FALL 2009 PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS AT GALLERY 44

FALL 2009 PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

DIGITAL POST PRODUCTION
CONSTRUCTED IMAGE (10 Students)

Instructor: Rafael Ochoa

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 6-9pm

Cost: $90/ $80 (members)

This workshop introduces the basic and intermediate Photoshop skills necessary for seamless post-production image construction. Emerging artist/photographer Raffy Ochoa shares his expertise with demonstration and discussion, and participants will have the chance to work with their own images in Photoshop CS4 on laptops provided. Info offered on image compositing, digital lighting, localized luminance and color adjustments and more. Prerequisite: basic Photoshop knowledge.

Raffy Ochoa's Bio
Born in 1983 in Toronto. Raffy's photographic work examines the fantastical reality of the contemporary experience. His practice explores the phenomena of subjective experience, projections of reality and cultural myth within the ever-changing contemporary landscape. Raffy Ochoa is currently completing his BFA at the Ontario College of Art and Design and is the recipient of the Mark McCain Award 2008 and the Stephen Bulger Gallery Scholarship 2008.

GOING DIGITAL I (10 Students)
Instructor: Erin Seaman

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6-9pm

Cost: $90/ $80 (members)

Our most requested seminar-based workshop will introduce participants to the IMACON and EPSON scanning stations at Gallery 44. Offering tips, tricks, information and guidance, this workshop is for those who are experienced with analog photography yet are new and a little unsure about digital imaging. Demonstrations, handouts and discussion on scanning basics, basic Photoshop, file preparation and color management in preparation for digital printing will be covered.

Erin Seaman's Bio
Erin is a graduate for the Ontario College of Art and Design. She currently works as a Digital Technician at the University and shoots on a regular basis for Calvin Klein, Home Dec and Costco. Erin has been working in the photography industry for over 10 years, owning her own studio and various photography businesses along the way. Erin enjoys teaching others about digital photography and has taken every opportunity to share her knowledge with other artists' and photographers.

BASIC BLACK & WHITE (10 Students)
Instructor: Ruth Kaplan

3 Sessions, Saturdays, Oct. 17, 24, 31, 10am - 2pm

Cost: $420/ $400 (members)

Leave your digital camera & Photoshop at home and experience the thrill of watching a photograph emerge from blank paper to image. Traditional black and white photography has volumes to teach photographers about the basics of what makes an excellent photograph including; the relationship between light and image, seeing qualities of light, developing an eye for composition, and learning to control print quality. Learn from artist Ruth Kaplan how to shoot, develop and print B&W photographs. This course is designed for beginners, as well as those interested in brushing up on their skills. Students are required to bring a working manual 35mm film camera.

Ruth Kaplan's Bio
Ruth Kaplan is a Toronto-based photographer whose work explores a variety of themes such as bathers in communal hot springs and participants in rituals of spirituality. Documentary-based, her images are subjective offering a highly personal interpretation of social behaviour. She has exhibited widely over the past twenty years and is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Kaplan's editorial work can be found in major Canadian and international publications. She has received numerous National Magazine Awards, Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council grants. She is a photography instructor at schools including Ryerson University, OCAD and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is currently enrolled in an MFA program at Ryerson University School of Image Arts, in Documentary Media.

www.ruthkaplanphoto.com
www.bulgergallery.com

PUSHING DIGITAL SLR INTENSIVE (10 Students)
Instructor: Erin Seaman

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 6-9pm

Cost: $90/ $80 (members)

Designed as a how-to workshop for the DSLR novice, this workshops gets to the nitty gritty of working with a digital SLR camera. Erin Seaman will decode the functions of these cameras and assist artists in making optimal use of their gear. Topics covered include: menus, modes, color spaces, flash sync, raw, metering, focus points and dedicated accessories.

Erin Seaman's Bio (see above)

PINHOLE (6 Students)
Instructor: Dave Kemp

Sunday, Nov. 15, 10am - 5pm

Cost: $180/ $160 (members)

Pinhole Photography: low-tech, high-science ...and a little bit of math. The ultimate in camera hacking, pinhole photography allows you to make cameras out of just about anything and frees you from the limitations (and costs) inherent in using a manufactured camera. This workshop will concentrate on the physics behind pinhole photography and present some simple methods to calculate the parameters of one's camera and properly determine exposure in order to achieve your goals while still leaving room for experimentation and unexpected surprises. Materials to make your own pinhole camera will be provided, but students are also welcome to bring their own light-tight containers to make cameras from.

Dave Kemp's Bio
Dave Kemp is a visual artist currently living in Toronto, Canada whose art practice looks at the intersections and interactions between art, science and technology - particularly at how these fields shape our perception and understanding of the world. Recent activities include exhibitions at the Modern Fuel Gallery (Kingston), IPO Gallery (Ottawa), !deas Gallery (in the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto) and Interaccess Media Arts Centre (Toronto). Dave is a graduate from the Master of Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto where he also completed the Collaborative program in Knowledge Media Design. Prior to this, he earned an Image Arts (photography) BFA from Ryerson University and his BScE in Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University.

CYANOTYPES (6 Students)
Instructor: Sally Ayre

Saturday, Nov. 21, 10-5pm

Cost: $180/ $160 (members)

Go back in time with this workshop and experience one of the earliest photographic printing processes. Cyanotype is a non-silver process that can be combined or used independently to create distinctive Blue toned imagery on natural materials such as silk or art papers. This hands-on workshop with Sally Ayre will teach proper coating, exposing, and developing techniques for Cyanotype.

Sally Ayre's Bio
Sally Ayre is a photo based installation artist living in Toronto. Sally works mainly with old photographic processes using a combination of photographic images and photograms on layers of silk. She draws her inspiration from nature and the wild landscape of Newfoundland where she was born and raised. She is an active member of Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography and the Tenth Muse Photo Collective. Sally is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and has been exhibiting her work since 1990.

STUDIO LIGHTING (10 Students)
Instructor: Toni Hafkenscheid

Sunday, Nov. 22, 10am-5pm

Cost: $135/ $125 (members)

Utilizing the newly renovated studio space in Gallery 44¹s production studios, artist, educator and photographer Toni Hafkensheid will lead participants on an adventure in lighting. Demonstrations using tungsten, strobe and other lighting sources will open up the possibilities for creativity in the studio. Participants are welcome to bring their own digital cameras and may have a small amount of time to set up their own lighting scenes and do test shots.

Toni Hafkenscheid's Bio
Toni Hafkenscheid is a Toronto based photographer who was born in 1959 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 1989, he graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and shortly thereafter moved to Toronto. During the following six years he was active in the arts community in Toronto and received several Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council awards. In 1996 Toni moved back to the Netherlands to pursue a career as a commercial photographer and to teach photography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2002 Toni returned to Toronto, Canada. He is currently teaching at OCAD and Ryerson in Toronto. He is represented in Canada by the Birch Libralato Gallery in Toronto, Skew Gallery in Calgary and Gallery Jones in Vancouver and in the US by Packer Schopf, Chicago and George Billis Gallery in LA and NY and Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta. He has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Canada, the U.S., Japan and Europe. His works reside in a number of important collections, including the Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), Foreign Affairs Canada, the University of Toronto, the Canada Council Art bank, The Royal Bank of Canada, The Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (Buffalo, NY), Kodak France and Kodak Netherlands, and various private collections.

http://www.thphotos.com/index.html

GRANT WRITING/ ARTIST STATEMENTS (6 Students)
Instructor: Sara Angelucci

Wednesday, Nov. 25, 6-9pm

Cost: $70/ $60 (members)

Artist Sara Angelucci has extensive experience writing and receiving grants as well as serving on granting juries. A detailed look at the granting process, with a special focus on writing an artist statement, this workshop will assist participants in understanding what is expected for individual artist grant applications. With a special focus on photography, this course will help artists learn how to communicate their ideas to jurors clearly and effectively. Topics covered include writing artist statements, image selection and the application.

Note: Participants must bring a sample of an artist statement along with 10 jpeg images.

Sara Angelucci's Bio
Sara Angelucci is a photo and video artist living in Toronto. She completed her B.A. at the University of Guelph and her MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her photography across Canada including exhibitions at Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Ace Art in Winnipeg, Vu in Quebec City, The Toronto Photographer's Workshop, the MacLaren Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Richmond Art Gallery. Her videos have been screened across Canada and have been included in festivals in Europe and Hong Kong. Sara has participated in artist residencies at NSCAD (Halifax), the Banff Centre and at Biz-Art in Shanghai, China. Sara's work is represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery and V Tape in Toronto.

http://www.sara-angelucci.ca/

ALBUMEN (6 Students)
Instructor: Amanda Rataj

Saturday, Nov. 28, 10am 5pm

Cost: $180/ $160 (members)

Emerging artist Amanda Rataj takes participants back in time with the delicate and historical process of Albumen printing, a process that was popular in the late 1800s. This workshop includes a brief historical introduction to albumen, and opportunities to create your own albumen prints. Participants will leave the workshop confident to work with this process independently.

Amanda Rataj's Bio
Amanda Rataj is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario, who will be graduating from the photography program at OCAD in the Spring 2010. She combines the use of handmade paper and historical photographic processes to explore themes related to ephemera, the natural world & collections.

IMAGE: Dave Kemp, Pinhole Camera, 2003

For Additional Information, full course descriptions, material list and instructor info please visit www.gallery44.org

To register, contact us at: 416.979.3941 or sojin@gallery44.org
We accept cash, cheque and VISA. Fees include the cost of all or most materials. Participants must pay in advance to secure registration and must cancel 10 days before the workshop to receive a full refund (less a $25 admin fee).

Gallery 44 reserves the right to cancel or reschedule workshops with a full refund.

Anyone attending workshops involving photo chemistry must read our health & safety outline & sign a waiver prior to attending the workshop. Please note, Gallery 44 DOES NOT allow pregnant or breastfeeding women in workshops that involve photo chemistry.

Gallery 44 is located at: 401 Richmond St. W. Ste. 120 Toronto.

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to the advancement of photographic art. The centre is supported by its members and patrons, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council. Registered Charity #11927310RR0001

FALL OUT/FALL IN AT BLACKWOOD GALLERY

SEPTEMBER 14 - DECEMBER 13

FALL OUT: With Robyn Cumming, Simone Jones, Zilvinas Kempinas, Erika Kierulf, Kristiina Lahde, Paul Litherland, Valerian Maly, Tom Sherman, Don Simmons

Live the lives, live them all,
Keep the dreams separate,

See: I rise, See: I fall

Am an other, am no other.

Paul Celan (1), Threadsuns, trans. Pierre Joris, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2000, 25.

An exhibition bound by gravity. An exhibition where to be bound by gravity will be considered, diverted, inverted. Some work will defy gravity (Kempinas), others will simultaneously defy and confirm its inevitable pull (Litherland and his skydiving projects). Yet others will allude to the rise and fall in Celan’s epigraph and feature the ebb and flow of breathing (Keirulf) as well as his notion of the self as ‘other’ (Jones with her implicit reference to The Man Who Fell To Earth). Tactics involving wind and magnetism, amongst others, are recruited to counter the fated force of attraction which ties our feet to the ground and keeps the Earth spinning around the Sun. Orbits are relationships defined by thwarted falls, they dance the push and pull pairing of two bodies. The physiological and psychological impact of gravity will warrant particular attention in this exhibition (with a special nod to Philippe Halsman's Jumpology project). Fall Out will also be a study of outcomes, epiphanies and consequences (Maly). It will be an examination of remnants and how they act as triggers in perennial permutation—in other words, Fall Out will dwell on a fall out that never settles.

OCTOBER 26 - DECEMBER 13

FALL IN: With Annie Onyi Cheung, Sophie Bélair Clément, Gillian Collyer, Zev Farber, Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Ryan Park, Roula Partheniou, Joshua Schwebel and Josh Thorpe

Fall Out will be followed by Fall In. Artists in the second exhibition will respond to the works in the first exhibition. During Fall In both will coexist in the gallery.

Annie Onyi Cheung will respond to the work of Simone Jones
Sophie Bélair Clément will respond to the work of Tom Sherman

Gillian Collyer will respond to the work of Kristiina Lahde

Zev Farber will respond to the work of Valerian Maly

Alison S.M. Kobayashi will respond to the work of Paul Litherland

Ryan Park will respond to the work of Erika Keirulf

Roula Partheniou will respond to the work of Zilvinas Kempinas

Josh Schwebel will respond to the work of Robyn Cumming

Josh Thorpe will respond to the work of Don Simmons

Curated by Christof Migone

SPECIAL EVENTS

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 11:30 - 5:30PM ART BUS TOUR
Bus departs at 11:30am from OCAD (100 McCaul St) for Oakville Galleries, Blackwood Gallery and Art Gallery of Mississauga. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Cost: $10. To register, please call 905-844-4402 by Friday Sept. 18.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 12 - 5PM FREE CONTEMPORARY ART BUS TOUR
Starting at noon at the ROM (100 Queen's Park) with exhibition tours organized by the Institute for Contemporary Culture and the Koffler Gallery, bus departs for Doris McCarthy Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Blackwood Gallery. To reserve a seat, please call 416-638-1881 ext.4270 by Friday Sept. 25.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 10 - 4PM REGIONAL ART BUS TOUR
Tour starts at 10am of the Art Gallery of Mississauga, then departs for the Art Gallery of Peel, Gallery Streetsville and the Blackwood Gallery and returns to the Mississauga Civic Centre at 4pm. Coffee and refreshments will be provided and there will be free time for lunch in Streetsville (lunch is not provided). Free underground parking available at the Mississauga Civic Centre. Cost: $15. To register, please call 905-896-5088 by Friday Oct.16.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 12 - 5PM FREE CONTEMPORARY ART BUS TOUR
Starting at noon at the ROM (100 Queen's Park) with exhibition tours organized by the Institute for Contemporary Culture and the Koffler Gallery, bus departs for Doris McCarthy Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Blackwood Gallery. To reserve a seat, please call 416-287-7007 by Friday Nov. 6.

For more information, call 905-828-3789 or visit www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Support generously provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, University of Toronto Student Housing and Residence Life (Mississauga) and The Ontario Trillium Foundation.

IMAGES
Erika Kierulf, Jonathan, still from Untitled (Studies for Breathe), 2006

Robyn Cumming, From the Little Legs series (2006): Many Shades of Pink, White Light, Undone, My Heart is Breaking. From the Oh, Mother series (2007): Untitled.

Paul Litherland - Force of Attraction (2003) 3:04

CANDICE BREITZ: SAME SAME AT THE POWER PLANT

SEPTEMBER 19 – NOVEMBER 18
OPENING PARTY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 8 - 11PM

The Power Plant is thrilled to present ‘Candice Breitz: Same Same,’ the first North American survey of internationally acclaimed artist Candice Breitz. Breitz investigates contemporary media culture using the language of the entertainment industry, including pop music, television, and Hollywood films. Featuring Hollywood icons such as Jack Nicholson and music legends like Bob Marley, Breitz’s work straddles the ambiguous terrain between art, entertainment, and consumerism. She edits, re-contextualizes or otherwise reinterprets familiar elements of our mass culture landscape to produce dazzling and critically engaging video installations.

One of the most anticipated features of this exhibition is the debut of Breitz’s new work, a major commission generously supported by The Power Plant and Toronto benefactors Partners in Art. This new work, Factum, made in Toronto and focusing on identical twins, is the fifth installment of The Power Plant’s Commissioning Program. Attend the opening party and be one of the first to see this new project. More, a new limited edition series of photographic portraits from Candice Breitz’s Factum series, produced in association with the exhibition, will be available for sale. Each work is in an edition of 30 (plus 5 or 6 artist’s proofs) which can be purchased in a custom-designed frame or unframed. Each work is signed and numbered by the artist. Editions are available from The Power Plant Store. All proceeds benefit The Power Plant’s exhibitions and programs.

Candice Breitz will be in attendance at the opening party and will be available to sign copies of the full-colour 128-page exhibition catalogue. Members of The Power Plant receive a 15% discount on their purchase of the book, which features texts by Gregory Burke, Anne M. Wagner, Claire Gilman, and Jon Davies. Curator: Gregory Burke, Director of The Power Plant

Factum Commissioning Partner: Partners in Art
With Support From: Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund

Support Donors: Elisa Nuyten & David Dime and Ken Zuckerman

Catalogue Supporters: Sarah Dinnick & Colin Webster

Presented in Association With: Future Projections, Toronto International Film Festival

IN CONVERSATION– OPENING WEEKEND / CANDICE BREITZ AND LYNN CROSBIE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 6PM

Internationally-acclaimed artist Candice Breitz will speak with cultural critic Lynn Crosbie. Crosbie teaches at OCAD and is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. Attend this special event when Crosbie will talk one-on-one with Breitz about her work and related issues in contemporary culture. Call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets.

$4 Members, $6 Non-Members
Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre

LECTURE – CHRIS KRAUS: INDELIBLE VIDEO
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 7PM

The ubiquity of video within contemporary art renders any reference to it as a medium obsolete. How can we think about video work that uses the medium to reflect back on itself? How is intensity acheived in a continuous present? Novelist and critic Chris Kraus discusses questions of time and space as reflected in the works of contemporary video artists like Candice Breitz and Grant Stevens, as well as Third World philanthropy , artists collectives, structuralism, vertical marketing, outsourced security, and privatized prisons.

Chris Kraus is a fiction writer who often writes about art. She writes regularly for international art magazines and will curate an exhibition this fall in Williamsburg, NY, with artists Jorge Pardo, George Porcari and Naomi Fisher. Chris Kraus is a fiction writer who often writes about art. She writes regularly for international art magazines and will curate an exhibition this fall in Williamsburg, NY, with artists Jorge Pardo, George Porcari and Naomi Fisher.

$4 Members, $6 Non-Members

Our popular SUNDAY SCENE series reboots for fall 2009. Every Sunday, speakers from the world of art and beyond offer their responses to the current exhibition.

SUNDAY SCENE - HELENA RECKITT AND BIANCA SEMENIUK
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2PM

Helena Reckitt is the Senior Curator of Programs at The Power Plant. Bianca Semeniuk works as the Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at The Power Plant and was the Assistant Director for the production of Candice Breitz's 'Factum.'

FREE WITH GALLERY ADMISSION

SUNDAY SCENE - ROBERT LENDRUM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2PM

Robert Lendrum is a writer and artist working in performance, new media, video, and documentary.

FREE WITH GALLERY ADMISSION

LECTURE – MARK KINGWELL ON GLENN GOULD
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7PM

$4 Members, $6 Non-Members

Author of fifteen books about philosophy, design and architecture, Mark Kingwell is a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His new book, Glenn Gould, focuses on Canada’s most renowned classical musician of the twentieth century. Kingwell’s lecture will link to the Candice Breitz exhibition by examining connections between live and recorded performance, repetition, and improvisation.

INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES - PHIL COLLINS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 6PM

FREE to Members, $12 Non-Members
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre

Call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to purchase/reserve tickets.

Internationally renowned UK artist Phil Collins will speak about his politically engaged media practice and screen his acclaimed film zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom) (2008), commissioned by the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006, Collins uses photography and video to explore individual and collective processes of representation - particularly in places of great unrest - by foregrounding the ambivalent relationships between camera and subject.

2009 International Lecture Series Lead Donor: J. P. Bickell Foundation

GALLERY ADMISSION: free to Members/$6 Adults/$3 Students and Seniors

FREE on Wednesdays 5 – 8PM

GALLERY HOURS:
Tuesday to Sunday / 12–6 PM and Wednesday / 12–8 PM, also open on holiday Mondays

Image Credit: Candice Breitz, Still from Factum Kang, 2009. Featuring Hanna Kang and Laurie Kang.

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre
231 Queens Quay West

Toronto, ON Canada M5J 2G8
416.973.4949 // thepowerplant@harbourfrontcentre.com // www.thepowerplant.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CONTACT 2010 FEATURE EXHIBITIONS

CONTACT 2010 FEATURE EXHIBITIONS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 23, 2009

The 14th annual Toronto Photography Festival will consider the ways in which photography informs and transforms human behavior. CONTACT 2010: Pervasive Influence will reveal personal and social consequences of the medium of photography, in a society devoted to the image.

CONTACT welcomes submissions for feature exhibition proposals exploring the 2010 thematic focus of the festival, Pervasive Influence. Selected exhibitions of photography will be presented prominently within the festival to expose a dynamic range of artists throughout Toronto in May. Exhibition profiles will appear at the forefront of the festival magazine, website and promotional materials.

Submissions must include:
1. Exhibition Proposal: a concise one-page summary of the exhibition, with description of relationship to the theme. Please include exhibition dates, venue name, address, telephone, email and venue contact person;

2. Up to 15 digital files on CD (J-pegs maximum 1 MB each);

3. Corresponding list describing dimensions of work, media, title and year of production;

4. C.V. or other biographical information for each artist participating in the exhibition;

5. Correspondence details for inquiries (if different from venue): name, address, telephone, email;

6. Self-addressed stamped envelope (S.A.S.E.) for return of submission. Submissions provided without a S.A.S.E will not be returned.

NOTE: Only exhibitions with confirmed venues in the Toronto area during May 2010 can be submitted. CONTACT does not provide exhibition venues. All exhibitions submitted must be registered on-line for CONTACT 2010.

CONTACT 2010 Registration is Open!

Early and Non-Profit Registration Deadline: November 27, 2009
Regular Registration Deadline: December 16, 2009

Inquiries: 416-539-9595

Register online: www.contactphoto.com

CONTACT's open call for exhibitions has established the festival as the world's largest annual photography event. Register your exhibition to participate in a citywide celebration of photography with leading international artists.

Early registration fee: $425.00
Non-profit registration fee: $325.00

Regular registration fee: $465.00

*Organizations must provide proof of non-profit status prior to registration. Fees are subject to GST and are due upon registration*.

Benefits of registration include: exhibition listing with one image reproduction in the CONTACT festival magazine and website; extensive publicity and promotion of the festival; press access to your downloadable image on the CONTACT website; CONTACT venue signage; free copies of the CONTACT Festival Magazine and option to sell your magazines for the cover price, and keep the proceeds.

Registration details: the registrant is responsible for all venue arrangements and exhibition installation requirements. CONTACT does not provide exhibition venues. Any type of venue may be used including galleries, private dealers/studios, restaurants, cafes, websites and other alternatives. Exhibitions can open prior to May 1 and close after May 31, but must include May 2010 exhibition dates. CONTACT event calendars only include the month of May. Your photography exhibition may focus on any subject, although a relationship to the festival theme Pervasive Influence is encouraged. See the CONTACT website for the theme description: www.contactphoto.com

Send submissions to:
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival

80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310

Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4

T 416 539 9595 and F 416 539 0829

info@contactphoto.com

www.contactphoto.com

SEPTEMBER 26
SATURDAY, 9:30AM - 5:00PM

You’ve probably seen this technique... prints mounted and coated with a deep, clear finish that looks like they’re under poured glass. Wonder how it’s done? It’s not simple, but with some guidance and our step-by-step workshop you can produce this beautiful finish yourself.

This one day workshop will include a detailed demonstration of the techniques and materials required. You will then work on your own print (11" x 14") to mount and resin coat it, creating a unique art piece.

You provide the print, and we’ll supply all the materials and guidance to mount and finish it to your perfection! You will also receive a complete set of instructions (with photos) to guide you through the steps of this technique so you can do it on your own.

Talia Shipman is a well known Toronto artist, whose work is represented by Angell Gallery. Her recent show “EXODUS: The Ten Plagues” consists of large scale photographic prints finished with poured resin. She has been perfecting this technique for her own work, and is now ready to share it with you. http://www.taliashipman.com/

Rob Davidson is an award winning comercial and fine art photographer. He’s also been an instructor for many years, teaching at Ryerson University and in his own studio.

$350 (& GST) includes all necessary materials to mount and finish one 11" x 14" print, plus complete illustrated instructions.

Location: Rob Davidson studio, downtown Toronto (Liberty Village)

For further Information on this, and other photography workshops, please see: www.robsinlight.com

CHIH-CHIEN WANG: THE JELLY PROJECT #2 AT GALLERY 44

SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 17

Chih-Chien Wang is debuting a new body of work titled The Jelly Project #2 as Gallery 44's first exhibition of the fall season. As Wang writes, "The Jelly Project combines several media to rethink the ways of seeing, of representing, and the ways of understanding."

Wang uses photo and video cameras to document, recreate and realize concepts or feelings. In a similar way that he uses a camera, he uses jelly to express ideas in a less literal way. The project looks at jelly as a fictional documentation carrier that records information existing in the space such as the reflected light, sound, scent and even emotions which vibrate nearby. The jelly becomes super-documentation – it records data in a form that people are not able to decode. Photographs of people’s encounters with jelly will be on display, along with texts and jelly and its containers.

"Wang practices an artful taxonomy in which seemingly mundane objects - the artefacts found in any household - take on a strange particularity becoming palpable integers of the self in that they shed light not only on how this artist lives, but how he thinks about the objects that he lives with." - James D. Campbell, exhibition catalog writer

Born in Taiwan, Chih-Chien Wang has been living in Montreal since 2002. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Cinema from the Chinese Culture University in Taipei in 1994, and worked for several television companies producing documentaries before moving to Canada. Wang obtained a Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2006. Wang’s works, whether using photography or objects, frequently contain subtle traces which might refer to personal, cultural or social concerns while dealing primarily with his everyday experience. Since 2004, Wang’s works have been seen in exhibitions held in Montreal, Lausanne, Milan, New York, Ping Yao, Peterborough, Toronto, Boston, Miami and Beijing. Wang is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain.

The Jelly Project #2 opens on September 12 and continues until October 17, 2009. A closing reception will be held on Thursday, October 15, from 6 to 9 pm at Gallery 44, located at 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120, Toronto. The artist will be present.

ÉLIANE EXCOFFIER AT STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY

SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 24

Opening Reception for Éliane Excoffier’s “Kiev” Thursday, September 17, 5-8PM

Artist Talk with Éliane Excoffier: Saturday, September 19th, 2-3pm. RSVP as seating is limited.

The gallery is pleased to present “Kiev”, a new series of photographic work by Éliane Excoffier, which addresses the provocative history of eroticism.

Éliane Excoffier’s (b. St. Jerôme, Québec, 1971) work continues to be inspired by the culmination of two passions. Her intrigue in the representation of the female body and the investigation of photography’s historical processes and techniques are juxtaposed to create this most recent body of work. The subjects in Excoffier’s photographs are not identified as particular women, but fragments of the female body, as their concealed faces render them anonymous. Inpsired by erotic imagery of the early 20th century, “Kiev” uses classical representations of sexual desire and eroticism. Excoffier’s sensual images are largely influenced by the work of photographers John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873-1949), Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) and Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) who all made portraits of the fetishized female form.

Excoffier, a self-taught photographer, captures these female nudes in a series of twenty black and white photographs taken with a Kiev 60, a camera manufactured at the prime of the Soviet Union in the capital of Ukraine. She uses this medium format single lens reflex camera by creating her own paper negatives that are hand-cut to fit into the back. When printed, the delicate surface of the paper subtly references the past as the grain and imperfections of the hand made negatives are revealed. The long exposure times required for this technique create ghostly images of the female form as figures move within the frame. Excoffier offers the viewer a modern take on the voyeuristic images attributed to the early 20th century.

Excoffier lives and works in Montréal. She graduated with a degree in Visual Arts and Art History from the University of Montréal in 1996. Her work can be found in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Loto-Québec, Montréal; Giverny Capital, Montréal; oeuvres d’art du Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec; Fondation MontMartFund, Paris; Prêts d'oeuvres d'art du Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec; amongst others.

“Kiev” was made possible with a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

CUT AND PASTE AT GALLERY 44 IN THE VITRINES

SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 17

Cut and Paste: SoJin Chun, Paola Denegri, Koko Kurunathan & Ambereen Siddiqui, Christine Lucy Latimer, Sue Lloyd, Kathleen Mullen, Elena Potter, Evan Tapper

A co-presentation of Gallery 44 and Toronto Animated Image Society

Opening Reception Friday, September 18, 6 - 8PM
Closing Reception Thursday, October 17, 6 - 9PM

Gallery 44 and the Toronto Animated Image Society have commissioned eight local artists to create new photo-based animations exploring the subject of "feeling photography", the title and theme of a conference hosted by the Toronto Photography Seminar October 16 - 17, 2009 in Toronto. (www.torontophotoseminar.org).

Toronto Animated Image Society is a non-profit artist-run centre that explores and promotes the art of animation and supports animators as artists. Over the past 20 years, TAIS has encouraged the exchange of information, facilities, ideas and aesthetics within Toronto's animation community through events, screenings, workshops, art exhibitions and by providing affordable access to a specialized animation studio.

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to the advancement of photographic art. Founded in 1979 to establish a creative, supportive environment in which photography could flourish, today our centre consists of a gallery, resource centre, and production facilities. We offer workshops, equipment rental, and serve a membership of artists and photo enthusiasts. Our goal is to contribute to the dialogue on contemporary Canadian photographic art practice and to foster its support, understanding and appreciation.

Kathleen Mullen, Still Life with Butterfly, 2009

LISA STEELE AND KIM TOMCZAK: THE FUNNIEST THING... AND KELLY MARK: IT'S JUST ONE GOD DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER AT DIAZ CONTEMPORARY

SEPTEMBER 3 - OCTOBER 10

Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak: The funniest thing...

Steele & Tomczak have worked exclusively in collaboration since 1983, producing videotapes, performances and photo/text works. Visually elegant and technically sophisticated, their work addresses universal social realities, family histories and repressed memories. They have profoundly influenced developments in video and media art in Canada since the early 1970s through an intimate and subjective approach to investigating and documenting society. Continuing this approach, for the past several years, Steele & Tomczak have been asking young people questions in various Western countries. In this series of work, these short interviews are inscribed as texts onto hybrid images of young individuals in front of institutional doorways. These photo-text works speak to the deep solitude of youth while never abandoning the current social environment within which each person exists.

Toronto-based Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak have shown their work in numerous film festivals and exhibitions worldwide. In September 2009 they will be showing a new piece entitled Speak City for Projections, part of the Toronto International Film Festival. Steele & Tomczak have received numerous grants and awards including the Governor General’s Award for lifetime achievement in Visual & Media Arts (2005). They are also co-founders of Vtape, a Toronto media arts centre, and both teach at the University of Toronto, where Steele is the Associate Chair of the Department of Art.

Kelly Mark: It's Just One God Damn Thing After Another

For years, Mark has been known for her witty critiques and wry sense of humour. Influenced by minimalism and conceptualism, Mark explores themes related to work, repetitive labour, and time. Her work often focuses on the banal facets of everyday life, and comments on contemporary culture. In this exhibition of primarily new work, Mark will show a range of media, including: drawings, text pieces, video- and light-based works. In a series of new letraset drawings, Mark employs this long-outdated desktop publishing tool to create elaborate designs in black and white; meanwhile, several neon and light-based works employ the self-reflexive, self-deprecating humour that she is known for.

Toronto-based Kelly Mark received her BFA in 1994 at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. She has exhibited widely across Canada and internationally at venues including the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal), Ikon Gallery (UK), Lisson Gallery (UK), and the Physics Room (NZ). She is a recipient of numerous Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council grants, as well as the KM Hunter Artist Award (2002), and Chalmers Art Fellowship (2002).

Kelly Mark gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

www.diazcontemporary.ca

YOUSUF KARSH AT PIKTO GALLERY

SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 6

Yousuf Karsh, one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century, achieved a distinct style in his theatrical lighting. Karsh photographed many of the celebrated personalities of his time—Andy Warhol, Fidel Castro, Peter Lorre, Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, and Albert Einstein, among many others.

Yousuf Karsh was born in Armenia-in-Turkey in 1908. To escape the massacres in their homeland, his family fled to Syria in 1922 and immigrated to Canada two years later, where he joined his uncle, George Nakash, a photographer living in Sherbrooke, Québec. Nakash arranged for Yousuf to go to Boston in 1928, to apprentice with John Garo, an eminent portrait photographer whose studio was on Boylston Street. Since the ebullient Garo photographed only by available light, on long winter evenings he welcomed artists from the worlds of literature, theater, and music. Karsh later wrote, “It was here I set my heart on photographing those men and women who leave their mark on the world.”

The empathy Karsh established with his sitters came naturally. He had great sensitivity and an instinctive understanding of each person who sat before his lens. He quickly established an atmosphere of trust so that the sitting became a true collaboration. Karsh was not only a uniquely gifted photographer, but also a superb printer. He was exacting in every stage of his work, and this artistic talent and technical skill were blended to produce iconic portraits of Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Casals, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andy Warhol and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Karsh worked through his 82nd year and closed his studio in 1992. By the time he retired, he had held 15,312 sittings, produced over 150,000 negatives, and left an invaluable artistic and historic document of the men and women who shaped our world.

Humphrey Bogart

KELLY LYCAN: WHITE HOT AT GALLERY TPW

SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 10

Vancouver-based Kelly Lycan’s practice looks at the way objects are valued and devalued dependent upon their place and display. As a monochromatic installation and photo-based exhibition of recycled objects and re-visioned collections, WHITE HOT looks at this idea of value and the relationships between market culture and visual culture. Throughout the course of the exhibition, using a range of display and representational strategies, Lycan will be restyling the installation of objects borrowed, scavenged and created by both Lycan and other invited artists. In residence for the duration of the project, as a performative gesture, Lycan manages the WHITE HOT flea market every Saturday at the gallery. Shopping is encouraged.

Kelly Lycan received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and the US, most recently at CSA Gallery in Vancouver. She is also a member of Instant Coffee, a service oriented artist collective that builds social structures, where ideas, materials and actions are explored. Instant Coffee has exhibited in Canada, South America, Europe and the USA.

WHITE HOT Flea Market: Saturdays 12 - 5PM

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AT GALLERY 44

Call for Submissions from Artists and Curators
DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to the advancement of photographic art. We encourage the submission of exhibition proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists who are innovative in their use of materials and approach to subject matter.

Gallery 44 views photography within the larger context of contemporary artistic practices and relevant cultural issues in Canadian society. Please submit:

1. A maximum of twenty slides or digital images (CD must be MAC compatible) representing a recent body of work or a specific project. Digital images should be RGB, jpeg format no larger than 1024 x 768 pixels at 300 dpi. They should be numbered 01 to 20 (01_tree, 02_house, 03_car etc.) Slides must be numbered and marked with the artist's name and a red dot in the lower left corner. Gallery 44 does not accept original artwork. We do not accept images by email.

2. An image list indicating title, year, medium and dimensions.

3. An artist's statement, curatorial statement, or other written description.

4. A physical description of the proposed exhibition, including the number of works, the space required and any unusual installation requirements.

5. Curricula vitae, resumes or biographies of the artist(s) and curator, if applicable.

6. A self-addressed envelope (SASE) with sufficient return postage. Without an SASE we will not return submission packages and will dispose of submission materials appropriately.

Gallery 44 welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with other arts and community organizations. Please contact us to discuss your project.

Submissions must be postmarked no later than September 30th 2009. If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day. Submissions sent after the competition closing date will be reviewed at the next deadline. Gallery 44 will take reasonable care with submission materials; however, we cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss to original photographic prints. Gallery 44 does not accept submissions by fax or email. Artists are paid in accordance with the CARFAC Fee Schedule. Results are communicated within three months.

The Gallery’s floor plan is available on our website.

Send submissions to:

Exhibition Coordinator
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

401 Richmond St. West, Suite 120

Toronto ON M5V 3A8

www.gallery44.org

BRENT LEWIN: URBAN JUNGLE AT TORONTO IMAGE WORKS GALLERY

Since 2007 Brent Lewin has been documenting the plight of the Asian elephant in Thailand.

From his artist statement " It was the sight of these beautiful creatures vying aimlessly for space in the congested streets of Bangkok that compelled me to explore the subject further."

BARBARA ASTMAN: WONDERLAND AT CORKIN GALLERY

SEPTEMBER 9 - OCTOBER 18

Barbara Astman employs postcards to investigate a synthesis of personal memory and the hyperreal. Astman studies the language of visual imagery, engulfing the viewer in a narrative of detail and scale.

Her career has spanned more than 23 years of photo-based media innovations, but has always been about more than the lure of new technology. Astman’s staged and sequential work suggests issues of identity, systems of representation, gender perspectives and the anti-narrative of popular irony.” – Ihor Holubizky, art/text 1998

“In the early 1980s, there was a clear delineation between what was considered photography and what was classified as art, and I felt I didn’t fit into either category. That is when I started calling myself a camera artist – one that was working within the contemporary art world as a whole.” – Barbara Astman

An American who studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Barbara Astman came to Canada in 1970, during the Vietnam War. She has been exhibiting in public galleries and museums across Canada and abroad since 1975 at venues such as the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, AB, George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, France and Galleria Luca Polazzoli in Milan, Italy. Astman has produced numerous public commissions, the most recent of which was for the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, in 2005. Barbara Astman is also a dedicated art professor who has mentored numerous emerging artists at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, where she has been teaching since the mid 1970s.