"Gyrl Grip (Lisa Newman & Llewyn M�ire) 's KOBE" by AntoniaLancaster on March 24, 2007, 11:42 pm, in category General

FADO PRESENTS 5 HOLES MATTERS OF TASTE / KOBE

Gyrl Grip (Lisa Newman & Llewyn M�ire)
Curator Paul Couillard

Performance July 15th, 2006, 8pm
Offthemapgallery

KOBE was a performance designed to protest the treatment of animals. In this case the treatment of cows. In some markets they are force feed beer and massaged relentlessly inorder to make their meat marketable under a gourmet label that fetches extremely high prices. Perhaps it sounds not that bad and one .....

"Iris Haussler's Joseph Wagenbach" by AntoniaLancaster on March 24, 2007, 1:51 pm, in category General

Iris H�ussler - The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach
Curated by Rhonda Corvese

105 Robinson Street - Toronto Ontario Canada

I had briefly noticed an invitation to a talk at the Goethe-Institut about an aging sculptor, Joseph Wagenbach, whose home was being open to the public. He had become ill and had had to go into a nursing home leaving behind a home full of work that he had never shown to the public. The public archives had got hold of it and were now trying to cate.....

"The Terrarium Project" by antonia on July 7, 2006, 3:47 pm, in category General

The Terrarium Project
Panya Clark Espinal & Crystal Mowry, Project Leads
Rebecca Duclos, Denton Fredrickson, Andrew Hunter, Eric Roesler, David Ross, Gail Singer
Harbour Front - Fresh Ground - Saturday May 13 - Sunday July 9, 2006

The Terrarium Project describes itself as a work that is based in storytelling and folklore. An old photograph of six people was chosen. I understand that there is no knowledge of the people in the photograph or documentation .....

"Joan Fontcuberto" by antonia on July 2, 2006, 1:21 pm, in category General

Joan Fontcuberto
Artcore, Toronto

On a cursory attempt to find out a bit about Joan on a google search I found very little and certainly no pictures. And when I asked to take a picture of one of his works at Artcore, Toronto, where he was showing up to a little while ago I was told no because I would cause his work to warp and vanish. So I put in a picture of a faux flower arrangement done by a friend of Larry's mother. It seemed somehow appropriate.

Joan first c.....

"The Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto" by antonia on May 12, 2006, 6:54 am, in category General

The Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto
The wall murals were done by I don�t know who but they are gorgeous

The murals were done when the theatres were built in 1913. The Elgin Winter Garden Theatre is the only surviving double decker theatre still operating. I think there were only three others ever built. The Winter Garden theatre - the upper theatre - hosted vaudeville acts until it closed in 1928 and lay hidden, forgotten, but in its original state for nearly sixty years. .....

"JUNE CLARK" by antonia on May 12, 2006, 6:36 am, in category General

June setting up at Offthemap for a photo shoot of her work
Working title 'Ancestors'
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"Rupen" by antonia on May 12, 2006, 6:26 am, in category General

Rupen hard at work at OFFTHEMAP
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"Rupen" by antonia on May 12, 2006, 6:20 am, in category General

Rupen hard at work at ARTWORD
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"Offthemapgallery" by antonia on May 12, 2006, 6:08 am, in category General

I think Offthemap stacks up pretty well against those Berlin venues
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"Mice & Men" by antonia on May 12, 2006, 5:57 am, in category General

Don Hill sent me this article on the Berlin Biennial Mice & Men taken
from the New York Times.

12 venues from the biennial. The event takes place down one street Auguststrafle 17, etc.

"This approach to curating a biennial is loosely inspired by the tendency in Berlin to turn apartments into galleries and use temporary spaces for impromptu exhibitions and events. In combination with the artworks, the venues also reflect the atmospheres and tensions recurring throu.....

"Pastries" by antonia on April 30, 2006, 1:25 am, in category General

Caldense Bakery
Dupont/Symington

Here we are waiting for Zivko; Tudor, Miroslav, Larry, and I huddled around coffee and pastries.
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"Ian Amell" by antonia on April 30, 2006, 1:07 am, in category General

Ian Amell
His Studio

Ian has been experimenting with depictions of various nuclear test explosions. These are the last two in the series.
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"Meike Bal" by antonia on April 29, 2006, 4:07 pm, in category General

Meike Bal
Informal Talk
Aspace

Well this will be fun, but I will give it a shot anyway. I was told that Meike was a must go so I got myself on a street car and went to her talk. I was in a strange mood. Definitely not in an art mood. When I got to 401 Richmond I found alot of people out front, smoking, talking, laughing. It was good to see the building adorned this way, lively and engaged. I went inside and did a whirl wind gallery hop telling myself that this was for.....

"Rene Price" by antonia on April 29, 2006, 1:12 pm, in category General

RENE PRICE
'Slice of Suburbia'
City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa

While I was in Ottawa, I went to see Rene's show and what a show it was. From his invitation I had expected to see a single comprehensive work; a facsimile of a parking lot with row after row of miniature houses and cars set up and parked along the painted parking divisions. A great visual image and a work I wanted to see. However this work is presented as a photograph, just one of many many pieces in the sh.....

"Another electronic project" by antonia on April 14, 2006, 2:40 pm, in category General

Napoleon's Seed Project reminded me a little of LiQin Tan's work. I have put in my write up on Tan's work from last year

LIQIN TAN
'Rawhide Animations'
Offthemapgallery
2005

OFFTHEMAPGALLERY invites you to visit the surreal world of digital animation artist LiQin Tan. Our future is reflected in Tan�s synthesized collection of the digital and the primitive. A subverted and disengaged reality is displayed in Tan�s museum of a time yet to come.&nbs.....

"The Seed Project" by antonia on April 14, 2006, 2:19 pm, in category General

The Seed Project
by Napoleon Brasseau
at Dyan Marie Projects

I went to hear Napoleon's talk on his latest work. It is intended as a positive work and for the most part it is. You call a number on your touch tone phone ( if anyone has the number please put it up in the comment section, I did have it but for some reason, not any more ). By following some simple directions you can create a tree and have it planted; an electronic tree in a digital landscape. Now the accompanying co.....

"A rainy afternoon" by antonia on April 14, 2006, 1:45 pm, in category General

Isaac Applebaum
His studio

Before going to Hart House and the Hic Show I visited Isaac's studio. He showed me some work he had done many years ago.
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"Hart House Cafeteria" by antonia on April 14, 2006, 1:28 pm, in category General

After going through the Hic show which meant many stairs and using many hunting and finding skills, I decided to have a coffee and a chocolate chunk cookie. Isaac was with me so we had long discussion on the show which I won't talk about here although it would have made for a far more interesting post since we gave our opinions on everything and everybody. We needed the coffee and cookies. During one of our conversation gaps we looked up and saw Andy Fabo and his class doing exactly t.....

"HIC" by antonia on April 14, 2006, 1:14 pm, in category General

Hart House Installation Collective

Mel Ziegler
'In the Air'

Okay, I choose this particular work because it came very close to portraying my state during those agonizing and comical years that I spent studying, what ever that whole process was about.

Ziegler seems to be saying the same thing with this work, From his write up, he apparently asked students to individualize each ballon by blowing into one and then draw a faces on it. He fully understood that the ballo.....

"Blind Creators" by antonia on April 14, 2006, 12:40 pm, in category General

Alexander Pilis
The Blind Architect
Peak Gallery

The idea of being blind and creating has a built in challenge connected with its concept. According to Zack, Pilis claims that most other creative fields can function as blind operators, but not architects. I am not convinced that this is true. Pilis is a trained and practising architect. I am not a trained or practicing architect. Yet I would think that although conceptualizing space and colour et.....

"Just got there" by antonia on April 2, 2006, 12:28 am, in category General

A view of Christopher Cutts Abstract Painting Show that just ended.
Richard Gorman, Tom Hodgson, Max Johnston, John MacGregor, Ron Martin, Ray Mead, John Meredith, Kazuo Nakamura, Louise Robert, William Ronald.

I learned that the Group of Eleven passed into history with the death of Tom Hodgson in February. The news brought up images of old war vets who fight their wars because it seemed necessary to do so only to pass on leaving the wars they fought and the reasons for f.....

"A Wednesday morning walk" by antonia on March 31, 2006, 3:01 am, in category General

Credits since you can't read them on the jpeg;
Denyse Thomasos at Olga Korper Gallery
Babylon
Dwelling tower

The three galleries, Olga Korper, Christopher Cutts, and Peak, are within walking distance of Offthemap and so I set out. Just to set the context I went to the bank to check on a nonexistant bank balance. This becomes relevant when I see that the paintings at Olga's are being sold from 11,000 - 42,000. Then I went to Value Village, its almost right next to .....

"LAYERS, AN EXHIBITION NOW AT THE GLADSTONE HOTEL - CLAUDIO." by antonia on March 25, 2006, 6:52 am, in category General

Friday March 10 proved to be a successful opening night for the Exhibition �LAYERS� at The Gladstone Hotel.

Walt Chaisson, Claudio Ghirardo, Joanne Spadafora and Tony Nudo exhibited their interpretation of the word Layers as it applies to life and events within and around them.
The catered event hosted a multitude of art lovers from all over � friends, family, gallery owners and shop merchants on Queen Street who were impressed with the presentation.
The ar.....

"Antonia's Show at offthemap gallery March 2006" by clarissa on March 24, 2006, 10:14 am, in category General

Here are some thoughts I had, after visiting the opening of Antonia's current show at offthemapgallery [March 2006]:

There was a question during the opening whether the show should be seen as one or two separate exhibitions or works. I saw it as one piece, because I wasn't primed to see it in any other way...pretty much what Rupen said during the conversation a group of us had. But now, having thought about it, that is the way if functions best for me [as one]. <.....

"WELCOME" by antonia on March 15, 2006, 12:19 pm, in category General

I will start this all off with Chris Buck, the guest speaker at last week's Kodak lecture series. I had no idea who he was. But guessing from the fight I had to put up for my seat, the full aisles, and the evident presence of a spill over room, I understood that he was probably pretty popular. I could also tell from the audience that he was probably not a visual artist. They were all too young and too affluent. There was more of an advertising feel in the room. This was confirmed when Chris� ima.....

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