{"id":8252,"date":"2012-03-13T21:34:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2012-11-30T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:27:16","slug":"nextus-toronto-school-of-art-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=8252","title":{"rendered":"Nextus \/Toronto School of Art Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reception: Thursday,\u00a0March 8, 2012, 7\u201310 p.m. \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nGallery 1313<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wife-Mother-Kim-Stanford-Mixed-Media-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Wife Mother , Kim Stanford , Mixed Media (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wife-Mother-Kim-Stanford-Mixed-Media-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0School exhibitions often get overlooked, even though they may be brimming with new talent. For art writers it is a challenge to write about a group exhibition of works that have little to do with each other. The Toronto School of Art&#8217;s recent Nextus exhibition of works by graduating students was such a diverse collection of art works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8243\" title=\"rsz_toronto_school_of_art_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instructor Angela Leach had the difficult challenge of installing all these works and making it look good. She is a practising artist herself, represented by Toronto\u2019s Wynick\/Tuck Gallery .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rsz_toronto_school_of_art_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8245\" title=\"rsz_toronto_school_of_art_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_1toronto_school_of_art_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8242\" title=\"rsz_1toronto_school_of_art_4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_1toronto_school_of_art_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reception was jam-packed with supporting family, faculty and friends. There was a generous assortment of food offerings which made the evening that much more pleasant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8247\" title=\"rsz_toronto_school_of_art_6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a few congratulatory speeches. Angela was proud of her students and joked with them. The students were excited to share their art with all the visitors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rsz_toronto_school_of_art_5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rsz_toronto_school_of_art_9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_toronto_school_of_art_9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition continues till March 18\u00a0 and is the first of several school exhibitions taking place this spring at Gallery 1313.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: the OCAD UNIVERSITY thesis exhibition of sculpture and installation and Ryerson University\u2019s Max Ex exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Text and Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reception: Thursday,March 8, 2012, 7&ndash;10 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY 1313<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Toronto School of Art&#8217;s recent Nextus exhibition of works by graduating students is such a diverse collection of  art works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=8252\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8252","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\/8252","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=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16860,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/16860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}