Gallery 1313 Celebrates 20 Years
Main Gallery: A Members Exhibition
January 18 – 29, 2017
Reception: January 19, at 8:00 pm with live performance.
A Group Exhibition with over 20 artists celebrating 20 years as an artist run centre.
In twenty years, Gallery 1313 has held over 1400 exhibitions with over 8000 artists, over 70 exhibits a year in four spaces with exhibitions turning around every 2 weeks. The Gallery is set up as an artist run centre, a not for profit organization with charitable status. Unlike many artist run centres, it receive no core funding from the three levels of government.
Our first exhibition was FIRST OFFENSE in Jan. 1998. That exhibition had over 40 artists from across the city. For this 20th Anniversary we will have a performance artist as well as the works of over 20 of our members.
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The members origin was from the art collective known as the Parkdale Village Arts Collective, started in 1994 with the help of the local Parkdale Village BIA. In 1997 the art collective acquired the rental space to become Gallery 1313 in the Artscape leased city building at 1313 Queen Street West.
A former police station, the building was home to Division 6, City of Toronto Police from 1931 – 1962. The art deco building was constructed as a police station and the gallery was the site of 12 holding cells for prisoners. Members of the Collective helped turn the space into an art gallery.
The gallery has helped in its small way of launching the art careers of a few. It has helped the Parkdale neighbourhood transform and had some small impact on the Toronto arts community.
This year we celebrate 20 years and look forward to the next twenty years.
This is exhibit will have work from Eva Lewarne, Paul Brandejs, Sarah Carlson, Brian Deignan, Jane Theodre, Judith Donoahue, Joanna Strong, Paul Kilbertus, Ruth Hartman, Ella Day, Jerome McNicholl, Mikael Sandblom, Phil Hare, Pat Rice, Kalynn Sinnamon, Mahshid Fathi Roodsari, Gilles Morin, Imre Hajagos, PhilAnderson, John Ferri and others.
Performance Jan. 19th
Thin(k) Blank Human: Metamorphosis is a performance piece by artist Lisa Anita Wegner (haus of dada) and musician Ray Cammaert (Pink Moth). It began as an extension of Wegner’s Trauma Therapy and represents a safe place in the search for one’s self after complete annihilation. It is both a confirmation of vitality and a call to action. The piece explores male and female layers of the neutral self and uses vibration of sound to assist in the expression of terror, hysteria, madness, resilience and joy on the journey to re-birth.