News & Exhibitions
Yesterday my painting Bird Dog Diptych (2010) was auctioned through a new site called ARTBOMB. All of the artwork featured (a new artist/work 5 days a week) is curated by Andrea Carson of View on Canadian Art. I was thrilled to participate in the launch.
You can read more about this new email auction site in a recent article in the Toronto Star, and you can subscribe by emailing info@artbombdaily.com and adding “subscribe” in your subject line.
Entry on the Piggyback show at C. Emerson Fine Arts this month.
http://art-taco.blogspot.com/2011/09/piggyback-c-emerson-fine-arts.html
Opening Saturday, September 10 · 7:00pm – 11:00pm
Thought Coalition
Chalet Comellas
Leanne Davies
Matt Deterior
W. Hutton
Sonya McAllister
Danny Olda
Jason Snyder
carrie vail
…and a very special live sound installation by Mine Canary
September 10th – October 29th, 2011
My work is featured in Burner Magazine 04: The Revolutionaries Issue.
The issue, launched June 15th, can be viewed at:
I am participating in Wunderland, group show at tactileBOSCH Gallery & Studios, Cardiff, UK.
http://tactilebosch.co.uk
Runs until 18th March 2011
Art Exhibition in association with the WAA
As part of the International Women’s Day Centenary celebrations, tactileBosch brings you Wunderland. Selected eclectically like the wunderkammer of a wanderer through exotic lands, this is a female, sideways look at how things are or might be. Elliptical, sometimes obtuse, but definitely more Paula Rego than Lewis Carroll; Eva Hesse meets Herman Hesse. The women in this show bring their own particular take on matters surreal, serious and sublime, bound together by a light curatorial thread that weaves together these extra-ordinary perspectives. Access all areas of art practice in the special nooks and crannies that only tactileBosch can offer.
Artists include:
Jacqueline Alkema / Nazma Ali / Sonja Benskin Mesher RCA / Susie Bright / Megan Broadmeadow / Philippa Brown / Gemma Copp / Helen Clifford / Josephine Coy / Hannah Lewis Davies / Leanne Davies / Shona Davies + Keiko Yamazaki / Shelley Davis / Dale Evans / Susan Francis / Dorcas Frazer / Rose Gibbon / Helen Gillam / Eve Dent + Zoe Gingell aka The Mothersuckers / Helen Grundy / Marie Helgesen / Liz Helman / Vicky Hodgson / Barbara Howey / Delpha Hudson / Dilys Jackson / Jessica John / Rachel Joyce / Dragana Jurisic / Cath Lewis / Hannah Morris / Chris Bird-Jones, Ann Jordan, Brenda Oakes + Anne Price Owen / Vernetta O’Connor / Jeanette Orrell / Ione Rucquoi / Dawn van Gerven / Angeline Schube / Estelle Woolley / Elizabeth Waterhouse
My recent body of work, Fictional Devices, will be on exhibit at AWOL Gallery in Toronto from September 16th – 26th, 2010.
Opening Reception
Friday, September 17th at 7pm
AWOL Gallery
76 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
www.awolgallery.com
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm,
Sunday, 1 – 5pm, and by appointment.
"Les Frigos ont un Tigre dans le Freezer", Illustration by Paella.
“Voilà 25 ans que près de 200 personnes œuvrent dans les anciennes chambres froides de la gare d’Austerlitz. Les projets de jeux olympiques, d’exposition universelle ou d’extension de la dalle de la BNF n’ont finalement rien pu contre les Frigos.
Artistes, artisans, sociétés sont locataires en titre de la Ville de Paris, après l’avoir été auprès de la SNCF. Depuis 1985 les loyers ont augmentés en moyenne de 150% pour des surfaces à l’origine non aménagées et la plupart sans fenêtres.
L’événement, devenu annuel, des portes ouvertes reçoit entre 5000 et 10000 visiteurs, amateurs d’art ou simples curieux. Découvrant dans ce quartier rénové un lieu si atypique qui s’est maintenu il faut le reconnaître grâce à la pugnacité de ses créateurs.
Une quarantaine d’ateliers ouvrent leurs portes.
l’événement sera animé de concerts et de spectacles.
Vernissages vendredi 28 mai de 18h à 22h la suite: http://les-frigos.com/agenda/“
Ports Ouvertes aux Frigos
19 rue des Frigos, 75013 Paris
2nd Floor, Escalier B
Saturday, 29th of May, 12 – 10 p.m.
Sunday, 30th of May, 12 – 8 p.m.
(Metro & RER: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand)
“For the past twenty-five years, people have been working in les Frigos, the building that once served as the cold rooms for the CEGF. Having survived projects for the olympic games, the world exposition, and the expansion of the planned office district of the 13th arrondissement in Paris, les Frigos today boasts nearly 200 occupants engaged in a diverse range of activities.
Although the SNCF (the French national rail system) was the original landlord, the artists, artisans, small industries and companies of les Frigos now rent from the city of Paris. Their current landlord never made any improvements to their studios and workshops. Some of the spaces even lack windows.
Five to ten thousand people attend the portes ouvertes (open doors) at les Frigos every year. Some come with a passion for collecting art. Others are simply curious. But everyone discovers here a unique place in the midst of a modernized neighborhood, a testimonial to the tenacity and creativity of the building’s occupants.
Some forty workshops and studios will open their doors this weekend, and visitors will be welcomed by concerts and other events. The vernissage (for some studios) will take place 28 May, from 6-10pm. The jazz concerts will run on the second floor from 2 to 6 PM, Saturday and Sunday. Simultaneously, you can see twelve of the Les Frigos artist’s work at the AAF (Affordable Art Fair) from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th of May (in front of Metro Chevaleret in the old warehouse “Halle Sernam/ Freyssinet”.)
For more information, see http://les-frigos.com/agenda“
