\nOpening Reception: May 10, 2013, 6 – 9 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMay 11 – June 8, 2013
\nO\u2019Born Contemporary<\/strong>
\n131 Ossington Ave<\/p>\n
O\u2019Born Contemporary created a magical escape on a cold and rainy Friday evening. The large, and diverse, crowd hovered around the photographs with enthusiasm. Departing from her previous series, The Garden Document<\/em>, The Girl Document<\/em> displays an abstract space between girl\/woman, mother\/daughter.<\/p>\n With vibrant eye-catching colors, and a variety of textures (hair, glass, cake, skin, flowers, rocks\/minerals, etc) the photographs are undeniably captivating. Maybin\u2019s work leaves her vulnerable to her audience because she is giving us a window into her life\/family; however, she gives her audience room to gain an understanding of themselves as a result of experiencing her work.<\/p>\n Personally, I had several visceral reactions to Maybin\u2019s work and it conjured up memories I had of my growth from a girl into a woman. I could relate to the themes of fear, pain, excitement, and wonder. Each time I looked at the photographs I discovered (and sometimes startled by) new elements I had initially missed.<\/p>\n She leaves her audience with not only visually stunning photographs, but a space for exploration and inquiry.<\/p>\n Text and photo: Leanne Semaan<\/p>\n I Was Already Lost by Botto + Bruno<\/strong> For their exhibition at Pari Nadimi Gallery, internationally acclaimed Italian duo artists\u00a0\u00a0Botto+ Bruno present an installation of a large wallpaper, as the center piece of the exhibition, made out of A3 sized photocopies.<\/p>\n The photocopies start with a text (a text cut up from Ballard\u2019s Kingdom Come) and then develop into drawings and finally in black and white photography.\u00a0 A number of small works with grey background and white framed, made of a drawing and a photo collage, are placed over the wallpaper.<\/p>\n The installation also includes 3 large photographs. Every A3 and large photographs contains Botto + Bruno\u2019s investigations of marginal places that are photographed, selected, archived, assembled, photocopied by the artists to make the final collage.<\/p>\n Unfottunately the artists didn’t attend the opening reception but many photography lover attended it, Bonnie Rubenstein, Artistic Director of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, among them.<\/p>\n I Shop\u00a0\/ David Hlynsky<\/strong> Between 1986 and 1990, Canadian-American artist David Hlynsky<\/em> made four photography trips to regions still within the Soviet sphere of influence. During these final years of the Cold War, he sought to document the similarities between people living under powerful yet opposing political ideologies.<\/p>\n If we believe only the propaganda produced by Washington, Hollywood, and Moscow, the Cold War was a battle over fundamental freedoms and the rational distribution of wealth. In Hlynsky\u2019<\/em>s view, the battle was also about differing versions of our human connection to the material world.<\/p>\n This exhibition illustrates a lost alternative to the unfettered marketplace. Depicting stripped-down window displays and simple graphics, the advertising photographed by Hlynsky uses a visual language reduced to its most bare function: the labelling of merchandise for its utility.<\/p>\n Photo: Alice Tallman<\/p>\n SCHATZBERG by Jerry Schatzberg<\/strong> This exhibition highlights the photographic work of Jerry Schatzberg<\/em> from the 1950s\u2009\u2013\u200970s. Schatzberg<\/em>\u2019s early career began in the 1950\u2019s.\u00a0 His rise as a iconic portrait photographer was marked by his intimate and emblematic images of emerging talents and thinkers of the 1960\u2019s, including Bob Dylan<\/em>, Fidel Castro<\/em>, The Rolling Stones<\/em>, Andy Warhol<\/em>, Faye Dunaway<\/em>, Catherine<\/em> Deneuve<\/em> and many others.<\/p>\n Jerry Schatzberg<\/em> reinvented the conventions of his time.\u00a0 Influenced by New Wave films from Europe, this body of work conveys a cinematic atmosphere with an emphasis on location, wide shots and odd angles to convey action, scale and mood.<\/p>\n Through engagement with his notable subjects, he builds character and story through gesture and presence.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-Girl-Document-21_opt.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>From left to right: Artist Edith Maybin, O\u2019Born Contemporary founder Donald E. O\u2019Born and Assistant Director of the O\u2019Born Gallery Rachel Anne Farquharson.<\/p>\n<\/a>Installation view with Edith Maybin, The Girl Document, Untitled #4, <\/em>2013<\/p>\n<\/a>Edith Maybin, The Girl Document: Untitled #2<\/em>, 2013, C-Print, 27 x 36 inches.<\/p>\n<\/a>Edith Maybin, The Girl Document: Untitled #1,<\/em> 2013, C-Print, 60 x 90 inches.<\/p>\n
\nOpening Reception: May 8, 6 – 9, 2013<\/strong>
\nMay\u00a0\u00a08 \u2013 June 29, 2012
\nPari Nadimi Gallery<\/strong>
\n254 Niagara Street<\/p>\n<\/a>Installation view. Photo: Fox Martindale<\/p>\n<\/a>Photo: Veronica Scarpati<\/p>\n<\/a>Botto + Bruno, Lost Time I.,<\/em> 2013,\u00a0\u00a0graphite, white pencil, photographic collage on cardboard collage, 12 x 13 inches. Photo: Fox Martindale<\/p>\n<\/a>Pari Nadimi Gallery owner Pari Nadimi (right) with a visitor in front of the\u00a0\u00a0larger images. Photo: Veronica Scarpati<\/p>\n<\/a>Phot0: Fox Martindale<\/p>\n
\nOpening Reception: May 4, 2013, 3 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMay 4 \u2013 June 1, 2013
\nDe Luca Fine Art Gallery<\/strong>
\n217 Avenue Rd N<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>De Luca Fine Art Gallery owner Corrado De Luca, artists David Hlynsky, gallery assistant Laura Keeler-Lavin and gallery co-director Walter Willems<\/p>\n<\/a>David Hlynsky, Three loaves of bread, Krakow, Poland 1988<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>David Hlynky, Military Shirts,<\/em> Moscow, 1990<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nOpening Reception: May 4, 12 \u2013 6 p.m. Artist present 2 \u2013 4 p.m.<\/strong>
\nApril 29 \u2013June 2, 2013
\nNikola Rukaj Gallery<\/strong>
\n384 Eglinton Ave W. Hours: Mon \u2013 Sat, 10 \u2013 6, Sun, 12 \u2013 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/a>Installation view. Photo: Veronica Scarpati<\/p>\n<\/a>Opening remarks by Nikola Rukaj, owner of Nikola Rukaj Gallery (left) with Jerry Schatzberg (right). Photo: Veronica Scarpati<\/p>\n<\/a>Jerry Schatzberg, Wall Street (Betsy Pickering),<\/em> 1958, 40 x 40 inches. Photo: Claudette Abrams<\/p>\n<\/a>Jerry Schatzberg, Rolling Stones, 1966, 40 x 40 inches. Photo: Claudette Abrams<\/p>\n