CORKIN GALLERY

News and Upcoming Events for CORKIN GALLERY Artists

BARBARA ASTMAN, Dancing with Che: Enter Through the Gift Shop opens at the McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario. February 16 - May 5, 2012. Please join us at the McMaster Museum of Art for the artist's talk and walk around the installation on Thursday, February 16, 6-7:30 pm.

Barbara Astman explores the vulgarization and trivialization of iconic revolutionary Che Guevara in a gift-shop intervention and installation that implicates our consumer attitudes through "museum culture" merchandising. We enter through a gift shop that is the exhibition, yet refuses/denies our impulse to buy; nothing is for sale.

IAIN BAXTER&, Works 1958-2011 opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario. A celebration of the exhibit will be held on Saturday, March 3, 6-9pm with curatorial remarks at 6:45pm. In conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the exhibit is the most comprehensive survey of his career to date, featuring 100 works. The exhibition seeks to appraise the remarkable achievement of the artist, and to position his contribution in relation to mainstream histories of conceptual art, photography, and installation art. There is a Members Preview on Wednesday, February 29.

DAVID URBAN,has been honored with the Koerner Artist-in-Residence at Queen's University, March 2012. This distinguished residency, given to pioneering Canadian artists, establishes Urban as an educator and mentor of the Queen's students and artistic community. In addition, Urban will be creating new works at Queen's Ontario Hall studios.

CHAD GERTH, is congratulated for his invitation to the Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012. City Lots, from Chicago, is exhibiting at the Helsinki City Museum March 2 through April 22, 2012.

FRANçOISE SULLIVAN, completed a commission for the new building at the University of Montreal, University Hospital Geriatric Institute. The recently installed 50 foot long and 7 foot high painted mural is an exciting focal point of the innovative new building.

NIGEL SCOTT, Conversations with Blue, a new book and exhibition of original cyanotypes at Paris' famed Collette. The exhibition will be in Tokyo in March and Kyoto in June. Join us for the Corkin Gallery launch of the book and show in April.

FRANK MÄDLER- EXHIBITION

Corkin Gallery is pleased to feature this exhibition by Frank Mädler, celebrating works from four new series - Basic Motion, Gold, Shine and Wiesen. The exhibition continues until March 13.

For additional information on these and other CORKIN GALLERY artists please visit our website or click on the link below.

www.corkingallery.comCORKIN GALLERY

Distillery District, 7 Tank House Lane, Toronto, Canada M5A 3C4

Tel 416.979.1980 info@corkingallery.com

www.corkingallery.com

Barbara Astman-Dancing with Che: Enter Through the Gift Shop

CORKIN GALLERY

Barbara Astman, Dancing with Che: Enter Through the Gift Shop opens at the McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario. February 16 – May 5, 2012. Please join us at the McMaster Museum of Art for the artist’s talk and walk around the installation on Thursday, February 16, 6-7:30 pm.
Barbara Astman explores the vulgarization and trivialization of iconic revolutionary Che Guevara in a gift- shop intervention and installation that implicates our consumer attitudes through "museum culture" merchandising. We enter through a gift shop that is the exhibition, yet refuses/denies our impulse to buy; nothing is for sale.
Please click on the link below to view additional works by Barbara Astman
http://corkingallery.com/?q=node/53

Distillery District, 7 Tank House Lane

Toronto, Canada M5A 3C4

Tel 416.979.1980 director@corkingallery.com

www.corkingallery.com

CORKIN GALLERY

We are pleased to announce our participation in VIP 2.0, the second edition of the Internet only VIP Art Fair. VIP 2.0 will take place online from February 3-8, 2012, and we will be exhibiting with over 115 of the world's most prominent galleries showing work by critically acclaimed artists.

Through innovative technology, VIP 2.0 will connect visitors with the very best in contemporary art, enabling communication and engagement on a global scale, twenty-four hours a day, throughout the event. Visitors will be able to navigate the online fair in an unparalleled way, creating and exploring channels for conversation and exploration.

For further information, please contact:

Kimberly Fletcher

director@corkingallery.com

CORKIN GALLERY

Distillery District, 7 Tank House Lane, Toronto, Canada M5A 3C4

Tel 416.979.1980 info@corkingallery.com

www.corkingallery.com

Corkin Gallery presents an exhibiton by Frank Mädler

FRANK MÄDLER

January 28-March 13, 2012

Corkin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition, celebrating new works by Leipzig-based artist, Frank Mädler. The exhibition will feature works from the series, Basic Motion, Gold, Shine and Wiesen. In these bodies of works, Mädler calls attention to the relationship between distance, time, technology and movement through an ambiguous approach of visual representation. Mädler takes the spectators on a visual journey and is able to create an atmosphere that arouses emotion within the spectators.

CORKIN GALLERY

Ramón Serrano

Words, Textures and
other Silly Things

Opening, Saturday, November 26, 2011, 2-5pm

Working from images of his native Havana, Serrano explores psychological displacement as a Cuban expatriate. The paintings show prominent Havana landmarks - the waterfront wall (el malecon), public buildings, interiors of schools - yet Serrano focuses on the ordinary visual minutiae of which memory is comprised. Imagery is pushed towards abstraction and appears to grasp the fading recollection of a world left behind.

Congratulations Shim-Sutcliffe Architects!

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Governor General’s award in architecture Brigitte shim and Howard Sutcliffe for their design of Corkin Gallery. Congratulations Shim-Sutcliffe Architects! The award winning design of Corkin Gallery was noted particularly for it’s “intelligent adaptation of the distillery infrastructure, re-purposing the building to effective ends.”

Visit us at 7 Tank House Lane!

9,000 works, 140 dealers, 30 countries: The art fair goes virtual

We are pleased to announce our participation in the VIP Art Fair, the worlds first online art fair running from January 22nd - 30th 2011 .


Barbara Astman, Dancing with Che #16, 30, 8 -triptych
Being a perfectionist means, among other things, living in a state of perpetual stress. Yet even the famously finicky Toronto art dealer Jane Corkin admits her stress level has come close to the distress threshold in recent days as she’s prepared for the opening of VIP Art Fair, an unprecedented online-only sale of art by almost 140 prestige galleries from 30 countries.