May 2011

Saturday, May 7, 2011
Dual Book Launch
Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance & Music 1978 - 2011
&
Blackwood Gallery: Wood
1 - 3pm
Art Metropole, 788 King Street West

Celebrate the launch of the beautiful new Gordon Monahan monograph! Co-hosted by the DMG, Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Blackwood Gallery, the artist will be in attendance. The Blackwood Gallery will also be launching Wood, a compendium of their exhibitions and projects from 2009: part-catalogue, part-magazine, part-annual report.

April 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011
Take Your Kids to Work Day
10 am - 12 noon

In DMG's session for the UTSC Take Your Kids to Work Day, the children were given a guided tour of the DMG exhibition Purloined Stories by curator Sandy Saad, followed by a hands-on artmaking activity in which they were encourage to appropriate images to create their own narratives.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Opening Reception for Purloined Stories
6 - 9 pm

Join us for the opening of Purloined Stories, the Master of Visual Studies (Curatorial Stream) thesis exhibition curated by Sandy Saad.

March 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011
Film Screening - Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1 - 2:30 pm

This documentary film chronicles Leon Theremin's strange life and times - and the powerful influence he and his self-named electronic musical instrument have had on world culture. Interviews with theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, among others, show an eccentric genius working toward success until his sudden vanishing in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Monday, March 21, 2011
Artist's Talk: Dave Dyment
12 - 1 pm
AA204, Arts & Administration Building, U of T Scarborough

Toronto-based artist Dave Dyment will deliver a lecture on his practice, and the way he approaches and works with sound & music.

Thursday, March 17, 2011
New and Used Furniture Music
Sound Art Listening
12 - 4 pm

An afternoon of sound art at the DMG! Drop by for coffee & tea and to get your avant-garde groove on. Presenting works by Gordon Monahan, as well as selections from sound art history: John Cage, Henri Chopin, Marcel Duchamp, Alvin Lucier, Erik Satie, Pierre Schaeffer, Kurt Schwitters and more.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Opening Reception & Exhibition Tour
5 - 9 pm

Join us at the Doris McCarthy Gallery as we celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance & Music 1978 - 2011, featuring the work of Gordon Monahan. The artist will be present during the opening reception, and will lead an exhibition tour at 7 pm.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Artist's Talk: Gordon Monahan
2:30 - 4 pm
AA303, Arts & Administration Building, U of T Scarborough

The DMG and the Visual & Performing Arts: Studio program present a lecture by internationally renowned multimedia artist and musician Gordon Monahan. Monahan will discuss his practice over the last thirty years, supported by video documentation.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Sound Art Demonstration & Workshop with Gordon Monahan
10:30 am - 1 pm
SW105, Arts & Administration Building, U of T Scarborough

Open to Visual & Performing Arts students at U of T Scarborough.

February 2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011
Artist's Talk with David Rokeby
3:45 pm

inbetween artist David Rokeby will speak about his work in the exhibition, and his celebrated career.

Sunday, February 20, 2011
Contemporary Art Bus Tour
12 - 5 pm

Starting at 12 pm with a tour of the Koffler Gallery’s off-site exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), free bus departs for the Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Doris McCarthy Gallery.

Sunday, February 20, 2011
Exhibition Tour: inbetween
1 - 2 pm

Open to Cultural Access Passholders! Director/Curator Ann MacDonald will lead a walking tour of the current Doris McCarthy Gallery exhibition inbetween.

Thursday, February 17, 2011
Screening - Art:21 PLACE
1 - 2 pm

A screening of the episode Place from Art:21, an acclaimed documentary series produced by PBS, profiling artists Laurie Anderson, Richard Serra, Sally Mann, Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee and Pepón Osorio. In their work, these artists explore connections between land, home and identity.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Artist's Talk with Richard Storms
2:15 pm

inbetween artist Richard Storms will deliver a slide lecture on his practice, and discuss his work in the exhibition.

January 2011

Winter Blues Festival at the DMG (January 31 - February 4, 2011)

Organized by Arts & Events Programming at the University of Toronto Scarborough, the second annual festival combines art, music and poetry performances with gallery talks and student showcases across campus.

Monday, January 31
UMAP Songwriter's Circle
2 pm

Thursday, February 3
Poetry Idol
2 pm

Wednesday, January 26, 2011
A Space to Be: The 2nd Annual Rainbow Tie Gala
5 - 8 pm

Enjoy an evening of allies and art in support and celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Faculty, Staff and Students at UTSC. Everyone is welcome to attend. Formal attire not required (though accessorizing with rainbow accessories is encouraged!)

January 19, 2011
inbetween Opening Reception
5 - 9 pm

Join us to celebrate the opening of inbetween. Artist Paulette Phillips and Curator Mireille Eagan will deliver a talk at 7 pm.

January 5 - 12, 2011
Fellow Travellers
Work by Yael Brotman, Adam David Brown, Lee Goreas, Marla Hlady, David Hlynsky, Alexander Irving,Shelagh Keeley, Will Kwan and Tanya Mars

Closing Reception Wednesday, January 12, 5 - 7 pm

Fellow Travellers features a selection of work from VPA Studio faculty at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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November 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010
Traffic Bus Tour
12 - 5 pm

A free bus will be touring to the four University of Toronto galleries presenting Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, including the University of Toronto Art Centre, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Blackwood Gallery, and the Doris McCarthy Gallery. Each stop will be introduced by artists featured in the exhibition.

Saturday, November 27, 2010
Performance - Ian Murray: Keeping on Top of the Top Songs
6 - 6:30 pm
Hart House Music Room, University of Toronto

A special restaging of Ian Murray’s seminal 1970 performance Keeping on Top of the Top Songs, in which a drummer plays along with an audio recording that s/he has not previously heard. They are instructed to search for a point of reference, an underlying beat, based on an audio recording of Ian Murray’s The Top Song – a recording of the first ten seconds of each of the top one hundred pop songs of the 1960s.

November 26 - 28, 2010
Conference
Traffic: Conceptualism in Canada
University of Toronto (St. George Campus)

Lectures, Panels, Screenings and Events: Friday, November 26 and Saturday, November 27
Tour of the Exhibition: Sunday, November 28

This three-day conference at the end of the exhibition will be the first major gathering of artists, writers, critics, art historians and students concerned with the manifestations of conceptualism in the history of contemporary art in Canada. The conference will trace new research on the movement’s international intertwinings, including the diaspora of US draft-dodgers, its indebtedness to the French Situationists, the political ferment of new queer and feminist constituencies, and its interests in new forms of communication (in view of the writings and influence of Marshall McLuhan, among others).

Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Book Launch & Poetry Reading
12 - 1 pm
Doris McCarthy Gallery

Join the poets of English C86 for their end-of-semester poetry reading - PLUS the launch of creative writing lecturer Daniel Scott Tysdal's newest book, The Mourner's Book of Albums! The sharp, innovative poems will move and amaze you with two-faced kittens, awakening embolisms, child-made monsters and Java-wrought love. All this, and free coffee and tea!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Screening - Marcel Duchamp: In His Own Words
1 - 1:45 pm
Doris McCarthy Gallery

Marcel Duchamp is one of the most well-known artists of the twentieth century. His work – characterized by its humour and questioning of the boundaries of art – was of relevance and theoretical importance to conceptual artists, though it predated the movement by fifty years. Directed by Lewis Jacobs and featuring an interview with Duchamp prior to his death in 1968, the film explores the three areas: Duchamp’s early period in drawing and painting, his movement into Dadaism and ready-made sculptures (protypically ‘conceptual’ works), and his final major exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Traffic Talks: Conceptualism and its Discontents
7 - 9 pm
University of Toronto Art Centre

Artists Suzy Lake and Gordon Lebredt, and Bill Kirby, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, discuss the legacies of conceptual art with UTAC Curator, Matt Brower. What can we make of conceptual art now? What happened to the utopian promise of conceptualism? How can we engage with the documents and traces of conceptual art today? Are conceptualism’s critical energies still accessible to contemporary viewers or have its traces become historical objects and commodities?

Friday, November 12, 2010
Spectacle & Impermanence Performace Series
Tanya Mars: Six Images in Search of an Artist
10 am - 4 pm: Performance
4 - 5 pm: Discussion
The Meeting Place, U of T Scarborough
Reception to Follow at Gallery 1265
Presented by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the Department of Art, Visual Studies Program, University of Toronto

Tanya Mars, internationally renowned performance artist and University of Toronto professor (UTSC) will present a 6-hour rendition of mega-sized 14-hour performance work 6 Images in Search of an Artist (performed in Mexico, France, Sweden, Finland and Poland throughout 2008). The performance draws inspiration from the medieval tapestry, Tenture de la Dame a la Licorne, exploring and exploiting the senses. The performance will be followed by a discussion of the work and its themes, with the artist and Andy Payne (John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design).

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Traffic Talks: Conceptualism in French Canada
6 - 7:30 pm
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House

Musician and visual artist Raymond Gervais; artist, writer and curator Christof Mignone; and Michèle Thériault, Director/Curator of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, will discuss Conceptualism in French Canada and the role of sound art in conceptual art practice in the 1960s and 1970s.

Monday, November 1, 2010
Jan Verwoert
Why are conceptual artists painting again?
Because they think it's a good idea.
6 - 8 pm
George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Presented by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Berlin-based critic Jan Verwoert has been examining the developments of art after Conceptualism. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, his lecture is concerned with the way in which the basic conditions of art practice have changed and what words and models might be used to open up the potentials at the heart of the developments in art after Conceptualism.

October 2010

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Screening - Joyce Wieland: Artist on Fire
1 - 2 pm

Concerned with the aesthetic perspective of women, filmmaker and multimedia artist Joyce Wieland (b. Toronto, 1931 - 1998) explored issues of nationalism, sexuality and ecology throughout her thirty year career. This film, directed by Kay Armatage, looks at Wieland’s involvement in structural filmmaking with Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton in the 1960s, and the use of domestic and craft materials in her work.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Traffic Talks
Ingrid Baxter in conversation with Bill Kirby
6 pm, University of Toronto Art Centre
Presented by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre

Ingrid Baxter, co-founder and co-president of N.E. Thing Company Ltd., will discuss N.E. Thing Co.'s contribution to the global conceptual movement with Bill Kirby, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. Working with language, photography, and sculptural installation, N.E. Thing Co. focused on the contemporary landscape, urban geography, and the consumer environment to expand the possibilities of art.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Artist Talk: Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge
10 am - 11 am
SW143, U of T Scarborough

Traffic artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge will discuss their practice, collaborating with trade unions and communitity organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past 25 years.

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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Contemporary Art Bus Tour
11:30 am - 5 pm

Tour starts at 11:30 at Balisi at 711 Queen Street West (Koffler Gallery off-site space) and then departs for Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Doris McCarthy Gallery, returning downtown for tours of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the University of Toronto Art Centre.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Blackwood Talks
Traffic: The East Coast Story
7 pm
MiST Theatre, CCT Building, U of T Mississauga

Dr. Jayne Wark will present an overview of the work from the Atlantic region that is exhibited at the Blackwood Gallery as part of Traffic. This talk will provide background into the particular circumstances that allowed for the improbable flourishing of international conceptual art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax during the period covered in Traffic.

Thursday, October 7, 2010
DMG Open House
10 am - 10 pm

It's 12 hrs of DMG-ness! Learn all there is to know about the gallery and our current exhibition during our annual Open House. With coffee, tea, snacks and art! Staff will be available to answer questions and lead tours of Traffic.

Monday, October 4, 2010
Film Screening: Adams Sitney, Annette Michelson and Michael Snow
6:30 pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox

In conjunction with the Toronto Internal Film Festival

Saturday, October 2, 2010
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto: One At A Time
6:57 pm to sunrise
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto Art Centre and Hart House

A glistening mound of one million pennies, devised by Canadian artist Gerald Ferguson, is one of the exciting art projects that visitors will encounter at Hart House and the University of Toronto Art Centre. Other highlights include Marina Abramovic/Ulay’s sensational performance Imponderabilia, involving two naked performers facing each other across an entrance way and Orgasm Energy Chart, a widely disseminated questionnaire by General Idea, first issued during the late 1960s sexual revolution.

September 2010

Thursday, September 22, 2010
Traffic Talks
Ron Terada in conversation with Nicholas Brown
5:30 pm, University of Toronto Art Centre
Presented by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre

Vancouver-based contemporary artist Ron Terada will be discussing how the history of Conceptual Art has shaped his work and that of contemporary art in Vancouver. Terada will be joined in conversation by Toronto-based curator Nicholas Brown who has worked extensively with the newest generation of Vancouver-based artists.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
14th Annual Janet E. Hutchison Lecture
Lisa Steele
4:30 pm, University College, Room 140
Presented by the University of Toronto Art Centre

With a nod to John Baldassari's 1971 iconic admonition ("I will not make any more boring art" written over and over on the walls of NSCAD), Traffic artist Lisa Steele will do a 'cook's tour' of Conceptual Art, with references and examples from her own work as well as others working throughout the 1970s.

Sunday, September 12, 2010
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 - 1980 Opening Reception
2 - 5 pm

Following an exhibition tour at 12 noon at the JMB Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre, get on the bus to view Traffic at the Blackwood Gallery and the DMG! Curator Barbara Fischer will deliver remarks at both spaces.

July 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010
Film Screening: Selections from Landscape as Muse
1 - 2:30 pm

Inspired by Doris McCarthy's love of the landscape, the DMG is pleased to present a screening of the documentary film series Landscape as Muse, about contemporary Canadian artists who work with the natural environment.

Sunday, July 18, 2010
Exhibition Tour led by Lynne Wynick
3 pm

Lynne Wynick of Wynick/Tuck Gallery will lead an informal walking tour of the current DMG exhibition celebrating Doris' centenary.

Sunday, July 18, 2010
Contemporary Art Bus Tour
12 – 5 pm

Following a tour of the Koffler Gallery’s off-site project at Bathurst and College Street, free bus will depart to the Blackwood Gallery’s off-site project in Port Credit, the DMG and UTAC. Guided tours or talks will be offered at each gallery. To reserve a seat, contact the DMG at 416.287.7007 or dmg@utsc.utoronto.ca.

June 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010
Exhibition Tour - Roughing It in the Bush
12:30 pm

Barbara Sutherland will lead an informal walking tour of the current DMG exhibition celebrating Doris' centenary, discussing the works and sharing anecdotes and quotes from her time with Doris.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Slide Lecture: Painting with Doris McCarthy
12:30 pm

Barbara Sutherland, McCarthy's friend and neighbour for 15 years, will share her experiences painting with Doris on trips to Baffin Island, Newfoundland and Georgian Bay, supported by personal photos and images of Doris's works.

Monday, June 21 to Thursday, June 24, 2010
Painting Workshop
10 am - 3 pm, daily
Presented in partnership with the Scarborough Arts Council

In this four-day workshop, artist Barbara Sutherland will guide students through the principles of painting explicit in Doris McCarthy’s artworks, with a focus on the hard-edged pieces in Roughing It in the Bush.

Saturday, June 19, 2010
Roughing It in the Bush Opening Reception
12 - 4 pm

Join us as we celebrate the opening of a new survey of Doris McCarthy 's work - and her one-hundredth birthday! With remarks at 2 pm, and a curator's talk by Nancy Campbell at 3 pm. Free shuttle buses to the DMG depart UTAC at 1 pm, buses to UTAC depart the DMG at 4 pm.