Author: artoronto

Sam Mogelonsky: Wish you were here

August 31st – September 24th, 2011
Opening: Thursday, September 8, 6 – 9pm

THE RED HEAD GALLERY

By developing her own form of naïve sculptural language, Mogelonsky constructs environments to transport the viewer into an imaginary space, outside and beyond the everyday

Istvan Kantor: END OF SUMMER PANIC

August 27, Saturday 2 – 6 pm
276 Crawford Street, Toronto
through drive way towards garage

ANTIX – Centre for Art Crime and Neoism

ANTIX is Istvan Kantor’s storage space and summer gallery, archive of Kantor’s life and crimes, a meeting place

Abstract Expressionist New York

by Emese Krunák-Hajagos

Art Gallery of Ontario
May 28 – September 4, 2011

what made that time unique was a capacity of artists to engage with a cosmic quest, a spiritual quest to find meaning. A total commitment on the artists’ side so painting was the only thing that mattered there was no separation between the self and the art work, that’s why the paintings feel like living things.”

LAURA PETURSON: Possible Outcome

September 7 – October 8, 2011
Opening and our First Anniversary! *let them eat cake*: Sat, Sept 10th, 2 – 4pm
also featuring Kasia Czarnota’s glass works

Telephone Booth Gallery

their work capture and examine the expectations and sentiments placed upon very young girls and the tiny but wondrous moments that make up a day in a young life.

Infinity cubed

August 30 – September 23, 2011
Opening: Thursday, September 1, 6-8pm

John B. Aird Gallery

Celebrates the vitality of the Sculptors Society of Canada’s 83rd year.

This year, “Infinity cubed” features contemporary figurative and non-figurative works in all media (stone, clay, bronze, steel, paper, wood, mixed-media) by 40 members

Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde

October 18, 2011 – January 15, 2012

Art Gallery of Ontario

Drawn from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, the exhibition examines how Chagall’s Russian heritage influenced and informed his artistic practice, illustrating how he at turns embraced and rejected broader movements in art history as he developed his widely beloved style

David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers: Drawings on iPhones and iPads

October 8, 2011 – January 1, 2012

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

Hockney began working with the iPhone in 2008. Since then, he has created hundreds of finger-drawn images, ranging in subject matter from flowers and self-portraits to landscapes and still life. More than 20 Hockney drawings in the exhibition will feature playback animations, allowing viewers insight into the artist’s creative process as they view the works being drawn from start to finish.

Elisabetta Fantone: Now and Then

September 7 – 18, 2011
Opening: Wednesday, September 7, 6 – 9pm

Thompson Landry Gallery

This year, the Toronto Film Festival has inspired the artist to produce a brand new series of works based on the faces of film.

Kieślowski in Posters

August 31 – September 10, 2011
Opening: Wednesday, August 31, 7 – 11pm

Steam Whistle Gallery

Cinematic master Krzystof Kieslowski exhibits at Steam Whistle’s Art Gallery on loan from the Film Museum in Łódź,

Rochelle Rubinstein & Lanny Shereck: Homestead

September 3 – 25, 2011
Reception: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 6-8 PM

Loop Gallery

The evocation of home in a collaborative installation, DWELLING, combines the permanence and strength of stone with the fragility and comfort of fabric.