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Ziegler's brilliant use of casting light, warm palette and foreboding darkness continues to draw us deeper into a world laden with stories of profound sentiments, solitude, and reassuring familiarity. Hardly before or after pictures, Treacy Ziegler's new works are of the contemplative present. It is the now of these works that intrigues. The connoisseur's taste for light and shadow, the virtuosic...   [more]

Opening: June 6th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Video artist Frédéric Moffet’s works engage in a disappearing act, aiming for a conflicting sense of loss, nostalgia and resilience. POSTFACE looks back at troubled 1950’s screen idol Montgomery Clift, whose private life and career spiralled downward after a 1956 car crash left his face scarred and partially paralyzed. The video is an exploration of obsolescence, the project serving as a eulogy to...   [more]

Opening: May 24th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: May 30th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Impact Resistance features photographs and video that reflect philosophical engagement with the passage of time. Three photographic series, 33 bathhuts and a hotdogstand,  Remnants, and Swimmers, pivot on moments of emotional vulnerability, exploring their place in human memory.  Complemented by abstracted seascapes, these gentle and contemplative works prompt us to meditate on the formative moments...   [more]

Opening: May 30th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Opening: May 30th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Googleheim, curated by Horea Avram, presents six web-based artworks by an international group of artists. As the title suggests, the exhibition investigates the competing modes of visual cultural memory between models such as "Google Image Search" and traditional visual art institutions, such as the Guggenheim. The works in the exhibition each examine the massive proliferation of images, video, and informati...   [more]

Opening: June 7th   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Opening: May 30th   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Opening: May 24th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Dancing with Che: Enter Through the Gift Shop, in the MOCCA retail lounge, is an intervention-installation of Che Guevara souvenirs. Artist Barbara Astman considers what it means for a cultural icon to appear on a multitude of mass produced consumer items. The artist entices visitors with her retail display but does not allow them to satiate their consumer desire - none of the objects are for sale...   [more]

Opening: June 22nd   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to present recent sculptural work and photographs by Berlin and Montreal-based – and former Toronto artist, David Armstrong Six. Working in a diverse range of materials, including wood, bronze, plaster, metal and glass, this new body of work, referred to as “associative abstraction” and that often evokes the human figure, was produced in Be...   [more]

Opening: June 22nd   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last...   [more]

Opening: June 22nd   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Join the ROM Friends of Contemporary Culture and special guests for an after-hours tour and Curated Conversation over wine and hors d'oeuvres. After a private tour of the exhibition in Roloff Beny Gallery with ROM Curator, Deepali Dewan, exchange perspectives with interesting strangers and special invited guests as we explore what it means to be in awe of the natural world. Curated Conversations are built on the idea that meaningful dialogue is not only satisfying but...   [more]

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New York-based artist Richard Barnes' photography has been shown in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, and the University of Michigan Art Museum. His works can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Metr...   [more]