April 30, 2013
Please join us Thursday May 2 from 7-10PM for the opening reception of ‘Unreleased’, presented as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Festival
2FIK’s latest body of work “Unreleased” explores the gap that can exist between a person’s sense of belonging within a culture, and the culture’s opinion of that person. In this work, 2FIK performs multiple visions of “self,” while exploring the positive and negative prejudices that accompany visual perceptions of the “other.” This exhibition presents a series of dramatic tableau photographs in which characters from different cultures meet and evolve.
This exhibition marks a special occasion in gallerywest history. The artist 2FIK is gallerywest’s inaugural exhibitor (“Chosen Identities”, 2010) and in many ways has contributed to the standard of success gallerywest is able to achieve as a space for contemporary art through his own standard of excellence and fearlessness.
Since October 2010 gallerywest has housed over twelve shows a year and continues to provide an environment for unique conversations and experiences with art and community.
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A catalogue of 2FIK’s work will be available at gallerywest throughout the month of May featuring a text written by Evan Tyler.
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April 24, 2013
Currently showing at gallerywest!
OCAD University Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design End-of-Year Show
PART II
April 23 - 27, 2013
Opening reception:
Friday, April 26, 7pm - 12am
Perspectives is a two-part exhibition featuring work by OCAD University’s graduate candidates in the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design program. Incorporating interdisciplinarity as a method, the work shares a conceptual approach rather than a common theme. The result is a panorama of work produced over the past six months.
For more information, see the Facebook event, or contact Brette Gabel at brettegabel@gmail.com
Please join us at gallerywest for this FREE and absolutely sinister rap show. It is the first official rap event at gallerywest and marks and important one night-only song and dance coming together of rap-vets IRA LEE and EVAN TYLER.
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April 10, 2013
Zellers
April 1, 2013
April @ gallerywest
gallerywest presents:
michael dent
featuring a Funeral for Zellers
April 4-20, 2013
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 4 from 7-11PM
Spring is commonly associated in art and literature with hope and new life, with the physical presence and untested promise of new life, with actual and metaphorical fresh starts. It seems a time of joyful innocence, of fresh energy and awakenings. Spring has a darker side, too, and this dark side forms the essence of Michael Dent’s newest show, entitled Prints Of Darkness.
Spring can also be seen as tragi-comic, pratfall slapstick, as we witness the yearly parade of bold and bright young critters as they become willing, unwitting fodder for car tires or failed flights.The work documents life’s undeniable cruelty to the innocent, the adventurous, the fearless and the brave.
The viewer may also understand that every bit of rotting flesh becomes, in time, the groundwork and the food for future dreams.
February 27, 2013
March @ gallerywest
PARKS & WRECK
Nathalie Quagliotto
March 7-30, 2013
Opening Reception: March 7 (7-10 PM)
For this solo exhibition, artist Nathalie Quagliotto continues her investigation of discarded, abandoned, and discontinued children’s objects in the show PARKS & WRECK, presenting photography, video, and a sign work surrounding disturbing images of play and playgrounds.
More info: http://www.gallerywest.info/upcoming.html
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February 13, 2013
Here are some of the photos from the opening reception of ‘Whitney’s Biennial’ by Jamie Cooper
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February 2, 2013
Whitney’s Biennial
Jamie Cooper
February 7-28
Opening Reception: February 7, 7-10 PM
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February 1, 2013
BLOUIN ARTINFO Canada’s Top 30 Under 30
Congratulations to gallerywest’s Evan Tyler!
Evan Tyler, 27, is a visual artist, writer, curator, and gallery director. He works in video, drawing, text, performance, and photography and often employs monologues to tell stories of “the human condition in all of its mundane brilliance.” Tyler currently resides in Toronto, where he is the owner and the director of programming at Gallerywest, a contemporary art gallery located on Queen Street West. Since the fall of 2010, the gallery has exhibited 28 shows in multiple media by local, national, and international artists, with an emphasis on emerging prairie artists.
Read the full list here.
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January 25, 2013
Review of TROPHY
By Jon Sasaki
I exited the gallery safe in the knowledge that the absurdities that make us laugh are also those that make us think.
Since we’re on the subject of funny, I almost laughed out reading the list of artists in gallerywest’s current group exhibition Trophy when I came upon the best collective name in recent memory: Phomohobes. The Regina-based duo of Colby Richardson and Jason Cawood make collages, one of which is included in this spotty assembly of videos, sculptures, photographs, and more. Like any compilation album, a couple tracks hit it out of the park amid the dross.
