Gallery Lambton "Look" Exhibition
Check out Matak's Museum Patron, "Looking Away & Seeing Too Much" at Gallery Lambton.
The opening reception will be held on First Friday, March 5, 2010 starting at 6:00 p.m., award presentation will be held April 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. LOOK 2010 will close on Sunday, May 2 at 4:00p.m.
Gallery Lambton
150 N. Christina Street
Sarnia, ON
Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Thursdays 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays
First Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
First Sundays 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The opening reception will be held on First Friday, March 5, 2010 starting at 6:00 p.m., award presentation will be held April 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. LOOK 2010 will close on Sunday, May 2 at 4:00p.m.
Gallery Lambton
150 N. Christina Street
Sarnia, ON
Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Thursdays 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays
First Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
First Sundays 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Beverly Owens Project, Toronto
March 31-April 18, 2010
New sculptures & works on canvas.
1140 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario. (Just steps from the Drake Hotel).
www.thebeverlyowensproject.com
647.402.3570
New sculptures & works on canvas.
1140 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario. (Just steps from the Drake Hotel).
www.thebeverlyowensproject.com
647.402.3570
Thames Art Gallery’s 2009 Juried Exhibition
20 artists from all over the province were invited to participate in the Thames Art Gallery’s 2009 Juried Exhibition, and twenty-seven works will be on display during the exhibition.
Matak's latest works from the "Museum Patrons" Series will be on display as well as work on canvas, "The Critic".
The Thames Art Gallery 2009 Juried Exhibition will be on display in both the Ground Floor and the Mezzanine Galleries from December 4, 2009 until January 10, 2010. The Thames Art Gallery is located at 75 William Street N, Chatham, ON.
Matak's latest works from the "Museum Patrons" Series will be on display as well as work on canvas, "The Critic".
The Thames Art Gallery 2009 Juried Exhibition will be on display in both the Ground Floor and the Mezzanine Galleries from December 4, 2009 until January 10, 2010. The Thames Art Gallery is located at 75 William Street N, Chatham, ON.
Signs of Culture @ Artcite Inc, Windsor Ontario.
May 8 - June 13 2009
Opening Friday, May 8 at 7:30
Also appearing, will be paintings by Phil Delisle.
May 8 - June 13 2009
Opening Friday, May 8 at 7:30
Also appearing, will be paintings by Phil Delisle.
Toronto Fashion Week: Thursday, March 19, 4pm
In association with the talent at Croma Design, Matak's work with be apart of the Aime Luxury showcase during Fashion week in Toronto.
Signs of Culture @ The Great Hall Gallery
The Great Hall Gallery in Toronto features Adam Matak’s newest collection, “Signs of Culture: Contemporary Canadian Surrogates”, running August 15 - August 22, 2008.
Continuing his deconstruction of Canada’s art scene, Adam Matak assembles the best of contemporary Canadian sculpture in a single space to provoke the question: “What is Canadian art, anyways?”
Attending guests are invited to wear black &/or white to the opening!
GALLERY OPENING (Black & White): SATURDAY, AUG 16 7-11PM
EXHIBIT RUNS AUG 15-22
GALLERY HOURS: WED-SUNDAY 12-5
Continuing his deconstruction of Canada’s art scene, Adam Matak assembles the best of contemporary Canadian sculpture in a single space to provoke the question: “What is Canadian art, anyways?”
Attending guests are invited to wear black &/or white to the opening!
GALLERY OPENING (Black & White): SATURDAY, AUG 16 7-11PM
EXHIBIT RUNS AUG 15-22
GALLERY HOURS: WED-SUNDAY 12-5
GALLERY GOING: GLOBE & MAIL REVIEW
GARY MICHAEL DAULT
garymdault@sympatico.ca
May 3, 2008
ADAM MATAK
AT WALNUT GALLERY
$200-$1,800. Until May 8.
966 Queen St. W., Toronto; 647-341-4244
Adam Matak is a gifted young artist whose exhibition, Secondary Sources, at the new Walnut Gallery, wittily addresses what Matak sees as the "social space of the gallery." This suite of clever and skillfully managed pastiche-paintings ("one part sociology and one part voyeurism"), manages to offer trenchant and amusing commentary on ideas about high art as commodity, as reproducible artifact, as assumptions about the picture-frame contention (desire as a marketable package) and, most importantly, as an insightful catalogue charting the ways we do or do not pay much attention to what is hanging there on the walls before us. Take note of Matak's rapid and wonderful graffiti-marker drawings of paintings viewed at an angle (Surrogate Landscapes), made on sheets of aluminum.
garymdault@sympatico.ca
May 3, 2008
ADAM MATAK
AT WALNUT GALLERY
$200-$1,800. Until May 8.
966 Queen St. W., Toronto; 647-341-4244
Adam Matak is a gifted young artist whose exhibition, Secondary Sources, at the new Walnut Gallery, wittily addresses what Matak sees as the "social space of the gallery." This suite of clever and skillfully managed pastiche-paintings ("one part sociology and one part voyeurism"), manages to offer trenchant and amusing commentary on ideas about high art as commodity, as reproducible artifact, as assumptions about the picture-frame contention (desire as a marketable package) and, most importantly, as an insightful catalogue charting the ways we do or do not pay much attention to what is hanging there on the walls before us. Take note of Matak's rapid and wonderful graffiti-marker drawings of paintings viewed at an angle (Surrogate Landscapes), made on sheets of aluminum.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS...
The Great Hall Gallery
August 14 - 21, 2008
Iconography for Understanding: Canadian Contemporary Surrogates
1087A Queen Street W, Toronto, ON
416 712 2505
Gallery Hours:
Wed - Fri: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Sat: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sun: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Living Arts Centre Emerging Artist Juried Show
May 3 - May 25, 2008
Opening Reception Thursday, May 8 2008 7-9pm
Living Arts Centre
Laidlaw Hall
4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday ~ 10 am to 4 pm
Sunday ~ 1 pm to 4 pm
Adam Matak's Secondary Sources
April 18 - May 8, 2008
Opening Reception Friday, April 18 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Walnut Gallery
966 Queen Street West, Toronto
Gallery Hours Wednesday to Sunday 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Look 2008 Annual Juried Exhibition
(Artwork "David" awarded)
April 12 to May 2, 2008
Gallery Lambton
@ the Bayside Centre, Sarnia Ontario
Monday-Saturday 10am-5:30pm
519.336.8127
[text]. Curated by Gary Michael Dault
December 12-23, 2007
Opening Reception Thur Dec. 13 7-10pm:
Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts
984 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M6J 1H1
Wed-Sat 12-6, Sun 12-5 or by appointment
T: 416 504 7142
Main Gallery - [Text]. Curated by noted Canadian cultural critic, journalist and poet, Gary Michael Dault. The use of words as a core for the creation of works of visual art can now claim a century of history, and arguably occupies centre stage in current cultural discourse via an organic relationship to the World Wide Web, and the algorithms of digital programming. As part of Propeller's Curated Exhibitions Series, [Text] presents works of art that are made of words: the word as tool, as structural unit, as expressive dynamo.
Adam Matak's Recent Works
October 3 - November 3 2007
Opening reception: Wednesday October 3rd from 6pm to 10pm
Gallery hours Monday - Saturday 12-6pm, Sunday 12-5pm
Steam Whistle Brewing: The Roundhouse Gallery
255 Bremner Blvd.
Toronto, Canada.
SPIN Gallery Toronto
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Friday, September 21 - Queen Street West, Toronto
(30 up and coming Toronto artists)
AWOL Annual Square Foot Show!
Show dates: August 10th - September 2nd, 2007
Reception: Friday, August 10th @ 7 P.M.
AWOL Gallery presents Square Foot 2007, a dynamic annual art exhibition, which showcases the work of hundreds of local and international artists. Now in its fifth year, the Square Foot show has become one of the foremost community art events in Toronto. This year’s exhibition will be held at a larger off site venue located at 100a Ossington, just steps from AWOL Gallery. This 2,500 square foot room will be transformed into AWOL’s largest square foot show to date, showcasing over 500 artists from Canada, The United States, England, Korea, and Australia.
Mapping the Margins and (R)evolutions in Visual Culture
Department of Visual Arts 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference: Feb. 16-17, 2007.
Displaying Icons for Understanding: Canadian Contemporary Surrogates with keynote adress by Mark A. Cheetham, Art History Chair at the University of Toronto.
Has it all been done? How far can appropriation go? What are the alternatives to appropriation for contemporary artists? This show gathers art works that negotiate the boundaries of appropriation and explore the constant recycling of visual culture.
The exhibition ran in conjunction with University of Western Ontario’s visual arts graduate conference.
August 14 - 21, 2008
Iconography for Understanding: Canadian Contemporary Surrogates
1087A Queen Street W, Toronto, ON
416 712 2505
Gallery Hours:
Wed - Fri: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Sat: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sun: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Living Arts Centre Emerging Artist Juried Show
May 3 - May 25, 2008
Opening Reception Thursday, May 8 2008 7-9pm
Living Arts Centre
Laidlaw Hall
4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday ~ 10 am to 4 pm
Sunday ~ 1 pm to 4 pm
Adam Matak's Secondary Sources
April 18 - May 8, 2008
Opening Reception Friday, April 18 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Walnut Gallery
966 Queen Street West, Toronto
Gallery Hours Wednesday to Sunday 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Look 2008 Annual Juried Exhibition
(Artwork "David" awarded)
April 12 to May 2, 2008
Gallery Lambton
@ the Bayside Centre, Sarnia Ontario
Monday-Saturday 10am-5:30pm
519.336.8127
[text]. Curated by Gary Michael Dault
December 12-23, 2007
Opening Reception Thur Dec. 13 7-10pm:
Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts
984 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M6J 1H1
Wed-Sat 12-6, Sun 12-5 or by appointment
T: 416 504 7142
Main Gallery - [Text]. Curated by noted Canadian cultural critic, journalist and poet, Gary Michael Dault. The use of words as a core for the creation of works of visual art can now claim a century of history, and arguably occupies centre stage in current cultural discourse via an organic relationship to the World Wide Web, and the algorithms of digital programming. As part of Propeller's Curated Exhibitions Series, [Text] presents works of art that are made of words: the word as tool, as structural unit, as expressive dynamo.
Adam Matak's Recent Works
October 3 - November 3 2007
Opening reception: Wednesday October 3rd from 6pm to 10pm
Gallery hours Monday - Saturday 12-6pm, Sunday 12-5pm
Steam Whistle Brewing: The Roundhouse Gallery
255 Bremner Blvd.
Toronto, Canada.
SPIN Gallery Toronto
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Friday, September 21 - Queen Street West, Toronto
(30 up and coming Toronto artists)
AWOL Annual Square Foot Show!
Show dates: August 10th - September 2nd, 2007
Reception: Friday, August 10th @ 7 P.M.
AWOL Gallery presents Square Foot 2007, a dynamic annual art exhibition, which showcases the work of hundreds of local and international artists. Now in its fifth year, the Square Foot show has become one of the foremost community art events in Toronto. This year’s exhibition will be held at a larger off site venue located at 100a Ossington, just steps from AWOL Gallery. This 2,500 square foot room will be transformed into AWOL’s largest square foot show to date, showcasing over 500 artists from Canada, The United States, England, Korea, and Australia.
Mapping the Margins and (R)evolutions in Visual Culture
Department of Visual Arts 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference: Feb. 16-17, 2007.
Displaying Icons for Understanding: Canadian Contemporary Surrogates with keynote adress by Mark A. Cheetham, Art History Chair at the University of Toronto.
Has it all been done? How far can appropriation go? What are the alternatives to appropriation for contemporary artists? This show gathers art works that negotiate the boundaries of appropriation and explore the constant recycling of visual culture.
The exhibition ran in conjunction with University of Western Ontario’s visual arts graduate conference.
SPEAKING!
Matak has travelled has taught in cities and museums throughout North America and delivered over 150 speeches at high schools and conferences.
The Royal Ontario Museum, Student Leadership Programs
July/August
Toronto, Ontario
The 27th Annual Ontario Student Leadership Conference
November 5-7, 2006
London, Ontario
The Royal Ontario Museum, Student Leadership Programs
July/August
Toronto, Ontario
The 27th Annual Ontario Student Leadership Conference
November 5-7, 2006
London, Ontario
