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SPRING 2010
May 27, 2010
It’s hard to believe, but after 43 exhibitions and a renovation, the gallery celebrated its fifth anniversary on May 14th! We extend warm thanks and appreciation to the colleagues, collectors, critics, artists and curators whose enthusiasm and support are vital to our existence.
The gallery is pleased to announce that Kristan Horton has been selected amongst this year’s contestants for the Grange Prize. The prize recognizes the work of Canadian and international contemporary photographers, awarding $50,000 CAD annually to a winner chosen through an online public vote from among two Canadian and two international artists. This year’s contest will feature American and Canadian artists. Presented by Aeroplan and the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Grange Prize partners with one international art institution each year in an effort to recognize the best in Canadian and international photography. This year’s partner is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago.
Once again several artists associated with the gallery are on the recently announced nominee list for the 2010 Sobey Art Award: congratulations to Daniel Barrow, Duke & Battersby, Pascal Grandmaison and Jon Sasaki.
Gwen MacGregor and Hadley + Maxwell are among the 36 artists and collectives from 13 countries participating in Quebec’s international biennial, Manif d’art 5, in various locations in Quebec City until June 13th.
"Baroque Baroque", Hadley + Maxwell’s second solo exhibition at the gallery is reviewed by Dan Adler in the May issue of Artforum.
At The National Gallery of Canada an installation of recent acquisitions of contemporary Canadian and international drawings is on view in Ottawa through July 11, including gallery artists Daniel Barrow, Shary Boyle, Marla Hlady, David Merritt and Derek Sullivan. An expanded exhibition version is planned to tour.
The third iteration of a major survey exhibition of David Merritt’s drawing-based practice organized by Museum London opens at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, on June 12th (through August 29th). A full-colour catalogue is forthcoming.
Barbara Probst’s work is on view art The Museum of Modern Art in Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography through 2010. This selection of outstanding photographs by women artists charts the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Probst’s work will also be seen in the following exhibitions over the summer: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London and Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970 to the Present, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.
Preparations for a major exhibition of Shary Boyle’s work are now in the final stages. Curated by Louise Déry, Director of the Galerie de l’Université de Québec à Montréal, the exhibition will open at the Art Gallery of Ontario in September and travel in 2011 to the Galerie de L’UQAM, Montreal and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. The exhibition includes recent drawings, paintings and porcelain sculpture as well as several new multi-media installations, and is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue. Boyle’s work will also be featured this fall in Breaking Boundaries, with Brendan Tang, Marc Courtemanche and Carmela Laganse, at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto
WINTER 2010January 26, 2010
The season began with Jon Sasaki’s Unabashed Optimism, a critically acclaimed exhibition including a selection of Sasaki’s bound-to-fail but wryly up-beat works in various media (on view until February 9).
2010 brings a host of exhibitions and opportunities for gallery artists, among them the following highlights over the next few months:
Pascal Grandmaison’s new body of work, entitled The Inverted Ghost, is on view until February 6 in his first New York solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery (513 W 20th). The exhibition includes several large-scale diptychs and two films. As the exhibition title implies, Grandmaison highlights the polarization between fiction and reality with the ghost alluding to the hidden or invisible in the photograph. In 2011 Grandmaison will have a major solo exhibition at the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain.
Gwen MacGregor is currently participating in the Audio Out series at the Art Gallery of York University with a new collaboration with Lewis Nicholson entitled New Time. (January 9th to February 24th). Her work is included in Natural. Disaster curated by Jessica Wyman for the McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London (March 4th to April 25th). MacGregor has been invited to participate in Manif d’art, the Quebec Biennial curated by Sylvie Fortin in Quebec City, May 1st to June 13th.
Zin Taylor’s work is discussed in the winter issue of BorderCrossings in a feature article by Toronto and Rotterdam based author Eric Woodley. Taylor’s The Bakery of Blok project premiered at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects last April and was seen in a subsequent version in his first solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu gallery, New York, in June. Taylor, whose work explores the many layers of growth involved in the development of forms, will mount a new installation in the Front Room series at the St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, February 3rd to 14th. Curator Anthony Huberman, formerly of the Palais de Tokyo, comments: “The Front Room allows the museum to reflect the urgency of art-making in our contemporary moment and serves as an always-active curatorial sketch-book.”
Kristan Horton is participating in Days of Eclipse, at Mercer Union, Toronto, opening January 22nd (on view until March 6). The inaugural exhibition at Silver Flag Projects in Montreal features Kristan Horton in a show of new work entitled The Echo Chamber, on view from March 6 to April 3. (http://silverflag.org).
And in case you missed it, check out the November/December issue of Frieze magazine to read Dan Adler on Kristan Horton’s Orbit series of photographic works shown at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects last September and currently featured in Beautiful Fictions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (ending this Sunday, January 24).
Luanne Martineau’s work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain opening February 3rd (through April 25th). The exhibition is accompanied by the artist’s first comprehensive catalogue, with essays by Lesley Johnstone, Shirley Madill and Dan Adler.
Nicolas Baier’s major traveling exhibition of recent work, Paréidolies opens at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa on February 11th (on view until April 25th). The accompanying catalogue will be launched at this time. Baier has begun work on a major corporate commission in Toronto to be unveiled in the spring.
Hadley + Maxwell’s first large scale solo exhibition in the Netherlands opened at SMART Projects on January 16th. The exhibition title “Improperties” refers to the artists’ love of making new, ‘improper’, use of objects, concepts, gestures and ornamentation - as well as their fascination with the role that aesthetic constructions play in our simultaneous resistance to and longing for the seduction of images. Hadley + Maxwell are currently participating in An Invitation to an Infiltration organized by guest curator Eric Fredericksen for Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad (until February 28th). Their second solo exhibition opens at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects on February 13 and they open a solo exhibition at Samsa gallery in Berlin on February 26th. Last summer Hadley + Maxwell’s showed their multi-media installation project 1 + 1 -1 in Nomads, an exhibition of West Coast artists at the National Gallery of Canada. Several works from this project were subsequently acquired by the museum.
Jason McLean has been invited to participate in Endlessly Traversed Landscapes, a public poster project featuring 21 artists from across Canada whose works will be featured throughout the city of Vancouver on billboards, bus shelters and public transportation. Among those who have been commissioned by the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad for this project are Dana Claxton, Robin Collyer, Garry Neill Kennedy, Kevin Schmidt, Adad Hannah and Geneviève Cadieux. Their projects will be seen in various locations as part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad until March 21st.
Daniel Barrow will show two new projection installations in a solo exhibition curated by Philip Monk for the Art Gallery of York University, opening March 31st (on view through June 6th, including publication). Barrow’s beautifully designed and illustrated hardcover book No One Helped Me, designed by Circle Square, Brooklyn, is on its way to press (essays by Stephen Matijcio and Jon Davies, published in collaboration with Video Pool Inc., Platform Gallery and Pug-in ICA, Winnipeg).
2010 promises to be another big year for Shary Boyle: Louise Dery, Director of the Galerie de L’UQAM, Montreal and Canada’s Commissioner for the 2007 Venice Biennial, has announced her next major monographic project will be an exhibition of Shary Boyle’s work with a comprehensive publication, opening in October 2010. Plans are now in motion to tour this exhibition to other institutions. Also in October, Shary Boyle will participate in Splendeurs barbares / Barbaric Splendours, with Valerie Blass and Nathalie Djudberg, curated by Nathalie de Blois at the Musee de Quebec, Quebec City, and Breaking Boundaries, with Brendan Tang, Marc Courtemanche and Carmela Laganse, organized by chief curator Charles Mason at the Gardner Museum, Toronto.
Winter-Spring 2010 Exhibition Schedule
Jon Sasaki Unabashed Optimism, until February 6
Hadley + Maxwell February 13 to March 13
Jason McLean March 20 to April 17
Barbara Probst April 24 to May 22
Sara MacKillop June 5 to July 3
AUTUMN 2009 NEWSLETTEROctober 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
May 14, 2009
We are proud to announce four gallery artists were among the nominees for the 2009 Sobey Art Award (Shary Boyle, Pascal Grandmaison, Luanne Martineau and Derek Sullivan). Congratulations to Shary Boyle and Luanne Martineau who are among the five finalists for this prestigious award which will be announced on October 15.
The Sobey Art Award, Canada‘s preeminent award for contemporary Canadian art, was created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation. It is an annual prize given to an artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. A total of $70,000 in prize money is awarded annually; $50,000 to the winner and $5,000 to the other four finalists.
From May 28 to August 30 2009, Noise Ghost is at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto. This exhibition, curated by Nancy Campbell, brings together works by Shary Boyle and Inuit artist Shuvinai Ashoona. Of special note is Boyle's The Clearances (2007), a unique projection and drawing installation.
The Noise Ghost is an Inuit poltergeist, an arctic auditory phenomenon of incorporeal guile. This unseen, unbodied noise ghost may announce his haunting visitation by curling around a northern house on a cold quiet night and emitting a small, high-pitched hissing. Shary Boyle and Cape Dorset artist Shuvinai Ashoona envision the monstrous and mystical in their work.
The National Gallery of Canada has acquired several elements of 1 + 1 - 1, a major installation by gallery artists Hadley + Maxwell which is currently on view in Nomads, an exhibition of works by five innovative Vancouver-based artists at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), until August 30. Hadley + Maxwell's immersive environment evokes the band rehearsal space or recording studio through video, sound, sculpture and painting.
Hadley + Maxwell’s 1 + 1 -1 developed over the past two years with versions of the project seen at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin in 2007, in their 2008 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects and in the recent How Soon in Now at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 1 + 1 - 1 evolved from the artist’s interest in Jean Luc Godard’s renowned film Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One) which documents the Rolling Stones' 1968 recording sessions for their hit song.
Jed Lind's work is included in Universal Code at the Power Plant, Toronto, through August 30th. Lind's recent photographs of the night sky inspire wonder. The vastness of the universe and its ultimate mystery resonate in these long-exposure analogue works. Universal Code is curated by Gregory Burke, Director of the Power Plant. The exhibition brings together Canadian and international artists from a variety of cultural positions to reflect on topics driving the development of contemporary culture. The artists selected explore the intricate relationships between our evolving understandings of the cosmos; the production of scientific and cultural knowledge; cultural and religious belief systems; information technologies and global power relations. The exhibition considers the response of artists to these relationships in the aftermath of globalization, reflecting the current complexity of the world we inhabit.
Other artists in Universal Code include: Adel Abdessemed, Franz Ackermann, Angela Bulloch, Mircea Cantor, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Henrik Håkansson, Antonia Hirsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Kimsooja, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Josiah McElheny, Tania Mouraud, Gabriel Orozco, The Otolith Group, Adrian Paci, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Fred Tomaselli and Keith Tyson.
Zin Taylor's new work is on view until August 2nd in his first New York solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery (36 Orchard St. between Canal and Hester, New York).
Benny Nemerofsky-Ramsay's celebrated video Live to Tell (2002) is on view at New York's Bitforms gallery (526 West 20th St), in They Told You So from July 16 to August 14.
THE GALLERY IS CLOSED JULY 20 THROUGH AUGUST. THE FALL 2O09 SEASON OPENS ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12 WITH NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS BY KRISTAN HORTON.
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October 01, 2008
We look forward to welcoming you to our newly renovated and expanded space over the fall season. The gallery is pleased to present three extraordinary solo exhibitions, beginning with new work by Montreal artist Pascal Grandmaison on view until October 18. From September 27, 2008 to January 4, 2009 a major exhibition of Grandmaison’s recent film and photographic work will be on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton accompanied by a forthcoming monograph.
We look forward with anticipation to Los Angeles artist Jed Lind’s second exhibition at the gallery, opening 6 to 9 PM Wednesday October 22 (until November 19).
Luanne Martineau will show new wall works opening 2 to 5 PM Saturday November 22 (until December 20). Martineau’s works received critical attention at the Montreal Biennial in fall 2007 and were subsequently acquired by the Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal. The National Gallery of Canada recently acquired her monumental sculpture Buttress (2005).
Visit us at Booth 1106 at the Toronto International Art Fair, October 3 to 6. (www.tiafair.com) On the fair fringe: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby's video installation Reanimating the Universe with Basic Breathing Exercises will be on view at the Gladstone Hotel's upArt Fair October 2 to 5, presented by the curatorial collective Groupe Thérapie.
NOTEWORTHY
Hadley + Maxwell’s exhibition at the gallery last January was the talk for the town. Don’t miss this Berlin-based duo’s upcoming participation in the international exhibition If we can’t get it together selected by Swedish curator Nina Möntmann for the Power Plant, opening Friday December 12, 7 to 10 PM (until February 22, 2009). Hadley + Maxwell’s work has been acquired recently by the National Gallery of Canada where it will be seen in a major installation for the 2009 exhibition Nomads.
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s much-anticipated new video work Beauty Plus Pity, 2008, also opens in a solo exhibition at the Power Plant on December 12. Their Songs for the Heart Beyond Cure, 2006, was widely noted by critics and the art community alike when it was shown in the exhibition Fantasia at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (2006).
Shary Boyle has been invited to complete two major porcelain sculptures in response to historical works in the AGO’s collection, to be installed for the Frank Gehry building opening in mid-November. This year Boyle performed her Dark Hand and Lamplight, a live drawing event with musician Doug Paisley, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in connection with the Kara Walker exhibition. She has been invited with Paisely to perform this piece again on December 18, in the BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Next Wave Festival 2008.
A major exhibition of Nicolas Baier’s work entitled Pareidolias, comes to Toronto at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA) February 6 to March 9, 2009, organized by the Musée régional de Rimouski and touring to The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Musée de Québec, among others.
PUBLICATIONS AND EDITIONS
Zin Taylor The Crystal Ship: This artist’s book accompanies a series of exhibitions on Marcel Broodthaers organized by AmuséeVous, Brussels. Images and text by Zin Taylor. Designed by Zin Taylor and Roger Bywater. Published by Bywater Bros. Editions and Etablissement d’en face projects, Toronto & Brussels, 2008. 68 pages. Edition of 500. $12.
Derek Sullivan’s artist book Persistent Huts, recently published by Printed Matter, New York, includes 18 fold out pages with illustrations. AA Bronson describes this unique publication as “a riff on Ruscha's Sunset Strip improbably married to Kippenberger's Psychobuildings.” $15. Sullivan is completing a second catalogue/artist’s book this fall, related to his recent exhibition of Poster Drawings at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. 96 pages. Designed by the Office of Gilbert Li.
Gwen MacGregor: Disappearing Things: due to be released in October, this artist’s book designed by Lewis Nicholson brings together an ongoing project of photographs, video and sculptural objects that relate conceptually to disappearing things. 144 pages full colour. Text by Jacob Wren. Published by Rodman Hall, St. Catharines. MacGregor joins Sandra Rechiko in Maps in Doubt, a collaborative exhibition curated by critic Dan Adler for the new Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West at Lansdowne) Oct 24th to Nov 29th.
LOOKING AHEAD
The 8th in a series of special project exhibitions at the gallery since its inauguration in May 2005 will open mid-January 2009 featuring works by Jason McLean and Adrian Norvid. Both artists have shown in group exhibitions at the gallery in the past. This exhibition brings their work together in a dialogue between the individual linear and iconic vocabularies that have brought considerable attention to both artists. Norvid’s recent participation in the Montreal Triennial at the Musée d’art contemporain was highlighted by critics and a major work has since been acquired by the museum. McLean’s work has steadily gained recognition in Canada and Europe. He is currently participating in an exhibition at LaViolaBank gallery, one of the new galleries in the quickly developing Lower East Side scene in New York. McLean has recently moved from Vancouver where his career began, to Toronto. Welcome Jason!
Mid-February 2009 a much-anticipated solo exhibition of new work by Shary Boyle.
Following his solo exhibition The Flute of Sub, at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, in 2007 and his participation this month in Autour et au-dela de Broodthaers at the Musée BELvue, Brussels, Zin Taylor returns to Jessica Bradley Art + Projects with an exhibition of new work opening April 9, 2009. In May Gwen MacGregor returns from residencies and projects overseas for her second solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.
September 10, 2008
The gallery will re-open officially on the Canadian Art Hop Saturday, September 20 with a conversation between Grandmaison and critic Leah Sandals at 3.30 PM, followed by a reception for the artist from 4 to 6 PM.
SPRING 2008 NEWSLETTERMarch 20, 2008
Shary Boyle’s extraordinary book Otherworld Uprising, arrives mid-April. Published by Conundrum Press, Montreal, in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, this full-colour volume includes over 100 illustrations, an introduction by Art Gallery of Ontario assistant curator Ben Portis and essays by National Gallery of Canada curator of contemporary art Josée Drouin Brisebois and award-winning fiction writer Sheila Heti. The artist will sign books at David Mirvish Books on Art, 596 Markham Street, Sunday May 25th.
Shary Boyle: The History of Light continues through April 27th at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge. The History of Light explores the performative aspect of Boyle’s practice, showcasing her overhead projection works of the past decade and bringing together for the first time related costumes, collages and drawings.
Boyle’s work is included in Pandora's Box at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, May 16th to July 20th with Laylah Ali, Ghada Amer, Lori Blondeau, Amy Cutler, Chitra Ganesh, Annie Pootoogook, Wangechi Mutu, Leesa Streifler, Kara Walker and Su-en Wong. She will perform with rising Winnipeg singer/songwriter Chirstine Fellows at the Dunlop on May 17th.
On May 7th Boyle performs Dark Hand and Lamplight with Doug Paisley at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in conjunction with the Kara Walker exhibition. Shary Boyle’s work is featured in the current AZURE magazine.
The gallery is proud to announce the long-awaited world premiere of Daniel Barrow’s Every time I See your Picture I Cry under the auspices of the 2008 Images Festival. Barrow will perform his newest “manual animation” combining overhead projection with video, music, and live animation on Thursday, Friday and Saturday April 10, 11, 12 at 7.30 PM. Tickets available at Harbourfront Centre. Barrow goes on to perform this major work at the Gene Siskel Theatre in Chicago, April 24th.
On April 3rd Kristan Horton’s innovative video animation Cig2Coke2Tin2Coff2Milk
(2006) will open at White Columns, New York, where Derek Sullivan has been invited to create the next installment of White Columns’ Bulletin Board Project (April 3rd to May 3rd). Kristan Horton has produced a special project insert print of one of his spiral drawings from his series Drawing a History of World War One in Fillip 7, a Vancouver-based journal of art and culture. These drawings were celebrated throughout the extensive press for the critically acclaimed exhibition Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War (organized by the Blackwood Gallery in collaboration with the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto), which will be seen later this year at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal.
A solo exhibition of Derek Sullivan’s multiples at Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris, runs until April 20th. He is also showing multiples in P2P (curated by Le Bureau) at Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg, until April 6th. Sullivan is in the process of creating an artist-designed publication with an essay by independent curator Pamela Meredith documenting his recent solo exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. He is completing another artist book commissioned by Printed Matter, New York, which will be launched at their booth during Art Basel, June 4 -8. Derek Sullivan and Luanne Martineau are participating in the group exhibition Citizen, Denizen, Resident at Tatjana Pieters/One Twenty Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, March 16th to April 27th.
Lisa Klapstock will show work from her Ambiguous Landscapes series in the group exhibition Vidéo Appart to be held in private Parisian apartments (www.video-appart.fr). Klapstock will show her new series, Field Studies for the first time in From One to Another, a four-person exhibition at Interval, Manchester, U.K, April 18th to May 1st.
Hadley + Maxwell and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay are participating in Just Play: Music as Social Praxis at the Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenbrug, Germany, March 18th to May 18th.
Sara MacKillop’s work is featured in a two-person exhibition with Ian Kiaer at the International Project Space, Birmingham until April 19. Mackillop will have a solo exhibition at the Leicester City Art Gallery from May 10th to June 28th.
Gwen MacGregor’s 3 months Toronto/New York, which has received critical acclaim during the past year at the Rencontres Internationales video and film event held in Paris, Madrid and Berlin, is included in the "Best of Transmedia" in Melbourne, Australia, in April. Her work is featured in a solo exhibition (with catalogue) at Rodman Hall, St. Catharines, opening June 21st and continuing until September.
David Merritt will show a new edition of prints produced during a residency at Open Studio, May 1st to 24th (401 Richmond Street).
Nicolas Baier’s mural-sized ensemble of his Vanités works is included in the first Triennale de Montréal, an ambitious survey of over 30 artists in the burgeoning Qubécois art scene, mounted by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, opening May 24th .
Zin Taylor’s video Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net Station in Dawson City, Yukon, 2007, is included in a program of artists’ films linked to the Power Plant’s summer exhibition Affectionate Homages and Hostile Takeovers, which features artistic remakes that range from the reverential to the mischievous. Wednesday June 25th, 7.30 PM.
Watch for the feature article on Vancouver Painter Ben Reeves by David Jager in the summer issue of Canadian Art magazine.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
April 10, 11, 12 DANIEL BARROW performs at Harbourfront Centre
Tuesday May 6, 5.30 – 7.30 Book Signing BARBARA PROBST Mirvish Books
Wednesday May 7, 6-9 PM, Opening BARBARA PROBST
Sunday afternoon May 25 Book Signing SHARY BOYLE Mirvish Books
November 24, 2007
In a few days the gallery will participate in Aqua Art Miami in the fair’s new warehouse location in the Wynwood art and design district. Participating galleries are invited by Aqua on their merit, rather than by application.
While this fair also continues in its original location at the Aqua Hotel in Miami Beach, the entirely refurbished Wynwood site is around the corner from the Rubell Collection, the Marguiles Collection and a few blocks from NADA, Pulse, the Photo fairs and more.
You will find Jessica Bradley Art + Projects at booth 26, among the 45 other galleries in Aqua/Wynwood. Consolidation of activity in Wynwood this year promises to make the district an exciting destination over the Miami Art Week December 3-9, with several shuttles running to and from Art Basel Miami Beach.
In addition to the great list of artists the gallery is bringing to Aqua/Wynwood, the dynamic Berlin-based Vancouver duo Hadley + Maxwell (who have recently joined the gallery and will mount a special project in January 2008) have been selected by Seattle Art Museum curator Michael Darling for the Art Basel Video Lounge program where their work 1 + 1 – 1 can be viewed during the fair. Gallery artists Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Duke & Battersby and Daniel Barrow will also have video works in the exhibition Get Lost, which can be seen at Locust Projects/USA in conjunction with Art Basel Miami, in the Wynwood district at 105 NW 23rd Street.
For more information on Aqua Art Miami, please visit their website: www.aquaartmiami.com
October 25, 2007
The gallery is pleased to announce the long-anticipated edition launch of Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s Live to Tell at the Toronto International Art Fair (October 26-29).
Live to Tell, 2002
An ubiquity of surveillance cameras bears witness to a choral rendition of a 1980s Madonna ballad.
6 minutes, looping DVD, colour with sound
Includes custom packaging designed by the artist, a sub-master archival disk and an exhibition copy disk with a letter-press numbered and signed letter written by the artist to Madonna, sealed envelope.
Signed and numbered certificate.
Edition of 5 plus one Artists’s Proof $2,500
"Live to Tell" has screened in over 150 film and video festivals worldwide, in galleries in Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Japan, Spain and Canada (including this summer's Auto Emotion exhibition at Toronto's Power Plant) and won prizes at the Hamburg Short Film Festival and Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofestival"
"Madonna should thank her lucky stars an artist like Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay pays her any attention. His kind of sophisticated analysis of her psychic effect on people's lives does not come around often, although his derivative work stands alone as a statement on social change and personal triumph. His incredible interpretations are so full of true and deeply buried emotion, they never parody or even directly refer to the original maker's pilfered material."
Stefan St-Laurent, in It Will Burn Inside of Me, an essay on Nemerofsky Ramsay's video work.
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.