This is it, folks: September. Along with muggy rainstorms comes the desire to turn over a new leaf, start new projects, and get serious. I often see September as a mini-new year, and so resolutions abound. How about “try to see more art, and get to more exhibition openings”? Sounds good, eh? Here are some shows that seem worth checking out this month.
Animal Logic
Artists: Richard Barnes
Runs: September 10 -September 24, 2011 | Opening reception Saturday, September 10,2-4pm
Location: Bau-Xi Photo, 324 Dundas St W, Toronto
Description: “Photographer Richard Barnes has spent more than ten years documenting the way we assemble, contain, and catalog the natural world. Barnes’s behind-the-scenes photographs are haunting reminders that there is nothing natural about a natural history museum.”
The inexhaustible image…epuiser l’image
Artist: Angela Grauerholz
Runs: September 6 – November26, 2011
Location: University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto
Description: “This exhibition highlights Angela Grauerholz’s photographic career over the past twenty-five years. Curator, Martha Hanna particularly focuses on the way in which Grauerholz broadens our consideration of the medium of photography and explores photography in relation to time and memory, its relationship to archives and collections, to representation and to the collective imagination.”
The New Archeology / The New Ethnography
Artist: Rajni Perera
Runs: September 7 – September 30, 2011
Location: Gallery 129,129 Ossington Ave.Toronto
Description: “With expert use of imagery and colour emerging Toronto artist Rajni Perera interrogates and juxtaposes two methods of taxonomic culture-making to reflect female identity, sexuality and power while critiquing aspects of pop-culture, history and religion. The resulting images are powerful, playful, beautiful and sure to seduce the viewer.”
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Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today
Runs: August 20, 2011 –April 29, 2012
Location: ArtGallery ofOntario,317 Dundas Street West,Toronto
Description: “Songs of Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today includes more than 100 photographs – by such figures as William Notman, Alexander Henderson, Richard Maynard, J.C.M. Hayward, John Vanderpant, E. Haanel Cassidy, George Hunter, Bill Vazan, Ralph Greenhill, Geoffrey James, Edward Burtynsky, Peter MacCallum, Steven Evans, Jesse Boles, and Isabelle Hayeur – most drawn from the AGO’s permanent collection, and many of which have never been shown.”
Distant Secrets
Artist: Alex McLeod
Runs August 25 – September 24, 2011
Location: Angell Gallery,12 Ossington Avenue,Toronto
Description: New fantastical landscape work by digital artist Alex McLeod
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