Hosted by Georgia Scherman Projects

Gallery TPW is pleased to invite Collector Members to the unveiling of Silver Editions 2012, a limited edition portfolio of photographic works by three of Canada’s leading artists: Suzy Lake, Annie MacDonnell and Jessica Eaton.

Please join us on Sunday May 27, 2012 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Georgia Scherman Projects, 133 Tecumseth St., just south of Queen St. West. On display is a solo exhibition by Suzy Lake which includes her head and face portraits from the beginning of her career in the early seventies until the present.

This is an exclusive opportunity to acquire the portfolio before it becomes available to the public. Each set is produced in an edition of 23, with only 20 sets available for purchase at the introductory price of $1,250. Inquiries regarding advance purchases can be made to the gallery at 416-645-1066. For information about Collector memberships or for membership renewals, visit our website or email the gallery directly.

We would like to express our thanks to our three participating artists and acknowledge the support of their dealers. Silver Editions high quality custom prints are produced by Circuit Gallery, and frame provided by Superframe. We are also extremely grateful to our host, Georgia Scherman Projects, for her support.

Please RSVP to by Friday, May 18.

Curated by Julia Paoli

June 8 – July 21, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, June 8, 7-9

Gallery TPW is pleased to present Social Choreography, a group exhibition curated by Julia Paoli. Works by Francisco-Fernando Granados (Canada), Igor Grubić (Croatia) and Emily Roysdon (USA) point to the intersection of choreography and politicized spaces in contemporary art. The exhibition aims to call attention to the dual meaning embedded in the term movement: at once referencing movement as a political ideology and movement of the body through time and space. Taken from cultural critic Andrew Hewitt, the show’s title suggests that choreography is linked to organization and that movement can intricately demonstrate and interrupt the ways people relate and interact with one another.

With a series of live gestures Granados questions how we imagine movement in public and private spaces. Grubić’s two-channel video juxtaposes graphic documentation of the first Gay Pride parades in Belgrade and Zagreb with dancers later responding to the events in the same public spaces. Roysdon’s photographic and video installations pursue an ongoing interest in representations of movement and the potential for corporeal gestures to convey shifting concepts of community and site. Together, the works address both the potential and the problems of representation developing out of a specific place and community, and moving into the space of the gallery. Reflecting on the relationship between action and documentation, lived bodies and drawn lines, Social Choreography at once participates in and updates the interest in how choreography and politics intersect.

Julia Paoli is an independent curator and writer based in Toronto. Recent work includes an exhibition of work by Aleesa Cohene for Vtape; she is a Curatorial Intern at the Power Plant, a former Curatorial Intern at FAG (Feminist Art Gallery) and a member of the Pleasure Dome Programming Collective. Paoli received her MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Image Credit: Emily Roysdon with MPA, “Untitled” from Sense and Sense, detail, 2010.

Jin-me Yoon, Welcome Stranger/Welcome Home, 2004.

About The Artist

Website: http://jin-meyoon.ca/

Janieta Eyre, Opened My Dress, 2004

About The Artist

Website: www.janietaeyre.com

Ed Burtynsky, Shipyard #7, Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, 2005.

About The Artist

Website: www.edwardburtynsky.com/

Bill Burns, from the series How to Help Animals Escape from Natural History (The Llama Version), 1994-2005.

About The Artist

Website: http://billburnsprojects.com/

Stephen Andrews, Surfer, 2005.

About The Artist

Website: www.stephenandrewsartist.com/

April 13 – May 26, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday April 13, 6:00 to 8:00 pm

Images Festival and Gallery TPW are very pleased to co-present work by Mark Boulos. No Permanent Address is a three channel video portrait of the New People’s Army, a Maoist guerrilla group in the Philippines. Shot over several months while living amongst their members, the work speaks to the persistence of communist ideologies at a time in which Boulos suggests “capitalism has begun to lose its sense of inevitability.” Resisting the impulse found in most political documentary to focus on victims, Boulos looks at the members of the insurgent group as quotidian heroes as he records their daily activities and speaks with them about notions of love, sacrifice, revolution and ideology. Acknowledging the incongruities between a lived Marxism and the communist philosophies from which Boulos often draws inspiration, No Permanent Address is at once a generous, humanist portrait and a provocation about political violence and the transmission of ideas and culture across borders.

Mark Boulos is an American video-artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and London. He makes multi-screen documentary video installations, mostly about miracles and revolutions. He has filmed Marxist insurgents in the Philippines, oil guerillas in the Niger Delta, commodities traders in Chicago, Christian mystics in Syria, and Islamic jihadists in London and New York. MoMA will mount a solo exhibition of his work as part of their ʻProjectsʼ series in March 2012. He has had solo shows at the Miami Art Museum (2011), the Belkin Gallery in Vancouver (2010), Ar-Ge Kunst in Bolzano (2009), and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2008). No Permanent Address was commissioned by and premiered at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2010. It was presented in Smart Project Space in Amsterdam in 2011, as it was long-listed for the Dutch Prix de Rome.

Mark Boulos is presented in collaboration with the 25th Images Festival, April 12 – April 21. For more information visit www.imagesfestival.com

March 1 – March 31, 2012

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1, 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Gallery TPW is thrilled to present new work by Prairie-based media artist Linda Duvall. Duvall’s projects most often focus on how individual identities are formed and revealed within social contexts and constructs. Posited in contrast to more intimate and private narratives, she consistently addresses the formation of public knowledge through art and media representation. The Toss is a video and sound installation in which Duvall documents her process of learning to physically toss others. Born out of her personal experience during a police take down and an extensive material and sociological research process, The Toss puts Duvall in relation to diverse trainers — from Hollywood stunt experts to women’s self-defense instructors — from whom she learns to toss. She then enacts confrontations and tosses in various locations of perceived vulnerability. New to Duvall’s practice is the deconstruction of her own physical performance in the work while collaborating with camera operators who assert their own aesthetic vision in relation to filmic and narrative conventions.

Linda Duvall is a visual and media artist who works and presents within gallery contexts, on the web, and within defined public communities. She has degrees in Sociology and English (Carleton University) and Visual Arts (OCADU and University of Michigan) and is currently a Professional Affiliate at the University of Saskatchewan. She has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Art Gallery of Hamilton, Dunlop Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Guatemala City, Custom House Gallery Westport Ireland, Box Hotel Gallery Barcelona and Thunder Bay Art Gallery.