{"id":7241,"date":"2012-01-31T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2012-11-30T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:29:42","slug":"eco-art-exhibition-2012-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=7241","title":{"rendered":"Eco Art Exhibition 2012  Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Art Exhibition 2012<br \/>\nJanuary\u00a025 &#8211; February 5, 2012<br \/>\nOpening Reception: Thursday, January 25, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The weather didn\u2019t stop gallery goers from making the trip to catch the ECO Art 2012 reception March 26. With 27 artists in the exhibition visitors had a wide range of works to experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Eco_Art_6_-_Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7171\" title=\"Eco_Art_6_-_Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Eco_Art_6_-_Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artist Michael Stecky&#8217;s work, <em>Nauk<\/em>, dominated the gallery with its checkerboard painted panels with gunshot holes. The accompanying video told the story of the art work&#8217;s process. The work was at Scope Basel in 2011. Stecky also had a smaller work in the exhibit, <em>Lawren Harris Lake and Mountains<\/em>, made of puzzle pieces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael_Stecky__Nauk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7174\" title=\"Michael_Stecky_,_Nauk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael_Stecky__Nauk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Michael Stecky, <em>Nauk<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Artist Cassandra Marie Wittman&#8217;s video work, <em>Snow<\/em>, was timely and captivating. She was seen performing in the video, lying naked in the snow in her parents&#8217; backyard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cassandra_Marie_Wittman_-_Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7167\" title=\"Cassandra_Marie_Wittman_-_Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cassandra_Marie_Wittman_-_Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Artist Cassandra Marie Wittman<\/p>\n<p>Artist, Sarah Boothroyd&#8217;s sound work,<em> Forest In The Desert<\/em>, worked effectively. Boothroyd\u00a0 lives in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Krebs&#8217; acrylic on canvas work, <em>Transmissible<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tara_Krebs_Transmissible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7176\" title=\"Tara_Krebs,_Transmissible\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tara_Krebs_Transmissible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>Tara Krebs, <em>Transmissible<\/em>. acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n<p>and\u00a0 Ian Alter\u2019s sculptural piece, <em>Tangled<\/em>, added to the mix of media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ian_Alter___Tangled_-_Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7173\" title=\"Ian_Alter__,_Tangled_-_Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ian_Alter___Tangled_-_Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Ian Alter, Tangled<\/p>\n<p>The scope of art works was wide but together seemed to please the crowd of visitors .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Montreal_Artist__Amelie_Brindamour_-_Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7175\" title=\"Montreal_Artist_,_Amelie_Brindamour_-_Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Montreal_Artist__Amelie_Brindamour_-_Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Montreal artist, Amelie Brindamour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Eco_Art_5_-_Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7170\" title=\"Eco_Art_5_-_Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Eco_Art_5_-_Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Christos Damianos in front of his work, <em>Reclaimed Village<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well known artist, Charles Pachter was represented as was artist Adam Break, whose work uses wasp paper. The evening was a welcome success as many artists met new colleagues and shared their love of art and their concern for the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Text and photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opening Reception: Thursday, January 25, 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY 1313<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The evening was a welcome success as many artists were meeting new colleagues and sharing their love of art and their concern of the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=7241\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-phil-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","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=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16863,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/16863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}