Author: artoronto

Nuit Blanche 2011

Saturday, October 1, 6:59pm – 7.00am

From sunset on Saturday, October 1, to sunrise on Sunday, October 2, 2011, Toronto celebrated its 6th annual all-night contemporary art festival, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, displaying over 130 works created by local, national and international artists.

Gordon Becker : Making a Spectacle

October 19 – November 11, 2011
Opening /Artist Talk: Saturday, October 22, 1:30pm

CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE

Making a Spectacle…theft of movement explores the pain and exhilaration of dancers.

Show Off @ the Junction

October 18 – 30, 2011
Street Party, Friday, October 21, 7-11pm

The event, which includes 12 retail shops and art galleries on the strip of Dundas St. W, west of Keele, unites over 20 design-professionals

Days of Sakha-Yakutia Culture

October 15 – 30, 2011
Opening:: Saturday, October 22, 12-3pm

Bezpala Brown Gallery

In addition to the music, garb and food that will be presented, we continue our exploration of northern art by presenting a unique opportunity to contrast Northern Canadian visual art and sculpture with that of the works of Sakha artists

Gallery Hop / Evening Magazine Launch

Saturday, September 24, 5;30 – 7:30

CANADIAN ART FALL ISSUE

55 MILL STREET BUILDING 2

The busy day of Gallery Hop ended with fellow art lovers at the launch of Canadian Art’s fall issue in the historic Distillery District.

After All

October 5 – 27, 2011
Opening: Wednesday, October 5, 7-10 pm

STEAM WHISTLE GALLERY

After All is a colloquium of micro-disasters and subtle apocalypses, little mistakes and lonely wanderers, absences and distortions, created by eight young visual artists

SpeakEasy’s 16th Annual Illustration Show

Thursday, October 6th, 7 – 11pm

The Gladstone Hotel
Second Floor Lobby + Studio Rooms

Take a peek inside the collective imaginations of 20 talented illustrators whose work features original styles, techniques and media

Gallery Hop, Panel discussion

Saturday, September 24, 11 – 12:30

Tiff Bell Lightbox

By pointing to the mysterious worlds of math and science in a subtle pun, Location3 also refers directly to ideas of place and place-less-ness as an equation that is integral to Art (especially in Canada).

Paintings by Brian Harvey

October 12 – November 19, 2011
Opening: Friday, October 21, 7–10 pm

TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY

Studies of the commonplace and the typically mundane, Brian Harvey’ssubject matter includes household objects, interior spaces and urban landscapes

Julia Vandepolder:Backhouse

October 12 – November 19, 2011
Opening: Friday, October 21, 7-10 pm

TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY

Julia Vandepolder’s recent paintings are an investigation of abandoned and collapsing urban and rural architecture.

Suzanne Nacha: Signs for Travelers

October 15 – November 6, 2011
Opening: Saturday, October 15, 2-5 pm
Q&A: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 1 pm moderated by Patrick Macaulay

LOOP GALLERY

Through the systematic abstraction and anthropomorphism of industrial and natural landscapes, she seeks to make iconic images that act at times, as psychological mirrors to human experience.