April 30, 2009

ARTIST TALKS - SATURDAY, MAY 2 - CONTACT TORONTO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

MAY 2 - 12PM

GWENAËL BÉLANGER

In this bilingual discussion Gwenaël Bélanger will speak about his public installation in the courtyard of MOCCA. Belanger will detail his image creation process of manipulating forms and transforming objects to reveal a fictitious point of view.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art - 952 Queen St W.

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MAY 2 - 2PM

LYNNE COHEN

Lynne Cohen is known for her photographs of domestic and institutional interior spaces: living rooms, public halls, retirement homes, laboratories, offices, showrooms, shooting ranges, factories, spas, and military installations. Cohen will speak about her current exhibition that includes images from her first trip to Cuba.

Cohen has been in countless solo and group exhibitions around the world and is represented in over 50 public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Australian National Gallery, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Canada Council Art Bank.

Olga Korper Gallery - 17 Morrow Ave.

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MAY 2, 3PM

ANDREW WRIGHT

Andrew Wright, multimedia and photographic artist, will speak about his new series Still Water. With these photo-sculptural works he continues his interest in probing the way in which imaging technologies mediate meaning. Wright has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at the University of California, Berkeley, Oakville Galleries, Roam Contemporary (New York), ARCO '05 (Madrid), Presentation House, Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Calgary, to name a few.

Peak Gallery - 23 Morrow Ave.