May, 2012
Yorkville Business ♥ Art
 This month I was fortunate enough to visit with Lois Macaulay of Lois Macaulay Design as she prepares her new location at 112 Scollard for its official opening in about a month’s time. With the slight figure of a dancer, the soul of an artist, and her showroom walls covered in large canvases, it wasn’t a surprise to discover that Lois has extensive arts training that she incorporates into her design work. Lois began her training in design at the Chamberlain School in Boston, and then spent seven years studying painting, sculpture, music, and movement, splitting her time between New York and Nurnberg.
Lois is one of the few interior designers who will actually specify artwork for her clients, and these days she is doing a lot more than simply selecting the pieces: she is also “re-interfering” with them. Re-interference is a concept she has taken from acclaimed filmmaker Peter Greenaway. By developing relationships with several agencies around the world, Lois is able to acquire the licenses to reproduce a finite number of copies of certain antique pieces of art (her showroom features pieces by Dufy, Magritte, and Laurenoir, for example), and then re-interfere with them by editing and recolouring them in Photoshop, then resizing and overpainting them as she follows the original brushstrokes of the artist. Through this process, clients are given an original piece of art based on the work of a master that has new colour and size to fit the needs of their home. Gary Michael Dault, the long standing art critic for the Globe (now retired) and an artist himself, agrees that Lois’s re-interfered artworks are "art," as each one is totally unique.
A painting originally by Dufy, re-interfered by Lois Macaulay. Photo courtesy of Lois Macaulay.
I’d like to extend my thanks to Lois for inviting me into her storefront and showing me how her Yorkville business is incorporating art in a totally unique and inspired way, to help give her clients exactly what they’ve been looking for.
Yorkville Business ♥ Art profiles a different Yorkville business each month that incorporates art into its storefront, restaurant, or overall business practice.
And now for this month's exhibitions …
| Gallery |
Exhibition Title |
Date |
Artist |
Reception |
Gallery Hittite
107 Scollard St., 2nd floor
416-924-4450 |
"Sara’s Paintings 2011-2012" |
April 27 – May 9, 2012 |
Sara Caglar |
Fri. April 27th, 7-9PM |
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Ave
416-922-3618 |
"New Directions" |
May 12 – 30th, 2012 |
Brenda Bisiker and Peggy Dean |
Sat. May 12th 1-4PM,
Sat. May 24th, 5-8PM |
Ingram Gallery
49 Avenue Road
416.929.2220 |
"Le Salon des Refusés" |
May 5 – 23, 2012 |
Louis de Niverville |
Sat. May 5, 2-4PM |
Japan Foundation
131 Bloor Street West
Suite 213
(416) 966-1600 |
"Tamasaburo Bando" Poster Exhibition |
February 1 - June 22, 2012 |
Various artists |
None |
Kinsman Robinson Galleries
108 Cumberland Street
416-964-2374 |
"Shaped Paintings, Dangerous Ideas" |
May 5 - 31, 2012 |
Tom Forrestall |
None |
Leonardo Galleries
133 Avenue Road
416-580-2148 |
5 Photographers |
May 10 - 26, 2012 |
Peter Adamson, Bret Culp, Peter Kraiker, John Long, and Mira Zdjelar |
Thur. May 10, 6-8pm |
Liss Gallery
140 Yorkville Avenue
416-787-9872 |
Art Walk
Canadian exhibition of artworks by
Jaline Pol
"Celebrating Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary" |
NA |
Jonathan ball and Sim Posen
Jaline Pol
Bob Gruen and Ronnie Wood |
Thur. May 3rd
(see Yorkville Art Walk)
Thur. May 17th, 6-9PM
TBA |
Maslak McLeod
192 Davenport Rd.
416-944-2577 |
Group exhibition |
May 1 – 31st, 2012 |
Various artists |
None |
Mayberry Fine Art
110 Yorkville Ave
(416) 923-9275 |
Peter McConville, solo exhibition
of recent paintings |
May 26 – June 9th, 2012 |
Peter McConville |
None |
Navillus Gallery
110 Davenport Road
416.921.6467 |
"Magic Hour" |
May 1-31, 2012 |
Various artists |
None |
Odon Wagner Gallery
196 and 198 Davenport Road |
"Don Resnick (1928-2008)" |
May 3 – 30th, 2012 |
Don Resnick |
Thur. May 3rd, 6-9pm |
Upcoming Exhibitions
Details
For complete contact information on each gallery, please see the Gallery Website Links below
Ingram Gallery
The Canadian King of Collage looks to the remnant papers of past collage works to both inspire and create the new works of Le Salon des Refusés. Using paint, paper, scissors and glue -- de Niverville paints his textured and patterned papers, while building his imagery up in layers.
Japan Foundation
Kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando V is one of the cultural icons of Japan and an international theatrical phenomenon. While the social modernization after World War II threatened the tradition of Onnagata, male actors who specialize in female roles, Tamasaburo revolutionized and revitalized the meaning of the Onnagata's existence.
Tamasaburo is by far the most published actor in Japan. His collaboration with such notable photographers as Naotake Fukuda, Kishin Shinoyama, and Shunji Okura has resulted in more than 20 coffee table photo books (the most recent published in January 2012). Long-term partnering graphic designer Norio Ishiguro has expanded these photographs further into exquisite large-scale posters. This exhibition includes such published objects as posters, photo books, theatrical flyers and house programs on Tamasaburo.
Kinsman Robinson Galleries
A short preview of 'Fire in the Valley', by Courtney Kelsey and Zachary Barkhouse both Halifax-based artists and graduates of NSCAD University, will be shown in conjunction with the exhibition. The film will provide gallery goers with a unique perspective on Tom Forrestall's work, allowing them to see the development of paintings featured in the show, as well as the ideas and themes that are central to Forrestall's practice.
Leonardo Galleries
Five accomplished and award winning Canadian artists – Peter Adamson, Bret Culp, Peter Kraiker, John Long and Mira Zdjelar – specialize in the art of photography and showcase very different and unique styles.
Liss Gallery
See the gallery web site.
Maslak McLeod
The gallery will be featuring Norval Morrisseau, Christian Morrisseau, Clifford Maracle, John Laford, and Floyd Kuptana.
Mayberry Fine Art at consignor.ca
View images at http://www.mayberryfineart.com /artist/peter_mcconville.
Navillus Gallery
This exhibition features the following artists:
JAMES HILL
The American illustrator, Norman Rockwell, told his protégée, James Hill, that the young illustrator captured his generation just as Rockwell had done himself in the 1930s and 40s.
PETER FISCHER
Fischer captures the landscape in stunning photoreal style. Inspired by the beauty of places undisturbed by a human presence, Fischer delights in patterns found in the natural world. Exhibited across Eastern Canada, Fischer’s work is held in private collections across the country.
PHILIP SYBAL
Sybal’s paintings capture the tranquility of the landscape. Thoroughly modern in style, the artist deploys bold strokes of color to render the grandeur and softness of the wilderness. An important artist for decades, Sybal’s paintings reside in numerous corporate and private collections.
MYLES MACDONALD
Rendered in stunning detail, also monumental in scale and effect, MacDonald captures the vastness of the Prairie landscape. Fascinated by a farmer’s humble struggle to groom nature, MacDonald’s
painting conjures up a great reverence for the Earth.
Odon Wagner Gallery
This exhibition features more than thirty oil paintings and watercolours by American Post-impressionist artist Don Resnick.
"Unlike so many of the notable American landscape painters … whose work is associated with specificity of place, Resnick seems more involved with painting itself and less with its potential descriptive qualities. Although the work is certainly far from that of his more fashionable Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, he shares with them, and with so many other modernist artists, the ethos that paint and painting have their own intrinsic merits, independent of their descriptive potential."
- Excerpted from Don Resnick: Lessons in Seeing an introductory essay by Tom L. Freudenheim.
Gallery Website Links
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