AKIN CRIT 12 / DUFFERIN

Discussion & ideas & questions & answers & art & friends & strangers & community & snacks & drinks.

Come on over for another evening of showing, telling and critiquing. All are welcome, bring your pals/lovers/neighbours.

AKIN COLLECTIVE- 444 Dufferin Unit E
June 26, 2013.
7pm.

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ARTbus: Contemporary Art Bus Tour



ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Oakville Galleries

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Sunday 9 June 2013, 11:30 am–5:00 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto)

FREE; advance registration required. To register, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 27 by Friday 7 June, 4:00 pm.

Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the summer's best exhibitions in the GTA!
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

The summer ARTbus begins at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery with a tour of Screen and Décor by the exhibition's curator Rosemary Heather. For Screen and Décor the use of pattern and ornament (in the sense of extended motif) in contemporary art is understood as an organizing principle in a world of excessive data. Artworks in the exhibition are resonant of a contemporary visual reality characterized by complex patterning. Within the frame of an all-over exhibition design created by Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthoeft, Screen and Décor proposes to look at this phenomenon through the work of six artists: Shannon Bool, Simone Gilges, Bernhard Kahrmann, Sanaz Mazinani, Kirstine Roepstorff, and Emmy Skensved.

Art Gallery of York University (AGYU)

The ARTbus continues to the AGYU for a special artist's tour of Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown, an exhibition featuring two fledgling bodies of work by Toronto artist Sara Angelucci. Inspired by found, anonymous (unattributed) photographic portraits that the artist purchased on eBay, The Anonymous Chorus and Aviary mark a distinct shift in the artist's practice. In these new works, Angelucci moves away from exploring the familiar to interrogating the anonymous; from investigating her own identity (and family lineage) to tracing the history of others. She mixes analogue sources and digital techniques, and combines artistic genres through collaboration with composers, singers and ornithologists. The Anonymous Chorus and Aviary open a temporally suspended space between past and present, where the subjects of these lost portraits may come to life, once again—in a transformed state of being. Provenance Unknown is curated by AGYU Assistant Director/Curator Emelie Chhangur, and is a primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Oakville Galleries

Finally, at Oakville Galleries participants will visit the group exhibition Auto-Motive: World from the Windshield in Gairloch Gardens and at Centennial Square. Auto-Motive brings together eighteen artists who examine notions of place, perception and emotional experience from the interior of a car. The artworks assembled here explore the material relations and sensations that coalesce behind the windshield. They speak to various outlooks, revealing the car as a driving force for urban change, a site of thought and reflection, and a place for new spatialities and imagined journeys. Artists include Roy Arden, IAIN BAXTER&, Stan Denniston, Christos Dikeakos, Susan Dobson, Fred Herzog, Geoffrey James, Jesper Just, Mara Korkola, John Massey, N.E. Thing Co., Marian Penner Bancroft, Leslie Peters, Martha Rosler, Jon Sasaki, Monica Tap, Jeff Wall, and Paul Wong.

SCHEDULE

11:15 am: Meet at the Barnicke Gallery for registration check-in followed by tour with the curator.

1:00 pm: Art Gallery of York University. Tour with the artist.

2:30 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit Auto-Motive.

3:15 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Continue visit of Auto-Motive. Reception with refreshments.

5:00 pm: Drop-off at the Barnicke Gallery.

In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company

Call for Submissions: Walking Tours: Contemporary Art Works

CONTEMPORARY ART WORKS



Call for Submissions

We are accepting proposals from artists for the fifth manifestation of Contemporary Art Works on Queen Street West, an all-night exhibition curated by Earl Miller and presented by the Queen Street West Business Improvement Area. We are seeking installation, performance, dance, interactive, participatory, and psychogeographical works that conform to either or both of the following categories:
1.    Work that is in some way site-specific to / appropriate for the Queen Street West neighbourhood. 
2.    Work that in some way reflects a theme of “Walking Tours.”
About the Event
Contemporary Art Works on Queen Street West has showcased important contemporary art on Nuit Blanche night since 2009, exhibiting the work of artists including Daniel Borins & Jennifer Marman, An Te Liu, Camille Turner, Blue Republic and Ulysses Castellanos, who have collectively received considerable media attention in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, and elsewhere. One of the pieces commissioned for the 2010 exhibition, An Te Liu’s Ennui Blanc, is now in the AGO’s permanent collection. The Queen St. West BIA site contains info on the 2011 exhibition and the 2012 exhibition. 
This year's event takes place on Saturday, October 5, 2013.
Submission Details
Submission format: Submissions should include a concise one-page proposal, relevant images (maximum five) and a current CV.  A rough budget is optional. Proposals are screened for likelihood of successful execution and potential audience engagement (at the very least work should be clearly visible and create no street obstructions on a very busy night, and it should be installable either in a store window or on the street). Workable proposals are then chosen for artistic merit and responsiveness to site/theme.
Artist's fee: Selected artists will receive a fee of $400.
Production budget: Up to $1,500.
Deadline for submissions: June 5, 2013.
Contact: Please send submissions and queries via e-mail to Earl Miller (earledwinmiller@gmail.com).
Please note: only artists with successful proposals will be contacted.

GLADSTONE HOTEL: Call for Submissions


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

ATTENTION: illustrators, painters, designers, comic artists, textile artists, graffiti writers, street artists, mixed media artists, typohgraphers, print makers, animators, new media artists, craftspeople and ALL non lens-based visual artists

We’re challenging the scope of illustration in Toronto and looking for artist submissions from now until THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013.
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IF WALLS COULD TALK: THE GLADSTONE HOTEL’S EXPERIENTIAL ILLUSTRATION SHOW

The Gladstone Hotel seeks expressions of interest for contemporary, experiential projects for its inaugural illustration event, If Walls Could Talk. This group exhibition will take place next March 6–16, 2014 at the historic Gladstone Hotel in downtown Toronto.
If Walls Could Talk will challenge Canadian and international artists to work outside their traditional practices—to occupy and alter spaces in dramatic, conceptual, or experimental ways. The majority of the site-specific work will be localized on the hotel’s second floor, but we encourage applicants to consider proposing projects for all public spaces throughout the hotel.
We encourage artists to participate independently, in collaboration with a partner, or as a team. Ideal candidates for juried consideration are practitioners who approach their disciplines with a radical personal vision. These artists/designers use illustration—or a practice related to illustration—to converse, connect, collaborate, and construct. Successful projects will create delight in the unexpected.
Curated by Leila Courey

JURY

Diti Katona: founding partner and creative director, Concrete Design
Gary Taxali: fine artist and illustrator
Jason Logan: author, illustrator, designer, and creative director of Rogers Publishing
Mikey Richardson: co-owner and creative director, AmoebaCorp
Paul Dallas: chair of Illustration, OCAD University
Virginia Johnson: illustrator, textile designer, and owner of Virginia Johnson Lifestyle
Zak Mroueh: president, executive creative director and founder, Zulu Alpha Kilo

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