Breathing Room
March 26 - May 8, 2011
The Picture Gallery -Donna
Kriekle
Drawer's Gallery - Robert Farmer
Paper Gallery - Daniel Hanequand
Nothing but clear skies for our new exhibition titled
Breathing Room
on view until June 19th at Headbones Gallery.
From Regina, Donna Kriekle wisps eloquently
with twenty-six sky paintings on canvas. Featured in The Picture
Gallery, which is a long space, Kriekle’s sky paintings set the
mood for springtime. With the optimism of the subject matter
elevating the gamut of the skyway, lyrics come to mind that
raise the spirits like the budding breath of a brand new day –
“nothing but clear skies…”
Candy coated bunnies are falling from the sky in the Drawers
Gallery with oil paintings by Winnipeg native Robert Farmer.
Farmer’s tongue in cheek ‘splatstick’ resonates with the
nostalgia of a less complicated era fallen prey to the havocs of
chaos. His detailed renderings and technical virtuosity bring a
world with a foot in childhood into the more complicated realms
of gaming and advertising media.
With plenty of breathing room, nineteen individual miniature
paintings by Toronto artist Daniel Hanequand are hung salon
style in a three-foot-square space in The Paper Gallery. Their
mini-counterparts form couplets, trios and rows of
under-hand-sized, sci-fi, surreal and - sometimes - haunting
little pictures.
From Venus to the Gods
March 26 - May 8, 2011
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The Picture Gallery -Srdjan
Segan
Drawer's Gallery - Dagmara Genda
Paper Gallery - Judy Chicago
Textile - Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante
Refresh - The Colour
Experience
February 10 - March 20, 2011
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The Picture Gallery - Heidi Thompson
Drawer's Gallery - Scott McEwan
Paper Gallery - Robert Bigelow, Steve Rockwell, Katia
Santibanez
Design - Carl St Jean
Headbones BC Gala
December 10 - February 6, 2011
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The Picture Gallery - Pass The Buddha
Drawer's Gallery - Scott P. Ellis
Paper Gallery - Erik Jerezano & Tony Taylor
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Additional
works on display by:
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Doug
Alcock, Ghada Amer, Daniel Anhorn, Damian Aquiles, Guy
Boutin, Karl Heinz Boyke, Bill Bragg, Susan Brandoli,
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Briar
Craig, Billy Copley, Franco DeFrancesca, Sophie DeFrancesca,
Adrian Doura, Leonard Epp, Alessandra Exposito, Robert
Farmer, Sergio Finamore, Ed Giordano Jr., Jim Hake, Steve
Jackson, Reg Kienast, Donna Kriekle, Bob Kingsmill, Bodo
Korsig, Ann
Kipling, Donna Kriekle, Jeffery Thompson, Geert Maas, Tom
Mackenzie, Jennifer MacKlem, ManDad, Jesse McCloskey, David Montpetit, Judith Page, Maurizio Pellegrin, David
Constantino Salazar, Kenny Scharf, Reinhard Skoracki, Srdjan
Segan, Christian Bernard Singer, Fred Tomaselli, Wing Yee
Tong, Stanzie
Tooth, Ruth Waldman, Deborah Wilson, Tom Wren and Z’otz*
Collective
Robert Bigelow C-RBB
6x6
July 2 - August 1, 2010
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Ashpa Naira Gallery and Headbones Gallery
invite you to celebrate the automatic renewal of the moon
with artist
Robert Bigelow in attendance from 2-7pm for the opening
reception of his exhibition Sunday, July 11, when the
dawning of awareness is most potent.
The New Moon is a time of regeneration when
the creative pulse is nascent, a seedling with a host of
possibilities for growth. It is akin to our subconscious.
Robert Bigelow has called his work “abstract
automatism”. The spark that lights the flame of creativity
lies in the subconscious. By clearing the mind and erasing
any vestige of association with physical representation, the
abstract is made manifest.
A ‘Bigelow’ is like a connection between the
world of the spirit and virtual reality. It is a visual map
of intuitively recorded energy emitted over time.
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Michaele Jordana
Berman
April 8 - April 25, 2010
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Cyborg: The Human
Condition -
Michaele Jordana Berman,
a multiplatform artist, is a name that many know,
perhaps from different contexts, for she has excelled in
more than one discipline to memorable effect. You may
remember her as the sylph-like actress in Stefan Czernecki’s
film Green Veridian Green. Then she bowled the
Toronto art scene over with her exhibition Oceans of
Blood at the Isaacs Gallery in 1976. Her large-scale
airbrushed photorealist paintings related to her stay in the Arctic,
where she drifted on the ice floes with the Inuit and the
narwhal. The National Gallery purchased her monumental
painting from this period, I Cry Tears of Blood.. As
the lyricist /singer Michaele Jordana in the new wave/punk
band The Poles with Doug Pringle (originator of the
“electronica” group, Syrinx) her fragile physicality,
ethereal
looks and riveting performance of songs such as CN Tower
are graven into the musical archives of Toronto.
CYBORG,
The Human Condition,
like Michaele Jordana Berman’s previous acts of self
re-invention, is as memorable as it is absolutely
contemporary.
Pulled
(A Print Show)
March 19 - April 4, 2010
Headbones Gallery has
Pulled together an exhibition of fine art prints by artists and
printmakers featuring: 12 Midnite, Robert Bigelow, Don Carr and
Steve Mennie.
This multi-person print show includes works by twenty-five different
artists and printmakers. Varied techniques including lithography,
serigraphy, etching, aquatint, drypoint, colograph, woodblock, lino-cut,
embossed, rubber stamp, digital and hand colored prints prove that
great printmaking is timeless with prints ranging from the sixties
right up to today.
View additional print works by: Angus Bungay,
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Briar Craig, Franco DeFrancesca, Larry
Eisenstein, Johann Feught, Elizabeth Forrest, Tyler Bright Hilton,
Jeffrey Little, Bodo Korsig, Jesse McCloskey, ManWoman, Ortansa
Moraru, Ed Pien, David Samila, Katia Santibanez, Dave Sheppard,
Daryl Vocat & Nancy Watt.
NeoBeast -
Beastly
Explorations Aesthetically Stating Truisms
Feb 19 - March 14, 2010
NEOPRIEST,
an exhibition at Headbones Gallery in March, 2009, was based
on an identified aesthetic that was expressed with an acronym to
more succinctly impart the essence of thirteen artist’s work. From
this original exhibition an over-riding identifiable subject has
revealed itself. And in order to pin it down through language and to
carry on the intellectual rigour, NeoBeast has been coined -
Beastly Explorations Aesthetically Stating Truisms.
Man’s
separation from the order of species due to modernisation and
technology is a realised
dilemma. That these artists chose ‘beast’ as the metaphor that
encompasses feral, carnal and
primitive as well as cute, whimsical, elegant or stylised: depicts
the struggle that the
contemporary atmosphere imposes upon our relationship to animals.
Man and beast - the story line of countless artworks, operatic to
quietly penned - has occupied the attention of civilization since
the otherness of the beast was first scraped on a cave wall in a Paleolithic attempt to depict the relationship. The works in
NeoBeast show that the subject, far from having been exhausted,
is still relevant today.
Cesar Forero
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Home and Jungle
January 29 - February 14, 2010
Gallery Installation and two dance performances featuring Cesar
Forero with dancer Michelle Moylan, dancer Sandra Clarke, and
soprano singer Pam Patel.
Cesar Forero’s exhibition is aptly titled Home and Jungle for his
vivacious work encompasses a wide range of imagery embracing
everything from the quotidian to the exotic. Forero’s work is truly
multidisciplinary and accomplished across the disciplines.
Originally from Colombia, Forero is an architect, figure skater,
dancer, choreographer, costume designer, painter, sculptor and
relational fabricator. He enthuses. His infectious creativity feeds
from the normal humdrum to transform into spectacle as he stitches,
pastes, welds, rehearses and details. It is difficult not to use
superlatives in the face of his prodigious output and once seen, his
productions are hard to forget.
Having presented the performance and exhibition The Box in 2008,
Headbones Gallery anticipates with pleasure the presentation of Home
and Jungle.
Jim Hake - HARDERFASTER
January 8 - January 27, 2010
Jim Hake, a
sculptor whose work is well known in Italy where he spent eleven
years, will present his work for the first time in Toronto at Headbones
Gallery,
January 8 to 27.
It’s more than
manipulating the space and it’s also more than repetition that ties
together the overall oeuvre of Jim Hake’s work - although both of
these components are ties that bind the diverse imagery together.
Multiple meanings from multiple objects are illustrated
perceptively.
The exhibition
will occupy the gallery space with a large personality. Hake within
all of the pieces has inserted another powerful lifeline – that of
the lightness of being, humour, play and a joy derived from the
bounty of existence.
Harder and
Faster. Hake is working in Canada now and
his work is working. We get it and it spurs us to spur him on –
harder, faster! This is exciting work.
Paper
Salon with new Collages by Scott P. Ellis
December 11 - January 4, 2010
Celebrate the holiday season at Headbones Gallery and
get a ten dollar drawing?!
Headbones Gallery is hosting a paper salon from
December 11 to January 3 and in order to stimulate the holiday
festivities with good old fashioned seasonal commercialism, there
will be a slasher sale with prices
slashed on the
spot! Why wait for Boxing Day? Items in the paper salon can be found
at the website beginning Dec 9 where offers can be made for the
works before the slasher
even comes on board!
Yes folks,
at the Grand Opening
December 11 from 6PM until 9PM and on Saturday from 12 until 6,
celebrity slasher salesman
Jay Ould
(Dec.11 only) will rip
through the regular value of works on paper from your favourite
artists! December 13, the prices go back to normal so
dash on over to
260 Carlaw Avenue and somewhere in the midst of the
helter skelter,
a ten dollar drawing will be revealed!
Which is the ten dollar drawing!?
Only the slasher knows, but before 6 PM on
December 12, a lucky collector will walk out of Headbones with a ten
dollar purchase (worth far
far more…)!
In tandem, Headbones will be showing the works of the great collage
fabricator and visual statesman,
Scott P. Ellis
in conjunction with the social/political audio/video shorts by
RX (the party party)
whose works buzz the circuits of youtube
popularity..
Spunky Rooms -
Aleks Bartosik and Robin
Tewes
November 13 - December 7, 2009
On
November 13, Friday, Headbones Gallery
opened
an exhibition of works by two women artists; Robin Tewes, a mature
New York artist who deals in images derived from domestic
environments and Aleks Bartosik, who’s autobiographically based,
narrative drawings
were
introduced at the opening reception with a drawing performance.
Spunky
women - Tewes’ quiet resignation breaking out with military
fierceness and Bartosik’s seemingly virginal demeanour kicking her
heels with spirited naughtiness, ready to be frisked. Unseemly
women, their work is not in keeping with standard norms of taste and
form. Each is rebellious. Neither is ladylike.
Tewes
brews on her boundaries, hysteria lying just below the surface of
her placid rooms – a figment of her imagination or the visual
documentation of her particular prison? Are the walls, corners,
furniture, a private picture of a woman’s castle or an artist’s
confinement? Tewes acknowledges the solitary confinement of easel
painting in a living room while the child plays on the rug. Tewes is
painting camouflage. There is a perverse insinuation lurking in the
ordered sameness – a quiet ‘fuck you’ whispered with a sly smile of
victory. Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, first published in 1869
because men went to
war - a grand theme. Virginia Woolf in 1929 delivered a series of
essays to two women’s colleges at Cambridge University titled A Room
of One’s Own wherein she questioned whether women could write a
great work for they were denied the same opportunities as men to
experience the world -
women
stayed at home. Tewes works from home and is effective.
Bartosik
is the younger generation. Messing about. Her women do all the
unseemly acts that lie beneath the surface of Tewes’ brew. Rubrical
acts with reddish smears as lipstick blotches. Bartosik’s bad little
girl is not about to give in to a ladylike resignation. She too is
caught in the examination of women’s world, the psychological range
openly acknowledged - narcissist to nymphomaniac. She dons her war
paint, saddles her horse, kisses her girlfriends and shows what she
has been told to keep private.
Minutial Matters
October 16 - November 9, 2009
We are exhorted to “pay
attention to details” and by doing so the larger endeavours will
fall into place. We have been counselled to acknowledge “the power
of one” and to focus on the importance of the individual, no matter
how small or inconsequential. Conversely, we have also been advised
“not to sweat the small things”. Man’s fascination with minutiae
extends into the sciences where microscopic discoveries illuminate
health, engineering and physics. The ability of the eye to delve
ever tinier has been aesthetically grasped in carvings on grains of
rice, Roman enamels, Persian miniatures and renaissance religious
icons. The applied arts have grappled with such preciously miniscule
treasures as tapestries made of hair and beaded carpets.
Six artists reveal their obsessive ability in Minutial Matters at
Headbones Gallery. From New York, Ruth Waldman’s works has been
honoured in exhibitions that ranged from a concentration on size and
detail to spotlighting the disguised eroticism of her characters.
Katia Santibanez, also from New York where Pace Editions is
currently showing her work, speaks an erotic visual language as well
but hers is one of tickling hairs and sensuous wavering. Daniel
Hanequand’s miniature paintings on panels reveal an intimate
futuristic realm that has been executed with such care that wonder
follows on perusal. He is an accomplished master of his own
universe. Two emerging artists introduce their latest works. Cole
Swanson who was trained in India in the art of miniature painting
airs his skills with a contemporary subject matter. These paintings
must be exhibited under glass for so delicate is the surface that
even a drop of moisture can disturb the perfection. Mitsuo Kimura,
from Tokyo, presents small paintings on stretched paper that recall
Japanese animation, fabrics and design wherein he tells of his
reactions to the western world in lively saturated colours and
stylised characters. And re-emerging from Toronto is Larry
Eisenstein’s full-on obsessive doodles of evolving forms and
obfuscated narratives.
Clearly, these artists have “sweated the small stuff”, spent time
with a magnifying glass and exerted patience born of dedicated
practices.
Back to the Garden
September 11 - October 4, 2009
Joni
Mitchell, raised in Saskatchewan, wrote “Back to the Garden” and in
1969, forty summers ago, it was performed by Crosby, Stills and Nash
at Woodstock. Held by baby boomers and successive generations of
eco-minded youth as a rallying chorus for affirmative positivism;
the song focused on the need to reconcile the impact of progress
with holistic idealism. As Torontonians return to the city where
cultural inspiration replaces the natural regeneration of
summertime, four visual artists - Angiola Churchill, Donna Kriekle,
Ortansa Moraru and Christian Bernard Singer - extend the season in
Back to the Garden, opening - pointedly - on September
Eleventh at Headbones Gallery.
In
Angiola Churchill’s pristine white paper installation, Sacred
Grove, a fresh breeze rustles the floating, feminine florals as
Singer’s moss installation infuses the gallery with a deep earthy
smell. Moraru’s woodblock or tempera prints of, aptly, trees stands
firm with the solidity of her master technique. And from
Saskatchewan as well, Donna Kriekle presents fulsome berries, crisp
ripe apples and the niggle of grasshoppers under prairie blue skies.
Beauty is presupposed in a
garden visit, pleasure anticipated. Back to the Garden at
Headbones Gallery will fulfill the expectations.
BRONSON, THE PRISON DRAWINGS
June 17 - June 27, 2009
Bronson, The
Prison Drawings is a solo exhibition of drawings by one of Britain's
most notorious inmates, Charles Bronson.
Bronson, The
Prison Drawings - Courtesy of the Princess, are a play by play
visual documentation of a prison romance from 1997 - 2000 told in
graphite, ink and coloured pencil. The drawings are brutally
revealing. Bronson's hand is controlled but his subject matter is
not. The Princess is his muse, foil and interlocutor.
In late 1995, The
Princess, Canadian woman prisoner TG0786 and Ontario College of Art
(OCA) graduate, found herself incarcerated in the United Kingdom on
a six year drug smuggling charge. With an interest in art therapy,
she began writing to Bronson after seeing one of his drawings in a
British tabloid and a romantic correspondence of drawings both
singular and collaborative, was begun. Eventually, the happy couple
pledged to be married, never having personally met, and the British tabloids
went wild with their sensational story of love and commitment.
With a curiously
sweet candour, brushed with naughtiness, Bronson tells his story,
confined by the size of the paper and materials made available to
him. With no emotional holds barred, Bronson tells it as he sees it
from within prisons of cement blocks, spied upon by surveillance
cameras and tortured by his very active imagination. This
sociological, psychological and diaristic presentation of the life
of an inmate is an exhibition that encourages study and
contemplation, yet also rewards both the curious and the art lover.
The
catalogue and exhibition could not be made without accomplices. I
would like to thank the Princess for the chance to host this
exciting exhibition and together we gave titles to Bronson’s
drawings. I would also like to thank Ben Portis for his introductory
essay and Julie Oakes for her help with the installation and lastly,
I would like to congratulate Charles Bronson on his engaging
practice of drawing and sharing his life on the inside.
Figuration
May 7 - June 16, 2009
There’s
something about the honesty of one’s circumstance that sets the
scene for powerful images. We are all imbedded in figuration but the
personal range of specific experience is varied.
Mahmoud Meraji
harkens to his Iranian roots with the use of symbols framing
portraits of his family, self and friends. His son,
Mehrad
Meraji
aggrandises friends and family with a positivism born of the
undaunted belief that talent lends to a fresh artistic career.
Zachari Logan’s triplet nude self portraits radically poise the
mundane with sensational eroticism while Susan Low-Beer’s
ceramic children leap in trancelike suspended animation. Each
artist, ’figuring’ it out, brings to bear the authenticity of
personal practices and life orientations.
(ab strak'
tid)
March 26 - May 2, 2009
Ram
Samocha’s
energetic drawing performance,
Abstract Peace, ignites the exhibition as his gestural
spontaneity flares.
Intellectual underpinning removes abstraction from the physical so
that mental and spiritual practice is as evident as the artistic.
This coupling of idea with color, form, material and the personal
visual vocabulary of each artist makes
ab strak’ tid
an exhibition of
rarefied thought.
The
architectonic light and monument works of Khaled Mansur, the rich,
shimmering and seemingly bejeweled fabric of Heidi Thompson’s and
Scott Taylor’s layered colors, the lyric illusions in Mahmoud
Meraji’s and Cesar Forero’s dancing shapes, the humourous sense of
play with David Samilla and the visceral plasticity of
Bodo Korsig’s
woodblocks
&
Karl Heinz Boyke’s paintings and
bronze sculptures; spurned on by sensation, resonate within the
intellect.
NEOPRIEST
New Pop Realists Intellectually
Engaged in Story Telling
February 13 - March 21
The
identification of an aesthetic can serve various positive purposes.
For the artists, it affords an objective from which to consider why
the name is applicable. For the appreciator, it allows for roads of
association to be traveled that might not have been self generated
and therefore discover correlations that run within these works. To
the art writer, critic and curator, it gives a platform upon which
to comment, theorize, criticize and organize. It can also position
neopriest
within historical and philosophical contexts or
neopriest
can, like a sauce, add new flavour to an already sufficiently
nourishing dish.
.The
Dark Side and Snow
January 3 - February 11, 2009
As
the depth of winter plays havoc with our perceptions, Headbones
Gallery serves it right back with "The Dark Side". This exhibition
of drawings and works on paper, along with sculpture by John Farrugia, features artists working primarily in black & white with
macabre subject matter augmenting the brew.
We will present
the annual 2008 Headbones Award. Made by last year's winner, Srdjan
Segan, the 2008 Headbones Award is a unique cast bronze sculpture,
sponsored by Artcast Inc. The winner will be announced at 8PM during
the opening reception on Saturday, January 3, 2009.
Human
Sacrifice - Julie Oakes
(A selection of drawings)
December 13 - 23, 2008
View a selection of
drawings from three exhibitions with novellas; Quercia Stories, The
Revolving Door and Conscientious Perversity, documenting the
libertine adventures of Justine Quercia as told by her sister
Juliette.
We invite you to
join us in a traditional
Wiggly
for the opening reception on December 13,
from 7 – 10 PM. Neema Bickersteth, the celebrated
opera diva, will perform at 8:30.
Guests are
encouraged to wear a wig, hairpiece, toupee or merkin. Garage One
Media will be present and providing guests with complimentary
professional digital portraits in their
Wigs.
Primal
- Ashley Johnson
(Solo Exhibition)
November 1 - 29, 2008
Ashley Johnson’s
first solo exhibition in Canada at Headbones Gallery will leave
indelible impressions on the psyche of viewers. These powerful
paintings have the ability to bridge synapses in the deep recesses
of the brain and permeate the core. Johnson has successfully
captured the essence of human/animal instincts addressing topics of
evolution,
reproduction, life, death, sexuality, dreams, customs and rituals.
Johnson has created
work that harkens to a spiritual root of first importance,
fundamental to the psyche. Humans shape-shift into animals, interact
with the beastly and attach to areas of the subconscious. This
delving into the basic impulses, much like Freudian psychology,
allows for a confrontation with the nether regions where, by
visually speaking the unspeakable, knowledge is gained.
The exhibition will
consist of approximately sixteen works that span from 2001-2008. A
catalogue will be available including pertinent writings by Ashley
Johnson.
Fresh
Pop NYC
(Three Person Exhibition)
September 11 - October 25, 2008
Jesse
McCloskey is the young renegade. He freely emotes, applying a pop
consciousness to a New England narrative. The result - fresh pop.
Billy Copley has been working with
popular imagery from the west coast to New York City, where he was a
friend of Andy Warhol. His snappy cartoon-ish style is a fresh take
on pop.
Ed
Giordano, with humanitarian angst shows the plight of the common man
in his most disadvantaged insecurity. With a sculptural technique
that relates to the work of George Segal (he had studied with him),
he presents the popular dilemma with the freshness of a well placed
slap.
10 Cent Hot Dogs -
Robert Farmer
(Solo Exhibition)
June 5 - June 28, 2008
Toronto visual artist, Robert Farmer,
steps up his work and delivers an exiting body of new paintings at
Headbones Gallery commencing Thursday, June 5, 2008. Aptly titled,
10 Cent Hot Dogs fits Farmer’s surreal carnival-esque
pop style paintings with a turn-of-the-century faux finished feel.
With his cotton candy palette and pop-social messages, humour and
spectacle prevail. Bring a lucky dime and join Robert Farmer and
Headbones Gallery for a ‘real’ 10 Cent Hot Dog in the alley during
the opening reception.
Warnings
- Scott P. Ellis
(Solo Exhibition)
May 1 - May 31, 2008
The jarring imagery in Scott P.
Ellis' constructed photographs and collages have the power to
provoke memories relating to atrocities from current and historical
events. From the point of view of artist as interpreter, these works
make associations to corporate, religious and political corruption.
Ellis delivers a strong visual punch in this exhibition of photos
created during the radical Montreal punk scene of the 90’s along
with current intricate collages born of mass media hyperbole..
Revivified
April 3- April 29, 2008
It
has been a long winter, cold and denying the relief of an
irreversible melt. When the smells from the street become pungent
and the snow banks piled by ploughs turn grimy from pollution,
spring harkens.
Headbones
Gallery is hosting spring in the heart of the east end. With floral
sprigs, the wonder of the constellations, verdurous sweeping vistas,
and the miniscule details of foliage, the rites of spring adorn the
walls in paper works, a magnificent painting by Lorne Wagman and
creep across the floor in an installation of moss and flying paper
by Christian Bernard Singer.
WWW.Women
February 16 - March 20, 2008
In
this exhibition, women have staked a self conscious claim within a
nourishing field of dreams (art) and in doing so, broken ground that
grew a different female form of artistic avatar. Often political in
approach, women have used their bodies, their intuition, their
ability to nurture and multi-task and their grand operatic voices to
shatter many a glass tower. This Valentine month, WWW.WOMEN follows
on the day of paper hearts and cliché promises with a spectacular
show of solid womanhood.
Work'n It
January 10 - February 14, 2008
The energy needed to
promote the work is equal to the energy needed to produce the work.
Not only with the consistent driving of their practice and openness
to opportunity, but also promotion can be integral to the work
itself. With strength of image, format or a sheer graphic blast of
power, the artists in Working It have noticeably been investing
their talents in positions destined for high returns. The imagery
and execution broadcasts a combination that clearly equals
excellence.
The presentation
ceremony of the 2007 Headbones Award sponsored by Artcast Inc. will
be at 8pm.
Weird Queer Freaky Xmas
December 3 - January 8, 2008
'Christmas’ has
morphed into ‘Xmas’ and become outlandish in aspect. Commercialism
reigns with high-end demands for better gifts as children loose
perspective (children!?) of the inspiration for the holiday season.
Art too has found its seat in elfin freaky realms peopled by crazy
characters, strange in countenance and design. Rather than becoming
jaded, our grab bag presentation is a joyous holiday celebration,
straight from the ‘art with a wrestling extravaganza for the opening
reception on December 1, replete with freaks, queers and weirdos.
Project Room -
Scott McEwan
It’s worth being
ringside at 7PM when Headbones presents Queer Wrestling, a colorful
collaboration of showmanship, ritualism, choreography, and the
performative aspects of pro wrestling amidst an exhibition of Scott
McEwan’s Neo-Psychedelic paintings. Defiance Pro Wrestling grapples
with Christmas in wrestling gear by fashion designer Matthew
Simpson.
Srdjan Segan (Solo
Exhibition)
November 1- 30, 2007
It is as if we are now familiar with
another species, for the large drawings of Srdjan Segan are becoming
a recognized shape on the horizon of Toronto's art landscape like a
subliminal giant or an archetypal figure. The tall beings dangling
from Woolfitt’s Art Supplies on Nuit Blanche arrested passer-bys as
they gaped at the giant drawings. Concurrently, a solo exhibition
was held at the Detroit Industrial Project Gallery from September
15th - October 20. Several 33 foot long drawings hung with their
feet from the rafters dipping into Headbones booth #825 at the
Toronto International Art Fair. On November 3, Segan's solo
exhibition at Headbones Gallery opened to an enthusiastic crowd
where once again exclamations of wonder and awe resounded in the
space transformed by the paper visitations.
Two time recipient of the John B.
Aird drawing competition, Segan has put charcoal and coffee (simple
necessities of an artistic practice) to use to expand the parameters
of size with passionate deliberation and delivery.
On November 21 at 7:30, Headbones the Drawers will host an 'artist
talk'. We extend a warm invitation to join us at Headbones Gallery
to listen as Segan illuminates the creationism that led to the birth
of these larger-than-life humanoids.
Press
Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto
September 8, 2007
Abstract (Colour)
Color can be the sole focus of abstraction as in the color field paintings of
Heidi Thompson. It can differentiate between elements and describe space as in
the work of Steve Rockwell or it can carry geometric associations as with George
Dewitte's dot works. Color serves to express a display of emotional states,
symbols and conditions in Cesar Forero's paintings and choreographed
performances. And then there is color as a team member, a component in a
symphony where form, composition and color combine to celebrate a new vision as
in Klunder's, Bigelow’s, Noestheden’s and Meledandri's work. In this exhibition,
the component of color is as necessary to the work as the spirit that carries
life.
Gykan Project Room
The Gykan Project Room will be featuring colour abstract paintings by George
Dewitte
October 6 -
November 1
Robert Bigelow
George Dewitte
Cesar Forero
Harold Klunder
Nina Meledandri
John Noestheden
Steve Rockwell
Heidi Thompson
Press
Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto
September 8, 2007
Abstract (B&W)
Abstraction – an opportunity to ignore the pressing concerns of representational
thinking, loaded as it is with meaning – delves into a freer vision. By paring
the flight of freedom down to black and white, Headbones Gallery opens its fall
season with a power packed slate of artists whose diversity exemplifies numerous
visual possibilities with an astonishing range of greys in between the polarized
opposites.
Gykan Project Room
The Gykan Project Room will be featuring colour abstract paintings by Gertrude
Kearns
September 8 - October 4
Karl Heinz Boyke
Angiola Churchill
Alan Glicksman
Gertrude Kearns
Ortansa Moraru
John Noestheden
Bryan Ryley
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May 17, 2007
Bona fide
Have you ever felt when looking at a piece of art work that you might be falling
into the state of one of those silly peasants who were fooled into believing
that the Emperor had on clothes and that perhaps there was an element of fraud
in the work? “Bona Fide” is a presentation of work that is absolutely real and
without fraud. We have gathered solid, earnest artists that have made work in
good faith that attests to an inherent veracity, rare hits of substance in a
world prone to a quick fix.
Gykan Project Room
The Gykan Project Room will be featuring animated vignettes by: Paula Jean Cowan
May 17 - June 28
Paula Jean Cowan
Diane Feught
Johann Feught
Ed Giordano Jr.
Susan Hamburger
Jenny Laden
Jeffrey Thompson
Nanna Vonessamieh
Ruth Waldman
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April 5, 2007
For Font's Sake
Before the Tower of Babel fell, it attempted to reach heaven but the confusion
of language brought the grand ambition to a crumbling close. Text based work,
often dry visually has a critical bite that clearly is picking up on a chaotic
chatter. Transferred into didactic sayings or cryptic clues to the meanings of
societal mores; the messages seem to be working as visual configurations in
league with the shapely fonts.
Gykan Project Room
Stephan Bircher and Patrick Mimran along with story telling by Allen Merovitz will be featured in the Gykan Project Room.
Headbones Gallery would like to thank both Gykan Enterprises Inc. for the use of
the space and SML Graphic Solutions for their generous support in printing the
large banners for this project.
Apr.
5 - May. 15
Carin Covin
Briar Craig
Scott Ellis
Stephan Erasmus
Patrick Mimran
Christopher Olson
Ed Varney
Daryl Vocat
Stephan Bircher
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February 22, 2007
Ethnic Convergence
There is an ethnic convergence within the art world that makes it a far richer
place in which to appreciate cultural and characteristic diversities. By
bringing together the work of ten artists whose nascent cries were first made in
far distant lands, Headbones, The Drawers, pays homage to cultures other than
Canadian, and like a global bazaar, the sights are astounding.
Feb. 22 - Apr. 3
Rana Bishara
Ellen Butler
Adrian Doura
Saroj Jain
Erik Jerezano
Ashley Johnson
Goro Kadoi
Victor Klassen
Mahmoud Meraji
Srdjan Segan
Press
Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto
January 11, 2006
Highly Recommended
The most enthusiastic, vociferous and intuitive audience for art is the one made
up of artists. They stay the longest, discuss the most, pinch pennies in order
to acquire, boo the loudest and leap the highest in standing ovations.
Headbones, The Drawers has turned to the artists from 2006 for their
recommendations. How apt for the title of the exhibition that coincides with the
presentation of the HEADBONE AWARD to be Highly Recommended, referring to the
fact that the current choice of paper works was chosen from Headbone's artist's
recommendation, for who has a better and more concerned finger on the pulse than
the artists themselves!
Jan 11 - Feb 20, 2007
Billy Copley
Mitchell Friedman
Sybil Goldstein
Karina Kalvaitis
Jesse McCloskey
Becky Parisotto
Laurie Sponagle
Anthony Taylor
Kathleen Vance
Press
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December 9, 2006
An Exotic Erotic Christmas
In a season when clichés abound, Headbones, The Drawers is stepping outside of
the norm and presenting a show of exotic works that are striking and unusual in
their effect and appearance. With paper works both suggestive and explicit, a
fire performance, the titillation of eroticism amongst an exotic crowd and the
swinging jazz of Joe Sealey and Paul Novotny on opening night - an Exotic Erotic
celebration is in place.
Dec. 9 - Jan. 11
Tom Ackermann
Michaele Berman
Irina Dascalu
Andy Graffiti
Bogos Kalemkiar
Donna Kriekle
Zachari Logan
Julie Oakes
Gord Smith
E.J. Wickes
Ivan Yovanovich
Press
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November 16, 2006
Indie-Picks (Independent Curator’s Selection)
With the recommendations and commentaries from perspectives other than our own,
Headbones Gallery is stirring the mix by inviting curators to select or comment
on a phenomenal drawer. This refreshing show that ignites through spontaneous
combustion once again attests to the wisdom of 'two heads'.
Artist followed by Curator: David Pirrie by Julie Oakes, Osvaldo Ramirez
Castillo by Zachari Logan, Dakota McFadzean by David Garneau, Robert Malinowski
by Monika Burman, Andy Moon Wilson by Andrea Pollan, Ron Giii by Oliver Girling,
Guy Boutin by Daniel Erban, and Charles Bronson by Headbones.
Nov. 16 - Dec. 9
Charles Bronson
Guy Boutin
Osvaldo R. Castillo
Ron Giii*
Robert Malinowski
Dakota McFadzean
David Pirrie**
Gord Smith
Andy Moon Wilson
Press
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October 12, 2006
X-Country Selection
From July 1st to August 31st, Headbones, The Drawers, took to the road, driving
from Quebec to British Columbia taking the Canadian route on the way there and
the American on the return, exposing artworks presently held by Headbones from a
portable drawer containing over one hundred works on paper and reviewing new
work. From this exploratory viewing program, we have selected the works of ten
artists for our “Cross Country Selection” with an opening reception on Thursday,
October 12 from 4 until 8 PM.
The fact that Halloween falls within this show seems to have spookily worked its
way into the content. From the skeletal sculptures of Stephan Bircher, to the
macabre blood drawings of Daniel Erban, even extending into Sue Rusk with her
Sonata series or John Noestheden's meticulously rendered night skies, the
atmosphere in the gallery will be charged, 'all hallow', and in tune with the
spirit of magic.
Oct. 12 - Nov. 16
Thomas Ackermann
Stephan Bircher
Angus Bungay
Daniel Erban
Mary Hrbacek
Michael Lane
Jefferson Little
Khaled Mansur
John Noestheden
Sue Rusk
Press
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September 7, 2006
Beauty & Obsession
Beauty and Obsession meet each other in the realms of love and art, realms where
an allowance is made for the indiscretion of indulgences. Headbones, The Drawers
addresses Beauty and Obsession through the subject, the technique, the aesthetic
and the body in the works of Aleks Bartosik, Carin Covin, Johann Feught, Alan
Glicksman, Catherine Hahn, Shelagh Keeley, Jodi Panas, Heidi Thompson, Gord
Smith, and Kerry Stevens. Each of these artists has their approach and specific
concern where the obsessive nature of creating art is placed at the beck and
call of our notions of Beauty.
Headbones, The Drawers is beginning the fall season by addressing two great
themes. You are invited to the opening from 4 to 8 PM on Thursday, September 7
when we will be presenting the work in our new street level location at #102,
260 Carlaw Avenue with a project room featuring the large scale drawings of
Aleks Bartosik and Carin Covin and an alley installation by Scott Ellis
celebrating the completion of his fiftieth collage from The Political Series.
Sept. 7 - Oct. 10
Aleks Bartosik
Carin Covin
Alan Glicksman
Johann Feught
Catherine Hahn
Shelagh Keeley
Jodi Panas
Heidi Thompson
Gord Smith
Kerry Stevens
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Press
Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto
May 25, 2006
Situation, Positioning,
Location
Situation, Positioning, Location
As summer approaches and the nomad movements of urbanites seek their country
respites, Headbones, The Drawers traces the imagery that comes from our personal
situations, which affected through positioning, results in location. Primarily
landscape based, this exhibition extrapolates on an essentially vague theme and
links the works of ten diverse oeuvres.
The Gykan Project Room
Iran , Iran and I ran with Bogos
There is another interpretation for 'situation' that pertains to ethnic and
cultural origin. By focusing on four Canadians with sympathetic backgrounds and
a combination of cultures and generations, the gaze of assimilation confronts
the present challenge - the making of art. Mahmoud Meraji and Mehrad Meraji are
father and son. Mehrad is in his second year at OCAD. Mohammad Mofrad graduated
from OCAD this year. All three were born in Iran. The generational and
experiential differences are intriguing as are the similarities and trends
between their bodies of work. Bogos Kalemkiar is Mahmoud's friend, of Armenian
descent and married to an Iranian woman. Armenia was occupied by Iran at one
time.
Their styles are diverse, even their mediums - Mohammad is a photographer - but
the subject remains the same. They all address 'their people’. The Meraji's
focus on family, Mohammad on stereotypical translations of ethnicity and Bogos
presents the masses.
May 25 - June 24
Daniel Anhorn
Susan Austad
Daphne Gerou
Margie Kelk
Peter Reginato
Robin Tewes
John Torreano
Lorne Wagman
Charles Yuen
Ben Woolfitt
Press
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April 22, 2006
Results of the headhunt
A
Selection of Heads
There are artists who are known for their heads - Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Angus
Bungay, Cynthia Karalla or Ann Kipling where a primary source of their research
and practice has been the human physiognomy. They are hanging on our walls, a
result of the headhunt. This generation of heads came after the tradition of
portraiture where egoism and historical record-keeping motivated the use of
heads as subject.
Headbones, The Drawers presents a portrait attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds and
documents the search for it's authenticity, but this is not a portrait show. The
Results of the Headhunt brings forward a selection from artists who have
succumbed to the irresistible urge to headhunt, to have a head to hang up, 'a
head of one's own' to examine with all of the ramifications of expression,
execution, subject, and association that they embody.
Daniel Anhorn, Michaele Jordana Berman, Daniel David, Andy Graffiti, Cherry
Hood, Gertrude Kearns, Kris Knight, Daniel Lee, Tom MacKenzie, Jennifer MacKlemm,
Mehrad Meraji, Maurizio Pellegrin, Srdjan Segan, Julie Oakes, Malcom Poynter,
Fred Tomaselli, Alphonse Van Woerkom, Charles Yuen and others address the head
from their particular perspectives.
April
22-May 23
Sergio Finamore
Rae Johnson
Harold Klunder
Judith Page
Lorraine Pritchard
Gord Smith
Jenny Wing Yee Tong
Selection of Heads
Press
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March 18, 2006
Narrative?
On Saturday, March 18, Headbones, The Drawers introduces ten additional Canadian
and international artists to its drawers. Exhibition dates are March 18 – April
21. The opening reception is March 18, from 4-8 PM.
Interrogating narrative has been the concern of art historians ever since the
end of the Renaissance when the meaning of the religious iconography was
understood by everyone laymen and the initiated alike. Now, as we attempt to
grab a handle of commonality in the many diverse narratives that run through our
multi-ethnic/racial/gender/political/ fantastical contemporary story telling,
Headbones, The Drawers assembles a selection of works on paper and questions the
narrative intent, the couching of the tale and the interpretation.
March
18-April 20
Daniel David
Jen Dyck
Eric Jerezano
Judith Jurica
Wanda Lock
Jesus Mora
Shauna Oddleifson
Srdjan Segan
Ruth Waldman
Scott Waters
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February 4, 2006
Drawers' Selection
On Saturday, February 4th Headbones, The Drawers introduces ten new Canadian and
International Artist’s to its drawers. Exhibition dates are February 4th – March
11th.
A hybrid gallery, something between Pierogi, Brooklyn and The Drawing Center in
New York, Headbones Gallery, The Drawers is inspired by the recent interest in
drawings and works on paper in the contemporary art market.
Managing Director of Headbones, The Drawers, Richard Fogarty translated his
interest in collecting artwork into Rich Fog Micro Publishing, printing and
publishing art catalogues and art books. He is producing catalogues for each of
the artists represented in the Drawers.
Assistant director, previous owner of Headbones Gallery, visual artist and art
writer Julie Oakes brings her established career and expertise to guide
selection and programming. For the past six years, Oakes has been living in New
York City where she acquired a Masters in Art and Art Professions from NYU, a
Masters in Social and Political Science (Cultural Theory and Criticism) from The
New School for Social Research and maintained a studio.
February 4-March
16
Ellen Butler
Phyllis Godwin
Jim Kalnin
Attila Richard Lukacs*
Malcolm Poynter
Tina Poplawski
Birgit Ruff
Bryan Ryley
Alphonse van Woerkom
Tom Wren
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December 14, 2005
Inaugural Drawers' Selection
On December 14, 2005, Headbones, The Drawers introduces the first ten Canadian
and International Artist’s to its drawers in Toronto. Exhibition dates are
December 14 – February 2.
In existence in British Columbia since 1995, now, “Headbones, The Drawers” will
be focusing on contemporary drawing and works on paper.
“The Drawers” will exhibit ten Canadian and International artists every month.
Following the exhibition month, the works will be placed in the drawers for
on-going viewing. This will make space for up to ten new artists to be exhibited
in the gallery space.
The mandate of the gallery is to encourage collecting at an entry level by
offering works for sale that are both affordable and of a high caliber.
Director, Richard Fogarty
Dec. 14/05 -
Feb. 02/06
Robert Bigelow
Billy Copley
Ed Giordano
Catherine Hahn
Cynthia Karalla
Donna Kriekle
Zachari Logan
Jesse McCloskey
Julie Oakes
Katia Santibanez
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