Unfortunately, not enough people registered to allow us to book the bus and the tour is now cancelled.

12:00 – 5:00 PM

Get on the bus for free guided tours of contemporary art exhibitions at four U of T galleries!

Beginning at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (7 Hart House Circle) at 12 noon, bus departs to the Doris McCarthy Gallery and Blackwood Gallery, returning to the Eric Arthur Gallery (230 College Street).

Seats are limited. To reserve, please contact the Doris McCarthy Gallery at 416.287.7007 or dmg@utsc.utoronto.ca by March 20. This event is free and everyone is welcome.

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House

Funkaesthetics

February 12 - March 23, 2009

Curated by Luis Jacob and Pan Wendt

Work by Pedro Bell, Leigh Bowery, Free Dance Lessons (Paige Gratland & Day Milman), Fergus Greer, David Gwinnutt, Nick Knight, Will Munro, Adrian Piper, P-Funk, Salvatore Salamone, Sun Ra, and Stephen Willats

Funk is best known as a style of dance-music that originated in the polyrhythmic innovations of James Brown during the 1960s, and culminated with George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic (P-Funk) during the 1970s.  Funk is both a style of music and a form of social experience.  Emerging from the African-American musical traditions of gospel, rhythm-and-blues, rock 'n' roll, and jazz, it manifests a utopian dimension in its emphasis on spiritual togetherness, collective pleasure, and shameless bodily expression.

Funkaesthetics is premised on the idea that Funk constitutes a uniquely rich system of thought. The exhibition is an occasion to consider Funk in the context of its birth at the time of Black consciousness and the struggles for civil rights in the United States. Funkaesthetics is also presented as a uniquely fertile and thought-provoking opportunity for us to reconsider Funk – here and today – in its sinister aspects as well as in its more familiar utopian aspects.

Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough

meeting point

March 17 to April 26, 2009

Curated by Earl Miller

Work by Laura Belém, Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, General Idea, Anitra Hamilton, Mike Hansen, Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg, Cinthia Marcelle and Marilá Dardot, Cinthia Marcelle and Tago Mata Machado, and Rivane Neuenschwander

Meeting Point features internationally recognized contemporary artists whose works construct or metaphorically imply a range of social relationships between two people - intimacy, disagreement, love, friendship, and competition, to name a few. This art encourages direct social interrelation, subjective experiences and ensuing narratives that are sometimes personal and always point to real life.

From Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s Fucked Up Lover (2001), in which conversations about compilation tapes are remarkably revealing of couples’ relationships, to Laura Belém’s Diplomatic Talks (2009), where paired heads of coins from different countries set up an imagined dialogue that may either be diplomatic or intimate, the works in Meeting Point represent a reconstructive, hopeful experimentation by artists frustrated by art of all kinds remaining discrete from social contexts.

Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga

Dialectic – 2nd Group of the Art and Art History Graduate Exhibitions

March 18 to March 29, 2009

Work by Roberto Alcazar, Leah Chariandy, Claire Danvy, Matt Hoffman, Shell Johnson, Drew Lesiuczok, Ryan Lord, Ellisha Macoretta, Raneem Meknas, Jessica Mercer, Laura Moreau, Andrew Nguyen, Charlotte Rodon, Ashley Regimbal Kung, Nina Shewchuk, Steve Shupak, Conrad Tang, Nikole Villeda, and Ariane Wieck

The Didactic/Dialectic exhibition marks the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Art and Art History Program. In 1971, Sheridan joined with the University of Toronto's Erindale College to establish what became Canada's first collaborative fine art program between a college and a university.

A show in two parts, the Art and Art History graduating class presents a subtle investigation into pedagogy and art at the end of the 21st Century’s first decade. Due to the A&AH program’s distinct curriculum of both theoretical and practical, academic and studio-based learning, the work showcased is a diverse exploration of interplaying mediums such as video, painting, performance, photography, print, design and sculpture. Unique and critical, Didactic/Dialectic offers a glimpse at art borne of the information generation.

Eric Arthur Gallery

Wes Jones: Works from El Segundo

January 22 to April 18, 2009

The Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design

Works from El Segundo surveys designs by the acclaimed practice of Jones, Partners: Architecture. Projects selected from the last decade explore future possibilities for single and multi-unit housing at a variety of scales. Included are models, drawings, renderings, and spreads from the latest J,P:A monograph published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Jones, Partners: Architecture is a California-based architectural practice dedicated to the rapprochement of the human and the machine. J,P:A designs technologically engaging environments that emphasize the continuing importance of the meat reality underlying the digital fantasy.

IMAGE CREDIT (clockwise from top left):

Laura Belém, detail, Diplomatic Talks, 2009.; jones, partners: architecture; Paige Gratland & Day Milman, Free Dance Lessons, 2004. Video still by Samara Liu. Courtesy of the artists.

Blackwood.

Blackwood Gallery

University of Toronto Mississauga

3359 Mississauga Rd. N., Mississauga

905.828.3789

www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Doris McCarthy Gallery

University of Toronto Scarborough

1265 Military Trail, Toronto

416.287.7007

www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dmg

Eric Arthur Gallery

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

University of Toronto

230 College Street

416.978.5038

danielsdev.site/news_events/eric_arthur

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House

University of Toronto

7 Hart House Circle

416.978.8398

www.jmbgallery.ca