SPRING - SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2009
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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