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Let’s talk contemporary art!

March 6 & 7, 2012 at 3 PM

TORONTO, February 14, 2012 – Glendon Gallery presents a conference by art historian Marie-France Beaudoin entitled Who is afraid of contemporary art? on February 5 & 6, 2012 at 3 PM.

The conference offers keys to understanding contemporary art, by showing the relationship between different periods of art history, from the Renaissance to today. Free admission. Limited sitting. Please reserve before February 29 by email: artculture@glendon.yorku.ca.

Conference is in French.

Biographifical notice of Marie-France Beaudoin

Co-founder of SKOL an artist-run center in Montreal, which she directed for nine years, then Director of the Centre d'exposition de Val-d'Or, Marie-France Beaudoin, teaches art history and has worked as an independent curator since 2001.  As such, she has curated several exhibitions including the international exhibition, At the crossroads of Art and medecine presented jointly by the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishops’s University and the Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke in 2008. 

Acknowledgments

Let’s talk art / Parlons d’art!  is subsidized by the Franco-Ontarian Arts Office of the Ontario Arts Council. We would like to thank all our media partners: L’Express and le Métropolitain, Radio-Canada’s radio and television media, CJBC860 AM, la Première Chaîne. Glendon Gallery operates within the division of Student Services at Glendon College, York University, under the direction of Rosanna Furgiuele.

Free admission. Limited sitting.  

Please reserve your place before February 29 by email: artculture@glendon.yorku.ca

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday: noon to 3 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information: 416-487-6721                          

Web site: http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/gallery.

Location: Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, M4N 3M6

Directions: Yonge subway to Lawrence station, 124 Sunnybrook bus, short ride to Glendon campus

Source: Martine Rheault, Artistic Coordinator, Glendon Gallery. 416-487-6859. marheault@glendon.yorku.ca

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Blobettes, plus

Opening Reception: February 7, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Glendon Gallery - February 7 to March 10, 2012

TORONTO, 23 janvier 2012 – Glendon Gallery presents from February 7th to March 20th, 2012, an exhibit by Ron Loranger titled “Blobettes, plus”. The opening reception will be held on Tuesday February 7th from 5 to 8 PM, in presence of the artist and the curator Marc Audette, and with the participation of performer Marc LeMyre, who will present a performance created for the exhibit at 5 pm & 7 pm. The collaboration between these two provocative artists will appeal to visitors curious about current trends in contemporary art. An event not to be missed.

The exhibit curator Marc Audette talks about Loranger’s artwork in these terms: “Ron Loranger has been combining ink drawings and watercolour for a number of years. The images in his drawings are drawn from different sources such as the television by means of his iPhone and the different social networks on the web.  This practice allows him to capture digital images that he then transposes or retransposes onto his watercolours, according to need. His works are made up of fairly large blobs and of fragmented drawings set randomly on paper.  The voluptuousness and viscosity of the pigments reveal a precise and laborious savoir-faire. The lines drawn in ink seem more akin to writing than to drawing. Yet on close observation we can detect animals, pieces of objects, and parts of landscapes. Drawings and blobs converge to form works of art at the confluence of plastic form and pictorial matter”.

The contribution of Marc LeMyre, poet and performer, to the exhibition project of visual artist Ron Loranger arose from a meeting between the two artists. LeMyre’s tools are words (stories) and images. He therefore wanted to work with performance material (performance art, sound poetry) by imagining narrative segments using the visual works created by Ron Loranger. Where Ron Loranger de-digitizes the images by stripping off the various layers that make media constructs of them, Marc LeMyre dresses the artist’s organic result in other layers of narrative and sound. 

Curator biography

Active curator at the Glendon Gallery since 2001, Marc Audette had study at the University of Québec in Hull and earned a Masters in Visual Arts from York University. He presently teaches visual arts courses in the Multidisciplinary Studies Department at the Glendon campus. Recipient of a Chalmers Professional Development Grant in Visual Art, Audette exhibits in many art galleries.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all our media partners: L’Express and le Métropolitain, Radio-Canada’s radio and television media, CJBC860 AM, la Première Chaîne. Thanks to the Franco-Ontarien Office of the Ontario Arts Council for their financial support. Thanks to the Advisory Committee Members: Nadine Bariteau, Colette Laliberté, Pierre Tremblay, Véronique Tomaszewski. Glendon Gallery operates within the division of Student Services at Glendon College, York University, under the direction of Rosanna Furgiuele.

Opening reception: February 7, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm

Performances by Marc LeMyre: 5 pm & 7 pm

PlGallery hours: Tuesday to Friday: noon to 3 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information: 416-487-6721 - web site: http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/gallery.

Location: Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, M4N 3M6

Directions: Yonge subway to Lawrence station, 124 Sunnybrook bus, short ride to Glendon campus

Ron Loranger and Marc Audette are available for interview in French and English.

Contact: Martine Rheault, Artistic Coordinator,

artculture@glendon.yorku.ca, 416-487-6859.

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Glendon Students Visual Arts Competition Exhibit

Opening Reception: January 17, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Glendon Gallery - January 17- 27, 2012

Toronto, January 3rd, 2012 – In September 2011, the Glendon Gallery launched, the second edition of the Glendon Students Visual Arts Competition Exhibit, following the tremendous success achieved last year. Continuing its tradition, the Glendon Gallery is pleased to announce its second edition running from January 17th to 27th, 2012. More than thirty students have answered the call and nearly eighty original works will be displayed as part of the exhibit. A variety of mediums will be represented: acrylic and oil paint on canvas, watercolours, drawings, sketches, mixed media and photographs.

The public is cordially invited to the Opening reception on Tuesday, January 17th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm in the presence of Rob Tiffin, Vice-President Students, York University, Kenneth McRoberts, Principal of Glendon College, Rosanna Furgiuele, Associate Principal, Student Services, Glendon College, Jaclyn Volkhammer, Representative of the Friends of Glendon and Andrée Paulin, President of the Glendon College Student Union.

Five prizes will be awarded during the opening reception

First Prize: Office of the Vice-President Students York University ($250)

Second Prize: Office of the Principal of Glendon College ($200)

Third Prize: Friends of Glendon ($175)

Fourth Prize: Office of the Associate Principal, Student Services, Glendon College ($150)

Fifth Prize: Glendon College Student Union ($100)

Participants in the exhibit

Ayla Altilia, Lise Brisebois, Jill Butler, Rusell Catangul, Melissa Cederqvist, Vanesa De Marco, Emmanuel Elkabas-Besnard, Duncan Field, Olivia Filetti, Sébastien Goulet, Jalal Halabi, Karleigh Hayes, Mohammad Heematally, Nazampal Jaswal, Elodie Li, Kelly Lui, Marika Malagon, Caitlin Moran, Tammy Moreno Garcia, Ursula Nacked Cabral, Grace Nguyen, Kristen Pereira, Olga Polstvin, Heriberto Portillo Lerma, Harold-Alexis Scheffel, Michelle Sciuk, Anastasia Shyla, Nathan Staer Nathan, Nidhi Teli, Meg Tobin-O'drowsky, Ginette Tremblay-Twinem, Libby Urquhart-Ducharme, Heidi  Vandenberg.

Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank all the students who participated in this competition as well as our generous sponsors and the jury members who were assigned the most difficult task of selecting the winners.

Our special thanks go to Kimberley Judd, curator of the exhibition and head of promotion Thank you to the Gallery student team members for their valuable contributions: Elizabeth Banerd: website, Anne-Sophie Boutet: exhibition set up, Janny Le: promotional materials design, Eninna Luli: display of information.

Glendon Gallery thanks its media partners for their support: L'Express and Le Métropolitain newspapers; Radio-Canada T.V., radio station CJBC 860 AM; the First Channel. The Glendon Gallery operates within the division of Student Services at Glendon College, York University, under the direction of Rosanna Furgiuele whom we thank for her support in the development of this project. Our thanks go to Fiona Kay, Director of Glendon student financial services for the administration of the awards.

We invite you to come to the Gallery to see and enjoy what inspires our students. We look forward to seeing you at the second edition of our Students Visual Arts Competition Exhibit. Refreshments will be served during the opening reception.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday: noon – 3:00 pm / Saturday: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

Location: Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M6.

Directions: Yonge subway to Lawrence station, 124 Sunnybrook bus (short ride to Glendon campus).

Media contact: Martine Rheault, Coordinator of Artistic & Cultural Affairs. 416-487-6859.

artculture@glendon.yorku.ca, www.glendon.yorku.ca/gallery

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The White Box Projekt “RE”

Glendon Gallery – November 30th to December 8th 2011

TORONTO, NOVEMBER 28, 2011 – From November 30th to December 8th 2011, Glendon Gallery of York University is showing a special event by a group of Glendon students composed by: Cora Chunzi, Olga Polstvin, Tijana Spasic. The exhibition kicks off on Monday, December 5th from 5 h 30 p.m. to 8:00 pm.

The new progressive manifestation of The White Box Projekt collective is titled “RE”. It is a performance that gives a chance to become re-born — a perpetual fantasy that a human has. It is a trip which can take you to other worlds—the worlds that we dare not touch or confront. The White Box Projekt is artistically communal and explores performance and painting through movement, speech, colour, and light.

Performances

Wednesday Nov. 30, 5-7 PM
Thursday Dec. 1st, 1-3 PM
Friday Dec. 2sd, 5-7 PM
Saturday Dec. 3rd, 5-8 PM

Opening

Monday, December 5th , 5:30 - 8 PM

Exhibit

Tuesday Dec. 6, noon - 3 PM
Wednesday Dec. 7, noon - 3 PM
Thursday Dec. 8, noon - 3 PM

Glendon Gallery thanks its media partners for their support: L'Express and Le Métropolitain newspapers; Radio-Canada T.V., radio station CJBC 860 AM; la Première Chaîne. The Glendon Gallery functions within the Department of Student Services at Glendon College, York University, under the direction of Associate Principal Rosanna Furgiuele.

Location: Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M6.
Directions: Yonge subway to Lawrence station, 124 Sunnybrook bus (short ride to Glendon campus)

Media contact: Martine Rheault, Coordinator of Artistic & Cultural Affairs. 416-487-6859.

artculture@glendon.yorku.ca, www.glendon.yorku.ca/gallery

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Warehouse (les Jardins)

Opening Reception: Tuesday October 25th, from 5:30 pm

TORONTO, October 17,  2011 – From October 25 to November 25, Glendon Gallery of York University is showing an installation composed of skulls, rags, boxes and paintings, titled Warehouse (les Jardins) by Guillaume Clermont, a young emerging artist from Quebec. The exhibition kicks off with the artist’s talk on Tuesday, October 25 at 5:30 p.m. and continues to 8:00 p.m., including a guided visit by curator Marc Audette. 

Artist Info

Guillaume Clermont lives and works in Montreal. After graduating from the Université Laval and the École supérieure des beaux-arts of Marseille, he is pursuing Master’s Degree at UQÀM. His work has been presented in Montreal (Centre d’exposition Circa, Art Souterrain, Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez), in Quebec City (Pan! Peinture 2, Non Maison 2) and in international locations including Warsaw, Marseille, Paris and Moscow. In 2008, he participated in an artist residency in Paris within the framework of Résidences Croisées France/Québec organized by Quartier Éphémère of Montreal. Last September, he took part in the Nantes-Montreal exchange initiated by the French association MPVite. Warehouse (les Jardins) is his first solo exhibition in Toronto.

Look at how this artist expresses his artwork: “Occasionally, claims are made about the end of painting or, more prophetically, its death. These recurrent prophecies have alternately brought about the dismissal, and the exaltation of the medium, disrupting existing means of thinking about painting, and, more broadly, image-making. Have we ever been as fully immersed in the flow of images as we are now, following the rise of the mass media, and in particular, the Internet? Thus submerged, are we not every day saturated with images?

Warehouse (les Jardins) proposes a critical take on the various discourses attributed to the contemporary image and its history. Set within the context of the Glendon Gallery, situated in an old manor of British architectural influence surrounded by its very own French garden and fountain, the exhibit engages with the Duchampian heritage of the 60’s and 70’s (Pop Art, minimalism and conceptual art) as well as archetypes drawn from the history of art (the painting, the skull, the fountain), in order to put forward a logic based on repeating motifs.

The spectator is thereby invited to wander through an installation that apparently has an incongruous and disorderly disposition, a true post-Warholian warehouse. Cardboards, boxes, fountains, paintings and skulls multiply and come apart within the space. Far from being arbitrary, these accumulations take part in the banality of the spectacle that they portray. This garden fantasy, as artificial as it may be, startles and contrasts with the abyss of the gallery’s white cube. The initial excess appears reassuring compared to the rigor and order imposed by the white walls of the gallery space. This begs the question: What remains?”

Exhibition Title: Warehouse (les Jardins)         Artist: Guillaume Clermont

Dates:  October 25 – November 25, 2011        Opening reception: October 25, 6:00 8:00 p.m.

Information: 416-487-6721                                Artist’s talk: September 25, 5:30 p.m.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday: noon – 3:00 p.m. / Saturday: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Location: Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M6.

Directions: Yonge subway to Lawrence station, 124 Sunnybrook bus (short ride to Glendon campus)

Acknowledgements

This exhibit was possible with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). We acknowledge the support of Quebec Toronto Office in Toronto. Glendon Gallery thanks its media partners for their support: L'Express and Le Métropolitain newspapers; Radio-Canada T.V., radio station CJBC 860 AM; la Première Chaîne. The Glendon Gallery functions within the Department of Student Services at Glendon College, York University, under the direction of Associate Principal Rosanna Furgiuele.

Media contact: Martine Rheault, Coordinator of Artistic & Cultural Affairs. 416-487-6859.

artculture@glendon.yorku.ca, www.glendon.yorku.ca/gallery