An i-can-see-your-breath hello, dear bloglings! There’s lots going on this week for ToD’s favourite artists. Kim Waldron is re-mounting her Triples series at Vu in Montreal. The Lonsdale Gallery anniversary show in Toronto will feature Phil Irish, Alex McLeod and Julie Oakes among others. Another group show at Oeno Gallery in Prince Edward County, Ont will feature work by Franco DeFrancesca and Scott Pattinson.The delightfully sweet Diyan Achjadi heads east to Montreal’s MAI for Sugar Bombs. Mathieu Lefevre ups the absurd at Montreal’s Skol Gallery. And be sure to pick up a copy of Clock, a new book collaboration by Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier, available from Paul + Wendy Projects.Enjoy!
—Mike Landry
A rhyming Seussian hello to you, dear bloglings! Get ready to talk Montreal, because Immony Men’s Effections: We need to talk is coming to Occurrence this week. Mirana Zuger presents D is for Water at Ottawa’s Terence Robert Gallery. Micah Lexier is up to more shenanigans with exhibitions all over the map, but if you get a chance, check out Two Arrows Pointing in Opposite Directions now on display at Toronto’s Conveinence Gallery. Eryn Foster (ToD interviewee numero uno!) and John van der Woude combine for Google Earth at Gallery 44 in Toronto. Enjoy!
—Mike Landry
By Mike Landry
Michael Dumontier's pipe to be printed in Grande Prairie's paper.
Something’s cooking in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Curator/artist extraordinaire Micah Lexier is acting as master chef for the Prairie Art Gallery’s second annual exhibition of temporary public interventions.
“There’s a couple [of works] where I know I’m pushing [the public]. I really wanted it to be like when you’re cooking a meal—you want to push the spice to the edge until it’s just perfect, but you’re pushing it a little further than they think they can handle to what you know they can handle,” says Lexier.
Lexier participated in the first series of temporary public interventions last year. Conceived by local artist Ed Bader, the event was a solution to bring art to the city after the Prairie Art Gallery’s roof had collapsed. Lexier was asked at the conclusion of the event to curate this year’s event, and he wanted to expand the event beyond video art. Read the rest of this entry »
