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.
Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Offsite: Contact@918 event night featuring Osheen Harruthoonyan and Blaine Speigel
Saturday, May 15 was a night of spectacular events prepared as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. Lonsdale Gallery, in partnership with the 918 Bathurst Centre presented a hub of photo-based exhibitions and events which culminated on May 15th with the reception for Nocturna Artificialia by Osheen Harruthoonyan and a special one-night installation/environment Organiks, Alembics and Abstrakts by Blaine Speigel. It was an amazing night. Thank you to our artists for their amazing work, the audiences who attended the event and the staff at the 918 Bathurst Centre for their hard work and dedication to the project!
Photos provided by wonderful photographers Joseph Voci and Yuanna Djelantik
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Bravo News featured Lonsdale photographer Osheen Harruthoonyan
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.
Friday, June 4th, 2010
View on Canadian Art (VoCA) write up on Ryan Van Der Hout
for original article click here
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.
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Joan Kaufman featured in the National Post and Now Magazine
Congratulations to artist Joan Kaufman on her recent press coverage in both the National Post and Now Magazine for her “Suspended” Series. This series is featured in two shows for the Contact photography festival, both as part of Illusion, Transformation, Creating the Impossible at Lonsdale Gallery as well as a solo show at Red Head Gallery in the 401 Richmond Art Centre.
For full copies of these articles, please click the following links:
Globe and Mail review: http://joankaufman.com/pdfs/dault_09.pdf
NOW review: http://joankaufman.com/pdfs/schechter.pdf
Joan Kaufman will be giving an artist’s talk at Lonsdale Gallery on Saturday, May 23rd from 2-4pm. Contact Festival programing will continue at Lonsdale Gallery until Sunday, May 31st.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Illusion, Transformation, Creating the Impossible
Artists Joan Kaufman, William Mokrynski, Mabel Odessey and Ilan Wolff use photography as a means of constructing still and moving images, for illustrating the fantastic and the bizarre. While photography has been viewed historically as a means of documentation, using a variety of technologies, these artists alter their subjects through photo manipulation, digital processes, or simple multiple pinholes to invent new realities.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
An Imperfect Order Reception, March 1 2009
Sunday, March 1st marked the opening reception of An Imperfect Order, featuring Jim Reid and Peggy Taylor-Reid. Thank you to all those who came out to celebrate with us. The exhibition will run until Sunday, March 22.
Click below to see more photos from the opening reception.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
An Imperfect Order – runs February 25-March 22, 2009- opening reception Sunday, March 1st from 1-4pm
The order society attempts to impose onto nature often proves to be imperfect. What people often perceive to be imperfection (chaos) in nature may in fact be a complex type of order.
Jim Reid and Peggy Taylor Reid often draw inspiration from the same rural Ontario landscape. Though they both draw inspiration from the same setting, their work is completely unique in style and concept. This exhibition shows the different interpretations of “ferals” by each artist.
