The artist’s reception for Light Abstractions by Ryan Van Der Hout took place on Saturday, June 5th from 2-5pm. Light Abstractions continues until June 27th, 2010.
Exhibitions Archive
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Forces of Nature Reception
Thank you to everyone who made it out to the reception for Forces of Nature, which features exhibitions by Jim Reid and the estate of Philip Iverson.
The exhibition has been extended until May 9, 2010.
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Images from exhibition the Lonsdale Drawers: Works on Paper and Photo Prints
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Looking Ahead Opening Reception Pictures
Thank you to everyone who came to Lonsdale Gallery to celebrate our fifteen years at the opening reception of Looking Ahead, our anniversary show. Click below to see pictures from the night.
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Looking Ahead: Lonsdale Gallery Anniversary Show
November 12-December 13, 2009
Opening Reception Thursday, November 12 from 7-10pm
Lonsdale Gallery is entering its fifteenth year in Toronto. Over this time Lonsdale has fostered the careers of many great artists and worked to achieve its mandate to exhibit works that challenge interpretation and elicit reaction: contemporary painting, sculpture, experimental photography and installation.
This exhibition serves as an homage to the shows and artists who have helped to make our gallery what it is today and to the new talents who will be part of our future. For our celebration, we are showcasing a selection of just some of the great artists we have had the pleasure of working with. Please join us for the opening reception for special presentations and performances.
Featured Artists:
Ruth Adler, Nadia Amoroso, George Boileau, Jamie Bradbury, Cathy Daley, Maurice Ducret, Sheila Gregory, Osheen Harruthoonyan, Phil Irish, Philip Iverson, Joan Kaufman, Nobuo Kubota, Amanda MCavour, Alex McLeod, William Mokrynski, Julie Oakes, Mabel Odessey, Liz Pead, Jim Reid, Gretchen Sankey, Peggy Taylor-Reid, Tyler Vipond, Francesca Vivenza, Jay Wilson, Ilan Wolff, Pedie Wolfond
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Julie Oakes: Genesis Opening Reception
Thanks to everyone who came out to the opening of Genesis by Julie Oakes on October 1, 2009. Click below to see installation shots of the show and pictures from the Genesis opening reception.
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Julie Oakes: Genesis
October 1- 31, 2009
Opening Reception Thursday, October 1st from 7-10pm
Since moving to Toronto from New York in 2005, Julie Oakes has been using spiritual narratives derived from Eastern iconography to create her art. Her body of works is based on a simple premise: In order to empty the mind, it is necessary to liberate from all disturbances – yet the world is rife with distractions. Oakes introduces elements that serve a dual purpose of both constructing a new visual reality and maintaining a composed balance.
The work in Genesis will include pieces from The Buddha Composed (2008), The Life Screen (eight silk screen images that form two sides of a Shoju screen were designed to recognize the serendipitous combinations and variety in life) and The Weeping Monkey (a bronze piece where the Buddhist trickster, and also the lowliest of the primates, weeps in a pool of his own tears).
New work consisting of gouaches, ceramics and bronzes elaborate on biblical beginnings that culminate in the installation The Ark. The mythical Ark, having floated for aeons, has finally come to rest and the animals are descending upon a sweeping curve to land on the floor of the gallery. With fifty species modeled in clay, The Ark is part of a larger installation titled Swounds proposed for the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum that addresses the sense of disconnection that resides in the correlation between a loving God and the reality of violence and death. For more images, visit julieoakes.com.
Oakes combines the philosophical with a modern trend towards spectacle.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
For Immediate Release : PEEP SHOW
PEEP SHOW
August 12 – September 27, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 13 7 – 10pm
Jamie Bradbury
Osheen Harruthoonyan
Bogdan Luca
Amanda McCavour
Alex McLeod
Peep Show is a preview of the next wave of Lonsdale Gallery programming. Showcasing cutting edge artists who work in a variety of media: painting, fiber, installation and digital media. Alongside these works, profiles on each artist will appear to give context to their present and future projects. Peep Show will be open for the 2009 Gallery Hop.
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Contact 2009: Illusion, Transformation, Creating the Impossible
April 30 – May 31, 2009
Artist’s Talk: Saturday May 23, 2-4 pm
Joan Kaufman
William Mokrynski
Mabel Odessey
Ilan Wolff
The focus of this year’s Contact Photography Festival is Still Revolution, an attempt to address ideas of conceptual and technological advancements in photography. Since it’s conception, Lonsdale Gallery has strived to give representation to photographers who stretch the boundaries of their media through new processes as well as embracing and reviving obscure or obsolete technologies. As a response to this year’s theme we are proud to present Illusion, Transformation, Creating the Impossible.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Responsive Space – April 1-19,2009 opening reception Thursday, April 2 from 6-9pm
Image credit: Alex McLeod, Building Test Fire #4, digital print, 2009
Responsive Space
In the Critique of Judgment, philosopher Immanuel Kant described the vastness of nature as one of the few physical examples that illustrates ideas of the infinite. He believed that the forces of nature were powerful enough to display that which was beyond human reason.
We feel the effects of the sublime in the stories and legends that shape our culture. In fairytales or Romantic writing, the landscape is used like a character to describe the emotion or psychology of the scene. Added to this is the tradition of landscape as artist’s subject- attempts to capture the sublime through art.
