OCTOBER 2007 NEWSLETTER
October 24, 2007
We are pleased to announce the gallery will participate in the by-invitation-only Aqua Art Fair Miami, 5 to 9 December. This year Aqua Art Miami will take place in two locations simultaneously, including an exciting new venue located in a renovated warehouse in the Wynwood gallery district. We are in Booth 26 at the Wynwwod location, just a few blocks from the Rubell Collection, and close to other important venues such as the Margulies Collection and the MOCA Goldman warehouse, and a number of other fairs including NADA, Pulse, Scope Miami, Art Miami, Photo Miami, and The Photography Show.
In his second solo exhibition at the gallery Derek Sullivan pierced the architecture and unified the space with a new series of large drawings and fabric sculptures made with laser-cut text (until November 3). Until December 18 Sullivan's work can also be seen in New York in On Being an Exhibition at Artist's Space, with BGL, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Germaine Koh, Isola and Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Jackie Sumell, Anne Walsh/Chris Kubick, Lee Walton and Laurel Woodcock. Works by Nicolas Baier and Pascal Grandmaison are included in Son et vision : L'image photographique et vide_ographique dans l'art contemporain au Canada, with Kevin Schmidt, Tim Lee and others at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, until November 17. Kristan Horton's work is on view in On the Beach with Don Coltman, Jack Lindsay and Taras Polataiko at Artspeak, Vancouver, until November 24, and his Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove project is at the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB, until 16 December 2007.
David Merritt's first solo exhibition opens at the gallery on Saturday November 10 (until December 8) with new, large drawings and suspended sisal sculptures. A five-year survey of photographs and video by Pascal Grandmaison opens at the National Gallery of Canada on November 16 (to 17 February, 2008) and his Le Grand Jour and other new works opens at Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (14 January to 13 April, 2008). Lisa Klapstock has been invited to show her video works, Ambiguous Landscapes and Migration, in the Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin Video Festival held in Paris, where at the same time her work will be featured in a two-person show with Paulette Phillips at the Centre Culturel Canadien (November 27 to February 2).
The gallery celebrates the holiday season on Saturday December 15 with two contrasting exhibitions, Silence, featuring subtle works by Montreal's Marie-Claire Blais and Chris Kline, and Unlimited, a selection of special editions and multiples by gallery artists and guests Laurel Woodcock and Jon Sasaki which are sure to inspire gift-giving (until January 19).
COMING UP IN 2008
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects is thrilled to be invited to participate in this prestigious European fair in Madrid, February 13 - 18, featuring a special project by Nicholas Baier .
The winter-spring season opens on January 19 (until February 16) with an exciting project by the Berlin-based Vancouver duo Hadley + Maxwell. Recipients of the prestigious VIVA award (2005), Hadley + Maxwell's work was most recently featured in an exhibition at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany, with a publication.
Marla Hlady mounts a major new sound sculpture at at YYZ, Toronto, January 11 - February 23, 2008, and Derek Sullivan's exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery opens on January 26 (until March 2). The exhibtion will be accompanied by a book designed by the artist. On March 8 Shary Boyle's Otherworld Uprising y, a major exhibition bringing together for the first time much of her projection material and including the drawing/projection installation she created and exhibited in London where she had a studio in the past year (Southern Alberta Art Gallery and touring). A fully illustrated hardcover book of the same title will be launched with the exhibition, published by Conundrum Press, Montreal and teh Southern Alberta Art Gallery.