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Krista Buecking
Ian Carr-Harris
Didier Courbot
Brian Groombridge
Patrick Howlett
Scott Lyall
Arnaud Maggs
Liz Magor
Sandra Meigs
Colette Whiten
Robert Wiens
Shirley Wiitasalo
Kevin Yates |
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Sample Art Work (11)
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Kevin Yates
April 19 - May 26, 2011
In 2010, Kevin and his brother Robert traveled to New Orleans, a trip that unintentionally coincided with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that endangered the region’s coastlands at the time. After witnessing the effects of the spill, Kevin returned to forms and themes from his 2009 exhibition at the gallery—which alluded to the landscape of Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—in new and collaborative work that investigates the surface of water as a plane that is constantly being navigated—and often conceals what lies below it.
For this exhibition, Kevin again explores the capacious potential of the miniature with a 71-inch—or 1:220 scale—model of the Emma Maersk, the world’s largest container ship currently in use. Though not directly connected to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Emma Maersk points to the circulation and extraction of materials in the vast and largely unknowable seas between continents, which are rarely given notice lest disaster draws our attention to them. Also, Kevin’s rusty model of a smaller commercial vessel, mirrored along a horizontal axis ... [ Read all ] |
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Exposure
31 May to 18 August 2012
Please join us for the opening on Thursday, 31 May from 7 to 9 p.m.
With a selection of photographic or digitally-derived works by Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Liz Magor, and Althea Thauberger, Exposure makes tenuous connections to traditional figuration by pressing on the distinction of nude versus naked. Thauberger’s Ecce Homo and Maggs’s l’Origine du monde refer to seminal works of French painting but depict bodies—known and anonymous—in drastically different ways. Magor’s digital print 1902-1986 depicts a life memorialized and abstracted as a plaque on a much older tree. And Lyall’s nudes are wholly abstract images comprised of thousands of colours yet with no known referent; they are empty screens that are fully “loaded” yet remain completely bare.
On the second floor, the gallery will remount a version of their curated selection of work on paper following their presentation at Papier 12 including work by Ian Carr-Harris, Didier Courbot, Brian Groombridge, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain, Sandra Meigs, and Shirley Wiitasalo.
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Arnaud Maggs
8 March to 14 April
In the early part of the 19th century, Jean-Gaspard Deburau became one of the most famous pantomime actors of his time. Deburau’s Pierrot was a re-invention of the classic character – a carryover from the Commedia dell’Arte – already on Parisian stages, but his version had a lasting effect on the art of pantomime for generations. Naturally, Debaurau’s son Charles, soon performed his father’s version of the character in several cities across France, and eventually trained other men to perform the same role. In his early 20s, Charles re-enacted some of his father’s best-known roles in front of Parisian photographer Nadar’s camera. For this exhibition, Maggs has restaged Nadar’s images of the younger Pierrot, as autobiographical self-portraits. Much like Maggs’ previous work, After Nadar playfully references a rich section of Parisian and photographic history. In addition, Maggs will exhibit his interpretation of Nadar’s Revolving Self-portrait, 1865, again using himself as the subject.
Althea Thauberger
26 January to 3 March
Althea Thauberger's work results from her i... [ Read all ] |
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Trees to See by Leah Sandals, The National Post, 5 April 2008
Susan Hobbs’s gallery, housed in a marrow, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it brick building, celebrated its 15th anniversary this January with a group show as impressive and uncompromising as the dealer herself. Now the space hosts a solo show by Robert Wiens, an artist who demonstrates a similar temperament: For more than 10 years, Wiens has focused exclusively on large-scale watercolour paintings of Ontario’s old-growth trees. Sound pastoral? In this artist’s hands, it’s decidedly not. Rather than positioning trees as objects in a landscape, Wiens zooms in on bark patterns and individual branches. The results are both scientific and emotional, exacting and forgiving: Wiens achieves incredibly realistic detail with a downright tetchy technique, yet still manages to prod the heartstrings with natural beauty and its implied loss (even with the designated Greenbelt, many of these trees are still at risk of turning into two-by-fours).
Secrets harboured, faces revealed
by GARY MICHAEL DAULT , October 27, 2007, The Globe and Mail
Sandra Meigs at Susan Hobbs Gallery
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Location And Getting There |
one block west of Bathurst
one block south of Queen West |
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Susan Hobbs
Renée van der Avoird |
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| Wednesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by appointment |
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