News at Diaz Contemporary

 

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to announce that Brendan Fernandes (Ontario) is on the short list for the 2010 Sobey Art Award.

Joel Herman and Kelly Mark are included in A to B, a group show at MKG127 organized by Micah Lexier.  The show runs from 3 to 31 July.

James Carl and Christian Giroux and Daniel Young will be included in a multi-gallery show called Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents from 24 September 2010 to 16 January 2011.  This international contemporary art exhibition—the product of a unique curatorial collaboration between twelve of Western New York’s museums and galleries—will showcase the work of over 100 extraordinary artists from the region and beyond. Carl’s work will be shown at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and CGDY will be shown at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.

Elizabeth McIntosh has an upcoming solo show of new work at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, curated by Jenifer Papararo.  The show will run from 18 November to 9 January.

BGL is participating in a group show at The Model, a contemporary art centre in Sligo, Ireland, called Dorm.  The show brings together twenty-two international artist collectives who will transform the building into an unprecedented, all-encompassing art project. With a nod to the political events of May 1968, histories of art collectivism, and as a parody of an art fair, the building will be filled with exhibitions, concerts, screenings and performances all aimed at the social imagination. The show runs from 2 May to 4 July 2010.

Georgina Bringas is also included in Landscape After The Earthquake, a group exhibition held at Galeria Luis Adelantado in Mexico as of May 8th.  This exhibition explores the vulnerability of the modern city after facing catastrophe.

Brendan Fernandes’ solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton until we fearless is now on view until 3 October 2010.  The exhibition pushes viewers to reconsider perceptions and inhibitions about the cultural identities associated with African and the African Diaspora.  

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 titled “lol: Kelly Mark & Thierry Delva” runs from July 17 to Sept 18, 2010. Kelly's next solo exhibition at Platform Gallery in Seattle entitled "Kelly Mark !@#$%" opens this fall (October 14 - November 27, 2010) and also has an upcoming solo show at Silver Flag Projects (Montreal) which opens October 2nd.

Kelly Mark is also featured in the show Human Rites at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, Florida, 25 June to 3 Oct 2010.  The show examines the role of ritual in the practice of contemporary artists and is curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Bass Museum of Art Executive Director and Chief Curator, and Steve Holmes, Curator of the Cartin Collection, Hartford, Connecticut and Adjunct Curator, Bass Museum of Art.

Paulette Phillipsis featured in Yesterday’s Tomorrow at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal.  This exhibition explores how ten Canadian and international contemporary artists revisit Modernist architecture and design. Also included in the show: Nairy Baghramian, Arni Haraldsson, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Dorit Margreiter, John Massey, Toby Paterson, Tobias Putrih, Simon Starling and David Thomas. 

 

Last updated: July 21, 2010