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Rebecca Diederichs, Bogdan Luca, Kat Boetto, Master of Visual Studies, 1 April to 17 April 2010 at UTAC
Opening reception, 1 April, 6 to 8 pm
Rebecca Diederichs, Tree One, digital image, 18 x 2
Bogdan Luca, Event-Horizon-(Centralia), oil on board, 96 x 48
Kat Boetto, Gaga, digital image, 16 x 9
Lauren Hall, That Glaciers Store Energy So That They Become Fluorescent, at Peak Gallery, March 31 to April 24, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, April 3, 2-8 pm
(only the first image below is from the show)
Now dark - now glittering - now reflecting gloom
The Limits of All Known Ice
Reflection of The Motherlode of All Gold
Sunday: Viva Italia!
Paolo Conte: a multi-lingual romantic.
Adriano Celentano: incomprehensible in any language, with a beat you can dance to!
Nino Rota: the end of neo-realism.
(VB via SM)
 Lady Macbeth was supposed to be a villain, but she sure gave a darn good pep talk. Useful in many scary situations, including trying to write a dissertation proposal. 3:29 |
Mary Catherine Newcomb - Chocolate at Loop Gallery, 1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto. March 27 - April 18, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 27th, 2 - 5 pm
Chocolate Rabbit 2010 plasticene, 4' long
Sara Ludy's Animated gifs
(Screen shot. Click through for animation)
Keltie Marie Hiland - 24hr Rococo Gingerbread House 2010
Gareth Lichty, R.M. Vaughan and I were invited to act as judges, in that judgemental way we have, for the Annual Juried Art Show at the University of Guelph. (Richard wanted to crush the hopes and dreams of a new generation of young artists. I just like car rides, crushing hopes and dreams was an added bonus) The organizers, Darryn Doull & Miles Stemp, dotingly accommodated my special dietary request for an ornately decorated gingerbread house.
Actually the last image is of Richard's notes. I just showed up drunk, scrawled shit on the paper they provided and then, surprisingly, couldn't read it later.
(found)
Imagine my surprise. Instead of cute kitties, science experiments, and decadent American Rap Music, I see this on You-Tube.
(VB via SM)
BORING. PEOPLE. LOVE. DRILLS. with Michael DeForge, Drazen Kozjan, Mark Laliberte, Aaron Linton, Victor Romăo, Fiona Smyth and Magda Trzaski at LE Gallery, 1183 Dundas St. W., Toronto. Until March 28th, 2010
Fiona Smyth - The Contingency Group 2010 Pen and ink wash. 9” x 12”10 more days to make a submission to the Art & Science Fair...
Sunday - Emmylou Harris
For No One
Jambalaya
Those Memories w/Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt
Here There And Everywhere
Katie Bethune-Leamen: Dazzle Shizzle at MKG127, 127 Ossington Ave., Toronto, ON. Until March 13, 2010.
Really It’s A Lot Bigger, A Lot Heavier, And A Lot Darker 2010 mixed media on extruded styrofoam, Plexiglas
Gouzenko Hood #3, Version 2 and Gouzenko Hood #11: (It’s A Thing Covered By A Thing That Thereby Becomes Another Thing) 2009-10 cast aluminum, glow in the dark plinth, LED
Gouzenko Hood #8 and Gouzenko Hood #3, Version 1: (It’s A Thing Covered By A Thing That Thereby Becomes Another Thing) 2009-10 cast aluminum, glow in the dark plinth, LED
Study for The Office of Dead Slang 2010 still from digital video
For those of you not obsessed with the Cold War, Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk for the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, defected in 1945 with top secret documents that exposed a major Soviet espionage ring operating in the west. Below is a short 1966 clip from This Hour has Seven Days:
Jay Isaac - The Zone of No Ideas at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen St West Toronto,ON. Until March 27, 2010
Details from four different paintings by Jay Isaac, butted up against each other without any regard for the artist's intentions: ...
Recent Blingees commissioned by Kim Fullerton for Akimbo's Art Stars Banner
She found this one disturbing for some reason.
This one's so minimal, it's like the Donald Judd of Blingees.
Normally I couldn't be bothered with an art commission from the private sector, since my mediocre practice is heavily subsidized with government funding. (For the record, I only really need about $70,000.00 of my yearly Canada council grant for expenses, and the remaining $50,000.00 is spent on blow which I like to think keeps me from being complacent)
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Michael Caines and Goody-B Wiseman at Katharine Mulherin, 1082 + 1086 Queen St. w., Toronto. Until March 7, 2010
Michael Caines from Revelations of Dog
Goody-B Wiseman - America (detail) from Wild Child
An quick update on Excellence at the National Gallery of Canada:
We complained a lot in a recent thread about the apalling performance of Marc Mayer when questioned on CBC TV about a lack of diversity at the National Gallery of Canada. Now there is "a growing collective of cultural producers from Canada and abroad concerned with the outrageous and blatantly anachronistic policy of exclusion recently asserted by the Director of the National Gallery of Canada, Marc Mayer, during an interview aired as part of a segment on Diaspora Art on CBC’s 'The National' on February 2, 2010." Read the open letter, it's satisfyingly snarky. I signed on. Here's my favourite bit.
Well, we know “excellence” when we see it, and today we prefer to call it hegemony.
As the Director of a major art museum you might like to read up on this concept. You could start with Linda Nochlin’s seminal work "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" (1971), and then move on to more contemporary, fulsome texts, such as Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (1993) and bell hooks’ Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992). At the very least you could try reading Fuse Magazine.
Edith Dakovic at p|m Gallery 1518 Dundas Street W. Toronto. Unitl February 13, 2010.
Skin with tattoo and pigment from pigment Studies 2009 pigment and Silastic
Red Dot on Skin from red dot Studies 2009 pigment and Silastic
I have met Lisa Myers, one of the curators (with Suzanne Morrissette) for
Past Now: Works by Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell — she's uber-smart,
and I think it's gonna be good. Opens on Thursday.
I once wrote this about Scott Carruthers:
Although Carruthers’s drawings are technically static, the effect of looking at them is immersive, disorienting, and dynamic. Carruthers makes us dizzy on purpose, intentionally creating a physical experience of vertigo for the viewer. Because the drawings literally fill up the room, and because each little frame has such potent narrative impact, we have to navigate them, as in a video game, charting our own path through the imagery. Unlike a video game, however, which usually follows a linear narrative, this experience is open-ended. No two people will make the same set of connections or link the images into the same story.Now he finally has a website! And it's got the best artist's statement ever. (The bio is pretty good too.)
Carruthers’s artwork is satisfying as pure entertainment and as social commentary, documenting the oppression, violence, despair, humiliation, and humour of our world in a recognizable way. The installation is also a physical experience, more interactive than most artworks, despite the fact that there are no moving parts. Conceptually, Carruthers’s mesh of potent, activated nodes is a model of the human brain itself.
Sandra Meigs - The Fold Heads at Susan Hobbs Gallery, 137 Tecumseth Street, Toronto, ON. Until March 20, 2010
Hey Yo and Luv Ya So 2009 acrylic on panel, mixed media, gobo light
Feelin’ Lo and Ever So 2009 acrylic on panel, mixed media, gobo light