Ed Pien

Instructor Profile

Ed Pien//Current Exhibitions

The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool: Underwater

The Victoria and Albert Museum: China Through the Looking Glass

The Storey Art Gallery, Lancaster: Memento Touring Exhibition

Personal Websight Ed Pien

FASU TEA TIME

Beginning March 3rd
every Thursday,
Free and All Welcome

Featured Student Artist
Work By Courtney Kurysh

NAME: Courtney Kurysh
BIRTHDATE: September 12, 1987
AREA OF INTEREST: Performance art, video performance, large format photography
PRACTICE: Using self-imagery through the mediums of photography, video performance, and live performance, Kurysh questions issues of temporality and identity through her work. As she began to read more about photographic theory, particularly Sontag’s idea of “photography as the inventory of mortality”, Kurysh began to view her self-images as document of her presence and eventual absence and her own record of mortality, which led to an exploration of impermanence and temporality. These ideas are continually explored through her series photographs of fresh unmarked graves, “The Ground Will Forget”. As the body dissolves into landscape, it will eventually be physically absent while the memory remains present for those of the deceased. Having difficulty dealing with change, Kurysh appears to focus on the largest physical change we face in life: eventual death.

Her video and live performance practice comes from a fiercely feminist instinct and a constant questioning of female roles and expectation in Western society. Using her body as the canvas and drawing upon the use of masochism in performance art in the 1970s, she seeks to find a place for the confrontational art of that era in the twenty-first century. Drawing theoretical and physical inspiration from Martha Rosler and Vito Acconci respectively, Kurysh subjects her body various tortures of everyday female realities regarding body image, challenging the trappings of the female sex and hoping to come to grips with her own place in the continuum of female identity.

Call For Submissions

Gallery 1313

ECO ART 2011

Exhibit Gallery 1313

Earth Hour – March 26 8:30

Gallery 1313 is seeking artists whose art practice and discipline explores issues and concerns of the environment for an exhibition March 16-27 2011.

Reception March 17 7pm

This exhibit seeks art works that addresses issues of urban sprawl , buy local , eat local , air quality , water quality, energy conservation, clean renewable energy, global warming and other environmental concerns .

The exhibition will be curated by Gallery Director , Phil Anderson . Submissions will be accepted via email to director@g1313.org or philanderson@rogers.com

Please send a current CV , artist statement and 1-5 jpegs of works for consideration

Accepted artists will pay a admin fee of $45 per selected work .

Deadline March 9 2011

Gallery 1313 is also accepting new members in 2011 . Please go to our web site for details .

For more information please call 416-536-6778 or email director@g1313.org

Gallery 1313 1313 Queen St. West www.g1313.org

Gallery 1313 is celebrating 13 Years of operating in 2011 .

Inviting all

VISUAL ARTISTS

to submit their

work to the…

Multi-Faith Centre’s

Juried Art Show

Topic:

“Faith & Spirituality in Student Life: how students see their spiritual life or journey”

Contest Prizes:

1^st Prize $300

2^nd Prize $150

3^rd Prize $75

Deadline: 4pm Monday, March 1^st, 2011

For full Call for Submissions, or to submit your work, visit:
www.multifaith.utoronto.ca

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.

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

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!

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EYEBALL

You are cordially invited to Eyeball, the University of Toronto's one-night art show.

Free and open to all. There will be live music and a cash bar. Bring friends!

Originally home to Knox College, 1 Spadina Crescent is the distinctive Gothic Revival building constructed in 1875 that divides Spadina Avenue into two at its intersection with College Street. After Knox College became affiliated with the University of Toronto and then... moved into its current location in 1914, the building operated as a Military Hospital during the First World War and remained as a veteran's hospital until 1943. At this time, it was acquired by the University of Toronto's Connaught Medical Research Laboratories for the production of penicillin. Research in these labs later led to the discovery of the polio virus vaccine. Upon sale and relocation of the laboratories in 1972, it became an academic building.

As an academic building it currently houses the Visual Studies studios in the Fine Art Department and the Ontario division of the Eye Bank of Canada. It is from the Eye Bank of Canada that the Eyeball, the annual undergraduate visual studies art show, derives its name. Paying homage to the esteemed history of the building, the students hang selected art work in the building for night only and proudly open the doors for public display.

Cash Bar
Music by Tezeta