Sunday, January 30, 2011


Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am

January 20 to March 20, 2011
Reception: January 19, 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Curated by Helen Legg, Barbara Fischer and Kitty Scott

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery is pleased to announce the first major Toronto exhibition of the work of Vancouver-based artist Ron Terada.

Ron Terada has come to international attention for his deadpan appropriations of vernacular texts typically drawn from street signage, popular music, television and advertising. Through their reproduction in media such as painting, graphic posters and video projections, Terada’s work harkens back to the cool, language-based formats of 1960s conceptual art but elicits decidedly contemporary questions. Does the name of a city confer its meanings to those who live there? Do the sponsors of an exhibition inform the identity of the artist? Is the play-list on his iPod a cue to his generational alignments or an expression of his most intimate longings? Just how, or even whether such circumstantial evidence can become an index of subjectivity, these are some of the constant puzzlements in Ron Terada’s propositions. The evidence may seem to deliver the ‘artist’ as a definable entity to the world around him – but in actuality it comes in the form of provocative passivity, itinerant chains of references, and comedic displacements, such as in Terada’s appearance as a poster boy in the form of a modular stack of cardboard boxes that contain multiple copies of his exhibition catalogue Ron Terada: Who I Think I am.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Shary Boyle


The 5th Annual GUStA SYMPOSIUM

REBELLION: SUBVERSIVE PERSPECTIVES. This conference will encourage the fruitful exchange of cross-cultural research as panelists seek to explore the implications of controversial visual practice from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Keynote address, January 27, given by SHARY BOYLE at the Art Centre.

Day Trip to Buffalo


The Education and Outreach Subcommittee for the Hart House Art Committee presents: Bus Trip to Buffalo!
January 29th, 2011
8AM- 8PM


Join us in visiting the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, or explore Buffalo on your own, or do both!
The bus will leave Hart House at 8 am and return to Hart House by 8 pm

Included:
*Your very own Buffalo visitors guide
*Art Videos will be playing on the bus
*Snacks for the bus ride

Price for round trip bus ride: $30+HST*
*To go to Albright-Knox Art Gallery it will be an additional $6 for students or $8 for adults

All are welcome.
Reservation is required. Space is limited. Please book tickets at the Hub in Hart House starting January 12th.
For more information contact hh.educationcommittee@gmail.com
or check out the facebook group

Featured Artist

Featured Student Artist


Work by Viosana Shkurti

NAME: Vjosana Shkurti
BIRTHDATE: April 13th, 1989
AREA OF INTEREST: Video, Photography, Painting, Writing
PRACTICE:

Characters and stories
Characters in things.
Personal stories.
Impermanence is constantly there, paradoxically.
I am always there but moving around.
Scratching the wounds that seem to have healed.
Can you see them bleeding?



check out more by Viosana Shkurti here

Friday, January 21, 2011


Hart House Film Challenge


Can you make a film in 74 hours?
Every Friday at 10:00am a new challenge will be posted.
Films must be uploaded by noon the following Monday to be eligible for prizes.
An advance schedule of genres and special themes is posted.
Too busy this weekend? We can wait. A new challenge posted every week.
Enter as often as you like.
For details: www.harthousefilmchallenge.com


The weekly themes/genres are:

December 17-20 Comedy
December 24-27 Tragedy
December 31 – Jan 3 Party
January 7 – 10 Action
January 14 – 17 Horror
January 21 – 24 Unknown
January 28 – 31 Fantasy
February 4 -7 Western
February 11 -14 Romance
February 18 – 21 Film Noir
February 25 – 28 Awards
March 4 – 7 Science Fiction
March 11 – 14 Thriller
March 18 – 21 Melodrama
March 25 – 28 Musical
April 1 – 4 Fooled

Trin

the trinity college art show-open call











If the art-making impulse speaks to you, please contact us at trinitycollegeartshow@gmail.com by January 28. We request that you attach images/videos etc. of some previous work, and a brief statement indicating why you want to make work for the 2011 TRINITY COLLEGE ART SHOW!