Alexander Irving: Flatmen, Jan 28 - March 3
1520 Queen St. W. Toronto Canada M6R 1A4 416-821-3060
Wed. – Sat. 12– 6 pm and by appointment
Artsync Review: Pondered – Alexander Irving & Anders Oinonen: The Inverted Portrait
> Images and Essay by The Baildon Writers’ Co-Op
Toronto based artist Alexander Irving holds an MFA from York University and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Irving has exhibited his work since 1986 and has shown at Birch Libralato, Blackwood Gallery and Diaz Contemporary. In 2009 Irving’s work was included in Carte Blanche 2: Painting – a survey of new Canadian painting.
Irving has taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design and, at present, holds the post of Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus.
UPCOMING
Celia Neubauer: Exit, Enter
March 24 through April 28, 2012
Opening Reception Sat March 24 from 3-6 pm
NEWS
Nicole Collins, Canadian Art Review Jan. 5, 2012
Nicole Collins, Artsync Interview
Nicole Collins: The Reconstruction, Now Magazine Critic’s Pick
Two of John Armstrong’s essays accompanying public gallery exhibitions have recently been published:
The 2011 University of Toronto Mississauga Blackwood Gallery publication Wood: A Compendium of the Blackwood Gallery’s 2009 Exhibitions and Projects contains an essay by Armstrong titled “No Stars: A Short History of Industry and Small Business in Port Credit over Some of the Past Century.” The essay was commissioned to accompany the Blackwood exhibition The Projects: Port Credit. For an HTML version of the essay, see: http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/Blackwood_exhibitionTheProjects.html, and scroll down.
Oakville Galleries have published Armstrong’s 2011 essay Till the River and Kingdom Come: Denyse Thomasos’s Earliest and Most Recent Wall Works to accompany Thomasos’s 24 September – 1 November 2011?exhibition Kingdom Come. For a PDF version of the essay, see: http://www.oakvillegalleries.com/1665.htm, and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
Alex Bierk: Forest City Gallery Blog write up
Andrea Carson Loved: Nowheresville at General Hardware — View on Canadian Art
Globe and Mail: RM Vaughan, Nowheresville, Nov 5
Nowheresville: Artsync Interview, Oct 21 Gallery Hop
Nowheresville: Now Magazine Must-See-Show
Matt Crookshank Exhibiting in Mexico City in November 2011 http://museodelaciudadqro.org/?p=1896
National Post Sept 24: Mark Crofton Bell, by Leah Sandals
blogTO: Shot of Art: Where Pretty and ominous meet in paint, Sept. 28 by Derek Flack
http://www.canadianart.ca/online/2011/09/08/listings/
Now Magazine Must See Shows, Double Phenomenon:Mark Crofton Bell
http://www.nowtoronto.com/art/story.cfm?content=182526
During their tenure at the International Art Residency in Beijing this summer, John Armstrong & Paul Collins held an outdoor screening of their 2008 feature-length video, Four Sisters at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, in Caochangdi. Collins supplied the musical soundtrack for the movie, improvising to field recordings he’d made in and around Beijing.
Design Lines Summer Issue, May – Aug. 2011
Julie Voyce, included in exhibition at the MOCCA, June 2011
“10 Artists who deserve a solo show at the New Museum.” Julie Voyce in New-York based “L Magazine” spearheaded by curator and writer Paddy Johnson
Globe and Mail Review by R.M. Vaughn for ‘Autoplasmic’ at the McMaster Museum of Art which features current work by gallery artist Michael Davidson, Jacques Oulé and Mario Scattolini.
National Post: May 10, 2011 Contact Exhibition with UK artists Maslen & Mehra
Globe and Mail 05.06.2011 by Kate Taylor: Critic’s picks: Ten Contact shows to see: Contact Exhibition with UK artists Maslen & Mehra
John Armstrong & Paul Collins are featured on the Lens Culture website. Lens Culture is a high-profile on-line magazine out of Paris. http://www.lensculture.com/armstrong-collins.html
“Art School (Dismissed)”, featured in Canadian Art Magazine and curated by Heather Nicol, included 5 of our gallery artists: John Armstrong and Paul Collins, Mark Crofton Bell, Nicole Collins and Alexander Irving.