Postcard: Some Like It Hot: Reduxing the Pin-Up
SOME LIKE IT HOT: REDUXING THE PIN-UP opens tomorrow, Thursday August 5, with a reception from 7 to 11 PM
Press Release: Snowball Gallery & Workshop presents SOME LIKE IT HOT: REDUXING THE PIN-UP
SNOWBALL GALLERY
& WORKSHOP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP PRESENTS SOME LIKE IT HOT: REDUXING THE PIN-UP
TORONTO [July 16, 2010] Snowball Gallery & Workshop is pleased to present SOME LIKE IT HOT: REDUXING THE PIN-UP, a mixed media installation by Mary Theresa Lawlor. The show opens Thursday, August 5, 2010 with a reception from 7-11 PM. The exhibition will run through Sunday, August 29, 2010.
Though the art form of the pin-up may be most typically associated with the 1940s and 50s, early examples can be traced to the late 19th century. Throughout its history and into present day - whether in the form of a drawing or a photo - whether on a postcard, a calendar, or a magazine - the pin-up depicts idealized notions of beauty and attractiveness. Pen and ink, illustrated stories of The Gibson Girl by Charles Dana Gibson mark an early example. Forty years later, Betty Grable posters were 'pinned-up' to WWII GI bunks. While women have long been the pin-up subject, in the more recent past and today, men take their place alongside - think the fictitious Don Draper or the real Brad Pitt.
Aiming to trace this evolution, Mary Theresa Lawlor's Reduxing the Pin-Up consists of animating photographs, objects, and ephemera using contemporary media - such as the oversized copy machine and window crayons.
Mary Theresa Lawlor is an artist, teacher and collector. Her documentary photographs are in the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and John Hopkins Universtiy Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Snowball Gallery & Workshop is located in Toronto’s Parkdale Village at 1690 Queen Street West, just east of Roncesvalles. The gallery is open Thursdays & Fridays from 1-7PM and Saturdays & Sundays from 12-6PM. More information about gallery programming and events can be found at www.snowballgallery.com or by calling 416.456.4966.
Photos: ABC: Anything But Canvas Installed
Works pictured here by Aaron Li-Hill, Carlo Allarde, and Tony Yin Tak Chu.
Photos: ABC: Anything But Canvas Installed
Works pictured here [L to R] Tony Yin Tak Chu, Kathy Toth, Derek Power, Christofer Hutch, Istvan & Christian Toth, Shawn Skeir and Dani Nash.
Photos: ABC: Anything But Canvas Installed
Photos: ABC: Anything But Canvas Installed
CataBlog: ABC: Anything But Canvas
ABC: Anything But Canvas is now open and runs until Sunday, July 25th.
Click on the photos to bring up details about the artist and the work.
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Blog: July at Snowball Gallery & Workshop
SNOWBALL GALLERY
& WORKSHOP
JULY 2010
Hope Canada Day was or is continuing to be a refreshing holiday. Feels like it snuck up a bit, tucked in behind this G20 business. Though the country's another year older, the wiser bit, remains in question. Most Torontonians out and about yesterday seemed to be taking their cues from American psychologist and philosopher William James, who once said, "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." With that said, the art of being goes on.
Next week, ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting exhibition opens Thursday, July 8th with a reception from 7-11PM. The show is comprised of the works of fourteen contemporary artists from across Canada and runs until July 25th.
Our current exhibition, After School Special: The Student School Art Show has been extended through this Sunday, July 4th, if you haven't yet had a chance to check out the works of this next generation of artists. Lots of imagination and energy up on the walls.
Hope to see you around soon,
Alison
Press Release: Snowball Gallery & Workshop presents ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS
SNOWBALL GALLERY
& WORKSHOP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TORONTO [JUNE 27, 2010] Snowball Gallery & Workshop is pleased to present ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting exhibition. Featuring the works of more than a dozen contemporary artists from across Canada, the show opens Thursday, July 8, 2010 with a reception from 7-11 PM. The exhibition will run through Sunday, July 25, 2010.
Works by:
Carlo Allarde Dani Nash
Tammi Campbell Derek Power
Tony Yin Tak Chu Shawn Skeir
Shlomi Greenspan Josh Thorpe
Christofer Hutch Istvan & Christian Toth
Henna Kim Kathy Toth
Aaron Li-Hill
Curated by:
Alison Snowball
ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS is about getting back to basics. The word canvas has its early roots in the Greek kannabis or 'made of hemp', as the material was originally. Now, it is woven generally of cotton or linen. Canvas has been long valued for its durability yet flexibility, strong enough for a circus tent yet soft enough for a sail. It came into use as a painting surface in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, marking a shift away from the then common medium of wood panels. In the process, paintings became portable and separate from their surroundings, objets in and of themselves.
ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS acknowledges the important role of canvas in the development of painting, but questions what its legacy is now and will be. Is it a unique, material offering or a transcendant, metaphysical one? Or perhaps something else entirely.
Snowball Gallery & Workshop is located in Toronto’s Parkdale Village at 1690 Queen St. W., just east of Roncesvalles. The gallery is open Thursday & Friday from 1-7PM and Saturday & Sunday from 12-6PM. More information about gallery programming and events can be found at www.snowballgallery.com or by calling 416.456.4966.
Blog: After School Revolution
Gearing up for tomorrow night's opening of After School Special. It is a special privilege to be behind the scenes of this show - the energy and spirit of youth of The Student School artists is infectious. Can't wait for you all to see what they have made and hear what they have to say.
What is happening in here feels in stark contrast to political rumblings emanating out of G20 and now physical ones - thanks to an earthquake today in Toronto! Amazing, really. Can you say confluence of factors?
Seriously though, as a sampling of what the Students have to offer: a collaborative piece entitled Toronto Recycling: A Ship in Distress [2009], a critique of the City of Toronto's practice of sending 30,000 tonnes of waste a month to facilities in China and South Korea. There's the environmental impact of the shipping, the Students argue, and in the case of China, questions about labour practices at Nine Dragons processing facility. Read the statement accompanying the work on The Student School Art Blog.
Composed not only of the 8'x4' pencil crayon & marker work pictured above, but also of email correspondence between the class and city politicians. First a note to Mayor Miller, then dialogue with Vincent Sferrazza, Director of Policy and Planning for Solid Waste Management Services in the city and, in the end via Mr. Sferrazza, all city councillors. Mr. Sferrazza defers largely to existing contracts to explain ongoing shipments to China and cites high labour standards in South Korea. The students also highlight recycling best practices in Germany and Japan.
The correspondence concludes with an invite to the show - wondering whether Mr. Sferrazza or any of the councillors will be able to make it? Come down this weekend to see the full text of the dialogue. We all need to be a part of this conversation.
Kudos to The Student School teacher Janet Csontos for putting and keeping this show and group all together.