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TOY: Terror Of Youth

January 20, 1987 to January 31, 1987
Exhibition
"I find toys, particularly broken toys, a fascinating medium for assemblage both for their colour and shape and their connotation: hues so bright they become repellent, images so stylized they exclaim the mundane. Their use represents the invalid activities, or child's play, that has so addled serious society. I've tried to approach this series from several different sides, taking toys out of their original context and using htem almost as if they were bizarre humour, with whiffs of surrealism and a few light bulbs."

January 6, 1987 to January 17, 1987
Exhibition
These photographs by European born Csere have a quality of darkness and light that is unique and speak to the camera's ability to create meanings.

December 8, 1986
Screening
"The Chilean government is a military regime that seized power in the coup of 1973, murdering Salvador Allende the democratically elected president, along with a conservatively estimated 15,000 civilians." The film chronicles the emergence of mass opposition to the military dictatorships in 1983.

November 18, 1986 to December 6, 1986
Discursive Event, Exhibition, Reading, Screening
"The travelling show, entitled "Wobbly: 80 Years of Rebel Art," brought together I.W.W cartoons , illustrations and posters from the first 80 years of the Union."

November 4, 1986 to November 15, 1986
Exhibition
"These works are large (4 x 5) paintings on canvas. The mediums are acrylics, pencil, collage, pastel, and modelling paste. Four of these paintings portay important historical women. The others represent 'types' of women."

October 21, 1986 to November 1, 1986
Exhibition
"Chisholm uses the medium of photography in an unusually straight-forward way, recording faithfully the image his eye has defined."

October 7, 1986 to October 18, 1986
Exhibition
"The Figure in Space" is a series of works exploring the dynamics of human perception and artistic expression, which are ultimately and intimately related to a mode of psychobiological livinf in, and being a part of, space."