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