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NEWS
Monday January 7, 2013 The Blackwood Gallery featured in the Toronto Star, click here to read the article.
Monday December 3, 2012 Newly digitized images of the Permanent Collection and three comissioned essays by Sara Angel, Wanda Nanibush, and Carol-Ann Ryan are now available to viewing online. Please click here to read more. Landscapes events reproducted Curated by Christof Migone ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curatorial Talk: Door to Door with Christof Migone The curatorial premise of Door to Door is unabashedly utopic, it engages frontally with the implicit article of faith that art can act as a force of engagement, a conversation trigger, a tool for creative reflection. There is no naive presumption that reception will always be positive, or that we will be welcomed. There is no fetishization of the encounter. With Door to Door we are heeding part of Brian O'Doherty's call in the very last sentence of his essay The Gallery as a Gesture: "Or the gallery itself could be removed and relocated to another place." Here the gesture is even more radical, it is no longer off-site, but site-less. Door to Door shifts the question to one of exchange and investigates the specificity of where public space meets private domicile. The audience is no longer the passerby but the resident, the occupant, the one who answers the door.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Blackwood Gallery is currently seeking candidates for several work-study positions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday September 15, 2012, 4-6pm - Book Launch: WOOD TWO DIRECTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running with Concepts - Saturday May 5 and Sunday May 6, 2012 There are only a few spots left for Running with Concepts, register soon! Registration: $40* for both days ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 2012 - Student Art Exhibition in the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre with work by Sera J Bannon, Krista Firth, and Sarah Lalonde, curated by Julia Abraham, is on display until September 2012. The exhibition titled, Not a Panopticon, includes painting, print, video, and installation from students in the UTM and Sheridan College Art and Art History program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 15, 2012 - Deadline to submit applications for positions in the Running with Scissors Contemporary Art Summer Camps The Blackwood Gallery is seeking to fill multiple positions for Running With Scissors. We are hiring Program Coordinators, Visual Art Instructors, a Recreation Instructor, and Aftercare Providers. Please see job descriptions and information about the application here. To apply, please submit cover letter & resume electronically by March 15, 2012 to: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday March 2, 2012 - Blackwood Talks: Seripop Roundtable 1 to 3pm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 1, 2012 - Deadline to submit a proposal for Running with Concepts May 5 & 6 To propose a presentation: Submit a description of your project in 250 words including what type of presentation you have in mind (PowerPoint, performance, etc.). You must include your name, contact info, plus name of program and school that you are in. Current graduate students will be given priority, but recent grads and upper-level undergrads may apply. Email your proposal to: blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca. Deadline: March 1st, 2012. Presenters will be notified by March 23. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Blackwood Gallery will be unable to process Cultual Access Passes until our regular exhibition schedule resumes in September 2012. For more information on the CAP program, please visit the CAP website. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 23, 2012 - Registration Opens for Running With Scissors camps at 8am. Running With Scissors offers weeklong contemporary art summer camps for children ages 5-12. For information on how to register online, in-person, or by phone, click here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 11, 2012 - Blackwood Kids A tour of our current exhibition by Seripop and an art activity - especially for kids! The February 11th event is full. To be notified about similar events in the future, please send an email to: outreach.blackwood@utoronto.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2012 - WOOD WOOD is now available for reading online. Click here to read WOOD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 18 - March 4, 2012 - Opening Reception 5-9pm Seripop: Landscapes events reproducted A FREE shuttle bus departs from OCADU (100 McCaul St.) at 6:30pm, returns for 9pm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday December 12 - Sunday December 18, 2011 - Door to Door (3rd edition) Curated by Christof Migone A new series pairing up artists for week-long interventions throughout Mississauga. The starting premise for this itinerant series is to temporally and spatially splinter and dislocate the gallery in order to present work that delivers itself to you. In other words, if you cannot come to the gallery, the gallery will come to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 9 - December 11, 2011 - Opening Reception 5-9pm Curated by Ben Donoghue and Heather Keung Four newly commissioned works presented by Blackwood Gallery, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto (LIFT), Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and A Space Gallery. Blackwood Gallery: Daïchi Saïto (Montreal) and Cindy Mochizuki (Vancouver). A FREE shuttle bus departs from OCADU (100 McCaul St.) at 6:30pm, returns for 9pm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday November 18, 2011 - Ken Jacobs, Nervous Magic Lantern 8-10pm Instructional Centre, Room 245, UTM *A FREE shuttle bus departs OCADU (100 McCaul St. Toronto) at 6:30pm, and returns for 10:30pm. Ken Jacobs' legendary Nervous Magic Lantern is a performance of live cinema without film. The performance consists of a projector, crafted by Jacobs himself, that produces three-dimensional abstractions without the use of celluloid. Based on the magic lantern of the 19th century, the projector is manually operated and relies on the play of light, objects and transparencies to produce large scale abstractions in motion. A Q & A period will follow the performance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, October 21, 2011 - Out of Joint: Voices on Mentoring Presentation Room at the Student Centre, UTM For maps and directions, click here. Join us for a mini-conference featuring faculty, students and arts professionals discussing the meanderings of mentorship as it navigates the fields of artistic and curatorial practices, the writing and research skill requirements of art history, and the transition to graduate school. The title Out of Joint refers to the Art & Art History Program - a joint undergraduate program between Sheridan and the University of Toronto Mississauga. The landmark Canadian program in visual arts (the first of its kind between a college and a university) celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year and is the focus of the current Blackwood exhibition Viva Voce. For more information on the exhibition, click here. 10am - 11am 11am - 12pm 12pm - 1pm 1pm - 2pm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 14, 2011 - Self-portrait in Rice Paper Self-portrait in Rice Paper (2011) by Johnson Ngo, is now installed in the South Building Bernie Miller Billboard/Lightbox on the UTM Campus.September 14, 2011- May 1, 2012. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 14 - October 23, 2011 - Opening Reception 5-9pm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday September 26 - Sunday October 2, 2011 - Door to Door (2nd edition) A new series pairing up artists for week-long interventions throughout Mississauga. The starting premise for this itinerant series is to temporally and spatially splinter and dislocate the gallery in order to present work that delivers itself to you. In other words, if you cannot come to the gallery, the gallery will come to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday May 30 - Sunday June 5, 2011 - Door to Door (1st edition) A new series pairing up artists for week-long interventions throughout Mississauga. The starting premise for this itinerant series is to temporally and spatially splinter and dislocate the gallery in order to present work that delivers itself to you. In other words, if you cannot come to the gallery, the gallery will come to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 1, 2011 - Work-Study positions announced! In order to participate, a student MUST have qualified for provincial financial assistance from the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) for 2011/2012 and be registered in at least 60% of a full course load (in both semesters) at the University of Toronto. Visit the UTM Career Centre website for more details regarding eligibility. Work-Study applications are accepted immediately, and on an ongoing basis until all positions are filled and no later than September 30, 2011. For a full list of available positions, click here! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 7, 2011 - Book Launch 1-3pm WOOD and Gordon Monahan, Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance & Music 1978 - 2011 Saturday May 7, 2011 from 1 - 3pm Part-catalog, part-magazine, part-annual report. WOOD features sixty-four artists and writers from five exhibitions and two projects presented in chronological disorder. Artists from emerging to established, local to international, and of varied disciplines are all represented. Wood chronicles all of Blackwood Gallery's activities presented in 2009. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 17, 2011 - Opening Reception 12-3pm Gordon Monahan: Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance & Music 1978 - 2011 Organized by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in partnership with the Blackwood Gallery, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Owens Art Gallery, Thames Art Gallery, Tom Thomson Art Gallery and singuhr − hoergalerie berlin. AND The Good Host With works by Michael Connor & Heather Keung, Atom Deguire, Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund & Duncan MacDonald Opening Reception - Sunday April 17, 12 - 3pm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 16, 2011 - The Blackwood Talks Imitation and Intrusion from Plato to WikiLeaks Wednesday February 16, 2011 at 11am The Blackwood Talks are public lectures by curators and other scholars that extend the conversation initiated by the current exhibition. This talk is in conjunction with the solo exhibition Thérèse Mastroiacovo: Following Following Piece, curated by Christof Migone. In Following Following Piece (Montreal, July 8, 2008 to June 2, 2010), Thérèse Mastroiacovo has extensively researched instances in which images of Vito Acconci's Following Piece (1969) have appeared in print. She then draws these appearances in print, rendering the iconic images, following the layout, keeping text indicators such as page numbers, titles and captions but excising any text extraneous to Acconci’s own. Marcus Boon is Associate Professor of English at York University ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 17, 2010 - The Blackwood Breaks: Robert Fones 1:15PM November 5, 2010 - GORDON MONAHAN: SPACE BECOMES THE INSTRUMENT Internationally acclaimed sound artist and composer Gordon Monahan will reprise his 2009 Nuit Blanche installation Space Becomes the Instrument on the Mississauga Campus of U of T. Monahan turned the venerable Massey Hall into a giant music machine with thirty-metre-long piano wire strung through the theatre's interior, outfitted at intervals with vibrating electrical coils. Throughout the one-night event, performers "played" the theatre, the vibrations producing an otherworldly sound specific to the interior architecture of the hall. For more information, click here. November 3, 2010 - The Blackwood Breaks: Sara Graham 1:15PM October 13, 2010 - The Blackwood Talks Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 - The East Coast Story October 6 - November 17, 2010 - The Blackwood Breaks 15 minute lunch-time talks on the current exhibition October 2, 2010 - Nuit Blanche Bus for UTM Students Free for UTM Students September 11, 2010 - TRAFFIC: CONCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980 September 11 - November 28, 2010 Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980 maps the diverse, centripetal and eccentric manifestations of Conceptualism as its premises were enacted, hybridized and inflected by the particular local and geographic needs and interests of urban arts communities. Presenting works in a diversity of media by over seventy Canadian artists, many of them internationally renowned, this is the first major exhibition documenting the many manifestations of Conceptual Art in Canada. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 6, 2010 - NO IMAGES Performances in the dark, presented with Images Festival. With Ryan Driver, Annie MacDonell, Alexis O'Hara & Mary Margaret O'Hara and Alex Snukal. Innis Town Hall, Toronto, 7-8pm. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 17, 2010 - Thrown Forth: Art and Art History Graduate Exhibition Exhibition #1 Opening Wednesday March 17, 5:30-7:30pm.Exhibition #2 Opening Wednesday March 31, 5:30-7:30pm. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 1, 2010 - The Blackwood Talks: site and non-site in the work of Christine Swintak and Don Miller by Michelle Jacques 2pm, The Blackwood Gallery. Toronto-based curator, writer and educator Michelle Jacques will discuss Swintak and Miller's evolving explorations into the relationship between art, the gallery space and the outdoors in relation to the exhibition LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! Jacques will also consider the evolving relationship between the work of artists that has led to the current, formalized collaboration, and will situate it in the history of "land art," specifically looking at it in the context of Robert Smithson's ideas about site and non-site. For this event ONLY - 20 FREE shuttle passes will be available upon request at the Hub (Porter's Desk) at Hart House, St. George Campus. Click here for a link to the shuttle schedule. For information on getting here, visit the General Info page. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 25, 2010 - Sheridan Talk: Christine Swintak and Don Miller 12:30pm, Sheridan College, Oakville. Sheridan B124. Christine Swintak and Don Miller will discuss the evolution of their current exhibition, LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 4 - March 3, 2010 - The Blackwood Breaks Wednesdays at 1pm. Join us for a short guided tour of the current exhibition led by UTM staff and faculty members. Admission is free for everyone. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 27, 2010 - LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! Opening reception: 6-9pm, artists in attendance. A free bus leaves OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) at 6:30pm and returns to OCAD at 9 pm. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 20, 2010 - Hard Hat Tour Swintak and Don Miller will lead a tour of their upcoming exhibition in progress. The tour starts at the Blackwood Gallery, and then continues to the eGallery and the Thomas Cottage site, with a final stop at the Blind Duck Pub. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 18, 2009 - The Blackwood Talks: Artificial Respiration: On Life, Environment and Machine by Shannon Hoff 7pm, Room 112 Kaneff Centre, UTM Campus. Philosopher Shannon Hoff will respond to the works in the exhibitions Fall Out and Fall In. She will extend the process of conversation initiated by the exhibitions and address the ways in which we develop and inhabit environments that both enable and inhibit our freedom and flourishing. A reception will following in the Blackwood Gallery. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 4, 2009 - Watch Your Step! 8pm, Blind Duck Pub, UTM Campus. The Blackwood hosts a casual evening featuring a talk on the effects of gravity on the body by Dawn Lim, M.D., an artist talk by Simone Jones, and a performance by the UTM Breakers. FREE admission, everyone welcome! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 26, 2009 - FALL IN Fall In follows Fall Out, literally. For Fall In, nine artists have been invited to produce works in response to the works presented in the exhibition Fall Out. The works will be presented alongside the ‘original’ works. October 26 - December 13, 2009. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 22, 2009 - Sheridan Talk: Paul Litherland 12:30pm, Sheridan College, Oakville. Sheridan B124. Paul Litherland discusses Force of Attraction (2003) and Freefall Fighters (2009), two works currently on display (on a rotational basis) in Fall Out. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 18, 2009 - Regional Art Bus Tour and Jumpology 10-4pm. Bus Departs at 10am from the Art Gallery of Mississauga, then departs for the Art Gallery of Peel, Gallery of Streetsville, and the Blackwood Gallery and returns to the Mississauga Civic Centre at 4pm. Coffee and refreshments will be provided and there will be free time for lunch in Streetsville (lunch is not provided). Free underground parking at the Mississauga Civic Centre. Cost: $15. To register, please call the Art Gallery of Mississauga at (905) 896-5088 by Friday Oct. 16. The Blackwood will be capturing tour-goers in midair, as part of the ongoing series, Jumpology. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 3, 2009 - DROP OUT Sunrise to sunset. Drop Out is the University of Toronto's contribution to Nuit Blanche, happening at Hart House (St. George Campus). A FREE bus departs Oscar Peterson Hall (UTM) at 6pm, and returns by 2am. To reserve a seat, or to find out about volunteer opportunities, please contact blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 1, 2009 - The Seven Inch Fall The Seven Inch Fall (2009) by Alison S.M. Kobayashi, is now installed in the South Building Bernie Miller Billboard/Lightbox on the UTM Campus. October 1, 2009 - May 1, 2010. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 27, 2009 - FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour and Jumpology 12-5pm. Starting at noon at the ROM (100 Queen's Park) with exhibition tours organized by the Institute for Contemporary Culture and the Koffler Gallery, bus departs for Doris McCarthy Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Blackwood Gallery. To reserve a seat, please call (416) 638-1881 ext. 4270 by Friday Sept. 25. The Blackwood will be capturing tour-goers in midair, as part of the ongoing series, Jumpology. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 20, 2009 - ARTBus Tour 11:30-5:30pm. Bus departs at 11:30am from OCAD (100 McCaul St) for Oakville Galleries, Blackwood Gallery and Art Gallery of Mississauga. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Cost: $10. To register, please call Oakville Galleries at (905) 844-4402 by Friday Sept 18. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 16, 2009 - Sandwich Q Sandwich Q at the Blackwood Gallery, Wednesday September 16 at 5:30pm. The Sandwich Q is an opportunity for students, staff, faculty, and administration of the Joint Art & Art History Program to begin the year by sharing a delicious range of deli sandwiches. Everyone is welcome! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 14, 2009 - FALL OUT An exhibition where to be bound by gravity will be considered, diverted, inverted. Fall Out will be followed by Fall In. Artists in the second exhibition will respond to the works in the first exhibition. September 14 - December 13, 2009. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 1 & 3, 2009 - Student Orientation at the Blackwood and Jumpology The Blackwood Gallery kicks off the school year by capturing Frosh and Frosh leaders in midair, in the style of Philippe Halsman. Photos are available on a continuing basis on the Blackwood's facebook page. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 2, 2009 - The Projects: Port Credit July 5, 1-4pm, Opening Party and BBQ for The Projects: Port Credit. An Essay to accompany the exhibition written by John Armstrong entitled "No Stars: A Short History of Industry and Small Business in Port Credit over Some of the Past Century” has been posted online. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 25, 2009 - awashawave A curatorial pseudo-blog/essay titled The Opening (30 days in the life of an exhibition) has begun to be posted on the page for the awashawave exhibition. It will run for the 15 days preceding and following the opening. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 22, 2009 - http://canadapavilionvenicebiennale.ca/ The Blackwood Gallery has developed a site, canadapavilionvenicebiennale.ca as its contribution to the Mark Lewis exhibition organized by the Justina M Barnicke Gallery and curated by Barbara Fischer for the Canada Pavilion at the 2009 edition of the Venice Biennale. Its aim is to provide information on the 2009 edition as well as content on the artists who have represented Canada at the Venice Biennale since 1952. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 19, 2009 - STIR 7-9pm, MiST Theatre, CCT Building, UTM STIR is a dance, video & music mash-up party featuring Sampradaya Dance Creations (Lata Pada, Nandini Krishna), Quadrasonic (Boris Castellanos, Alvaro Castellanos & Ulysses Castellanos) and Faisal Anwar. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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