AUTUMN 2009 NEWSLETTER
October 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