Akin's Winter Art Crawl

Akin's Winter Art Crawl | January 18th, 1-4PM, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street | PWYC (suggested $10 donation): http://tiny.cc/tnq1gz

Akin Projects invites you to join us for special tours conversations during the 2019 edition of DesignTO in the Queen West area - an Akin Art Crawl focused on local design in alternative spaces!

Come along as artists, curators and staff provide special walkthroughs and tours of their special festival exhibits and projects.

Crawl Schedule
1:00PM - Visit Artscape Youngplace for ‘Can’t Say Nothing (Lorem Ipsum, Moving Patterns)’

1:30PM - Visit Artscape Youngplace for 'Dying.exhibits'

2:00PM - Visit 55 Ossington Avenue for ‘Daydream Under the Penny Vine’

2:30PM - Visit 1010 Queen Street West for ‘(AI) – Aesthete’s Items’

3:15PM - Visit Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue (BAND) 19 Brock Avenue for ‘Akwaaba | Welcome Home.’

4:00PM - End the crawl at the Gladstone Hotel for ‘Come Up to My Room’

PWYC (suggested $10 donation), but please register at: link coming soon!

All are welcome, open to the public. The more the merrier!

Any attendees who wish to explore ‘Come Up to My Room’ at the Gladstone Hotel at the end of the crawl must purchase a special discounted ticket here http://tiny.cc/g09vgz. Please be advised that not all areas of the building are open to the public.

Please let us know of any other accessibility needs so that we can do our best to assist you. Please email janet@akincollective.com at least one week before the event and we will do our best to accommodate. Thank you!

Double Vision II: Clara Hirsch and Jake Hirsch-Allen

September 12-22

2nd floor gallery

Opening reception: September 12, 7-10pm, everyone welcome!

Double Vision II is the continuation of a mother-son collaboration, first shown in Madrid in 2016. It brings together Akin Alum Clara Hirsch’s painted images and the photographs of Jake Hirsch-Allen. Double Vision II portrays the tension between urban space and the natural environment. The series illustrates Clara’s conflicted perspective: on the one hand, a delight in architecture, culture and the vitality of urban life; and on the other, her love of nature and organic forms. This series also includes four of Jake’s stand-alone photographs.

Image via: clarahirsch.com

Call for submissions: the Gladstone Hotel's Grow Op 2019

Be a part of the Gladstone Hotel's Grow Op 2019! Celebrating its seventh year in April 2019, Grow Op is an exhibition of urbanism, landscape design and contemporary art that cultivates ideas across a broad range of disciplines.

This year's theme is ENERGY! Clean energy, dirty energy, social energy, positive energy, negative energy, climate energy, embodied energy, resilient energy. Do we hoard, waste, commodify and burn it? Or do we store, reuse and renew it? Let's explore how humans and other species live within and without natural systems of energy, change, abundance, scarcity, decay and life.

The Gladstone invites a diversity of proposals from collaborative teams, collectives and individuals that engage with landscape, species and habitat through installation, sculpture, performance, digital media and more to create a provocative experiential exhibition.

Image courtesy of Hannah Rothschild (@rothschild_hannah)

Come Up to my Room at the Gladstone featuring artists An Dy and Kendra Yee of Akin Dupont

Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) is the Gladstone Hotel’s annual 4-day alternative design exhibition happening this year on January 18-21. There will be art, design, installations and events happening in all areas of the hotel curated by Jana Macalik and Christophe Jivraj with Lukus Toane featuring dozens of artists including An Dy and Kendra Yee of Akin Dupont.

Each year CUTMR provides artists and designers the opportunity to take risks, to push their ideas, to evoke meaning not just function. The event was conceived in 2004 as a vehicle for experimentation and interaction within the fields of art and design. Acting as counterpoint to the Interior Design Show and giving rise to the more recent Toronto Design Offsite Festival, CUTMR has since become a cornerstone of the Toronto alternative design scene.

This year, CUTMR 2018 explores how people interact with art and design. Is it a shared experience mediated by an artist or designer? Or is it an individual response triggered by personal experience? Or is it all of the above? We hope you decide to check out the event and investigate for yourself! Don't forget to to visit the second floor where Akin artist's An Dy and Kendra Yee will be showing work in the north corridor, and in room 214. 

AN DY | 2ND FLOOR NORTH CORRIDOR: 

'These Pixels are TOO sweet' by An Dy

An Dy is putting Pixels on trial, calling on a variety of media to challenge and affirm the way we consume art and media. Imagery will include motifs taken from virtual interfaces such as the adobe suite programs, and contrast them with traditional forms such as the human figure. Allowing for a slower way to interpret these spaces, An Dy's work postures as stand in’s for the stimulation we receive through our screens at a time where we are both consumed by social media and alienated from it. 

An Dy is a Toronto born artist, graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in April 2017 with a BFA. These Pixels are Too Sweet explores the language of painting as a way to reflect the oversaturated experience he had growing up navigating the structures of the digital world.

SISTER CO-RESISTER | ROOM 214:

Sister Co-Resister is Pamila Matharu, Karen Azoulay, Nedda Baba, Yan Wen Chang, Marianne Ibrahim, Zahra Komeylian, Maanii Oakes, Kalpna Patel, and Akin Dupont artist Kendra Yee.

This project is a marker for the absence of intersectional feminisms’ in contemporary visual culture. It sets out to examine the labour around making and holding space - an often-repeated evocation in contemporary artistic and social discourse. In the art historical canon, the feminine has been relegated to interior, domestic spaces for the past two centuries. The social parallel has been to isolate feminist discourse within biological, ethnic, and class-bound markers. While the experiences of institutionalized misogyny and erasure, the women, femmes, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming artists in this installation intersect- profound discontinuities and contentious disagreements abound. The language of solidarity between these intersections is very much a work in progress- with approximate markers holding space for terms that can encompass the vastness of a marginalized existence. The result is a space in permanent flux- containing the messy shards and jagged edges of solidarity in a state of continual evolution. Shattered nerves, furtive pride, salvaged homelands, nostalgia and itinerant spaces of care populate this room. Its inhabitants are late-invited guests, squatters even, at a conversation whose terms have been pre-defined. They speak in languages that have been misappropriated and distorted, vulnerable to misinterpretation and co-optation. Their loud din echoes in passages and labyrinthine hallways, leading to a protected space where their incitements can breathe. 

KENDRA YEE is a Toronto-based artist and designer. She focuses on recreating the speculative world that exists within her head, combining these landscapes with cultural elements discovered throughout local neighbourhoods. 

EXHIBITION HOURS:
THURS, JAN 18: 7-10PM
FRI, JAN 19: 11AM - 10PM
SAT, JAN 20: 11AM - 10PM + Opening Reception 7-10PM
(after 6pm, entry is dependent on capacity - online ticket holders who arrive after this time may not get in if venue is already full)
SUN, JAN 21: 11AM - 5PM

SPECIAL EVENTS:
THURS, JAN 18 | EXHIBITION PREVIEW | 7-10PM
FRI, JAN 19 | STUDENT DAY - $5 STUDENT TICKETS WITH VALID STUDENT ID ONLY
SAT, JAN 20 | OPENING RECEPTION | 7-10PM
SAT, JAN 20 | LOVE DESIGN PARTY | 10PM - LATE
SUN, JAN 21 | TSA IDEAS FORUM | 1-3PM

Grow Op at the Gladtsone Hotel launches this Wednesday featuring new work by Rebecca Jane Houston of Akin Lansdowne

Grow Op at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, celebrates its fifth year in April 2017 as an exhibition of art and design that cultivates ideas across a broad range of disciplines, examining how humans and other species live within and without natural systems of growth, change, abundance, scarcity, decay and life. Grow Op artists employ the tools of art, craft and design to question our conceptions of urban and wild, culture and nature. The show runs April 19 - 23

Featuring an exhibition on the second floor of ceramic cast Kee Klamps, rebar and bricks by Rebecca Jane Houston of Akin Lansdowne.  Rebecca will be available on Wednesday evening and during the day on Thursday to answer questions and discuss her work in person.

Exhibition Hours:
Wed Apr. 19, 7-9pm | Thurs Apr. 20, 11-10pm | Fri Apr. 21, 11-10pm | Sat Apr. 22, 10am-9pm | Sun Apr. 23, 10-5pm

Tickets:
General Admission $10, Student Day $5 (with ID), Family (of 4) $25.

CONTACT 2017 Portfolio Reviews

CONTACT is now accepting submissions from photo-based artists with well-developed projects to participate in the 2017 Portfolio Reviews program.

International curators, directors, publishers, and photo editors are brought together during CONTACT to review work by emerging artists, with a focus on documentary, photojournalism, narrative or photo-based art practices. Those with projects at an advanced stage of development who are seeking opportunities for publishing and exhibiting nationally or internationally, as well as looking for guidance on conceptual approaches or career development advice are encouraged to participate.

The Gladstone Hotel, Sunday, May 7 and Monday, May 8, 2017

Registration closes April 24, 2017. Please note that due to limited space, all submissions will go through a selection process to ensure that a high caliber of work is presented in this program.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE BLACK CAT + THE GLADSTONE

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ATTENTION ARTISTS - WORKING IN ALL MEDIUMS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Black Cat’s 2nd Year Juried Exhibition x The Gladstone Hotel



Exhibition runs from April 16th – April 26th 2015
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 25TH, 2015

April 2015 marks the second anniversary of The Black Cat. During which time we’ve hosted over 65 exhibitions and openings, and had over 7,000 attendees walk through our doors. To mark the occasion we are hosting a juried exhibition on the main floor gallery at The Gladstone Hotel. A space that is over twice the size of our own!

We are looking for your submissions, spanning the diverse community of photographers, painters, sculptors, drawers, printmakers, new media, interactive and all other mediums.

Submission Here:
http://www.theblackcat.to/products/call-for-submissions-gladstone-exhibition

The result will be a curated exhibition that highlights the community surrounding The Black Cat as The Best Contemporary Art Gallery for Emerging Artists in Toronto. All those who have show at the gallery in the past and who are interested in the future will be considered.

The following Jury will review submissions, with specializations in various mediums, and with a diverse background in a variety of creative fields:

Tara-Lynn Bartolini, Agent and Curator, Boondock Agency.
Devan Patel, Curator and Co-Director of Project Gallery.
Daniel Neuhaus, Director of Photography, Toronto Life Magazine.
Kara Lynne Wark, Art Director, JWT Toronto.
Graeme Luey, Graphic Designer & Co-Director/Curator at #Hashtag Gallery

Those selected for the Exhibition, will also be invited to a private dinner party in the space prior to the opening reception.





PLUS: Two artists whose work are reviewed but do not fit the overall curatorial vision of the jury, will also beawarded a one-week show at The Black Cat.





Exhibition runs from April 16th –April 26th.
Opening reception: Thursday, April 16th, 2015, 7:00pm – 11:30pm
Gladstone Hotel - 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 12-7pm, Monday: Closed


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 25 TH, 2015

You may submit a maximum of 5x works, in one submission, for three dimensional work multiple images of one piece may be submitted:

Submission fee: $50 + HST

http://www.theblackcat.to/products/call-for-submissions-gladstone-exhibition


ON THE CHECKOUT PAGE:
Along with a digital submission of each of your piece(s),
Please include the following details as appropriate (not all are mandatory)

1.­ Title, medium, and date of each work submitted.
2. Artist bio, artist statement, description of project, resume or CV
3. Size of the work unframed, or framed and any specific installation criteria.
4. Suggested selling price. There will be a 35% commission on all works sold.

Technical specifications:
1.­ All submissions must be standard­ resolution jpeg files, sized at 72 dpi and a maximum of 2000 pixels in length.
2.­ All files must be named LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_IMAGETITLE.jpg

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/730822627030857/


Any questions regarding submissions, do not hesitate to email: contact@theblackcat.to

TheBlackCat Artspace
www.facebook.com/TheBlackCatTO
twitter/instagram: @theblackcat_to
web: http://theblackcat.to
(416) 388-7263

2186 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON Canada
M6R 1X3

Come Up To My Room 2015 at The Gladstone Hotel : Oliver Pauk & Michael Vickers

Akin members Oliver Pauk and Michael Vickers will be featured in the upcoming Come up To My Room event at The Gladstone Hotel.

See below for a video interview with the two artists about their plans, along with this article about their plans at insidetoronto.com

Come Up To My Room opens this Friday (January 16) at 7:00pm.

For more information and tickets click HERE

Come Up To My Room 2015

Come Up To My Room 2015 featuring new work by Akin Collective members Oliver Pauk and Michael Vickers.

Gladstone Hotel: Call for Submissions

CALL for SUBMISSIONS & NUIT BLANCHE AT THE GLADSTONE

GLADSTONE GROW OP 2015 / culture of landscape
16-26 April, 2015. The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Application Deadline: 5pm on Friday 17 October, 2014

Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a ten day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood.

Grow Op 2015 seeks proposals from across North America ranging from horticultural initiatives to experimental and innovative landscape, art and community engagement projects. We seek proposals from individuals and/or new and existing collectives whose work engages with landscape, place and/or the natural world with the ultimate goal of creating an immersive exhibition that is both provocative and boundary pushing. Grow Op 2015 offers an exciting venue to engage a large audience in a dialogue about the qualities and meaning behind the designed landscape both in the private garden and in our civic spaces.

Grow Op explores new territories and seeks to uncover new ways of expression and meaning through proposals that represent a wide range of approaches from the prosaic to the poetic, the elemental to the ephemeral. The use of plant material is not a specific requirement. Submissions are encouraged from a wide variety of creative practitioners including the following: visual artists, fabricators, craftspeople, planners, historians, arborists, agriculturalists, landscape architects, cooks, ecologists, botanists, performance artists, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, sound artists, gardeners, writers, poets, designers, architects and enthusiastic urbanists. To find out more visit our website.

NUIT BLANCHE AND 125TH BIRTHDAY!
September 5 to October 5, 12-5 daily, Second Floor Gallery
Plaque Presentation & Public Reception Sept 25, 7-9pm
Nuit Blanche Oct 4th Open All Night Long!

The Gladstone is celebrating 125 years this fall with an exhibition that reflects on the past and invites the public to contribute to the Hotel’s story, while inviting artists to propose the future. On September 25th, join us for an unveiling of our new historic plaque and join us as we look back on moments from the past 125 Years. On October 4th, for Nuit Blanche, artists take over the second floor with their propositional pieces for the space and help us interpret the future An international roster of artists who have made work that accentuate the magical qualities of the hotel, calling on the alchemy its site and recalling tales of its past.

In the BALLROOM: Sing Like No One’s Watching. Join Shameless Karaoke host Wil McLean for a special extended group sing-along karaoke. The words are on the big screen for everybody, so grab a hair brush on your way in and belt it out. Throughout the night we’ll also throw down some DJ sets if the room wants to dance. Extended liquor license means we’re serving & partying until 4am.

Nuit Blanche Featured Artists: Abstractus Collective, Adam Bialo, Andrew Choptiany, Apollonia Vanova, Ivan Buenader & Mary Dyja

Special Nuit Talk September 30, 6:30pm, Gladstone Ballroom
Walking Between Worlds - Navigating Issues of Migration and Exchange. Join A Walk Among Worlds artist Maximo Gonzalez and Stolen Portraits artist Ivan Buenader in discussion with Francisco Alvarez as they share insights on their practice.

About the Gladstone Hotel
The Gladstone Hotel is Toronto’s oldest continually operating hotel. In fact, this year, we’ll be turning 125 years young! Identifying as an art hotel since 2005, when local artists came together to transform our original 19th century hotel rooms into 37 unique rooms, and more like a gallery that never sleeps, we provide access to locally-made works 365 days per year. Our exhibitions and cultural programs host hundreds of artists, designers, craftspeople, musicians, performances, literary projects and social change events which illustrate Jane Jacobs’ assertion that ‘Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.’

Contact: Britt Welter-Nolan, MD Artistic Projects
britt@gladstonehotel.com
Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St West
Toronto, ON, Canada M6J1J6
gladstonehotel.com
416-531-4635

OCAD ALUMNI EXHIBITION: THURSDAY, APRIL 3-6

FACEBOOK EVENT

Join us for the 3rd OCAD University Alumni Exhibition! This exhibition gives viewers a glimpse into the type of work produced by OCAD University graduates spanning six decades.

FEATURING MEMBERS OF AKIN COLLECTIVE

GLADSTONE HOTEL
1214 Queen Street West

Exhibition Runs: April 3rd to April 6th

Opening Night: April 3rd, 7-10pm.


This year’s distinguished jurors:
OCADU faculty member, Barbara Astman
Former OCA instructor, John Inglis
Writer, cultural administrator and arts advocate, David Silcox

List of Featured Artists:
Robert Anderson
Kirista Arnold
Katherine Bellman
Donna Blanco
Stella Cade
Ozzie Ciliberti
Michelle Crockett
Alea Drain
Pat Dumas-Hudecki
Sandy Fairbairn
Eric Field
Adrian Fish
Stephanie Flowers  
Natasha Gouveia
Marina Hanacek
Jill Harmer
Kate Hogg
Nicole Kagan
Jessamyn Khan
Hyun Mi Kim
Elaheh Koneshlo
Joe Han Lee
Zhan Ni Li
Erin Loree 
Joseph Medwecki
Romena Mohammadi
Alfred Ng
Stan Olthuis
Jeannie Pappas
Carol Pasternak
Michael Rachlis
Amita Sen Gupta
Jacquelyn Sloane Skilos
Elly Smallwood
Anna Snyder
Cortney Stephenson
Keijo Tapanainen
Michelle Tourikian
C.A. Way

Gladstone Hotel: Collectively Speaking

Collectively Speaking: Take Shelter
 
July 16, 2013. 7:00pm – 10:00pm
The Gladstone Hotel | Melody Bar
1214 Queen Street West

Toronto, like every major city, is home to a number of seemingly unsolvable problems. But as creative individuals we think, given the chance, we could be a leading force for positive change.
Collectively Speaking brings together three of Toronto’s most interesting art, and design collectives to engage in a friendly competition to offer innovative solutions to one of Toronto’s most elusive problems: housing.
The cost of living is very high, and on an average income it is difficult to afford reasonable housing in the city. This is a problem that is not unique to Toronto, and is very much the reality in a number of Canada’s major metropolitan centres.
 

What can be done to ease the burden of living in a major metropolitan area?

Participating Collectives:

The Project Gallery

The Hashtag Gallery

185 Augusta

Come to this event to take part, not only as a spectator, but also to cast your vote during this alternative town hall meeting, hosted by Kaleb Robertson. The winning collective  will have the opportunity to implement their solution on the Gladstone Hotel’s Lower Green Roof.

FACEBOOK EVENT HERE 

 

Play The Walk

You are invited to Play the Walk – a neighborhood project for curious citizens.

Play the Walk is a story of a neighbourhood played out and retold by those who explore it. Participants are encouraged to explore the newly shaped and coming neighbourhood of the West Queen West Triangle by means of a map and a game to navigate, discover and play. A series of signs suggest ways to interact with the environment: one invites you to listen to the sounds of trains passing by, another denotes a particular smell that a building exudes through its pipes. If you bring your lunch, you can picnic at hidden and cozy places along the way after planting a seed at your favourite spot in the Triangle. This project will be launched during Grow Op, Gladstone Hotel’s inaugural event happening April 25-28, 2013.

Starting point: The Gladstone Hotel

April 25 - 28, 2013

Plan your walk:

playthewalk.tumblr.com

playthewalk@gmail.com

#playthewalk

About us:

Play the Walk is a project of Gelareh Saadatpajouh, designer and sound artist, and Talayeh Hamidya, architectural designer. We are a Toronto-based research and experimental studio -- our work focuses on narrative environments, and experience oriented projects.