Bravo News story on Nocturna Artificialia by Osheen Harruthoonyan. Bravo spoke to gallery artist Osheen Harruthoonyan and gallery curator, Stanzie Tooth about his off site exhibition for the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. The exhibition presented by Lonsdale Gallery, was exhibited at the 918 Bathurst Centre Gallery from May 1-30, 2010.
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
View on Canadian Art (VoCA) write up on Ryan Van Der Hout
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I got a lovely email from a young artist Ryan Van Der Hout, a recent graduate of the Ryerson photography program in Toronto. He calls his phot-based work, which doesn’t involve the use of a camera, “photographic sketches that highlight the possibilities of the medium.”
He’s got an exhibition on at Toronto’s Lonsdale Gallery from May 26- June 27, 2010, with an artist’s reception this coming Saturday.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
“When Photography Meets Fashion” by Miss Sly! discusses works by Blaine Speigel and Osheen Harruthoonyan
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Miss Sly!
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival is an interesting experience altogether, taking photography to a whole new and captivating level. The open exhibitions, lectures and Live Spatial Projections have made staring at images so much more thrilling.
Taking the Organik, Alembic, Abstrakts by Blaine Speigel, for instance, a presentation set in a Live Spatial Projection at 918 Bathurst Venue - a centre supporting Culture, Arts, Media and Education.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Indie Blogs Toronto Sun- “Mixed media artist Osheen Harruthoonyan” by Meaghan Bent
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Indie Blogs – Meaghan Bent
Osheen Harruthoonyan’s Nocturna Artificialia pays homage to the creative process. Each atmospheric print was created by spending up to 8 hours with a 4” x 5” exposed negative, treating them with an array of tools including paintbrushes, make-up remover pads, q-tips and dental tools. The intimacy of his fingerprints can be found in the chemical spray and scratched surfaces of the darkly lit images. Harruthoonian describes his work as “science and art” and compares his methods to early artists who used different pigments and emulsion to achieve their colour palette. By painting to the photographic medium, he creates a world of detail and curiosity within every print.
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Osheen Harruthoonyan featured in Applied Arts Blog
Lonsdale artist, Osheen Harruthoonyan has been asked by Applied Arts online to blog about his experiences leading up to his exhibition, Nocturna Artificialia, for the Contact Photography Festival.
Nocturnia Artificialia is being presented by Lonsdale Gallery in partnership with the 918 Bathurst Culture, Arts, Media and Education Centre and will run from May 1 -30, 2010. Artist reception Saturday, May 15 from 7-10 p.m.
http://www.appliedartsmag.com/blog/?p=1259
Applied Arts: Osheen Harruthonyan
Published on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 by Osheen Harruthoonyan
For the month of May, the streets of Toronto will overflow with people attending the photography festival CONTACT. In the lead-up to the festival we’ll be featuring journal entries from a couple exhibiting groups, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their preparations. Once the festival itself takes places, a feature article will be written for the website, tying together the various groups plus the festival as a whole. This post is fromOsheen Harruthoonyan, a fine art and experimental photographer. Osheen will be exhibiting at 918 Bathurst.
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
“Julie Oakes: Genesis” by Ashley Johnson in Vie des Arts
This article appeared in Vie des Arts English Edition, N. 217, Winter 2009-2010.
Genesis is the Biblical version of the beginning of the world. Stories like Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah’s Ark, stream through kindergartens replete with talking snakes. Western culture is imbued with medieval attitudes towards race, sex, gender and the animals that stem from accepting the Bible either literally or metaphorically. Even the theory of evolution follows the religious paradigm and hypothesizes a linear ascent of humans.
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
“Jay Wilson @ Lonsdale Gallery” at flight + hotel
by hollindaze, aka Rhonda Olson
Group Show ‘Looking Ahead’ til Dec. 13.
I like the artist’s commitment to explore his medium. I love that Wilson’s chosen medium is beautiful in its own right but, rarely used to make art, and in general, has little respect – the lowly toothpick. A tool most often used to unwedge food caught between one’s teeth.
Common indeed, but in Jay Wilson’s hands the toothpick is dressed up and ready to go to the ball in a pinkburgundydress! Making the toothpick his own, Wilson’s pieces are not only labour intensive to create, these works are sometimes made with the help of friends, but they also speak to the intricacies of design, engineering and construction.
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
“Osheen Harruthoonyan @ Lonsdale Gallery” at flight + hotel
by hollindaze, aka Rhonda Olson
Group show ‘Looking Ahead’ til Dec. 13
Some might call this imagery photography. It is. In that a negative and photographic paper were used to make them. Since the advent of digital photography and click of the button ‘dark rooms’, itís become hard to distinguish what is photography and what is not.
Osheen shows us that photography has always been manipulated. He doesnít use digital photography. He makes a virtue of this fact by constructing works that seem like photographs from another time and perhaps another realm. The overall look is somewhere between x-ray and negative.
Iíve been thinking of them as light collages using the medium of photography as a base. Scratched negatives, both personal and found, and old-fashioned burning and dodging make up his methods of reconstruction.
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/
