JUNE 25 – AUGUST 21, 2011
Opening celebration and reception: June 24, 8 to 11p.m.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
925 Queen Street West,
Toronto,ON M6J 1G8
T: 416-395-0067
www.mocca.ca
Hours: Tues – Sun 11-6
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Curated by Rae Johnson and Herb Tookey.
This Is Paradise/ From the National Gallery of Canada Collection
Curated by Rae Johnson and Jonathan Shaughnessy.
This is Paradise/ Place as State of Mind: The Cameron House and 1980′s Toronto presents a selection of groundbreaking visual art, fashion, performance, music and theatre created by artists whose playground, sometime-home, laboratory, stage, gallery and canvas was the infamous Cameron Public House of the Queen Street West art scene of 1980’s Toronto. The exhibition provides an overview of 1980s Toronto and an art scene marked by collusion between creative angst, experimentation and vanguard explorations of a burgeoning image-based, media-saturated culture. Curated by active participants in the scene, Rae Johnson and Herb Tookey, the exhibition features an eccentric array of work in all media produced mostly in the 1980s by 47 artists who were key players on the scene, including Cathy Daley, Tom Dean, Lynn Donoghue, Andy Fabo, Eldon Garnet, General Idea, the Hummers (Deanne Taylor, Janet Burke Jennifer Dean, Alan Bridle), Tim Jocelyn, Evan Penny, John Scott, Joanne Tod and Renée Halm, and many more.