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.
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
“Lonsdale Redux” at the Gladstone Hotel for Nuit Blanche 2009
Curated by Stanzie Tooth
Featuring
Liz Pead
Tyler Vipond
Part of Nuit Blanche 2009 at the Gladstone Hotel
October 3 from 6:55- October 4 at 7am
Room Number 204
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.
A great legacy of a gallery is its printed materials: artist catalogues, invitations and press releases. To celebrate our many years of production, and to build on our past, Lonsdale has worked with artists Liz Pead and Tyler Vipond to create /Lonsdale Redux/, an installation built from the printed materials of the gallery
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.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Peep Show: Review by Terence Dick
I scooted through Peep Show, Lonsdale Gallery’s exhibition of up-and-coming artists, a two-floor extravaganza with Alex McLeod being the only name familiar to me. Either he’s refining his technique or I’m getting used to it, but these virtual landscapes, created ìin computerî, approach the combination of representation and spatial disorientation that makes Neo Rauch such a wealthy man. McLeod’s nowhere near that dense yet, but he’s heading in a direction; let’s hope it’s the right one. Besides him, Bogdan Luca shares some easy-on-the-eyes wide-brushed impressionistic work inspired by blurry photographs. Each one looks like it could be part of a larger canvas, so they, in a weird way, leave me wanting more. Amanda McCavour’s thread-drawn birds would look perfect on my daughter’s walls and are so much finer when released from their glass cages. Osheen Harruthoonyan’s photographs are murky and textured. They’re a bit too murky for me, but intrigue when they emerge from the darkness. And the fashionably posing youth in Jamie Bradbury’s watercolours are copping so much ‘tude, I roll my eyes and move on.
For full article, please visit akimblog at: http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=315
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Peep Show: New Artists Exposed – write up on Canadian Art.ca
Peep Show: New Artists Exposed!
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto Aug 12 to Sep 27 2009
Lonsdale Gallery ushers in a new wave of playfully experimental artists this summer with ‘Peep Show.’ This media-diverse exhibition includes works by Jamie Bradbury, Bogdan Luca, Osheen Harruthoonyan, Amanda McCavour and Alex McLeod that share a spirit of creative inventiveness. Photo-based artist Osheen Harruthoonyan, for instance, poetically explores memory dissolution by altering found and personal photographs through unique analog printing processes, while Amanda McCavour specializes in intricate thread drawings that add warm tactility to an otherwise removed viewing experience. Bogdan Lucaís figurative practice weaves in ‘concepts of distortion, repetition, perspective and even complete disintegration of the form’ to create paintings that tingle with colour, motion and feeling, vividly capturing subjective impressions of moments in time. Ultimately, the works in this exhibition are suffused with enough ingenuity and insight to warrant more than just a peep. (410 Spadina Rd, Toronto ON)
For Full Article:
http://www.canadianart.ca/online/see-it/2009/08/27/peep-show/
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Images from Peep Show – Open now until September 27th
Images from opening night of PEEP SHOW, Thursday August 13, 2009
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Noticed: A Summer of Gallery Love for Alex McLeod
Image: Alex McLeod, Banked Tallship, 2009
Artist Alex McLeod was recently featured on “Unedit My Heart”, the blog of Toronto Art Writer and Critic, Leah Sandals.
Sandals writes:
I first saw McLeod’s work in a solo at Switch Contemporary earlier in June, and now it turns out the the guy has a two-person show opening at Queen West dealer Angell Gallery this Saturday, as well as a hand in an emerging-artist group show at Lonsdale Gallery opening next Wednesday.
So what is it, many young artists may be wondering, that makes McLeod’s work “so different, so appealing”? (Or, in the very least, much exhibited.)
For the rest of the story visit:
http://neditpasmoncoeur.blogspot.com/2009/08/noticed-summer-of-gallery-love-for-alex.html
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Artist Alex McLeod Featured in NOW Magazine
Image of Alex in his studio courtesy of NOW Magazine online
NOW Magazine contributor, Sara Titanic, recently conducted an interview with digital artist, Alex McLeod, as part of the series: Meeting the City’s Artist One at a Time. The interview discusses Alex’s motivations, studio practice, as well as his up coming exhibitions with Lonsdale Gallery.
To see the full interview, please see the following link:
http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=170153
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.
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Lonsdale Gallery Curator, Stanzie Tooth, to Co-Host Discussion Panel at International Art Fair 09
Panelists:
Gareth Bate
Ella Cooper
Jim Hake
Discussion Leaders:
Li Koo
Stanzie Tooth
Saturday, June 13 at 3pm
Metro Convention Centre Stage Area
Toronto is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. In a society of advanced communication, concepts of borders, both geographic and cultural are being redefined. What will this mean for the identity of artists in Toronto and abroad? Through this panel discussion our aim is to address ideas of identity, internationalism, communication and technology as it relates to art and culture by drawing upon the opinions of arts professionals: Gareth Bate, Ella Cooper and Jim Hake. The lecture will be moderated and led by Li Koo, Director of 918 Bathurst Culture, Arts, Media & Education Centre and Stanzie Tooth, Artist and Curator for Lonsdale Gallery.
