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Main Gallery
ARTSPACE's main gallery is dedicated to presentation of exhibitions by Canadian artists at all stages of their careers. Programming consists of six annual exhibitions, special projects, artists residencies, and sound/video events. Info regarding submissions can be found under the submissions link.
While we are moving into the new site, older shows can be found in the archive.
While we are moving into the new site, older shows can be found in the archive.
Ernest Daetwyler: Shelter Spheres
Public art project presented by ARTSPACE
May 29 – June21 2009
in downtown Peterborough locations (look for it in Hunter/Aylmer area)
Opening reception and Artist Talk: Friday, May 29th 7 PM at ARTSPACE
The site-specific installation Shelter Spheres consists of a cluster of nine interactive, floating spheres, a temporary utopian living environment in an urban area, both public and private, in Peterborough.
Appearing as dreamy, temporary and volatile spaces, each sphere is made of plastic wrap, transparent duct tape, steel and wood and the larger ones (up to two meters in diameter) close to the ground invite the public to interact and access its interiors. Smaller spheres are placed up high in the trees, impossible to reach or inhabit and floating in space as plastic bubbles.
The installation Shelter Spheres recalls associations with an utopian environment or particularly when inhabited, a scientific experiment and has an immediate, poetic and surreal presence.
Ernest Daetwyler studied at the Schule fuer Gestaltung, Bern, the Centro Europeo in Venice, Italy and received his master diploma from the Schule fuer Gestaltung, St. Gallen, Switzerland. His interdisciplinary projects are presented in Canada, Europe and internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Presence Suisse, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, the City of Kitchener, the City of Stratford and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, N.Y.
Ernest is a director/founding member of CAFKA, the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, an international artist-run biennial of contemporary art projects and interventions in the pubic realm throughout the Region of Waterloo (www.cafka.org).
This project is being presented by ARTSPACE in conjunction with Ontario Heritage Conference 2009, Peterborough ON.
The Doll Show #1: Poppet
December 5 – 20, 2008
opening reception: December 5th 2008 7pm
The word doll implies something to be interacted with-a miniature-complex-living Object, which powerfully interacts and exists as a being within and without human life. The doll engages us in the palpable reality of the imagination and opens up possibilities of unacknowledged, perceivable, possible realities. A doll is something to be reckoned with.
Featuring original doll inspired work for show (and some for sale) by the following artists: Shannon Taylor, Wendy Trusler, Hilary Wear, Beth McCubbin, leigh kotsilidis, Leigh Macdonald, micky renders, jess Rowland, Erin Parker, Margot Klingender, Jody Boyd.
Work ranges from short animated video works, photographs, drawings, paintings, sock puppets, dolls constructed from various materials, a multimedia sound installation, an interactive doll shrine to lost children, burr and found object sculptures, ceramic fashion plates, and even interactive Stephen Harper dolls.
BLASTED - a novel by Kate Story
Book Launch: Thursday, August 28 at 8pm.
Blasted is the story of Ruby Jones: irreverent, exuberant, and troubled. Lurching between love affairs and cities, she is haunted by mysteries that surround her father and generations before. Steeped in Newfoundland folklore, Blasted mines a rich vein of experience, layering the mundane and the magical, evoking the forces that inhabit the land. The narrative shifts between generations and geographies, between contemporary life and stories as old as the Hill that looms over Ruby’s birthplace. Vivid characters surround her: her irascible grandfather, elegant Cree artist Blue, her whiskey-slugging Aunt Queenie, and others, sinister and unexplained. When Ruby unravels at last, she must face the demons that pursue her.
Kate Story will be reading from her novel accompanied by musicians Curtis Driedger and Derek Bell who will be underscoring the reading with original compositions, morphing into traditional and contemporary songs and back again, evoking the moods and themes of Blasted.
Presented by Cooked and Eaten Reading Series and Artspace, the launch of Blasted published by Killick Press (St. John’s) will be the kick-off for an eastern tour, taking in Toronto, Montreal, Fredericton, Liverpool, Broad Cove, Halifax, and St. John's.
Admission to the launch is free. Artspace is located at 378 Aylmer St. N. in Peterborough. Copies of the book will be for sale at the launch. For more information about the tour and the book you can check out the author’s website at www.katestory.com.
Blasted has received advance praise by some of Newfoundland’s most respected writers, including River Thieves author Michael Crummy, who declared the book “raw and strange and hilarious and affecting.” Anne Hart, a St. John’s-based biographer and specialist in Newfoundland studies, called it “an irresistible first novel.”
“Kate Story’s debut novel is an unlikely marriage of Newfoundland’s oldest traditional lore with the contemporary urban world of St. John’s and Toronto. The result is raw and strange and hilarious and affecting. Ruby Jones—itinerant waitress, sometime nude model, budding alcoholic—admits early on that tenderness and rage are her ‘heart language.’ Blasted offers both in spades.” - Michael Crummey
“In Blasted, Kate Story pulls her readers into the vivid and chaotic world of young Ruby Jones, a fairy-led Newfoundlander with inner demons to slay both in southside St. John's and Queen Street Toronto. An irresistible debut novel.” - Anne Hart
“I am as delighted as other readers will be with this young Newfoundland writer. With talent and patience Kate Story has unearthed another of the many mysteries hidden within the Southside Hills.” - Bernice Morgan
Writer, performer, and choreographer Kate Story was born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in a house built by her great great grandfather beneath the Southside Hill. Her short fiction has been published in magazines including Broken Pencil Magazine, Takeout, and Kiss Machine (and upcoming in B.P.'s best fiction anthology, ECW Press 2009). Her written performance works have been produced as plays, performance art, and theatre-dance productions in Ontario (Toronto, Peterborough) and Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John’s). She has been twice nominated for the Ontario Arts Council’s K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Blasted is her first novel.
Annie MacDonell
The Castle and other works
Opening: Thursday, January 24 at 7 PM
January 24 to February 29 2008
The Castle and other works investigates the ways in which vaudeville, silent era cinema and other deposed forms of popular entertainment continue to shape our engagement with contemporary images. The exhibition combines video, audio, slide and sculptural elements in three interrelated works. Attempting to reveal and complicate the mechanisms of visual representation and strategies of presentation, MacDonell takes us through a range of perceptual experiences, from seduction and spectacle, to alienation and distance.
Annie MacDonell is a Toronto-based artist. She studied film and photography at Ryerson University, followed by an MFA at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains in France. Since then she has been making film, photography, collage and installation in equal parts. She has exhibited and screened her work in Canada, Europe and the United States. Recent activities include a solo show at Gallery TPW in Toronto, and group shows at The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, New York, The Foreman Art Gallery of Bishops University in Quebec and the Blackwood Gallery in Toronto.
John Climenhage-Symphony to Delight an Ocean of Conquerors
March 6 – April 9 2009
Opening and Artist talk: Friday, March 6th at 7PM
Symphony to Delight an Ocean of Conquerors is an exhibition of two new works that move away from formal painting in order to break up the fixed notion of a finished image. The transparent nature of Exile allows the viewer to participate with painting in a sculptural sense, seeing the work from multiple angles with reflections constantly changing the given image. The Myth of the Big Picture on the other hand, presents us with renewable dialogue where an image, comprised of 30 individual panels, is capable of constant reconfiguration and endless possibilities.
Born in Brockville Ontario, 1968 John Climenhage has been painting, teaching and exhibiting throughout Canada and the U.S. since 1989. He apprenticed in Victoria with acclaimed oil painter Jim Gordaneer from 1994-1999. He has a vast knowledge of art history, which he references in both his landscapes and abstract works. His paintings incorporate theories of quantum physics and existential philosophies in a two dimensional field upon which the painting occurs as an event.
Steve Daniels-homologies
Steve Daniels: homologies
Exhibition runs October 16 - November 15, 2008
“The works in homologies are part of my exploration into machine-human interactions. Through kinetic objects referred to as living particles I am abandoning the dominant relationship of human-computer interface as portal-to-utility in an effort to expand the possibilities of interaction. These works seek an engagement between human and device that is experienced as mutual exploration not simply unidirectional control”. S. Daniels
These projects are supported by a Ryerson New Faculty Development grant, a Creative Fund grant as well as an FCAD project grant to Steve Daniels.
Steve Daniels is an electronic artist and dumpster diver. He splits his
time between Peterborough, Toronto and the Greyhound. He holds an MSc from the University of
Manitoba and is a graduate of the Integrated Media program at OCAD. Steve’s practice juxtaposes
disparate knowledge systems and experiences in an effort to reveal their underlying
structures and assumptions. He is an assistant professor and Program Director of the New Media
option in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University (Toronto) where he teaches courses in
Physical Computing, Telepresence and Networked Objects.
Immony Men: Taking Care of Business
August 19 - September 26 2008
Reception: Friday, September 5th 7 to 10 PM.
Taking Care of Business is a performance/installation that last the run of the exhibition. The performance is the work process itself: The artist will create a multi-wall mural out of photo-printed post-its that will cover the entire gallery. This post-it mural will depict the social entrapment of the everyday white-collar workforce. In creating this mural, the artist subjects himself to a robotic routine through systematic repetition which will parallel a 9 to 5 office job.
I am mesmerized by the drudgery of daily office routine. The pattern I have established in the creation of these kinds of murals attempts to replicate this drudgery. By subjecting myself to a mind-numbing process, I will also create and exhibit the mental state fallen into in performing iterative tasks. I want the process to be accessible and comprehensible. Spectators will be allowed an intimate look at artists creating rather than merely the finished work. Artist
The materials used are those found in an ordinary offices: a computer to process the image, a printer to transfer the image, and the post-its that will become the mural.
The main objective is to create a strong and disquietingly self-reflexive presence within our work environment - in this case a work environment interlayered with an art environment. The final result will be a minutely detailed and overwhelming visual space. The performance in the space will give viewers a vivid sense of the intensity and effort required to create such a self-contained and self-replicating project.
Immony Men will be at Artspace starting this week, with the gallery returning to regular operating hours on Tuesday August 19th. Do visit the gallery to see the artist at work and check on the progress of the piece.
Reception for the show will take place on Friday, September 5th 7 - 10 pm after the project is completed and will remain on display until the end of September.
Gallery Interior With Missing Painting
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Police Display of Seized Contraband Designed by Junian Huang and Philip Kitt. Painted by Philip Kitt.
Bank Machine in Deppaneur Designed by Junian Huang and Philip Kitt. Painted by Philip Kitt. Cartoons are usually produced by large teams of artists and designers all compelled to work in the same style. Inevitably the finished product is somewhat generic and homogenous in appearance. To maintain this quality in my own work I employ professional background designers to complete drawings from sketches I provide. I ask them to redesign the work in a pre-established style such as that of Warner Brothers of the 1940's, or contemporary Batman, etc, according to the theme of the work. I then produce large-scale paintings from these drawings. Through this process the trace of any individual author is greatly reduced. The work comes to possess the anonymous style of art made by committee, a kind of "Corporate Realism". It is animation's imbrication with consumer culture, its corporate mode of production, its role as a generator of simulacra and spectacle, and its odd condition as a sort of "outsider" mass medium, that makes it an interesting departure point for cultural critique, a means to represent the vacuity of extreme consumerism, the homogenization of contemporary culture, our neuroses, fears, obsessions and desires. Text written by Philip Kitt The artist wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec (CALQ) for its support in the realization of this project.
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Suzanne Franks-Smother
December 5 – January 11 2009
opening reception and artist talk: December 5th 2008 7pm
Real or imagined, we live in a dangerous world; the TV warns that disaster could be lurking around any corner and demands that we must protect ourselves and our families from these perceived threats. Suzanne Franks’ work explores potential anxiety about preparing our children to become world citizens while at the same time trying to cloak them in some protective “armour”.
“Smother is an exhibition of ambitious installations and sculpture by Calgary-based artist Suzanne Franks. The relationship between mother and child is a major theme of the exhibition - developed with great depth - but Franks' deft handling of obsessive techniques, storytelling and the formal play between materials are just as compelling.” Anthea Black
Suzanne Franks received her BFA from the University of Calgary in Drama and a Diploma from the Alberta College of Art and Design. She is recipient of grants from both the Canada Council and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts and participated in four residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Franks has exhibited in various cities across Canada and remains active in the artist-run culture in Calgary.
Ann Jaeger-Disarming Language
Ann Jaeger: Disarming Language
Visual footnotes on the persistance of the romance vernacular and design of the literature of hunting, trapping and outdoorsmanship in the 20th century
Exhibition runs October 16 - October 31, 2008
This work juxtaposes the charm and romance of a genre of literature and book design against its contradictory subject matter - the killing of wild animals for profit or pleasure. By blurring the lines between written and visual language, it speaks of the unconscious influence of history and literary culture on human behaviour, of nature as a metaphor for language, and confronts the contemporary dichotomy of the relationship between humans and non-domesticated animals.
Ann Jaeger is a multimedia artist and a graduate of OCAD. Her work, once describedas "ruthless journalism" explores the natural world, human psychology, pattern, motion, information design and architecture, and language.
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