COMMUNICATING VESSELS
April 16 - May 11, 2014
Curated by Corrie Jackson

With works by IAIN BAXTER&, Luis Jacob, Roula Partheniou and Judy Radul

Opening Reception
Wednesday April 16, 5 – 8pm
Artist talk with IAIN BAXTER& and Roula Partheniou at 6:30pm.
***A FREE shuttle bus will depart from Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street W) at 5:30pm and return for 9pm.

Communicating Vessels brings together three generations of Canadian artists from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, with works from 1965 to the present day. These works offer an examination of visual associations that are held by familiar objects and how these assumptions, when disrupted, force a self-conscious renegotiation of the body in its environment. The everyday experience of being in the world is not one of aware perception as consciousness forgets its own phenomena, allowing itself to be constituted by familiar glances. This moment of aware interaction, found in the re-presenting of familiar objects as means of bringing attention to the assumptions of looking, is taken up in the work of IAIN BAXTER&, Luis Jacob, Roula Partheniou and Judy Radul.

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This exhibition was produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. For more information, please visit /admissions/programs/master-visual-studies.

Presented by the Blackwood Gallery and the Masters of Visual Studies (MVS) Program at the University of Toronto.

The Daniels Faculty invites students, faculty, staff and the public to Eyeball, the annual Visual Studies undergraduate art show. This year’s show will be on Friday, December 6 from 6-9pm at 563 Spadina Cresent.

Eyeball is a one-night show featuring projects from Visual Studies undergraduate students.

Click here to view a gallery of previous Eyeball exhibitions.

T412 explores twelve housing projects by Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture, spanning a full spectrum of user groups, demographics, ownership models, and unit typologies.

Looking through the lens of various data, the exhibition examines the parameters, limitations and inspiration for 5468796’s work in the context of Winnipeg — a conservative civic environment where private developers and public agencies are largely concerned with the bottom line, and unconventional ideas are always measured against safer or cheaper options. In many cases, these limitations are what drive and inspire 5468796's design approach.

This exhibit highlights the importance of an architect's ability to work with municipal regulations, finances and costs of all building systems, and to use resourcefulness and innovation in order to achieve more with less. Through T412, the compilation of raw data for completed and in-progress projects will pave the way for further study, analysis and the development of future work.

ABOUT 5468796

Over the past five years 5468796 Architecture has become recognized on architecture's international stage. From its base in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the firm has received numerous honours and awards for realizing buildings that are breathing new and exciting life into the local landscape and encouraging people to take notice of their surroundings.

This exhibition is open from 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday, until April 4, 2014.

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is pleased to present:

ALMOST EVERYTHING
With works by: Lorna Bauer, Nicole Collins, David Court, Deborah Kirk, Josh Thorpe, and Blake Williams
Curated by: Julia Abraham

Almost Everything presents six alumni of the Master of Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto. Basing its title on the notion of measure, the exhibition problematises quantifiable arrangements through repetition, layering, and circulation of materials, moments, and potentials. The exhibition presents the concept of accumulation by means of spatial absorption, repeated re-contextualization, limitless gesture, compiled material, and masses of imagined volume.

The running dog perpetually covers ground in Lorna Bauer’s Always Running Forever; the almost monochromatic paintings of Nicole Collins leak light in-between masses of wax, while her audio work represents black as a compacted, layered, and embracing sound; David Court’s green screen – that is not quite – opens a window onto an arena of potential, while his text outlines context for the perpetual arrivals and departures of artworks in an exhibition; multiple casted objects are shown in their absence in Deborah Kirk’s (A) Work in Progress; Josh Thorpe’s thread presents a linear composition of space while a luminous boat floats in the wake of layered light; Blake Williams’ shapeshifting platform curves into perpetually mutating dimension.

The exhibition does not necessarily function as a representation of the graduates of the program, but rather it demonstrates just one line of affinity running through these divergent practices.

Julia Abraham is a curator, writer, and artist from Toronto. She is currently the Curatorial Assistant and Collections Manager at the Blackwood Gallery. Recent work includes curatorial projects at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Toronto), the Freie Kunstakademie (Stuttgart), the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Birmingham, UK), and Gallery 44 (Sydney, Australia). Forthcoming writing will be featured in the Munich based Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon on the work of Gordon Lebredt and Suzy Lake, respectively. Julia has attended the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales (Australia), and she holds a Master of Philosophy from the University of Birmingham (UK), and a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Practice from the University of Toronto.

Exhibition Dates: January 16 – February 14, 2014
Opening Reception: January 16, 7 – 9pm

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

Here be dragons is a curious phrase derived from medieval cartographic notation. The placement of dragons, sea serpents and other mythical creatures on maps indicated un-charted and likely perilous territory.

The 2013 student exhibition focuses on work produced within the option and thesis studios for Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design. These studios are an opportunity for upper-level students to pursue and explore personal research sites. The work collected here constitutes a vast array of conceptual and practical approaches to design practice and representation.

The exhibition opening will also feature the launch of The Annual 13: Accumulation.

Held in the Eric Arthur Gallery, ONE FUTURE: The Daniels Faculty @ One Spadina, the show will exhibit detailed architectural renderings and models depicting the Daniels Faculty’s ambitious plans to renew and transform Toronto’s historic One Spadina Crescent.

 

ONE FUTURE: The Daniels Faculty @ One Spadina

The revitalized site at One Spadina will be the new home of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. When complete, the 19th century Gothic Revival building and a major new contemporary expansion and landscape will be a working laboratory and showcase for the city. One Spadina will be a world-leading venue for education, research and public outreach on architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and the visual arts. The project is being designed by Nader Tehrani and Katie Faulker of the internationally acclaimed firm NADAAA. Adamson Associates and Public Work are the architect-of-record and landscape consultants, respectively. ERA Architects are serving as the preservation architects.

 

Nader Tehrani is a leading figure in architecture and design today. Among other accolades, he has received a remarkable fourteen Progressive Architecture Awards, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture (2002) and the Cooper Hewitt Award for Architecture (2007). Tehrani is also an influential pedagogue, and is currently Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT. Katie Faulker, an architect who recently completed an MBA, joined NADAAA after 20 years of design and management experience in large scale planning, academic, institutional, and health-care projects.

For more information on the whole design team, including NADAAA, Pubic Work, Adamson and ERA, see: /press-release-one-spadina

ONE FUTURE: The Daniels Faculty @ One Spadina

September 12 – October 18

Eric Arthur Gallery, 230 College Street

For more information on the One Spadina project and the exhibition, visit: danielsdev.site

The exhibition “Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment” will run until July 6, 2013.

“Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment” celebrates the work of the Pritzker Prize-winning principal of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates (KRJDA), whose many famed projects include the Ford Foundation Building (1963–66), the Oakland Museum in California (1961–69), and the Union Carbide World Corporate Headquarters (1978-82) in Danbury.

The subtitle of the exhibition, “Architecture as Environment,” reflects Roche’s understanding of architecture as a part of a larger context, both human-made and natural, including symbolic systems and technological networks. For example, Roche’s Ford Foundation Building in Manhattan contains a 12-story plant-filled atrium, which was heralded as a great innovation when the building opened in 1966.

Roche's career spans more than half a century and two continents. He was trained at University College Dublin in his native Ireland during the early 1940s, and at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he studied with Mies van der Rohe in the late 1940s. Roche is also a former design associate of Eero Saarinen.

In addition to the Pritzker Prize, which he received in 1982, Roche was the recipient of the Gold Medal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990, and the AIA Gold Medal in 1993.

Curated by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

ASSA ABLOY is the lead sponsor of "Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment." Additional support for the exhibition is provided by The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Carolyn Brody, Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, and an anonymous donor.

Organized by the Yale School of Architecture.

A detailed essay on Roche's work and a review of the exhibit originally displayed at the Yale School of Architecture in 2011 was published in Places Journal. Read the full article here.

This exhibition presents architectural, engineering, and furniture projects by the acclaimed British architect, Norman Foster. Included are architectural models and drawings, photographs, construction documents, publications, and a documentary film representing the Florence High-Speed Railway Station, the Swiss Re Headquarters in London, the Millau Viaduct in France, and the University of Toronto's new Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building.

Foster and Partners was founded in 1967 has received more than 400 awards and citations for design excellence. Lord Foster has been awarded the world's top prizes in architecture: the U.K. Royal Gold Medal for Architecture (1983), the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (1991), the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture (1994), the Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate (1999), and the Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture (2002).

Read more about the exhibition at: http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/060905-2533.asp