Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

New Dana Holst lithograph available

2012-02-08T09:47:00.000-08:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to offer

Dana Holst

The Wishing Well, 2011

Litho on paper, 24 x 19"

(Edition is of 25)

$475

Roberta McNaughton: Twelve Months of Winter opens February 2, 6-9 PM

2012-01-22T12:29:00.000-08:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present an exhibition by Roberta McNaughton, Twelve Months of Winter. This exhibition of new paintings begins with an opening reception from 6 to 9 pm on Thursday, February 2, and continues through February 26, 2012 at 1082 Queen Street West, Toronto.

This is the slow weight of winter, where light appears unnaturally bright or unnaturally tinted, and snow disguises the familiar under a blanket of white.

The beauty of winter comes in it’s test of our resolve. We transform and adapt with weather’s unpredictable shifts and the lucky ones embrace the snow and the cold and learn to skate.

This is the collection of two winters, roughly twelve months of painting winter.

-- Roberta McNaughton, 2012

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
1082 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
416 993 6510
gallery hours Thursday to Saturday 12-6, Sunday 1-5
or by appointment

Roberta McNaughton: Twelve Months of Winter opens February 2, 6-9 PM

2012-01-22T12:28:00.000-08:00

This is the slow weight of winter, where light appears unnaturally bright or unnaturally tinted, and snow disguises the familiar under a blanket of white.

The beauty of winter comes in it’s test of our resolve. We transform and adapt with weather’s unpredictable shifts and the lucky ones embrace the snow and the cold and learn to skate.

This is the collection of two winters, roughly twelve months of painting winter.

-- Roberta McNaughton, 2012

Robert McNaughton: Twelve Months of Winter opens February 2, 6-9 PM

2012-01-22T12:27:00.000-08:00

This is the slow weight of winter, where light appears unnaturally bright or unnaturally tinted, and snow disguises the familiar under a blanket of white.

The beauty of winter comes in it’s test of our resolve. We transform and adapt with weather’s unpredictable shifts and the lucky ones embrace the snow and the cold and learn to skate.

This is the collection of two winters, roughly twelve months of painting winter.

-- Roberta McNaughton, 2012

Nancy Friedland: Vigil opening February 2, 6-9 PM

2012-01-20T14:42:00.000-08:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased at this opportunity to present new and recent works by photo-based artist Nancy Friedland.

February 2 -- 26, 2012

Opening Thursday, February 2, 6-9 PM

Plants can be difficult: they are strangely shy in front of my camera and I am often awkward in front of them. I want to portray their melancholy, their ambivalence toward us, their alienation from the natural world, their longing to be wild. Sometimes they frustrate me, and then I leave them to wither. But they keep drawing me in with their sad stories. Plants try so hard to communicate for us, I think. They arrive in our lives as a gift, an apology, a leftover centerpiece, an offering, a burden. How can they seem so benign and forgettable when they often stand for words we can’t say?

-- Nancy Friedland

A Few Facts about Sad Plants

We think we are consistent in our affections but we are not. We are fickle.

Our love is susceptible to the forces of daily life. Everything wavers: our faith, desire, greed, and attention.

We say: “I will love you forever.” And: “Nothing in the world is more important to me.” But the truth is that very few people and even fewer things are guaranteed a fixed place in our hearts.

We insist that there is always enough love to go around. But the reality is that our love is lopsided and choosy. There is a ruthless hierarchy to our caring. What was once on top is quickly demoted. A baby is born and the cat or dog we used to adore is now relegated to second-tier status. A plant that flowered lushly grows crispy with neglect.

Nancy Friedland’s sad plants are a measure of our shifting preoccupations and priorities. Look around and you will see that there are many kinds of sad plants: plants from the 50% markdown table, Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree type plants, anemic institutional plants, plastic-wrapped plants that were never truly adopted, shabby plants that came with the apartment, burdensome gift plants that droop with accusation, homely plants that were placed on the radiator and gladly extinguished for their ugliness.

Every sad plant has a pedigree and story. Each one has something to say about our erstwhile aspirations and current failings as mothers, lovers, friends, and keepers of the domestic realm. Who knows precisely why these plants are sad? Who knows what fate awaits them?

We think that plants (and love) cannot be resuscitated but that is untrue. With a little vigilance, even the saddest, limpest, driest plant can be revived. We have all seen it happen: the sickly-looking stalk that suddenly sprouts a perky green leaf, the dessicated succulent resurrected with a bit of water and sunlight. There is hope for even those of us with blundering hands and clumsy hearts. Sad plants ask: what do you want to do about that love of yours?

We think we talk to plants but really they talk to us.

-- Kyo Maclear

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
1086 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON

416 993 6510

gallery hours Thursday to Saturday 12-6, Sunday 1-5
or by appointment

STO, My Slow Called Life at MULHERIN + POLLARD, opening Thurday December 8, 6-9pm

2011-12-08T11:59:00.000-08:00

My Slow Called Life Opening Thursday December 8, 6-9 pm

MULHERIN + POLLARD, 187 Chrystie Street, NY

In My Slow Called Life, STO presents a tranquil, one room NY studio apartment scene as the backdrop for a variety of papier mache sculptures. Devoid of any people, we are left to ponder the objects on their own as we walk through the space.... Leftover pizza on the table, old food in the fridge, a stack of books, some dirty socks, and a slop sink with paintbrushes as well as toothbrushes are just a few of the mundane objects recreated in chunky, lovable papier mache. There is a natural sense of whimsy in the limitations of the mache as a medium and it boldly reveals itself with rough textures and gobs of paint applied liberally. There is also a sense of comedy beneath the surface, as if the objects were laughing at their own meaninglessness and at us for needing them. These deadpan takes on quotidian objects question our common understanding of what is real and reveal the many ways that we are entangled with our possessions. By shining a spotlight on the everyday, these works evoke our own daily lives and slow us down long enough to take stock in what they really consist of.

Exhibition runs December 1 - 31

John Dickson: From Light to Dark, opening Thursday, December 1, 6-9pm.

2011-11-26T12:23:00.000-08:00

From Light to Dark

Central to this exhibition are two live-feed video sculptures, each taking a film as a starting point: Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu. In both films there is a journey that leads the protagonist into a dark and dangerous place. Apocalypse Now depicts an expedition up a river to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a brilliant madman who has immersed himself in savagery during the Vietnam War. In Nosferatu the protagonist must travel into the Carpathian Mountains to deliver real estate documents to Count Dracula. The linear nature of these narratives made them suitable for his re-rendering using models, motors and live-feed cameras.

Redux (2009) is a distillation of key elements of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (which was based upon Conrad’s novel), compressing the narrative into 4 1/2 minutes. A miniature video camera tracks back and forth past a series of mundane items, live-feeding to an adjacent television, where the plastic plants, mirror and upholstery stuffing are transformed into jungle, river and fog. The disjuncture between the mundane objects and the images viewed on the screen, necessitates a back and forth investigation on the part of the viewer. While Apocalypse Now examines the insanity and savagery of war, Redux re-renders the story as a journey into a ravaged wilderness.

Shadow of the Vampyre (2010) is structured after a portion of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu (which is a remake of Mernau’s 1922 version) - specifically the scenes in which the protagonist makes his way through the Carpathian Mountains and enters Count Dracula’s castle. In this work the camera is stationary while pieces of a mountain model (originally part of a diorama from the Ontario Science Centre) move past on a rotating circular table, creating an endless, looping narrative. Although the work is based on a vampire movie, only the vampire’s shadow is seen, and only briefly. It is less about vampires and more of a metaphor for our journey through life towards death and the unknown.

The drawings are primarily derived from stills from the two films, highlighting the source imagery for the sculptural works. Black spray paint was used to approximate the subtleties of light and atmosphere, while adding graininess similar to that of film. Once I began, the subject matter expanded naturally to encompass related images based on war, death and disintegration, dark themes that recur frequently in the artist’s work.

Review of Bite the Dust by R.M. Vaughan in the Globe and Mail

2011-11-26T09:56:00.000-08:00

Lisa Neighbour at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Until Nov. 27, 1086 Queen St. W., Toronto; katharinemulherin.com Toronto-based multimedia artist Lisa Neighbour (best known for her magical large-scale sculptures made from repurposed lamps, on display in venues across town) is not an artist one immediately associates with the word “shock.” If anything, the bulk of her work to date has arguably been dedicated to creating a soothing, slow-pulse atmosphere. Well, hold onto your hat (indeed, your head). Her new show at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary, Bite the Dust, is a suite of fogged-over drawings on creamy white mitsumata paper. Most are images of spectral, floating heads; heads encircling faces that appear to be either unconscious, meditating, or about to fall asleep. So far, so restfully … until you realize that the heads you are looking at, and are perhaps inspiring you to indulge in a calming nap yourself, are the heads of victims of decapitation. Sweet dreams are definitely not made of this. Sourced, I was informed by the gallery attendant, from various news and citizen-journalism outlets, Neighbour’s recreations of the aftershock of decapitation are simultaneously grisly and gorgeous. The people look neither obviously frightened nor in pain. But, of course, they must have suffered both. Furthermore, Neighbour’s drawing style, which moves in and out of focus from high-realist to smudgy, blurred photo-like near-abstraction, refuses to take any didactic or moral stand. Death by decapitation may be either an agonizing demise or an ecstatic release. I’ll never know from these drawings, and I don’t want to find out the obvious way. Some viewers may perceive Neighbour’s deliberate inconclusiveness as offensive: a mere artist’s game being played with some very real, very cruel injustices. But I concluded that Neighbour’s visual ambiguity is a result not of a lack of concern for her subjects, but the opposite – the desire to give dignity, via the turning of horror into loveliness, to the dead. Furthermore, the ambiguous dialogue that Neighbour establishes with her viewers plays an enormous role in how the works are viewed. If you saw these works and did not read the information sheet provided, you would be unlikely to fully recognize what you were seeing. Neighbour’s partial negation of her own presence as a witness – a negation arrived at by both her non-determining presentation strategy and her sometimes hard/sometimes feathery pencil work – returns the power of the gaze to her subjects and thus, by extension, to us, their viewers. In other words, if you want solid answers from these works, you have to get them from the depicted, not the depicter.

Click here to read the original article online.

John Dickson: Cold War

2011-11-17T09:59:00.000-08:00

Opening November 18th 6 - 8pm

November 19, 2011 - January 8, 2011

The Young Gallery (inside Frank)

Toronto Now at the Art Gallery of Ontario

317 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario

Gallery hours Tuesday - Friday 11:30 - 2:30 ; 5:30 - 10:30

Saturday and Sunday 11 - 3

Bite the Dust, New Drawings by Lisa Neighbour

2011-11-12T13:05:00.000-08:00

November 3 - November 27 2011

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1086 Queen Street West

Toronto, ON

416 993 6510

gallery hours Thursday to Saturday 12-6, Sunday 1-5

or by appointment

There's something about dying a violent death that is appealing to me: better than a hospital bed, quicker than old age, more significant than some garden-variety germ or tumor. This may be a morbid subject, but I compare various deaths and try to rank them in order of their ability to calm my anxiety over the ordinariness of death. For instance, murders are sometimes staged, and the victim has a symbolic role such as messenger, teacher, example, surrogate, or martyr. Staging seems to make death less random, in the sense that it becomes a performance with a plot, and sets, and props. I guess every death can be reinterpreted as a performance, and given significance as a narrative, but some narratives are inherently more profound.

At the top of my list of list of staged deaths is beheading. As a way to die, beheading is stark and honest. It's not lingering, euphemistic or deniable. It makes death obvious; there will be no reprieve, no rescue, no cure, no making whole again. As a metaphor, beheading implies that the individual has broken the connection between body and soul, and they have lost the guidance of their conscious intelligence. It makes their remains seem especially vulnerable and abject. The head is evidence of identity, and becomes infused with a mesmerizing pathos. The murderers often leave the heads of their victims in staged locations, to communicate something through their presence. Although this is perhaps meant to demean them further, to me they have a certain radiance borne from having escaped beyond the horrifying circumstances of their last moments.

These drawings are a record of my communication with the beheaded, who have experienced the most harrowing and violent of deaths. While touching and memorizing their faces with pencil lines I've been trying to understand what they mean. I've heard that it's better to face death with acceptance and grace, but this approach makes me fear it more. I want to "bite the dust" rather than "pass away" - which sounds more like I'm off to go grocery shopping. Not that I'm in a hurry or anything.

-- Lisa Neighbour, November 2011

Heather Goodchild -- Walking the Pattern

2011-10-08T14:14:00.000-07:00

MULHERIN + POLLARD

187 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

212-967-0045

presents

Heather Goodchild

"Walking The Pattern"

November 3-26, 2011

Opens Thursday, November 3, 6-9pm

GALLERY HOURS: Wed-Sat, 12-6pm, Sun 1-5pm

or by appointment

Job Wheel, rug hook, embroidered inlaid felt, engraved steel, wood, 43” diameter, 2011

Job Wheel, detail

Heather Goodchild's practice involves exploring the rituals, regalia and symbols of world religions, Girl Guides and Freemasonry in an attempt to understand the purpose of these traditions. Using traditional textile techniques such as rug-hooking, inlaid patchwork and quilting, she has developed new ways to execute old crafts, creating pieces that seem to exist both in the past and present.

Recently Goodchild has used the scaffold of a fictitious ladies organization (The Wardens) begun in the late nineteenth century with roots in sixteenth century Germany to express her ideas. By creating this society, including its rituals, mythology, moral code and material paraphernalia, Goodchild is able to examine the necessity of such rites in a twenty-first century culture that often lacks the trappings of traditional religion.

In Walking the Pattern, Goodchild creates an installation exploring the allegorical symbol of the wheel of fortune. Using dioramas, puppets, wall hangings and installation, the viewer can glean the repeating pattern of life's ups and downs.

Old/Young Puppet, inlaid patchwork, molded and embroidered wool felt, 10” x 18”, 2011

Reflect on the Past, Look to the Future, inlaid patchwork, 27.5” x 43”, 2011

Psalm 103, screen print, 16.5” x 27”, 2011, edition 1 of 8

Wheel, diorama: wool felt, fabric, clay, fur, wood in antique box, 20” x 34”, 2011

Wheel, detail

Woman/Man Puppet, detail, inlaid patchwork, molded and embroidered wool felt 10” x 18”, 2011

Ladder, diorama: wool felt, fabric, clay, fur, wood in antique box, 18.5” x 33.5”, 2011

Ladder, detail

Woman/Man Puppet, inlaid patchwork, molded and embroidered wool felt 10” x 18”, 2011

DAVID KRAMER, The Hangover...Too

2011-09-02T11:40:00.000-07:00

David Kramer's solo exhibition at Mulherin + Pollard will feature new drawing, painting, sculpture and installation.

The Hangover...Too
September 7-October 2
Mulherin + Pollard
187 Chrystie Street & the end of Freeman Alley
New York, NY 10002

Opening reception Wedensday, September 7 from 6-9pm

Click here for a preview of the exhibition

Mike Bayne finalist in the Kingston Prize

2011-08-05T11:32:00.000-07:00

Mike Bayne, 'Orange Grandma', 6x4 inches, oil on canvas, 2011

We are pleased to announce that Mike Bayne is a finalist in the Kingston Prize, Canada's National Portrait Competition, a biennial national competition for contemporary portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists.

The mission statement for The Kingston Prize is to encourage and reward the creation of contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, through a biennial national competition for paintings and drawings. The monetary prize provides encouragement for artists to develop new approaches to portraiture. To be eligible, an entry must be a painting or drawing of a specific Canadian person, produced within 24 months of the closing date, and must be based upon a meeting between artist and subject. The competition is not limited by age or professional status.

From the entries submitted by artists, a distinguished jury selects 30 finalists for the exhibition, and then selects the winners of the prizes. The main prize of $10,000 is presented by the W. Garfield Weston Foundation to the winner chosen by the jury. In addition there are two Honourable Mentions and a People's Choice Prize based upon ballots submitted at the exhibition.

The competition began in 2005, with an exhibition in Gananoque, near Kingston. There were 150 entries in 2005, and 471 entries in 2009, when the exhibition began in Kingston and then was sent on a tour to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Toronto and Calgary. Plans are in place for the 2011 exhibition to be shown first in Gananoque and then at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

The Kingston Prize competition is similar to other portrait prizes held in Australia, Great Britain, the United States and New Zealand. The Kingston Prize is organized through the Kingston Arts Council.

Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline a semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition

2011-07-22T13:48:00.000-07:00

Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Rakata, 54x48 inches, oil on canvas, 2011

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to announce that Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline has been selected as one of 15 semi-finalists in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, is a unique initiative to help nurture and support promising new artists in the early stages of their careers; a time when they need both recognition and financial support.
A regional jury panel of distinguished members from the arts community have selected five paintings from their regions as follows:

Eastern (Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Central (Ontario)
Western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut)

The three jury panels will then select one national winner and two honourable mentions from the 15 semi-finalists. The national winner will receive a purchase prize of $25,000 and the two honourable mentions will each receive $15,000. This year, the winner and two honourable mentions will be announced in Edmonton at the Art Gallery of Edmonton on Tuesday, September 27, 2011.

Temple Bates, 'Jettison', July 8 - 31, 2011

2011-07-05T13:50:00.000-07:00

Temple Bates, 'Woolly Cheeks', 23 x 19.5 inches, oil on canvas, 2011

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present new paintings by Toronto-based artist Temple Bates, in conjunction with the launch of her book Hermoddities. Signed copies will be available for purchase at the opening reception.

"The sensibility has me fuddling back through my memories for drawings by Dr. Seuss, whose creations like those in a Bates painting, look uncannily like self-portraits with fur added. Bates takes figures from childhood imaginings — sea monsters, wooly toy-creatures, over-sized facial features — and puts them in the context of classical portraiture and naturalist landscape. This synthesis, I believe, encapsulates one of the major dialogues in modern art we're having today about maturity and youth."

- Lee Henderson

"Bates' paintings are as odd as her Catpeeps but there is so much more here. Each one is a character, a woolly-cheeked critter with a backstory, living in forests, but sitting uncomfortably long enough to be painted. There is a sense of timelessness here; are these creatures medieval or futuristic, children or old men? Hermetic oddities, hermaphrodities. Sometimes cute, sometimes cruel."

- Andy Brown, publisher, Conundrum Press

Hermoddities
by Temple Bates
published by Conundrum Press
ISBN 978-1-894994-57-6
6x6", 192 pages, full colour, July 2010
$20

Dean Baldwin in 'Play > Nation' at the Design Exchange, Toronto

2011-07-01T13:54:00.000-07:00

Dean Baldwin, Muskoka Gary, 2010

Digital C-print, 14x18

Edition of 5

The Design Exchange (DX), Canada's National Design Museum and Centre presents its summer exhibition, Play > Nation, opening July 1st for a 17-week exploration of Canada's love of the great outdoors.

The exhibition will feature works from the DX permanent collection, objects on loan from participating institutions and Canadian companies that include Canada Goose Apparel, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Olson Curling, Bauer and Swift Canoe. A selection of Canadian artists that include Charles Pachter, Dean Baldwin, Diana Thorneycroft, Douglas Coupland, Elinor Whidden and Travis Shilling whose work will be on display will highlight and challenge the mythology of a particular terrestrial milieu. In doing so, Play > Nation will offer a look into our paradigms of play, the universal language of the great outdoors and what unites us from coast to coast.

A exhibition catalogue has been published in conjunction with this exhibition. Click here to read more.

Megan Greene: New Work

2011-06-05T13:02:00.001-07:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present new mixed media works by Megan Greene.

June 2, 2011 - June 26, 2011

Join us for a closing reception on Saturday, June 25, 4-7 PM.

1086 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario

Megan Greene's current body of work includes drawings/collages built using Audubon bird prints. She is interested in "Birds of America" as canonical Americana, a 19th c. documentary series she re-conceives with contemporary concerns. In each piece, she scraps the Audubon for parts, transforming the found organic forms with colored pencil and collage. These transformations, borrowing from the tradition of the grotesque, involve the disassembly, elaboration, and subsuming of birds and their environs with pattern, abstract forms and found imagery. In some works, the Audubon forms are gently elaborated while in others the bird is dissolved entirely. Megan also uses collage as a Dada-like force that is alternately seamless and disruptive. Such treatment of surface, including shifts between drawn v. photographic and representational v. abstract, further reflect her interest in hybridization.

Kirsten Kindler: Introducing Kirsten Kindler

2011-06-05T12:52:00.000-07:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to recent mixed media works by Kirsten Kindler.

June 2, 2011 - June 26, 2011

Join us for a closing reception on Saturday, June 25, 4-7 PM

1086 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario

After receiving her Masters in painting, Kirsten began experimenting with paper sculptures in the late 1990s in a San Francisco loft where an abundance of space gave way to voluminous organisms that spiraled from ceiling to floor. Today, her extraordinary cut-paper sculptures are more intricate: worlds created from tiny scraps from magazines that invite you to take a step closer, and closer still. She received her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from Parsons. Kindler is a two-time recipient of the Professional Fellowship Award in Mixed Media from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Kindler’s work has exhibited widely, last year she was included in a cut paper exhibition at The Museum Bellerive in Zurich. She has an upcoming solo show at The Virginia Center for Architecture in Richmond, Virginia where she currently resides.

New space opening in New York tonight -- Friday, May 20

2011-05-20T12:17:00.001-07:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects and MULHERIN + POLLARD are pleased to announce the opening of their new space in New York.

Located at the end of Freeman Alley, with another entrance from Chrystie Street, tonight's opening will feature the works of Sojourner Truth Parsons, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline and Winnie Truong, with Nina Bovasso and Bruce Wilheim, on view until June 11, 2011.

MULHERIN + POLLARD
The end of Freeman Alley
187 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

Gallery hours: 11-6 PM

Ray Fenwick: Mascots

2011-02-05T13:52:00.001-08:00

Mascots presents an edited version of the collected paintings from Ray Fenwick's recently published book. The works, not unlike a group of short stories, are a collection of vignettes and staccato bursts of narrative that combine to form a surreal—and vaguely familiar—parallel world. Like Fenwick's previous work, the paintings are driven by language and typography, occupying a space where visual art, comics, prose and poetry bleed into one another.

Ray Fenwick is an artist living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has shown in Canada and the U.S. and is the author of two books. His previous book, Hall of Best Knowledge, earned a nomination for "Best Avant-Garde Graphic Novel" from The Canadian Cartooning Awards. For the month of March he will attend a residency at Struts Gallery, where he will be working on new audio pieces and text paintings.

FEBRUARY 10 - MARCH 6, 2011
Opening Thursday, February 10, 6-9 PM

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
1086 Queen Street West, Toronto

416 993 6510
info@katharinemulherin.com

Thursday to Saturday 12-6 PM, Sunday1-5 PM, or by appointment

Davida Nemeroff: I Got You Babe

2011-02-05T13:50:00.000-08:00

They say our love won't pay the rent
before its earned our money has all be spent.

i got you babe
i got you babe
i got you babe
i got you babe
i got you babe

Artist and curator Davida Nemeroff holds a BFA from Ryerson University and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the director of the nocturnal platform Night Gallery in Los Angeles and one of the co-organizers of Whitney's Biennial in New York, 2009. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues including the EXiS2010 Festival in Seoul, South Korea, Economy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and The Company in Los Angeles.

I Got You Babe is a continuation of Nemeroff's investigation of the image through the apparatus.

FEBRUARY 10 - MARCH 6, 2011
Opening Thursday, February 10, 6-9 PM

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
1082 Queen Street West, Toronto

416 993 6510
info@katharinemulherin.com

Friday to Saturday 12-6 PM, Sunday1-5 PM, or by appointment

Bodies & Politics

2011-02-05T13:30:00.001-08:00

Bodies & Politics brings together three gallery artists in an exhibition that celebrates figuration as a point of departure from which to provide commentary on contemporary issues and relationships. Employing social, art historical and pop cultural iconography, each artist offers their unique approach to image making as an entry into their inner psyches. The masterful works in this exhibition invite us to examine, question and find humour in who we are in contemporary culture.

Balint Zsako distills as many disparate aspects of contemporary art into his works on paper as possible. Everything from the physical theatre of Performance Art, the process-based nature of Land Art, to the meticulous balance of Geometric Abstraction is referenced. But just as importantly, sex, mythology, bodily functions and primitive narratives are the themes that animate his works. Physical distortions serve as parallels to psychological states and mechanical appendages recall the conflict between the organic and the industrial. These open-ended stories, which are most often dark and complex, are rendered in lively bright colours and meticulous detail to add another layer of contrast between the visual, the narrative and the conceptual.

Working mainly with traditional pen and ink on paper, Oscar de Las Flores generates masterful figurative works, elaborately layered, that incorporate grotesque imagery with the beauty of sinuous lines. His drawings depict figures, both real and imagined, that tell the story of an unending battle between society's powerless and powerful. With a dark sense of humor that is Flores' own, his work also shows the influence of generations of artists, integrating the grace and detail of early masters with the imagination of the Surrealists.

Though the content of his drawings often display a clear narrative, it is rare that Flores begins a piece with a plan for its full resolution. He may have a theme in mind at the start, but prefers to allow each drawing to develop itself, each figure or symbol deriving form and meaning from the one before it, until a narrative has found its way onto the page. Flores is driven extensively by his surroundings. He is clear in voicing the use of his art as an outlet through which to comment on the condition of the world around him, and believes it is his duty to do so. Flores comments, “I, like Orozco, Goya or Kollwitz believe in the need to directly portray that which is inhuman and immoral in society as well as that which is compassionate and true in order to wake in all of us a sense or urgency in attending humanities' most pressing needs in a time when greed and rapacious hatred becomes ever more predominant.”

Michael Caines' current work situates American political figures, both past and present, in altered 18th century paintings and Christian religious kitsch, referencing scenes from Alice in Wonderland, Bambi, and the Wizard of Oz. Drawing on the lineage of political cartooning in these pictures, Caines treats Richard Nixon, JFK, and Carl Rove, among others, with surprising tenderness and humor.

Influenced by Rick Perlstein's 2008 book, Nixonland: The Rise Of A President And The Fracturing Of America, Caines considers the fate of now obsolete political figures, and those who will someday, in turn, fall into the shadow of history. Their images, so vivid, are given an afterlife in electronic media, and they are, in a sense, both entombed there and in limbo. Caines' new work reveals the peculiar beauty that history lends to these iconic physiognomies, and his work is as much a response to their physicality as it is to the politics they are, or were, embroiled in. Thus baby-headed Carl Rove is cuddled by Ronald Reagan as dowager duchess, while a younger, glowingly handsome Jesus-Reagan cradles a little Glenn Beck lamb.

Caines rifles through the past, masterfully reworking elements of historical pictures to provide landscapes for these figures to inhabit. By conflating painting and political history, his work evokes nostalgia for the idealism that comes with belief, whether in political or artistic greatness. Caines references Sir John Tenniel's beautiful illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, utilizing the spirit of absurdity in the drawings and text as a form of critique. Rather than passively absorbing history and media images, Caines asserts his right to creative action. He thereby extends to us, his viewers, a kind of tentative idealism, one in which he in turn asserts our right to act on – rather than be acted upon – the images of our shared histories.

93 'Til Infinity

2011-02-05T13:25:00.000-08:00

The Fuck Death Foundation is an organization dedicated to the elimination of death. It was founded in 2007 by Jeremy Stewart and Simon Wilkinson.

93 'Til Infinity is a massive memento mori masquerading as a gala fundraiser. It's a show about altruism, death, technology, commerce, the power of unadulterated optimism—and the insecurity it betrays. Contributing artists include Tyler Clark Burke, Paul Butler, Robyn Cumming, Jay Isaac, Jeremy Jansen, Jon Knowles, Will Munro, Morley Shayuk, Jeremy Stewart and Simon Wilkinson. 10% of all purchases will go to the Will Munro Fund for Queer & Trans Youth Living with Cancer.

January 15 - 30, 2011

93 'Til Infinity is curated by Jeremy Stewart, a Canadian designer and artist living and working in Toronto. Stewart studied design (BDes) and education (BEd) at York University. Upon graduating, he worked at Bruce Mau Design on projects for MIT and the Gagosian Gallery. His work is driven by a philosophical curiosity about death, a life well-lived, and the relationship between the two.

Stewart has lectured about sweatsuits at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and created a memento mori poster featuring Lil' Wayne for Artexte in Montreal. A 2007 textile design created in collaboration with Jeremy Laing was acquired by the ROM for their Costume and Textile Collection. His work has also been featured in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Blackbook, Contemporary, I.D., Azure, and on various CBC programs.

Some of his favourite artists were graphic designers.

Robert Hengeveld in 'natural Forms' at Regina's Neutral Ground

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natural Forms
Curated by John G. Hampton
Featuring work by Jeremy Drummond, Jocelyn Philibert, Barbara Meneley, Crystal Mowry and Robert Hengeveld
Neutral Ground Artist-run centre
September 10- October 30, 2010

Margaret Bessai writes, "I pondered my own yard, while mesmerized by Robert Hengeveld’s sculpture, Kentucky Perfect. Hengeveld’s robotic lawn cares for a strip of grass by providing artificial light, periodic watering, and meticulous trimming as efficiently as a photocopier processes a 250 page document. My lawn also needs watering, weeding, and mowing to maintain a lush growth. It too bears no resemblance to the prairie grasses that once flourished in this region. Both lawns are emblematic of our Canadian relationship with the land and nature. But while they are both organic, are they natural? [...]

Indoors, Hengeveld’s Kentucky Perfect grass is seductive, conjuring the smell of gardens and soft places for bare feet to walk. It sends a contradictory message, as the strict nature of the care that sustains this lawn makes it impossible to walk on. The sculpture is fragile, suspended on sawhorses. The robotic watering arm and the vigilant mower-blade would cut anything in their path. Hengeveld discussed this contradiction during the opening panel discussion with Meneley, Mowry, and Hampton. Re-sodding his yard to create green space for his young family to play in tuned Hengeveld into observing the ritual lawn-care routines of his neighbours, the peer pressure to maintain a “perfect” lawn, and the many un-used front yards. When so much work is put into a cultivation that returns no obvious material gain one must wonder, why? he observed the ritual lawn-care routines of his neighbours, the peer pressure to maintain a “perfect” lawn, and the many un-used front yards. When so much work is put into a cultivation that returns no obvious material gain, one must wonder, why?"

Click here to read Bessai's whole article for Black Flash.

Michael Caines at the Peterborough Art Gallery, January 14 - March 6, 2011

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WILD/TAME is an exhibition of disturbing yet beautifully drawn and painted contemporary POP/Surrealist works on panel, canvas and paper by Michael Caines.

Drawing from a variety of literary and art influences Caines sequential narratives use the idea of the figure in limbo – which works as a device for the artist to dislodge iconic characters from their conventionally understood habitats. This practice allows the artist to in his words, “rearrange and re-imagine the iconography.” (Michael Caines, Final Parsons School of Design, NYC, MFA Thesis text)

An exhibition catalogue accompanies this solo exhibition, with an by R.M. Vaughan and an interview by Thomas Butter.

Heather Goodchild in 'Women' at Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

2010-12-05T11:54:00.000-08:00

Heather Goodchild, 'Helen Stapleton Brown', wool felt

Women, a group exhibition exploring the fundamentals of the female featuring Kiki Smith, Connie Fox, Sally Egbert, Aurora Robson, Corinne von Lebusa, Heather Goodchild, and Emmanuelle Thayer Benard

October 16 – November 22

Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton NY

Jennifer Landes, in her article “Women at Marder’s” for The East Hampton Star blog, describes how “Heather Goodchild’s felt masterpieces balance pattern, expert knife skills, and adept portraiture to present a folksy but sophisticated grouping of female busts looking as regal and powerful as the males that are typically depicted in this manner. A full-size bust portrait of Helen Stapleton Brown is as delicate and precise in its assemblage of tesseraes as the subject is fineboned and determined in her expression.

There is a sense of knowing these women, or at least of having seen them before, but their blend of modernity and nostalgia is dislocating and mysterious. The purpose behind their willful demeanors is unknown, evoking ideas of temperance, suffrage, and abolition. In her patchwork quilt of faces of designs, she spells out a message, “The Balanced Life Will Flourish,” that is somewhat clarifying but still unknowable, like an unfamiliar classical myth.”

http ://www .heathergoodchild .com /womenatmarders .pdf

November Newsletter

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KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS

1082 + 1086 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M6J 1H8
www.katharinemulherin.com

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

Dennis Ekstedt, Whatever Shines #2, 26x30 inches, oil on canvas, 2010

GALLERY NEWS

Dennis Ekstedt: Whatever Shines Should Be Observed, in tandem with Sara MacCulloch: Dusk.

November 25 to December 19, 2010 at our 1086 Queen Street West gallery, opening Thursday, November 25, 6-9 PM.

Elaine Stocki: Balcony

November 25 to December 19, 2010 at our 1082 Queen Street West gallery, opening Thursday, November 25, 6-9 PM.

Morgan Herrin at Mulherin Pollard Projects, New York

November 4-30, 2010

Allyson Mitchell: A girl’s journey to the well of forbidden knowledge

October 2-November 28, 2010 in the Young Gallery as part of the ‘Toronto Now’ series at the Art Gallery of Ontario

ARTIST NEWS

REMNANTS, an installation by Lisa Neighbour, is currently on show until December at the Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda, New York as part of the ‘Alternating Currents’ exhibition at this year’s “Beyond/In Western New York,” which is hosted by the Albright Knox gallery in Buffalo.

Shaun Morin (the slomotion) recently had a solo exhibition entitled ‘Recits fragmentes’ at La Maison des Artistes Visuels Francophones in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which is open until November 17. You can read a review of the show written by Sandee Moore for Uptown Magazine here. His personal website has also been recently updated at www.slomotion.ca

Kris Knight’s work will be appearing in a variety of venues in the near future. His work will be among the art auctioned off in Line Art Auction 2010, which benefits the LGBT Youthline. Locust Projects in Miami will also be including his work in their Smash and Grab exhibition in November, and also in Miami, Spinello Gallery is showing his paintings in an exhibition entitled ‘Littlest Sister 10,’ running from November 13-December 5, 2010. Konekt Magazine will be featuring his portfolio and an interview in their next issue, which you can preview on YouTube here. Kris is currently preparing for a solo show at our gallery in May 2011.

Michael Swaney has a solo show entitled ‘The Corner’ at Galeria Victor Saavedra, Barcelona, which opened October 21, 2010. His work will also be included in ‘The Xmas Show,’ a group show at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, on view from December 10, 2010 to January 15, 2011.

Heather Goodchild recently collaborated with Doug Paisley to create the cover art for his latest album ‘Constant Companion’ and had her work in ‘The Dazzle,’ a group show at Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto. She also participated in ‘Women,’ a group show at Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY.

Also taking part in ‘Beyond/In Western New York’ is John Dickson. His solo show at Big Orbit Gallery in Buffalo continues into January 2011 and includes a new live-feed video, Shadow of the Vampyre, which is loosely modeled on a section of Werner Herzog's film Nosferatu.

In addition to his upcoming show at KMCAP (see above for details), Dennis Ekstedt is having a solo show at Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary. ‘Event Horizon’ will run from March 5 to April 2, 2011.

Holly Farrell has a show coming up at Megumi Ogita Gallery in Tokyo called ‘Tammy,’ which will be on view from November 25 through December 18, 2010. Her June solo show at our gallery was reviewed by Magenta Magazine and Blog TO.

Rob Hengeveld will be in a number of shows in the next few months. He is part of the exhibition ‘Powers of Ten’ at InterAccess Toronto, curated by Jeannie Cherniack and open from November 26, 2010 through to January 22, 2011. His work will also be included in ‘Out Thinking in Circles, In Circles Thinking Out,’ curated by Kyle Beal at Galerie Push in Montreal. The exhibition opens on December 2, 2010. Galerie Sans Nom in Moncton, New Brunswick will be showing his work in their exhibition ‘Kentucky Perfect’ which runs from February 18 to March 18, 2011. Prairie Dog Magazine recently reviewed his work ‘Kentucky Perfect,’ featured in his summer exhibition at the gallery ‘Greener Shade of Green’ and included in the exhibition ’Natural Forms’ at Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum. On September 13, 2010, CBC Radio One spoke about his work in ‘The Art Of Lawn’ on their show ‘The Afternoon Edition.’ ‘Natural Forms’ was also reviewed by Martin Gourlie on the Regina Urban Ecology blog on September 14, 2010.

Rob MacInnis recently took part in an exhibition entitled ‘Beyond Imaginings: Eight artists encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt’ at Harbourfront Centre, which features his large-scale photographs. His work was also included in ‘Bestiary,’ an exhibition in various media organized by The Wassaic Project and curated by Sally Morgan Lehman, Liz Parks and Sally Zunino, which ran from June 27 – July 25^th 2010.

UPCOMING

Michael Caines: Perfect Happiness

December 1-31at Mulherin Pollard Projects, New York, opening Thursday December 9, 6-8 PM.

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

Dennis Ekstedt

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Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present Whatever Shines Should Be Observed, an exhibition of new paintings by Dennis Ekstedt, in tandem with a show of new work by Sara MacCulloch.

November 25 to December 19, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, opening Thursday, November 25, 6-9 PM.

Artist's Statement:

Urban environments are difficult to experience in their entirety. At ground level we perceive fragments of a larger whole, but when we see a city at night from a distance (from an airplane or a skyscraper) we have an opportunity to comprehend it more as a complete entity, as a kind of vast luminous organism.

An illuminated city has an ethereal quality that seems to both transcend and physically define a landscape. I'm interested in depicting the visual intensity of the illuminated city, with its network of electric lights resembling a nervous system. I'm interested in the organization of cities, in the cacophonous fluidity of their shape and form. I find it fascinating how this nervous system of electric light is ultimately a manifestation of human habitation – these landscapes are literally electrified by us.

The artist would like to acknowledge the support of the Conseil des arts et des letters Québec.

To view additional works from this exhibition, please click here and scroll down.

Sara MacCulloch

2010-11-25T13:14:00.000-08:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present Dusk, an exhibition of new paintings by Sara MacCulloch, in tandem with a show of new work by Dennis Ekstedt.

November 25 to December 19, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, opening Thursday, November 25, 6-9 PM.

The paintings in this show explore the passage of time from the hour just before sunset, to the time just after. From when the light hits things sideways with a golden, saturated light, to when the colour and light slowly drains away, and everything turns blue and gray. For me, it is the time when one's thoughts go from outer to inner, when one is pulled towards home.

Almost all of these subjects are of the same place – geographically within probably about a hundred yards. It is the cottage I rent in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. It is the bedroom windows from outside, the view from the front porch towards the fields, the sun setting across the road, the cottages next door, and the bushes in the yard. The viewer is placed outside in the shade, with the light always in the distance.

The challenge for me is always to capture what a place looks like and feels like but also to have a relationship with the painting as I am making it. To be open to what may happen in the studio. I don't start with an exact idea of what the painting will be when I am finished. All I know is what I want it to feel like, and I never really know how that will come about.

I almost always do my paintings in one go; one session in the studio. This is to allow for clarity in purpose, but also to give the work a sense of immediacy. I want the paintings to be direct and fluid. There is a fine line between overworked, unfinished, and resolved paintings, and I am always trying to find that balance.

I waste a lot of paint, and have many frustrating days where I scrape off a whole day's work onto the floor, only to start over the next day. But in each attempt, I become clearer about what I am painting, so that in the end, the work is more concise. I want the paint to be allowed to be paint. Sometimes there are drips or imperfections, but I leave them because sometimes it is those "mistakes" that anchor the work for me.

~ Sara MacCulloch, 2010

The artist would like to acknowledge the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture for their support in the creation of these works.

To view more works from the show, please click here and scroll down.

Elaine Stocki

2010-11-25T13:05:00.000-08:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present Balcony, an exhibition of recent photographs by Elaine Stocki.

November 25 to December 19, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto.

Stocki's capitivating photographs are remarkable for their hermetically sealed surfaces, a high degree of perfection in draughtsmanship and masterful compositions in light and shadow. Embracing the languages of desire, pain, indifference, and transcendence, of infirmity and ephemerality … instead of the allure of a rich heap of pearls or diamonds, Stocki offers human and animal physicality that is simultaneously transient, immobile or petrified. Each figure is depicted in an uncomfortable middle zone that is visually destabilized by an immediate presence and sense of imminent movement forward, towards a future position based on a pervasive synthetic realism that fosters a related deep-seated insecurity. ~ Wayne Baerwaldt

Elaine Stocki was born in 1979 in Winnipeg. She attended the University of Manitoba for her BSc and BFA degrees and Yale University for her MFA in Photography. Recent exhibitions and projects include her MFA Thesis show at Yale University, New Haven (2009), Zach Feuer Gallery, New York (2009) and the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2008). In 2011 Stocki will exhibit at La Maison Rouge, Paris, and Primetime, Brooklyn. She is part of the upcoming TBW Book Series 3.

For more images of Stocki's work, please click here, and scroll down.

'Downtown Owl'

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Mike Bayne, Downtown Owl, 16”x24”, oil on panel, 2010

Works by Mike Bayne acquired by the AGO

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Mike Bayne, Untitled, from the series God, Shelter, Oil Paintings and Hockey, dimensions variable, oil on panel, 2010

Toronto's AGO announces acquisitions

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Toronto's AGO announces acquisitions

Last Updated: Friday, October 29, 2010 | 3:46 PM ET

CBC News

Montreal artist Adad Hannah's Dinner Date (2007 to 2010) is a video recording of a tableau vivant. (Adad Hannah/Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain)

The Art Gallery of Ontario has bought works by Montreal's Adad Hannah and Vancouver's Ron Terada at the Art Toronto 2010 show of contemporary art.

AGO curator David Moos announced the purchase of 10 works by four Canadian artists on Friday. They are:

Four works from Gold, Shelter, Oil Paintings and Hockey by Kingston, Ont., artist Mike Bayne.
Four video-recorded tableaux vivants of models by Adad Hannah of Montreal.
Ennui Blanc, a neon sign by An Te Liu of Toronto.
Jack, an acrylic-on-canvas painting incorporating text from the memoirs of painter Jack Goldstein, by Ron Terada of Vancouver.

Mike Bayne's Untitled from the 2010 series God, Shelter, Oil Paintings and Hockey is an oil on panel. (Mike Bayne/Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects)

Hannah has been a finalist for the Sobey Art Awards and won a Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for mid-career artists. He creates elaborate tableaux with models and then records video images.

Bayne has drawn wide acclaim for his small-scale photorealistic oil paintings.

The AGO said the money for the acquisitions came from funds raised at the annual Arts Toronto event.

Upcoming Exhibition-Elaine Stocki: Recent Photographs

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Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of recent photographs by Elaine Stocki.

November 25 to December 19, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto.

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1082 Queen Street West, Toronto

Wednesday - Saturday 12-6 PM

Sunday 1-5 PM

Or by appointment

Upcoming Exhibition-Dennis Ekstedt: Whatever Shines Should be Observed

2010-10-21T10:01:00.000-07:00

November 25 to December 19, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, opening Thursday, November 25, 6-9 PM.

Artist's Statement:

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1086 Queen Street West, Toronto

Wednesday - Saturday 12-6 PM

Sunday 1-5 PM

Or by appointment

416 993 6510

info@katharinemulherin.com

Upcoming Exhibition-Mike Bayne: "Oil Paintings by Robert Ayre"

2010-10-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Mike Bayne.

October 7 - 23, 2010 at Mulherin Pollard Projects, New York
Opening Thursday, October 7, 6 - 9 PM

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October 29 - November 21, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
Opening Friday, October 29, 7 - 11 PM

An Artist's Statement by Mike Bayne

on the exhibition Oil Paintings by Robert Ayre

I started out thinking I would write an artist's statement about the difference between mechanical and abstract thought. Then I thought I would write something, a comment, on Werner Herzog's idea that his movies are a metaphor for something but he doesn't know what. Then I moved on to something about identity, cultural or artistic or national, and I thought I would tie that in with an age of economic uncertainty and possible collapse. That seemed too broad for two hundred and fifty words though – the acceptable length according to artist statement conventions (I looked it up on Wikipedia – it's supposed to be a manifesto of sorts too) – so I decided to focus on identity transformations. I was going to write about forming the belief, as a group, that we aren't what we thought we were and tie that in with the title of the show (the name of another artist that I know very little about). Then I thought about something to do with work and how artists are one of the last professions to be paid according to their productivity in contrast to most other jobs, from lawyers to plumbers, who are paid a wage. I thought this would be a good jumping off point to talk about work more generally and high-end manufacturing. Another idea was to write about the history of banality in painting from Canaletto to Courbet and Manet and onto Morandi. I also wanted to talk about Jeff Wall versus Berndt and Hilla Becher and my preference for documentary or journalistic photography.

All of that is to say that I didn't have a specific focus or clear stream of thought while painting these works. But it's probably appropriate insomuch that it's representative of my support for uncertainty, doubt and the acceptance of ignorance. And hopefully provides some insight into what I was thinking, at times, while painting … and is more interesting than saying, 'I don't know'.

Mulherin Pollard Projects
317 10th Avenue (between 28th and 29th)
New York NY
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6 PM

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
1086 Queen Street West
Toronto ON
Wednesday - Friday 11-6 PM
Saturday 12-6 PM, Sunday 1-5 PM

416 993 6510
info@katharinemulherin.com

Eliza Griffiths: New works on obsessive themes-visual fictions and distiled theatre

2010-10-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present New works on obsessive themes – visual fictions and distilled theatre, an exhibition of new paintings by Eliza Griffiths.

October 2 to 24, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, opening Saturday, October 2, 4-7 PM.

Exhibition Statement

Visual fictions and distilled theatre represents a selection of recent paintings and drawings developed as ideas towards a large-scale cycle of paintings, drawings and installation work. Using imagery from film, literature and popular culture as a point of departure, Griffiths' most recent character-driven visual fictions set up a distilled and suspended theatre of the absurd. Locked into a perpetual state of suspension these `action spaces' reflect on questions of personal and social identity, and the search for meaningful experience and connection in the everyday.

Biography

Eliza Griffiths is a Canadian artist whose practice is centered on an exploration of psychological, sexual, and interpersonal themes through the creation of invented characters in painting. Born in London, England, Griffiths immigrated to Ottawa, Canada at the age of eight. She studied Studio Art at Concordia University and did graduate studies in Art History at Carleton University. Griffiths' paintings have been widely exhibited throughout Canada and internationally, including exhibitions at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre (Buffalo); Mercer Union (Toronto); the Saidye Bronfman Center (Montreal); Platform Gallery, (London, UK); The Painting Center (NY,NY); and ARCO, (Madrid, Spain). Her work has been featured in publications such as NYArts Magazine; Canadian Art; Border Crossings; C-Magazine; ARCO Madrid, and has been extensively collected both privately and publicly. Griffiths lives in Montreal and teaches at Concordia University.

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1086 Queen Street West, Toronto

Wednesday - Saturday 12-6 PM

Sunday 1-5 PM

Or by appointment

Clint Griffin: Saturn Saves

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Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present Saturn Saves, featuring mixed media works by Clint Griffin.

October 2 to 24, 2010 at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, opening Saturday, October 2, 4-7 PM.

Toronto-based artist Clint Griffin uses found materials to produce collage, drawing, painting, and photo-based works. Constructing personal narratives that express ongoing struggles with daily life, his themes deal with man versus nature, and man versus himself.

Griffin is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design. He has been making art since leaving high school in 1993.

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1086 Queen Street West, Toronto

Wednesday - Saturday 12-6 PM

Sunday 1-5 PM

Or by appointment

Michael Harrington

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MICHAEL HARRINGTON @ KMCAP
September 9-26 2010

Wednesday to Friday, 11-6 PM

Saturday 12-6 PM, Sunday, 1-5 PM

or by appointment

We are pleased to present Michael Harrington's latest body of work at our 1086 Queen Street West, TORONTO gallery.

Michael Harrington graduated from Toronto's Ontario College of Art and Design in 1989. Until 1997 he painted at night while in the daytime he worked at his father's human resources company in Ottawa. The day job honed his observation skills and provided insights into the working world, and his night drives supplied the moody settings for his paintings. More recently, family vacations to sun-filled American towns have added some bright notes to his palette.

While all the world is a stage for Harrington, he leaves out much of the information needed to piece together a coherent story. The inscrutable activities of his figures thwart viewers' prejudices and interpretations. Since 1998 Harrington has been painting full time, still mostly at night. He has exhibited regularly in solo shows at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (Toronto), Galerie St-Laurent+Hill (Ottawa), Galerie de Bellefeuille (Montreal), and Miller Block Gallery (Boston, Massachusetts).

Harrington has exhibited in public venues such as the Carleton University Art Gallery (2000), the Ottawa Art Gallery (2003-2004, and 2009), Galerie Saw Gallery (2007), and the Glenbow Museum (2007). His paintings are featured in the collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Canada Council Art Bank as well as numerous corporate and private collections.

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HERE, THERE and NOWHERE @ KMCAP
August 19-29 2010

Reception: Wednesday, August 18, 7 – 10 pm

Here, There and Nowhere presents the work of Stephen Lavigne, Derek Liddington, Jennie Suddick and Cole Swanson, whose recent projects exploit the underdeterminedness of historical events, unlocking the potential of their associations through drawing, sculpture and painting. By investigating anecdotal proximities and their propositional histories, these artists offer a window into the here, now and nowhere of the popular and cult.

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BESIDE THE MIDNIGHT LAKE @ KMCAP
ANNIE MACDONELL

July 15-August 8 2010

We are pleased to present Beside the midnight lake, an exhibition by Annie MacDonell, at our 1082 Queen Street West gallery in Toronto.

Working with film, photography, sculpture and installation, Annie MacDonell adopts and reanimates exhausted matter in the belief that its exhaustion generates an enhanced significance 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 shifting 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 twentieth century pop Occultism.

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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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Dean's Cateen

2010-06-25T14:18:00.000-07:00

On Thursday, June 17, 2010, the Canadian Art New Contemporaries, a patron group for professionals under 40, enjoyed an intriguing event in an alleyway near the corner of College and Dovercourt streets in Toronto, where artist Dean Baldwin had set up Dean’s Canteen, a participatory art experience, in a rented garage.

Click here to read the full story on the Canadian Art Foundation website.

2010-05-11T03:53:00.000-07:00

Dean Baldwin win's Toronto Friends of Visual Arts' Artist Prize! Go Dean!

Press Release May 4, 2010

Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts are pleased to announce their award recipients for 2010. The TFVA has given over $ 265,000 (since 2001) to artists, projects, scholarships and in recognition of significant achievement in the visual arts. www.tfva.ca

Artist Prize----- $10,000 to DEAN BALDWIN
Dean Baldwin, works in many media: performance, sculpture, photography, video and film. He makes narrative art work out of everyday experiences such as eating, drinking, paddling a canoe, taking a shower, and sleeping. Art and life coalesce. The formal qualities of his sculpture are symbols of social interaction by means of objects, buildings, bars, steamer trunks and reconstructed bottles.

Artist Prize runner up----- $2,000 to Sara Graham
Sara Graham's development in her work over the last few years has centred on explorations of geographic fictions that involves the investigation of city systems and networks.

Artist Prize runner up----- $2,000 to Daniel Young and Christian Giroux
Young and Giroux have been working together for almost 10 years.They are sculptors addressing public and social issues that connect with the built environment. All their works are based on available forms and structures and bring us likely shapes in unlikely spaces.

Achievement Award---- $10,000 to PAUL DUVAL
Paul Duval is the author of over 20 books on Canadian art, an art critic for the Toronto Telegram(1957-1965), art editor of Saturday Night magazine (1944-1965), a founding member of the Canadian Arts Council and author of a number of catalogues for exhibitions. His constant encouragement of emerging artists, helping to write applications for grants and actual support of many artists epitomizes the spirit of this award.

Project Support---- $15,000 to PRINTOPOLIS
Printopolis is a four-day symposium (with a follow up publication), with an international focus on contemporary printmaking being presented by Open Studio in Toronto, from Oct.21-24, 2010. Printopolis will feature issue-based panel discussions/presentations, artists talks and printmaking demonstrations. The city-wide event will feature exhibitions highlighting contemporary print media works on display throughout Toronto.( www.openstudio.on.ca/printopolos.html )

Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Trust Fund---- $1,400 to the Textile Museum of Canada for a special purchase.

2010-05-11T03:48:00.000-07:00

Balint Zsako has almost completed this amazing mural at the Drake Hotel's Skyyard. It'll be up for at least a year, so you'll have plenty of chances to visit! We have beautiful watercolours by Balint in the gallery.

2010-05-11T03:35:00.000-07:00

Rob MacInnis

Prince Edward Island

May 13-June 6, 2010

Reception with artist: Thursday, May 13th, 6-9pm

We're pleased to present Rob MacInnis' latest work, entitled Prince Edward Island. A panoramic photograph constructed from hundreds of photographs taken in September 2007, the piece represents a community of working class farm animals on Prince Edward Island.

Much like the panoramic photographs of the past, the work presents a cross section of society at a certain time and place, while overcoming the constraints of the traditional frame in order to literally widen Photography's scope. As the most recent addition to MacInnis' Farm Family Project, "Prince Edward Island" is his most ambitious construction to date.

Blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy, past and present, the work asks the viewer to reconsider the role played by these animals, as well as the historical significance of the panorama. While resurrecting an older form of photography, MacInnis creates a memento of the soon to be forgotten.

Rob MacInnis' work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Nimoy Family Foundation; Citibank and the Canadian Association of University Teachers. He recently received grants from Arts New Brunswick and a Public Art Commission from the Edmonton Arts Council.

The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, The Edmonton Arts Council, ArtsNB, the Koberinski/Babineau family, Jess Cooper, and Matthew Clowney for making this project possible.

2010-04-14T23:53:00.000-07:00

Rob Hengeveld

Greener Shade of Green

April 15-25th, 2010

RECEPTION with artist: Thursday, April 15, 6-9pm

GREENER SHADE OF GREEN

We're pleased to present A GREENER SHADE OF GREEN, an exhibition of new works by Toronto artist Robert Hengeveld.

The exhibition debuts Hengeveld's latest kinetic undertaking kentucky perfect, a project which has been in the making for a little over a year. Art or just bad science, the work incorporates an excessive level of technology in order to create and maintain an ideal specimen of grass; a lawn in its Plutonic form.

The work is accompanied by several other works pulled off the curious shelf of the fantastical, including an amped-up-mock-rock which mysteriously hovers above an illuminated pillow of air.

Rolls of sod are laid end to end along a narrow aluminum structure. A wheeled light assembly continually moves across the grass as if scanning it, this is occasionally interrupted by the rapid entrance of a reel mower that cuts back any growth of the last twenty minutes. The lights again return to its methodical sweeping. Periodically, a watering-boom also enters the stage misting the grass according to the atmospheric conditions.

The project incorporates an intentionally overstated measure of technology to explore the very role that technology plays in the culture in which we live. More specifically, the work – in its fantastical amplification of the technology's use in the everyday - examines how this technology (communications, chemical, genetic) is used to control the environments we inhabit; as a means of making things more convenient, more comfortable, more aesthetic.

It reflects the reality of our culture's interest in controlling and shaping the natural environments around us, and in this work the creation and maintaining of the ideal lawn. The absurdity through which this is obtained contrasts the reality of our culture, but only in the margin of its additional efforts. The excessiveness nature of the work reframes the reality outside of it, creating a moment in which the familiar is thrown into question and is seen again.

In addition to kentucky perfect, Hengeveld will present AMPED|UP|MOCK|ROCK: a hollow synthetic rock has been given a value added makeover. The work strikes an uneasy balance between striving to appear natural and rejecting it all together. While its shape and finish are indeed quite 'real', the boulder mysteriously hovers slightly above the ground and silently rotates at a barely perceivable rate. An aura of bright light bleeds out from beneath the rock. The work finds its place somewhere between the natural and the supernatural.

Dean Baldwin, "The Dork Porch" at the Art Gallery of Ontario, March 27 - May 23, 2010

2010-03-23T11:21:00.000-07:00

Opening and Cocktails

Friday March 26, 2010, 6:00-8:30pm

Art Gallery of Ontario – Young Gallery

317 Dundas Street West

Dean Baldwin has transformed the street-front Young Gallery at the AGO into a fanciful yet functional interpretation of a backyard deck, which he calls The Dork Porch. His installation is constructed from building materials, vintage finds, found objects and edible items. Visitors can view The Dork Porch from its exterior, or following the opening launch, they can book one of its tables and become part of the artwork while they enjoy a meal (call FRANK Restaurant 416 979 6688). Every two months, a new artist will be featured allowing visitors to see a changing schedule of new exhibitions free of charge. The Young Gallery is accessible through FRANK Restaurant.

Titled Toronto Now, this rotating series of exhibitions will feature a different local artist every two months, giving Torontonians the opportunity to view the wealth of artistic talent in their city. The series will inhabit the Young Gallery, a free, street-level space adjacent to Frank restaurant, facing Dundas Street.

The series will focus on local practitioners, either Toronto-born or based, with guest appearances by artists with a special connection to the city.
The local focus of Toronto Now ties into AGO Executive Chef Anne Yarymowich's ongoing commitment to feature local, seasonally-inspired foods, and Dean Baldwin is taking full advantage of this synergy by inviting visitors to dine inside his installation, which will carry Frank's menu and be staffed by its servers.
"Toronto Now aims to showcase the broad and diverse artistic talent that our city has on offer," says Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO's director and CEO. "As the AGO's only street-front, free space, the Young Gallery is distinctly visible and accessible, making it the ideal space for this series, and emphasizing the vital connection between the AGO and its city."
"Dean Baldwin's well-known whimsy and sense of play, combined with his ongoing artistic focus on food and drink, make him the ideal artist to launch Toronto Now," says Michelle Jacques, the AGO's associate curator of contemporary art. "The Dork Porchchallenges the viewers expectations of both the fine-dining and art museum experiences, reflecting Baldwin's considerations of art, audience, and consumption.
Yarymowich says that she is "thrilled" about Baldwin's choice to incorporate Frank into his installation: "Frank was always envisioned as a place where art, food, and talk intersect; and local food and wine take centre stage. Toronto Now is the perfect complement to our vision."

The artists featured in Toronto Now will be in impressive company situated next to Frank; the restaurant already features paintings by Canadian artists Lawren Harris, Joyce Weiland, and Paterson Ewen, as well as a large-scale sculpture by American artist Frank Stella, which hangs from a skylight above the restaurant and down into caféAGObelow .

The Dork Porch will be on display in the Young Gallery until May 23. Toronto Now will be open during Frank's regular hours. For more information or to make a reservation, visitors can contact Frank by phone at 416-979-6688 or online at www.ago.net/frank.

Toronto Now is generously supported by The Contemporary Circle. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported the Canada Council for the Arts.
ABOUT THE AGO
With a permanent collection of more than 79,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is among the most distinguished art museums in North America. In 2008, with a stunning new design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the AGO opened its doors to the public amid international acclaim. Highlights include Galleria Italia, a gleaming showcase made of wood and glass running the length of an entire city block along the Gallery's façade; and the feature staircase, spiraling up through the roof of Walker Court and into the new contemporary galleries above. From the extensive Group of Seven collection to the dramatic new African art gallery; from the cutting-edge works in the Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art to Peter Paul Rubens' masterpiece The Massacre of The Innocents, a highlight of the celebrated Thomson Collection, there is truly something for everyone at the AGO.

2010-03-23T11:19:00.000-07:00

Well, we're back from New York with great news. We sold out our Oscar de Las Flores booth in the first couple of hours at the VOLTA fair! Very exciting!

2010-02-28T06:55:00.000-08:00

OSCAR de LAS FLORES at THE VOLTA SHOW

NEW YORK

We'll be at Booth A6.

Thursday, March 4th - Sunday, March 7th, 2010

7 West 34th Street

betw. 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.

Previews

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Guest of Honor: 11 am - 12 pm

(accessible by invitation from VOLTA or with The Armory Show VIP card)

VIP: 12 pm - 2 pm

Public Hours Daily

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 2 pm - 8 pm

Friday 5th - Sunday 7th, March, 2010 11 am - 7 pm

Tyler Clark Burke in Superviscous

2010-02-14T13:21:00.000-08:00

The OCAD Professional Gallery is putting on a show called Superviscous: Works in Glass where Tyler will be showing pieces from the Shimera body of work. These pieces are incredibly beautiful and are accompanied by a haunting original soundtrack composed by Gonzales. If you haven't seen these pieces before (and even if you have) take the time to go down and see them! The show goes from February 19 - to May 28, 2010 so write it in your planner!!

More info on the show here.

Night Gallery

2010-02-14T13:18:00.000-08:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects artist and super-helpful friend of KMLA, Davida Nemeroff has opened a new gallery in L.A. called Night Gallery. Her first show Private Life opens on February 20th and features the work of Paul Heyer, Mira Dancy and Anna Rosen.

Find out more abt the gallery here!

Kris Knight and Balint Zsako in Magenta Magazine.

2010-02-14T13:00:00.000-08:00

Magenta Magazine is featuring a few articles on Canadian artists who are storming the American Art scene. This includes Balint Zsako's current solo show at KMLA. Read the review here.

Magenta is also featuring an entire portfolio of work by Kris Knight! Including a great write-up about his paintings as well. See that here!

Alexandra Flood in Vancouver Cultural Olympiad

2010-02-14T12:31:00.000-08:00

Alexandra Flood is participating in a show called Monster in West Vancouver. The Globe and Mail has included it on their limited list of what to do while in Vancouver this Olympic season. Read the whole article here, but it's February 23 that's got the gold!

Tyler Clark Burke in Faxes

2010-02-14T12:12:00.000-08:00

Tyler is also participating in the Faxes show at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg from December 12 to February 21, 2010.

"FAX brings together a multigenerational group of artists, curators, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Faxes by nearly 100 artists sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center in New York will form the core of the exhibition, including seminal examples of early telecommunications art. Additionally, Plug In is inviting twenty artists to submit works, which will be presented at all successive venues. These works may be transmitted to Plug In’s working fax line throughout the duration of the exhibition."

For more information about the show click here.

Balint! Balint! Balint!

2010-02-14T11:44:00.000-08:00

Lots of updates on what Balint Zsako has been up to!

There is a review in Border Crossings magazine of his exhibition in Berlin that you can read here.

The Museum of Old and New Art in Melbourne has installed a billboard of a Balint Zsako work outside of the building! IT LOOKS AMAZING! See it here! And check out the museum here.

Balint is also part of the Diabolique show at Galerie de l'UQAM in Montreal from January 15 - February 13, 2010. Also featured in this show are Jake and Dinos Chapman, Douglas Coupland, Raymond Pettibone, Shirin Neshat and the list goes on and on! It's a STACKED line up of artists!! Find out more information about the gallery and the show here.

Balint also has work in the Faxes exhibition at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg until February 21, 2010. Faxes receives faxed in works by artists, filmmakers, designers, architects, etc. through out the duration of the show to result in an ongoing cumulative project. Find out more about this show here.

And last but not least! Zsako's show at Pierre Francois Ouellette was reviewed in Le Devoir and the newest issue of Harpers will have one of his drawings in it!

WOW!

Balint Zsako at KMLA

2010-02-14T11:34:00.000-08:00

Balint Zsako's new show Play Dead Look Alive is now on at KMLA. Its a solo show of his incredible drawings and goes from January 30, 2010 - March 7, 2010. So, if you are in L.A. between now and March 7, then you are not only lucky enough to be in a warm, sunny place, but you will also get to see Balint's work! Time to plan a vacation? I think so!

KMLA at Automat is located at:

936 Chung King Road

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Wed-Sun, 12-6pm

info@katharinemulherin.com

Jason Dunda in New American Paintings

2009-11-22T11:27:00.000-08:00

Jason Dunda is featured in the new issue of New American Paintings. New American Paintings is a juried art exhibition in print and from thousands of applicants every year only a select few artists are chosen. NAP works with renowned curators to make their choices and includes every genre of painting. Go and pick up a copy to see Jason's great work!

Eliza Griffiths

2009-11-22T10:59:00.000-08:00

Eliza Griffths has a few really interesting things going on around Ontario and Montreal currently that should not be overlooked! From November 7 - January 3 2010 her paintings are a part of a group show called Young Romance at the Cambridge galleries in Cambridge ON. This show "is a look at dating and romance through the skewed lens of out self-image obsessed culture".

Eliza also has her series Action Paintings showing at the McClure Gallery in Montreal from November 6 - 28, and will be giving an artist talk on Thursday November 19, at 7pm.

If you're in either province you should make sure you see one of these two shows! Or better yet, go see both!

Micheal Caines - EdgyCute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again

2009-10-01T13:15:00.000-07:00

Michael Caines has some artist pages in a book that is being launched as part of the EdgyCute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again festival in Brooklyn, NY this weekend October 3, 2009. Michael himself will be there so if you are in the New York area this weekend then head over to Bushwick and say hi and check out the festival!

There is more information on the location/times/admission on the facebook event page here.

Balint Zsako at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

2009-09-17T10:06:00.000-07:00

Balint Zsako's new show entitled Old Master Paintings is opening tomorrow at 1082 Queen St. West from 6-9pm. This show is a collection of incredibly beautiful and intricate collage works pieced together from old Sotheby's and Christie's catalogues .
"These works attempt to be as seamless in perspective and traditional composition as manually possible. The collages resemble reproductions of paintings that could have been painted hundreds of years ago but are undeniably contemporary due to their narrative mix-ups and juxtapositions."
The show is up until October 18th, so make sure you come to the gallery and see it!
Gallery hours are:
Thursday & Friday 12 - 5
Saturday 12 -6
Sunday 1 -5

For more of Balint's work click here.

Dean Baldwin at Royal Bank Plaza

2009-09-17T09:51:00.000-07:00

Dean Baldwin is currently showing large scale photographic work entitled Fattening Frogs for Snakes at the Royal Bank Plaza at 200 Bay Street, on the concourse level in Toronto.
"Fattening Frogs for Snakes presents itself as a classic “old Dutch master” still-life, illustrating the aftermath of decadence. The visions of excess seem celebratory at first, but this is a cautionary tale – with the devil in the details. The party is over, the revelers are gone and what remains is beginning to rot."*
For more of the write up from the curators No.9 Projects, visit their website.
For more of Dean's work go here.

*Pic and quote from No.9 Projects website

Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline at Deitch Studios

2009-09-17T09:28:00.000-07:00

Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline is showing five paintings as a part of a group show at Deitch Studios in Long Island city. This show has already garnered some positive attention from The Huffington Post, specifically about Krisjanis' work! The show on from September 10 - October 25, so if you are in the area definitely go and see this show!

More information on the show here.
Read the Huffington post article here.
See more of Krisjanis' work here.

Shauna Born POSES

2009-08-20T10:46:00.000-07:00

Shauna Born's exhibition Poses is now showing at 1082 Queen St. West. This show is full of beautiful and interesting new works! Poses will only be up until September 13th 2009 so be sure to come by 1082 and take a look!

See more of Shauna's work here.

Holly Farrell TOAE

2009-07-09T12:17:00.000-07:00

So the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is this weekend and Holly Farrell has some work available at the Merchandise Booth as a contribution to a fundraiser for the TOAE. Its ridiculously cheap and if Holly's work is any indication, also ridiculously good. It is however first come first serve, so go early!!

Michael Caines' New Web Site

2009-07-09T11:19:00.000-07:00

Michael Caines has also launched a new website! See the site here.

Davida Nemeroff New Site!

2009-06-25T12:16:00.000-07:00

Davida Nemeroff has launched a new website and it looks great! There is a lot of really interesting work to look at. Go and check it out here.

Dana Holst at Latitude 53

2009-06-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

From June 5th - July 11 Dana Holst's show Prey will be on at Latitude 53 in Edmonton.

"Prey examines from a psychological perspective the human/animal instinct to stalk and kill

weaker beings -- sometimes for survival, sometimes for fun.

In her delicate silverpoint drawings and oil paintings Dana Holst tinkers and toys with reality,

creating images of smug little girls in frilly dance costumes posing with hunted wild animals –

usurping the traditional territory of the adult male hunter and shedding an eerie light upon the

trophy kill.

Fairytale darkness, surreal charm and wry wit all abound in Prey, commenting on human

ignorance and our oblivious desire for fun."*

For more of Dana's work click here.

And for more information on the show click here.

*Taken from Latitude 53 Press release for Prey

Kris Knight featured in PREF Magazine No. 32

2009-06-06T14:46:00.000-07:00

The dreamy and provocative work of Toronto-based artist Kris Knight was recently featured in the French Magazine PREF.

Mike Bayne featured and reviewed in the new issue of BorderCrossings Magazine

2009-06-06T10:11:00.000-07:00

Explore the exquisite paintings of artist Mike Bayne, featured and reviewed in the new issue of BorderCrossings (Art Pages 77 - 79 and Borderviews Page 18).

Congratulations Lisa Neighbour on your MFA!

2009-05-31T10:43:00.000-07:00

Lisa has just graduated from York University with her MFA and held her show at our Board of Directors Gallery at 1080 Queen St. West. Your new work looks great Lisa! Congratulations!!

See more of Lisa's work here and here.

Congratulations Michael Caines on your MFA!

2009-05-21T15:24:00.000-07:00

We would like to congratulate Michael Caines on completing his Masters of Fine Art at Parsons in New York!! Many of you will be familiar with Michael's work, his most recent show being just this past winter at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. Michael works both in painting and drawing and above are the images of his thesis project titled Associative Disorder. This is a triptych, each panel being 24" x 36" done in oil, casein and flashe on panel.
Congratulations again Michael! We are really thrilled to see this new and exciting work!

Seth Scriver T-Shirts!

2009-05-21T15:13:00.000-07:00

We are happy to be able to tell you that we have added a great new Seth Scriver t-shirt to our collection. This Yin-YANG shirt was a special design by Seth for the NEXT art fair in Chicago, but you are now able to get it at the gallery in Toronto! T-shirts are $30.00 and come in every size. We also have them available in both grey and white.
Come down to 1082 Queen St. W and pick one up!

Painting of Katharine by Tyler Benedict

2009-05-21T15:09:00.001-07:00

Artist Tyler Benedict has done a great painting of Katharine. For more information on this piece send us an email.

John Dickson-Two Cities at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington

2009-05-13T00:47:00.000-07:00

John Dixon would like to invite you to an exhibition opening May 24th in Bowmanville, just east of Oshawa. It includes work spanning from 1994 to the present ... a mini retrospective ... or perhaps John Dickson's Greatest Hits. Wow, who'd want to miss that?

Oscar De Las Flores

2009-05-12T13:06:00.000-07:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present Oscar Camilo De Las Flores: Lautréamont's Bastard. This exhibition will showcase new drawings, never shown before in Toronto. Opening on the 15th of May from 6pm-9pm, the show will be running from May 15 until June 14, 2009.

Come down to 1082 Queen St. West to see the show, and better yet come on opening night. Everyone welcome!

Ray Fenwick & Sto at Board of Directors

2009-05-12T12:26:00.000-07:00

Board of Directors is pleased to present Ray Fenwick: Library I, and Sto: Joy of Life. This exhibition will showcase new sculptures and book works. The show will be running from May 13 until May 30, 2009 and opening on the 13th of May from 6pm-9pm.

Be sure to come down to 1086 Queen St. West to see the show; better yet come on opening night and meet the artists themselves.

Tom Pnini - Predicting the Weather

2009-04-16T15:08:00.000-07:00

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present Tom Pnini - Predicting the Weather. This exhibition will showcase new video and sculpture work centering around themes of illusion and artifice by the New York based artist. The show will be running from April 24 until May 10, 2009 and opening on the 24 of April from 6pm-9pm.

Be sure to come down to 1082 Queen st. West to see the show, and better yet come on opening night and meet the artist himself.

For more information on the show go here.

To see more of Pnini's work go here.

NEXT Art Fair Chicago

2009-04-09T14:28:00.000-07:00

Katharine will be participating in the Next art fair in Chicago from May 1-4, 2009. Next is an invitational exhibition of emerging art that features works from commercial and non-commercial galleries, project spaces, publications etc. We will have two booths at Next, one booth in the main section of the fair where we will be featuring the work of Oscar De Las Flores and as well as our other gallery artists, and another booth in the Goffo section of the fair. Goffo is a special section that focuses on artist multiples, books, prints and hand-made objects. At this booth we will be featuring the work of Seth Scriver! There will be a lot of objects and multiples to pick up there as well as a new special edition T-Shirt that we are printing for the fair. If you are in Chicago this is definitely a show to come and see!

For more information about Next click here.

See more of Oscar's work here.

See more of Seth's work here.

Murray Whyte's blog mention of Mike Bayne show

2009-04-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

See what Murray and others have to say:

Untitled: Contemporary art in Toronto and beyond

Jason Dunda will participate in residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts

2009-04-06T05:54:00.000-07:00

Will Cotton, Alpine Ruin, 2008, oil on linen, 60 x 84 inches

Jason Dunda, The Tower, 2008 gouache on paper, 88 x 55 inches

Jason Dunda has been selected for a residency from May 18 to June 7, 2009 at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. This residency is designed and led by painter Will Cotton, who recently had an exhibition of new paintings at Mary Boone Gallery. The Atlantic Center for the Arts is an interdisciplinary artists' community that offers its residents an opportunity to work and collaborate with the world's most distinguished contemporary artists.

More information here:

Atlantic Center for the Arts - Artists-in-Residence Community

Erin and Katharine collaborate on a quilt pattern at The Drake

2009-04-03T10:41:00.000-07:00

MUCH TO OUR DELIGHT, WE'RE STILL CONSIDERED ARTISTS!

Appetite For Construction

February 2 - April 19, 2009

http://www.thedrakehotel.ca/culture/art

Murder Folk Night at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

2009-04-02T15:48:00.000-07:00

We are now hosting Ryan Kamstra's Murder Folk Night at our 1082 Queen St. West location on the last Monday of every month. This murder-themed sing-along night brings Ryan Kamstra together with special guest musicians and you for a really fun evening of music, singing , refreshments and community. So come down, bring your voice, instruments and friends and belt out a few old-time murder tunes with us. Think of it as a much less expensive version of group therapy where you can work out your issues in song, not blood...

See you there!

Murder Folk Night posters made by hand by Heather Goodchild with help from Katharine Mulherin are also available for only $5 at the event as well as daily at the gallery - these are a great souvenir of a very fun event! Pictures above show us (well, mostly Heather) screenprinting the posters in Heather's kitchen!

Davida Nemeroff in the Hart House Review

2009-04-02T11:26:00.000-07:00

Photographer Davida Nemeroff's work will be featured in the art exhibition Dream Baby Dream, as a part of the launch of the 2009 issue of the Hart House Review. This annual Review is published by the Hart House Literary and Library Committee. The launch is Tuesday April 14 at 7 Hart House circle on the 2nd floor on the U of T Campus starting around 7:30.

See more of Davida's work here.

Mike Bayne in Eye Weekly

2009-04-02T11:11:00.000-07:00

This week's issue of Eye Weekly has a great review of the Mike Bayne show on now at the gallery. Pick up a copy of the magazine anywhere in the city or read the article online here. And if you haven't seen the show yet then come down to 1082 Queen st. West and see it before it comes down on Sunday April 19 because "you won't see a better one this year" - Eye Weekly

See more of Mike's work here.

Dean Baldwin "Attempt at An Inventory" at Centre Vu, Quebec City

2009-03-28T12:43:00.000-07:00

Dean Baldwin's exhibition "Attempt At An Inventory" opened last night at Centre Vu in Quebec City to a big crowd and great reception! The exhibition runs from March 27 to April 26. Everyday.

550, cote d'Abraham, QC

phone:418.640.2585

Mike Bayne in Nerman Museum Collection

2009-03-26T14:10:00.000-07:00

Mike Bayne's painting "219" is now in the collection of the Nerman Museum in Kansas City. His show: Days Road, February 2008 is up at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects at 1082 Queen St. West until April 18. Mike's work has garnered a lot of attention recently at the Volta show in New York and consequently most of this show has sold .

See more of Mike's work here.