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BEC Collector's Series
The Inuit Art of Cape Dorset
Tuesday, 20 August, 7 to 9pm
Dorset Fine Arts
100 Broadview Avenue, #201
Toronto, ON
Ooloosie Saila,
Silaksiaq (Beautiful Day), 2019
lithograph, 30" x 43.5", e
dition of 30
Barbara Edwards Contemporary is pleased to present our first instalment of the BEC Collector's Series. Led by West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative's William Huffman, the tour will include exclusive access to some rarely seen archival treasures along with a special preview of the 2019 annual print release - a compendium of lithographs, etchings and stone-cuts that have been the hallmark of Cape Dorset art production since 1959.
A small Arctic settlement of 1,400 in the Territory of Nunavut, Cape Dorset is hailed as the most artistic community in Canada. Since the 1950s this tiny hamlet has been recognized for its exquisite and iconic drawings, prints and sculptures. Despite its geographic circumstance, Cape Dorset has sustained an international reputation for its creative industry and continues to develop an unparalleled Inuit art legacy. Cape Dorset's creators are exhibited and collected worldwide and have made Inuit art a quintessentially Canadian form of expression.
Established in 1959, West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative has enjoyed an international reputation for the exquisite prints, drawings and carvings created by its Inuit artist members. In addition to operation of the Kinngait Studios in Cape Dorset, the cooperative maintains a Toronto office, Dorset Fine Arts, which is responsible for interfacing with galleries, museums, cultural professionals, Inuit art enthusiasts and the art market globally.
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SAVE THE DATE!
10th Anniversary Exhibition
ABSTRACT BORDERS
25 September to 2 November
Jack Bush,
Sorel Etrog,
Lawren Harris,
Ray Mead,
Guido Molinari,
Robert Motherwell,
Louise Nevelson,
Kenneth Noland,
Jules Olitski
Curated by Dr. Alma Mikulinsky
Anniversary Reception: 25 September, 6-9pm
BEC Project Space
315 King St West, 2nd Floor
Toronto
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Gallery Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 1-7pm
(or by appointment)
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Art Toronto Hours:
Sat, Oct 26 1-9pm
Sun, Oct 27 1-7pm
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Kenneth Noland,
Flare, 1976
acrylic on canvas, 66" x 85" (irregular)
Barbara Edwards Contemporary is pleased to present
Abstract Borders. Curated by Dr. Alma Mikulinsky, the exhibition
presents paintings by leading Canadian and American artists whose abstract artwork explores questions regarding intercultural relationships and cross-border influences. The exhibition will feature paintings spanning the 1960s to 1980s.
Alma Mikulinsky is an art historian and curator specializing in 20th century European art and contemporary
international art.
Among her projects have been managing the world's second largest collection of Pablo Picasso's Ceramics, curating a block-buster exhibition in Hong Kong as well as shows of contemporary art in Toronto and Santiago de Chile. Her writing was commissioned by prestigious institutions such as Musée National Picasso-Paris and the Tate Modern in London. She is currently working on an ACI book on Sorel Etrog to be published in the fall of 2019.
In collaboration with Miriam Shiell Fine Arts
and
the Chloe Danyliw Collection
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CURRENT EXHIBITION
FIGURE IN MIND
Sorel Etrog, Eric Fischl, Betty Goodwin, William Kentridge,
Taras Polataiko, Jack Tworkov, Tim Zuck
Taras Polataiko,
Eadweard Muybridge, Human Locomotion Plate 220/5
, 2005,
C-print, edition of 5, 36" x 24"
Barbara Edwards Contemporary is pleased to present a group exhibition comprising important works by distinguished Canadian and international artists. While each piece takes as its focus the human form, the featured artists diverge in their methods of conceptual investigation and stylistic execution. This exhibit showcases the capacity of the human figural depiction to transcend its status as a genre of convention and offer a vibrant locus for the exploration of both the physical and the metaphysical: articulating the body offers a language at once visual, tactile, kinetic and emotional.
1069 Bathurst Street
Toronto, ON
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