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Friday, May 6, 2022
FLAT FILE FRIDAY at the Morgan Lehman Gallery
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Gallery North, Prolonged Perception Recent Paintings by Doug Reina through May 22, 2022
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Doug Reina’s first solo exhibition at Gallery North, Prolonged Perception: Recent Paintings by Doug Reina highlights the artist’s exploration of obscure, ordinary spaces of contemporary life that are often shielded from view. Austere, brooding compositions, Reina’s paintings find a dream-like emptiness within back streets, shacks, and overgrown backyards. Each painting begins black. Color and form are added over a black ground, lifting them out of the picture plane. Colors blast forth. There are broad flashes of light, but the black ground remains visible everywhere. It pops out between brushstrokes or creates a colossal abyss below buildings, pulling the rug out from underneath them. There is a rootlessness here. We wander in some lucid dream, half remembered; amid dark voids and divine light. He leads us into a space of sharp contrasts, one in which our eye fragments into the surface it contemplates. | ||||||||||||||||
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A two-time Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient, Doug Reina has been a Long Island-based painter for 30 years. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally, and is included in significant private and public collections. Apart from his painting, Reina is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker magazine as well as with King Features Syndicate. He also co-curated the group exhibition Face to Face: Artists Painting Artists, at the Long Island Museum in 2019, was a co-founder of the North Shore Artists Coalition, and co-created LIMarts, a collaborative arts group for the Long Island Museum. He is also a Trustee of the Long Island Museum, has served on the Exhibition Committee for the Art League of Long Island, and teaches private studio classes at his studio in Setauket, New York. | ||||||||||||||||
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You're Invited! 15th Anniversary Summer Party Saturday, June 11 2022 of the Glass House
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Toronto Biennial of Art, through June 5, 2022 features for the week: Water, Kinship, Belief,
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TBA launches its first ever publication!This week, TBA launched the publication Water, Kinship, Belief, co-published by the Toronto Biennial of Art and Art Metropole. Spanning the 2019 Biennial, entitled The Shoreline Dilemma, as well as our 2022 edition, What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, this book is a “third” site, a place where the continuities, resonances, and dissonances between editions are made evident. Water, Kinship, Belief is a means to bring together the artists, artworks, collaborators, and ideas that have informed the exhibitions and programs.Couldn’t join us for the launch? Catch up on what you missed here. Water, Kinship, Belief will be available to purchase at select TBA sites soon, but you can purchase your copy anytime when you click here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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TBA Curatorial Fellowship HighlightThe Curatorial Fellowship Program, made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, was conceived of as an experimental and collaborative process through which emerging curators can cultivate personal curatorial methodologies, and realize a substantial curatorial project within the framework of the Toronto Biennial of Art. The inaugural fellows are Sebastian De Line (Haudenosaunee-Métis-Cantonese/Canada) and Chiedza Pasipanodya (Zimbabwe/Canada). "Ngozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings" by Chiedza PasipanodyaNgozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings is an ongoing curatorial project surrounding belief, death, and embodied listening. Following a series of familial roadside deaths surrounded by myth and uncertainty, this exhibition embarks along tributaries of thought exploring the unfinished nature of death with three artists – Timothy Yanick Hunter, Anne Zanele Mutema, and Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art, Ngozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings is made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, and with support from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. "The Shape of Sound" by Sebastian De LineComprising over fifty multimedia artists, musicians, designers and curators, Jatiwangi art Factory’s (JaF) artistic practices emphasize local rural life in relation to land and the terracotta industry in Jatiwangi District. Clay is central to all of their artistic and cultural activities in the spirit of community empowerment. As April 2nd, 2022 marked the beginning of the month of Ramadan in Canada, JaF rings in the opening of the Biennial while calling forth a time of fasting, introspection, and prayer observed by many community members of Toronto. The material remnants of this performance remain at the Small Arms Inspection Building for the duration of the exhibition. The Shape of Sound is made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, and in partnership with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Gardiner Museum. Accommodations generously provided by The Drake Hotel. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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About TBA The Toronto Biennial of Art is Canada’s leading visual arts event focused exclusively on contemporary art from around the world. For 10 weeks every two years, local, national, and international Biennial artists transform Toronto and its partner regions with free exhibitions, performances, and learning opportunities. Grounded in diverse local contexts, the Biennial’s city-wide programming aims to inspire individuals, engage communities, and contribute to global conversations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
28th Annual Sioux City ArtSplash (IA) September 3-4, 2022 Application Deadline 5/4/22
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