Fall Newsletter 2008
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.