YYZ OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY 04 MAY 2012, 8-10PM
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OPENING RECEPTION YYreZidency SATURDAY 05 MAY 2012 - STILL ON YYZUNLIMITED GALLERY HOURS FOR INTERVIEWS
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| LIBBY HAGUE | BE BRAVE! WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER
Libby Hague’s installation is to be viewed as a psychological self-portrait that traces patterns of influence as they move between creative life and private life. The themes that often recur in Hague’s work –risk and luck, disaster and rescue– are transposed into an approximate timeline of the complicated and contradictory textures of her life. Here is the beginning; the forgotten things; the boredom; the family dynamics; the accidents; the patterns; the nightmares; the sex; the love; the fun. The exhibition will consist of an immersive woodcut installation including the Toronto premier of Hague’s pleated paper structures. In addition, abstract puppet sculptures will be suspended from tracks on the ceiling. These puppets are to be reconfigured by the gallery audience, moving around but never going away, accumulating like our personal history. Part creature and part object, the puppets are made to stand and sit. Then they stand and sit again, in a “lower-case” ideal of continued effort. By moving them, we give them a half-life that engenders in us a strange empathy and impatience. They test our patience with their repeated and almost inevitable failures; they test our optimism with their inability to learn or show gratitude. Together they speak to the isolation and interconnection of beings. As part of the YYreZidency program, the lengthy duration of the show will allow for several interventions and performances to take place within the gallery; the anticipated super-energy combo of sculptural drama and live human performance. The interventions/performances are scheduled for Saturday afternoons in June, with open rehearsals happening any time during regular gallery hours. A variety of documentation will be made and presented as a small video series through the social media outlet YouTube. Please visit www.yyzartistsoutlet.org and www.libbyhague.com for details. LIBBY HAGUE is a Toronto-based visual artist who works primarily in print installation. She recently held solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, ON), Galerie Circulaire (Montreal, QC), La Centrale (Montreal, QC), the Durham Art Gallery (Durham, ON), and at the Art Gallery of Mississauga (Mississagua, ON). She has traveled internationally to install her work in the International Paper Art Exhibition and Symposium, Chung Shan National Gallery (Taipei, TW), Miner for a heart, curated by Yael Brotman for Impact 7 (Melbourne, AU), and for IPCNY’s New Prints 2011/Autumn (New York City, USA). Hague was the recipient of the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Award. She is represented in many public collections including the Musée du Québec , Confederation Center, Anderson Collection, University of Buffalo, Bank of Montreal and the Donovan Collection at the University of Toronto. JAIME ANGELOPOULOS | THE THIEF IN YOUR SLEEVE
Like Air & Water, 2012, plaster, paper mache, cardboard, twig, steel pipe, oil paint, balloons, rebar, 64x36x20 inch. Photo credit: Ward Bastian. Jaime Angelopoulos presents a new body of sculptures exploring figuration and gesture through abstract form. Angelopoulos’ sculptures are relational in scale to the human body, often evoking a figure in motion, or metaphorically, they allude to a heightened emotional state. Colour, texture, and form become emotive layers within each work, while narrative based titles invite the viewer’s participation, infusing ambiguous forms with personal meaning. JAIME ANGELOPOULOS received her MFA from York University (2010), and BFA from NSCAD University (2005). She completed Post Baccalaureate studies at Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, TX (2006-07), and an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2006). Angelopoulos works primarily as a sculptor, but also creates large-scale drawings. Her sculptures are constructed primarily in fabric, plaster, and found objects. Angelopoulos has presented solo exhibitions at Parisian Laundry (Montreal, QC), Stride Gallery (Calgary, AB), Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax, NS), Meadows School of the Arts (Dallas, TX), and The Banff Center for the Arts (Banff, AL). Her works are included in the collections of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ALDO Group, York University, BMO, as well as private collections. Angelopoulos is represented by Parisian Laundry in Montreal. She lives and works in Toronto. Jaime Angelopoulos gratefully acknowledges the support of the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. STILL ON
Jacob Horwood: Detail Without a Drawing Board, 2011. (Detail). Image courtesy of the Artists. YYZUNLIMITED invites artists to imagine and reinvent YYZ as a site of opportunity through a series of “interventions.” These interventions engage potential sites outside of YYZ’s regular programming. Horwood developed these series of screenprinted one and two-off pieces with little emphasis on design. He wishes to demystify the idea that in screenprinting, a piece of art is first designed in its entirety, and then produced. The execution of the work and its composition is completed almost entirely in the studio by the artist. This stresses the practice itself, relying on trial and error, as well as color harmony to create new work. This series is a more spontaneous practice, and utilized as little source material as possible. JACOB HORWOOD is a Toronto-based visual artist who works in printmaking, publishing and sound art. In 2004, he co-founded the experimental sound art record label Beniffer Editions. It has released over 110 hand-made artist multiples on various formats, including LPs, books, box-sets and cassettes. Horwood is the administrator of Punchclock Printing and works as a specialty screen printer, assisting other artists and designers interested in the full realization of their ideas. He is also one-half of music concrete duo Gastric Female Reflex, who have released music and toured internationally. Horwood's work is informed by process based painting techniques applied to screen-printing, visual after image demonstrations, re-appropriation, and artist multiple presentation.
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