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SUMMARY:Lingering Service: A Panel Talk
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at YYZ for a public program of Anran Guo: At Your Convenience with speakers Carlo Cesta\, Lisa Neighbour and Anran Guo\, moderated by Wang Zi. \nThis panel takes the exhibition At Your Convenience as a point of departure to explore how artists engage with domestic objects through acts of holding\, altering\, and remembering. The conversation will consider how material gestures carry emotional and political weight\, negotiating the tension between care and abandonment. Panelists will reflect on technique as a form of meaning and on the complexities of working with objects that resist disappearance. Lingering Service asks how art can hold space for what lingers\, for what remains unresolved\, unrepaired\, and insistently present.
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/lingering-service-a-panel-talk/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Art Crawl: Jake Kimble
DESCRIPTION:The Art Crawl began unofficially in the early 2000s and has been a staple of the Festival since 2012. Every year\, imagineNATIVE collaborates with established and local artist-run galleries in downtown Toronto to present national and international exhibitions featuring Indigenous artists who push the boundaries and expectations of what Indigenous storytelling is. \nimagineNATIVE  is proud to partner with Vtape\, Onsite Gallery\, YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, Gallery 44\, Collision Gallery\, and Kent Monkman Studio for the 2025 Art Crawl. \nAt each gallery\, you will have the opportunity to hear from the exhibition curators and attending artists. The talks are timed\, and we keep a tight schedule\, but you are welcome to return to the galleries after the talks are complete. \nThursday\, June 5 | 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM\nFREE\, ticketed \nSchedule \n5:00 PM – 5:40 PM\nCollision Gallery\n30 Wellington St W\, Suite G114 \n6:00 PM – 6:20 PM\nOnsite Gallery\n199 Richmond St W \n6:45 PM – 7:05 PM\nGallery 44\n401 Richmond St W\, Suite 120 \n7:10 PM – 7:20 PM\nYYZ Artists’ Outlet\n401 Richmond St W\, Suite 140 \n7:30 PM – 7:50 PM\nBachir/Yerex Presentation Space\n401 Richmond St W\, Suite 452 \n8:00 PM – 10:00 PM\nClosing Reception:\nA Celebration with Miss Chief Eagle Testickle!\nRoyal Ontario Museum\n100 Queens Park
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/art-crawl-jake-kimble/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Tours
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Henrjeta Mece
DESCRIPTION:Art\, Research and Life Practices: Invited Panel & lunch \nPlease join us for our next CMCE Invited Speaker Series!\n\nAffective Detours: In-Between Art\, Research\, and Life Practices\n Location: OISE\, Room 12-252 (Hybrid: In-person & Zoom)\n\nLunch provided | Space is limited. RSVP now here\nYou can also join via Zoom. The link will be emailed to registrants. \nDiscussion topics include:\n\nThe myth of solitude in research and the intersections of life\, research\, and work\nChallenging rigid domains in artistic methodologies\nExploring the commonalities between artists\, social scientists\, and scientists\nHow “unprofessionalism” disrupts traditional research and artistic practices\n\n\n\nINVITED SPEAKERS\nLisa Steele – UT Professor Emeritus\, and pioneering artist in video\, photography\, and performance\, Steele has exhibited at the Venice Biennale\, MoMA\, and beyond. Dr. Steele co-founded Vtape\, a national distribution service for independent video\, and established the Graduate Program in Visual Studies at U of T.\n\nAna Barajas – Director of YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, Barajas has organized over 100 exhibitions. With expertise in sculpture\, installation\, and modern art history\, she is a leading voice in contemporary curating.\n\nHenrjeta Mece – Assistant Professor\, Teaching Stream in Social Justice Education at OISE\, U of T\, Mece integrates artistic and research practices. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Zweigstelle Berlin\, MOCA (TO)\, and ISCP.\n\n\nThe Centre for Media\, Culture & Education Invited Speaker Series brings together thought leaders and artists from various disciplines to share their work in media\, culture\, and education. Through a range of talks and presentations\, the series fosters meaningful dialogue on the role of media in shaping education\, cultural literacy\, and social justice.      For further questions\, contact:\nSara Rasikh\, CMCE GA –
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-henrjeta-mece/
LOCATION:OISE\, 252 Bloor St W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1V6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: James Rollo
DESCRIPTION:Please join James Rollo and Philip Leonard Ocampo in conversation in response to Rollo’s first Canadian solo exhibition “I let the intrusive thoughts win” at YYZ Artists’ Outlet. The accompanying essay\, “Intrusive Thoughts Galore” is written by Ocampo. Ranging anywhere between a skin-deep peek to an in-depth probe\, the talk will dive into Rollo’s themes of “queering”\, humour\, and object/space intervention.\n\n\nThe discussion begins at 7pm on April 1st (fittingly on April Fools Day—but please be rest assured this is actually happening. Or is it? I don’t know. I’m just a blurb).\n\n\nWe will see you then! (Or will we?!)
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-james-rollo/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Zinnia Naqvi
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the gallery on Mar. 22 at 7 PM to participate in conversation with Zinnia Naqvi and Zehra Nawab on the occasion of Zinnia’s exhibition the person you don’t see in this image is me\, the camera person. \nZehra Nawab is a multidisciplinary artist working in documentary-film\, journalism\, illustration and theatre. She is the writer and co-director of the documentary ‘Home Truths\,’ exhibited as part of the travelling ‘Making Heimet’ exhibit from the Venice Biennale. Zehra is the recipient of the Agahi Award\, Journalist of the Year 2016: Reporting on Culture\, for the Herald magazine cover-story ‘Seeking Paradise’. She has also co-directed the experimental documentary-film ‘Mad Mad Mad Film World’ which  screened at the Contemporary Art Gallery\, Vancouver. She is presently collaborating with Pat The Dog theatre on writing ‘The Vintage Project.’ As an illustrator she has most notably designed the cover for ‘Sita Under the Crescent Moon’ published by Simon & Schuster In. She has also illustrated for the Registry Theatre and for The New Quarterly. Zehra is the top 3 finalist in the Best Local Artist category of the Waterloo Record Readers’ Choice Awards. \n\nZinnia Naqvi (she/her) is a lens-based artist working in Tkaronto/Toronto\, Canada. Her work examines issues of colonialism\, cultural translation\, social class and citizenship through the use of photography\, video\, the written word\, and archival material. Recent projects have included archival and re-staged images\, experimental documentary films\, video installations\, graphic design\, and elaborate still-lives. Her artworks often invite the viewer to consider the position of the artist and the spectator\, as well as analyze the complex social dynamics that unfold in front of the camera. \nNaqvi’s work has been shown across Canada and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at Whippersnapper Gallery in Toronto\, C’cap in Winnipeg\, Dazibao and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal. She is a 2022 Fall Flaherty/Colgate Filmmaker in Residence and recipient of the 2019 New Generation Photography Award organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Naqvi is member of EMILIA-AMALIA Working Group\, an inter-generational feminist collective. Naqvi received a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. She is currently a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. \nPresented in partnership with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC).
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-zinnia-naqvi/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Arrivals and Departures: Artist Talk and Public Opening
DESCRIPTION:YYZ welcomes you to a public conversation with Heather Nicol\, Eve Egoyan and Sigrun Drapatz\, moderated by Jennifer Rudder on Friday April 28 at 5:15 PM. The exhibition reception will follow\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. \nExhibition is on view from Saturday April 1 to Saturday July 15\, 2023. \nImage credit: “Europlatz”\, Simone Haeckel\, 1989 – 2023.
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/arrivals-and-departures-artist-talk-and-public-opening/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221208T200000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Susan Rowe Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Join our artist talk via Zoom on Thursday December 8 at 7 pm. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84258858436?pwd=RDUxUHlwR2xmYjgrZHhkWWNyb3RDUT09 \nMeeting ID: 842 5885 8436\nPasscode: 516770 \nWeather Report on view until Saturday December 17 \nThe climate crisis is overwhelming—the problem is so huge that we struggle to understand its effects and outcomes on everyone in every place in the world. \nWith a nod to Oscar Wilde\, while thinking about the climate crisis\, deep ecology\, reflection\, and all I don’t know tangled up with all that I imagine\, a love of nature\, and a sprinkle of hope\, Weather Report is a pictorial cycle on the gallery walls that explores how humans are destroying the living world in a gothic landscape where plants that once flourished progressively fade or thrive depending on how you move through the room. It is neither a hopeful future nor a catastrophic one. Scale is challenged; with plant forms reaching 12 feet high\, we are tiny in this landscape. Mirrored mylar reflects the viewer but also implicates us in this ecosystem as it grows and falls apart\, and yet will our mark be visible in ten million years? The installation is Monet’s garden for a changing world (eco-system). The series of hand-cut vinyl pieces reflect the struggle for survival all over our planet today and the beauty and wonder in it. \n  \nSUSAN ROWE HARRISON utilizes painting\, drawing\, ceramics\, and large-scale site-based work to explore her fascination for natural environments and our relationship to them. Rowe Harrison studied painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, Chicago\, Illinois (1990-1991). She earned an MA\, Art\, Education\, and Community Practice from New York University\, New York\, NY (2003) and a BA\, History of Art from the University of California-Berkeley\, Berkeley\, California (1987). Rowe Harrison has been shown and collected internationally\, including LinkedIn NYC (Empire State Building)\, Hyatt Hotels\, Pfizer NYC\, Arts Etobicoke/Amnesty International\, Autoshare/Art on the Move\, Floorworks/Relative Space\, Bookhou\, The Gladstone Hotel\, Wave Hill\, the University of Chicago Committee on Japanese Studies\, The Newberry Library\, and FIFA World Cup/Seoul 2002. Rowe Harrison currently lives and works in New York. \nWe’d like to thank the Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-with-susan-rowe-harrison/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Aaron Jones and Chiedza Pasipanodya
DESCRIPTION:Join us over zoom Thursday July 21 at 6:00 pm for a conversation with Aaron Jones and Chiedza Pasipanodya on Jones’ current exhibition at YYZ “Between Sea and Sky.” \nExhibition closes Saturday July 30. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85399628542?pwd=aDgreW9IZDlVU1I1Zk5HV3lMQnM1dz09 \nMeeting ID: 853 9962 8542\nPasscode: 480798
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-with-aaron-jones-and-chiedza-pasipanodya/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Brynn Higgins-Stirrup in conversation with Alanna Thain
DESCRIPTION:YYZ Is pleased to present \nArtist Talk with Brynn Higgins-Stirrup in conversation with Alanna Thain\nAT 7:00 PM on Thursday July 7\, 2022 \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82554437107?pwd=0QoNPpu26x7Idk7xxUAc2AFC2d6GcE.1 \nMeeting ID: 825 5443 7107\nPasscode: 363805 \nBrynn Higgins-Stirrup is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist working in drawing and sculpture. Higgins-Stirrup was an Artist-in-Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus in Doha\, Qatar (2020) and returned a year later to present the solo exhibition Figure Drawn at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in Qatar along with a publication on her work of the same name. \nShe is a recent recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Concept to Realization Grant to support her exhibition at YYZ. She has presented exhibitions internationally and is the recipient of multiple major grants from the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, and the University of Michigan. She is currently exhibiting her work Hand in Handat Midwestern State University\, Wichita Falls\, USA. \nHiggins-Stirrup holds an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Michigan. She has completed residencies and research-creation grants internationally in Canada\, the United States\, India\, Switzerland\, and Japan. \n  \nAlanna Thain is professor of cultural studies\, world cinemas and feminist studies at McGill University. She directs the Moving Image Research Lab\, devoted to the study of bodies in moving image media. She writes about dance\, cinema\, performance\, time and embodiment and is the author of Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema (U. of Minnesota Press\, 2017). \n  \nImages Credit: Allan Kosmajac \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-with-brynn-higgins-stirrup-in-conversation-with-alanna-thain-at-700-pm-on-thursday-july-7-2022/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk With Eva Kolcze And Sarah Pupo\, Moderated By Justine Kohleal
DESCRIPTION:Join our Zoom Artists’ Talk\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85495762383?pwd=OG9Obis3WTFxYmRRaWo3NjRVbGZvQT09 \nMeeting ID: 854 9576 2383\nPasscode: 704936 \n  \nEva Kolcze is a Toronto-based artist who creates films and installations that investigate themes of landscape\, architecture\, and the body. Her work has screened at venues and festivals including the National Gallery of Canada\, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC)\, MOCA Toronto\, the Gardiner Museum\, Nuit Blanche\, Cinémathèque québécoise\, Birch Contemporary\, and the Images Festival. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University and a Master of Fine Arts from York University. \nSarah Pupo lives and works in Tiotia:ke/Montreal. Her practice bridges watercolour painting\, drawing\, provisional installation\, and lo-fi animation. Pupo’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, most recently at the Accademia di Romania (Rome\, Italy) and Trinity Square Video (Tkaronto / Toronto\, CA). In 2020 she was a resident artist at the British School in Rome. Other recent residencies include Atelier Circulaire (Tiotia:ke/Montreal\, CA) and the CALQ Québec Studio in Mumbai\, India. Her work has been supported through grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. \nJustine Kohleal is an independent curator and writer based in Toronto. She has curated solo exhibitions by national and international artists\, including Beth Stuart\, Thomas J Price\, Howie Tsui\, Sasha Huber\, and Omar Ba. Select past group exhibitions include [INTERFACE] (Fringe Gallery\, Edmonton); Intellectual Play (dc3 Art Projects\, Edmonton); and Sounding the Alarm: The Poetics of Connection (Art Gallery of Ontario). Kohleal holds a curatorial M.F.A from OCAD University and has written for publications including Esse arts + opinions\, Prefix Photo Magazine\, and PrairieSeen. \n  \n  \n  \n \nEva Kolcze CONTINENTAL DRIFT Image by Loading Doc Productions \n \nEva Kolcze CONTINENTAL DRIFT Image by Loading Doc Productions \n \nEva Kolcze CONTINENTAL DRIFT Image by Loading Doc Productions \n \nSarah Pupo ALL THINGS ALONG WITH US Image by Art Links \n \nSarah Pupo ALL THINGS ALONG WITH US Image by Art Links  \nSarah Pupo ALL THINGS ALONG WITH US Image by Art Links \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-with-eva-kolcze-and-sarah-pupo-moderated-by-justine-kohleal-at-700-pm-on-thursday-may-12-2022/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Jimmy Limit in conversation with Amish Morrell
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85194867662?pwd=UjkxdktGSUVUVTMrN1ljcWNqZG9Tdz09 \nMeeting ID: 851 9486 7662\nPasscode: 630462 \n  \n \nImage courtesy of the artist \n \nImage courtesy of the artist \n \nImage courtesy of the artist \n \nImage courtesy of the artist \n\nUneasy Objects: Recent Still Life Photography of Jimmy Limit \n by Amish Morrell \n  \nFor a long time\, one could easily find old photography field guides at used bookstores and yard sales. Widely published from the 1940s through the 1990s\, these included Kodak’s How to Take Good Pictures\, National Geographic’s Photographer’s Field Guide and myriad encyclopedic how-to series with single volumes dedicated to themes including landscapes\, portraits\, nudes\, fashion and still life photographs. Manuals and handbooks like these showed users what to photograph\, and how to take their photographs\, with instructions on framing\, composition\, lighting\, f-stops and film speeds. Amateur and professional photography was highly scripted\, and photographers sought to create perfect\, magazine-worthy images\, within the parameters of different subject genres. Along with 35 mm cameras and home darkroom equipment\, these books are artifacts of an earlier\, pre-digital period of photography\, where photography had its own genres\, conventions\, and relative autonomy from other artistic mediums. \n  \nProofOfConcept_final2FINALb.tif draws its material from this history\, anchored by three digital photographs that evoke tropes of both still life and commercial product photography. One image depicts a cross-section of an unhusked ear of corn against a red background\, stuck on the end of a spike that has been driven through a scrap of plywood so that it radiates a circle of undulating yellow kernels ringed in green. The corn is less than fresh\, and both the colors and composition are harsh and aggressive. Another image depicts a lightly grilled hot dog\, unadorned and standing improbably on its end\, against a chroma green background. A third image depicts a busy arrangement of round and oblong forms against a blue background\, with fruit\, eggs and pieces of cucumber carefully balanced on hand-thrown ceramic objects and plastic water bottles. While the composition is pleasing\, the fruit is scratched and bruised\, the ceramics are off-centre and misshapen\, and the plastic objects appear as if they have been hastily picked from the recycling bin. The lighting and composition of these images evoke commercial product photography and the still life\, and the objects they include suggest food photography\, but there is something at once funny and rude at play here. They appear to be rejects from the vegetable drawer\, the ceramics studio and the recycling bin. The food is clearly not delicious\, and the images are subtly antagonistic towards the refined genres of photography that they reference. \n  \nAs still lives\, these images further suggest an archeological method\, with the orderly presence of ceramic and plastic objects in the scene with the fruit and pieces of cucumber. They can be read as being arranged taxonomically\, as if they were a scientific record\, or as sculptural figures\, whose bodies are clay\, plastic\, vegetable matter. But their temporal scale is ambiguous: it is not clear whether these images are of the past or the future\, ceramic artifacts from an archeological dig\, plastics from a landfill\, scraps from the compost pile. This juxtaposition of organic and inorganic forms suggest time unfolding at different rates. And if these subjects suggest a destabilizing lack of finality\, so does the printing of the images and the title of the exhibition. The color control patches on the edge evoke test prints\, and the title\, with both “final2” and “finalb.tif\,” evokes the artifice of digital image and its infinite potential revisions. If one looks closely at the still-life with the vases and fruit\, there are also multiple shadows\, so it appears that this image was not made with a single exposure. Within it\, time multiplies\, exposing the myth that photography always and truthfully captures a singular\, linear instant\, instead becoming fragmented\, uncertain and contingent. \n  \nWhile the three photographs reference both commercial photography and digital image-making\, they are embedded within an installation practice that activates an expanded visual field. The exhibition incorporates shelving made from wood leftover when the artist converted his garage into a studio. In turn\, these shelves contain materials used to pack the prints and ceramic objects\, installed between the gallery support columns at the front of the gallery. The installation also incorporates a shelf at the back of the gallery\, displaying some of the ceramic objects that appear in the photographs\, as well as picture frames and sections of the wall painted in colors sampled from the images. The photographs thus expand from 2D representations into 3D space\, from digital representations to real objects\, from the print on the wall to the space of the installation\, and back again. By incorporating strategies from sculpture and installation art\, and referencing interior design\, the exhibition challenges the viewer’s perception of space and the image to consider their own corporeality and movement\, creating an expanded visual field where the viewer can inhabit the image in real space\, and once again imagine this space within the image. The separation between the image and the scene it depicts\, between photography and installation\, and between the studio and the gallery breaks down\, expanding and contracting into one another. \n  \nWith few rare exceptions\, photography is no longer its own discipline separate from other mediums of contemporary art. Nor is it the specialized domain of professionals or well-to-do amateurs who can afford high-quality 35mm cameras. It is in complex dialogue with sculpture\, installation\, and other commercial and popular visual practices. And anyone can take pictures with their iPhone that are as good as those taken by professionals and share carefully curated results on social media platforms. If the images shared on Instagram and Facebook are any indication\, the conventions of commercial product and food photography have been thoroughly assimilated into our everyday lives. As the spaces we inhabit and the objects we surround ourselves with begin to mirror the images we see online\, real space and visual images shape one another at an increasingly rapid rate. The objects in this exhibition play with these scripts\, but in a slightly different key. They are absurd and unnerving\, untidy\, sprawling out into the gallery space. By mining the vocabulary of still-life and commercial product photography\, and by engaging photography as installation\, they challenge the temporal certainty of the photograph\, and make archaeology out of photography itself. \n \nImage courtesy of the artist \nAmish Morrell is Assistant Professor at OCAD University\, where he teaches in the Cross-Disciplinary Arts\, Print and Publications\, and Criticism and Curatorial Practice Programs. From 2009 to 2017 he was Editor and Director of Public Programs at C Magazine. Most recently\, he edited Outdoor School: Contemporary Environmental Art\, published by Douglas & McIntyre (2021). His PhD thesis was on the restaging of historical photographs in contemporary art. \n  \nJimmy Limit is a photo-based artist working in installation\, ceramics and sculpture. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States including Albright Knox Art Gallery\, Buffalo\, Temnikova & Kasela\, Tallinn Estonia\, Rodman Hall St. Catharines\, Clint Roenisch Gallery\, Toronto and Printed Matter\, NYC. His work has been published in The New York Times\, Frieze Magazine and has been featured on the covers of C Magazine and cura. Recent public works have included Photos for a Project in Progress at the Bentway in Toronto and Photos for Vacant Storefronts\, for CAFKA16 in Kitchener\, ON. He was born in Toronto and currently lives and works in St. Catharines\, ON with his partner and three children.
URL:https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/event/artist-talk-with-jimmy-limit-in-conversation-with-amish-morell-at-700-pm-on-thursday-march-10-2022/
LOCATION:YYZ Artists’ Outlet\, #140-401 Richmond St. W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
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