New exhibition featured at Gallery 1313, running from August 28 – September 8!
Main: A Landscape Exhibition
This is a group-curated exhibition that was put together from an open call for submissions exhibition that explores the landscape, curated by Phil Anderson. Participating artists includes: Hugh Alcock, Bill Ward, David Corlett, Jerry McGrath, Karen Justl, Margaret Kittel Canale, Michelle Montague, Patrick Stieber, Tanya Fenkill, Tatjana Hutinec, Kathleen McGuire, Lorraine Sigrist, Eric Garsonnin, Jerome McNicholl, Asefeh Katoozian, Vanessa Mata, David Switzer, Maron Bodeker, Piera Pugliese, Kate Greenway, Courtney Dookwah, Terry Shofner, and others.
Cell Gallery: TIME WELL SPENT works by Christos Damianos
Humanity has long sought to record the passage of time and the feeling of its transience. “Time Well Spent”(2024) engages with fibre-based processes not to kill time, but to explore and mark its expiration. This is not the first time Christos Damianos has worked with and exhibited fibre-based work. His last solo exhibition, “Skins” (2023), featured a dozen works on or using handmade paper to create abstract and figurative forms.
The works included in “Time Well Spent” represent ongoing experimentation with fibre cellulose and handmade processes. These labor-intensive pieces embody the rich creative history of their maker. Damianos measures time’s passage through the accumulation and transformation of his media as well as his approach in studio practice. The artist, whose father was a small-town shoemaker, works with materials such as beeswax, leather, paper, and wood, along with traditional art materials. In this exhibition, he incorporates both new materials and recycled or torn older pieces on paper to create works where the residue of the original can be discerned. While some of the formed paper pieces are thin and translucent, many are made of layers several centimeters thick.
The exhibition also addresses themes of impermanence and the fragility of life, witnessed by recording key lingering moments as they pass. The material’s own materiality is evident in every work, reflecting how memories warp over time and eventually retreat into nothingness, much like cellulose fibres that are somewhat insignificant on their own but crucial components in the chain forming the final product.
Process Gallery: SELF PORTRAITS
A curated group exhibit of artists exploring the portrait art forum. Participating artists include Mark Sterling, Adil Amin, Alsa St. Rose, Kathleen McGuire, Rafael Flores, Lorraine Sigrist, Pam Patterson, Juliana Montes de Oca , Nika Belianina and others.
Window Box Gallery: Transformative Access at The Window Box Gallery
Over the tall brick wall across from Dollarama, you may catch a bright reflection of light; this is the Window Box Gallery, which is accessible via the entrance courtyard of Gallery 1313. It will be populated with bursts of colour, insight, and transformational visions from September 1st 2024 – April 30th 2025.Throughout the length of this project, three emerging Toronto artists will present solo exhibitions; Harmeet Rehal (Sept. 1, 2024 – Oct. 30, 2024), Sunshine Torme Johnson (Nov. 1, 2024 – Dec. 30, 2024), and Hollis McConkey (Jan. 1, 2025 – Feb. 28, 2025), will take on the challenge of investigating how the disabled body mind informs and constructs the transformation of its surroundings through the knowledges of lived experience. Using both the works themselves andthe mediums in which they are displayed through, the artists will showcase desire, friction and care through the disability lens, and the intimate places it intersects the whole of the artists. Over that brick wall, you will find Crip Horizons. This project is produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
