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SPRING 2008 NEWSLETTER
March 20, 2008
Shary Boyle’s extraordinary book Otherworld Uprising, arrives mid-April. Published by Conundrum Press, Montreal, in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, this full-colour volume includes over 100 illustrations, an introduction by Art Gallery of Ontario assistant curator Ben Portis and essays by National Gallery of Canada curator of contemporary art Josée Drouin Brisebois and award-winning fiction writer Sheila Heti. The artist will sign books at David Mirvish Books on Art, 596 Markham Street, Sunday May 25th.
Shary Boyle: The History of Light continues through April 27th at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge. The History of Light explores the performative aspect of Boyle’s practice, showcasing her overhead projection works of the past decade and bringing together for the first time related costumes, collages and drawings.
Boyle’s work is included in Pandora's Box at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, May 16th to July 20th with Laylah Ali, Ghada Amer, Lori Blondeau, Amy Cutler, Chitra Ganesh, Annie Pootoogook, Wangechi Mutu, Leesa Streifler, Kara Walker and Su-en Wong. She will perform with rising Winnipeg singer/songwriter Chirstine Fellows at the Dunlop on May 17th.
On May 7th Boyle performs Dark Hand and Lamplight with Doug Paisley at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in conjunction with the Kara Walker exhibition. Shary Boyle’s work is featured in the current AZURE magazine.The gallery is proud to announce the long-awaited world premiere of Daniel Barrow’s Every time I See your Picture I Cry under the auspices of the 2008 Images Festival. Barrow will perform his newest “manual animation” combining overhead projection with video, music, and live animation on Thursday, Friday and Saturday April 10, 11, 12 at 7.30 PM. Tickets available at Harbourfront Centre. Barrow goes on to perform this major work at the Gene Siskel Theatre in Chicago, April 24th.
On April 3rd Kristan Horton’s innovative video animation Cig2Coke2Tin2Coff2Milk
(2006) will open at White Columns, New York, where Derek Sullivan has been invited to create the next installment of White Columns’ Bulletin Board Project (April 3rd to May 3rd). Kristan Horton has produced a special project insert print of one of his spiral drawings from his series Drawing a History of World War One in Fillip 7, a Vancouver-based journal of art and culture. These drawings were celebrated throughout the extensive press for the critically acclaimed exhibition Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War (organized by the Blackwood Gallery in collaboration with the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto), which will be seen later this year at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal.
A solo exhibition of Derek Sullivan’s multiples at Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris, runs until April 20th. He is also showing multiples in P2P (curated by Le Bureau) at Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg, until April 6th. Sullivan is in the process of creating an artist-designed publication with an essay by independent curator Pamela Meredith documenting his recent solo exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. He is completing another artist book commissioned by Printed Matter, New York, which will be launched at their booth during Art Basel, June 4 -8. Derek Sullivan and Luanne Martineau are participating in the group exhibition Citizen, Denizen, Resident at Tatjana Pieters/One Twenty Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, March 16th to April 27th.Lisa Klapstock will show work from her Ambiguous Landscapes series in the group exhibition Vidéo Appart to be held in private Parisian apartments (www.video-appart.fr). Klapstock will show her new series, Field Studies for the first time in From One to Another, a four-person exhibition at Interval, Manchester, U.K, April 18th to May 1st.
Hadley + Maxwell and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay are participating in Just Play: Music as Social Praxis at the Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenbrug, Germany, March 18th to May 18th.
Sara MacKillop’s work is featured in a two-person exhibition with Ian Kiaer at the International Project Space, Birmingham until April 19. Mackillop will have a solo exhibition at the Leicester City Art Gallery from May 10th to June 28th.
Gwen MacGregor’s 3 months Toronto/New York, which has received critical acclaim during the past year at the Rencontres Internationales video and film event held in Paris, Madrid and Berlin, is included in the "Best of Transmedia" in Melbourne, Australia, in April. Her work is featured in a solo exhibition (with catalogue) at Rodman Hall, St. Catharines, opening June 21st and continuing until September.
David Merritt will show a new edition of prints produced during a residency at Open Studio, May 1st to 24th (401 Richmond Street).
Nicolas Baier’s mural-sized ensemble of his Vanités works is included in the first Triennale de Montréal, an ambitious survey of over 30 artists in the burgeoning Qubécois art scene, mounted by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, opening May 24th .
Zin Taylor’s video Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net Station in Dawson City, Yukon, 2007, is included in a program of artists’ films linked to the Power Plant’s summer exhibition Affectionate Homages and Hostile Takeovers, which features artistic remakes that range from the reverential to the mischievous. Wednesday June 25th, 7.30 PM.
Watch for the feature article on Vancouver Painter Ben Reeves by David Jager in the summer issue of Canadian Art magazine.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
April 10, 11, 12 DANIEL BARROW performs at Harbourfront Centre
Tuesday May 6, 5.30 – 7.30 Book Signing BARBARA PROBST Mirvish Books
Wednesday May 7, 6-9 PM, Opening BARBARA PROBST
Sunday afternoon May 25 Book Signing SHARY BOYLE Mirvish Books -
Aqua Art Miami, December 3-9
November 24, 2007
In a few days the gallery will participate in Aqua Art Miami in the fair’s new warehouse location in the Wynwood art and design district. Participating galleries are invited by Aqua on their merit, rather than by application.
While this fair also continues in its original location at the Aqua Hotel in Miami Beach, the entirely refurbished Wynwood site is around the corner from the Rubell Collection, the Marguiles Collection and a few blocks from NADA, Pulse, the Photo fairs and more.
You will find Jessica Bradley Art + Projects at booth 26, among the 45 other galleries in Aqua/Wynwood. Consolidation of activity in Wynwood this year promises to make the district an exciting destination over the Miami Art Week December 3-9, with several shuttles running to and from Art Basel Miami Beach.
In addition to the great list of artists the gallery is bringing to Aqua/Wynwood, the dynamic Berlin-based Vancouver duo Hadley + Maxwell (who have recently joined the gallery and will mount a special project in January 2008) have been selected by Seattle Art Museum curator Michael Darling for the Art Basel Video Lounge program where their work 1 + 1 – 1 can be viewed during the fair. Gallery artists Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Duke & Battersby and Daniel Barrow will also have video works in the exhibition Get Lost, which can be seen at Locust Projects/USA in conjunction with Art Basel Miami, in the Wynwood district at 105 NW 23rd Street.
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New Edition
October 25, 2007
The gallery is pleased to announce the long-anticipated edition launch of Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s Live to Tell at the Toronto International Art Fair (October 26-29).
Live to Tell, 2002
An ubiquity of surveillance cameras bears witness to a choral rendition of a 1980s Madonna ballad.6 minutes, looping DVD, colour with sound
Includes custom packaging designed by the artist, a sub-master archival disk and an exhibition copy disk with a letter-press numbered and signed letter written by the artist to Madonna, sealed envelope.
Signed and numbered certificate.Edition of 5 plus one Artists’s Proof $2,500
"Live to Tell" has screened in over 150 film and video festivals worldwide, in galleries in Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Japan, Spain and Canada (including this summer's Auto Emotion exhibition at Toronto's Power Plant) and won prizes at the Hamburg Short Film Festival and Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofestival"
"Madonna should thank her lucky stars an artist like Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay pays her any attention. His kind of sophisticated analysis of her psychic effect on people's lives does not come around often, although his derivative work stands alone as a statement on social change and personal triumph. His incredible interpretations are so full of true and deeply buried emotion, they never parody or even directly refer to the original maker's pilfered material."
Stefan St-Laurent, in It Will Burn Inside of Me, an essay on Nemerofsky Ramsay's video work. -
OCTOBER 2007 NEWSLETTER
October 24, 2007
We are pleased to announce the gallery will participate in the by-invitation-only Aqua Art Fair Miami, 5 to 9 December. This year Aqua Art Miami will take place in two locations simultaneously, including an exciting new venue located in a renovated warehouse in the Wynwood gallery district. We are in Booth 26 at the Wynwwod location, just a few blocks from the Rubell Collection, and close to other important venues such as the Margulies Collection and the MOCA Goldman warehouse, and a number of other fairs including NADA, Pulse, Scope Miami, Art Miami, Photo Miami, and The Photography Show.
In his second solo exhibition at the gallery Derek Sullivan pierced the architecture and unified the space with a new series of large drawings and fabric sculptures made with laser-cut text (until November 3). Until December 18 Sullivan's work can also be seen in New York in On Being an Exhibition at Artist's Space, with BGL, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Germaine Koh, Isola and Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Jackie Sumell, Anne Walsh/Chris Kubick, Lee Walton and Laurel Woodcock. Works by Nicolas Baier and Pascal Grandmaison are included in Son et vision : L'image photographique et vide_ographique dans l'art contemporain au Canada, with Kevin Schmidt, Tim Lee and others at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, until November 17. Kristan Horton's work is on view in On the Beach with Don Coltman, Jack Lindsay and Taras Polataiko at Artspeak, Vancouver, until November 24, and his Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove project is at the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB, until 16 December 2007.
David Merritt's first solo exhibition opens at the gallery on Saturday November 10 (until December 8) with new, large drawings and suspended sisal sculptures. A five-year survey of photographs and video by Pascal Grandmaison opens at the National Gallery of Canada on November 16 (to 17 February, 2008) and his Le Grand Jour and other new works opens at Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (14 January to 13 April, 2008). Lisa Klapstock has been invited to show her video works, Ambiguous Landscapes and Migration, in the Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin Video Festival held in Paris, where at the same time her work will be featured in a two-person show with Paulette Phillips at the Centre Culturel Canadien (November 27 to February 2).
The gallery celebrates the holiday season on Saturday December 15 with two contrasting exhibitions, Silence, featuring subtle works by Montreal's Marie-Claire Blais and Chris Kline, and Unlimited, a selection of special editions and multiples by gallery artists and guests Laurel Woodcock and Jon Sasaki which are sure to inspire gift-giving (until January 19).COMING UP IN 2008
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects is thrilled to be invited to participate in this prestigious European fair in Madrid, February 13 - 18, featuring a special project by Nicholas Baier .
The winter-spring season opens on January 19 (until February 16) with an exciting project by the Berlin-based Vancouver duo Hadley + Maxwell. Recipients of the prestigious VIVA award (2005), Hadley + Maxwell's work was most recently featured in an exhibition at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany, with a publication.
Marla Hlady mounts a major new sound sculpture at at YYZ, Toronto, January 11 - February 23, 2008, and Derek Sullivan's exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery opens on January 26 (until March 2). The exhibtion will be accompanied by a book designed by the artist. On March 8 Shary Boyle's Otherworld Uprising y, a major exhibition bringing together for the first time much of her projection material and including the drawing/projection installation she created and exhibited in London where she had a studio in the past year (Southern Alberta Art Gallery and touring). A fully illustrated hardcover book of the same title will be launched with the exhibition, published by Conundrum Press, Montreal and teh Southern Alberta Art Gallery. -
Shary Boyle finalist for Sobey Art Award
July 13, 2007
Shary Boyle has been chosen as a finalist for the Sobey Art Award. A national curatorial panel has selected five finalists, one from each of the five regions, for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank.
An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The 2007 Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank, featuring works by the five artists selected for the Sobey Art Award national shortlist, will run from September 15, 2007 to December 2, 2007. The winner of the 2007 Sobey Art Award will be announced at a gala on October 15, 2007.
The Sobey Art Award is given to an artist who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. The panel of five curators, one representing each of the five regions, met May 15 and 16 in Halifax to take the national long list of 25 artists to a shortlist of five.
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Newsletter
April 10, 2007
The gallery is proud to announce that Luanne Martineau will receive a prestigious VIVA award in Vancouver on May 15th. The VIVA awards (Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts) is funded by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation and bestows two $10,000 prizes annually on mid-career artists in British Columbia. Martineau's exhibition Freak-out, which opened the fall 2006 season at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, was reviewed in the December 06 issue of Artforum by Dan Adler who said of her work: “Martineau presents stark juxtapositions - exemplified by regularized grids combined with wigged-out representations of the body - that compel, in pleasingly complicated ways, reflection on modernisms past, and on the role that handwork may still play as a basis for critical art-making.” Martineau participated in a panel at Tate Modern on February 16, 2007, in connection with the exhibition Informal Architectures. Martineau's work has also been selected for inclusion in the Montreal Biennial, opening on May 10, 2007. Martineau's special edition book, Freakout, which includes a hand felted cover by the artist, will be launched for the Biennial.
The gallery is pleased to welcome acclaimed Montreal artist Isabelle Hayeur in May for Contact, Toronto's annual celebration of photography. From May 17 to June 16 Hayeur will show a new group of her haunting reconstructed views of the urban landscape. During the month of May her huge panomrama of the changing skyline of Toronto, specially commissioned by Contact, will be seen in the windows of the Drake Hotel on Queen St. West.
The 2007 winter-spring season winds up with gallery artist Sara MacKillop's first solo exhibition in Toronto. With her spare reprise of modernist form using common, recently out-dated objects Mackillop joins other British artists of her generation such as Ian Kiaer, in re-thinking the margins of sculpture and installation art. In the rear gallery works by British painter Paul Housley and Toronto artist Mark Bell will complement this exhibition.
NOTEWORTHY
Shary Boyle left Canada for a six-month residency in London, England, awarded by the Canada Council's International Studio Program. The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, will mount a comprehensive touring exhibition of Boyle's multi-disciplinary practice in March 2008. This exhibition will be accompanied by a book on Shary Boyle's art, with an essay by National Gallery of Canada Curator of Contemporary Art Josée Drouin-Brisebois and fiction author Sheila Heti, published by Conundrum Press, Montreal, in association with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
Zin Taylor's work was included in Ideas of North at the Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, one of Berlin's most noticed new galleries, selected by Belgian curator Dieter Roelstraete. (January 20 - March, 2007). Taylor's new DVD Put your Eyes in your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-net Station in Dawson City, Yukon (2006, 22 minutes, colour) premiered in Canada at Presentation House, Vancouver, in January and is on view at Toronto's YYZ opening until April 21,2007. Taylor's work was featured in a review in the April 07 Artforum of the group show "Ideas of North" and his exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (March 10-April 7) was reviewed on line in Artforum.com.
Kristan Horton will participate in Stutter and Twitch (also including David Claerbout, Nancy Davenport, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Adad Hannah and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy ) at the Hessel Museum, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. April 7 - 22, 2007. Horton's first Solo exhibition opens at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects on April 14, and his acclaimed Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove (2003-2006) photographic series will be brought together for the first time in a solo exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of York University (April 25 - June 24, 2007). This exhibition will also travel to the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, in July and is accompanied by a publication. From August to October Horton will participate in the annual Beyond/In Western New York exhibition at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
Pascal Grandmaison's recent exhibition at the Musee D'art Contemporain has been confirmed by the National Gallery of Canada for inclusion its 2008 program at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa (the exhibition is accompanied by a handsome bilingual catalogue with essays by Pierre Landry and former Power Plant curator Reid Shier).
This spring Grandmaison will complete a major commission for Torys law firm offices in Toronto.From June through August 2007 Lisa Klapstock will be living in Copenhagen on a residency organized by the Danish Arts Council.
