Anne Bertoin with Solo Show at Public Gallery in Montreal

From February 5 to March 1, 2009, Anne Bertoin has a solo show at the Galerie d'art d'Outremont (known as GAO), a public art gallery in Montreal. Works will be shown from several different periods, including works on loan from collectors. Bertoin has had two shows with Craig Scott Gallery, the first called Fractured Visions in January 2007 and the second a joint show with Ron Eady, Trap / Elusion, which has just ended. The address of Galerie d'art d'Outremont is 41, ave. St-Just, Outremont and its number (514) 495-7419.

Lorraine Pritchard part of group exhibition at Varley Art Gallery

The Varley Art Gallery exhibits a group show called Aligning with Beauty, November 23, 2008, - January 11, 2009, curated by Julie Oakes. Lorraine Pritchard's Field Dreams room installation is included in the show. The link in the previous sentence takes you to a view of the entire work. Above and below are three close-ups.

The Varley is Markham's public gallery, and bears the name of one of the Group of Seven, Frederick Varley.

EXHIBITION REMINDER: Don Russell and Amir Shingray, SNOW - Nov 27/08 to Jan 18/09

On November 27, 2008, a two-person show called Snow opens, with gallery artists, Don Russell and Amir Shingray. Each has previously had solo shows at the gallery, Russell's Elements of Memory (Fall 2006) and Shingray's Khartoum (Winter 2007).

Russell came to Guelph from a Newfoundland childhood that included camping in snow drifts as high as himself while Shingray came to Toronto from eastern Sudan where snow was almost beyond imagination. Each has studied the (surprisingly modest) place of snowscapes in Canadian painting. For Snow, each has produced work that will forge new paths in connecting art, winter, and what it means to be Canadian.

Russell's work for the show will be an entirely new series of black and white encaustic painting on paper, while Shingray, also with a markedly new series, works in acrylic and ink on canvas.

Scott Waters on CBC's The Current on November 11

Scott Waters is part of a panel discussion on art and war tomorrow on The Current. he is joined by Gertrude Kearns and Allan Harding Mackay, and the interview will be conducted by The Current's host, Anna Maria Tremonti. Following the live airing of The Current interview, an audio track of the interview can be accessed at "11/11/2008: War Artists" at the following URL (click here).

Waters showed with Craig Scott Gallery this past spring in a highly successful show, Time Heals All Wounds, in which 14 works were placed and for which there was favourable critical coverage from Now, The National Post, CBC's Q, Eye Weekly, and Toronto Life.










Waters is part of a major war art exhibition that will travel the country soon (we will let you know more later), and is producing works for a second show (provisionally called Capricorn I) with Craig Scott Gallery currently being discussed for early 2010. Reproduced here are four works that remain from the show from six months ago, all of which are extremely strong works; all can be viewed at the gallery. The two middle works are each small works of 8 x 10 inches.

Maleonn wins prestigious worldwide Photograph of the Year Award in UK

Those of you following Maleonn's career since the gallery introduced him in his first solo show outside Asia (May 2006) and following this blog over the past several months will know that Maleonn is an extraordinary artist who is taking his "star turn" on the world art stage. The latest news is that he has just won one of the most coveted and prestigious worldwide photography prizes, the Spider Awards' Black and White Photograph of the Year.

This meticulously-juried awards competition includes 13 categories, and Maleonn won in the Fine Art Category and then in the overall category for Best Photograph of the Year by a professional photographer. Amongst the features that make this one of the most prestigious awards to win is the jury, which this year included the Head of Photography for the Tate Galleries in the UK, the Program Director of Sotheby's Institute of Art, the Director of Fratelli Alinari Photography Museum in Florence (the oldest photography-focused art museum in the world), the former President of British Institute of Professional Photography, the founder of Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris (one of the world's most respected photography galleries). The Canadian dimension of the jury included David Heffel of Heffel Fine Arts, now the leading art auction house across Canada, and Anita Damner, Editor in Chief of PhotoLife Magazine.

The winning photograph was Chinese Story No 2 (above), which Craig Scott Gallery exhibited along with six other Chinese Story series images in Maleonn's Transfigurations exhibition in May 2006. Craig Scott Gallery has the only remaining works in this series, a special format 40 x 60 cm print within the edition of 15 (#2/15) for some of the series images. Chinese Story No 2 itself has not been available for some time.

Maleonn and Craig Scott Gallery highlighted at photoMIAMI

The Press Release for photoMIAMI has highlighted the gallery and Maleonn as amongst a half-dozen features at the upcoming photoMIAMI art fair (Dec 2 - 7). Below are extracts from the press release. If interested to know what works will be at photoMIAMI, including recently released and not-yet-released works and also including a number of works for which only one or two prints remain, please contact the gallery at craigscottgallery@gmail.com.

"New York, NY (September 18, 2008) – photo MIAMI, the leading international contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video and new media returns to the Wynwood Art District in Miami, Florida, home of the 3rd annual photo MIAMI contemporary art fair. photo MIAMI 2008 will showcase works by over 200 contemporary artists at the 40,000 sq. ft. marquee structure located at NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue, steps away from the Rubell Family Collection and the developing Midtown Miami district. Over 60 new and established galleries will present highly anticipated works- many that will be seen in the U.S. for the first time.

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Galleries represented at photo MIAMI 2008 include: Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, (Montreal) showcasing four contemporary Canadian artists, including Taiwan born Chih-Chien Wang, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand (Zurich) presenting the US premier of “Borderland” the new series by American photographer Jeffrey Aaronson, Craig Scott Gallery (Toronto), showcasing the U.S premiere of brand new works from Chinese artist Maleonn (Ma Liang); Crown Gallery, (Brussels) presenting Paul Graham’s new series “A Shimmer of Possibility” and U.S. based gallery Lisa Sette Gallery (Scottsdale), presenting new photographs by Julianne Swartz."

Greg Angus and Thomas Ackerman team up with top East King East chefs Kennedy and Guitard

Greg Angus (see images here along with images below) and co-exhibitor Thomas Ackerman are holding a unique exhibition in überchef Jamie Kennedy’s new food complex in a lane just off King Street East (almost facing Ritchie’s Auction House), 2 Gilead Place. The exhibition runs November 14, 15 and 16 and proceeds go to support the New Leaf Yoga Foundation, which is a charity that brings Yoga to at-risk and incarcerated youth across Canada. Works can be viewed 7-10 PM on Friday and Saturday, November 14 and 15, and 10-1:30 on Sunday, November 16.

Admission to the exhibition is free, but each day also comes with a special opportunity. On the Friday and Saturday evenings (7-9 PM) two great chefs from the East King East district (as I call it) are preparing tasting menus with a complimentary glass of wine. Jamie Kennedy is on deck on Friday night and Constance Guitard of Weezie’s (corner of King East and Power – a favourite place for meals after gallery openings) is on deck Saturday evening. Either evening is only $40, plus you get to view the artworks of Angus and Ackerman, two very talented artists. Contact Kalie at sumach@rogers.com or 416.214.9742 by November 10 to buy a ticket for one or both evenings.

On Sunday the 16th, there are two BYOM (Bring your own mat) Yoga sessions, detailed in the evite image reproduced above. $30.

Video clips of Julie Tremblay at the Gladstone's upART fair

It's taken me a while but here is a link to some video clips of Julie Tremblay's Reflections series works in situ at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto during the upART Contemporary Art Fair in early October. They are taken in the final pre-opening stages with the people moving in and out of the frame being hotel staff and other exhibitors. The first two are in the main staircase leading to the second floor and the rest of the shots are in the lobby. Note that the video is in the form of a basic documentation and not an edited film.

Zachari Logan receives MFA

Readers will know we have been offline for a couple weeks. I was in Spain and am now in LA, and it proved harder than I thought to get Internet access when I was in Spain at times when I had time to upload new posts. So, expect a flurry of new posts to gradually bring me back to an average of a post a day.

First up, Zachari Logan, who has just received his MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Above is his invitation card for his Graduate Thesis Exhibition, which has attracted much attention. The photo is of one of his very recent paintings. A couple pieces look destined for public gallery collections. Zachari also has a major solo show of his drawings coming up in Paris in January.

For those who love his work, now is the time....:)

Below is the image without the e-vite type. It is called "Mouth Breather" and is 58 x 60 inches.