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| ART SCENE IN MARKHAM AND UNIONVILLE, ONTARIO |
 The Varley Art Gallery of Markham features frequently changing exhibitions from
the permanent collection as well as historical contemporary exhibitions drawn from local,
national and international sources. New ways of seeing and appreciating art are enhanced
through a broad range of dynamic hands-on art-related activities, including group tours,
school programs, studio courses and workshops, courses and lectures, and family
activities, designed to appeal to audiences of all ages and interests.The following are presented at various location in Markham and
Unionville, Ontario.
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To January 11
12th Annual York Region Juried Exhibition
In an annual tradition, 27 regional artists exemplify a broad range of talent in a wide
variety of media. Featured this year are:
- Mario Angel
- Julia Antaya
- Sandra Burke
- Donald Campbell
- Vivian Chan Simao
- Judith Donoahue
- Andrea End
- Sergei Firer
- Marta Franco
- Nunzio Fuina
- Irina Gorelkina
- Maxim Grunin
- Woman Bathing
- Jeanne Isley
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- Vita Keeling
- Teresa Kim
- Nancy Lam
- Johanna Meharg
- Anthony Palmer
- Edmund Prior
- Shamsi Shahrokhi
- Albert Soren
- Zelmir Stanojev
- Alex Tavares
- Christine Valentini
- Julie Waterhouse
- Paula Pui-Lan Wong
- Michael Zarowsky
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To January 11
Aligning with Beauty
This nationally and internationally is assembled exhibition is organized by guest curator
Julie Oakes, and consists of over 30 works in a wide variety of mediums and artistic
expressions. The exhibition groups the artists in five themes of exploration of the
concept of beauty.
Ms Oakes said “By bringing to the fore, art objects selected for this component - the
beauty factor - a rite of identification is enacted on the highest of aesthetic planes. A
common acknowledgement of beauty creates channels for communication and lifts the veil of
‘otherness.’ Aligning with Beauty is an exhibition in which beauty is embodied
in art, where beauty is both the subject and the object. We get such an overriding
sensation when beauty allows us to partake in “the nature of happiness – we
swoon”
Art is often aligned with beauty before beauty is aligned with art. The primary dictionary
definition of art as “the quality, production, expression or realm of that which is
beautiful” acknowledges the basis of beauty as the foundation of art.
Works by: John Torreano, Heidi Thompson, Angiola Churchill, Ortansa
Moraru, Carin Covin, Lorraine Pritchard, Johann Feught, Diane Feught, John Noestheden,
Donna Kriekle, Christian Bernard Singer and others are presented within their context and
subject matter.
Julie Oakes, Curator
Oakes has been the curator for Headbones Gallery since it first opened in British Columbia
in 1998 during which time she has written critical published commentaries for over two
hundred artists. She has a Masters Degree in Visual Arts from New York University and a
Masters Degree in Social and Political Science from The New School for Social Research in
New York. She has written for various periodicals including D’arte International,
Canon and Riverside Quarterly. With a dual career as an artist and writer, Oakes has shown
extensively, most recently presenting The Buddha Composed at The Varley Gallery of
Markham. Her work is in major collections such as The Glenbow Museum, The Norman MacKenzie
Art Gallery, The Mendel Gallery, The Vernon Performing Arts Center, SaskTel Corporation
Canada Council Art Bank, The Kenderdine Gallery and UBCO. |
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| January 2009 |
January 18 - March 8
Persona
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Persona presents the exciting and engaging work of contemporary artists who tackle new
ideas of self-portraiture. Rejecting the idea that the single image can communicate the
complexity of identity, General Idea, Shelley Niro, Rosalie Favell, Leesa Streifler,
Rafael Goldchain and Rebecca Belmore take on myriad guises to examine how differences in
class, race ethnicity, sexuality and gender interact in the construction of subjectivity. |
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January 18 - March 8
Possibility Suite
Artist and curator, Deborah Colvin
The Possibility Suite explores the concept of making a choice from a creative visual
standpoint, using as an analogy the musical form called the Suite. Suite a set of
instrumental pieces made cohesive by key and usually starting with a prelude. The
movements are separated yet joined together to create a whole. The visual suite works very
much in the same way. The Suite is constructed through a grouping of mixed media works,
such as paintings, image transfer with acrylic, interactive pieces (both 2D and 3D). |
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March 15 - May 3
Legally Deafblind
Organized by Natalie Schonfeld Howard
Legally Deafblind is a photo based multimedia body of work about individuals who are
deafblind, the importance of language and communication as a window to independence and an
intimate journey of discovery about our own dependencies on the senses. The purpose of
producing Legally Deafblind is to raise awareness about the reality of having a dual
sensory disability. It is meant to provide people without these disabilities an
opportunity to explore the inner world and needs of individuals who are deafblind, as well
as understand the dependence we have on our senses in relationship to the world around us.
The work is a journey of discovery into the individual lives of persons who are deafblind,
as well as a chronicle of their different sensory experiences, struggles and everyday
reality.
Legally Deafblind addresses the realities that coexist internationally under
Deafblindness. For the past 10 years, Natalie Schonfeld Howard has been photographing
deafblind individuals at different stages of their lives, each with a different degree of
deafblindness. The 45 photographs in this exhibition capture the everyday reality and
specifically on those moments of humanity that connect us all: moments of accomplishment,
laughter, joy, isolation and struggle. An interactive room will create perceptions of
deafblindness for visitors. |
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March 15 - May 3
Sorel Etrog - "Portraits"
Curated by Katerina Atanassova |
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March 15 - May 3
Legally Deafblind
Artist & Curator, Natalie Schonfeld Howard
Legally Deafblind is a photo based multimedia body of work about individuals who are
deafblind, the importance of language and communication as a window to independence and an
intimate journey of discovery about our own dependencies on the senses. The purpose of
producing Legally Deafblind is to raise awareness about the reality of having a dual
sensory disability. It is meant to provide people without these disabilities an
opportunity to explore the inner world and needs of individuals who are deafblind, as well
as understand the dependence we have on our senses in relationship to the world around us.
The work is a journey of discovery into the individual lives of persons who are deafblind,
as well as a chronicle of their different sensory experiences, struggles and everyday
reality. |
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May 21- October 11
Carnival: The Spirit & The Soul
Curated by Teodoro Dragonieri with assistance from Christopher Jackson.
The use of the mask as an element of transformation and storytelling is common to most
cultures throughout the world to varying extents. Today’s practitioners have woven a
rich fabric from many of these traditions, creating new and vital forms of presentation
and performance. This exhibition will examine tradition-based and more contemporary
aspects of the uses of theatrical narrative and masking incorporating masks, photography
and mixed media. Artists include Jeffrey Chock, Mieke Bevelander, Vincenzo Pietropaolo,
Esther Dragonieri, Robert Faust, Teodoro Dragonieri, Paolo Consiglio |
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