 grooviness was the glue that kept it all together. Ten years later, the groovy dried up and we were left with a pile of dusty, glue-specked aphorisms that didn't seem to make any sense. But now, in the wake of social practices, our McLuhan makes sense as it never did. For instance, in 1967, "The medium is the massage" was just a bad pun. Now, you would get actual massage, though perhaps administered by untrained school children. All massage, no message. And no medium, everything well done.

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

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

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Member of ARCCO (Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario).

Exhibitions –

Open Studio Gallery – Yorodeo (Paul Hammond & Seth Smith): Three Dee Realms Plus.

George Gilmour Members' Gallery + Print Sales Gallery – 40 Years, 40 Prints, 40 Printmakers: An Open Studio Members' Portfolio Exhibition.
Laurie Zinkand-Selles, Pawel Zablocki, Judith Welbourn, Daryl Vocat, Ann Unger, Lotti Thomas, Andrea Soler, Snaige Sileika, Irina Schestakowich, Elena Roginsky, Liliana Rodriguez, Walter Procska, Liz Parkinson, Kurt Pammer, Emma Nishimura, Theresa Morin, Liz Menard, Lorna Livey, Lisa Levitt, Jenn Law, Brian Kelley, Geneviève Jodouin, Brian Hoxha, Astrid Ho, Isabelle Hémard, Libby Hague, Doug Guildford, Anna Gaby-Trotz, Susan Fothergill, Elizabeth Forrest, Pamela Dodds, Elizabeth D'Agostino, Susan Cunningham, Victoria Cowan, Tara Cooper, Lucinda Chen, Janice Carbert, Yael Brotman, Mary Baranowski-Lowden, Sally Ayre.
And the founding artists of Open Studio: Richard Sewell, Don Holman, Barbara Hall.

Printopolis – a 4-day symposium with an international focus on contemporary printmaking presented by Open Studio in Toronto. Printopolis will feature issue-based panel discussions / presentations, artist talks and printmaking demonstrations. This citywide event will feature exhibitions highlighting contemporary print media works on display throughout Toronto.

Services – Custom printing for artists.

Print Sales – Original prints. Astrid Ho, Print Sales Manager.

Education – Check website for details.

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The Whole Ball of Wax: Encaustic Group Show.
A celebration of encaustic! with 12 diverse encaustic artists taking part – Pieter Bakker, Daniel Beirne, Andrea Bird, Andrew Csafordi, Lisa-Beth Glassman, Supria Karmakar, Tanya Kirouac, Jane Longman, Maura Joy Lustig, Georgina Rodrigues, Michelle Salter, Tania Wycherley. With gratitude to the Ontario Arts Council.

Main Gallery – Uros Jelic: Oil – an exhibition of mixed media paintings, depicting practices and mishaps of oil industry.
“I began working on the “Oil” theme in 2009, with the intention of increasing awareness about these practices, but the bizarre chain of events in the Gulf of Mexico made this series incredibly timely.” – Uros Jelic.
Paintings have expressive, experimental and intuitive quality with paint applied in various ways: spraying, dripping, using brush and roller, stamping, stenciling and drawing with paint sticks. This approach creates diverse textures while preserving the identity of materials used. The end result is figurative painting with deep exploration into the possible uses of media.
North Gallery – Gillian Iles: That's Not How We Do Things Here.

Face It Head On: Self-Portrait Redefined – interactive art installation by Anthony F. Saad. Propeller in collaboration with Workman Arts.
Two-part project designed to explore the nature of the traditional self-portrait, by challenging artists to create non-literal representations of self. Featuring a unique interactive installation by Anthony F. Saad, live in the gallery space Sat 2 Oct, when visitors will participate in creating the Face It Head On group portrait by having their photo taken and added to a composite group portrait in real time, that will then be projected onto the gallery window.

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