KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
1082 + 1086 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M6J 1H8
www.katharinemulherin.com , 416 993 6510

MULHERIN POLLARD PROJECTS
317 10th Avenue (between 28th and 29th streets), New York, NY 10001
www.mulherinpollard.com


GALLERY NEWS

We invite you to the opening of our second NYC exhibition at MULHERIN POLLARD PROJECTS. “Dream Come True” features works by Dean Baldwin, Kristin Beal-DeGrandmont, Eric Doeringer, Michael Harrington, Ann Magnuson, and Lisa Neighbour. This exhibition is intended to accompany our summer party. Please join us on Thursday July 8, from 6-8pm for cocktails. If you haven’t visited the space yet, this will be a good time to see great work and celebrate our new space with us. www.mulherinpollard.com

HOLLY FARRELL’S exhibition at our TORONTO space has been extended until July 11th!

Even Closer is a solo exhibition by Holly Farrell featuring a new body of work at our 1086 Queen Street West, Toronto gallery. Holly’s paintings feature still-life portraits of Ken and Barbie dolls from the 1960s. The paintings provide quiet contemplation of the complex history of familiar objects and their associative powers, as well as the ability of the painted image to create a melancholic nostalgia. Holly’s work was also recently included in a group show at Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo. Read a profile and interview with Holly on Dear Edna.

Tom Pnini is screening two new video works at the Thomas Hunter Project Room (basement level, Hunter College, Lexington and 68th St, New York, NY 10065). The reception is from 5:30-7:30pm, Thursday, July 8th, 2010.

Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline, who recently graduated from Columbia University’s Master of Fine Arts program, was featured in our booth at SCOPE Basel. Krisjanis' current body of work consists of figurative oil paintings that use the format of classical portraiture as their point of departure. The paintings present depictions of figures constructed from image fragments that oscillate between representation and abstraction.

Ghost Ship, a six-foot-tall window installation by Lisa Neighbour, is the newest addition to the Faculty of Fine Arts’ Samuel Sarick Purchase Award collection, at York University, Toronto. As one of the artists in the recent Art School Dismissed show, Lisa will also be editing a documentary about the three-day show installed throughout the historic Shaw Street School. And if you’re in Buffalo this fall, see Lisa’s work at the Carnegie in the Beyond / In Western New York biennial, opening the weekend of September 24-26, 2010.

Balint Zsako’s new mural Untitled (Romance), at the Drake Hotel’s Sky Yard (1150 Queen Street West), is on view until September 30, 2010. Recently reviewed in NOW Magazine, writer David Jager describes the mural as catching “the artist at his most whimsically perverse, with women and men sprouting, flowering, melding or transmuting into each other according to a primal dream logic that’s pointedly sexual and mythological.” The visual image and mystery Jager conjures is reason enough to check out Balint’s work, juxtaposed with a text-based questionnaire by artist Micah Lexier.

Rob MacInnis’ farm animal portraits are included in Beyond Imaginings, a group show at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, on view until June 1, 2011.

Kris Knight will be exhibiting his oil portraits all over North America this summer. His solo show, A Deadly Nightshade, can be seen at Spinello Gallery in Miami, FL until September 4, 2010. He is also featured in two group shows, Reflexive Self at Mike Weiss Gallery in New York (until August 14, 2010), and That’s So Gay at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto (until July 18, 2010). You can read Kris’s interview with Lori Zimmer from Open Lab Magazine here.

Greater New York, at the MoMA PS1 will include work by Franklin Evans. Curated by Klaus Beisenback, Connie Butler and Neville Wakefield, the show has been reviewed in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Bloomberg, and Art-Agenda, with a slideshow is available at nytimes.com. The show runs until October 24, 2010. Franklin was also recently featured in Stuck Up at the Islip Art Museum in New York. His work will open this September in Ny/Prague 6 at Futura in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as in Collision at the RISD Museum and Solo at Federico Luger Gallery in Milan (both opening in November 2010).

Eric Doeringer is currently a participant in the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Art & Law Residency in New York City. Work by the artists involved in the residency will be exhibited at Maccarone Gallery, NYC, from August 14 – 27, 2010. His “Bootlegs” are featured in Seconde Main exhibition at the Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris until October 24, 2010, and he has had solo shows at KMLA (LA) and Creative Thriftshop (NYC). Eric has also recently published “Some Los Angeles Apartments” and “Real Estate Opportunities.”

Nicolas Grenier has work on view at the CalArts Graduate Exhibition from July 2 – 9, 2010. He also participated in the group exhibition Home & Garden in June at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. He also presented a collaborative project with Melodie Mousset called An Experiment on Studio-Based Practice: On the Top / Bottom, for the group show Volume at AT1 Projects in LA.

John Dickson just finished Frontier, a public commission for the West Toronto Railpath – a multi-use trail that runs parallel to the GO Train corridor just west of Lansdowne Ave in Toronto. Frontier consists of four large metal structures wrapped in wire mesh, placed at intervals along the trail. He will also be participating in Beyond / In Western New York biennial this fall. John’s new work will continue where Redux left off, using live video feed and a dissected mountain diorama from the Ontario Science Centre. He is creating a piece loosely based on Herzog’s Nosferatu. It will be shown at the Big Orbit Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Catharine Williams and Rina Greer have invited the artist to submit a proposal for a public art project in Liberty Village, Toronto, which will be presented this October.

Mike Swaney will have a solo show at Galeria Victor Saavedra in Barcelona, Spain, this October. He will also be included in two group shows this summer: at Adhoc Galeria in Vigo, Spain, from July 8 – September 11, 2010, and Art Trek at Mekanik Strip in Antwerp, Belgium from July 31 – September 14, 2010. His work can currently be seen in the Relationships group show until August 14, 2010 at the Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, and at the Guasch Coranty Painting Prize exhibition until August 1, 2010 at the Centre d’Art Tecla Sala in Barcelona. You can read interviews with Mike at 01 Magazine and The Gutenbergs (Issue 02/Vol. 01) and watch a Spanish TV interview for Anima. Some recent exhibitions include the Zine exhibition Thanks for Sharing at D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany in May 2010, San Francisco group shows at Guerrero Gallery in April and 100 Records curated by Sonny Smith at Gallery 16 in May. He was also featured in the To the road less traveled – wishing you love & happiness & curiosity forever group show at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen in January/February.

The Canada Council for the Arts has granted Robert Hengeveld a New Media Production Grant for mid-career artists. His work can be viewed at Artspace in Peterborough from July 23 – August 29, 2010. He will also be featured in the New Media Festival in Sackville, New Brunswick from July 25 – August 1 (curated by David Dyment). Robert is also the invited guest artist at ArtCity in Winnipeg from August 22 – 29, 2010.

Ray Fenwick has finished his latest book. Containing over 100 new works, it is due out in December. Stay tuned for details.


UPCOMING

Annie MacDonell: Beside the midnight lake
July 15- August 8
at our Toronto space: 1082 Queen Street West
Working with film, photography, sculpture and installation, Annie adopts and reanimates exhausted matter in the belief that its exhaustion generates an enhanced power and potential for invention at other levels. Beside the midnight lake gathers a range of new work in different media, taking for its subject the place of landscape within current art practices, or rather the impossibility of the continued relevance of one within the current climate of the other. The show uses photo-collage, mirrored plinths, and flashing marquee lights to refract and reflect a range of references, from the cool blankness of minimalism to the dark inks and double suns of late twentieth century occultism.

Seth Scriver and the slomotion: Mad World
July 15- August 8
at our Toronto space: 1086 Queen Street West
After featuring Seth Scriver in both our Los Angeles and NY spaces, we bring him back home with his latest series of airbrush drawings. His ongoing portrait series are of locals from his neighbourhood, Kensington Market and Chinatown in Toronto. The portraits start out as small sketches that are blown up, traced then airbrushed onto paper through an insanely labour intensive process of stenciling. Most of his practice is based on personal experience and stories told to him. His visual aesthetics push toward a type of fantasy world created through a stream of consciousness drawing style. The work presents a believable view of a chaotic world in which known and unknown entities play out small dramas.
Shaun Morin aka the slomotion has delivered a whole batch of new drawings and paintings. His art work ranges from oil paintings on canvas to mixed media on paper, to hand made booklets as well as black and white zines. Morin layers together witty and imaginative ensembles of mundane objects and elaborate yet miniscule pen and ink drawings that strive to establish fantastic alternate realities.

She feels it all is an upcoming group show at MULHERIN POLLARD (NYC) featuring artists Sojourner Truth Parsons, Julia Kennedy, Heather Goodchild, Tyler Clark Burke, Elaine Stocki, Davida Nemeroff, Elise Rasmussen and Shauna Born.
Opening reception is August 12th, from 6-8pm.

OTHER NEWS

Gallery assistant Deborah Wang will be curating a show this fall (October 12-24) at XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto. The Typology and Topography of Repetition features four local artists using repetition and lists as both a means and ends to creating paper and print-based works centred on subjectivity, memory and systems of organizing and classifying “information”.

For more information please email info@katharinemulherin.com, or call 416 993 6510.

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