This exhibition is one of NOW magazine's "must see" shows this week.

Back-lit Duratrans and Digital Video Installation, 2009
Wednesday, February 25 to Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Convenience Gallery | 24/7 window gallery
58 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto ON M6K 2V9
(at Seaforth Avenue, one block North of Queen) 

West Lodge, a residential complex located at 103 and 105 West Lodge Avenue, Toronto, Canada, is both a prominent landmark and a mysterious unknown. Despite being visible from a great distance and from all directions, for outside observers its many stories remain locked inside. Jesse's and Gene's photo and video explorations, conceived of in isolation but exhibiting striking compositional and conceptual parallels, expose West Lodge as an object of attraction, and yet they still do not penetrate its walls. This installation, which places their work within visual proximity of their locale of inspiration, begins a dialogue between the buildings' dual role as objects of abstract contemplation and spaces of concrete occupation.
 
Gene and Jesse are Toronto artists negotiating their ambivalent relationships with architecture. Gene lives in the shadow of West Lodge, while Jesse circles around it.

Convenience Gallery is a window gallery that provides an opening for art that engages, experiments, and takes risks with the architectural, urban, and civic realm.

The support of the Toronto Society of Architects and is gratefully acknowledged.