Exhibitions
Nada Sesar-Raffay : Swing
Main Gallery
December 6th 2007 - January 6th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 6th, 6 - 8 pm
Artist Talk :
Saturday, December 8th, 2 - 3 pm
Flood 1
30" x 30"
oil on canvas
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present, Swing, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Croatian-born Nada Sesar-Raffay. This current body of work marks the return to painting in oils for the artist and is a direct and intuitive response to the urban culture of Toronto, where Sesar-Raffay resides, combined with Croatian culture and past memories.
Through intuitive and seemingly unregulated, arbitrary fields of colour, Sesar-Raffay's new series of oil paintings render impressionistic visions of vibrant force.
In his catalogue essay, McCray states that "Nada alludes to previous torrential waterfalls, brilliant blue skies that infuse the Croatian seaside...It is the turbulent force of Croatian memory and repetitive urban experiences that push Sesar-Raffay's fusion of colour.."
The brilliant pulling of paint on canvas in the current body of Swing , is a visual experience where the line between representation and abstraction oscillate through the artists complete trust and confidence in her ability to master colour."
Group Salon Show
North Gallery
December 6th 2007 - January 6th, 2008
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 6th, 6 - 8 pm
Dan Kennedy : Lost in the Echo
Main Gallery
November 3rd - 25th, 2007
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 3rd, 2 - 5 pm
Emma and Darwin in the Great Geological Event
48" x 48"
oil on canvas
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present, Lost in The Echo, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Dan Kennedy. Through a series of paintings and drawings Kennedy continues to explore layered, painterly narratives of historical fiction and popular culture.
Geologists and Tramps, Hunters and Itinerant Professors, Beards and Volcanoes, Sleepwalkers and Hucksters, sedimentary rock and the Milky Way galaxy, all become actors and settings for the beginning of a journey into stories of geologic time, stardust adventure. Kennedy builds layers in oil and glazes, preserving his findings like specimens. From these ephemera of the past emerges an evocative world; a museum of language and archetypes infused with ambiguities and mystery.
Catherine Heard : Errata
North Gallery
November 3rd - 25th, 2007
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 3rd, 2 - 5 pm
Errata
approx. 12" x 10" x 8"
beeswax and plaster
The North Gallery will feature new work by Catherine Heard. Medical science, monstrous deformity and mythology converge in her Errata installation. Sublime busts and intricate hand-cut Symmetries paper pieces combine the beauty of craft, the curiosity of the monstrous form and the contradiction of using fine art craft to create images depicting abject disfigurement.
Sophie Jodoin : Regiment
Main Gallery
October 4th - 28th, 2007
Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 4th, 6 - 8 pm
Sophie Jodoin : Regiment, oil on mylar
Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present Sophie Jodoin's Regiment installation, a grid of 64 oil paintings on mylar of nude torsos visible from below the eyes to the waist.
Regiment finds its formal unity in a group sequence of "un-heroic" torsos. In exploiting the quantity of figures and by registering the subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses, and a strictly observed examination of nudity, Jodoin's body of work provides an almost scientific, anthropological record of people.
The paintings are accompanied by a large wall-projection of the 64 photos (digitally manipulated in real-time) from which the oils emerged. The projection explores a parallel, intermediate territory inverting the anonymity of the oils to arrive at a paradoxical intimacy. The body, masked and blurred by technology, becomes a site of ambiguous meanings.
Angela Grossmann : The Lonely Mirror
North Gallery
October 4th - 28th, 2007
Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 4th, 6 - 8 pm
Angela Grossmann : Pink Balloons, mixed media on canvas
The North Gallery will feature new collage work by Angela Grossmann. Her series The Lonely Mirror, portrays young earnest men, posing for themselves, the masculine ideal, the world. Grossmann's mirror pulls historical male figures with a film noir sensibility into a contemporary reflection.
Tom Dean : A Peaceable Kingdom
September 6th - 30th, 2007
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 8th, 2 - 4 pm
Tom Dean : Sloth B, 2007. bronze.
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present the anticipated release of new work by renowned Canadian artist Tom Dean. Considered to be one of Canada’s foremost contemporary conceptual artists, Dean has represented Canada at the 1999 Venice Biennale with The Whole Catastrophe, received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2001, and has had solo exhibitions and works in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal.
In 2004, Dean was commissioned by the Aquilini Investments for the King Edward Village Development for a City of Vancouver Public Art Competition. The Peaceable Kingdom bronze sculpture series will be installed in 2008, throughout an inner courtyard, adjacent to a new branch of the Vancouver Public Library. A number of the sculptures from this project will be exhibited at Edward Day Gallery before being shipped to Vancouver. All pieces of the Peaceable Kingdom will be editioned and available through the gallery.
In Dean’s The Peaceable Kingdom, serene beasts coexist in a precarious sensual paradise. The leopard lies with the goat kid, the sow and the anaconda are in love and the child and the bear are intimate. But it could collapse in a moment into sex and violence as a demon beaver leads berserk rats into paradise, and a giant vulture waits patiently to pick up the pieces.
Edward Day Gallery and Tom Dean would like to thank Public Art Consultant Lynne Werker of maibc, Art Curator Ann Pollock, and MST Bronze.
Urtopia
Curated by Kelly McCray
August 16– September 4th, 2007
Opening Reception:
Thursday, August 16th, 6 - 8 pm
Samantha Salzinger: Neuschwancastle, 2006. transparencies in 3d viewer
Brian Dettmer (Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago)
Mark Bovey
Scott Chandler
Christopher Mandseth
Samantha Salzinger (Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami)
Penelope Stewart (Edward Day Gallery, Toronto)
Matt Mincoff
Sara Graham (MKG 127 Gallery, Toronto)
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present the Urtopia group show, an exhibition of constructed interpretations of utopic worlds, wonder-worlds, breathing states of fantasy. Visions coined after Sir Thomas More’s sixteenth century book Utopia that envisioned ideal states, settings, and environments. The exhibition title beckons to both historical and contemporary realities. 2030 – 1980 BC is considered to be the dates of one of the earliest known civilized cities in the world. Thought to inhabit more than 65,000 people, the city of Ur materialized out of ancient grounds, south of Baghdad, to provide one of the first physical centres of urban dwelling. Catapult leap years ahead to current forms of technological mass communication, mass control and the prefix Ur denotes a text messaging shorthand for "Your", or "You are".
Through technology, The mass populace now has the ability to construct inner worlds, technological fantasies, ideal identities – second lives that inhabit a constructed digital reality. In contemporary society the digital age encourages the Ur populace to embrace and inhabit the hand of God; to play the visionary, the artist, the creator. To construct conceptual personalized worlds that have little need for physical interaction. Little need for urban socialization. Part of the intention of the Urtopia exhibition is to ask how some artists are manifesting visions that allude to contemporary states of self-determination; contemporary states of Urbanization.
The Urtopic world seems to be a quest for the "You", the "Your", and the "You Are" in a contemporary age where individual realities are apparent everywhere but, like many artists are addressing, exist in a state of flux or in realities that no one person owns or really belongs to.
Kelly McCray
Co-Director - Edward Day Gallery
Cybèle Young
New Work
July 12 – August 12th, 2007
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 12th, 6 - 8 pm
The Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present new work by Cybèle Young in the North Gallery. Young produces mixed media sculptural work from fine Japanese papers and copperplate etching prints. Day-to-day mundane impressions become whimsical narratives that draw viewers into a miniature world of sharp wit and acute observation. Common objects such as clothes hangers, pots and feathers weave to form a small-scale sculptural installation that reminds viewers of the significance of everyday events.
Young states that "I make art as a way of building a personal dictionary. By creating new ‘words’ from abstract and familiar forms, they compose their own sentences and make new stories". Young’s personal vision becomes a public ground for dynamic tales of wonder.
Cybèle Young graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1996 and has since exhibited internationally, receiving numerous grants and awards for her work. She has received major coverage in publications such as Toronto Life, Canadian Art Magazine and Elle Magazine, and has been represented by Edward Day Gallery since 2004.
For more information, contact Mary Sue Rankin or Kelly McCray at 416 921-6540 or eddaygal.toronto@sympatico.ca
Andy Summers
July 24 – August 14th
invites you to 
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In celebration of his photographic exhibition
Andy's Limited Edition
book
I'll Be Watching You: Inside The Police, 1980-83
will be available during the exhibition.
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“In a minute, I'll put down the guitar and pick up a camera. Sting and Stewart are already out there somewhere.
I can hear Stewart whacking away at his banjo.
My cameras are in that black bag down there...two Nikon FEs and three lenses with 20 rolls of Tri-X. Music - photography?
The path through the centre of this experience? Another way of dreaming through the electric bubble of fame -
the moth's wing that flames out leaving only the trace of notes, chords, rhythms.
Paint with light - trap it in a cluster of silver halide and put it away in a drawer.
I stick the end of my guitar out above the crowd and shoot.”
For more information, contact Mary Sue Rankin or Kelly McCray at 416 921-6540 or eddaygal.toronto@sympatico.ca