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Invitational Group Exhibition on the theme of the Evolution of the Animation Cel This show includes works by: ( The show also includes a small selection of works from the Art Gallery of Algoma's collection of vintage cels ) |
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Robbie Adamson (Sault Ste. Marie) has been producing these StupidDummyHeds cartoons for more than 20 years in an ongoing struggle to express the humour he sees in the world. Robbie has produced six independantly published collections of his work and has appeared in countless newspapers and magazines. He has held three exhibits in Sault Ste. Marie and one in Victoria. With over 300 undrawn comics on his 'to do' list Robbie wishes for nothing more than the time and the peace he needs to begin crossing them off. | |
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Dan Kennedy (Toronto) references material from the past two centuries in paintings that mine a vast repository of visual history such as cartoons, Farmer’s Almanacs, animated films, advertising and 19th Century song sheets. Through a dense proliferation of imagery, text and seductive painting, Kennedy creates a rich and phantasmagoric depiction of this communal psyche. A sense of mystery, stories untold, buried histories and political unrest ease through the paintings and pulls the viewer into a strangely familiar pictorial landscape. Kennedy also references a loss of time, innocence, and consciousness that has been deceived by new and old promises. Kennedy has exhibited extensively in Canada and the US including the C-Pop Gallery in Detroit, 2004, The Cambridge Gallery in 2004, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver 2003, as well as Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York in 2006. Kennedy’s work is found in major collections throughout Canada and the US. |
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Mark Laliberte (b.1971) is a project-based hybrid media artist currently working in collage, curation, video, animation, language, and computer-based sound composition. Laliberte's gallery works have been shown throughout Canada and the USA. He is a founding member of Thinkbox, a new media collective with recent exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Thames Art Gallery. Laliberte is the Managing Editor and Designer of Carousel magazine. |
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Sarah Moore(North Bay) is an emerging artist who approaches explores colour, flatness and pattern, creating works that exploit the human tendency to generate narratives between and within images. Sourced material is combined and manipulated using a cut-and-paste approach to engineer compositions that meet these aims. Revealing her enthusiasm for the study of patterns and design, Moore employs a flat graphic style of painting that empties the imagery of detail and specificity. Conceptually, this encourages the viewer to engage the painted shapes with his or her own preconceptions regarding inter-item associations and hence, narrative. As vacant vessels, the contextualized individual shapes invite the viewer to create his or her own fables. Moore is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s fine arts program. | |
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gustave morin (b. 1972) is the polarizing catalyst behind a growing number of unclassifiable volumes of literature which curiously collage esoteric strains of concrete poetry & incendiary graphisme with feral kitsch & zen cartoon. His various written works, graphic constructions & reluctant performances have been appearing on the page, on the stage and in white cubes above ground and below for nearly 20 years. |
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Tanya Read is a multi disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995 and since then has been active in the Toronto art community. She was a co-founder and exhibiting artist in the Impure collective, a group of artists who organized exhibitions in Toronto between 1994 and 1998. In 1999, she and Scott Carruthers opened 'Fly Gallery', a storefront window used as an alternative exhibition space for artists, which continues as an ongoing project. In 1998 Tanya created Mr. Nobody, a Chaplinesque cartoon figure featured in films, sculpture, drawing and video. She looks forward to working with Mr. Nobody for many years. | |
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Chantal Rousseau lives and works in Toronto. She is a cross disciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, video and animation. Rousseau has exhibited in various artist-run centres including: La Centrale, Montréal (2002), Mercer Union, Toronto (2002), Latitude 53, Edmonton (2001). She is a member of the Persona Volare collective, whose recent exhibitions include "Canadian Club" at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris (2005). |
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 THAMES ART GALLERY mid-late Feb, 2010 |
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Lambton Art Gallery (2009); Art Gallery of Algoma (2009); Thames Art Gallery (2010) Touring throughout 2009-10. For tour enquiries, contact Dermot Wilson @ 705.474.1944 xt-227 |
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