Calls for Proposals, UPCOMING EVENTS

Calls for Submissions

 Brucebo Fine Art Summer Residency Scholarship (Gotland, Sweden)

and The William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Travel Scholarship
Submission deadline: January 31st, 2014

Since 1972, the Brucebo Fine Art Scholarship Foundation of Gotland, Sweden (BFAS) has offered a fine art residency/scholarship to a younger, talented Canadian artist, traditionally a painter, providing an inspiring study/work stay in northern Europe on the island of Gotland, located in the Baltic Sea. The BFAS fine art scholarships hark back to the post-impressionist era in Europe. Two young artists, Caroline Benedicks of Sweden and William Blair Bruce of Hamilton, Canada, meet in Paris, marry and after many years on the European continent, settle on historic Gotland Island, a Swedish outpost approximately equidistant between the Swedish mainland and the Baltic state of Latvia. With the untimely death of William in 1906 and that of Caroline in 1935, the estate, in the early 70’s, created the Brucebo Fine Art (Scholarship) Foundation, an organization promoting island-based cultural history and fine art. To commemorate the unique Swedish-Canadian link of Caroline’s and William’s marriage and impressive artistry, two annual fine art scholarships for younger, professional Canadian artists were established : The Brucebo Fine Art Summer Residency Scholarship and The William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Travel Scholarship.

The Brucebo Fine Art Summer Residency Scholarship funds a three month working residency – starting June 1, 2014 – at the Brucebo studio cottage in the Själsö fishing village, 7 km north of of Visby in Gotland, Sweden. The scholarship covers travel expenses Canada – Gotland (return), the use of the studio cottage, a monthly food stipend plus a small equipment grant. Total approximate value : SEK 30.000.
The William Blair Bruce Travel Scholarship finances a European research sejour, to be undertaken within the next year. The tour is based on an approved Fine Art-related investigative project. Total value: SEK 30.000. As a final part of the ‘Bruce Travel’ the recipient must visit Visby via Stockholm. While in Visby, she/he will give a public lecture sponsored by t

he Foundation on the investigative theme pursued during her/his recent European travel.
Scholarship eligibility: Canadian artists (preference for emerging artists)
Deadline for applications: January 31, 2014. See the application guidelines and download the application form here: http://bruceboscholarships.com/index.php/application

11:45PM
Co-presented with Xpace Cultural Centre
Curated by: Kate Barry

Deadline date: December 15, 2013

Durational performance is a mode of live art where the artist works directly with the medium of time. Over the course of hours, days or longer the performer and the audience can experience a physical, mental, spiritual and/or emotional transformation. Durational performance functions to bring the performer and the audience into the moment; time is made palpable and visceral. Artists like Teching Hsieh, Alastair MacLennan, and most famously, Marina Abramovic, demonstrate how durational performance art can use mental and physical endurance to challenge the commoditization of art by offering an experience of art that is ephemeral by nature.

FADO is seeking proposals of durational performance works from emerging artists to be presented in our 2014 edition of the Emerging Artists Series, entitled 11:45PM. Performances should be a minimum of 6-hours and a maximum of 4-days. FADO and Xpace define emerging artists as those who are 2-3 years out of school, are at the beginning stages of their careers, and have not yet had the opportunity for a professional presentation of their work.

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2013.

Submissions should include:
-CV
-artistic statement
-brief biographical information
-description of proposed work
-documentation of previous work (maximum of 10 images, and / or 2-3 short documentation videos to a maximum of 5 minutes)

Please note that this series seeks to highlight the work of Toronto and Canadian artists. This is NATIONAL call only. Please direct enquiries to info@performanceart.ca

Please mail submissions to:
FADO Performance Art Centre
445-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8

 

Transcending Binaries at Xpace Cultural Centre

Deadline date: December 15, 2013
Open call: Undergraduate and Graduate student artists working with the moving image and digital media.
Curated by: Adrienne Crossman

Xpace/Images Festival is seeking proposals from student artists in the GTA working within digital media art. How does an artist explore the idea of a post-binary world within the confines of digital media – a medium that, at its most fundamental level, operates within a binary language (0′s and 1′s). What does it look like to operate in-between/outside of the “either/or”? Proposals should explore the capacity to transcend these binaries and to consider the occupation/creation of productive spaces where these transgressions may exist. Proposals are encouraged to be innovative and critical and to deal with these ideas both formally and conceptually.

Examples may include, but are not limited to:
– video/installation
– web-based or internet art
– geo-mapping, bio-mapping
– performance video, live performance
– animation
– interactive art
– post-gender, post-binary fantasies
– feminism, queer theory
– identity politics
– post-human, posthumanism
– cybernetics

Electronic submissions only can be sent to: adriennecrossman@gmail.com

Include in your submission:
· images of the proposed work (or relevant work) or a link to a website and/or youtube/vimeo – MAXIMUM of 6 images (72dpi @ 768 x 1024)
· description of the proposed work, including physical qualities, spatial and hanging needs, technical requirements, etc (max. 150 words)
· brief artist statement and biography (max. 200 words)

For additional information contact the curator of the project Adrienne Crossman: adriennecrossman@gmail.com

 

|FAT| Arts & FashionWeek 2014

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 23, 2013 (first deadline)
FINAL DEADLINE: January 9, 2014

|FAT| Arts & FashionWeek 2014 invites installation artists, photographers, filmmakers, performers, fibre artists and fashion designers to apply to show their work for the 9th edition of |FAT| April 22 – 26, 2014. Any mediums, materials, messages, visual presentations and performance used to deal with fashion or the body in a new, exciting and unorthodox way are all encouraged to be explored.

TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO PRESENT VISIT: http://fashionarttoronto.ca/apply/

2014 FASHION & ART CATEGORIES TO BE PRESENTED

• Multi-Media/ Installations for one of 12 individual artist installation rooms
• Films and Video Art
• Performance (dance/music/performance art)
• Photography
• Fashion Design
• * Textile/ Fibre Art

WHO CAN APPLY TO PRESENT AT |FAT| 2014

• Emerging & Established Artists & Designers
• National and International Artists/Designers
• Performers

More information -> fashionarttoronto.ca

 

Call for Papers

Recombinant Creativity: Temporal Intersections, (de)Historicizing Strategies, and Contemporary Cultural Products
Deadline January 6th

Fredric Jameson spoke of a “dialectical intensification of the autoreferentiality of all modern culture, which tends to turn upon itself and designate its own cultural production as its content.”
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Building upon Fredric Jameson’s potent and pithy insight into the character of contemporary cultural production this conference asks broadly about the role of appropriation and interdisciplinarity. Has the traditionally discipline-based structure of scholarship been challenged or changed by recombinant forms and processes of critical engagement?

The Contemporary Art, New Media and Design Histories program at OCAD University invites papers that acknowledge the place and implication of Jameson’s ideas of autoreferentiality or the practices of assemblage, bricolage, collage, remixing, sampling, borrowing, mashups, hybridity, and the role of technology as strategies for creativity.

Papers will be accepted from graduate students of all levels and disciplines, and should be traditional presentations 15- 20 minutes in length. While an emphasis will be placed on these discourses in art and visual culture, we also welcome cross-disciplinary interpretations of the theme. Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Global and local collages in design practice
• Re-imagining indigenous culture through digital dialogues
• Hip hop in contemporary Indigenous cultures.
• Biopolitics and subversive, activist strategies
• Splicing and the cultures of bricolage in contemporary society
• Appropriation as methodology
• Processes of othering and identity-formation
• Appropriation as a sign of cultural bankruptcy(de)
• Historicizing the so-called Western canon in art history
• Recombinant culture as resistance and strategies of dissent

 

Please send a 250-word abstract of your paper along with a working title, keywords, curriculum vitae, and contact information to recombinantcreativity@gmail.com.

The symposium will be held 6-7 March, 2014 at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada.

Deadline for submission: 6 January, 2014.

Successful participants will be notified: by 14 January, 2014.

Follow us on Twitter @cadnconference

Recombinant Creativity blog at https://recombinantcreativity.wordpress.com/

 

Vector Game + Art Convergence Festival, Toronto – Open Call for Artworks

Deadline: January 1, 2014

Now in its second year, the Vector Game + Art Convergence Festival (http://www.vectorfestival.org) is a five-day series of game art exhibitions, screenings, performances, workshops, and panels centred around games as tools and inspiration for contemporary art making. Until January 1, 2014, Team Vector invites submissions to its festival programming. Vector 2014 will take place from February 19 to 23, 2014, in Toronto, Canada.

Game art is a diverse field characterized by a wide variety of creative practices. Accordingly, this open call invites submissions from artists working in many different contexts and media. For Vector 2014, we are seeking works that critically address the politics, technologies, representations, and aesthetics of video games. Artists at all stages of their creative careers – from emerging to established – are encouraged to submit their work.

Works For Exhibition
Works of all media will be considered for inclusion in an exhibition surveying a wide spectrum of practices within game art. We seek video installations, games, interactive works of new media, print media, sculpture, textile, and more. In particular, we are looking for works that push beyond simple expressions of fandom, and which explore the convergence of game-making and media art to challenge assumptions about gaming writ large. Formal investigations of the video game medium are as welcome as works that push the broader concept of ‘games’ into the experimental.

Works for Film/Video/Machinima Screenings
For this program, we are looking for work that experiments with the concept of machinima to produce engaging films or videos. Machinima is a moving image art form that involves repurposing computer graphics from video games in the creation of new cinematic works. Although early machinima was gamer-oriented, it has since been used to create a new form of video art that combines hacker aesthetics with found footage practices. Machinima has also been used by artists to critique and comment upon video game culture, alienation in contemporary culture, death, and many other themes.
The submitted work should make use of videos game footage or video game engines in some capacity. Narrative as well as experimental non-narrative work will be considered, but the narrative work should push the boundaries of traditional/classical storytelling in some capacity. Due to programming restrictions we are looking for work under 20 minutes; however, please contact us if you have made a longer work and and feel that it fits our mandate.

For full submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.vectorfestival.org.

Notifications of Acceptance will be issued by January 15, 2014.

Questions? Please direct them to submit@vectorfestival.org

 

CONNEXION / CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS /

Deadline 15^th, 2013

SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED until December 15, 2013 (digital submissions only)

Connexion is now accepting proposals for the upcoming 2014 / 15 programming year. Connexion’s core programming is selected twice annually by a volunteer committee that programs:

+ three main gallery exhibitions
+ eight project space exhibitions
+ one artist residency
+ additional performances / screenings / artist talks

As an artist-run centre Connexion pays professional fees for this programming, as outlined by the CARFAC fee schedule, and welcomes submissions from professional contemporary artists and curators regardless of educational background, gender, race, or sexual orientation.

ONLY DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS ARE ACCEPTED. Documents must be sent as email attachments. Files sent using online file sharing sites (Dropbox, etc) and weblinks are not accepted (excluding videos which may be sent via WeTransfer).

Submissions must include the following documents, sent as a single .PDF:

• Exhibition proposal (500 words maximum)
• Artist statement (250 words maximum)
• Numbered image list, including title, medium, dimensions, year
• Curriculum vitae (3 pages maximum)

 

Submissions should also include 10 still images and / or video of work relevant to the proposed project:

• Images should be attached as numbered .JPG files (01initialsyeardate.jpg)
• File dimensions (for still images) must not exceed 1024 x 768 pixels
• Video submissions should be no longer than 5 minutes in duration (if multiple videos are sent, ensure the total duration does not exceed 5 minutes)
• Video files should be in .AVI, .MOV, .MPG, or .MPEG formats

Send all materials by email to : connex@nbnet.nb.ca with “ATTN : Selections Committee” in the subject line.

Connexion is excited about new and challenging work by contemporary artists, artist collectives, and curators. Alongside exhibition proposals, Connexion also welcomes proposals for offsite projects by individuals whose work is not easily presented within a traditional gallery space.

For more information please contact John Edward Cushnie, executive director, or sophia bartholomew, associate director, at connex@nbnet.nb.ca or 506.454.1433.

galleryconnexion.ca

 

Video Fever –Trinity Square Video

Deadline December 9^th
Trinity Square Video is proud to announce the second annual juried student video screening event, Video Fever. If you are a full-time undergraduate student at a Toronto and surrounding area post-secondary institution and you make videos, you qualify. Submissions must be single channel videos under 10 minutes in length and will be selected for screening by the Video Fever jury. All genres of video are accepted. The top three videos, as chosen by the jury, will be awarded cash prizes, a membership to Trinity Square Video (redeemable after you graduate, if you like—when you’ll really need it!), various Trinity Square Video services like equipment use and workshops. The screening will take place downtown Toronto at the Trinity Square Video Gallery space on January 11, 2013. SUBMIT!
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, December 9, 2013

Video Fever is on Saturday, January 11, 2014.

Download submission form here: http://trinitysquarevideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/videofever_submissionform_2013.doc

 

• Videos must be under 10 minutes and single channel only (no installations).
• More than one entry per artist is permitted.
• All genres of video are accepted.
• All entries must include a completed submission form sent to us by email.
• Please do not send supplementary material—only the video and completed submission form.
• Creation date of work must be 2012 or 2013.

More information – http://trinitysquarevideo.com/submission-calls/

 

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014

Deadline December 9^th and February 14^th
Planning is well underway for the ninth edition of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche scheduled for Saturday, October 4, 2014. Curators Denise Markonish (North Adams, Massachusetts), Dominique Fontaine (Montreal), Heather Pesanti (Austin, Texas) and Magda Gonzalez-Mora (Toronto) were selected by the Advisory Committee earlier this year and are now working with artists on their creative visions for the 2014 exhibitions.

There are two ways artists can submit their project ideas for the 2014 event: through the Open Call Projects or Independent Projects. Key deadlines are fast approaching.

Open Call Projects
The City-produced exhibitions include Open Call Projects, which give the public an opportunity to apply to be part of the event. They are selected by a curator in consultation with the City of Toronto. Funding and production support is provided. The Open Call submission deadline is December 9.

Independent Projects
Each year the event also features self-funded installations created by galleries, schools, neighbourhoods, community organizations or individual artists. The Independent Projects submission deadline is February 14, 2014.

Applications are now being accepted for 2014 Open Call Projects. Applications for 2014 Independent Projects will be available by November 27. Details on submissions for both can be found athttp://www.toronto.ca/special_events/snb/ and information will also be available in person at the following sessions:

Open Call Projects information sessions:
– Thursday, November 21, Metro Hall, 55 John St., Room 308, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
– Wednesday, November 27, City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., 2nd Floor, Committee Room 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Independent Projects information session:
– Thursday, January 16, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., 2nd Floor, Committee Room 3, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

 

Proof Gallery 44’s

Deadline December 6th

Proof is Gallery 44’s annual exhibition of photo-based work by Canadian emerging artists reflecting a range of current concerns and practices in contemporary photography from across the country. Proof is often one of the first exhibitions in a professional context for an emerging artist as was the case for artists such as Karin Bubas, Janieta Eyre, Isabelle Hayeur, Germaine Koh, Nicholas Pye, Althea Thauberger, and Andrew Wright.

In celebration of WorldPride 2014, which will be hosted by Toronto from June 20 – 29, 2014, Proof 21 will focus on LGBTTIQQ2SA* culture, community and discourse. In keeping with WorldPride 2014 Toronto’s mission, Proof 21will also provide a platform for highlighting human rights issues and activism.

The call is open to artists/projects that explore (including but not limited to): identity, gender and sexual politics and constructs; the politics of representation; the challenging of gender binaries; subversion of heteronorms; questioning of widely held social codes.

Consistent with our overall programming objectives, this exhibition will feature the work of artists who are innovative in their use of the medium and approach to subject matter.

Exhibition dates: June 20 – July 26, 2014
KAPSULA Magazine is a digital publication dedicated to experimental and evaluative art criticism

1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BAD HISTORY

December 6th

The deadline for KAPSULA’s current call for submissions is fast approaching. In January KAPSULA will begin exploring “Bad History” in contemporary art.

Exploring history in an entirely objective manner is, frankly, impossible. Artists engaging with the past remain firmly planted in the present, with their biases and blind spots inescapable. But while the impossibility of purging subjectivity has formed an ongoing problem for some, certain artists have used these slippery slopes as sources of inspiration and alterity, embracing what might otherwise be maligned as “bad history.” We want to discuss art that plays with anachronism, historical revision, historical fictions and other kinds of “Bad History.” As always, KAPSULA welcomes experimental pieces; these can include works of fictocriticism, poetry, pictorial essays and so on.

For full submission guidelines, visit: http://kapsula.ca/
Submission deadline (for final papers and tentative proposals): December 6, 2013.

2. UPCOMING RELEASE: POLITICS OF AESTHETICS 2/3

KAPSULA’s next monthly release will be delivered to subscribers on Monday, November 18th. This release features two experimental writing projects: Penny Leong’s poetic visual essay “Thy Lovely Stain,” and Lindsay LeBlanc’s reworking of theorist Roland Barthes’ essay “From Work to Text,” and an interview with artist Zeesy Powers.

3. MORE CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

KAPSULA Magazine is always on the look for exhibition/book/article reviews and cover images.

REVIEWS:

KAPSULA releases reviews as received. This means that our call for exhibition/book/article review submissions is ongoing, with no deadlines! This will give you the opportunity to write about a current show or topic to your choice that you feel passionate about.

Since there are no set themes, the topic you choose to write on is entirely up to you. Our only requirement is that you make it spicy and intelligent.

For review submissions guidelines, please visit our website at: http://kapsula.ca/submissions/

COVER IMAGES

Great news for artists.

Due to an overwhelming amount of artwork submissions, the KAPSULA team found it appropriate to incorporate contemporary artists and their work to the monthly feature publications. We are looking for one new cover image each month. This image should thematically relate to the current call for feature articles that is posted on our official website. The topic is completely open to your conceptual and visual interpretation.

The call for image submissions is ongoing.

For details on cover image submissions, visit: http://kapsula.ca

4. SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE AND CONTACT US:

Subscribe to receive KAPSULA’s free monthly issues at: http://kapsula.ca/subscribe.html

 

The Artist Project

Deadline November 30

The Artist Project UNTAPPED Emerging Artists Competition is dedicated to supporting the development of students, new graduates, and self-taught artists.

Free space for emerging artists!
One of the most popular features at the show, UNTAPPED Emerging Artists is a juried competition that awards emerging artists from all mediums an opportunity to exhibit at a professional-level art fair for FREE!

This is an excellent opportunity to participate in The Artist Project, enjoy the perks of exhibiting artists and showcase your work to gallerists, collectors and art enthusiasts at no cost!

Learn more and apply > 
DEADLINE TO APPLY: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2013 AT 11:59PM

Are you an installation or video artist?
The Artist Project is proud to support the work of cutting-edge new media and video artists in addition to large-scale sculpture, conceptual art and installations.

Free space for installation and video artists!
We are inviting installation and video artists to apply. Selected artists will be awarded a FREE space to showcase large-scale and digital projects at no cost! This application is open to all artists and artist collectives.

Learn more and apply > 
DEADLINE TO APPLY: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2013 AT 11:59PM

More Information -> http://www.theartistproject.com/untapped/

 

 

Upcoming Events

Heather Goodchild: 40/40 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1086 Queen Street West

November 28 – Dec 22, 2013

RECEPTION Thursday November 28, 6-9PM

Heather Goodchild works to explore the rituals, regalia and symbols of religion, didactic organizations and work-based cultures to understand the purpose of these traditions and their relation to personal and societal well-being. Using textile techniques in conjunction with installation, performance and sculpture, she creates scenarios that relate to the past to decode the present.

More information http://www.katharinemulherin.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=557&Exhibit=Upcoming

 

 

ONE  – D at Trinity Square Video 401 Richmond Street

November 28^th Reception at 7 Perfomance at 8

 

Trinity Square Video is pleased to announce the presentation of ONE-D, the first of TSV’s Themed Commission trilogy, ONE-D, TWO-D, THREE-D. This first of the commissioning series asked artists to expand the single channel experience into one that incorporates performance, and the results are in! Come join us for the public presentation of this exciting new work.

ONE-D presents work that challenges the conventions of spectatorship, the viewing space and the audience. Working at the intersection of performance and video, ONE-D explores a participatory and performative cinema beyond the projected image. These five artists use the body to expand the limits of video, body and gesture. They blur the boundary between image and presence, exploring acts of doubling that trouble the polemics of memory, loss, absence and otherness.

Participating Artists:

Beau Coleman
Renée Lear
Irene Loughlin
Alexis Mitchell
Natalie Wood

Performances and opening reception:
November 28th, 2013
Reception at 7:00
Performances at 8:00

Exhibition dates:
November 28th – December 18^th

 

 

Baby Blue By Chandra Melting Tallow

At Whippersnapper Gallery 549b Dundas Street West

November 28^th Closing Reception and Performance at 7

 

Baby Blue explores the complexities and chaos of dissociation and mental states symptomatic of psychosis. The work touches on these experiences as being convoluted by hierarchies of knowledge in their interpretation: existing as a spiritual phenomenon informed by the artists cultural background and a purely biochemical malfunction asserted through the dominant western lens. The effects of trauma and the draw of mysticism are both referenced as a recurring attempt at reconciling insight into what is perceived as contributing or conflicting elements to these uninvited states of consciousness.

Chandra Melting Tallow is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician of Blackfoot and mixed ancestry from the Siksika Nation. She works primarily in video, installation and performance. Her work has been exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Victoria and Istanbul.

 

Didier Courbot at Susan Hobbs Gallery 137 Tecumseth Street

November 28, 2013 Opening Reception 7 – 9
For this exhibition, Courbot presents a series of new sculptural works as a concurrent extension of his needs (1999-present) series. In needs, Courbot documents his improvements to existing public infrastructure as unprecedented acts of civic duty. His actions, deliberately earnest and eccentric, pit against Situationist tactics, from nailing a bird house to a street lamp at a busy Paris intersection to painting a chess board on a concrete embankment along the Seine. Courbot’s new works distill the ethos of the needs works into discrete, furniture-like objects. Among them, a book stand, a wall hook, and a fruit bowl refer formally and conceptually to previous needs and demonstrate his ongoing maintenance of previous public gestures but as proposals for domestic space.

In addition, a selection of new tabletop sculptures and wearable objects demonstrate his improvisational approaches to material and acute sense of aesthetics. Each work is an intimate formal study of a scrap of discarded material from his studio, either poised on custom brass stands or plated in gold.

 

Also on Tecumseth

 

Martin Bennett and Jaan Polidass both have shows opening at Birch Contemporary 129 Tecumseth Street November 28^th 5 – 8

 

Sasha Pierce: Tessellations

At Jessica Bradley 74 Miller Street

November 28^th 630 to 830

28 Nov — 21 Dec 2013
Artist in attendance

Jessica Bradley Gallery is pleased to present Tessellations, Sasha Pierce’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will comprise a suite of seven astonishingly intricate new paintings. With a highly ingenious approach to abstract painting, Pierce meticulously lays multi-coloured lines of oil paint onto linen in dense, thread-like patterns. Using mathematical models for geometrical form as the starting point of her kaleidoscopic compositions, Pierce translates precise diagrams into tangible form. In her hands paint is akin to sculptural material, her paintings easily mistaken for textiles or tapestries. Significantly however, Pierce succeeds in intensely activating both physical presence and optical perception. Shapes twist and refract. Variegated lines waver, bend and warp as we experience anew the parameters of visual perception. Surface pattern recedes in favour of individual form and colour; yet overall geometry persists, and we recognize the impossibility of perceiving all patterns at once.

 

Bogdan Luca – Accretion

At Neubacher Shor 5 Brock Avenue

 28 November 2013 – 21 December 2013

 

Accretion is a term describing the growth of a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter.

In the context of this exhibition, Accretion is about time as material for creating images. A form of memento mori, this work connects a mundane experience with something about the imagined infinite. Tangible experiences of daily life meet with the sense of a sublime realm, larger than life and consciousness.

“As a painter, I have the sensation that images (regardless of medium) remain always removed, somehow distant. Perhaps the historic and ritualized use of images capitalized on this, their greatest potential: to transport one to an alternative realm outside of physical and embodied experience.

Within the parameters of Accretion, my intention is to bridge the transcendent quality of images with a sense of physical presence relative to a particular here and now. This body of work comprises drawings on paper, photographic work and a site specific drawing.
The drawings are melodramatic, romantic clichés of the natural and cosmic sublime, expressed through the most basic material means of drawing. They are images that can transport us elsewhere.

 

More information http://neubachershor.com/events/bogdan-luca-accretion/

 

 

 

Tough Guy Mountain Holiday Party (closing party) at OCADU Student Gallery 52 McCaul Street

Friday November 29^th 7 – 10

Are you looking for the total Tough Guy Mountain™ HOLIDAY experience?

☀☂☁
OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY ™
Another project by Tough Guy Toughguy Mountain
☀☂☁

KARAOKE, CHEAP BEER, WATER COOLER.

Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/190027884519914/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

 

Photorama at TPW Gallery 1256 Dundas Street West

November 29th at 6

Collectors Preview Thursday, November 28, 6 – 9 pm
Opening Reception Friday, November 29, 6 – 9 pm

Sale continues Saturday, November 30, Noon – 6 pm
Tuesday, December 3 – Saturday, December 7, Noon – 6 pm…See More

more information https://www.facebook.com/events/231599250348840/

29th Annual Book Arts Fair at OCADU

100 McCaul

Saturday November 30^th 10 – 5

 

OCAD University’s printmaking department presents the 29th annual Book Arts Fair. Come and browse the uniquely handmade and crafted works by many book artists, printmakers, artists, small publishers, students, professional artists, papermakers and printmaking suppliers.

OCADU Book arts Fair will also include live performances, poetry readings, and kid friendly crafting throughout the day.

This is a fundraiser! The money raised by donation and raffle tickets goes to the upcoming year’s students awards and initiatives in the OCAD Printmaking Department. Suggested donation of $5.00 (or more!)

Many thanks to ABOVEGROUND, for their support of this event.

For more information on this years BOOK ARTS FAIR, contact bookartsfair@gmail.com

 

Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/252534708232344/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

 

Punch Clock Showcase at Double Double Land

209 Augusta Ave Saturday Nov 30 and Sunday December 1st

 

DAY ONE: PUNCHCLOCK SHOWCASE
at Double Double Land
Saturday, November 30th
Doors 9pm
Sliding scale $5- $10

With
DJ’s HVYWTR
MC’d by Cameron Lee and the musical stylings of
New Fries
LLVK: Sook-Yin Lee/Adam Litovitz/Brandon Valdivia/Benjamin Kamino
Carl Didur
Petra Glynt

~Stage decor by Eunice Luk

~ALSO *official* unveiling of screenprinted wallpaper stairwell at DDL by Alicia’s Klassic Kool Shoppe

DAY TWO: PUNCHCLOCK PRINT SALE
at Punchclock
251 Sorauren Avenue
Sunday, December 1st
1- 8pm

Studio sale of screenprinted and risographed art prints, t-shirts, sweaters, tote bags, stickers and more!

Get amazing work and great deals from these artists:
Jacob Horwood, Jacob Jurkiewicz, Jesjit Gill, Eunice Luk, Alicia Nauta, Heing Tang, Peter Kalyniuk, Julia Dickens, Ryan Hayes, Steve Shearer and Jimmy Brannen

 

Last Chance to see

 

Lavish Lifestyle
Diana Lynn VanderMeulen Solo Exhibition at Magic Pony 680 Queen Street West
Runs Nov 15-30,2013

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen is a multi-media artist using collage as a medium for exploration into atmospheric installation. Her work invites the onlooker to participate in a journey through an alternate reality, oscillating between environmental and magical dream state.

Diana graduated with a BFA Honours degree from York University, in 2012.

 

A Noble Line By Sonny Assu at Oakville Galleries

Sunday December 1^st

Please join Oakville Galleries to celebrate our winter exhibition openings on Sunday 1 December from 2:30 pm–3:30 pm at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, followed by a reception at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens from 3:30 pm–5:00 pm.

Need a ride to Oakville? Get on the ARTbus (details below).

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1 December 2013 – 16 February 2014
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

Appearing and disappearing depending on one’s vantage point, the horizon line—the place where the sky meets land or sea—has effectively instilled fear, wonder and sublime contemplation throughout the ages. This urge to know beyond the immediately conceivable—to grapple with the limits of vision, life and knowledge—continues to be powerful, making contemporary renditions of the horizon as compelling as ever.

Robert Burley | Dan Flavin | Yves Gaucher | April Hickox | David Rokeby | Soft Turns | Hiroshi Sugimoto | Colette Whiten | Kevin Yates

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Sonny Assu: Possession

1 December 2013 – 16 February 2014
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

Through his work in sculpture, painting and other media, artist Sonny Assu looks at identity through the lenses of Indigenous history and politics, consumer culture and social media. Possession revolves around several of Assu’s sculptural installations, focusing on timely questions of value in the context of often-conflicting Indigenous and colonial worldviews.

Sonny Assu: Possession is presented with the generous support of the RBC Foundation.

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ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries

Sunday 1 December 2013, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto)

$10 donation includes admission to all galleries and afternoon refreshments

For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402 ext. 27 by Friday 29 November, 4:00pm.

Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the winter’s best exhibitions in the GTA!

Our winter ARTbus begins at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery with a tour of Something More Than a Succession of Notes by executive director/chief curator Barbara Fischer. The ARTbus continues on to the Blackwood Gallery for a tour of Red, Green, Blue ≠ White by curator Johnson Ngo. Finally, at Oakville Galleries participants will visit Sonny Assu: Possession at Centennial Square, and A Noble Line at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. For more information, please visit www.oakvillegalleries.com