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Amanda Clyne’s ‘Silver Variation’ at the Art...

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:05:54 -0400

Amanda Clyne’s ‘Silver Variation’ at the Art Dealer Association of Canada pavilion at Art Chicago.

Duncan Macdonald is part of In The Soil, Niagara Arts festival.

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:23:59 -0400

Duncan Macdonald is part of In The Soil, Niagara Arts festival.

GORGEOUS weather outside! Commune with Toronto’s urban landscape via Jessica Thompson’s...

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:14:59 -0400

GORGEOUS weather outside! Commune with Toronto’s urban landscape via Jessica Thompson’s Swinging Suitcase. #swingingsuitcase

Hello Kelowna! William Griffiths is part of Sopa Fine Arts' U8, April 7-17, 2011

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:07:57 -0400

Check out William Griffiths on ArtSync!

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:39:00 -0400

Check out William Griffiths on ArtSync!

Getting ready to install William Griffiths show tomorrow....

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:08:33 -0500

Getting ready to install William Griffiths show tomorrow. Can’t decide which green painting is my favourite. Thoughts?

ADAC pavilion after Denise Markonish talk.

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:43:38 -0500

ADAC pavilion after Denise Markonish talk.

MoMA Armory party still going strong!

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:14:31 -0500

MoMA Armory party still going strong!

Installing ADAC Pavilion at the Armory Show. Spot the Keith W....

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:09:33 -0500

Installing ADAC Pavilion at the Armory Show. Spot the Keith W. Bentley!

Art Dealers Association of Canada at The Armory Show

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:59:00 -0500

Information: Johanna Robinson at 416-934-1583 or johanna@ad-ac.ca.

Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) is pleased to announce its official participation, as part of an exclusive not-for-profit contingent at The Armory Show taking place 2 to 6 March 2011. The ADAC pavilion is located in Pier 94 at Booth #1511. In partnership with Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Foundation and Art Toronto, ADAC will present a uniquely Canadian itinerary of exhibitions, public lectures and art tours. This dynamic program, entitled A Quiet Revolution: Canadian Art Now, is designed to build awareness around Canadian galleries, artists and the art market.

The exhibition and public programs are curated by Toronto Arts Foundation Associate Director William Huffman; work has been selected from the results of an open call to the ADAC membership. Working with The Armory continues the ADAC mandate of providing promotional and professional development opportunities for its member galleries across Canada.

Participating galleries are: Bau-Xi Photo; Diaz Contemporary; Doug Udell Gallery; Feheley Fine Arts; Galerie Simon Blais; Galerie Trois Points; Gallery 78; Gallery Gevik; Gallery Moos; Jessica Bradley Art + Projects; Kinsman Robinson Galleries; KWT Contemporary; Lonsdale Gallery; Mayberry Fine Art; Miriam Shiell Fine Art; Olga Korper Gallery; Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain; p|m gallery; Roberts Gallery and Sandra Ainsley Gallery.

Participating artists include: Keith W. Bentley; Michel Campeau; Dean Dreaver; Scott Everingham; Éliane Excoffier; Brendan Fernandes; Tom Forrestall; Irene Frolic; Osheen Harruthoonyan; Dil Hildebrand; Natalka Husar; William Lazos; John Lennard; Rita Letendre; Amanda MacCavour; Allyson Mitchell; Viktor Mitic; Lauren Nurse; Paul P.; Germaine Pataki-Thériault; Annie Pootoogook; Steven Scott; Chris Shepard; Bewabon Shilling; Max Streicher; Derek Sullivan; Denyse Thomasos; Jutai Toonoo and Andrew Valko.

The following program of public talks and walking tours will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition:

Canadian Art Now – This daily talk series features cultural professionals who really know the visual art landscape beyond the 49th parallel. After a lively discussion over a glass of wine, the participating speakers will conduct a walking tour of The Armory Show.

Thursday 3 March at 5pm
William Huffman (Toronto Arts Foundation) – Canadian Art on the World Stage

Friday 4 March at 5pm
Patricia Feheley (Feheley Fine Arts) – Canada’s Aboriginal Art Scene

Saturday 5 March at 5pm
Denise Markonish (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) – Canadian Art at MASS MoCA in 2012

Sunday 6 March at 12pm
François Babineau (Galerie Simon Blais) and Jean-François Belisle (Association des galeries d’art contemporain) – Contemporary Art in Québec

The Expat Effect – Meet a dozen Canuck artists who’ve taken a serious bite out of the Big Apple! Each day, three emerging talents will meet their public for an informal and interactive discussion – learn about their work, how they got here, the successes enjoyed and challenges overcome. After a lively discussion over a glass of wine, the participating artists will conduct a walking tour of The Armory Show. Please join us in celebrating 12 northern lights on the East River.

Thursday 3 March at 7pm
Shelly Bahl, John Monteith, Reena Katz

Friday 4 March at 7pm
Michael Caines, Mona Saeed Kamal, Inbred Hybrid Collective

Saturday 5 March at 7pm
Kristine Moran, Brendan Fernandes, Jason Gringler

Sunday 6 March at 2pm
Adrienne Reynolds, Emily Stoddart, Tobaron Waxman

Art Dealers Association of Canada is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1966 to provide a professional platform for the determination of ethical standards as they relate to commercial galleries. ADAC also actively lobbies government on issues affecting the visual arts. The association undertakes vital programming and professional development initiatives aimed at building national and international profile for Canadian commercial galleries specifically, and around the Canadian art market in general.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $17.1 million in visual arts throughout Canada.

Additional support is generously provided by Art Toronto, AXA Insurance, Consulate General of Canada in New York, Donoahue Design, Diane Dussault & Associates, Klaus by Nienkamper and PACART.

Get the Robert Waters catalogue by Praxis at Issuu.com

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:01:32 -0500

Get the Robert Waters catalogue by Praxis at Issuu.com:

THE ARTIST ROBERT WATERS USES EARTH FROM THE MASS GRAVES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR TO CULTIVATE MEDICINAL HERBS – INCLUDING SOME THAT HELP IMPROVE MEMORY – AND CREATE A HEALING ATMOSPHERE.

Gregory Burke to Leave The Power Plant in May

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:38:07 -0500

Gregory Burke to Leave The Power Plant in May:

02.08.11

Gregory Burke, director of Toronto’s The Power Plant, today announced that he will leave his position at the end of this May, after close to six years in the role. On joining The Power Plant in 2005, Burke immediately set in place the development of a five-year strategic plan, adopted in 2006. Under that plan, Burke led a range of initiatives to develop The Power Plant and increase awareness of its programs. In 2006, Burke launched All Summer, All Free, a program providing free admission to tens of thousands of visitors to The Power Plant. This program, combined with other new public programs, has led to The Power Plant increasing visitation by more than 250 percent during Burke’s tenure. The Power Plant annual commissioning program was also launched by Burke in 2006, with the aim of realizing major new projects. Since then projects have been commissioned from Simon Starling, Lawrence Weiner, Scott Lyall, Candice Breitz, Ian Wallace, and Pae White.

Robert Waters’ project uncover RECOVER is now on...

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:59:14 -0500

Robert Waters’ project uncover RECOVER is now on exhibition at Artium, a museum in the Basque region of Spain. In his newest installation Waters uses soil taken from the mass graves of the Spanish civil war to cultivate medicinal plants, including plants that increase memory, to create and promote a healing environment.

Akimblog’s Terrence Dick on Nava Lubelski Nava Lubelski...

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:05:37 -0500

Akimblog’s Terrence Dick on Nava Lubelski

Nava Lubelski at P/M Gallery has assembled a visually stunning collection of false freedom with her randomly stained and torn canvases that she then meticulously builds on with thread. The seemingly spontaneous abstractions are on close examination intricate webs and weavings that suggest an underlying architecture to all disorder. As a reflection on the nature of painting, they merit further attention.

Nava Lubleski’s exhibition reviewed in today’s Globe...

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:55:30 -0500

Nava Lubleski’s exhibition reviewed in today’s Globe & Mail

Nava Lubelski at p|m Gallery
Until Jan. 29, 1518 Dundas St. W., Toronto; www.pmgallery.ca

Everywhere I go, textile works tempt me to touch them. Nava Lubelski’s multimedia painting-embroidery hybrids at P/M Gallery are especially difficult to resist. Lubelski stains and rips open her canvases with abandon, then winds elaborate webs inside and around the peepholes. Pluck me, the works beg.

She further augments her vibrating concoctions with minute patches of intense needlework, in brilliant tones. The resulting tapestries remind me of tidal pools, of cool, grey-green seaweed gardens where spindly urchins and jellyfish lurk, of murky pits twitching with primordial intelligence.

Yes, I considered running my fat fingers along the taut threads, and yes, I wondered if I could get away with covertly adding a toy fish or three to Lubelski’s watery seascapes – but, you break it, you buy it.

By R.M. Vaughan, The Exhibitionist

See Amanda Clyne in the new issue of Flare!

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:18:45 -0500

See Amanda Clyne in the new issue of Flare!

Nava Lubelski interviewed by Michael Hansen on ArtSyncTV.

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:44:20 -0500

Nava Lubelski interviewed by Michael Hansen on ArtSyncTV.

Let the bidding begin! OCAD Whodunnit Gala Live Auction. Thanks...

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:33:28 -0500

Let the bidding begin! OCAD Whodunnit Gala Live Auction. Thanks to Amanda Clyne, Meghan McKnight, and Amanda Reeves for their generous contribution.

Amanda Reeves review in Globe & Mail. R.M. Vaughan: The...

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:42:00 -0500

Amanda Reeves review in Globe & Mail.

R.M. Vaughan: The Exhibitionist

On first inspection, painters Amanda Reeves and Mike Bayne have little in common. Reeves paints thin, delicate streams of feather and leaf-like shapes exploding outward onto monochromatic canvases. Her darting forms remind me of traditional Islamic calligraphic art, and, pardon the stretch, mid-sixties modernist decorative motifs.

Bayne is a photo-realist painter. His paintings of modest suburban homes and stretches of unimpressive urban sprawl are so crazily close to photographic replications they create the feeling one is seeing the world through a new, stronger pair of glasses. Bayne’s subjects are banally real, and then, as his technique creeps up on you, suddenly more than real, hyper real. The paintings make definite and solid what our eyes and brains are accustomed to overlooking.

What, then, is the connection? Both Reeves and Bayne are actively attempting to erase the presence of the painter.

Reeves’s works are so finely crafted, I defy anyone to find evidence of a brush at play (and, her gallerist tells me, Reeves never uses stencils or outlines her shapes with tape – it’s all deathly still hand work). There are areas in Reeves’s paintings where shape and background almost completely blend, reaching near invisibility.

Bayne similarly negates his painterly authority. Bayne’s previous works gave the careful viewer gentle hints, little nodding drips and swipes, that the paintings were something more than photographs. Well, all bets are off now – Bayne has embraced the photo half of photo realism with a vengeance, to the point of possibly questioning the very use of painting itself.

Cao Fei and Joan Kaufman revivify, with new technologies, the primordial human dreams of shape shifting and flight – two forms of ultimate personal autonomy. Meanwhile, Amanda Reeves and Mike Bayne, using ancient technologies, go to great lengths to cloak the “artist’s voice,” another sacred autonomy.

How does that old curse/blessing go: May you live in interesting times?

Last week to see Clyne’s exhibition! “Clyne’s...

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:50:32 -0400

Last week to see Clyne’s exhibition!

“Clyne’s multilayered process – culled image to ink print to photograph to final painting – gives her already well-informed paintings an unexpected hall-of-mirrors jubilance. Disorientation never looked so good.”

R.M. Vaughan for the Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 9, 2010