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FrameWork 4/13: Lee Henderson on Ian Carr-Harris
by susanhobbs
at Susan Hobbs Gallery
March 21st - April 27th
Posted
4/6/13
FrameWork 4/13
Lee Henderson on Ian Carr-Harris
From Sea and Sky: A True Diary Covering the Period of March 21st to April 5th, 2013, Containing Several Fictions.
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March 21, 2013
Three books, three tables, three ships, three oceans.
A variable edition or a tripartite object with variation built into its singular makeup.
Three epochs of exploration are invoked by galleon, corsair, and steamer (Forgive me for getting the types of ship horribly wrong, as I suspect I have; a gap in my boyhood education... [more]
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Ian Carr-Harris on Simple Present Future Anterior
by susanhobbs
Krista Buecking, Ian Carr-Harris, Didier Courbot, Brian Groombridge, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain, Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Liz Magor, Sandra Meigs, Althea Thauberger, Colette Whiten, Robert Wiens, Shirley Wiitasalo, Kevin Yates at Susan Hobbs Gallery
February 7th - March 16th
Posted
4/6/13
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Ian Carr-Harris on Simple Present Future Anterior
Ten Sentences on Susan Hobbs: courtesy of Sol Lewitt
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes... [more]
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Patrick Howlett on Simple Present Future Anterior
by susanhobbs
Krista Buecking, Ian Carr-Harris, Didier Courbot, Brian Groombridge, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain, Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Liz Magor, Sandra Meigs, Althea Thauberger, Colette Whiten, Robert Wiens, Shirley Wiitasalo, Kevin Yates at Susan Hobbs Gallery
February 7th - March 16th
Posted
4/6/13
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Patrick Howlett on Simple Present Future Anterior
I made two works for Simple Present Future Anterior. One is called
you can always come back (but you can't come back all the way).
The title comes from the last verse of a song by Bob Dylan called Mississippi. It’s a looking back-travel song, with a litany of mistakes and troublesome observations balanced with a defiant and brazen will to press on. Paradox is built into each verse:
Well my ship’s been split to splinte... [more]
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Didier Courbot on Simple Present Future Anterior
by susanhobbs
Krista Buecking, Ian Carr-Harris, Didier Courbot, Brian Groombridge, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain, Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Liz Magor, Sandra Meigs, Althea Thauberger, Colette Whiten, Robert Wiens, Shirley Wiitasalo, Kevin Yates at Susan Hobbs Gallery
February 7th - March 16th
Posted
4/6/13
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Didier Courbot on Simple Present Future Anterior
A few years ago I was preparing a show at Susan’s gallery. During the week of the installation I was invited for dinner at the French consulate in Toronto. While Susan drove me to the consulate that evening I started to talk about the fact that I was badly dressed to meet diplomats and government officials - I was in dirty working clothes that I had been wearing during the set up. As usual, Susan found the right words: "Didier,... [more]
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Sandra Meigs on Simple Present Future Anterior (A Powder of Feelings)
by susanhobbs
Krista Buecking, Ian Carr-Harris, Didier Courbot, Brian Groombridge, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain, Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Liz Magor, Sandra Meigs, Althea Thauberger, Colette Whiten, Robert Wiens, Shirley Wiitasalo, Kevin Yates at Susan Hobbs Gallery
February 7th - March 16th
Posted
4/6/13
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Sandra Meigs on Simple Present Future Anterior
A Powder of Feelings
Charles S. Peirce writes: “Time consists in a regularity in the relations of interacting feelings. Like begins to produce like. Then even pairs of unlike feelings begin to have similarity and then these begin to generalize… All this goes on in ways I cannot detail until the feelings are so bound together that a passable approximation to a real time is established. Unrelated feelings are like a powder of... [more]
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Liz Magor on Simple Present Future Anterior
by susanhobbs
Krista Buecking, Ian Carr-Harris, Didier Courbot, Brian Groombridge, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain, Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Liz Magor, Sandra Meigs, Althea Thauberger, Colette Whiten, Robert Wiens, Shirley Wiitasalo, Kevin Yates at Susan Hobbs Gallery
February 7th - March 16th
Posted
4/6/13
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Liz Magor on Simple Present Future Anterior
I’m sure that all the artists who work with Susan have experienced her ability to provide unusual support for projects and passions. She’s concierge-like in her arrangements for securing funding, making donations or finding a seat sale. She’s paralegal in pursuing insurance claims, getting into or out of contracts, and checking the fine print.
I have learned to value her input on both professional and personal matters and ab... [more]
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Brian Groombridge on Simple Present Future Anterior
by susanhobbs
Krista Buecking, Ian Carr-Harris, Didier Courbot, Brian Groombridge, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain, Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Liz Magor, Sandra Meigs, Althea Thauberger, Colette Whiten, Robert Wiens, Shirley Wiitasalo, Kevin Yates at Susan Hobbs Gallery
February 7th - March 16th
Posted
4/6/13
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Brian Groombridge on Simple Present Future Anterior
Twenty years ago I was lucky enough to have Susan ask me to be part of her new gallery.
When we talked about exhibiting, most times I would not have a particular idea of what I wanted to present. If I did put shape to an idea, by the time the show happened, it bore little resemblance to the initial idea. Something else always seemed to happen along the way. Susan allowing that complete freedom to do anything was rema... [more]
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Kim Neudorf on Patrick Howlett
by susanhobbs
Patrick Howlett at Susan Hobbs Gallery
December 13th, 2012 - February 2nd
Posted
1/23/13
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Kim Neudorf on Patrick Howlett
A sketch, a drawing, shavings of colour floating across a crammed shape of wood. Blinking, tiny with eyes glazed in the knot-hole of a naked expanse of white wall.
An arrow shape of flag. Plain fruit. Plastic blues and curving snips of green. Edges held fast. Flue closed. Soup tin and the slope of water. Balanced, hunched forward. Flat-rinse, watery lens. Get inside the shape, inside the outline of a thought.
Slow going. Ice cream pool, scrap... [more]
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Grazyna Adamska: Catalogue Edition
by Natalie Hegert
Posted
11/17/12
Grazyna Adamska Painting and Mixed Media
Lives & Works in: Guelph, Ontario, Canada Website: www.adamskapainting.com To Purchase Contact: Grazyna Adamska
Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka is a Canadian artist, born in Poland, whose work addresses depression from a female perspective. Adamska-Jarecka received her MFA in painting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA (2006) and Honors BA in Studio Art from University of Guelph, Canada (2002).
In 2010 she received the Au Natu... [more]
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Symbiotic baroque
by Lumir Hladik
Lumir Hladik at Museum of New
October 27th, 2012 - November 17th, 2012
Posted
11/15/12
This artform is very unique. A hybrid between conceptual and traditional art. Made with the help of wild black bears, martens, crows , songbirds, insects, snow, rain and fire. A very unpredicatble process with a reliquary object at the end. Hladik is using "divine" forces to intervene with his semi=readymades, which are then embalmed and preserved... [more]
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Special Edition: Art Toronto
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
10/29/12
WHY TORONTO?
by David Yu
If ever asked to conjure up a list of international art fairs I would bet Art Toronto is pretty low on that list (that’s even if the fair makes it on the list at all). With such heavy hitting art fairs like Frieze, Hong Kong International Art Fair, The Armory Show, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami, it’s obvious why Art Toronto could be overlooked on an international art market platform. However, Art Toronto does fill a necessary hole for Canadian... [more]
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Framework 9/12: Benjamin Tong on Krista Buecking
by susanhobbs
Krista Buecking at Susan Hobbs Gallery
September 13th, 2012 - October 27th, 2012
Posted
10/25/12
Good jokes depend on a kind of compression. Things are left out in such a way that produce an explosion of associations. There is a form of pressure, kPa, that exists inside all of us that is released when provoked by the forces interacting between various levels condensed in a joke. The best jokes are economical.
In her installation WE THING, Krista Buecking borrows the comedic device of the light bulb joke. The signature punch line almost always involves targeting certain traits of a... [more]
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FrameWork 3/12: Rebecca Duclos on Arnaud Maggs
by susanhobbs
Arnaud Maggs at Susan Hobbs Gallery
March 8th, 2012 - April 14th, 2012
Posted
10/25/12
Arnaud Maggs describes a deceivingly simple impetus for his latest series of photographs entitled After Nadar currently installed at Susan Hobbs Gallery. As he paged through a book that included Nadar’s studio portraits of actor Charles Deburau in character as Pierrot, Maggs knew he would somehow incorporate the poignant poses of the mime into a project of his own. In 2011 he purchased the book and set to work reconsidering and reconstructing Nadar’s expressive documentation of the 19th cent... [more]
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Framework 5/12: Renée van der Avoird on Kevin Yates
by susanhobbs
at Susan Hobbs Gallery
April 19th, 2012 - May 26th, 2012
Posted
10/25/12
While visiting New Orleans with his brother in 2010, Kevin Yates witnessed the effects of the BP oil spill in in the Gulf of Mexico first hand. The devastation of the spill, set against the backdrop of a city still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, formed the impetus for Yates’ latest body of work. Currently installed at Susan Hobbs Gallery, the exhibition consists of two highly realistic miniature ship models, as well as two experimental video works that the artist produced in collaboration wi... [more]
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Stripped right down to the peek-a-boo
by susanhobbs
at Susan Hobbs Gallery
May 13th, 2010 - June 26th, 2010
Posted
6/8/10
by R.M. Vaughan
If Shirley Wiitasalo ever decides to give up the painting racket, she could make a killing in burlesque. Wiitasalo is a sultry mistress of the art of peek-a-boo.
Her latest suite of acrylics on canvas at Susan Hobbs Gallery alternate between lush washes of colour and pattern and ethereal swipes of obscuring neutrals, creating a sensual, almost decadent tension.
This dance of absence and presence, bold and shy, is created, I was informed, by a “transfer process.” Appropriate... [more]
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John Macdonald at Odon Wagner Contemporary
by Odon Wagner
John Macdonald (CAN) at Odon Wagner Contemporary
February 4th, 2010 - February 27th, 2010
Posted
2/19/10
Here's a summertime show in the midst of winter: painting after painting of sun-basted, salt-encrusted denizens of beach culture, lying about on faithfully rendered stretches of sand, lounging beside turquoise tidal pools. Macdonald's holiday people swim, splash, dandle sunny children on their tanned knees (some of the children ride recreational ponies), and generally behave as if they haven't a care in the world.
These fortunate people are painted with an astonishing skill. Macdonald wields a... [more]
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