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Exhibitions at Artword
Gallery, 2003 Exhibitions took
place at Artword Gallery, 75 Portland Street, Toronto ON M5V
2M9
Curator: Judith Sandiford
Mina
Goodman, Molye Yampolsky, Shelley Yampolsky
Mothers and Daughters and Threads
February 1 to March 2, 2003
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, February 1, 2003, 2 - 5
an exhibition of work by three generations of the
Goodman/Yampolsky family: Mina Goodman (needlework), Molye
Yampolsky (sculpture) and Shelley Yampolsky (ceramics,
drawings and photographs)
The
making of this exhibition was filmed for an episode of
Mothers and Daughters, produced for the W Network and
aired starting April 2003. Mothers and Daughters is a
13-episode documentary series examining the unique bond
between mothers and daughters, produced by Breakthrough
Films, a Toronto-based independent production company.
Judith Sandiford: Large Scale Drawings
March 10 to April 22, 2003
Large-scale drawings by Judith Sandiford from the
Fluctations and Parallel Realities series,
done in the early 90s.
Ivaan
Kotulsky: World Class City
part of Contact 2003, Toronto's annual photography
festival
Reception with the artist: Saturday, April 26, 2003, from 2
to 5 pm
An exhibition of photographs by Ivaan Kotulsky. Ivaan
Kotulsky, an artist and photographer, lives and works in
downtown Toronto. For more than a decade, Kotulsky has been
photographing the people who make up Toronto's street life.
Using his extensive collection of old, classic cameras, he
has captured a visual history of Toronto's street people
which is poignant, haunting, humorous and disturbing.
Barbara Caruso: The Alphabet Project and Beyond:
Drawings 2001 - 2003
October 3 to 23, 2003
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4, 2-5 pm
Barbara Caruso writes: "In 2000, I began an open-ended
series of drawings based on an alphabet designed in 1919 by
Theo van Doesburg. I wanted to explore the potential in this
alphabet's square shapes and the rigour of its
relationships. In 2002, I exhibited Alphabet 1 - 32 under
the title The Alphabet Project: Part 1 at Artword Gallery.
For this new exhibition, I have selected 17 alphabet
drawings from the 44 works that follow Part 1 and I have
added a selection from the drawings that go beyond the
Alphabet Project.
Van
Doesburg designed his alphabet using only the horizontal and
the vertical. The letters integrate perfectly with a square
shape. In my drawings, I close the letters and draw the
whole square with lines in four directions: horizontal,
vertical and two diagonals. It is the square that interests
me, its order and its surface."
Debbie O'Rourke: Beautiful World
November 12 to December 13, 2003
New large-scale drawings and sculptures, including work from
Wild Life Count: Trinidad.
Reception with the artist Saturday December 6, 2-4 pm
With
artworks inspired by a Canada Council residency in Trinidad
and by wildlife encounters in Etobicoke and Brampton, artist
Debbie O'Rourke celebrates the fact that we live in the best
neighbourhood in the universe, the best address in the
cosmos. No planet could offer more nurturance or more
adventure than this blue pearl of ours, shared with a host
of incredible creatures.
O'Rourke
doesn't try to mimic nature. With a simple crayon line, she
strokes an agouti's curved back, feels the weight of a giant
snapping turtle, captures the breeze from a passing
hummingbird. The resulting drawings range from six inches in
size to twenty-two feet long. Her works in wood, all made
from deadwood rather than living trees, range from
celebrations of liveliness expressed in form and pattern to
silent expressions of complex situations in the living
world.
For the
past two years, O'Rourke has been turning her practice from
gallery-oriented artwork to creating drawings, photos and
carvings that remain either outdoors or on the internet.
"Beautiful World" marks this transition. It also celebrates
the artists relationship with Artword Theatre and Gallery.
Artword Gallery curator Judith Sandiford mentored O'Rourke's
transition by giving the artist her first opportunities to
work in public and on the web.
O'Rourke's web-artworks, Milkweed Patch and
Wildlife Count, can be accessed through her web-site
at www.milkweedpatch.com