- April 27th -May 7th, 2023
- Reception April 27th 6:30-9pm
- On View on May 7th, 2023 to 3pm
- Curated by Leah Oates
Artists:
Marcy Brafman, Bob Carnie, Katherine Daniels, Klay-James Enos, Stefan Hagen, Shane Harrington, Margaret Kittel Canale, Miles Ladin, Yuliya Lanina, Karen Marston, Jerre Oates, Leah Oates, Matthew Oates, Dominique Prevost, Corrine Laurice Pulicay, Steve Rockwell, Maddy Rosenberg, Carol Salmanson, Max St-Jacques, Pierre St-Jacques and Ross Stockwell.
Group Show #3 Toronto is a celebration of artistic friendship within an international arts community that features a salon style show of works on paper by artists from Toronto, the NYC area, Texas, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Group Show is a series of pop-up exhibits that have previously been shown in Brooklyn, NYC and in Toronto, Ontario. Group Show #3 highlights and focuses on cultural artistic cross pollination between locations, artists and artistic mediums and is organized to create dialogues between artists and arts centers like Toronto and NYC and is for everyone that loves and lives to see art.
Gallery Hours Wed- Sat 1-5pm Sun 1-4pm
Artists Bios:
Marcy Brafman is a painter who lives and works in NYC in a second story studio overlooking the beautiful Holland Tunnel. Her work is concerned with the icons and indicators of life on the ground and in the media. Her paintings and drawings are oracles of the imagined and the remembered. These are paintings born of Jackson Pollock, the end of nature, comic strips, cartoons, rock n roll, John Singer Sargent, Titian and a long toxic immersion in the living billboard of electronic and digital life. They are mix mastered with Marshall McLuhan, Velazquez, Karl Marx, Thorsten Veblen, daytime television, and motion poetry on the streets and roads; the great American highway of picture, image, word. Marcy Brafman studied Fine Arts at Bard College.
Bob Carnie is a Toronto-based photo-printmaker and photographer. Bob has not only continued his own photography practice but also garnered an international reputation for printing traditional and digital fine art. He has worked with many acclaimed photographers, printing for personal portfolios, private collections, gallery exhibitions and museum installations. Bob’s passion for photography is fueled by this hands-on work in the darkroom, where he’s most in his element – a passion that’s evident in his own work. Using a combination of skills in historical and vintage processes, at times enhanced by contemporary technology, Bob’s combinations of skills, artistry and (hard-boiled) perceptiveness bring a unique richness to his work.
Katherine Daniels’ beaded sculptures, weaving, and site-specific installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including throughout New York City, at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ and in “To Weave Dreams”, at Miniartextil, Le Beffroi Art Center in Montrouge, France. Her awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting, the Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award for Public Art, two Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Manhattan Creative Communities Grants, and selection as a participant in the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace. She has also received studio grants from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. PS 122, the Henry Street Settlement, and Chashama. Daniels earned a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A from Johnson State College in Vermont. Born in Idar Oberstein, Germany, she was raised in Huntington West Virginia and currently lives and works in New York City.
Klay-James Enos is a visual artist raised and based in New York City. He received his B.A. from Alfred University, where he studied English literature and art history. He has also studied painting at the Art Students League. Enos has shown his paintings in a solo exhibit at the Ottendorfer Public Library, and in group shows at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, CENTRAL BOOKING NYC, Station Independent Projects, Foley Gallery, and One Art Space, among others. He curated an exhibit, “The pane, not the window” at Station Independent Projects in 2017, and designed projections for a production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s scenic cantata Mahogany Songspiel at Howl! Happening in the spring of 2018. His essays on other artists’ work have been featured at NYU’s Kimmel Stovall Gallery and Bowdoin College in Maine.
Born in Germany, Stefan Hagen studied photography in Berlin and moved in 1989 to New York to pursue commercial photography and work on independent photography projects. In 2001, Hagen developed his signature style of photographing landscapes with a technique using long exposures that capture both time and the experience of moving through nature. His work has been shown in solo shows in galleries in New York, Boston, Elko, NV and Munich, Germany and is in numerous private and institutional collections and also on display at the BYU Museum of Art in Provo, UT. Stefan Hagen is also the founder and director of Montello Foundation, a foundation dedicated to support artists who foster our understanding of nature, its fragility and our need to protect it, providing an artist residency in a remote valley in Nevada.
Shane Harrington is an artist/musician from Ireland. He graduated with honors from Limerick School of Art & Design in 2009 where his thesis DIY Counter Culture received the highest grade in the College’s 150-year history. Harrington has worked at Ormston House, Eva Biennial and was a member of LIKE Studios all in Limerick, Ireland. Throughout his teens and early twenties Shane toured across Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe playing experimental music, exhibiting his work and curating art shows. He moved to New York in 2012 where he now works at The Isamu Noguchi Museum, while also maintaining a rigorous recording schedule, as well as his own artistic practice. Harrington curated a group show of local and international Irish artists titled “Irish Art Does Not Exist” at Station Independent Projects in 2014 which was cited in ArtFCity, Visual Arts Ireland, NY Arts Magazine, The LO-Down, Re-Title and Two Coats of Paint. He lives and works in The Bronx, New York.
Margaret Kittel Canale is a fine art photographer who frames her subjects in captivating ways. She draws inspiration from the beauty, landscapes, architecture and spiritual essence of the places she visits. She uses bold color, dramatic angles, high contrast and light to showcase the real world from a different point of view. Kittel Canale is a self-taught photographer who has honed her photographic and artistic skills through reading, questioning, observing, practicing, and speaking with other artists. She has an Hon. BA and an M.Ed. from the University of Toronto in non-artistic fields. She has exhibited her photographic art in many galleries in the Toronto area.
Miles Ladin is an artist born, raised, and working in New York City. In the 1970s, his family spent four years in London, around the corner from his favorite painter, Francis Bacon. Previous to receiving his MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, he studied with photographer Larry Fink and painter Barkley Hendricks. Before 2015, his practice was limited to photography and artist’s books. These works have been acquired by The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Special Collection Libraries of New York’s MoMA and Whitney museums. He has also exhibited at the Photographer’s Gallery, London and The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami. In 2015, Ladin traveled to Oostende, Belgium, the hometown of painter James Ensor, and photographed the famed carnival. Influenced by this experience, he decided to extend his practice to include drawing and painting. Both his photographic and non-photographic work presents a sardonic critique of humanity while highlighting how society willfully masks itself from reality.
Yuliya Lanina is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges traditional media with new technologies. She creates alternate realities in her works—ones based on sexuality, trauma and identity. Lanina’s honors include Fulbright US Scholar (Vienna, Austria), Headlands Art Center (CA), Artpace (SA), and Yaddo Fellowship (NY). Exhibitions include SXSW (TX), Seoul Art Museum (Korea), SIGGRAPH (Japan), 798 Beijing Biennial (China), Cleveland Institute of Art (OH), Museum Ludwig (Germany) and Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia). Lanina is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Karen Marston is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. For over ten years she has been painting natural disasters and the environment influenced by climate change, and landscapes—including a recent series done in Wyoming where she was invited to participate in the Jentel Artists Residency in 2021. Her work has been seen in a number of solo exhibitions in New York City, most recent of which, in early 2021, was Fire Season at the Owen James Gallery in SoHo. In addition to her 2018 show Harbingers, also at the Owen James Gallery, other recent solos include: 2017’s To Embrace the Whole Sky with the Mind, at Station Independent Projects on the Lower East Side, Demeter’s Wrath in 2016 at Owen James and Storm Watch, New Paintings in 2012 at Storefront Bushwick, in addition to earlier solos at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery and the Taller Broicua Gallery at the Julia de Brugos Cultural Center and numerous group exhibitions. Originally from California, she earned her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and participated in the A.I.C.A. New York Studio Program.
Jerre Oates is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and additionally she studied painting at Boston University. She has exhibited her drawings and paintings throughout the Northeast in the States. Family and art have been the main focus of her life and her work is deeply rooted in the tradition of realism with a focus also on the abstractions within it, of shape, line, and color. She is inspired daily by the world around her and creates artworks that convey a sense of emotion and mood through the use of colour and composition.
Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Oates has been part of group shows in Toronto at the Gladstone Hotel, John. Aird Gallery, Connections Gallery, Gallery 1313, Propeller Gallery, Artscape Wychwood Barns Community Gallery, Arta Gallery and The Papermill Gallery. Oates has had solo shows in the NYC area at Susan Eley Fine Art, The MTA Lightbox Project at 42nd Street, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, The Open Center, The Center for Book Arts and The Brooklyn Public Library Main Branch and had had solo show nationally and internationally at Black Cat Artspace in Toronto, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, Sara Nightingale Gallery in Long Island, Artemisia Gallery in Chicago and at Galerie Joella in Turku, Finland. Oates has been in group shows in the States at Wave Hill, Edward Hopper House, Chashama, Williamsburg Art Center, Metaphor Projects Gallery, Usagi NYC, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Nurture Art Gallery and The Pen and Brush Gallery.
Matthew Oates create spaces that are neither literal nor completely abstract. Recognizable objects exist alongside nebulous shapes, colours and patterns within an image. The interaction between these forms allows the image as a whole to create its own language. Matthew Oates has had solo exhibitions at Station Independent Projects in New York City and 57Delle Project Space/Floft Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been part of numerous group shows in the Boston and New York areas at St. Francis College, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Distillery gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Limner Gallery, Boston Center for Psychoanalysis and Scope Art Fair. He is the recipient of several awards including the Lawrence Kupferman Memorial Award, George Nick Prize and the Rob Moore Memorial Grant. His work has been published in Direct Art Magazine and Coming Soon Zine. Matthew lives and works in New Hampshire. He is a preparator and mount maker at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Massachusetts College of Art. Making music, touring and performing has also been a large part of his life. His band “Phantom Glue” was recently nominated for best new metal act at the Boston Music Awards.
Dominique Prévost has shown extensively in the GTA since 1984 and her works are collected here and abroad. Recipient of many Awards, she is an Active Member of the Burlington Fine Arts Association, the Ontario Society of Artists and of Propeller Art Gallery. Dominique’s artworks are atmospheric abstracted landscapes. They are assemblages showcasing changing light, organic patterns, and stylized structures. Each artwork is composed of multiple painted and manipulated surfaces that evoke the perception of depth and space. Dominique
uses watercolour, acrylic, ink, crayons and found material on a wide variety of paper; ranging from exquisite handmade Japanese Washi papers and classical European watercolour papers, to utilitarian papers. In the works, many patterns are at play. They are the ones found in our veins, rivers, trees and skies. Lino printing and Japanese Suminagashi marbling technique are used to make visible the connections of what’s above, below and within.
An art school dropout, Corinne Laurice Pulicay has nonetheless been steadily taking pictures for twenty years. Although her work was featured in the July 2021 Issue of the curator David Gibson’s World Views series on Substack, this is her first group show. Corinne’s photography ultimately comes from the drive, present since childhood, to point a finger at anything she finds interesting–and the desire to celebrate ordinary things and push them into the foreground. Her visual influences come from childhood memories and a steady barrage of pop culture, refined by an admiration for Dutch seventeenth-century still life painting, and the photographers William Eggleston, Martin Parr, and Irving Penn. Occasionally Corinne creates collages from these photographs; they are visually informed by a longstanding interest in fashion, textiles, and the DIY crafting culture in which knitting/sewing/crocheting are prevalent. The image on display, Vortex, is a collage inspired by the question “What if a crochet hook can take pictures?”
Steve Rockwell is perhaps best known as the publisher and editor of dArt International magazine. First released in Los Angeles 24 years ago, dArt began by covering contemporary art in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto. dArt magazine itself, was the product of a narrative performance piece entitled “Meditations on Space,” which involved 175 art galleries from Switzerland, France, United States, and Canada. These notated visits to the art galleries acknowledges the publication’s roots in art making. The mining of dArt content as creative potential continues for Rockwell today. In tandem with dArt, Steve Rockwell has performed his “Color Match Game” across North America. Another conceptually based work, the “Steve Rockwell Sandwich,” was served at the Rushton Restaurant in Toronto and at Arts and Eats in San Antonio, Texas. At his 2011 dArt Burger exhibition opening, chef Saeed Mohamed produced an edible burger version, as Rockwell exhibited his own dArt magazine “mincemeat” on the gallery walls.
Maddy Rosenberg was born and is based in Brooklyn, maintaining an active international exhibition and curatorial career. Her studio practice includes oil painting, artist’s books, printmaking, animation and installation. Recent endeavors include an online solo exhibition with NYPL, solo at Galerie Hadorn i.e., CENTRAL BOOKING, her interdisciplinary curatorial project focusing on artist’s books, art & science and social justice issues. Plant Cure and Plant Cure/Brooklyn featured Artists in Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, with grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council /Creative Engagement and the Brooklyn Arts Fund /Brooklyn Arts Council from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Rosenberg received an NEA for Dialogue, a six-venue project in New York and Paris. Additional grants include the Gottlieb Foundation, Artist Relief Fund, and Artists Fellowship. Public collections include MoMA; Brooklyn Museum; Fogg Museum; Yale University; Tate Gallery; Victoria and Albert
Museum; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Herzog August Bibliothek; and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Bibliography includes Hyperallergic; Art and Métiers; Haberarts; Art Review. She has a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from Bard College.
Carol Salmanson creates artworks with light, as well as a painter. She has had numerous solo, two-person, and group exhibitions in New York City, nationally, and internationally. Public art projects include Water Bubbles, a window installation in an abandoned landmark Constructivist White Tower in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as well as several in New York, New Jersey, and Brooklyn. She also curated The Language of Painting7 at Lesley Heller Workspace, and co-curated Tonal Shifts at Station Independent Projects. Salmanson serves as a Trustee for Independent Curators International, an organization uniquely focusing on the role of the curator in contemporary art. She received a B.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and attended the Arts Students League, the School of Visual Arts as a Public Art Resident, as a Fellow at both the National Academy of Fine Arts Abbey Mural Workshop and the National Arts Club. Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Salmanson lives and works in New York City.
Maximillien St-Jacques is a Canadian American who lives between NYC and Toronto, Ontario. Max’s work has been shown at Light Space & Time Art Online Gallery, Colors of Humanity Online Art Gallery, J.Mane Online Gallery, Usagi NY Project Gallery, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Glen Echo Photoworks and at the BRIC Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been featured in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Up North Literary Online Magazine, The Lunch Break Zine, Open Minds Quarterly, Wanderlust Journal and Stone Soup Magazine.
Pierre St-Jacques is a video artist who shares his time between Toronto and Brooklyn. His work takes the shape of single monitor films and multi-channel video installations. He also likes to keep a drawing journal from which scenes and ideas take shape. In the past he has travelled to shoot his projects: Beijing in 2009 for “Traveling between Spring and Fall” and Halifax in 2016 for “36 Steps on a Curved Road”, a feature film that premiered at Station Independent Projects in New York. He recently finished a six-channel video installation entitled “The Explorations of Dead Ends” and a long form cine-theatre piece shot in Toronto and New York entitled “The Lesser Road, AKA The Hot Dog Movie”. He has recently finished work on a five-channel video installation entitled “Whisp” Pierre has shown his work at Artist’s Space in New York, at Gallerie Joella in Finland, at the DiVA and Scope art fairs in New York, at the Directors Lounge in Berlin, the Bronx Museum of Art in New York, and Real Artways in Connecticut. Via Slideluck Potshow he has been able to exhibit his work internationally in such venues as the Wexner Center for Contemporary Art in Columbus Ohio, as well as other venues in London, Copenhagen, Milan, and many others.
Ross Stockwell is an emerging artist based in Toronto, Ontario. His work is eclectic (landscape/urban, figure, and portraiture), unified by illuminating oddities and the play of patterns and geometric forms. He notices beauty, whimsy, and intrigue in unlikely places, capturing still moments borne of a mindful presence. His emerging projects emphasize narrative to connect, consolidate, and express subjective experience. He explores states of being, felt-sense moods, and emotions in an inanimate context. He merges classical references with a contemporary inquiry to immerse with universal questions and concerns about life, decay, and what may fall between the two. Ross has shown in Toronto at Gallery 44, the Spectra/Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival and at ArtScape.
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