Here are some events that I have had the pleasure of participating or will be participating
Frances Cordero de BolañosCOFFEE & PINESpirit of the Natural World, Beauty, and Complexities
Thursday, April 18 – Friday, June 7, 2024
Opening Reception: April 20 from 2-5 pm
Garden Party: May 25, from 2-5 pm
The John B. Aird Gallery is proud to present an exhibition titled COFFEE & PINE: Spirit of the Natural World, Beauty, and Complexities, by Salvadoran Canadian artist, Frances Cordero de Bolaños, and curated by Gallery Director, Carla Garnet. The exhibition showcases Central American and northern-hemisphere forests in technicolor, photo-based, still, and moving-image landscapes.
Her ecofeminist works capture the supernatural qualities of both the boreal and tropical rainforests and highlight the role forests play in natural water conservation. The multi-sensory exhibition invites visitors to engross themselves in a fully immersive environment, emphasizing the importance of preserving and protecting natural ecosystems.
Standing tall in the mud.
Not like the flower’s stalk
and butterfly’s desire . . .
No roots, no flitting,
more erect, more sure
and more free.
— Excerpt from “Sketch of the woman of the future” by Claudia Lars (Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega), translated by Liz Henry.
In the past half-century, more than 50 percent of the global population has migrated from rural areas to densely populated cities, emphasizing the importance of landscape imagery in conveying environmental knowledge. This knowledge highlights the fundamental principle of ecology which is, that interdependent elements must work together harmoniously to benefit the entire ecosystem.
Cordero de Bolaños’ Aird Gallery/CONTACT Festival exhibition features pine- and coffee-scented photographic prints while wooden structures, moss, and other plants envelop viewers within a fully realized environment. Inasmuch, the artist aims to remind us that climate issues, immigration, migration, borders, and geographical contexts are all interconnected. Drawing inspiration from the eco-feminist poet Claudia Lars, the artist also highlights the links between photography and the ecofeminist movement. She relies on her camera as a tool to address her concerns about human rights, women’s issues, and how they correspond to the natural world, as well as to keep herself involved in an ecological struggle.
Cordero de Bolaños has always been fascinated by nature. Growing up in rural El Salvador, she spent countless hours learning and exploring her father’s coffee farm and the nearby woods. El Salvador and Nicaragua are Central American countries known for their rich natural resources. Despite their small populations, these lands have access to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, making them strategic locations for trade and commerce. However, in the early 1980s, the situation changed. The United States intervened in El Salvador to stop reform and revolution. They funded and trained paramilitary groups that later became central to the country’s “death squad” apparatus. The death squads were fascist groups that murdered, tortured, and raped their political opponents. The conflict turned into a long and violent one, causing many people to flee their homes for safety. Cordero de Bolaños was one of those people, seeking refuge in Costa Rica in 1980 at the age of 13, before finally settling in Canada five years later.
After graduating from the University of Toronto, she worked as the acting Manager of Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives (CSMARI) at the Department of Canadian Heritage, while continuing her active field and studio practice, noting that immigration, migration, borders, and geographic contexts intersect with climate issues under debate in international environmental governance circles. Her video vignettes, photographic images, and installations reveal her passion for communicating the beauty found in nature—According to Cordero de Bolaños, being outdoors “frees me from all burdens of life, and when contemplating the landscapes, the sky, water, sounds, scents, and the winds bring back childhood memories, it allows me to concentrate on the self, the spirit, and the soul.”
Coffee & Pine: Spirit of the Natural World, Beauty, and Complexities, is full of magic and realism, a prominent feature of Latin American literary and artistic tradition. Cordero de Bolaños’ installation captures the supernatural qualities of both the boreal and tropical rainforests, highlighting their spiritual and ecological functions. Her photographs present views of rivers cascading through their heavily wooded terrains, emphasizing forests’ vital role in providing habitat, nutrients, natural water conservation, carbon capture, and oxygen production, on both local and global scales.
Through her work, the artist examines how cultural identity can shape our perception and portrayal of nature, and how this can also affect our lives and the stories we tell. Her research highlights how the positive aspects of migration can sometimes obscure the actual “loss and damage” that occurs when we sever our real, material, and ecological connections with the land. Cordero de Bolaños argues that humanity needs to recognize the true value of natural elements like forests, wetlands, rain, sunlight, and soil to foster a more sustainable future.
BIOGRAPHIESFRANCES CORDERO DE BOLAÑOS is a contemporary artist who currently resides in Oakville, Ontario. Up until very recently, she worked as the acting Manager of Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives (CSMARI) at the Department of Canadian Heritage. Frances immigrated from El Salvador to Canada in 1985.
Frances’s artwork explores a range of subjects such as nature, sports, women’s issues, violence, conflict, and war. Her pieces are known for being playful, dark, and somewhat grotesque, using various media and techniques to express her ideas and concerns.
CARLA GARNET is the Director and Curator of the John B. Aird Gallery. She has worked as the curator at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (2010-2013), as a guest curator at Gallery Stratford (2009-2010), as an independent curator (1997-2010), and was the founder and director of Garnet Press Gallery (1984-97). Garnet holds an Associate Diploma from the Ontario College of Art and Design and a Masters’ Degree in Art History from York University. Her core projects include Suzy Lake Choreographed Puppets and Flowers and Photography in which she claims that there is a relationship between Photography and Feminism.
Garnet is interested in the politics of the art exhibition and its potential to function as a common—public space for dialogue. Her curatorial area of interest engages with an exploration of work that presents the possibility of existing simultaneously in many tenses or occupying more than one subject position at once, or both as a way to open up a space for greater empathy. For Garnet, an artwork’s significance is tied up with an ability to say what otherwise might be unsayable.
airdgallery.org/2024/03/11/coffee-pine/
Thursday, April 18 – Friday, June 7, 2024
Opening Reception: April 20 from 2-5 pm
Garden Party: May 25, from 2-5 pm
The John B. Aird Gallery is proud to present an exhibition titled COFFEE & PINE: Spirit of the Natural World, Beauty, and Complexities, by Salvadoran Canadian artist, Frances Cordero de Bolaños, and curated by Gallery Director, Carla Garnet. The exhibition showcases Central American and northern-hemisphere forests in technicolor, photo-based, still, and moving-image landscapes.
Her ecofeminist works capture the supernatural qualities of both the boreal and tropical rainforests and highlight the role forests play in natural water conservation. The multi-sensory exhibition invites visitors to engross themselves in a fully immersive environment, emphasizing the importance of preserving and protecting natural ecosystems.
Standing tall in the mud.
Not like the flower’s stalk
and butterfly’s desire . . .
No roots, no flitting,
more erect, more sure
and more free.
— Excerpt from “Sketch of the woman of the future” by Claudia Lars (Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega), translated by Liz Henry.
In the past half-century, more than 50 percent of the global population has migrated from rural areas to densely populated cities, emphasizing the importance of landscape imagery in conveying environmental knowledge. This knowledge highlights the fundamental principle of ecology which is, that interdependent elements must work together harmoniously to benefit the entire ecosystem.
Cordero de Bolaños’ Aird Gallery/CONTACT Festival exhibition features pine- and coffee-scented photographic prints while wooden structures, moss, and other plants envelop viewers within a fully realized environment. Inasmuch, the artist aims to remind us that climate issues, immigration, migration, borders, and geographical contexts are all interconnected. Drawing inspiration from the eco-feminist poet Claudia Lars, the artist also highlights the links between photography and the ecofeminist movement. She relies on her camera as a tool to address her concerns about human rights, women’s issues, and how they correspond to the natural world, as well as to keep herself involved in an ecological struggle.
Cordero de Bolaños has always been fascinated by nature. Growing up in rural El Salvador, she spent countless hours learning and exploring her father’s coffee farm and the nearby woods. El Salvador and Nicaragua are Central American countries known for their rich natural resources. Despite their small populations, these lands have access to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, making them strategic locations for trade and commerce. However, in the early 1980s, the situation changed. The United States intervened in El Salvador to stop reform and revolution. They funded and trained paramilitary groups that later became central to the country’s “death squad” apparatus. The death squads were fascist groups that murdered, tortured, and raped their political opponents. The conflict turned into a long and violent one, causing many people to flee their homes for safety. Cordero de Bolaños was one of those people, seeking refuge in Costa Rica in 1980 at the age of 13, before finally settling in Canada five years later.
After graduating from the University of Toronto, she worked as the acting Manager of Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives (CSMARI) at the Department of Canadian Heritage, while continuing her active field and studio practice, noting that immigration, migration, borders, and geographic contexts intersect with climate issues under debate in international environmental governance circles. Her video vignettes, photographic images, and installations reveal her passion for communicating the beauty found in nature—According to Cordero de Bolaños, being outdoors “frees me from all burdens of life, and when contemplating the landscapes, the sky, water, sounds, scents, and the winds bring back childhood memories, it allows me to concentrate on the self, the spirit, and the soul.”
Coffee & Pine: Spirit of the Natural World, Beauty, and Complexities, is full of magic and realism, a prominent feature of Latin American literary and artistic tradition. Cordero de Bolaños’ installation captures the supernatural qualities of both the boreal and tropical rainforests, highlighting their spiritual and ecological functions. Her photographs present views of rivers cascading through their heavily wooded terrains, emphasizing forests’ vital role in providing habitat, nutrients, natural water conservation, carbon capture, and oxygen production, on both local and global scales.
Through her work, the artist examines how cultural identity can shape our perception and portrayal of nature, and how this can also affect our lives and the stories we tell. Her research highlights how the positive aspects of migration can sometimes obscure the actual “loss and damage” that occurs when we sever our real, material, and ecological connections with the land. Cordero de Bolaños argues that humanity needs to recognize the true value of natural elements like forests, wetlands, rain, sunlight, and soil to foster a more sustainable future.
BIOGRAPHIESFRANCES CORDERO DE BOLAÑOS is a contemporary artist who currently resides in Oakville, Ontario. Up until very recently, she worked as the acting Manager of Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives (CSMARI) at the Department of Canadian Heritage. Frances immigrated from El Salvador to Canada in 1985.
Frances’s artwork explores a range of subjects such as nature, sports, women’s issues, violence, conflict, and war. Her pieces are known for being playful, dark, and somewhat grotesque, using various media and techniques to express her ideas and concerns.
CARLA GARNET is the Director and Curator of the John B. Aird Gallery. She has worked as the curator at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (2010-2013), as a guest curator at Gallery Stratford (2009-2010), as an independent curator (1997-2010), and was the founder and director of Garnet Press Gallery (1984-97). Garnet holds an Associate Diploma from the Ontario College of Art and Design and a Masters’ Degree in Art History from York University. Her core projects include Suzy Lake Choreographed Puppets and Flowers and Photography in which she claims that there is a relationship between Photography and Feminism.
Garnet is interested in the politics of the art exhibition and its potential to function as a common—public space for dialogue. Her curatorial area of interest engages with an exploration of work that presents the possibility of existing simultaneously in many tenses or occupying more than one subject position at once, or both as a way to open up a space for greater empathy. For Garnet, an artwork’s significance is tied up with an ability to say what otherwise might be unsayable.
airdgallery.org/2024/03/11/coffee-pine/
The Recipe: Making Latin American Art in Canada
OBORO Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
February 1- March 7, 2020
OBORO Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
February 1- March 7, 2020
The Recipe: Making Latin American Art in Canada
Sur Gallery, Toronto
Sur Gallery, Toronto
The Recipe: Making Latin American Art in Canada. Installation of my sculpture Invasion II and artist talk at Sur Gallery, Toronto
Special thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their generous support.
Special thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their generous support.
Sur Gallery presents The Recipe: Making Latin American Art in Canada
THE RECIPE: MAKING LATIN AMERICAN ART IN CANADA
THE RECIPE: MAKING LATIN AMERICAN ART IN CANADA
Giorgia Volpe, Exercice de mémoire # 1, installation, 2013. Photo: Tom Grgicevic.
October 18 – December 1, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 2018 7-9PM
Remarks and Artist Talk: 8PM
Curator Tours: October 20 & 27 3-4pm and November 8, 5-6pm
Panel Discussion: Friday, November 16, 6-8pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, December 1, 2018 3-5PM
About the Exhibition
This exhibition seeks to determine what it means to define something as Latin American art—or someone as a Latin American artist—in the contemporary context of changing global sociopolitical circumstances, flourishing diasporic communities, and accelerating flows of population.
The Recipe brings together six artists with a Latin American background, currently living and working in Canada. Seeing their works in the same exhibition space reveals the wide spectrum of global influences and references that shape these artists’ social imaginaries, beyond solely their cultural roots or geographic origins.
Curated by Analays Alvarez Hernandez and Daymi Coll Padilla
October 18 – December 1, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 2018 7-9PM
Remarks and Artist Talk: 8PM
Curator Tours: October 20 & 27 3-4pm and November 8, 5-6pm
Panel Discussion: Friday, November 16, 6-8pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, December 1, 2018 3-5PM
About the Exhibition
This exhibition seeks to determine what it means to define something as Latin American art—or someone as a Latin American artist—in the contemporary context of changing global sociopolitical circumstances, flourishing diasporic communities, and accelerating flows of population.
The Recipe brings together six artists with a Latin American background, currently living and working in Canada. Seeing their works in the same exhibition space reveals the wide spectrum of global influences and references that shape these artists’ social imaginaries, beyond solely their cultural roots or geographic origins.
Curated by Analays Alvarez Hernandez and Daymi Coll Padilla
Romeo Gongora, Liquid Immersion, collaborative performance, 2010.
About the Panel Discussion
What Makes Art Latin American (in Canada)? Translocalisms and Identities
What makes art Latin American in Canada? Is it the artist’s or the viewer’s origin? Is it the context in which the artwork is presented? Is it a shared experience with other counterparts or rather a matter of self-identification? This panel seeks to launch a debate on what currently stands for Latin American art in Canada in light of the longstanding relationship of this country with Latin America and the shaping on the rise of transnational identities.
About the Artists
ALEXANDRA GELIS is a Colombian-Venezuelan artist living and working in Toronto, whose practice combines new media, installation, and photography. Her projects incorporate field research as a tool to investigate the ecologies of various landscapes affected by socio-political interventions. She has exhibited internationally in North and South America, Europe, and Africa.
FRANCES CORDERO DE BOLAÑOS is an Oakville-based, Salvadorian-Canadian artist, graduate of the University of Toronto and Sheridan College joint Art and Art History Bachelor’s Program. She works in various mediums and is deeply concerned about human rights and women issues.
Born in São Paulo, GIORGIA VOLPE lives and works in Quebec City. She holds a BA from the University of São Paulo and an MA from Université Laval. Her work has been featured in solo and collective exhibitions at such venues and events as: Biennale de Lyon (France), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Symposium de Baie St-Paul, Manif d’art de Québec, Bangkok Art & Culture Center (Thailand), and Xiang Xishi Center for Contemporary Art (China). Colombian-born artist based in Chicoutimi, Quebec, PAOLO ALMARIO studied at the Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño of Universidad Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and has a Masters in Arts from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). Almario uses computers to modulate, automate, encode, process, and materialize digital samples of reality in a variety of forms. His work has been presented in Canada, Colombia, Belgium, Italy, and France.
ROMEO GONGORA is a Canadian-Guatemalan artist and Ph.D. candidate in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Since 2008, he has conducted major collaborative art projects that evolve within the social sphere, integrating politics and pedagogy in the practice of performance. Gongora has presented his work at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, HISK (Belgium), Centre of Art Torun (Poland), Centre Makan (Jordan), and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
TONEL is an artist, critic, and curator who lives and works in both Canada and Cuba. He has exhibited extensively including at the Havana, Sao Paulo, Berlin, and Venice Biennials. His upcoming solo exhibition Ajústate al tema will open this December at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. More recently he contributed to the book Breathless Days, 1959 – 1960 (2017), edited by Serge Guilbaut and John O’Brian (Duke University Press).
About the Curators
ANALAYS ALVAREZ HERNANDEZ is an art historian and independent curator. She received a BA in Art History from the Universidad de La Habana and a Ph.D. in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Cross-cultural multilingual education and professional experience have contributed to Alvarez Hernandez’s expertise in public art and immigrant heritages. From 2016 to 2018, she held a position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. She currently teaches at the University of Ottawa.
DAYMI COLL PADILLA is a Toronto-based, Cuban-born art historian, independent curator, and co-founder of Havana Streetview Project. She completed her graduate and undergraduate studies at the Universidad de La Habana and held a curatorial position at Centro de Desarollo para las Artes Visuales (CDAV). Coll Padilla has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, given lectures about contemporary Cuban art, and written for various publications. She was part of the Curator and Producer team of the 10th Bienal de La Habana.
About the Panelists
ALENA ROBIN holds a PhD in art history from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(UNAM). She teaches Hispanic visual culture at the University of Western Ontario.
NURIA CARTON DE GRAMMONT is an art historian, curator, and lecturer at Concordia
University in contemporary Latin American and Latino Canadian art.
About Sur Gallery
Sur Gallery is Toronto's first gallery space dedicated to the exhibition and critical engagement of
contemporary Latin American art. Sur Gallery is a project of LACAP-Latin American Canadian Art
Projects.
For further information or press inquiries please contact us at:
416-654-7787
info@surgallery.ca
www.surgallery.ca
facebook.com/LACAParts
youtube.com/user/lacapcanada
Gallery Hours:
Tues & Wed 10AM-2:30PM
Thurs & Fri noon-6PM
Sat 11AM-5PM
Location:
Sur Gallery, 100-39 Queens Quay East, Toronto (East of Yonge Street)
LACAP acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and The City of Toronto through section 37. LACAP also acknowledges its corporate sponsors: Underline Studio and See Through Web.
About the Panel Discussion
What Makes Art Latin American (in Canada)? Translocalisms and Identities
What makes art Latin American in Canada? Is it the artist’s or the viewer’s origin? Is it the context in which the artwork is presented? Is it a shared experience with other counterparts or rather a matter of self-identification? This panel seeks to launch a debate on what currently stands for Latin American art in Canada in light of the longstanding relationship of this country with Latin America and the shaping on the rise of transnational identities.
About the Artists
ALEXANDRA GELIS is a Colombian-Venezuelan artist living and working in Toronto, whose practice combines new media, installation, and photography. Her projects incorporate field research as a tool to investigate the ecologies of various landscapes affected by socio-political interventions. She has exhibited internationally in North and South America, Europe, and Africa.
FRANCES CORDERO DE BOLAÑOS is an Oakville-based, Salvadorian-Canadian artist, graduate of the University of Toronto and Sheridan College joint Art and Art History Bachelor’s Program. She works in various mediums and is deeply concerned about human rights and women issues.
Born in São Paulo, GIORGIA VOLPE lives and works in Quebec City. She holds a BA from the University of São Paulo and an MA from Université Laval. Her work has been featured in solo and collective exhibitions at such venues and events as: Biennale de Lyon (France), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Symposium de Baie St-Paul, Manif d’art de Québec, Bangkok Art & Culture Center (Thailand), and Xiang Xishi Center for Contemporary Art (China). Colombian-born artist based in Chicoutimi, Quebec, PAOLO ALMARIO studied at the Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño of Universidad Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and has a Masters in Arts from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). Almario uses computers to modulate, automate, encode, process, and materialize digital samples of reality in a variety of forms. His work has been presented in Canada, Colombia, Belgium, Italy, and France.
ROMEO GONGORA is a Canadian-Guatemalan artist and Ph.D. candidate in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Since 2008, he has conducted major collaborative art projects that evolve within the social sphere, integrating politics and pedagogy in the practice of performance. Gongora has presented his work at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, HISK (Belgium), Centre of Art Torun (Poland), Centre Makan (Jordan), and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
TONEL is an artist, critic, and curator who lives and works in both Canada and Cuba. He has exhibited extensively including at the Havana, Sao Paulo, Berlin, and Venice Biennials. His upcoming solo exhibition Ajústate al tema will open this December at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. More recently he contributed to the book Breathless Days, 1959 – 1960 (2017), edited by Serge Guilbaut and John O’Brian (Duke University Press).
About the Curators
ANALAYS ALVAREZ HERNANDEZ is an art historian and independent curator. She received a BA in Art History from the Universidad de La Habana and a Ph.D. in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Cross-cultural multilingual education and professional experience have contributed to Alvarez Hernandez’s expertise in public art and immigrant heritages. From 2016 to 2018, she held a position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. She currently teaches at the University of Ottawa.
DAYMI COLL PADILLA is a Toronto-based, Cuban-born art historian, independent curator, and co-founder of Havana Streetview Project. She completed her graduate and undergraduate studies at the Universidad de La Habana and held a curatorial position at Centro de Desarollo para las Artes Visuales (CDAV). Coll Padilla has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, given lectures about contemporary Cuban art, and written for various publications. She was part of the Curator and Producer team of the 10th Bienal de La Habana.
About the Panelists
ALENA ROBIN holds a PhD in art history from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(UNAM). She teaches Hispanic visual culture at the University of Western Ontario.
NURIA CARTON DE GRAMMONT is an art historian, curator, and lecturer at Concordia
University in contemporary Latin American and Latino Canadian art.
About Sur Gallery
Sur Gallery is Toronto's first gallery space dedicated to the exhibition and critical engagement of
contemporary Latin American art. Sur Gallery is a project of LACAP-Latin American Canadian Art
Projects.
For further information or press inquiries please contact us at:
416-654-7787
info@surgallery.ca
www.surgallery.ca
facebook.com/LACAParts
youtube.com/user/lacapcanada
Gallery Hours:
Tues & Wed 10AM-2:30PM
Thurs & Fri noon-6PM
Sat 11AM-5PM
Location:
Sur Gallery, 100-39 Queens Quay East, Toronto (East of Yonge Street)
LACAP acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and The City of Toronto through section 37. LACAP also acknowledges its corporate sponsors: Underline Studio and See Through Web.
Opening reception at the Views are Different Here
TORONTO: THE VIEWS ARE DIFFERENT HEREThis exhibition, Toronto: The Views Are Different Here, was curated by students Amanda McNeil and Nikita Lorenzo from the University of Toronto’s Masters of Museum Studies Program, in collaboration with the City of Toronto Art Connections Program, as part of their final capstone project.
The Views Are Different Here is the first exhibition that McNeil and Lorenzo have worked on in the role of curator. They both decided to create an exhibition that would speak to the people of Toronto; something that had depth while remaining familiar. Yet, every time they thought of typical images of Toronto, all that came to mind was the CN Tower or the city skyline. These images are not representative of what Toronto means for either of them, and it made them wonder how those living here think of their own city.
Toronto: The Views Are Different Here showcases the works of 29 artists (Christian Andrabado; Michael Barlas; Aisha Chiguichon; David Chinyama; Nic Cooper; Frances Cordero de Bolaños; Rob Croxford; Mahmoud Fahmi; Janny Fraser; Cassandra Fullerton; Janet Gallo; Nellys Garcia; Florin Hategan; Kayla Jaques; David Johns; Andre Kan; Anna Khokhlova; Sangmin Lee; Karin McLean; Rob Niezan; Addae Nurse; Shannon O’Toole; Jamileh Salek Ostadtaqi; Walter Segers; Maheen Siddiqui; Natalia Starikova-Abud; Leah Tomlinson; Diane Walton; Shelley Wildeman) who have lived, or are currently living, within the city.
This exhibition features paintings, sculpture and photography to convey the individual realities of Toronto’s most important asset: its people.
The Views Are Different Here is the first exhibition that McNeil and Lorenzo have worked on in the role of curator. They both decided to create an exhibition that would speak to the people of Toronto; something that had depth while remaining familiar. Yet, every time they thought of typical images of Toronto, all that came to mind was the CN Tower or the city skyline. These images are not representative of what Toronto means for either of them, and it made them wonder how those living here think of their own city.
Toronto: The Views Are Different Here showcases the works of 29 artists (Christian Andrabado; Michael Barlas; Aisha Chiguichon; David Chinyama; Nic Cooper; Frances Cordero de Bolaños; Rob Croxford; Mahmoud Fahmi; Janny Fraser; Cassandra Fullerton; Janet Gallo; Nellys Garcia; Florin Hategan; Kayla Jaques; David Johns; Andre Kan; Anna Khokhlova; Sangmin Lee; Karin McLean; Rob Niezan; Addae Nurse; Shannon O’Toole; Jamileh Salek Ostadtaqi; Walter Segers; Maheen Siddiqui; Natalia Starikova-Abud; Leah Tomlinson; Diane Walton; Shelley Wildeman) who have lived, or are currently living, within the city.
This exhibition features paintings, sculpture and photography to convey the individual realities of Toronto’s most important asset: its people.
The University of Toronto Mississauga, Art & Art History student Frances Cordero de Bolaños was awarded one of the three cash prizes for best work at the 9th Annual University of Toronto Shelley Peterson Student Art Exhibition 2015. The exhibition is on at the University of Toronto Art Centre on the St. George campus until April 11. The exhibition was curated by U of T Museum Studies students Molly McGowan, Mel Mundle, and Jennifer Rodrigues. The prizes were awarded by a jury consisting of artist Shary Boyle; writer, educator, and curator Gabrielle Moser; and Power Plant Director Gaëtane Verna.
Image: Shelley Peterson Exhibition Winner Graduating AAH student Frances Cordero de Bolaños at the University of Toronto Art Centre with "Invasion II" (2014), wool fibres, felt, chiffon, approximately 200 meters long
Information provided by Blackwood Gallery. Professor John Armstrong took the photo.
Image: Shelley Peterson Exhibition Winner Graduating AAH student Frances Cordero de Bolaños at the University of Toronto Art Centre with "Invasion II" (2014), wool fibres, felt, chiffon, approximately 200 meters long
Information provided by Blackwood Gallery. Professor John Armstrong took the photo.
March 18 - 29, 2015 - Horizon Line, 2015 Art and Art History Graduating Student Exhibition, Blackwood Gallery,University of Toronto Mississauga
Photo provided by Blackwood Gallery and Professor John Armstrong
Photo provided by Blackwood Gallery and Professor John Armstrong