Exhibitions
Penelope Stewart
Echo Utopias
Excerpts from the Genius Loci Project
November 1 - November 30, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 8th, 2 - 4 pm
Penelope Stewart
'Domus'
50" x 30 "
lambda print, edition of 3
Stewart’s photo based Genius Loci Project explores the duplicity
of utopian visions of the garden through the futuristic Victorian
greenhouses constructed throughout North America and Europe
in the 19th and 20th century. Stewart states that this “romantic
architecture functions as museum, as authority, monument and
theatre while nature under goes a process of displacement,
diminution and transplantation, lodging the glass structures in
our collective memory as a replacement for Eden”.
Stewart received her BFA from York University, Toronto and her
MFA from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.
Stewart has exhibited widely across Canada, in Europe, Australia,
and the US. She has received numerous grants and awards from
the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council, International Sculpture
Center (US), and most recently the Center for Exploratory and
Perceptual Arts (CEPA) Exhibition Award for her large format
photographs in the Genius Loci Project. Stewart's work is held in
public, corporate and private collections including the Department
of Foreign Affairs, Cambridge Galleries, Ontario Securities
Commission, Inco, Oxford Properties and the United Church of
Canada.
Penelope Stewart
'Cloche 1'
32
" x 40 "
lambda print, edition of 3
Carte Blanche vol. 2 - Painting
North Gallery
November 14 - 30, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 15th
Featuring : Melissa Doherty, Angela Grossmann, Sophie Jodoin, Dan Kennedy, Andrew Morrow, John Nobrega, Gary Spearin.
Dan Kennedy
'Natural History'
63
" x 50 "
oil on canvas
The North Gallery group exhibition will coincide with the Museum of Contemporary Art / Magenta Foundation exhibition celebrating the release of the Carte Blanche, Volume 2 : Painting publication that includes Edward Day Gallery artists Melissa Doherty, Angela Grossmann, Sophie Jodoin, Dan Kennedy, Andrew Morrow, John Nobrega, and Gary Spearin.
Dan Kennedy's 'Voice Mansion' will be exhibited at the MOCCA, along with 29 emerging, mid-career and established Canadian painters. MOCCA : Carte Blanche Vol. 2 is on view from November 15 - December 28, 2008.
Mark Thompson
Slideshow
North Gallery
September 30- October 26, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 11th, 2 - 4 pm
Mark Thompson
'Slide Show' installation
TIAF
Group show extension of our TIAF 08 booth
North Gallery
September 30- October 26, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 11th, 2 - 4 pm
Featuring : Jesse Boles,
Tom Dean,
Melissa Doherty
Angela Grossmann,
Sophie Jodoin,
Dan Kennedy
John Nobrega,
Nada Sesar-Raffay,
Penelope Stewart
Mark Thompson
above : Mark Thompson
'Adirondack'
36" x 35" x 46"
glas, lead, mixed media
Melissa Doherty
'Vignette no. 4'
36" x 48"
oil on canvas
Grounded
A Group Show from the Ground Up
August 29 - September 21, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, September 11th, 6 - 8 pm
Featuring : Ania Biczysko, Jesse Boles, Melissa Doherty,
Stev'nn Hall, Daniel Hughes, Joshua Jensen-Nagle,
Bogdan Luca, Diana Menzies, Andrew Morrow,
Emma Nishimura, Penelope Stewart, Jennifer Walton.
Melissa Doherty
'Wind and Trees no. 4'
72" x 96"
oil on canvas
Andrew Morrow
'Summer 1978'
32" x 72
oil on canvas
Ania Biczysko
'Cloud Series - Cumulonimbus'
9' x 5' x 13'
stainles steel
Jacob Yerex
Absence Of Conscience
July 29 - August 23, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 29th, 6 - 8 pm
Jacob Yerex
'Iraq War Protest'
54" x 48 "
acrylic on canvas
Through his solo exhibition in the main gallery, Yerex employs images
of significant civil rights leaders captured by soldiers and protest
crowd scenes to emphasize the ongoing erosion of global civil
liberties. The Absence of Conscience exhibition represents a growing
concern with the tendency of super powers to extract and remove
voices of cultural forces that represent resistance. Yerex states that through the war on terrorism, "we are progressively losing civil rights and our democratic right for free speech and privacy". The protest crowd paintings are composite images complied from people protesting American military actions inIraq, representing the diverse magnitude of international voices ignored by super power forces. Yerex has exhibited throughout Toronto and Ontario since the mid 1990’s. Salah Bachir is presenting Absence of Conscience, which is also accompanied by an exhibition catalogue.
Jacob Yerex
'Martin Luther King Jr.'
36" x 48 "
acrylic on canvas
sold
Jacob Yerex
'Frida Kahlo'
36" x 48 "
acrylic on canvas
sold
Alex Powers
North Gallery
July 29 - August 23, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 29th, 6 - 8 pm
'Target I'
30" x 40"
mixed media on paper
The mixed media paintings in the north gallery by South Carolina-based Alex Powers tackle issues around inequities of race and class existing in North American cultures. Themes such as money, racism and terrorism play a major role in Powers’ confrontational voice. Powers has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the South Carolina State Museum, has been featured in American Artist Magazine regularly and has work in major US collections.
Appropos
July 3rd - July 27th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 3rd, 6 - 8 pm
Featuring John Abrams, Dawolu Jabari Anderson (US),
Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Andrew Harwood, GB Jones,
Dan Kennedy, Ai Kijima (US), Suzy Lake, John Oswald,
Diana Thorneycroft, and Daryl Vocat.
Dan Kennedy
'Tinsel and Tinder'
40" x 37"
oil on canvas
Over the years, through the ever changing landscape of image
production, artists have had to navigate the turbulent chaos of
copyright legislation. It appears that with recent Federal
attempts
to update the Copyright Act, the confusion surrounding the terrain
of image production may become
braided with knots. On June 12,
2008, the initial digital stages
of The Act to amend the Copyright
Act began with Canada’s
Conservative Government’s introduction
of Bill C-61, by Minister
of Industry, Jim Prentice. Harper’s Government
proposes that
the bill will balance the rights of copyright holders and
consumers. Critics warn that we may become a police state.
Contemporary visual artists and the use of appropriated
imagery will
undoubtedly be caught in the crossfire. Bill C-61
prohibits circumventing
digital locks or removing Technical
Protection Measures (TPM’s) on
software of digital media.
Most media conglomerates are currently initiating digital locks,
ensuring complete control over media that is purchased,
rented
or downloaded.
The locks will prevent artistic, legitimate and legal uses of media.
The
Appropriation Art Coalition, a coalition of art professionals
across Canada
oppose Bill C-61, advocating that if the new
legislation is passed, it will
make it "illegal to access existing
material, modify it, comment on it
and/or publicly display it.
Criticism, parody and satire, under Bill C-61
become criminal acts."
A National Post comments reader, GeofG,
suggests
that since the
Bill prohibits circumventing digital locks, "taking
a clip from
DVD for
purposes of parody or political criticism is outlawed;
unlocking
your
cell phone is banned…as is watching overseas DVD’s".
Another
response to the Bill from Dala concludes that "A future with
digital locks
is one where works go into the Disney vault and never
come out again".
The Appropos group exhibition is based on the work of artists whose use of imagery integrates existing popular culture products/icons. One of the purposes of the exhibition is to emphasize the crucial relevance of appropriation to contemporary visual artists and their studio practice. As revisions to Copyright Act legislation, known as the Act to Amend the Copyright Act, are currently underway by the Canadian government, there are valid concerns that the elements of contemporary artistic practice such as appropriation and "quoting" could potentially be outlawed by draconian legislation.
"Permissions, ungranted" - view the article by Gary Michael Dault, The Globe and Mail .
Diana Thorneycroft
'Failed Relationships (The Pooh and Mickey)'
26 1/2
" x 26 1/2 "
graphite on paper
Diana Thorneycroft – Represented by Art Mur, Michael Gibson Gallery
Dan Kennedy – Represented by Edward Day Gallery
Dawolu Jabari Anderson – Represented by Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL.
Ai Kijima – Represented by Franklin Parrash Gallery, New York
Daryl Vocat – Art Metropole
G.B. Jones – Represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Andrew Harwood – Represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Sadko Hadzihasanovic – Represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art
John Abrams – Represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art
John Oswald – Represented by Edward Day Gallery
Suzy Lake – Represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Doug Guildford
Off-shore
North Gallery
June 8th - June 29th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Sunday, June 8th, 2 - 4pm
'Blue Tide : Off-shore Evidence #2'
20" x 30 "
collograph on Kurontani #4
Edward Day Gallery is please to present a suite of new collograph prints
on Kutorani #4 paper by Doug Guildford. The Off-shore Evidence series
provides direct impressions of the artist’s crocheted colonies. Guildford
states that his crocheted sculptural work "spills from an intuitive, obsessive
place, and accommodates my need to task on an ongoing basis and is a
means to contemplate, as I justify and record my life". Guildford is an award-winning printmaker/installation artist who has exhibited his work extensively throughout North America and Europe including The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The Textile Museum, Toronto and the Toyota Gallery, Paris, France.
The Washi Challenge
Main Gallery
June 8th - June 29th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Sunday, June 8th, 2 - 4pm
Penelope Stewart
'Allen Gardens'
21 1/2 " x 27 1/2 "
ink on Washi
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present The Washi Challenge Exhibition (main gallery) in conjunction with the World Washi Summit (June 7 – 15, 2008), a Toronto-wide festival where over 120 Canadian and international artists working with Washi Japanese paper will exhibit work, provide workshops, lectures, artist demonstrations, performances etc. Artists exhibiting in the Edward Day Gallery group exhibition include Leonard Brooks, Sheila Butler, Shayne Dark, Leslie Dill, Catherine Heard, Tomoyo Ihaya, John Latour, Joyce McClelland, Emma Nishimura, Frank Nulf, Rick Oginz, Ed Pien, Penelope Stewart, Cybele Young.
Joshua Jensen-Nagle
Works of Things Soon Forgotten
Main Gallery
May 8th - June 1st, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 10th, 2 - 5pm
'Long Lost Dreams of Happiness'
47" x 72 "
pigment print and resin on panel
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present new photographic
work by Joshua Jensen Nagle. For his new body of work, Jensen-Nagle looks to fleeting elements where meaning plays a vulnerable role in a society dominated by ever changing technologies. Jensen-Nagle states that the works are from "the evidence of the past and of a changing world, inspired by the idea of loss. They beckon to memories and dreams, elements that are fading away and becoming forgotten or extinct".
Sophie Jodoin : Creatures
North Gallery
May 8th - June 1st, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 10th, 2 - 5pm
'Creature 2'
42" x 40"
conté on paper
In the North Gallery, Sophie Jodoin will present her large scale charcoal/pastel Creature drawings informed by photographs of children, where changes were manipulated to "arrive at disturbing heads of children with the implication of possible cancer". The "Creatures" reality refers to the effects of violence and illness on the body of a child. They form a continuum with her on-going War Series.
Catherine Beaudette : The Martha Paintings
North Gallery
April 5th - May 4th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 5th, 2 - 5pm
'Nippon'
11" x 14"
oil on canvas
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by
Catherine Beaudette. The Martha paintings were done in
Newfoundland and are based on Beaudette’s observation of how
the natural living conditions of Bonavista Bay has perhaps become
a base for one of North America’s leading lifestyle aficionados –
Martha Stewart. The paintings are based on Beaudette’s Bonavista
neighbor Hazel’s collection of Martha Stewart Living magazine. Hazel’s
remote fishing village seemed worlds apart from the Martha Stewart
mass marketing machine.
Domestica
Main Gallery
April 5th - May 4th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 5th, 2 - 5pm
Brian Dettmer
'Remove Remove Remove'
6 1/2 " x 6" x 2 3/4"
cut book
In the main gallery we present Domestica, a group exhibition including Melissa Doherty, Cybele Young, Andrew Morrow, Angela Grossmann, Dan Hughes, David Pellettier, Tomoyo Ihaya, Steven White, Tom Judd, John Nobrega, Mark Thompson, Chrysanne Strathacos, Kyla Richards and Chris Broadhurst.
Heather Graham : bare
Main Gallery
March 5th - 23rd, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 6th, 6 - 8 pm
'All The'
48" x 48"
oil on canvas
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by
Heather Graham.
Graham's portraits are based on images of
anonymous people, photographed from
life in contemporary
society. The faces are close cropped and enlarged with little
external context provided. As a result there is an intimacy and
immediacy conveyed,
providing insight into a private moment of
emotion.
Elaine Despins : The Virgin Mary Series
North Gallery
March 5th - 23rd, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 6th, 6 - 8 pm
'Virgin Mary 4'
48" x 48"
oil on canvas
The North Gallery will feature new paintings by Elaine Despins from her Virgin Mary series. Her images of contemporary women in ordinary clothing, are suspended somewhere between crucifixion and resurrection. These references amplify the fragile and sensitive condition of an individual isolated in a space without visual or tactile landmarks. In this body of work, she explores the experience of suffering and transcendence, of limitation (physical and psychological) and boundarylessness, of embodiment and expansion.
ABRACADABRA
exchange with
Art Mûr Gallery, Montreal
Main Gallery
January 10th - February 10th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 12th, 3 - 5 pm
Monique Bertrand,
'Tragic toys series, Marionnette à tiges' (detail) , 2003
Featuring works by Lois Andison, Patrick Beaulieu, Monique Bertrand,
Dennis Ekstedt, Claude Ferland, Holly King, Guillaume Lachapelle,
Cal Lane, Nadia Myre, Fabrizio Perozzi, and David Spriggs.
ABRACADABRA collects the work of 11 artists represented by Art Mûr
in Montreal. The exhibition reflects on the moment of change where
artwork transforms through various states to achieve a sense of wonder.
Nada Sesar-Raffay - Selctions from 'Swing'
North Gallery
January 10th - February 10th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 12th, 3 - 5 pm
Flood 3
24
" x 36"
oil on canvas