'Pretty Bird' by Chris Harms at the Akin Vitrine Galleries

Akin Collective + Akin Projects are excited to present our 2018 programming in two Vitrine Galleries, one a recent addition to our St. Clair studios and our original location at our Dupont studios. These miniature galleries will feature the diverse talent of our members with travelling installations rotating each month. Each artist will be featured for the first month at Dupont and second month at St. Clair. For more information about our artists and our programming, join us on Instagram @akinvitrine.

We are excited to welcome the new year by featuring new work by returning artist, Chris Harms! 

Chris is a self taught artist living and working in Toronto. He is an Akin Dupont member whose artwork explores the relationship between our city’s constant state of construction and its citizens. Chris creates vibrant sculptures with plexiglass, objects seen and unseen, that shape our world and envision the future.

Venturing into the bizarre and humorous, this installation, ‘Pretty Bird’ combines two mundane objects, made with a minimal aesthetic, to create a playful, laughable environment. 

‘Pretty Bird' 
Plexiglass, found materials
Variable Dimensions

Exhibition runs for the month of January in our Dupont Akin Vitrine Gallery, located in the Clock Factory Building at 1485 Dupont Street (entrance on Campbell Avenue). Find Akin Studio 215 on the second floor and follow the sign into the hallway around the corner. The building is open from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday.

‘Pretty Bird’ will then travel to the Akin St. Clair Vitrine Gallery and be on view for the month of February at 1747 St. Clair Avenue West. Gallery is street level and can be viewed at any time.

To contact the artist: chrshrms@me.com
www.chris-harms.com
Instagram: @chrshrms

EXERTION / Chris Harms at Hashtag Gallery

Join Chris Harms of Akin Dupont at Hashtag Gallery on August 4 for the opening of his solo show, EXERTION.

Opening reception: August 4th from 7pm-11:30pm.
Show runs August 4th to 14th

About EXERTION
Celebrating the constant construction that shakes and shapes Toronto, Chris creates vibrant sculptures with Plexiglas that resemble earth-moving excavators. Through form and space he invites the viewer to enjoy the unique reflections, surfaces, and layering my works produce while considering the transformative time between what was and what is to become. Harnessing light and colour, Chris' work is intended to build a feeling of expansion and possibility, and functions as an exploration into our urban landscape.

CHRIS HARMS: "RISE IN FALL" AT PROJECT GALLERY OPENS NOVEMBER 12.

Project Gallery Studios presents: “Rise in Fall” – An Exhibition of New Sculptural Works

 

































OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday November 12, 2015 from 6-10pm at Project Gallery Studios (184 Munro Street*)

EXHIBITION DATES:
November. 12 – December 2, 2015

Facebook Event
 
Chris Harms’ artwork explores the relationship between our city’s constant state of construction and its citizens. Creating vibrant and elegant sculptures with plexiglass that resemble earth-moving excavators, Harms invites the viewer to enjoy the unique reflections, surfaces, and layering his works produce while considering the transformative time between what was and what is to come.  Harnessing light and colour, Harms’ work is intended to build a feeling of expansion and possibility, and functions as an exploration of space and physicality through refined aesthetic sensibilities.
Chris Harms is a self taught artist living and working in Toronto.
www.chris-harms.com

*Project Gallery Studios is located at 184 Munro St, and accessible through the back entrance at the southeast corner of Blackburn St. and Mount Stephens St. The studio exhibition space is open for receptions and by appointment only.

Akin Collective photographed by Lennart Maschmeyer

As part of an ongoing project photographer Lenart Maschmeyer has been (and will continue to) photograph some of the amazing members of Akin Collective and the spaces they work in.

See more of the series HERE and a few of the amazing shots so far below:

Stay tuned for more updates!

Lennart Maschmeyer Photography: Chris Harms, Akin Collective Part Two

CHRIS HARMS- Akin Collective- Part 2

This is the second part of my portrait of Chris Harms of the Akin Collective, working on and finishing one of his larger-scale plexiglass sculptures.The previous post has more details about his work and his intentions.

Chris has just been invited to show his work in a solo show at Project Gallery this November.

See the full post HERE