Author: artoronto

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.

12th Annual Juried Emerging Sculptors Exhibition

August 9 – September 9, 2011
Opening and Award Presentation: Thursday, August 11, 6:30pm

CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE

Since 1999, the SSC – a non-profit artist-run organization – has brought in jurors and sponsored annual exhibitions for Emerging Sculptors from across Canada

Electric Eclectics #6

by Ashley Johnson

July 29 – 31, 2011
Meaford, Ontario

This festival was not just about sound and included a number of interesting art installations, some malevolent robots, 3-D video and DJ-ing in the tent. There was a lot to see and do

ART FAG CITY PRESENTS: THE SOUND OF ART

A project by Paddy Johnson
Thursday, August 11, 9pm

Live performance at Mercer Union
Free admission

Find out what art sounds like in the hands of artists Paul Slocum and Lewis Kaye. Thursday 11 August, the musicians will remix Art Fag City’s limited edition LP, The Sound of Art, a record composed of sounds heard in New York galleries, museums and project spaces over the last five years.

Kevin Schmidt : “Don’t Stop Believing”

by Matt Macintosh

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House), University of Toronto

What I found particularly admirable is Schmidt’s ability to effect a transformation in attention toward the mundane. What, thankfully, is not purged is, as the exhibition’s title may suggest, an invitation toward attentive light-heartedness—something equally worth bringing to the church or the arena.

Easy Tiger

August 3 – 27, 2011
Opening: Wednesday, August 3, 7pm-11pm

Steam Whistle Gallery
Come by and see music and art collide for our August art exhibit on August 3rd 7-11pm
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Dean Povinsky, Brad Leitch and Ben Sellick are combining the two worlds with live music performances and an art exhibit
Steam Whistle Gallery

Istvan Kantor Brainwash Session 2 @ The Temple of Desperadoes

August 13, 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 for secret conversations, future projects, conspiracy plans, also amazing deals on bloody canvases and many other beautiful Neoist Monty Cantsin artifacts

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris

April 28 – August 26, 2012

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO

The collection of the Musée National Picasso, Paris comprises more than 5,000 works that Picasso kept for himself and his family over the course of his career, ranging from informal sketchbooks to iconic masterpieces. Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris features is touring the world while the Musée undergoes a multi-year renovation, scheduled for completion in 2012.

The Square Foot Exhibit

August 5 – 21, 2011

Preview Gala: Friday, August 5, Tickets: $20
Public reception. Saturday, August 6.Free, line ups are expected

TWIST GALLERY

“A couple of things such as the number of artists that take part in the show and the number and variety of works that are exhibited in one room. Once all the artwork in hung it actually starts to look like one big art piece which is the installation itself.”

JUN KANEKO

June 30 – September 18, 2011

GARDINER MUSEUM

This exhibition presents a survey of 39 works by Kaneko ranging in date from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.The combination of works in different media emphasizes Kaneko’s strong command of form and colour, and his longstanding interest in optics and perception.