Exhibitions
Close Readings
Close Readings
January 14 - February 25, 2017
January 14 - February 25, 2017
Close Readings brings together practices that are by turns invested in uncovering the frailty of language, prodding at cultural anxieties and individual pleasures, excavating and refusing legacies, asking for tenderness, applying pressure, attending to the complications and vulnerabilities of being together while we are implicated—politically, socially, personally—by artworks and their demands on us.
Sharon Lockhart
Rudzienko
September 8 – October 29, 2016
September 8 – October 29, 2016
The Toronto International Film Festival and Gallery TPW are pleased to co-present Rudzienko, a new film installation by American artist Sharon Lockhart. Through her precise films and photographic works, Lockhart explores the relationship between still and moving images and the productive space between the choreographed and natural gesture.
Working Conditions
Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Kajsa Dahlberg, Duane Linklater → John Hampton, Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Joshua Schwebel. Curated by Sam Cotter.
June 23 - August 6, 2016
Acknowledging that the studio exists at the intersection of many ecologies, the artists in Working Conditions place themselves in relation to factors beyond their place of production, looking at the power dynamics, blind spots and measures of success contained in the economies and ecosystems surrounding them.
June 23 - August 6, 2016
Acknowledging that the studio exists at the intersection of many ecologies, the artists in Working Conditions place themselves in relation to factors beyond their place of production, looking at the power dynamics, blind spots and measures of success contained in the economies and ecosystems surrounding them.
Oliver Husain
Isla Santa Maria 3D
April 14 - June 4, 2016
The films of Oliver Husain are known for their play with cinematic languages and visual codes. From the theatrical to dance to puppetry and animation, with unique costume and set sensibilities, Husain employs his seductive tactics in ways that both absorb us and shock us into an awareness of our role as spectators within the filmic apparatus.
April 14 - June 4, 2016
The films of Oliver Husain are known for their play with cinematic languages and visual codes. From the theatrical to dance to puppetry and animation, with unique costume and set sensibilities, Husain employs his seductive tactics in ways that both absorb us and shock us into an awareness of our role as spectators within the filmic apparatus.
Alison S.M. Kobayashi
Say Something Bunny!
February 13 – March 26, 2016
Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an identity contortionist. In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of characters that are both studiously and playfully rendered. These personas are inspired by Kobayashi’s extensive collection of lost, discarded and donated objects; ranging from answering machine tapes purchased at a secondhand shop to a love letter left on a sidewalk.
February 13 – March 26, 2016
Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an identity contortionist. In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of characters that are both studiously and playfully rendered. These personas are inspired by Kobayashi’s extensive collection of lost, discarded and donated objects; ranging from answering machine tapes purchased at a secondhand shop to a love letter left on a sidewalk.
All My Holes Are Theirs & Eric Cazdyn’s Blindspot Machine
Residency with Eric Cazdyn, Aleesa Cohene, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot
Throughout the month of January, writer and filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, artist Aleesa Cohene, and dancers/choreographers Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot will work together in residence at Gallery TPW. Each brings a specific aspect of their practice to the collaboration. Aleesa Cohene, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot bring their 2013 trio all my holes are theirs to the table, an attempt by two performers to disappear through radical devotion to a third.
Throughout the month of January, writer and filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, artist Aleesa Cohene, and dancers/choreographers Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot will work together in residence at Gallery TPW. Each brings a specific aspect of their practice to the collaboration. Aleesa Cohene, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot bring their 2013 trio all my holes are theirs to the table, an attempt by two performers to disappear through radical devotion to a third.
Antonia Hirsch
Negative Space
October 17- November 14, 2015
Berlin-based Canadian artist Antonia Hirsch brings her multi-disciplinary project Negative Space to Gallery TPW. The exhibition investigates the interrelation of inner and outer worlds by mobilizing images and objects whose origin ranges from astronomy and contemporary mobile devices to black mirrors of the 18th and 19th century landscape painters.
October 17- November 14, 2015
Berlin-based Canadian artist Antonia Hirsch brings her multi-disciplinary project Negative Space to Gallery TPW. The exhibition investigates the interrelation of inner and outer worlds by mobilizing images and objects whose origin ranges from astronomy and contemporary mobile devices to black mirrors of the 18th and 19th century landscape painters.
David Levine
Bystanders
September 10 - October 10, 2015
American artist David Levine bridges the worlds of contemporary theatre, performance and visual art with works that explore the conditions of spectacle, spectatorship, and performance in art and in life.
September 10 - October 10, 2015
American artist David Levine bridges the worlds of contemporary theatre, performance and visual art with works that explore the conditions of spectacle, spectatorship, and performance in art and in life.
Rana Hamadeh
Can You Pull In An Actor With A Fishhook Or Tie Down His Tongue With A Rope?
June 3 - July 25, 2015
Hamadeh presents a new iteration of her long-standing research project Alien Encounters. Under this umbrella Hamadeh considers notions of alien-ness – as that which is outcast with regards to the law as well as that which is extraterrestrial.
June 3 - July 25, 2015
Hamadeh presents a new iteration of her long-standing research project Alien Encounters. Under this umbrella Hamadeh considers notions of alien-ness – as that which is outcast with regards to the law as well as that which is extraterrestrial.
Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan
Episode of the Sea
May 2 – 23, 2015
The film Episode of the Sea is the outcome of a two-year collaboration with the fishing community of Urk, a former island in the Netherlands.
May 2 – 23, 2015
The film Episode of the Sea is the outcome of a two-year collaboration with the fishing community of Urk, a former island in the Netherlands.
