CONTACT 2017 Photography Festival in the West Toronto Junction Neighbourhood
Credit: http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/search?q=junction
Credit: http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/search?q=junction
"In recognition of the 150th anniversary of confederation, the Festival focuses on Canada through a series of exhibitions, public installations and events."
~ Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival - Focus on Canada
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival & The Junction BIA
Photography in the Junction
May 1 - 31, 2017
10 venues, 18 artists, 1 creative neighbourhood!
Enjoy the work of 18 photographers in 10 locations along Dundas Street West from Quebec Avenue to Keele Street.
Opening Receptions: Saturday, May 6th, 2017
Time: 6 - 9 pm
Location: Dundas Street West
[between Keele Street & Quebec Avenue]
9 Open Exhibitions + 1 Featured Exhibition:
Projects for the Page
Marco Buonocore, Alice Dixon, Aaron Friend Lettner, Kirby Pilcher, Luke Strosnider, Anthony Randall, Robyn York
May 1–31
Reception: May 6, 6pm–9pm
Junction - ARTiculations, Earl Selkirk Gallery
2928 Dundas St W
An exhibition of photobooks published by Anchorless Press, an independent publisher focusing on artist books that challenge traditional publishing conventions using the medium of the publication as a work of art. Through collaboration and careful attention to materials, each book employs various printing and binding methods, creating stand-alone “projects for the page.”
Curated by Anchorless Press
Visions of a Dynamic Earth
Mark Robinson
May 1–31
Junction - Axis Gallery & Grill
3048 Dundas St W
The Earth moves and we must move with it. Robinson is a world explorer and storm chaser. Carrying his camera, along with a healthy sense of adventure, he has documented Earth at its most dynamic. He’s captured tornadoes, volcanoes, fires, lightning, and ice, all of which are part of a planet that is forever changing. These are moments in motion stopped for 1/60th of a second.
Contact: The StormHunters Blog
night vision
Richard Kuzniak
May 1–31
Reception: May 6, 6pm–9pm
Junction - Coolearth Architecture Inc.
386 Pacific Ave
At night, the camera lens can reveal more than what the eye initially registers, creating a painterly quality that emphasizes colour and form. The variety of illumination, whether street lamp, fluorescent, neon, or sodium vapour, endows a unique glow to even the most common scenes and objects. Parking lots, laneways, storage yards, industrial sites, parks, and businesses closed for the night take on new personas, transformed by the darkness.
Contact: eventbrite: Night Vision -- Contact Photography
aqua botanica
Linda Briskin
May 2–21
Reception: May 6, 6pm–9pm
Junction - Helen + Hildegard
3036 Dundas St W
The series aqua botanica honours the ephemeral offerings from the sea. Each photograph preserves seaweed washed up on the western shores of Newfoundland, and attempts to capture both its essence and its dimensionality. This series also speaks to the capacity of photography to preserve, transform, and reimagine found objects.
Curated by Sonya D’Cunha
Contact: Linda Briskin ::: Gallery
City Life / Rural Life
Brian Anderson, Golrokh Keshavarz, Michael Lindon
May 1–31
Reception: May 6, 6pm–9pm
Junction - Latitude 44
2900 Dundas St W
Anderson exhibits his series Yellow Cloth, which explores colour, shape, and light as the cloth morphs beneath the surface of the lakeshore. Keshavarz’s In Living Colour collection focuses on early morning street life and interactions and exchanges happening as people leave nightclubs, stumbling onto the streets. With Rural Scenes, Lindon, who left the city two years ago, shows a collection of scenes capturing the ups and downs of rural life.
Curated by Janet Di Bernardo
Contact: Latitude 44: Gallery, Framing, Decor
That Night We Forgot To Dance
Phillipa Croft
May 1–31
Reception: May 6, 6pm–9pm
Junction - Phillipa C. Photography
3063 Dundas St W
An observation (photographically) of human antics. Funny and weird, the images are fuelled by a curiosity in the photo-making medium and curiosity itself.
Curated by Phillipa C.
Contact: Phillipa C. Photography
Toronto at Night with Available Light
Krista White
May 1–28
Junction - Vesuvio's Pizzeria and Spaghetti House
3010 Dundas St W
Toronto at Night with Available Light is an exploration of positive and negative space in which everyday objects transform in the sparse light and become altered and unfamiliar. White’s challenge is to create effective and evocative images within the limits of nighttime, using only the light that is present. Prints in black and white only further the impression of darkness and the sometimes haunting effect of limited light.
Curated by Krista White
Contact: klwphotography
Grand Motion
Jim Blomfield
May 1–31
Reception: May 6, 6pm–9pm
Junction - West Toronto Paint
2975 Dundas St W
How do you photograph what you cannot see? To address this challenge, Blomfield chooses to use artistic licence, a swing lens camera, appropriate shutter speeds, and camera rotation. He is thus able to mimic, photographically, what his imagination tells him is happening, unseen, with and within seemingly smooth, steady streams of water flowing over dams along the Grand River.
Contact: Jim Blomfield Photo-artist
Sweetland, Canada
Kristin Sweetland
May 6–31
Reception: May 6, 6pm–9pm
Junction – Dirty Food Catering
3070 Dundas St W
Sweetland, Canada features photographs from the photographer’s continuing Adventures in Sweetland series of self-portraits. The images were captured during her extensive travels back and forth across Canada as a solo touring musician. Depicting a side of the country that is mysterious, magical, and at times quite spiritual, this series celebrates the 150th anniversary of Confederation and tells the story of one Canadian’s journey across a fantastical land that is seemingly all her own.
Contact: Kristin Sweetland
Featured Exhibition
Jardim
Meera Margaret Singh
May 6–June 3
Reception: May 6, 4pm–6pm
May 27, 3pm–4:30pm
Artist Talk
Artist Meera Margaret Singh will discuss her exhibition in the context of her 2012 residency in Jardim, Brazil, which generated the series on display in the gallery.
Zalucky Contemporary
3044 Dundas St W
The photographs in Jardim were taken by Meera Margaret Singh during a two-month artist residency in 2012 in Jardim Canada, Brazil, an isolated industrial town primarily made up of factories, warehouses, and improvised housing for a transitory workforce. Captured through the camera is an urban landscape oscillating between growth and decay. What is revealed through the printed photographs, however, is a self-reflexive meditation on the artist’s experience of that time.
Contact: Zalucky Contemporary
Meera Margaret Singh: Jardim, at Zalucky Gallery, May 6 to June 3
The Toronto artist made these photographs at a residency in an isolated industrial town called Jardim Canada in Brazil, expressing the tensions of living in a place that’s unsafe for women.
by Fran Schechter
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CONTACT Photography in The Junction: Map + Venues
CONTACT in The Junction Map:
1. Dirty Food Catering: 3070 Dundas St W
2. Phillipa C. Photography: 3063 Dundas St W
3. Axis Gallery & Grill: 3048 Dundas St W
4. Zalucky Contemporary: 3044 Dundas St W
5. Helen + Hildegard: 3036 Dundas St W
6. Vesuvio's Pizzeria: Bending Spoons Gallery: 3010 Dundas St W
7. Coolearth Architecture Inc.: 386 Pacific Ave
8. West Toronto Paint: 2975 Dundas St W
9. ARTiculations: Earl Selkirk Gallery: 2928 Dundas St W
10. Latitude 44: Gallery, Framing, Decor: 2900 Dundas St W
Poster: Photography in the Junction: May 1 - 31, 2017
Opening Receptions: Saturday, May 6, 2017
Image Credit: The Junction BIA: Contact 2017
Opening Receptions: Saturday, May 6, 2017
Image Credit: The Junction BIA: Contact 2017
Please come and celebrate another great year of Photography in the Junction - part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival!
#Toronto #photographymonth #JunctionTO 10 venues, 18 artists, 1 creative neighbourhood! ~ @Junction_BIA #CONTACT17 https://t.co/EZD0yb0YO2 📸 pic.twitter.com/B0nXGErudc— olgA (@artjunctionto) May 3, 2017
