{"id":22420,"date":"2014-01-07T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=22420"},"modified":"2014-01-17T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:28:51","slug":"brunch-talk-at-gallery-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=22420","title":{"rendered":"Brunch Talk at Gallery 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Brunch Talk<\/span>\u00a0with the artists<br \/>\nSaturday, January 11, 2014,\u00a0\u00a01 &#8211;\u00a02 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pay what you can brunch will be served at noon<br \/>\n<strong>Gallery 44<\/strong><br \/>\n401 Richmond Street West\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What Was Will Be <\/em><\/strong>by Kristie MacDonald and Christina Battle \/ Main Gallery<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/battle_dearfield3_WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22421\" title=\"battle_dearfield3_WEB\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/battle_dearfield3_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/battle_dearfield3_WEB.jpg 550w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/battle_dearfield3_WEB-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/battle_dearfield3_WEB-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a>Christina Battle, <em>dearfield, colorado<\/em>, still from media installation, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Through the lens of archives from early to mid 20th century, Kristie MacDonald and Christina Battle present us with evocative media installations based on natural disasters. Eerily these records from the past seem to act more as prophesy, in our current context of global climate change.<\/p>\n<p><em>What Was Will Be<\/em> brings together MacDonald&#8217;s series\u00a0<em>Mechanisms for Correcting the Past\u00a0<\/em>and Battle&#8217;s project <em>dearfield, colorado<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yellow Front Forest Green <\/strong>by Alexis Dirks \/ Vitrines<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/10_ADirks_Rockface_WEB-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22407\" title=\"10_ADirks_Rockface_WEB 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/10_ADirks_Rockface_WEB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/10_ADirks_Rockface_WEB-1.jpg 278w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/10_ADirks_Rockface_WEB-1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/10_ADirks_Rockface_WEB-1-189x250.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Alexis Dirks, <em>Rockface<\/em>, digital chromogenic print, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reflecting on the authority of imagery in constructing an understanding of spaces, objects and landscapes, I make photographs and installations that suggest the disconnections between a physical experience and its two-dimensional representation.&#8221; &#8211; Alexis Dirks<\/p>\n<p>Exhibition dates: January 10 &#8211; February 15, 2014. Opening Reception: Jnauary 10, 2014, 6 &#8211; 8 p.m.\u00a0Gallery 44, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120. Gallery hours: Tues-Sat, 12 \u2013 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday, January 11, 2014,  1 &#8211; 2 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nPay what you can brunch will be served at noon<\/p>\n<p>Visit the shows <strong>What Was Will Be<\/strong> by Kristie MacDonald and Christina Battle and <strong>Yellow Front Forest Green<\/strong> by Alexis Dirks and talk to the artists<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=22420\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22424,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420\/revisions\/22424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}