Lecture Series - Françoise Sullivan in conversation with David Urban

 

FRANÇOISE SULLIVAN - AEDH

Exhibition Opening at Corkin Gallery Saturday, April 28, 2012, 12 - 4pm

March 24 - April 24, 2012 Françoise- her value as a multi-faceted artist reached the level of priceless many years ago and she continue to create remarkable works of art. Françoise Sullivan's achievement in the arts has been distinguished by the highest of Canadian honours. In 2001 Sullivan was named a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2005 she was awarded the prestigious Governor General's Award in the Visual and Media Arts. The Art Gallery of Ontario bestowed Sullivan with the 2010 Gershon Iskowitz Prize. In the new series of paintings titled Aedh - a fire, which does not consume itself- fresh associations between colours and forms have come forward. Harkening from her past monochromes paintings,  Françoisehas discovered new shapes, which have now appeared and come to life. The new works spring from the colour red, then boil over or extend into near yellows, browns, and purples, thoroughly exploring the possibilities presented by colour, light, flatness. Françoise has a strong belief in abstract painting and the modernist values attached to it, such as beauty, self-expression. Painting is still important in contemporary art and its value is dependent on its quality as with all art works. This standard of value is flexible and can encompass many cultural discourses. Thus visual thinking is healthy and alive. Aedh is a consistent development of past works that brings something lively and new. The major force of the new paintings is the variety, richness of the reds. We often associate the colour red with harshness and aggression but in Gaelic, red becomes joyous and tender. To view works in this exhibition, please click on the following link:    Join us on Facebook for daily updates:

Françoise Sullivan - her value as a multi-faceted artist reached the level of priceless many years ago and she continues to create remarkable works of art. Her achieve- ment in the arts has been distinguished by the highest of Canadian honours. In 2001 Sullivan was named a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2005 she was awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Award in the Visual and Media Arts. The Art Gallery of Ontario bestowed Sullivan with the 2010 Gershon Iskowitz Prize. In the new series of paintings titled Aedh - a fire, which does not consume itself - fresh associations between colours and forms have come forward. Harkening from her past monochrome paintings, Sullivan has discovered new shapes, which have now appeared and come to life. The new works spring from the colour red, then boil over or extend into near yellows, browns, and purples, thoroughly exploring the possibilities presented by colour, light and flatness.

Sharon Switzer Interview by Barbara Isherwood on ArtSync

Switzer, Sharon, Nearly  Present, Bon-bon 1, 2012, digital image, 23x41in.

Please click on the following for the interview:
 http://www.artsync.ca/interview-sharon-switzer/

IAIN BAXTER& at the AGO

AGO Celebrates IAIN BAXTER& with Interactive Features and Special Events

(TORONTO – Feb. 16, 2012) For 50 years, Canadian artist IAIN BAXTER& has been radically redefining the role of the artist, integrating photography, installation, sculpture, painting, drawing and performative aspects into his work. An upcoming exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011, invites visitors to become collaborators, by engaging with the artist and his work. Special events that highlight the interactive nature of the artist’s brand will complement and activate the exhibition, which is on view from March 3 to Aug. 12, 2012.

Co-curated by David Moos, former curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the AGO and Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011 brings the evolution of BAXTER&’s career to life for visitors. The exhibition travels directly to Toronto from Chicago, where it was recently on view at the MCA and was named a critic’s pick by Artforum International.

Corkin Gallery-Sondra Meszaros featured in House & Home Magazine

Serene colours show off this traditional home's stunning framework.

Fashion designer Paul Sinclaire's former Toronto home was an architectural beauty filled with soft hues and classic furniture. Large windows and high ceilings amplify the space, creating the perfect setting for show-stopping works of art.

See Sinclaire's new home in theFebruary 2011 issue of House & Home. Plus, look at other fashion designers' homes in our photo gallery.

• Photographer:
  Virginia Macdonald
• Products: Artwork, Corkin Gallery.

Sharon Switzer-Globe and Mail

R.M. Vaughan

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

Published Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 4:30PM EDT

All Sharon Switzer needs

is a comfy Freudian couch

Sharon Switzer at Corkin Gallery

Until 24 April, 7 Tank House Lane, Toronto; corkingallery.com

Sharon Switzer’s exquisite new video and digital print exhibition, Nearly Present, fills the lower hall of the Corkin Gallery with spectral, transient visions, spacey energy waves, a fleeting, incantatory visual hum, and no small amount of disco-ball glam. That’s a lot of punch from four flat screens and five framed prints.

I don’t pretend to fully understand the highly specialized, laptop mechanics behind Switzer’s creations, so I’ll let her explain them herself:

“I work with software that processes images over time. Within that, I work with an effect that’s called particle effect. All that really means is that the effect shoots out little white dots, or particles, that can look like circles or little streaks, and after that, there are about two hundred different options that I have for deciding how those dots look, how they move over time, how they react, in this made up physical space.”

Corkin Gallery presents an Exhibition by Sharon Switzer

CORKIN GALLERY

SHARON SWITZER

NEARLY PRESENT

Opening: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2 - 5pm

Corkin Gallery cordially invites you to the opening of an exhibition of new works, featuring video animations and prints by Sharon Switzer.

March 24 - April 24, 2012

Nearly Present imagines the otherworldly beauty of the ethereal. In this new body of work, Sharon Switzer experiments with particle systems; using this commercial software to create unusual and evocative animations. The work also touches on the artist's earlier interests in the relationship between photography and the invisible: ghosts, time, things that photography shouldn't be allowed to capture but does.

In this work, Nearly Present is the disembodied space of the digital and the virtual that exists unseen around us. Forgoing the ironic humour intrinsic to previous bodies of work, Switzer has created mesmerizing ethereal videos that have no need for language. This work hovers just outside of the known world, like ghosts caught in the machine.

To view works in this exhibition, please click on the following link:

http://corkingallery.com/?q=node/248

CORKIN GALLERY

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