News at Diaz Contemporary

 

James Carl is featured in the group exhibition Nothing to Declare: Recent Sculpture from Canada at The Power Plant, from 10 December 2009 to 7 March 2010.

Brendan Fernandes is featured in the AGYU Vitrines. Relay League can be seen from 21 January until 6 June 2010. A text by Kenneth Montague supplements the exhibition.

And, MAI (Montréal, Arts Interculturels) presents Haraka Haraka, a solo-show by Brendan Fernandes. The exhibition opened on 4 February and runs until 6 March 2010.

Christian Giroux & Daniel Young are included in Fenonem Ikea – a show with 250 exhibits, including IKEA products spanning six decades, design classics by Thonet, Panton, Henningsen and others, 25 art works of international artists and designers about IKEA and the famous Frankfurt kitchen from 1926.

Giroux & Young will be exhibiting works from their Boole series (exhibited at Diaz Contemporary, June 2008). The exhibition at The Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany is on from 6 November to 28 February 2010.

Currently showing at Mercer Union, Christian Giroux & Daniel Young present 50 Light Fixtures From Home Depot. This exhibition shows the different ways a white-cube room can look when illuminated by the titular objects. The exhibition runs from 22 January to 27 February 2010.

Kelly Mark’s traveling survey show, curated by Barbara Fischer, entitled “Stupid Heaven” opened at the Kenderdine Gallery: College Galleries in Saskatoon in January and runs until March 19, 2010.

Kelly Mark has been included in “You Turn Me On And On And On” at Embassy Gallery: Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh UK) this group exhibition runs from February 26 to March 14, 2010.

Kelly Mark will be exhibiting her 2-channel video sculpture The Kiss, 2007 in a group show at the AGO curated by David Moos entitled “Sculpture As Time” from March 3 to August 1, 2010.

Kelly Mark has also been included in the group show “Still Life” which opens at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver in June. Curated by Jenifer Papararo this show runs from June 3 to August 22, 2010. She will also be taking part in a two-person show with Halifax artist Thierry Delva at the Niagara Artist Centre this upcoming July. The exhibition, tentatively titled “Minimalism Gone Wry” runs from July 17 to Sept 18, 2010. Kelly's next solo exhibition at Platform Gallery in Seattle opens this fall (October 14 - November 27, 2010).

Paulette Phillips’ recent installation, first shown at Diaz in 2008, History appears twice, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce, is currently showing as a solo exhibition at the National School of Art and Design Gallery in Dublin from 28 January to 6 March 2010. The installation will then show at the Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art in London, opening 19 March, running until 25 April 2010.

Paulette Phillips is also featured in group exhibitions, CUE: Artists' Videos at the Vancouver Art Gallery, running until 21 March 2010; Inbetween showing at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in PEI which runs until 16 May 2010; and Drowning Ophelia, on view until 4 April 2010 at the Gallery Stratford.

Currently presented at Mitterand+Sanz Contemporary Art is Ricardo Rendón’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, Making Evidence. The exhibition features a series of work composed by interventions in the gallery space with various materials. Making Evidence is on view until 13 March 2010.

Toronto Cultural Services’ Public Art Office launched Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak’s Watertable, the first new media artwork in the City of Toronto’s permanent Public Art Collection. Watertable is now open under the Gardiner Expressway; it echoes the natural condition of the site when it marked the water’s edge in the early days of the city’s history.

Last updated: February 12, 2010