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FALL 2011 NEWSLETTER
September 17, 2011
THIS YEAR KICKS OFF WITH SEVERAL GALLERY ARTISTS HIGHLIGHTED IN TORONTO EXHIBITIONS:
On Tuesday September 20 The Toronto Sculpture Garden celebrates its 30 year history of memorable projects by some of Canada’s best artists with an anniversary commission featuring Jed Lind’smonumental sculpture Gold, Silver & Lead. Opening reception 6 to 8 pm (115 King St. E, between Church and Jarvis).
On Friday September 23 Albatross Omnibus, a major solo exhibition of Derek Sullivan’s work opens at The Power Plant. This exhibition is The Power Plant’s 2011 commission project and brings together Sullivan’s interest in books, design and architecture in a stunning installation with a special artist book edition. Sullivan will also have a solo exhibition opening at the gallery on November 12.
Three gallery artists are featured as part of this year’s much-anticipated season opener, The Canadian Art Hop. Jon Sasaki will transform the gala dinner and auction on Wednesday September 21 with one of his largest ever installations.
On Saturday September 24 Jed Lind takes part in the Art Hop panel with Sarah Anne Johnson and An Te Liu at 11am in Cinema 3, TIFF Bell Lightbox. And at 3:30 pm in the gallery, Canadian Art magazine editor Richard Rhodes discusses Ben Reeves’ most recent paintings with the artist, followed by a reception.
On Sunday September 25 Oakville Galleries opens Rooms, a new sound installation by Marla Hlady.
NOTABLE
Gallery artists Nicolas Baier, Daniel Barrow, Shary Boyle, Hadley + Maxwell, Kristan Horton and Luanne Martineau have been chosen by MASS MoCA curator Denise Markonish to participate in Oh, Canada. This year-long extravaganza of contemporary Canadian art resulting from three years of research and hundreds of studio visits opens on May 27, 2012 in the impressive former industrial spaces which have become an international contemporary art landmark in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Shary Boyle is completing a new sculptural installation commissioned for the BMO Project Room scheduled to open January, 2012.
Don’t miss Boyle’s new live drawing performance with musician Christine Fellows. Commissioned by Harbourfront Centre in association with the Power Plant. Everything Under the Moon is at World Stage from February 18 - 23, 2012. Tickets go on sale in November.
From September 16 through January 8, 2012 an extraordinary suite of recent drawings by Kristan Horton will be on view at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in The Limits, an exhibition that explores artistic expressions of time and finitude.
In October Zin Taylor is exhibiting at The Artist’s Institute, Hunter College, New York. Taylor continues to have a busy schedule in Europe, with a recently opened solo exhibition at Supportico Lopez, Berlin and he is participating in Melanchotopia at Witte de With, Rotterdam. Taylor’s major solo exhibition for the Ursula Blickle Foundation travels to KIOSK, Ghent this fall; his accompanying artist book Growth was recently published by Sternberg Press.
Pascal Grandmaison has a solo exhibition at Galerie Eponyme in Bordeaux opening September 29 and from September 24 his work will be featured in Dark Matters: Shadow_Technology_Art at the Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester.
Currently on view in New York are Barbara Probst at Murray Guy through October 29 and Jason McLean in a two person collaborative exhibition with Joe Grillo at Allegra LaViola Gallery through October 15. Sara MacKillop has a solo exhibition at Galeria Enrico Fornello in Milan through November 6.
Hadley + Maxwell will be participating in the 4th Marrakech Biennale, on from February 29 to June 3, 2012.
SEPTEMBER CALENDAR
Tuesday, Sept 20
Jed Lind, Toronto Sculpture Garden. Reception 4:00-6:00 pm
Wednesday, Sept 21
Canadian Art Hop Gala
Friday, Sept 23
Derek Sullivan opens at The Power Plant
Saturday, Sept 24
Canadian Art Gallery Hop
11:00 am - Cinema 3, Tiff Bell Lightbox: Canadian Art Hop panel
3:30 pm - in the gallery, Richard Rhodes in conversation with Ben Reeves, followed by a reception for the artist from 4 - 6 pm
Sunday, Sept 25
Marla Hlady opens at Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, 3:30-5:00 pm
COMING UP
We look forward to our participation in NADA Art Fair 2011, Miami Beach, December 1- 4. The gallery will be presenting two special projects in the New Year. In January 2012 Paint as Object will feature two innovative young painters who challenge traditional uses of paint in their work: Vancouver artist Jeremy Hof and Toronto artist Sasha Pierce. In February we look forward to an exciting exhibition by Montreal’s Michel de Broin. Best-known here for his pedal-powered Buick seen at Mercer Union (and stopped by police nearby), de Broin was the 2007 Sobey Art Award winner. He has spent the past few years living in Paris and Berlin where he has produced notable projects for Paris’ Nuit Blanche in 2009 and a major commission for Berlin’s Reichstag completed this year. In October he mounts an outdoor sculpture for the Prospect New Orleans Biennial.
SPRING 2011 NEWSLETTERMarch 23, 2011
After a fall season of great shows and prizes we are pleased to announce our upcoming program and the ongoing activities of gallery artists, including several exhibitions overseas.
The richly illustrated catalogue for Shary Boyle: Flesh & Blood, organized by Montreal’s Galerie de L'UQAM was launched at the AGO bookshop on February 23. The exhibition Flesh and Blood seen at the AGO last fall opens at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery June 17 (through August 15). Shary Boyle and Emily Duke’s eight year long text and drawing collaboration, The Illuminations Project, opened at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art on January 13 (until March 27). Shary Boyle is currently completing a residency in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.
Pascal Grandmaison’s major survey exhibition Half of the Darkness continues through May 1 at Luxembourg’s renowned Casino Forum d’art contemporain. A comprehensive publication on Grandmaison’s practice is forthcoming. Among the five insightful essays in this volume are texts by Christopher Eamon, former curator of the Kramlich collection, Seattle and Marie Fraser, Chief Curator at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain. Grandmaison will show new photographic works in his third exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, opening April 2, including a new film work which will be projected in our second floor gallery in collaboration with Toronto’s annual Images Festival.
Duke & Battersby’s work was recently the subject of a feature program of short films and video at the Rotterdam film festival (January 25 to February 5, 2011). The artists will be showing at Montreal’s Galerie B-312 from March 19 to April 16. The Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan will hold a retrospective screening of their films on March 25.
Zin Taylor’s had his first solo exhibition at Brussels’ Galerie VidalCuglietta in January. From May 29 to July 10 Taylor’s work will be the subject of a major exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany. Curator Dieter Roelstraete writes about Taylor’s enigmatic and fresh approach in the current issue of Mousse Magazine.
Marla Hlady’s work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Oakville Galleries opening in September and followed in January 2012 by a solo show with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo.
Sara MacKillop recently released a new bookwork, Modern Art in Everyday Life, published by Bedford Press. Her work will be featured in a solo exhibition at New York’s White Columns gallery planned for late May through early July.
Gwen MacGregor is currently in India where she is participating in residencies in Fort Kochin, in association with Kashi Art Gallery, followed by the Kriti Gallery residency in Varanasi. The catalogue for her critically acclaimed exhibition Research, Flow Charts and Data Banks at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is now available for download on the KW/AG website.
Derek Sullivan’s solo exhibition at Kiosk gallery in Ghent, Belgium opens on April 22. He recently performed his on-going project with Gareth Long, The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas at Vancouver’s Charles H. Scott Gallery (March 8 to 11). Sullivan’s work will also be featured in BNL MTL, this year’s Biennale de Montreal opening on May 1 (through May 31).
Jed Lind is completing a major sculpture for a new condo building in Toronto, designed by Diamond + Schmitt Architects. Lind’s recent photographic works have been acquired for the collection of the Albright Knox Galley, Buffalo. His third solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects will open the Fall 2011 season.
Works by Jason McLean and Luanne Martineau are featured in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Unreal, an exhibition of works from the collection that addresses surrealist notions of the unconscious, on view until September 5, 2011. McLean will be showing collaborative sculpture (with Mark DeLong) at the Museum of Longing and Failure in Bergen, Norway from April 15 – May 27.
Luanne Martineau’s solo exhibition organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal and seen there from February to April 2010, travels to the Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines from May 7 through August. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by MACM curator Lesley Johnstone, critic Dan Adler and Rodman Hall gallery director/curator Shirley Madill accompanies the exhibition. An in-depth interview with Martineau is featured in the March issue of Canadian Art magazine.
An expanded version of Daniel Barrow’s Good Gets Better opened at SBC galerie d’art contemporain in Montreal on February 12 (until March 19). Barrow recently staged his acclaimed performance Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry in Madrid, Bologna and London. He will perform this work again on March 16 at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal.
Jon Sasaki is showing three new video works at the AGO’s Toronto Now Gallery as part of Images Festival OFF SCREEN, April 6 to June 12. His solo exhibition Good Intentions makes its third of seven stops in June at the KW/AG, when an accompanying catalogue will be launched (June 15 to September 4).
Hadley + Maxwell have a solo exhibition opening at Vancouver’s Or Gallery on April 1, as well as work in a group exhibition at Artspeak (Vancouver). In May their work will be included in the exhibition The End of Money at the Witte de With, Rotterdam, with a catalogue to be released in June. The artists were recently included in The Bell Show, curated by Dieter Roelstraete at Galerie Luttgenmeijer in Berlin, and Metrospective 1.0 at the Program Center for Art and Architecture, Berlin.
David Merritt’ssurvey exhibition Shim Sham Shimmy continues its tour, most recently to the Art Gallery of Windsor. We look forward to his second solo exhibition at the gallery this June.
There is still time to see major works by Kristan Horton, Luanne Martineau, Shary Boyle, and Pascal Grandmaison in It Is What It Is, an exciting barometer of Canadian contemporary art at the National Gallery of Canada until April 24.
Sarah Cale, recently seen at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, will be showing new paintings in a group exhibition at Galerie SAS in Montreal from March 10 to April 16.
DATES TO REMEMBER
New work by Marla Hlady until March 26
Pascal Grandmaison opens Saturday April 2 to April 30
Papier11, Montreal’s art fair of works on paper, April 14 to April 17
Paul Butler opens Saturday May 7 to June 4
David Merritt opens Saturday June 11 to July 9
Summer group show Saturday July 16 to August 20
FALL 2011 SEASON
September – Ben Reeves
November – Derek Sullivan
NOVEMBER 2010November 24, 2010
A BANNER SEASON FOR JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS
It is with pride and pleasure we celebrate gallery artists Shary Boyle, Kristan Horton and Daniel Barrow.
Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood closes at the Art Gallery of Ontario on December 5, 2010. This major exhibition, organized by Louise Déry of the Galerie de L’UQAM, also marks Shary Boyle’s win of the 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO. The exhibition is on view at the Galerie de L’UQAM on January 7, 2011 (until February 12, 2011) and at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, from June 17 through August 15, 2011.
On November 3, 2010 Kristan Horton won the $50,000 Grange Prize. Sponsored by Aeroplan, the annual Grange Prize was established in 2007. Each year the contestants’ works are exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario. This is the only major visual arts prize in Canada to choose its winner by an online public vote.
On November 18, 2010 Daniel Barrow won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award.
Canada's pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian artists under 40, the Sobey Art Award gives a total of $70,000 in prize money annually; $50,000 to the winner and $5,000 to the other four finalists chosen by a curatorial jury representing five regions across the country. Gallery artists Duke & Battersby were also finalists for the 2010 Sobey Art Award.
Daniel Barrow’s exhibition Good Gets Better continues at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects through December 23, 2010.
GIVE THE GIFT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME!
From November 27 through December 23 we will have a great selection of works by gallery artists as well as a feature selection of pieces from Other Editions. Other Editions is an on-going series of limited edition prints selected by The Other Gallery and printed by Martha Street Studio in Winnipeg. Prices ranging from $350 to $5,000.
ANNUAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
Saturday, December 18
Please join us on Saturday December 18 any time from 10:30 am to 6:00 pm, starting with champagne and orange juice, coffee and croissants and moving into wine and holiday treats throughout the day.
WINTER – SPRING 2011. SAVE THE DATES!
January 15 to February 19 – Sarah Cale
February 26 to March 26 – Marla Hlady
April 2 to April 30 – Pascal Grandmaison
May 7 to June 18 – Paul Butler
June 22 to July 23 – David Merritt
FALL 2010October 02, 2010
Gallery artists are in the spotlight everywhere this fall! - Shary Boyle at the AGO and the Gardiner Museum, Kristan Horton in The Grange Prize competition and exhibition at the AGO and two Sobey Art finalists: Duke & Battersby and Daniel Barrow - to name only a few highlights of the season.
During an August residency in Toronto, Hadley + Maxwell produced the stunning installation ”who can resist a Human? Who doesn’t finger lies”, which opened at YYZ (410 Richmond Street West) on September 9 (through December 11, 2010). Hadley + Maxwell are currently showing at Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France, in It’s the End of the World (as We Know it), curated by Bettina Steinbruegge. In addition, recently acquired Hadley + Maxwell work is currently on view in the National Gallery of Canada’s permanent collection galleries.
On September 15 Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario (until December 5). This exhibition, organized by Louise Déry, Director of the Galerie de L’UQAM, Montreal, also marks Boyle’s 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO. Comprising nearly thirty works in all media, including four spectacular large-scale installations, the exhibition will travel to Galerie de L’UQAM in January and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, in June 2011. A multi-authored publication will be launched in early December.
Shary Boyle is also featured with several new porcelain pieces in the four-person exhibition Breaking Boundaries opening at the Gardiner Museum on October 7 (until January 30, 2011). Boyle will present one of her renowned live drawing performances at the Gardiner Museum on Tuesday, October 26 at 8 PM. Sold out!
Voting started on September 22 for The Grange Prize, and ends October 31. Visit www.thegrangeprize.com to vote today! Kristan Horton’s works will be on view at the AGO with the other contestants through January 2, 2011. The Grange Prize was launched in 2008 with a mandate to recognize the best in Canadian and international contemporary photography. Three works from Horton’s Orbit series will be on view in It Is What It Is. Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from November 5, 2010 to January 23, 2011. Showcasing a selection of the museum’s most recent important acquisitions, this exhibition will also include works by gallery artists Shary Boyle, Pascal Grandmaison and Luanne Martineau, and promises to warrant a trip to Ottawa.
On October 8 the 2010 Sobey Art Award exhibition opens at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain with Duke & Battersby and Daniel Barrow (a second time finalist) who are among five finalists chosen from regions across Canada. The award will be announced on November 18. Duke & Battersby open at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects on October 16, and Daniel Barrow opens on November 20.
NOTEWORTHY
Derek Sullivan has produced the art button for this year’s Toronto International Art Fair, ART TORONTO 2010, where he is also participating in Everything Must Go, a project by fashion designer Jeremy Laing that takes the form of a mini-department store or luxury boutique. Jon Sasaki was commissioned by Art with Heart to produce the 2010 artist’s multiple, Skeleton Key to Many Cities, a beautiful custom cast pewter key - an expression of a desire to be welcome everywhere and always. Bywater Bros. Editions has just published Plants do things, a new artist book by Zin Taylor, who will also have an artist’s project in the pages of the October issue of Hunter and Cook. Taylor’s Bakery of Blok photographs were featured this summer in Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, accompanied by a recently published catalogue. Zin Taylor is currently showing work at 1857 gallery in Oslo (September 10 - October 16), and at La Maison des Arts de Malakoff in Malakoff, France (September 18 - October 10). Taylor’s work will be featured in a special project for TIAF (October 28 – November 1) co-curated by Nicholas Brown and Catherine Dean. TIAF’s Constellation Program consists of seven small, self-contained spaces distributed throughout the fair, created in collaboration with Castor Design. Intended to offer viewers a temporary escape from the crowds and bright lights of ART TORONTO, each space contains work drawn from a mix of local, national and international artists. Pascal Grandmaison’s major exhibition at the Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain opens on January 29, 2011 (until May 1, 2011; curated by Kevin Muhlen), and will be accompanied by Grandmaison’s most comprehensive publication to date. Grandmaison will be featured in an exhibition of Quebec’s finalists for the Sobey Art Award at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain, from October 8 to January 2, 2011, and he will next show at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in April 2011. Luanne Martineau will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Un-home-ly at Oakville galleries, opening on November 27 and running until February 20, 2011. Martineau is also featured in the September issue of BorderCrossings, written by Robin Laurence; while Joseph R. Wolin profiles Daniel Barrow in September’s Canadian Art.
CALENDAR
Nicolas Baier’s stunning new body of work is on view in the gallery until October 9.
Opening October 16 – new work by Sobey Art Award finalists Duke & Battersby
October 26 - Shary Boyle performs at the Gardiner Museum at 8pm
October 28 to November 1: TIAF - Art Toronto 2010, Booth 727
Opening November 20 – Sobey finalist Daniel Barrow
December 2 to 5 – NADA fair, Miami. Solo booth with Derek Sullivan
VOTE FOR KRISTAN HORTON TO WIN THE GRANGE PRIZE COMPETITION!
www.thegrangeprize.com
May 27, 2010
It’s hard to believe, but after 43 exhibitions and a renovation, the gallery celebrated its fifth anniversary on May 14th! We extend warm thanks and appreciation to the colleagues, collectors, critics, artists and curators whose enthusiasm and support are vital to our existence.
The gallery is pleased to announce that Kristan Horton has been selected amongst this year’s contestants for the Grange Prize. The prize recognizes the work of Canadian and international contemporary photographers, awarding $50,000 CAD annually to a winner chosen through an online public vote from among two Canadian and two international artists. This year’s contest will feature American and Canadian artists. Presented by Aeroplan and the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Grange Prize partners with one international art institution each year in an effort to recognize the best in Canadian and international photography. This year’s partner is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago.
Once again several artists associated with the gallery are on the recently announced nominee list for the 2010 Sobey Art Award: congratulations to Daniel Barrow, Duke & Battersby, Pascal Grandmaison and Jon Sasaki.
Gwen MacGregor and Hadley + Maxwell are among the 36 artists and collectives from 13 countries participating in Quebec’s international biennial, Manif d’art 5, in various locations in Quebec City until June 13th.
"Baroque Baroque", Hadley + Maxwell’s second solo exhibition at the gallery is reviewed by Dan Adler in the May issue of Artforum.
At The National Gallery of Canada an installation of recent acquisitions of contemporary Canadian and international drawings is on view in Ottawa through July 11, including gallery artists Daniel Barrow, Shary Boyle, Marla Hlady, David Merritt and Derek Sullivan. An expanded exhibition version is planned to tour.
The third iteration of a major survey exhibition of David Merritt’s drawing-based practice organized by Museum London opens at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, on June 12th (through August 29th). A full-colour catalogue is forthcoming.
Barbara Probst’s work is on view art The Museum of Modern Art in Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography through 2010. This selection of outstanding photographs by women artists charts the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Probst’s work will also be seen in the following exhibitions over the summer: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London and Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970 to the Present, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.
Preparations for a major exhibition of Shary Boyle’s work are now in the final stages. Curated by Louise Déry, Director of the Galerie de l’Université de Québec à Montréal, the exhibition will open at the Art Gallery of Ontario in September and travel in 2011 to the Galerie de L’UQAM, Montreal and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. The exhibition includes recent drawings, paintings and porcelain sculpture as well as several new multi-media installations, and is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue. Boyle’s work will also be featured this fall in Breaking Boundaries, with Brendan Tang, Marc Courtemanche and Carmela Laganse, at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto
WINTER 2010January 26, 2010
The season began with Jon Sasaki’s Unabashed Optimism, a critically acclaimed exhibition including a selection of Sasaki’s bound-to-fail but wryly up-beat works in various media (on view until February 9).
2010 brings a host of exhibitions and opportunities for gallery artists, among them the following highlights over the next few months:
Pascal Grandmaison’s new body of work, entitled The Inverted Ghost, is on view until February 6 in his first New York solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery (513 W 20th). The exhibition includes several large-scale diptychs and two films. As the exhibition title implies, Grandmaison highlights the polarization between fiction and reality with the ghost alluding to the hidden or invisible in the photograph. In 2011 Grandmaison will have a major solo exhibition at the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain.
Gwen MacGregor is currently participating in the Audio Out series at the Art Gallery of York University with a new collaboration with Lewis Nicholson entitled New Time. (January 9th to February 24th). Her work is included in Natural. Disaster curated by Jessica Wyman for the McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London (March 4th to April 25th). MacGregor has been invited to participate in Manif d’art, the Quebec Biennial curated by Sylvie Fortin in Quebec City, May 1st to June 13th.
Zin Taylor’s work is discussed in the winter issue of BorderCrossings in a feature article by Toronto and Rotterdam based author Eric Woodley. Taylor’s The Bakery of Blok project premiered at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects last April and was seen in a subsequent version in his first solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu gallery, New York, in June. Taylor, whose work explores the many layers of growth involved in the development of forms, will mount a new installation in the Front Room series at the St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, February 3rd to 14th. Curator Anthony Huberman, formerly of the Palais de Tokyo, comments: “The Front Room allows the museum to reflect the urgency of art-making in our contemporary moment and serves as an always-active curatorial sketch-book.”
Kristan Horton is participating in Days of Eclipse, at Mercer Union, Toronto, opening January 22nd (on view until March 6). The inaugural exhibition at Silver Flag Projects in Montreal features Kristan Horton in a show of new work entitled The Echo Chamber, on view from March 6 to April 3. (http://silverflag.org).
And in case you missed it, check out the November/December issue of Frieze magazine to read Dan Adler on Kristan Horton’s Orbit series of photographic works shown at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects last September and currently featured in Beautiful Fictions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (ending this Sunday, January 24).
Luanne Martineau’s work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain opening February 3rd (through April 25th). The exhibition is accompanied by the artist’s first comprehensive catalogue, with essays by Lesley Johnstone, Shirley Madill and Dan Adler.
Nicolas Baier’s major traveling exhibition of recent work, Paréidolies opens at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa on February 11th (on view until April 25th). The accompanying catalogue will be launched at this time. Baier has begun work on a major corporate commission in Toronto to be unveiled in the spring.
Hadley + Maxwell’s first large scale solo exhibition in the Netherlands opened at SMART Projects on January 16th. The exhibition title “Improperties” refers to the artists’ love of making new, ‘improper’, use of objects, concepts, gestures and ornamentation - as well as their fascination with the role that aesthetic constructions play in our simultaneous resistance to and longing for the seduction of images. Hadley + Maxwell are currently participating in An Invitation to an Infiltration organized by guest curator Eric Fredericksen for Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad (until February 28th). Their second solo exhibition opens at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects on February 13 and they open a solo exhibition at Samsa gallery in Berlin on February 26th. Last summer Hadley + Maxwell’s showed their multi-media installation project 1 + 1 -1 in Nomads, an exhibition of West Coast artists at the National Gallery of Canada. Several works from this project were subsequently acquired by the museum.
Jason McLean has been invited to participate in Endlessly Traversed Landscapes, a public poster project featuring 21 artists from across Canada whose works will be featured throughout the city of Vancouver on billboards, bus shelters and public transportation. Among those who have been commissioned by the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad for this project are Dana Claxton, Robin Collyer, Garry Neill Kennedy, Kevin Schmidt, Adad Hannah and Geneviève Cadieux. Their projects will be seen in various locations as part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad until March 21st.
Daniel Barrow will show two new projection installations in a solo exhibition curated by Philip Monk for the Art Gallery of York University, opening March 31st (on view through June 6th, including publication). Barrow’s beautifully designed and illustrated hardcover book No One Helped Me, designed by Circle Square, Brooklyn, is on its way to press (essays by Stephen Matijcio and Jon Davies, published in collaboration with Video Pool Inc., Platform Gallery and Pug-in ICA, Winnipeg).
2010 promises to be another big year for Shary Boyle: Louise Dery, Director of the Galerie de L’UQAM, Montreal and Canada’s Commissioner for the 2007 Venice Biennial, has announced her next major monographic project will be an exhibition of Shary Boyle’s work with a comprehensive publication, opening in October 2010. Plans are now in motion to tour this exhibition to other institutions. Also in October, Shary Boyle will participate in Splendeurs barbares / Barbaric Splendours, with Valerie Blass and Nathalie Djudberg, curated by Nathalie de Blois at the Musee de Quebec, Quebec City, and Breaking Boundaries, with Brendan Tang, Marc Courtemanche and Carmela Laganse, organized by chief curator Charles Mason at the Gardner Museum, Toronto.
Winter-Spring 2010 Exhibition Schedule
Jon Sasaki Unabashed Optimism, until February 6
Hadley + Maxwell February 13 to March 13
Jason McLean March 20 to April 17
Barbara Probst April 24 to May 22
Sara MacKillop June 5 to July 3
AUTUMN 2009 NEWSLETTEROctober 24, 2009
The season opened on September 12 with a spectacular exhibition of new photographic works by Kristan Horton (closing October 10). Entitled Orbit, this series originates in accumulations of objects in the studio, which are then subjected to an intensive digital processing to create images that recall Cubist and Futurist paintings. Horton’s work is also on view in Beautiful Fictions at the Art Gallery of Ontario through January 17, 2010.
Watch for Dan Adler's review of Horton's Orbit series in the November issue of Frieze magazine.
Two gallery artists, Shary Boyle and Luanne Martineau were among the five finalists for the 2009 Sobey Art Award. Created by the Sobey Art Foundation, the $50,000 Sobey Art Award is presented annually after an intensive selection process made by a five-member jury from across Canada. Luanne Martineau has been nominated four times and a finalist for the first time. Shary Boyle has been nominated three times and a finalist twice.
Shary Boyle’s work will be seen in “Le sort probable de l’homme qui avait avalé le fantôme” on view at the centre des monuments nationaux, Paris, in the Centre Pompidou’s Nouveau Festival (22 October to 23 November, 2009). Boyle is the recipient of a residency at the prestigious Yaddo Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, for the month of October 2009.
Luanne Martineau’s work will be seen at The Power Plant in Nothing to Declare, an exhibition that considers a renewed interest in objects and materials among emerging as well as senior artists (December 10, 2009 – February 21, 2010). A solo exhibition of Martineau’s work opens at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain February 4, 2010, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by curator Lesley Johnstone, Shirley Madill and critic Dan Adler.
Derek Sullivan’s third solo exhibition at the gallery continues through November 14th. Sullivan has transformed the gallery by creating a sculptural installation that interacts with the space and his new suite of drawings.
Ben Reeves’s widely anticipated second solo exhibition, entitled Oil and Water, opens Saturday November 21 (through December 19).
At the gallery booth #1108 at Art Toronto (TIAF), works by Ben Reeves, Luanne Martineau, Jason McLean, Derek Sullivan,Gwen MacGregor and Pascal Grandmaison, among others, were acclaimed by collectors. (October 22 – 26 22)
NOTEWORTHY
In September Daniel Barrow performed his celebrated Every Time I see Your Picture I Cry at The Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles and at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland. He performed The Face of Everything at PS 1, New York on October 2. Barrow has been awarded the Canada Council studio residency in New York City commencing in January 2010.
A DVD of Barrow’s renowned Winnipeg Babysitter, featuring his narration of the history of early performances by Guy Maddin, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, The Cosmopolitans, Magic Mike, Natalie and Ronnie Pollock, and many more, is now available for purchase. ($20) here>>>
Duke & Battersby are among the “10 artists setting the pace of contemporary art” selected by Canadian Art magazine and featured in an in depth article by Jon Davies in the fall 2009 25th anniversary issue. They are currently participating in Abject Nature at Union Gallery, Kingston and have solo exhibitions of their video installation Beauty Plus Pity at Rochester Contemporary Art, Rochester and the UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City. Duke & Battersby’s work will be seen on Saturday October 24th in the News at 5 series of one day exhibitions selected by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes for Art Toronto (TIAF, Metro Convention Centre).
Pascal Grandmaison will have his first solo exhibition in New York at Jack Shainman Gallery, opening in January 2010.
Several works from Hadley and Maxwell’s spectacular installation 1 + 1 - 1 (seen in the Nomads exhibition this summer) have been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada. Their solo exhibition The Lemonade is Weak Like Your Soul is currently on view at the Kunstverein Göttingen and features five new video works, a sound work, sculptures, drawings and paintings. Hadley and Maxwell are producing an artist publication titled Uninterrupted Stage Directions for Louise Miller with Argo Books in Berlin. Their second solo exhibition at the gallery will open in February 2010.
Jed Lind is among the “10 artists setting the pace of contemporary art” selected by Canadian
Art magazine and featured in an in depth article by Robert Fones in the fall 2009 25th anniversary issue. Lind’s work will be seen on Thursday October 22nd and Friday October 23rd in the News at 5 series of mini-exhibitions selected by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes for Art Toronto (TIAF, Metro Convention Centre).
Jason Mclean is participating In ARENA: Road Game at Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (until November 1, 2009) with James Carl, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Tim Lee, Graeme Patterson, Ron Terada, and Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg, among others. McLean is among the artists selected to produce a billboard project for the Vancouver Olympics in February 2010. He will have his first solo exhibition in New York at La Viola Bank gallery opening October 28th and
a solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in March2010.
Sara MacKillop has been nominated by Fiona Banner for the Whitechapel Max Mara Award for Women, which recognizes the achievements of a UK-based artist who has not yet had a major solo exhibition. MacKillop’s work is illustrated in the “10 Best” section of this October’s Artforum where artist Ian Kiaer describes her objects as "...beautiful works that draw out modernism’s redundancy without falling into cynical or knowing commentary. It involves saying and showing and passing over in silence.”
A major exhibition of David Merritt’s drawings and sculpture, entitled Shim, is on view at Museum London, October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010. The exhibition will tour throughout 2010 and includes a full colour catalogue
In September Zin Taylor‘s work was seen in Past Imperfect as part of Contour 2009: 4th Biennial of the Moving Image and Dream machines: Objects and Physical Phenomena (A Reciprocal Love Story), Beaubourg, both in Brussels. In November Taylor’s work will be featured in The Archeologists at Ursula Blickle Stiftung,Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany. The October issue of Flash Art counts Zin Taylor among the 100 young artists to watch worldwide. Dan Adler reviews Tayor’s April 2009 exhibition at the gallery in the current C magazine. Watch for a feature article on Taylor’s work in the November issue of BorderCrossings magazine.
COMING UP WINTER 2010
January: Jon Sasaki – a mini retrospective plus new work
February: Hadley + Maxwell
March: Jason McLean
May 14, 2009
We are proud to announce four gallery artists were among the nominees for the 2009 Sobey Art Award (Shary Boyle, Pascal Grandmaison, Luanne Martineau and Derek Sullivan). Congratulations to Shary Boyle and Luanne Martineau who are among the five finalists for this prestigious award which will be announced on October 15.
The Sobey Art Award, Canada‘s preeminent award for contemporary Canadian art, was created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation. It is an annual prize given to an artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. A total of $70,000 in prize money is awarded annually; $50,000 to the winner and $5,000 to the other four finalists.
From May 28 to August 30 2009, Noise Ghost is at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto. This exhibition, curated by Nancy Campbell, brings together works by Shary Boyle and Inuit artist Shuvinai Ashoona. Of special note is Boyle's The Clearances (2007), a unique projection and drawing installation.
The Noise Ghost is an Inuit poltergeist, an arctic auditory phenomenon of incorporeal guile. This unseen, unbodied noise ghost may announce his haunting visitation by curling around a northern house on a cold quiet night and emitting a small, high-pitched hissing. Shary Boyle and Cape Dorset artist Shuvinai Ashoona envision the monstrous and mystical in their work.
The National Gallery of Canada has acquired several elements of 1 + 1 - 1, a major installation by gallery artists Hadley + Maxwell which is currently on view in Nomads, an exhibition of works by five innovative Vancouver-based artists at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), until August 30. Hadley + Maxwell's immersive environment evokes the band rehearsal space or recording studio through video, sound, sculpture and painting.
Hadley + Maxwell’s 1 + 1 -1 developed over the past two years with versions of the project seen at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin in 2007, in their 2008 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects and in the recent How Soon in Now at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 1 + 1 - 1 evolved from the artist’s interest in Jean Luc Godard’s renowned film Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One) which documents the Rolling Stones' 1968 recording sessions for their hit song.
Jed Lind's work is included in Universal Code at the Power Plant, Toronto, through August 30th. Lind's recent photographs of the night sky inspire wonder. The vastness of the universe and its ultimate mystery resonate in these long-exposure analogue works. Universal Code is curated by Gregory Burke, Director of the Power Plant. The exhibition brings together Canadian and international artists from a variety of cultural positions to reflect on topics driving the development of contemporary culture. The artists selected explore the intricate relationships between our evolving understandings of the cosmos; the production of scientific and cultural knowledge; cultural and religious belief systems; information technologies and global power relations. The exhibition considers the response of artists to these relationships in the aftermath of globalization, reflecting the current complexity of the world we inhabit.
Other artists in Universal Code include: Adel Abdessemed, Franz Ackermann, Angela Bulloch, Mircea Cantor, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Henrik Håkansson, Antonia Hirsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Kimsooja, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Josiah McElheny, Tania Mouraud, Gabriel Orozco, The Otolith Group, Adrian Paci, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Fred Tomaselli and Keith Tyson.
Zin Taylor's new work is on view until August 2nd in his first New York solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery (36 Orchard St. between Canal and Hester, New York).
Benny Nemerofsky-Ramsay's celebrated video Live to Tell (2002) is on view at New York's Bitforms gallery (526 West 20th St), in They Told You So from July 16 to August 14.
THE GALLERY IS CLOSED JULY 20 THROUGH AUGUST. THE FALL 2O09 SEASON OPENS ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12 WITH NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS BY KRISTAN HORTON.
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October 01, 2008
We look forward to welcoming you to our newly renovated and expanded space over the fall season. The gallery is pleased to present three extraordinary solo exhibitions, beginning with new work by Montreal artist Pascal Grandmaison on view until October 18. From September 27, 2008 to January 4, 2009 a major exhibition of Grandmaison’s recent film and photographic work will be on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton accompanied by a forthcoming monograph.
We look forward with anticipation to Los Angeles artist Jed Lind’s second exhibition at the gallery, opening 6 to 9 PM Wednesday October 22 (until November 19).
Luanne Martineau will show new wall works opening 2 to 5 PM Saturday November 22 (until December 20). Martineau’s works received critical attention at the Montreal Biennial in fall 2007 and were subsequently acquired by the Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal. The National Gallery of Canada recently acquired her monumental sculpture Buttress (2005).
Visit us at Booth 1106 at the Toronto International Art Fair, October 3 to 6. (www.tiafair.com) On the fair fringe: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby's video installation Reanimating the Universe with Basic Breathing Exercises will be on view at the Gladstone Hotel's upArt Fair October 2 to 5, presented by the curatorial collective Groupe Thérapie.
NOTEWORTHY
Hadley + Maxwell’s exhibition at the gallery last January was the talk for the town. Don’t miss this Berlin-based duo’s upcoming participation in the international exhibition If we can’t get it together selected by Swedish curator Nina Möntmann for the Power Plant, opening Friday December 12, 7 to 10 PM (until February 22, 2009). Hadley + Maxwell’s work has been acquired recently by the National Gallery of Canada where it will be seen in a major installation for the 2009 exhibition Nomads.
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s much-anticipated new video work Beauty Plus Pity, 2008, also opens in a solo exhibition at the Power Plant on December 12. Their Songs for the Heart Beyond Cure, 2006, was widely noted by critics and the art community alike when it was shown in the exhibition Fantasia at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (2006).
Shary Boyle has been invited to complete two major porcelain sculptures in response to historical works in the AGO’s collection, to be installed for the Frank Gehry building opening in mid-November. This year Boyle performed her Dark Hand and Lamplight, a live drawing event with musician Doug Paisley, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in connection with the Kara Walker exhibition. She has been invited with Paisely to perform this piece again on December 18, in the BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Next Wave Festival 2008.
A major exhibition of Nicolas Baier’s work entitled Pareidolias, comes to Toronto at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA) February 6 to March 9, 2009, organized by the Musée régional de Rimouski and touring to The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Musée de Québec, among others.
PUBLICATIONS AND EDITIONS
Zin Taylor The Crystal Ship: This artist’s book accompanies a series of exhibitions on Marcel Broodthaers organized by AmuséeVous, Brussels. Images and text by Zin Taylor. Designed by Zin Taylor and Roger Bywater. Published by Bywater Bros. Editions and Etablissement d’en face projects, Toronto & Brussels, 2008. 68 pages. Edition of 500. $12.
Derek Sullivan’s artist book Persistent Huts, recently published by Printed Matter, New York, includes 18 fold out pages with illustrations. AA Bronson describes this unique publication as “a riff on Ruscha's Sunset Strip improbably married to Kippenberger's Psychobuildings.” $15. Sullivan is completing a second catalogue/artist’s book this fall, related to his recent exhibition of Poster Drawings at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. 96 pages. Designed by the Office of Gilbert Li.
Gwen MacGregor: Disappearing Things: due to be released in October, this artist’s book designed by Lewis Nicholson brings together an ongoing project of photographs, video and sculptural objects that relate conceptually to disappearing things. 144 pages full colour. Text by Jacob Wren. Published by Rodman Hall, St. Catharines. MacGregor joins Sandra Rechiko in Maps in Doubt, a collaborative exhibition curated by critic Dan Adler for the new Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West at Lansdowne) Oct 24th to Nov 29th.
LOOKING AHEAD
The 8th in a series of special project exhibitions at the gallery since its inauguration in May 2005 will open mid-January 2009 featuring works by Jason McLean and Adrian Norvid. Both artists have shown in group exhibitions at the gallery in the past. This exhibition brings their work together in a dialogue between the individual linear and iconic vocabularies that have brought considerable attention to both artists. Norvid’s recent participation in the Montreal Triennial at the Musée d’art contemporain was highlighted by critics and a major work has since been acquired by the museum. McLean’s work has steadily gained recognition in Canada and Europe. He is currently participating in an exhibition at LaViolaBank gallery, one of the new galleries in the quickly developing Lower East Side scene in New York. McLean has recently moved from Vancouver where his career began, to Toronto. Welcome Jason!
Mid-February 2009 a much-anticipated solo exhibition of new work by Shary Boyle.
Following his solo exhibition The Flute of Sub, at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, in 2007 and his participation this month in Autour et au-dela de Broodthaers at the Musée BELvue, Brussels, Zin Taylor returns to Jessica Bradley Art + Projects with an exhibition of new work opening April 9, 2009. In May Gwen MacGregor returns from residencies and projects overseas for her second solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.
September 10, 2008
The gallery will re-open officially on the Canadian Art Hop Saturday, September 20 with a conversation between Grandmaison and critic Leah Sandals at 3.30 PM, followed by a reception for the artist from 4 to 6 PM.