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.