Monday, May 21st, 2007
May 17-21, 2007
Harbourfont Centre: 235 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto, Canada
History
Since its creation in 2002, the Love Exhibition has worked to raise awareness about privilege and responsibility, the infinite abilities of kindness and love.
This year, all proceeds will sponsor an anti-racism speaker series with the cooperation of the University of Toronto’s office of diversity and anti-racism.
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
DECEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 22, 2005
THE DRAWINGS OF JONATHAN LERMAN
Jonathan Lerman is an artist with autism. He is unable to converse so we cannot ask what inspires him or what triggered him to suddenly begin drawing at the age of ten. Today, at seventeen, Jonathan is prolific and shows no signs of slowing down. He has been featured in the New York Times, on The Today Show. He is in high demand because, as an artist with autism, he draws faces with uncanny insight. Publicity is not something he’s keen about, says gallery owner Kerry Schuss, his representative in New York City who bravely took Jonathan on at the age of twelve – something his colleagues in the industry felt he was crazy for doing. ‘He has trouble with crowds and cannot stop moving around. When you see him, you might think he isn’t capable of anything.’
Lyle Rexer, who wrote a book about Jonathan and also How to Look at Outsider Art writes: ‘Looking at Jonathan’s work is an affirmation that he sees everything. Working with the assurance of Matisse and the speed of Picasso, and the humour born of a cartoonist, Lerman has created an unforgettable body of work. His drawings include portraits of actual figures as well as figures from his own imagination, and rendered with great acuity. These drawings overturn the stereotype of the so-called savant artists as an unchanging talent sprung to life fully-formed. Instead, Lerman shows the detail, the restless experimentation and rapid growth of an artistic sensibility.’
Saturday, December 4th, 2004
December 4 – 24, 2004
Reception: Saturday December 4, 2-4 pm
Lonsdale Gallery’s 3rd Annual Juried Miniature Exhibition exploring themes of L.O.V.E. This year’s proceeds go to support Leaving Out Violence Everywhere, a registered charity # 89833 8777 RR 0001, dedicated to reducing violence in the lives of youth in our communities. Our aim is to raise awareness of both privilege and responsibility to support the foundations, which can initiate change and eliminate inequities. We hope you can share our L.O.V.E.
Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
SEPTEMBER 28-DECEMBER 2004
Harbourfront Centre’s SUPERDANISH: Newfangled Danish Culture – an exploration of current Danish Culture, September 28 to December 2004, featuring 200 artists in more than 130 events.
www.harbourfrontcentre.com/superdanish/
Danish Artist Kirstine Roepstorff will be exhibiting at Lonsdale Gallery in conjunction with Harbourfront’s Superdanish festival. Roepstorff works with collage, a method she calls ”appropriaarranging,” using collage to appropriate and re-arrange the already existing world. Roepstorff sees collage as a well functioning tool in order to create transpositions, to dissolve gravity, to melt or to change conventional proportions, and to re-group and to re-situate scales that would be un-maneuverable and un-thinkable in real life. Despite these radical transformations, Roepstorff’s work still maintains a recognizable element that the spectator can relate to.
Thursday, August 12th, 2004
AUGUST 12-SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
ARTIADE – OLYMPICS OF THE VISUAL ARTS
ATHENS, GREECE
The Olympic Games embrace three of Lonsdale Gallery’s Artists. “For the past 8 years Lonsdale Gallery has proudly supported Canada’s finest emerging and challenging Artists. It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm we announce that Shayne Dark, Joanne Mac, and Vessna Perunovich with Boja Vasic (The Stretch Collective), have achieved international recognition for their work, by being selected to represent Canada at the Artiade Olympics of the Visual Arts. 172 artists have been selected from around the world to participate in this Culture component of the Olympic Games, but only these four were chosen from Canada. It is truly an honour to announce that three of these artists: Shayne Dark, Vessna Perunovich and Boja Vasic are exhibitors of Lonsdale Gallery, and Joanne Mac an independent Toronto based artist will be joining them.”
Chad Wolfond
Founder / Director
Lonsdale Gallery
Friday, November 28th, 2003
NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 21, 2003
Lonsdale Gallery is pleased to present: About Love a second annual juried miniature exhibition and fundraiser. All works surround themes of love.
Half of the proceeds are donated to L.O.V.E. (Leave Out Violence). A Non-profit organization that reduces violence in the lives of youth and in our community by building a team of youth who communicate a message of non-violence. www.leaveoutviolence.com
Ian Amell, Una Bachinski, Kasia Briegmann-Samson, Michael Brown, Sarka Buchl Stephenson, Clay Davidson, Martina Edmondson, Brendan Fernandes, Tanya Hobbs, Heather Horton, Pearl Van Geest, Jennifer Gibbs, Julie Glick, Dennis Jones, Andria Keen, Wan Ki An, Elzbieta Krawecka, Adam Lodzinski, Beryl Loney, Ian MacKenzie, Michelle Maria, Deanna Nastic, Kelly O”Neal, Rundi Phelan, Negar Pooya, Suzie Pilon, Jim Reid, Birgit Ruff, Peggy Taylor Reid, Caroline Versteeg, Michael Vertuozov, Linda Ward Selbie, & Pedie Wolfond.
Saturday, September 20th, 2003
SEPTEMBER 20-OCTOBER 19, 2003
THROUGH OUR EYES
A CHILDREN’S PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT
-In the Project Room-
Taught and co-ordinated by Christine Germano.
The Children of Alert Bay School, British Columbia discovered photography and thought about what Alert Bay meant to them; the children took photographs, developed their own film and wrote accompanying text. Ensuring that the student’s entire vision was seen. The outcome is a direct reflection of Alert Bay through the eyes of these children. Germano states this is one of the purest forms of documentation. It comes from a personal childhood experience and is told in their words, as they see it through youthful eyes. The stories and photos are an expression of the truth and yet told gently through a child’s heart and eyes.
