SOFAM Features

6pm Alexander Hall Rm.100 (NEW LOCATION!)

Working as artist, curator, and writer, Luis Jacob's diverse practice addresses issues of social interaction and the subjectivity of aesthetic experience.

Recent solo exhibitions of his work include Show Your Wound, Galerie Max Mayer, Duesseldorf and Birch Libralato, Toronto (2012); A Finger in the Pie, A Foot in the Door, A Leg in Quicksand, Kunsthalle Lingen (2012); Pictures at an Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2011); Tableaux Vivants, Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2010); 7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, in Gratitude, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2009); and Habitat, Kunstverein Hamburg, (2008).

Recent group exhibitions include Taipei Biennial 2012, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Surplus Authors, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2012); Animism, Generali Foundation, Vienna (2011); Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); If We Can’t Get It Together, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2008); and Documenta 12, Kassel (2007).
 

For further information, please contact ahoekstr@uoguelph.ca

Saturday December 1, 2012

Geoffrey Farmer

LOCATION: MacLachlan Building, room 102

MONDAY, OCT 29th 6:00pm

 Free admission - all are welcome

 Research based and context-specific, the installations of Vancouver artist Geoffrey Farmer involve a chaotic but vividly imagined post-minimal theatricality.

 Selected solo exhibitions include: Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Casey Kaplan, New York; Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Prominent group exhibitions include dOCUMENTA 13; Istanbul Biennial; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San

Francisco; National Gallery of Canada, Sydney Biennial; Tate Modern, London.  

 A major retrospective of his artwork is planned at the Vancouver Art Gallery for 2014.

"The Art and Times of Charlie James"

Monday November 5th, 5:00 pm
 

Madonald Stewart Art Centre, Lecture Room
 

Reception to follow talk
 

Ronald Hawker is a faculty member of the Liberal Studies Department at the Alberta College of Art and Design.  He is author of Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia 1922-1961 (UBC Press 2002) and Building on Desert Tides: Traditional Architecture of the Arabian Gulf (WIT Press 2008) and as an active interest in tribal art and architecture.

LOCATION: MacLachlan Building, room 102
MONDAY, OCT 22nd 6:00pm

Free admission - all are welcome

Daniel Barrow’s unique live-narration performances have been described as being like a graphic novel brought to life with the simplicity and wonder of a magic lantern show.  Barrow was the winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award. He has presented his artwork at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; The International Film Festival Rotterdam; and the British Film Institute.  A special feature of Barrow’s presentation for Guelph will include excerpts from his live performances.

“Jack Bush and the Catalogue Raisonné Today”

 Tuesday October 16th 5:00 pm

 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Lecture Room

 Reception to follow talk

 Dr. Sarah Stanners is currently directing and authoring the Jack Bush catalogue raisonné of paintings and co-curating a major Jack Bush retrospective exhibition with Marc Mayer for the National Gallery of Canada (scheduled for October 2014 – January 2015).

LOCATION: MacLachlan Building, room 102
MONDAY, OCT 1st 6:00pm

Free admission - all are welcome

Currently based in Berlin, the collaborative pair Hadley+Maxwell employs iconic images and traditional references using a range of media including sculpture, video, installation, and sound for arresting, highly evocative artwork that is socially and culturally resonant.  With ascending international reputations, Hadley+Maxwell recently exhibited at Witte de With, Rotterdam; the 4th Marrakech Biennale; and at the Bergen Art Museum.  They are participants in the 2012 Toronto Nuit Blanche.

Free admission - all are welcome

Multifaceted Toronto artist Margaux Williamson was known and
appreciated for her brusquely beautiful paintings with peculiar storyline titles before she stopped painting in 2008 to become a filmmaker.  Remarkably, her first film “Teenager Hamlet” was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim.  She subsequently started a blog about movies at “Movie Is My Favourite Word” and shortly thereafter co-created the cultural review site “Back to the World”.  Recently the Artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Williamson has has again returned to painting.

NEW LOCATION: MacLachlan Building, room 102
MONDAY, SEPT 17th 6:00pm

Free admission - all are welcome

Director and curator of The Model in Sligo, Ireland, Séamus Kealy was awarded the 2007 Curatorial Writing Award by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries when he was with the University of Torontoʼs Blackwood Gallery. Kealyʼs programming involves experimental, urgent programming, including projects that have critically tackled social, political, and pedagogical issues.

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Kika Thorne

July 13 - August 12, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday July 12, 7 to 10pm

Kika Thorne has recently returned to Toronto from Vancouver. Largely known for experimental documentary film/video and collaborations with groups such as SHE/tv, the February Group and the Toronto Free School, Thorne’s recent art has evolved into highly expressive abstract forms. She received her MFA from the University of Victoria, BC and has exhibited extensively including projects at Murray Guy, New York; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; the G8 Designated Protest Zone 2010, Huntsville, ON; 2011 Forum Expanded, Berlinale.

Exhibition organized by Nestor Kruger with support from G Gallery, friends, CSA Space, Art Gallery of Windsor, York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Visual Arts andNo Reading After The Internet. This exhibition is part of a series of conversations instigated by Christopher Brayshaw of CSA Space in the fall of 2009, and curated by Srimoyee Mitra at the AGW, this autumn, 2012.

No Reading After The Internet, cheyanne turions and the artist will host a conversation within the sculpture from 3-5pm on Tuesday, August 7.

G Gallery
134 Ossington Street (Entrance on Foxley Pl, rear of building)
Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Z5
647-340-3998 
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Gallery Hours: Friday to Sunday 12 - 5pm