- March 2, 1985 to March 9, 1985
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"Smaller this time, the paintings are composed on unstretched canvas and are renditions of the spaces Graham inhabits and the people he lives with. Expressionistic in style, these emotional works show the artist's interaction with the people and places that compose his life. When asked about style grham describes the pieces as "depressionistic"."
By Graham
Category | 313 Programs
Exhibition- February 12, 1985 to February 23, 1985
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"This work can turn the noun angst into a verb carrying the viewer into a dark forest of lost hope. Ultimately we find the hope within ourselves and are better for seeing the work." - unknown
By Howard Brenton, Ken Gerberick, Mickey Stankovic, Susan McKinley
Krak Studio Goes to the Grunt
- January 28, 1985 to February 9, 1985
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"Humourous, witty, kitch, ....irreverent, reverent..... patriotic, obscure and obvious." - David Roundbell
By Daav McNab
Visual Poems For the Ill at Ease:
- November 6, 1984
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Co-optional Spaces is a new show of drawings by Hillary Wood. She calls her style Mythical Realism and says of these particular drawings "The window is a recurring image in the continual dialogue between the self and other. Dream and vision in confrontation with illusion and distortion...".
By Hillary Wood - Curated by Garry Ross
Co- Optional Spaces
- September 29, 1984 to October 15, 1984
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"The Pope Show features the works of 15 artists, each work a comment on Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada or the Catholic Church or organized religion. Many were satirical, many were political" (from Voice article).
By Danielle Peacock, Dawn Richards, Garry Ross, Hillary Wood, Jean McRae, John Crossen, Kempton Dexter, Lalo, Lorna Mulligan, Maggie Putnam, Spike, Susan McKinley
The Pope Show
- October 11, 2012 to November 17, 2012
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“The Sea Is A Stereo” by artist Mounira Al Solh, introduces us to a group of men who swim daily at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon. This practice of swimming takes place despite varying circumstances relating to weather, the change of seasons, and the conflict of war and politics. The work is made up of several elements that use video, photographs and audio-recorded interviews. While these men are connected through their swimming ritual, Al Solh further connects these men to their surroundings, practice and socio-political issues by means of a visual and audio-based installation. This exhibition will take place in the main front room at grunt gallery.The exhibition will also include a newly created work by Mounira Al Solh, entitled, “A Double Burger and Two Metamorphoses: a proposal for a Dutch Cat, a Dutch Dog, a Dutch Donkey, a Dutch Goat and finally, a Dutch Camel”. An ongoing project created in 2010, the artist forces herself to be locked inside an empty house for three days while she communicates through scripted conversations.
By Al Solh, Mounira
The Sea Is A Stereo
- October 25, 2013 to November 30, 2013
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location/dis-location(s): contingent promises continues Salloum’s visualization of the nature of the ‘natural’ and constructed environments. An extensive assembly of photographs, taken at various places the artist has visited over recent years, is composed through various signifiers and aesthetics. The images depict locations considered public and private, claimed and unsigned spaces, forms of the common, socio/ideological stage fronts, and domestic settings.These photographs are from Salloum’s ongoing body of work, untitled: photographs, that attempts to critically engage in the representation of public and private space. location/dis-location(s) approaches coming to terms with what it means to be making photographs here (and elsewhere) and the exploration of the possibilities of visualizing the nature of natural, urban, semi-urban, and sub-urban environments (and the totality of the constructs signified in those terms).
By Jayce Salloum
location/dis-location(s): contingent promises
- January 29, 1991 to February 16, 1991
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Scenes From a Marriage is an autobiographical look at Nicholson's own marriage. But it is also about the institution of marriage as it has developed in North America. The works are insightful and bristle with humour. Nicholson's meld of feminist politics and folk art aesthetics provide an exciting backdrop for this exploration of the marital arrangement. Her use of personal and family history as a site for endeavour speaks to a new feminist analysis where the personal becomes political and in the microcosm a more general picture emerges.
By Maragret Nicholson
Scenes From A Marriage
- September 10, 2015 to October 10, 2015
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Castillo's work refers to a cultural past and contemporary present, fusing a hybridized aesthetic to engage issues about migration, historical trauma, identity, and memory. His narratives express a multifacted, interlocking and non-linear approach. Consequently, the body of work revises and casts new personal interpretations on memory-building as a form of resistance, political commentary and healing.
By Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo