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Book Launch: Thursday, May 30, 5-9pm
Exhibition Dates: May 30 – June 15, 2013
Bulger Gallery Press is pleased to present, World’s Greatest, a publication that features 60 photographs by Pete Doherty and writing by Stephen Brunt, Jim Christy and Larry Fink.
Doherty (b. Ottawa, Canada, 1964) is a self-taught photographer and graduate of the Ontario College of Art, who, for many years, left behind the world of art to become a boxer. After retiring from his amateur career, Doherty returned to the ring with his camera in hand. His photographs primarily document the boxing world in Ontario and New York State, but are representative of professional and amateur boxing throughout North America. The images not only focus on the sport of boxing, but also on the people and personalities that populate that world. His photographs document the emotions and physical challenges of training, fighting, and the win or loss. They also address the politics that make up both amateur and professional fighting.
Doherty has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His work can be found at the Portrait Gallery of Canada—Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, and Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, as well as in many private collections. He currently lives, trains, and photographs in Toronto.
A selection of photographs from World’s Greatest will be exhibited in Gallery Two at the Stephen Bulger Gallery from May 30 to June 15.
On Saturday, June 1st, Mira Godard Gallery is pleased to open an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by OTTO ROGERS. This is Rogers’ first solo exhibition in Toronto in ten years. Artist will be present on opening day.
"BETWEEN VISION, DESIGN AND EXPRESSION there is no seam. Neither is one thing the cause and another the result. I have been referred to as a landscape painter and yet my efforts have concentrated on composition as poetic abstraction, an activity in which I make reference to nature but do not seek a landscape depiction. Rather, the search is for a heightened realm of reality. While developing the configuration on each canvas, panel or paper, my hope is to achieve a resolution that transcends the act of making, presenting the viewer with an elevated feeling, with a presence so palpable that time is suspended."
Otto Rogers
Otto Donald Rogers, 2007
OTTO ROGERS was born in 1935 in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan. He attended the Saskatchewan Teachers College (1954). He received a Bachelor of Science in Art Education (1958) and a Masters in Fine Art (1959) from the University of Wisconsin. As Professor and Head of the Department of Art at the University of Saskatchewan (1959–1988), Rogers helped revive the Emma Lake Artist Workshop, Saskatchewan (1971–1987). From 1988 to 1998 Rogers lived in Haifa, Israel, where he served two, five-year terms as a Counselor member of the International Teaching Center at the World Centre for the Bahai Faith.
Considered one of Canada’s important painters, OTTO ROGERS has exhibited internationally for over five decades. Rogers' works are found in over 1500 international public, corporate and private collections including Art Gallery of Ontario, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Mendal Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Montreal Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Canada; the National Gallery of Iceland; Bank of Montreal; General Foods and Scotiabank.
OTTO ROGERS lives and works in Southern Ontario.
To arrange an interview with the artist, or for more information, please contact the gallery at (416)-964-8197, via email godard@godardgallery.com, or visit: www.godardgallery.com.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 2-5pm
The gallery is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of work by Danny Lyon. “The Bikeriders” features a selection of photographs by Danny Lyon, one of the most important documentary photographers and filmmakers to come of age in the 1960s, which chronicle the activities of the motorcycle world from 1963 to 1967. Lyon documented the life of the American bikerider in the Midwest from the seat of his Triumph motorcycle, equipped with a Nikon, a Rolleiflex and a seven-pound portable tape recorder. In 1968, his photographs were published in the landmark book, The Bikeriders, which not only launched his career, but also introduced motorcycle counterculture to mainstream America, paving the way for the film Easy Rider.
Writing in The Photobook: A History, Vol. I, photographer Martin Parr remarked,
“…The Bikeriders, an important and influential work, was one of the first books to bring a new genre to late twentieth-century photography, a genre that became more central as the century progressed… Lyon photographed communities from the inside, making them an integral part of his life for the duration of the project, and even afterwards… The Bikeriders represented a significant step in 1960s American photography, not only launching an important photographic career, but also giving a younger generation of photographers a spokesman of their own age… Lyon was part of the generation he was photographing, so was able to talk with an authentic voice about his subjects, understanding instinctively not only their hopes and aspirations, but also why they were rebelling against all kinds of adult authority.”
With this new body of work Vancouver painter Val Nelson allows her subjects to rise to the surface and demand to be painted. Not categorized in terms of subject or style, Nelson’s practice involves a distinct layering process whereby travel photographs, found images, and art history texts are the primary sources for her paintings. Acknowledging numerous influences including Menzel, Manet, and Picabia, Nelson’s scenes create a fascinating overall narrative, much like the collision of images in film montage.
An honors graduate of Media Arts at Emily Carr College of Art + Design, at the age of twenty-eight Nelson received the Helen Pitt Award, after which she was included in a group exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Nelson was a 2003 semi-finalist in the Royal Bank Canadian Painting Competition, and was recently a resident at the Vermont Studio Center on scholarship, with the assistance of a Canada Council Travel Grant. In late 2013 her work will be included in International Painting Annual 3 published by the Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, with essays by Matt Metzger and Willie Robertson. Her work can be found in many collections including the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Canada Council Art Bank, the Online Artist Registry of White Columns in New York, as well as numerous private and corporate collections in Canada, the US, the UK, and Dubai.
We are pleased to present a major collection of oils, watercolours and sketches by Charles John Collings (Canadian 1848-1931). The exhibition is shown in conjunction with, and in support of, Hope at Dawn: Watercolours by Emily Carr and Charles John Collings, currently on exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
33 original works by Collings are showcased at the Uno Langmann Gallery, including major works Niagara, Above the Falls, Near Revelstoke BC, and Tunnel in the Mountains. British born, at the age of sixty-two, Collings moved to Canada with his wife and two sons, where he settled on the remote Seymour Arm of Shuswap Lake. He used a technique of mixing colours directly on to water soaked paper, and worked “en plein air” but finished his pieces in his studio.
We will be presenting a free public talk on the collection at the Uno Langmann Gallery on Saturday April 27th at Noon, in unison with the Vancouver Gallery Hop. Showing alongside this exhibition is a selection of fine antiques and objet d’art.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am to 5pm or by appointment. The first building on the south end of the Granville Street Bridge at the beginning of South Granville’s Gallery Row, 2117 Granville Street, phone 604-736-8825 www.langmann.com. (Wheelchair accessible).
Canada House Gallery is proud to host their second exhibition for Sheila Kernan. A former gallerina at Canada House Gallery, Sheila left the gallery eleven years ago to attend ACAD and earn her BFA. When she left the gallery, Kernan aspired to have her work hanging on the walls of Canada House Gallery one day in the future.
This dynamic and talented painter pushes her method and techniques to the limits. Her unique use of stencils, texture, glitter and airbrush allows her work to stand out across the country. Kernan firmly believes that her foundation of working at the gallery contributed to her success – she now shows in leading galleries in Banff, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg and Toronto. Always experimenting and looking for inspiration, this young artist's vision of the mountain, prairie and urban landscapes around her vibrate with energy. Artist reception, Saturday June 8, 1-3 pm
Underwater photographs by Laurel Johannesson. Laurel Johannesson is a Canadian artist who studied at the University of Calgary (MFA), the University of Saskatchewan (BFA + BA) and the Royal College of Art in London, UK. Her sensual underwater photographs, video, and interactive media works reference the body, mythology, memory, personal history, and self-portraiture and are often dependent on a response to time and place.
Laurel has been an Artist in Residence in Iceland, Greece, and the Côte d'Azur, France. She is a Fellow of the Bau Institute (Italy), and has most recently been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome (Italy) and Spiazzi (Venice, Italy) where she also exhibited her work in a solo show. In addition to Italy, her work has been exhibited in Greece, England, France, India, Iceland, Argentina, Germany, Japan, Chile, the United States, and Canada. Laurel is faculty at the Alberta College of Art + Design where she has also held positions as Program Head and Assistant Dean. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Generative Art, Science, and Technology Journal (Milan, Italy), and is Co-Editor of CMDJ - Journal of Computational Media Design. She has presented her research in the area of Computational Media Design at art and technology conferences in Rome, Florence, and Milan (Italy) and most recently at the University of California Los Angeles.
These photographs depict a variety of iconic cityscapes, rural landscapes and interiors in Italy and France. They formally hover somewhere between past present and future, inviting the viewer to question the historical value of these places and how we as tourists experience them. Cities and landscapes are like living organisms, they continuously evolve, grow, die and mutate. I'm interested in revealing the invisible features of these places that are hidden behind progress and 21st century conveniences. While the title "Traces of Time" initially refers to temporality as understood in relation to mortality and finitude, it also suggests a reversal of that by re-reading or looking back at history and historical images. Often referencing historical vantage points found in period paintings, etchings and postcards, the images don't look like the spaces depicted. From a slowly decaying Tuscan Villa and French pier, to an extravagantly renovated Venetian Palazzo, these images are intentionally nostalgic. In the field, I would walk, drive and let happenstance find my way. Often waiting for hours or even days for the proper skies to form, a crane to swing out of the way or the city to rest, I'd find inspiration in the simplest of places. Certain colours have been drained of life while others are used to prop them up - referencing the fall and winter months in which I made this work. But above all, these images are about the anticipation and wonder you get when traveling to a place for the first time.
Portraiture was a way to signify wealth, status and power, as well as a means of creating family records or mementos to pass down generations. Portraits capture the physical likeness of the sitter, as well as impressions of their character and personality; their fashion, accessories, and accompanying objects included in the scene further reinforce the sitter’s life story. Includes works by George Romney, Anthonie Palamedesz, Otto Brandt, and many others. Showing alongside this exhibition is a selection of fine antiques and objet d’art. Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am to 5pm or by appointment. The first building on the south end of the Granville Street Bridge at the beginning of South Granville’s Gallery Row, 2117 Granville Street, phone 604-736-8825 www.langmann.com. (Wheelchair accessible).
On Saturday, May 4th, Mira Godard Gallery is pleased to open an exhibition of new work by CHRISTOPHER PRATT, one of Canada’s most prominent painters and printmakers. The artist will be present.
"With respect to the origins of my work I think that it’s fair for me to say that my work is essentially autobiographical and I say that because I’ve never really been preoccupied with the history of art or art about art and my work essentially comes from my environment, but you have to take a very broad view of the term environment. It’s not just obviously my geographical environment, although that’s very important, it’s also the social environment, the family environment of my childhood, memories that go back to there…and experiences that followed. It’s also the environment of things that I have read and encountered subsequently. But the bottom line really is that my work is the response to my life."
Christopher Pratt
Christopher Pratt was born in 1935 in St. John's, Newfoundland. He attended the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, from 1957-1959. In 1961, Pratt received a B.A. in Fine Art from Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick.
Christopher Pratt was the subject of a major touring retrospective organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1985, a touring print retrospective and catalogue raisonné, The Prints of Christopher Pratt: 1958 - 1991 in 1992 and a major travelling exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 2005.
Over the years Pratt has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including from a long list of exhibitions: New York, 1976, Canada House Cultural Centre Gallery in London, England which traveled to Paris, Brussels and Dublin from 1982-83, 49th Parallel Gallery in New York in 1988, National Gallery of Canada, 2005. Pratt's work can be found in many international public, private and corporate collections including Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Ontario; Beaverbrook Art Gallery; McMichael Canadian Art Collection; Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal; Museum London; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; Vancouver Art Gallery; Bank of Montreal; London Life; RBC; Shaw Communications; Tory, Tory and UBS Securities, Canada.
A new book Christopher Pratt - Six Decades will be published by Firefly Books in 2013.
An exhibition of Christopher Pratt's work will be organized by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland in 2015.
Christopher Pratt lives and works in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland and has been represented by Mira Godard Gallery for over 45 years.
To arrange an interview with the artist, or for more information, please contact the gallery at (416)-964-8197, via email godard@godardgallery.com, or visit: www.godardgallery.com.
Newzones is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Marie Lannoo.
A process driven artist, Lannoo paints with a particular interest in experimenting with her materials and color patterns within the field of abstraction. Her work emphasizes materiality through layers of high gloss transparent paint that becomes responsive to its surroundings. In the exhibition, In the Dirt with Eyes on the Stars, she has introduced a new material made of powdered minerals and resin and added folding as a strategy to articulate space. Where layering suggests depth and luminosity, folding articulates dimensionality. These folding and color strategies are integrated into a framework that further accentuates the dimensional component of this work.
Roald Nasgaard makes the following comments in "Marie Lannoo's Existence Art", which is included in the catalogue for "Through and Through and Through", which exhibited at Mendel Gallery in 2010:
"Lannoo's work draws the viewer deep into internal illusions replete with reflected invasions from the external world. At the same time, it reaches out to embrace and enfold itself around the body of the viewer, who sees the world as if with eyes in the back of his/her head...Lannoo significantly sheds her means of physical presence in favour of transparency and luminosity, for materials with a capacity to hold, radiate and reflect light, mirroring the world as well as reanimating it with colour."
Lannoo was born in 1954 in Delhi, Ontario. She attended the University of Saskatchewan and studied painting at the Banff School of Arts as well as in Virton, Belgium. Her work has been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada including a solo exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery, and internationally. The Government of Alberta, Canada Council Art Bank, University of Saskatchewan and many more have purchased Lannoo's work.
Barbara Cole is a self-taught photographic artist who has built an extraordinary career in image making since beginning her practice in the 1980s. She is best known for her still images and her lenticulars. Lenticulars are images which are made by interlacing a sequence of photographs to match optical lenses, creating a kinetic image, which appears to transform based on the position of the viewer.
Cole's work has been exhibited worldwide and is extensively collected by both public and private institutions. Throughout her career, Cole has worked internationally on commercial projects and has created several large-scale commissions, including installations for the atrium at the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre in Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital and for Trump Hollywood in Hollywood Beach, Florida. Her series, Underworld, was exhibited at the Canadian Embassies in Tokyo and Washington, D.C.
Cole has won prestigious awards such the Grand Prize at the Festival Internationale de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes, and third prize at the International Photography Awards in New York. In 2012, the acclaimed documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II featured an episode devoted exclusively to Cole’s photographic practice. Barbara Cole lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Mowry Baden
Califanada [cal i fan‘ ada]
2 May to 8 June 2013
Opening Thursday 2 May from 6 to 8
Califanada brings together six works by senior sculptor Mowry Baden that bookend an ambitious and extensive practice. The exhibition includes four new works that demonstrate Baden’s longstanding commitment to sculpture that is physically engaging and participatory. Also included are two works, Lintel and Shortall, which date back to 1969. Shortall was recently featured in the Pomona College Museum of Art’s series of exhibitions entitled It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973.*
Baden says about the new works:
"A couple of years ago, I started making wheeled sculptures that a viewer could push around. In Ark Arc, I started with an ordinary walker. Seizing the handles, the viewer is in a position to see the sculpture itself from a fixed angle and distance. The viewer can also move from place to place, using the sculpture’s mirrors to explore the surrounding room and avoid collisions. Then I moved on to utility wheelchairs (Beginning, Middle and End) and fridge dollies (Russian Thistle). Pushing these around my studio, I thought it would be fitting to have at least one wheeled sculpture that couldn’t go anywhere – a static, dark centre – Marsupial."
- Mowry Baden, 2013
Physical involvement with Baden’s sculptures rewards the willing viewer with experiences that energize the proprioceptive and tactile senses. What results is an accentuated sense of one’s own body in relation to its surroundings. All of the works in Califanada de-center the sense of sight and challenge our perceptions of art and space.
Mowry Baden’s sculptures have engaged the participating viewer for over five decades. He has exhibited with the gallery since its inaugural exhibition in 2005. Originally from Los Angeles, Baden has lived and worked in Canada since 1971, and currently resides in Victoria. He has taught sculpture at Raymond College, Pomona College, the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. In 2006, Baden received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Baden has presented solo exhibitions at Artists Space in New York, the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the Pomona College Art Museum in Claremont, CA, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto in Mississauga, among others. His work is featured in many notable collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the City of Seattle, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the American Psychological Association in Washington DC.
*The Pomona project was part of Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980, a wide-ranging series of exhibitions mounted throughout Southern California, supported by the Getty Foundation.
For more information please contact us:
Diaz Contemporary
100 Niagara Street (at Tecumseth)
Toronto, ON M5V 1C5
416.361.2972
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