Side Space Gallery - The Artists

Judy Adler
David Anderson
John Bonnar
Shannon Bramer
Angela Cinello
Lily Contento
Zena Curwain
Leanne Davies
Sam Decter
Eleanor Dowson
Nomi Drory
Abigail Elwood
Gwyneth Fatemi
Schuster Gindin
Elizabeth Greisman
Chris Hall
Matthew JW Higginson
Gwyn Jones
Taira Liceaga
Peggy Lampotang
Armando Lulu
David Mah
McGilligan Books
Francine Mornard
Alex Moyle
Kevin O'Bryne
Maxim Panitch
Giovanna Peel
Georgette Peters
Vincenzo Pietropaolo
Rebecca A. Pinkus
Anna Prior
Rita Rayman
Sandra Reford
Seeve Savoy
Tamara Steinberg
Leonardo Tamburri
Jane Turrittin
Nano Valverde
Kathleen Vaughan
Karen Wold
Zahide Ugur
Victoria Wallace
Luigi Ziani

David Anderson - Artistic Director
Clay and Paper Theatre
163 Concord Avenue
Toronto Ontario Canada
M6H 2P2
(416) 537-9105
[email protected]
There is GOLD in Dufferin Grove Park
"Anderson has built on the subversive tradition of puppetry, but pushed it toward a contemporary concern-building community in the midst of urban spaces that are often alienating and alienated."
- The National Post
Out amongst the community bake-ovens and lush gardens of Dufferin Grove Park, Clay and Paper Theatre has been changing the world. Completely. Irrevocably. Medieval mystery plays, Punch and Judy shows, African myths, Indonesian shadow puppetry, Native Canadian masks- all these and more have been influencing Clay and Paper Theatre Company since its birth in 1994. This is theatre on the ground, for the groundlings, in the park and on the street. This is theatre of exaggeration, of giant puppetry, of satire and wit gone awry. This is a little theatre company asking big questions with humour and irreverence. This is Clay and Paper Theatre.
Clay and Paper Theatre is built on the accumulative experience of David Anderson- theatre activist, producer of new Canadian work, and defender of public space since 1969. Since 1994 Clay and Paper Theatre has been bringing together seasoned arts professionals, theatre students, local businesses and community members in the co-creation of public theatrical performances and celebrations. Clay and Paper uses its own brand of narrative theatre and larger-than-life puppetry as a means of animating public space- igniting community festivity and celebration for a wide cross-section of the local Fellowship).
With each passing year, each performance, each workshop, each parade, Clay and Paper Theatre further weaves itself into the fabric of the local communities it serves.
The goal of Clay and Paper Theatre is to change the world.
Completely.
Irrevocably.
It is the fervent desire of Clay and Paper Theatre to encourage people to abandon propriety, to escape the mundane, to celebrate the wisdom of the little one, to awaken dormant curiosity, to acknowledge all of life, to astonish the innocent and perplex the sophisticated, to have a view of the whole world, to raise questions about the big questions and to throw hot tar on the little ones

Dr. Judy Adler, D.C., is a chiropractor with a private practice in Toronto since 1987. She is also a teacher and facilitator. She is active in her community, a member of the Toronto Cycling Committee and the Chairperson of the St. Clair Street Lights Project. Her artistic media are stained glass, and plaster for mask-making.

John Bonnar is a multimedia journalist based in Toronto. He works in photojournalism, videojournalism, radio journalism and news writing. His photo website is www.johnb.smugmug.com. He also writes a blog entitled Toronto Social Justice Magazine: http://storywordspics.blogspot.com.

Shannon Bramer is a Canadian poet, born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1973. She attended York University before publishing her first book, suitcases and other poems, which won the Hamilton and Region Arts Council Book Award. Over the next few years, she resided in Guelph, Ontario, where she helped found the Bookshelf Poetry Contest. Settling in Toronto, Bramer published scarf in 2001, a book of poems which tells the story of Vera, a single woman working in a scarf store in Hamilton. scarf received praise from Canadian literary critics, perhaps exemplified by the Antigonish Review's comment that it is an "intriguing book about loneliness and searching". 2005 saw Bramer's third book of poems published by Coach House Books, The Refrigerator Memory. Incorporating a broad range of imagery, the poems in The Refrigerator Memory were also well-received.

Currently, Bramer lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. Her latest publication is the chapbook Fishings, which was launched at Side Space Gallery in June, 2007 at the opening of Body of Water.

Born and raised in the St. Clair area. Spends her workday teaching. Spends her holidays traveling. Traveling led to photography.

Lily Contento is a poet, writer and the owner of Foglie, the flower shop. A graduate of the M.A. Program in English at the University of Toronto, she has published a collection of poem “The Aroma of Holy Work” (LyricalMyrical Press, 2005), short stories (Blood & Aphorisms, 1997) as well as a variety of individual poems, short stories and articles. One of her short stories, Virgin Mary, was made into a short film. She lives in Toronto.

I share the good fortune of many Canadians in that I have two home towns: Toronto, where I was born and now live, and Cambridge, England, where I grew up.
One constant in my life has been a deep appreciation for nature. In the City, I have a garden, and just like the wildlife, I find refuge in the parks, ravines and leafy cemeteries that dot our landscape. Sadly, it’s becoming harder and harder to find anything truly natural. As most people are now aware, an increasing amount of our planet is in crisis or under stress as a direct result of human incursion. "Progress" seems to be synonymous with "destruction."
Identifying myself as an artist and displaying my photographs in public is a relatively new venture for me, and I invite you to come along and see the world as I do, through my lens.

Biography

Leanne Davies was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1993, she moved to Toronto to
continue her studies in painting and interdisciplinary studio at York University. From the mid-1990s to
2001, Leanne began a number of collaborative musical projects, gigging and recording in Toronto’s
vibrant indie-rock scene as a drummer/songwriter for bands such as Amor De Cosmos and Mason
Hornet. After completing her BFA in 1996, Leanne began working in Toronto’s New Media industry, and
for nine years she worked as a project manager organizing commercial entertainment-oriented websites.
In 2003, she and her family moved to “Oakwood Village”. In the spring of 2005, Leanne and several of
her neighbours formed “5 Points Community Action,” a residents group dedicated to fostering positive
changes in the area around Vaughan Road & Oakwood Avenue. Shortly after the birth of her second
child in 2005, Leanne decided to dedicate herself completely to her family, her artwork, and her
community activism.
“My paintings over the past few years have been created from snapshots of people. I am interested in
how the painted image goes beyond the photograph's original purpose and becomes a story about love
and the act of remembering. I have also been recently involved in a site-specific community art project
working with the kids who live in my neighbourhood. I believe that interacting with neighbours and local
artists on a creative project is an effective way to create a strong, healthy and viable community.”
Leanne can be reached at[email protected]. To see her online portfolio you can visit www.fitsandstarts.ca.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
1993 – 1996 B.F.A. (Honours), Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, Ontario
1991 – 1993 Diploma in Visual Arts, Camosun College, Victoria, B.C.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999 – 2005 Project Manager, Snap Media Corp., Toronto, Ontario
1998 – 1999 Project Manager, X Unlimited Corp., Toronto, Ontario
1996 – 1998 Project Manager, Digital Rain Inc., Toronto, Ontario

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2002 – Canada New Media Awards, Nominated, Producer of the Year
1996 – False Modesty, Video/Film piece selected for Canadian/Australian Student Work Exchange,
University of Western Sydney, York University & Emily Carr Institute
1996 – Charles Street Video Art Award, York University
1995 – Founders College Arts Competition, 2nd Place, York University

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1996 – Student Center Gallery, Untitled Politics, Leanne Davies & Duncan MacDonald , York University,
Toronto
1994 – IDA Gallery, Recent Works by Sherrie Krass & Leanne Davies, York University, Toronto

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 – Side Space Gallery, We Are Here, Toronto
2001 – Here and Now Gallery, Dreams & Nightmares, Toronto

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2007 -- Side Space Gallery, Member
2006 -- Art Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre, Board Member
2006 – 5 Points Community Art Garden, Artist & Coordinator
2006 – 5 Points Community, Neighbours’ Night Out, Event Organizer
2005 – 5 Points Community Action, Member & Secretary

Artist statement

My mother is a very good listener. She taught me how to listen to a whole room full of people having conversations simultaneously. I try to look at the study of music as a study of all the sounds we make and which make us up. The sounds we're surrounded by- the cars, the chatter, doors that open and close, footfalls and staircases- musicians so often overlook the world of natural sounds. The twelve tones of the chromatic scale, the systems of rhythm and pitch used to organise sound, used to organise time; these constructs pale in the face of actual sound.
And if music has been proven to have powerful effects upon the memory, imagine then to what extent our minds must be programmed by sounds we hear: a voice, scotch and ice in a glass, a pen scratching on a piece of paper, a chair moaning as you sit in it.
Measuring Time in the Darkness is a standard 2- source experiment for me, as contrasting consistent sounds are combined in the performance space. Any novel conceptual effects will arise from acoustic reflections of sounds captured earlier within the space.

Brief Resumé

I have been a long time resident of the St. Clair/Wychwood neighbourhood.

Have completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Bishop’s University (Lennoxville, Quebec) as well as a Certificate in Graphic Design from George Brown College (Toronto, Ontario). I have worked as a graphic designer for the past 20 years.

I paint in acrylic and watercolour, occasionally reusing and reworking ‘found’ canvases.

Intrigued with the issues surrounding our relationship to common, Canadian animals, both wild and domesticated, I hope to portray a direct but quiet dignity in their pose and gaze. To create more of a presence, I have painted my animal portraits as close, or as near, to life-size as possible.

I take my inspiration in the ability of animals to struggle in the face of adversity.

This past September I had my first (solo) show at Ellingtons Cafe.

EXHIBITIONS

2011   Duality-, Central Gallery, Central Technical School, TorontoUp Coming Solo show
2011   Society of Canadian Artist- 43rd Open National Juried Exhibition,
                                                        Todmerden Mills Papermill Gallery, Toronto
2011   Juried Exhibition, Drawing Show 2011, B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Group Showshow,
2010   Holiday small work salon, Loop Gallery, toronto, Group show
2010   Place less- Place ness, Toronto Public Library- Ferview Branch, Solo Show
2010 Members' Art Collections,Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto,Two People Show
2009 Lavitation – La Muse, Torono, Group sshow
2008 X.C gallery, Toronto, Group show
2007   Landscape of Memory- Side Space Gallery, Toronto, Two People Show
2007   Mindscapes, Toronto Out Door Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square
2007   Oise staff and Alumni exhibition, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto
2006 Observations, Toronto Out Door Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square- Group Show
2005   X.C Gallery, Toronto, Group Show
2004   A.A.F, Art Fare, New york City, New york- Juried group show
2004   Central, artists from the art centre at C.T.S, Loop Gallery, Toronto
2004   Still Lives, Toronto Out Door Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square- Group Show
2003   Paintings, Represented by Canvas Galley, Toronto
2003   Still Lives, Toronto Out Door Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square- Group Show
2001   The Eye and The Hand, Etobicoke Civic centre Art Gallery- Group Show
1995 Incantation, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney, Australia- Two People Show

ART AS COMMUNITY ACTIVISM
2011 The Hangar- Centennial Drawing /Painting Workshop, Central Technical School, Toronto
2010 Save Our Pool- Group Installation at Wonton window, Toronto
2010 Save Our Pool- Drawing /Painting Workshop, Central Technical School, Toronto
2006-2009 Art workshops Facilitator, Verity girls club, Toronto

EDUCATION

1998-1999                   Bachelor of Education, Intermediate/Senior-Art History
                                    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
1995-1996                  Diploma in Visual Arts
                                    Special Post Secondary Art Program, Central Technical School, Toronto
1983-1989                   Bachelor of Architecture
                                    Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

COMISSIONS, AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

2006 Winds of Change, comissioned by Ellen and William Michelson,
Now part of the Faculty of Sociology,University of Toronto, art collection
2005 Memory of Abrutzo, 6’/4’ oil on canvas – private comission
1989 The Israel Institute of Technology Award for Thesis
1989 Rotchild Boulevard End Architecture in Israel 1989- Presentation of thesis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000- Present      Visual Art Teacher, Art Centre, central Technical School, Toronto
190-1991                Architect, Kearns Mancini Architects, Toronto
1987- 1990            Architect, Hayutins Architects, Tel- Aviv, Israel

Abigail Elwood

Abigail Elwood is a silk aerialist, stiltwalker and commedia performer. She trained with Nimble Arts (affiliated with Cirque de Soleil) in Brattleborough, Vermont. Last year she appeared as the lead in 'Anton in Show Business' (Town Players, Pittsfield, MA). She recently moved to Toronto from Alaska, where she was a theatrical stage manager and taught children’s theatre. Since coming to Toronto she has trained at the Toronto School of Circus Arts and has appeared in a Clay and Paper Theatre production at the Puppet Cabernet of Red Festival, held at Lula Lounge, April 15-18, 2007. Most recently, on Oct 13 2007 she appeared as the lead in Water Walk, an outdoor performance in Hillcrest Park.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

 Email: [email protected]
Web site: www.gwynethfatemi.com

EDUCATION:
1969 - 1971 – Don Mills Collegiate Institute – High school, Diploma
1971 – 1974 - Central Technical School - Special Art, Diploma
1977 – 1981 - Ontario College of Art and Design - Fine Arts, AOCA
1985 – 1986 - George Brown College - Commercial Art, Certificate, honours

AWARDS:
1980 - OCA Book Award - Art of the 20th Century
1980 - Dorothy Stevens Award for Painting
1980 - Elizabeth Greenshields Memorial Foundation Grant
for study in Florence, Italy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2003 – present – owner/artist, Gwyneth Fatemi Illustration
2000 - 2003 - FutureBrand Canada
Responsibilities: in-house illustration, digital retouching for graphic design, brand identity and package design
1989 – 2000 – Dollery Rudman Freibauer
Responsibilities: illustration for package design and corporate communications

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1998 – Sheridan College - Drawing & Painting for Beginners

TRAINING/SKILLS:
2001 - Toronto Image Workshop - Adobe Photoshop for Pre-Press
2000 - The Painting Experience® - 5-day workshop
1999 – Humber College - Intro to HTML & Web Page Design
Computer graphics programs: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

EXHIBITIONS:
2006 – St. Clair ArtWalk – solo exhibit: paintings of Watson Lake
2004 - St. Clair ArtWalk – group exhibit
1984 – Church of S. Giorgio del Ferrone, Italy – solo exhibit:
paintings of the people and landscape of the Chianti region

COLLECTIONS:
Private collections and portrait commissions

ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
My paintings and drawings are an exploration of my emotional response to my subject. I endeavour to express the vitality and character of the person or place I am portraying with marks and brushstrokes. Shadows give form to a figure. Brush strokes capture the texture and movement of vegetation, water and air in the landscape. Depicting objects both real and imaginary, I draw inspiration from folk art, fairytales, decorative surfaces, and patterns.

Schuster Gindin is a photographer, videographer and multi-media visual artist. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at A Space, Harbourfront, The Ontario Science Centre, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gallery 1313 and various other Toronto galleries, libraries, schoolyards and storefronts, the Toronto newspapers and on tour in North America.

She is a contributing photographer to the book Canadians at Work, published by U of T Press and the Canadian Auto Workers Union in 2000. Her photo book pasta/rasta; A Year in the Life of a Neighbourhood Theatre was published in 1983.

She is a founder of Art @ Liberty and the Side Space Gallery, which she curates.

Elizabeth Greisman was born in Toronto, Canada in 1954. Her family has lived in the centre of the city for four generations. Elizabeth’s work as a painter is influenced by her experiences as a dancer, landscape designer and educator.

Elizabeth completed her diploma in Dance at the Laban School of Dance in London, England in the seventies. She completed her degrees in Visual arts, Education and Landscape Architecture at York University in Toronto Canada and Ryerson University at Toronto Canada. She took a course entitled “Draw the Dancer “at Central St. Martins School in England, which was the start of her work cataloging the movements of dancers. She continues to draw and paint dancers in a studio setting. Elizabeth has been a guest of the National Ballet of Canada, the Toronto Dance Theatre , the Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company in Toronto and the Burklyn Ballet in Vermont.
Summers spent at Residencies at the Banff Centre, The Pouch Cove Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center have afforded her the opportunity to paint the Canadian landscape in the Bi-coastal mountain project.
In the Bi-coastal mountain project Elizabeth painted the landscape at the Banff Centre on a daily basis from the same vantage point for three summers. Changes in light form and texture were recorded.
While recording the movements of dancers Elizabeth is developing an abstract style which is linear and concentrates on the overlapping form of the figure in motion. Experiments with materials is ongoing as well as size and type of painting support. Most commonly, large interactive papers and canvases pined to the wall are chosen, as well as long panoramic supports.

Instructing Visual Arts to the young child is a life long passion for Elizabeth. She has created a curriculum rich with cross-disciplinary references to science, math and language arts in the areas of drawing and painting, ceramics and sculpture.

She works primarily in oil paint on canvas, or mixed media on paper or fabric. She has recently completed a series of large format drawings and paintings of dancers done in the studio that were interactive in approach. A show done in conjunction with the Poet Andrea Jarmai , “Woman in Armour “was concerned with my her development as a visual artist. She is continuing her interest in the fusion of art and science by developing representations of the human body through the modality of the dance figure.

The portraits of dancers spawned the series “Woman Speak “ portraiture series in oil and mixed media, designed to highlight the professional role of women with a strong voice.
The “Woman Speak “ project involves the creation of portraits of journalists, writers, actors, psychiatrists, educators and dancers. Her perceptions of the interconnectedness of each discipline will dictate the eventual scope and direction of the project.

Education and Teaching Experience, Awards, Publications and Videos
1977 Dance in Education and Theatre Diploma, Laban School of
Dance, London, England
1978 Honours B.F.A., Visual Arts, York University, Canada
1978 B.Ed., York University
1981 Specialist, Special Education, York University
1989 Diploma in Landscape Design, Ryerson University, Canada
Academic Award of Excellence
2002-2003 Draw the Dancer Courses, Central St. Martin’s, London, England
2002-2007 Development of Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculums for Visual Arts
2004 Recycling and Sustainability Art Video, Federal Government, featured Artist
2005Featured Educator /Artist ”Importance of Art Education “, Article by Dr. A Damelin
1978 to present, Art Educator to Elementary level Students

Residences
2001 The Banff Centre, Canada
2003 The Vermont Studio Centre, USA
2004ThePouch Cove Foundation, Canada
2005 The Banff Centre, Canada
2006 The Banff Centre, Canada
2007 Fundascione Valparaiso, Spain
2007 The Vermont Studio Center, USA, guest of the Burklyn Ballet Theatre

Painting With Glass

........Made in Kanata.............

Artist's Statement:

Information sometimes comes to me from an unknown source. Straight out of
the blue. Owing to the fact that I was a terrible student as a child, who
spent his formative years day-dreaming about freedom from a musty classroom.

I must have garnered information from somewhere.
I suspect it was osmosis. (That process plants use to transfer water from
cell to cell).
See what I mean?
Now where did that come from?
The capabilities of the human mind are mind boggling.

Stained glass provides an added dimension over paint, light filtered
through vibrant colour.

I chose the dynamic works of The Group Of Seven and their inspirational
contemporaries as the ideal candidates for remastering.

The Group of Seven Series has served as a springboard for my exploration of
the medium and the message.

...The miracle of the luminous village we are so fortunate to inhabit.

From The Group Of Seven, to "The Oak Fairies", to "The Villagers", to
"Jay Amik", (Jay Beaver), to "Zarah's Wood", we are connected to The
Majesty.

We have the unique opportunity to create an International Village within
this Ready-To-Love landscape.

A Global Village from sea to sea.

Ka-na-ta

If The Group Of Seven and Friends were still amongst us, it is my belief
that they would applaud our efforts to carry on this message.

Matthew James William Higginson is a Toronto-based social documentary photographer who was born in the prairies, raised amongst the mountains and settled by the Great Lakes. "Refreshingly political and yet refreshingly free of preachy over-determination, Higginson's work neatly straddles the boundary between art and journalistic record-making." His work has been featured in publications such as NOW Magazine, and in solo and group exhibitions at Side Space Gallery, Gallery TIW, Gallery 1313, Steam Whistle and the The Artscape Wychwood Barns.

Gwyn Jones was born in England to Anglo-Welsh parents and introduced at an
early age to the world of visual arts by his father, a graduate of
Shoreditch Art School and a ceramics specialist. Gwyn studied Cinema and
History of Art as part of his Bachelor of Arts courses in London, England,
and pursued his love of music by playing in bands from his teens through to
the mid 1980s when he could be found playing on the London Club Circuit
during his Masters studies. He later moved to Canada, and has pursued his
love of painting at the Toronto School of Art since 2002.

Through his acrylics on canvas, he demonstrates his conviction that the
figure can only be understood within its specific context. It is outside the
studio that the figure comes to life, and then only as one part of its
environment. The environment and context can never be upstaged, and the
balance must be maintained.

Gwyn has been involved in the field of community social work for the past 20
years, and finds this a perfect occupation for embracing this symmetry
between people and their world. He lives with his wife, Josee, a fraction
north of St Clair Avenue West.

Education

B.A. Modern Arts (Hons) Kingston University, Surrey, UK 1978
M.Sc. Chelsea College, University of London, UK 1984
Toronto School of Art 2002 to present.

Artist Statement

The bedrock up-here runs deep. Deeper than the great lakes and oceans.
Traversing continents and making ancient, subterranean bridges to homelands
perhaps not stepped upon in eons. We up-here emerged and settled on this
ancient shoreline, amongst our own kind and amongst strangers. The bedrock
up-here runs deep. Deeper than the lakes and oceans. Deeper even than our
homelands. The hidden bridges unite us all.

[email protected] | www.mestizas.com

Taira Liceaga is a Puerto Rican painter and sculptor living in Toronto. Her work includes painting, fibre sculpture and digital design. She has had 7 solo exhibitions, the latest one being "Living Legacies" (June 2007) at the Art Gallery of Algoma, in Sault Ste. Marie. Over the last 15 years she has participated in more than 20 group shows in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Chicago and San Juan.

She has taught children an adult art classes, is a professional web designer and is also the owner of Imaginative Spark, a business specializing in original artwork for children's rooms. Her portfolio can be viewed online at: www.mestizas.com and www.imaginativespark.com.

Studies:

1992      Master of Fine Arts Degree
      University of Delaware- Newark, DE
1990      Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
      School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
1989      Exchange Program
      Nova Scotia College of Art and Design – Halifax, NS

Selected solo exhibitions:

2007       Living Legacies
      Art Gallery of Algoma - Sault Ste. Marie, ON
2003       Vaivén / Sway
      A.W.O.L. Gallery - Toronto, ON
1999       Mestizas II
      Gesu Theater's Creativity Center - Montreal, QC
1998      Mestizas
      De Tierra del Fuego Gallery - Montreal, QC
1994      Danza
      Independent production at OBORO - Montreal, QC

Most recent group exhibitions:

2006      XXX - Visual Arts Ontario's 30th anniversary
      Lieutenant Governor's Office - Toronto; Lennox Contemporary Art - Toronto;
      Thunder Bay Art Gallery - Thunder Bay; Art Gallery of Algoma - Sault Ste. Marie.
2005      Aquelarre (Co-curator and artist)
      Shift Gallery - Toronto, ON
2005      Idiomática (Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace)
      Lennox Contemporary Art - Toronto, ON
2004       Alienation (Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace)
      De Leon White Gallery - Toronto, ON
2004       Ebb & Flow
      Gallery 1313 – Toronto, ON
2003       Hysteria Festival of Women
      Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, ON

1996 Mujeres de Pelo en Pecho Evanston Hall Gallery - Chicago, IL

1995 Huellas / Footprints Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum - Chicago, IL

Peggy is an artist, photographer and writer. She was born on the island of Mauritius, and moved to Canada in 1976. She is a Fashion Design graduate from Ryerson University but found her true creative expression as a textile artist. She paints silk scarves that are available at The Guild Shop, Yorkville, and Gallery Shoppes, Art Gallery of Winnipeg. Her photography focuses on portraits and landscapes, her work has been shown in exhibitions in Toronto and Mauritius. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

For more information, please check her website: http://peggylampotang.com/ and her blog: http://peglam.blogspot.com/ or email her at: [email protected]

Started drawing as a skinny kid in the Philippines
Crayons on paper, pencil on walls, stick in dirt.

Gave up being an astronaut for art.

For a lingering love affair with Mistress Colour;
Spreading the word with brush on canvas,
ink on paper, pixels on cathode.

Marrying old-and-new
Through a new dalliance with the Camera Eye.

If it moves - click it.
If it doesn't move - snap it.
Telling the tale silently told by St. Clair West
And its cast of neighbourhood characters.

Resistant to change, grumbling at inevitability.
This time, the messenger shoots back.

McGilligan Books publishes award-winning fiction and poetry and thought-provoking books on breaking social issues.

A St. Clair West Village literary press, McGilligan Books shares a multiracial and multicultural vision of Canada and sees a dynamic role for writing and publishing in the development of culture and national identity. Our books reflect the breadth and the diversity of Canadian lives and work to broaden understanding of who Canadians are, how we think and how we live. We have a special focus on writing by women, First Nations writers, and dub poetry in diaspora.

Since our founding in 1994, McGilligan Books has developed into a thriving, independent small press that participates in creating a vibrant cultural context locally and nationally that embraces the diversity of our country and Canadian stories, voices and writing styles.

Our award-winning titles include My Best Friend is White, a long-awaited collection from internationally-acclaimed dub poet Klyde Broox, winner of the City of Hamilton Arts Award for Literature 2005 and Ruth Mandel’s multi-genre story, How To Tell Your Children About the Holocaust, winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature in 2004. My Best Friend is White is the first book in McGilligan’s dub poets series, developed in conjunction with Toronto’s Dub Poets Collective.

Established by Ann Decter and Michael Decter in 1994, McGilligan Books is now solely-owned by publisher, writer and editor Ann Decter.

www. mcgilliganbooks.com

Born in Belgium, she studied graphic art at the Institute Bischoffsheim in Brussels. She started her career as a commercial graphic designer, mural painter and textile designer. In 2002, she created with her daughter Zig & Zoé, a company focusing on children’s furnishings. She developed a line of painted furniture, decorative objects and papier-mâché lamps made of Japanese papers.

She illustrates children’s books using coloured pencils. Her paintings, in acrylics and oils, of everyday objects, are part of the imagery of her storytelling.

She also teaches art to children in French private schools.

Sculptor

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Sculpture, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA - 1981

Computer Animation Summer Program, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON, 1995
Artist-in-Residence

Dynamic Graphics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,

Toronto, ON, March 1996 -1997

Original Commissions

“Over the Meadow”, Exterior Bas Relief, Winner of Public Art Commision, Region of Waterloo’s Early Year’s Children’s Centre, Awarded October, 2003, work-in-progress

“Wise Man and Child”, over life-size figurative work for White Oaks Resort, Niagara on the Lake, private commission by owner, George Wakil, April , 2004

Bust, Freda Paltiel work in progress Toronto, 2002

Racoon, Adam Krehm, private collection, Toronto 2002

Bronze Sheep, Life Size Bronze Sheep, private collection Steve Skara, Mississauga, 2002

Flayed Tree, commissioned by Rene Neuland Designs, Toronto ON, 2000

Owls, 2 Bronze Owls, Mckee School, North York, commissioned by North York Public School Board & Kuwabara Payne McKenna and Blumberg, Architects, Toronto, 1998

Tree, Grenadier Restaurant, High Park, Toronto , 1998

Hummingbird, 9' by 5' bronze relief on the exterior of The Hummingbird Centre of the Performing Arts, Kuwabara Payne McKenna and Blumberg, Architects, Toronto, 1996

Snake, photo-etched, stainless steel graphic inlaid in concrete foundations of the Humber River Pedestrian Bridge, Environmental Artworks Studio, Toronto, 1995

Joe DiMaggio Wet Paint Café, series of figurative sculpture, Toronto, 1995

Cityscape, Bank of Montreal, Toronto, ON, 1994

Christ Ascending, Saint Thomas Catholic Church, Tucson, AZ, 1987

Exhibits

Art @Liberty , Edible Manhole Cover 1889( maintenance cover) a collaboration with Schuster Gindin and Elizabeth Cinello, Toronto, ON, 2006

Solo exhibit, The Night before Esau’s Arrival — An Exhibition of Bases, Sculpture Gallery, Toronto Stock Exchange, Toronto, ON, June–July 1994

Solo exhibit, Sculpture and Drawings, Royal Ontario Museum, Staff Lounge, Toronto, ON, 1993

Roundup, Toronto, ON, 1992

Roundup, Toronto, ON, 1991

Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT, 1989

Dodojack Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 1989

Dodojack Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 1988

Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1981

Summary of Skills:

Sculpting

Moldmaking

Drawing

Architectural Drafting

Casting

Painting

Designing

Model Making

Prototype Design (for Industrial Design)

Woodworking

Ceramicist

Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Monstre Studio
Medium & Practice
Plaster
Found and modified objects
Architectural and sculptural elements
Furniture design
Colour design & colour fabrication
Studies
1986 & 1987    Banff Centre, Summer Programs
1981 to 1985   Carleton University, B.A.
1980 to 1981   Richmond University, Va., U.S.
Group Exhibitions
2006                Spin Gallery; Year Book
2005                Spin Gallery; J’adore x-mas
2004                Toronto Arts Week; Salon
2003                Toronto Arts Week; Camera Ready
2001                Material Matters; Garden
2000                Material Matters; Stone & Steel
1998                Tempest Café; Leslieville
Furniture - Private & Commercial
Ms. T. Jones, Ms. L. Schulman, Ms. J. Fleizer, Duverre, Mr. S. Bailey, Ms. S. Van Hout, Joan Eiley & Assoc., Ms. N. Gami. Feature Factory, Ms. S. King, Ms. L. Kimalman, Demarco Perpich.

Environmental Design – Private & Commercial

Mr. & Ms. Munk, Mr. R. Noakes, Mr. D. Hirsh, Ms. Ginger Eisen, 3M Corp., Dr. E. N. Brown, Mr. G. George, Ms. S. Yarmouth, IIxIV Design, Mr. P. Mayboom, Ms. P. Hume, Mr. T.Shane.
Restoration
Gladstone Hotel, George Brown Mansion, and several private residences.
Bibliography
2004               Toronto Arts Online-T.A.C.F. Artsweek
2004                Neighbors-St. Clair Ave. West
1993 & 2000   Globe and Mail
1989                Images- Canadian National Ballet Company
1989                Report On Business Magazine
1989                Toronto Life – May

Related Experiences

Video
1985 to 1992   Michael Balser & Andy Fabo
1992                Beyond the Helm of the Censors
1989                Blood Risk
1987                Astroturf I-V
1986                Bon Voyage-David McLean
Radio
1987                CIUT, U of T, writer, producer, radio drama
1982 to 1986   CKCU, Carleton University, Artistic License, Latitudes
                                    Science Policy Research Centre, Let X=X

Theatre
1988 to 1991   Kensington Carnival - Ida Carnevali
1986 to 1987   Banff Centre - Bernard Hopkins
1986                University of Toronto - Koeffler Centre
1985                Carleton University - Sockin Buskin
Interests
Photography, Geology, Architecture, Politics

Inspirations
Tom Darby, Bernard Hopkins, Linda Freeman, Peter Emberly, Jon Alexander, Ida Carnivali, Michael Balser, Joe Lewis, Sheila Young, Andy Fabo, Alfred Engerer, Julia Mannard, Marshall Gaskin, Prem Rewat.

Athletics & Awards
1977                Wrestling   OFSAA Ontario Championships
                       Eastern Ontario Finals
1979                Football Canadian National Champions
                     National Junior League, Ottawa Sooners
1980                NCAA Athletic Scholarship 1980, Richmond University, Virginia, USA
1978                Lake Couchiching, Ontario Athletic Leadership Certificate

Until I was 24 and got my camera, I kicked around, travelled a lot, always overland, getting lost - sometimes on purpose, was inspired, but had no medium. Later I studied cartography and considered how to produce an expressive atlas of Canada. When I was writing my master's thesis on the geography of homelessness, I wished I was working on a novel instead.

Born in Florence, Italy, graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Florence.

Moved to Canada and acquired a second degree in Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba, where she was awarded the Design Medal for Excellence in Design.

Created and headed the Art Department at Seneca College in Toronto. Taught Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto for fifteen years.

Giovanna Peel’s work has been exhibited at many and various art galleries in solo and group shows.

www.giovannapeel.com

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Georgette Peters discovered photography with the purchase of a 1976 Pentax K1000 film SLR at a Halifax flea market. A graduate of the York University Fine Arts program, she has been taking advantage of city living, documenting the street and cafe life of Downtown Toronto.

Turning her artistic eye on our city's burgeoning bike culture, she celebrates it with her first self-explanatory solo exhibition "Does This Ring A Bell" here at the Side Space Gallery. A cyclist herself, she has ridden miles with the Toronto Bicycle Network and has successfully tackled the hill on Pottery Road.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgie_grrl/

Italian-born (1951) Vincenzo Pietropaolo is an independent photographer based in Toronto.

Active in photography since 1971,
he is self-taught, and since 1992 has pursued a full-time career
as a freelance photographer after leaving a parallel career as a
town planner with the city of Toronto. His artistry and social commitment
have won him widespread recognition and awards. Canadian Geographic
magazine (2006) called him “one of Canada’s pre-eminent
documentary photographers.” His work exploring the immigrant experience,
including Italian immigrants, migrant farm workers, and refugees in Canada
has been widely acclaimed. He is noted for his documentation of the
world of work and the labor movement, as well as for his exploration of
urban issues in cities like Toronto, New York, Havana, and Mexico City. He
lectures at colleges and universities, frequently exhibits internationally,
and has published six books of photography. His work is included in many
institutional and corporate collections.

—Italian American Museum, New York, February, 2007.

Artist’s Statement

The nature of the process for a number of these prints does not involve any digital manipulation or output. Some have been shot digitally, some have been shot on film and printed photographically, some have been shot on film, scanned and digitally outputted, and some are entirely digital, shot & printed.

This is the beginning of a journey, putting this show together…
I started to photograph flowers, seeing a beautiful arrangmement, then seeing the beauty that sits there in the dead flowers, their gracefulness, gestures… Then from the dead to the live flowers, how the objects come alive. They represent certain aspects, moments, feelings in my life expressed in the flowers. Their beauty is not restricted to what we are normally used to seeing in flowers. At one point the flowers started talking to me, illustrating something… the contradictions that can exist in our lives you can look at a dead flower and see the life in its gesture.

I have tried to capture a sense of movement in still flowers.
I am influenced by the Dutch masters, with that quality of lighting and a certain gesture, a painterly style which I was trying to achieve….trying to bring a photograph to the point where you can’t tell if it’s a painting or not….

In my photographs I have started taking information away… to show you less and make it feel like more… I am focusing on the pertinent detail or aspect of the image or composition, seeing what is relevant in that composition, and conveying it. …
Seeing unconventional beauty conveys a respect for life, cherishing life and throwing less away, countering elitist or conventional ideas of beauty…embracing differences and beauty in diversity…

Pittsburgh native and former Boston resident, Rebecca has been living in Toronto since 1998, and has been in love with photography for as long as she can remember; she has been documenting the world around her since she was a child. Rebecca began to explore the medium more seriously in the mid-1990s, and has been fortunate enough to hone her skills and fill her soul periodically at the Maine Photographic Workshops. Her work has been shown in restaurants, shops, and shows in Toronto since 2001.

Rebecca’s areas of photographic interest revolve around food and farmers’ markets, rural and urban decay, street photography and environmental portraiture. She also enjoys event photography. Rebecca is a die-hard film fan and a natural light junkie, but has succumbed to the ways of the digital world and is learning to appreciate the allure of a good strobe system.

When she’s not taking pictures, Rebecca, who is trained as a science writer and historian of technology, teaches Engineering Communication at the University of Toronto, writes about the public health benefits of urban parks and green spaces, and freelances as a communications consultant. For the last year and a half she has been working as a project researcher for Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky.

Photos are available for sale or individual reprint orders. Contact Rebecca directly for stock photos, event photography, and individual portraiture.

E-mail: [email protected]
Cell: 647-885-4421

Artists Statement

Witnessing is never objective or passive, as it is filtered through identity. We are perceptual animals and there are always deeply involved intellectual, emotional and spiritual forces driving people’s thoughts. Using a fusion of practices, Rita’s images and installations develop organically – a vocabulary of actions and concepts -a language of symbols as metaphors for history experience and memory.
Her palette has remained unchanged, as if sacred. Blue is the hue of intellect, peace, and contemplation. Green is nature- growth and decay. Together they are the colours of the earth.
Red is life force; energy and emotion. Black is time, white is transcendence and, finally, gold – the symbol of truth.

Exhibitions

2007 – Atelier Laluque, Toronto, “Ressurection Seeds”
2007 – Scratch Gallery, Toronto, “Proximity”
2007 – Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, “Transfer Point”
2006 – The Blue Dot Gallery, Toronto
2005 – One Atlas Gallery, Toronto, “Reflect”

Special Projects

2007 – Amnesty International, Toronto, “Art In Action”
2006 – ArcFest, Toronto, “Art For Real Change”
2005 – Artist In The Schools Program, Toronto

Education

2000 – Toronto School Of Art, Toronto

Sandra’s formation and professional life was in dance (National Ballet School, Toronto, Canada (1979-81), Danze Antiche, Vienna, Austria (1981-84). She arrived at textile art through her hobby of quilt making. As an artist, she is interested in themes that are related to the symbolism of the quilt. A blanket can be used for warmth, to cover the sick, the weak, the cold and the fragile. In her art, she explores ideas that need care and attention. Many of her pieces incorporate plastic and paper as well as cloth. The major part of her medium is recycled. Finding new ways to use old things and not consuming more is something that is at the forefront of her work.
Through her art, she hopes to bring to the viewer an awareness of consumption, wastefulness, consumerism and a sensitivity to issues that she feels need attention and protection.

Sandra has been seriously pursuing her textile art since 2005. She teaches in Toronto and Italy. She is available for teaching and public speaking.

http://sandrasstudio.blogspot.com

http://www.sandrareford.com

Exhibits: Toronto Public Libraries, 2006, 2007, 2010; Side Space Gallery (Toronto), 2007 yearly to date; Galleria MOA,(Verona) 2009; 14th Carrefour European du Patchwork juried exhibit (Alsace, France) 2007; one of 5 Canadian national finalists in the DNTO contest at the CBC, 2008; “Blue Depression” third prize, contemporary category, Trame D’Arte, Verona, Italy, 2008; Festival Internacional de Patchwork poster and exhibit, Sitges, Spain, 2009; Veldhoven, Netherlands, Open European Quilt
Championships, 2010; Loggia Barbaro, Verona Tessile, Verona, Italy, 2011; “First and Last” exhibit, Parma, Italy, 2011; Palazzo Bongiorno, Gangi, Sicily, 2011
Jury Member: Mystery E...Verona, Italy, 2009; Herbarium, Parma, Italy, 2011
Published: Quiltitalia Newsletter, A Needle Pulling Thread, Calendar (Verona)
Work in private collections: France, Haiti, Poland, Toronto, Vancouver
Commissions: one public (Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board) and 2 private (Haiti, Vancouver)
Executive member: international representative Associazione Ad Maiora, 2011, Verona, Italy
Upcoming: first book on using scraps in patchwork scheduled for 2011

Art afficianado

A St. Clair original, born and raised here.

Textile and Mixed-Media Artist

Toronto, ON
Intrigued by wrapped fiber, artist Tamara Steinberg combines texture, colour and woven structures to create unconventional fiber-based work. Using wrapping techniques, filament and natural materials as the driving forces behind her work, Tamara creates sculptural basketry and wall pieces that evoke a sense of order, growth and beauty. The final aesthetic is a consequence of wrapping or binding natural materials in synthetic threads.
Each individually wrapped stake is at once meticulous and intuitive. The process of wrapping each stick and contemplating its placement requires careful thought, discipline, focus and precision. Conversely, producing the paintings that are mounted behind the stakes is a wholly spontaneous and intuitive process. By juxtaposing the two, and using colour as a unifying entity, Tamara creates a balance.
Tamara’s pieces are small offerings. Through them, she hopes to release momentary notions of harmony, whimsy, growth and balance into a hectic and demanding world.

Education
Humber College, Recreation Leadership Diploma  1993-1994
University of Guelph , Bachelor of Fine Arts   1991-1992
Ontario College of Art, Textile Design                 1986 –1990

Achievements
Wrappings, Free Times Café     2006
Art Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre, group exhibit 1994
City of York Arts Grant     1994
Small Works Big Ideas, Textile Museum   1992
Helen Francis Gregor Textile Scholarship   1990
SaMo Scholarship      1989
Harbourfront, various exhibits    1990-1991
Resident artist,Harbourfront textile studio                           1990-1991

Arts Employment
Managing Director, Art Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre 2006
Acting Arts Education Officer, Ontario Arts Council   2005
General Manager, Art Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre 1996-2006
Artist and Program/Project Coordinator    1989-2000
Arts Administrator, Arts York      1996–1998
Arts Coordinator, City of York      1993 –1995

Coming Soon...

Email: [email protected]

Jane Turrittin has loved working with her hands and doing "art" since she was a young girl. Though she remains an amateur, Jane has taken many courses over the years, beginning with classes at the Walker Art Gallery in Minneapolis at age 14. When attending the Continue Education Program of the Toronto Board, Jane found a fine watercolour teacher—Brian Hoxha—with whom she studied for 4 years at Northern Secondary High School. Jane loves to work stone because she finds its resistance a pleasurable challenge. She recently nurtured this pleasure during a week's course in stone sculpting with power tools at the Haliburton School of the Arts. Now retired, Jane lives in the St. Clair West neighbourhood. She is a member of the Studio 1181 artists' collective.

Coming Soon...

[email protected]

As a practicing visual artist, writer, and teacher, my work in all
media explores thematics such as identity and belonging; memory,
storytelling, and the cultural artefact; and spirit of place.

I create freestanding and wall-mounted visual artworks in mixed media,
often with a textile slant. At times I use recognizable imagery—family
and archival photos, medical images, drawn and painted figures and
forms, texts; other times my work is abstract, investigating colour and
surface. In this way I explore collage as a visual practice and
interdisciplinary research method, as well as the nature of
interdisciplinary practice itself.

My visual work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. For
instance, my Bog Series, inspired by photos and stories of Iron Age
mummies found in northern European peat bogs, toured with the
archaeological blockbuster, The Mysterious Bog People, to Gatineau,
Quebec and Assen, Netherlands.

I have taught learners of all ages in studio and academic courses in
schools, universities, and gallery-based and community sites.
Additionally, from 2001 to 2004 I was Artist in Residence at York
University's Faculty of Education, developing workshops and learning
sessions for teacher candidates.

I hold an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University (Montreal) and a
PhD in Education from York University (Toronto). My multi-modal
dissertation incorporated a visual installation and illustrated
text—the first of its kind in York's Faculty of Education—and was
exhibited at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel in November 2006. My doctoral
work explored theories and practices of 'home-making' with specific
reference to my own walks through and long-time residency in the St.
Clair West neighbourhood. I love this part of the world, this shoreline
of Lake Iroquois.

For details and examples, please see my website at www.akaredhanded.com

Education

Certificate of Creative Writing, University of Toronto (anticipated completion Summer, 2007)
LL.B.,               Queen’s University,      1988
B.Ed.,              University of Calgary,    1985
B.A.,                University of Calgary,    1983 (double major, French/English)

Guilds/Affiliations

Canadian Quilters Association; York Heritage Quilting Guild; East Toronto Quilters’ Guild; Downtown Knit Collective; Storytellers School of Toronto

Selected Exhibitions

2006-2007 The Culture of My Country, France & U.S.A. (IQA show)

2005 & 2006 (Fall) Fiber Arts Show, Oshawa, ON

2006, 2007 Hillcrest Village Fiber Arts Show, Toronto, ON

2006 Ontario Juried Quilt Show, Waterloo, ON

2006 (Spring) Fiber Arts Show, Oshawa, ON

2003, 2004 & 2005 St. Clair West Art Walk – Toronto, ON

2005 OPS Conserves, John B. Aird Art Gallery, Toronto, ON

2005 Show on the Theme of Red, Greenwood Quiltery, Guelph, ON

Awards/Distinctions

2007: Finalist, Town Shoes “Shoe-aholic Contest” (“Portrait of the Artist as Centipede: A Breed Apart”, Original art quilt and poem)
2nd prize, York Heritage Quilt Guild, “Hot, Hot, Hot” Challenge (Level II), 2007
Featured on Treasures HD television show, “Collector Showdown”, 2006
Fiber art donations requested for fund-raising by Ministry of the Attorney General, 2006 Federated Health Campaign
Art quilt donation requested for fund-raising by the Ministry of the Attorney General, 2005 United Way Campaign
2005: Winner, 2nd Runner-up, Town Shoes “Shoe-aholic Contest” (“Cosmic Closet 1: It Starts With Bunny Slippers” art quilt)
Art quilt requested for use in 2004 fund-raising by a Toronto ethnic dance group
2003: Finalist, Town Shoes “Shoe-aholic Contest” (Victorian Boot Art Quilt with original poem, “Soleful Sonnet”)

Work In Private Collections

Alberta, British Columbia, Connecticut, Ontario

Contact: [email protected]

Karen often works from her own photographs or drawings, or from a mental or verbal concept, making her work truly original. For example, Karen often designs as she goes, starting with a general idea of what the piece should be about, and then changing the concept until it feels “right” using commercial and hand-dyed fabrics to represent an image, idea or emotion. She believes that art communicates best with the viewer when it brings a tear or a smile to the viewer’s heart.

Biography

Karen practices as a full-time lawyer with the government of Ontario. She holds an LL.B. from Queen’s University in addition to a B.A. (double-major, French and English) and a B.Ed. (specialist, French, secondary school), both from the University of Calgary. She is currently studying creative writing in the certificate program at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.

A fourth generation fiber specialist, Karen has done various forms of needlework since high school, however quilting has become her favorite due to its graphic visual impact and vast textural possibilities. In the last few years, she has started working with her own original designs based on her photographs, drawings or concepts. She enjoys starting with a novel idea and then working through the construction details to make it happen. Her desired path in quilt art has led her to study drawing and painting with various teachers, including Doug Stratford.

She has been strongly influenced both in art and life, by her mother and grandmother, both of whom always worked in various textile media. Her mother, Raili, is a fiber artist who creates original works in weaving, knitting, crocheting, and needlelace as well as quilting. Current influences on Karen’s journey into creativity are painter Doug Stratford, and storyteller Helen Porter (both from Toronto) in addition to famous quilt artists Libby Lehman, Katie Pasquini-Masopust, and John Willard. She has attended classes at Quilt Festivals in Houston, Paduccah, Nashville and Chicago and has recently had an original art quilt touring with “The Culture of My Country” exhibition.

Zahide Ugur-Tuluoglu was born in Turkey .She studied at the University of Mimar Sinan in the faculty of fine art from 1984 to1989. After graduation, she worked as a textile designer , but at the same time she continued to paint. She lived in Sydney for about 6 months to study English. In June 2004 she came to Canada. She lives in Toronto.

Solo exibitions
1-26 Feb-2005                                   "Co-op art gallery-   The nudes   Toronto-Canada
    4-8Seb2001                                            The El Rocco Art Gallery ,Sydney-Avustralia
    13-29January                                           Akbank Beylerbeyi Sanat gallery
                                                            Istanbul -Turkey
   20-April-16May1992                                 Tobank Beyoglu Sanat Gallery
                                                            Istanbul-Turkey
Group Exibitions
16-Feb.-1Mart 1991                               Young Talents 2         Istanbul-Turkey
19Feb-3 March 1990                            Young Talents  1         Istanbul-Turkey
1 -28April 1990                                   Maltepe Art Gallery  5 Women
                                                        Istanbul-TUrkey
1989                                                Kadikoy Art Gallery    -With Sping
                                                       Istanbul-Turkey
20March-4April1987                           Gravur Atelier Student Work From
                                                     1881 to Today .
                                                    Ataturk Kultur Mer.Istanbul-Turkey

Victoria Wallace is a multi-media artist working and conducting workshops in acrylic, encaustic, and sculptural media. She has operated a successful mural and specialty paint finish company in Toronto for over 25 years. Her extensive commissions include work for television, film, theatre, restaurants, businesses and private collections across Canada and internationally. Her paintings reflect the “trompe l’oeil” influence mastered through years of mural painting. In her acrylic, encaustic and multi-media paintings, Victoria infuses luminance within her subjects, which range from high realism to abstraction.

Website - http://www.victoria-wallace.com/

the WORDS

life is like muzik.
you write the words to your song,
and you sing along ,
till your life is over,
then the words are also.

louie ziani
caffe163

42 years of age

caffe owner

interests: coffee,illy artistic collections,espresso cup collection,

old film photography.

painting miurals,resterants,caffes,open spaces.

title of painting: THE WORD

john lennon acrylic painting collage.4x3 on white paper against black mat.

life is like a song....you add the words to your path.

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