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STUART LOWE / PETER HILL
May - June, 2013

* Stuart Lowe will exhibit new photographs in the main space from May 21st - June 16th, 2013.

* Peter Hill has 4 all-new c-prints on dibond in the North Gallery.

* Join us for an Opening Reception on Friday May 24th, 2013 from 6-8pm.

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JESSE BOLES

* Gallery Artist Jesse Boles has won an Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant to help produce a new body of work that will be shot in Berlin, Germany.

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NADA SESAR-RAFFAY
April - May, 2013

* Join us for an Artist Talk/Discussion this Saturday, May 11th 2013.

* Watch Nada Sesar-Raffay on ArtSync! VIMEO

* Nada Sesar-Raffay's exhibition makes NOW Magazine's Must See List.

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OCAD UNIVERSITY 4th YEAR SCULPTURE GRADUATES
MARCH 30th, 2013

Edward Day Gallery is pleased to present Never Still or Motion Less – a group show of
recent 4th year graduates from OCAD University's sculpture program.

Artists include Shannon Lea Doyle, Amy Liden, Rachel Rust, Stephanie Flowers, and Mathieu Goupil-Lemay.

March 27 – April 6th, 2013


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MARCH 22nd, 2013
EDG artist Melissa Doherty at the Art Gallery of Peterborough

Frill

 

Melissa Doherty and Sarah Maloney
Nature in Culture

Opening Reception
Friday March 22, 7 - 9 pm

Kitchener-based Melissa Doherty and Halifax-based Sarah Maloney are mid-career artists who both take up the fine craft of making exquisite objects from imagery found in nature to explore the construction of gender, power and desire.

Working in sculpture, textiles and painting, these artists use both image and material as metaphors for reflection, isolation, comfort and posing reconsideration of our cultural context. Doherty is interested in how our contemporary culture manipulates the (real and imagined) landscape as if it were a toy. Layering paint to the extent that individual brush marks disappear, the artist creates lush sensual surfaces, with a terrific sense of depth. Her super-real aerial and close-up paintings depict single trees, as well as the urban forest, from a scopic yet intimate and introspective point of view.

Doherty’s method of depicting contemporary topography permits viewers new readings of landscape metaphors, shifting the grand landscape tradition from the sublime toward notions of the embodiment.
Produced with support from the Ontario Arts Council.

 

 

MARCH 19, 2013

TALK ART

March 19th, 2013 6:30 pm - reception with dinner to follow.

Edward Day Gallery 952 Queen St. West, Toronto T 416-921-6540

Join us for a night of wonderful food and riveting conversation. It will be an opportunity to meet others passionate about art and those wanting to know more.

Speakers Stephen Ranger (contemporary art specialist ( Waddingtons Auction House) and journalist Betty Ann Jordan (vivacious guide of ArtInsight Art Tours) will engage in a lively dinner talk.

Dinner is catered by the best - Daniel et Daniel.

$75.00 Please feel fee to bring your choice of wine. We will uncork it for you!

RSVP: to order tickets and reserve your space by March 9

Contact: suzannebr@icloud.com for Paypal and Credit Card payments OR cheques may be left at Edward Day Gallery

 

The Perfect Collection

What constitutes a “perfect” collection? Arts writer Betty Ann Jordan shares her vision of the art collection that knows no bounds. Scale, value, medium, colour – no obstacle deters the individual who dreams of re-creating the world in miniature by gathering eloquent objects that trigger or reinforce enduring memories, feelings, associations. This richly illustrated talk is a delirious incitement to imagining your ideal collection or refining the one you already have.

 

JUNE 21, 2012

The gallery hosts a fundraiser for LEAF (Women’s Legal Action and
Action Fund). Doors open at 6pm. Tickets: $40; $25 LEAF Members

The Fine Art of Equality

Thursday, June 21 from 6-8pm

Image by Elaine Waisglass

 

JUNE 25, 2011

David Sereda reprises his Stray Dogs Salon at the gallery.
Doors open at 7pm.

Monday, June 25

Image by Elaine Waisglass

For more information: dsereda786@gmail.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/374114185978737/

The Stray Dog Salon is a mongrel mix of music, words & theatre. We come up with a theme and our artists respond: they showcase new work or work-in-progress, perform pieces they've never done before in a stripped-down gallery setting and jump into collaboration with our Stray Dog Ensemble to come up with new takes on their work. The Stray Dog Salon began as a summer series in 1991 and has recently returned to Toronto. It has been held in clubs and cafés around the city and at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. The name was suggested by writer Anne Michaels as a tribute to the legendary Stray Dog Cafe in St. Petersburg, where artists – poets, singers, dancers, playwrights – genres came to play, meet and perform. The café opened New Year's Eve 1911 and was shut down by the authorities in 1915. One of its mainstay events was Musical Mondays.

 

EXHIBITIONS

Image by Elaine Waisglass

Continuing until September 16, Tom Thomson Gallery features the exhibition,
Echo Utopias: Penelope Stewart.
Tom Thomson Gallery 840 First Avenue West, Owen Sound