Vacant Lots- Toronto
Image Above (Cliff Side Slips by Chris Hardwicke)
An exhibition were artists are to find a vacant lot/space within the city and respond to it in some way.
Exhibition Date: June 10- 28
Opening Reception: Saturday June 10 at 8pm
Vacant Lots is a curated exhibition, which has invited artists to find a vacant lot/space within the city and respond to it in some way.
So often we walk through our cities experiencing large spaces of “wasteland”. Whether they are sites primed for building, lots that have laid empty for years, or abandoned buildings and other spaces, they all have an effect on our psyche as individuals and as communities. Vacant Lots is a response to these spaces from visual artists, architects and activists. Through on-site installations and performances, as well as, gallery based work, they explore both the conceptual and pragmatic responses to these lots.
The intention of Vacant Lots is to breathe life back into these forgotten spaces. There is a growing movement in the arts community for concern over our physical environments. For artists and the artistic community, the idea is to foster art in new settings and to give artists a working place that is non-traditional, a living urban environment, where they have the opportunity to work in a spectacular and public way.
For the average passer-by , the hope is to create an encounter with art that starts conversations, gives liberation from routine, provides a sense of history of a space, and fosters care for our urban environment.
The intent is to create a public space where people can engage in a positive, meaningful way with not only the space but with one another. -Heather Haynes, Curator & Director of Toronto Free Gallery
Artists:
Laurel Beckham, Michael Brown, Samantha Crowhurst & Leah Sandals, Janis Demkiw, Alison Rees-Cummings & Sherri Hay, Aisha Jamal & Andrea Winkler, Valerie Salez, Laura Paolini, Todd Irvine & Michael Pereira, Yam Lau & Tania Ursomarzo, Chris Hardwicke, Rita Camacho, Lucy Howe, Veronica Verkley, Denise Ing
Media:
spacing magazine:
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2006/07/26/vacant-lots-just-add-water/
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2006/06/07/vacant-lots-orphan-spaces/
An exhibition were artists are to find a vacant lot/space within the city and respond to it in some way.
Exhibition Date: June 10- 28
Opening Reception: Saturday June 10 at 8pm
Vacant Lots is a curated exhibition, which has invited artists to find a vacant lot/space within the city and respond to it in some way.
So often we walk through our cities experiencing large spaces of “wasteland”. Whether they are sites primed for building, lots that have laid empty for years, or abandoned buildings and other spaces, they all have an effect on our psyche as individuals and as communities. Vacant Lots is a response to these spaces from visual artists, architects and activists. Through on-site installations and performances, as well as, gallery based work, they explore both the conceptual and pragmatic responses to these lots.
The intention of Vacant Lots is to breathe life back into these forgotten spaces. There is a growing movement in the arts community for concern over our physical environments. For artists and the artistic community, the idea is to foster art in new settings and to give artists a working place that is non-traditional, a living urban environment, where they have the opportunity to work in a spectacular and public way.
For the average passer-by , the hope is to create an encounter with art that starts conversations, gives liberation from routine, provides a sense of history of a space, and fosters care for our urban environment.
The intent is to create a public space where people can engage in a positive, meaningful way with not only the space but with one another. -Heather Haynes, Curator & Director of Toronto Free Gallery
Artists:
Laurel Beckham, Michael Brown, Samantha Crowhurst & Leah Sandals, Janis Demkiw, Alison Rees-Cummings & Sherri Hay, Aisha Jamal & Andrea Winkler, Valerie Salez, Laura Paolini, Todd Irvine & Michael Pereira, Yam Lau & Tania Ursomarzo, Chris Hardwicke, Rita Camacho, Lucy Howe, Veronica Verkley, Denise Ing
Media:
spacing magazine:
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2006/07/26/vacant-lots-just-add-water/
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2006/06/07/vacant-lots-orphan-spaces/
