Nikki Woolsey

Artist: Nikki Woolsey
Title: Sponge II (2011)
Medium: Glass, sponge, sandpaper, string
Dimensions: 7" x 5" x 1"

Brett Despotovich

Artist: Brett Despotovich
Title:This is now flesh of my flesh, bone of my bones
Medium: Acrylic, charcoal, conté on mylar
Dimensions:  12” x 9”
Work is framed


The work of Brett Despotovich (b.1982) draws from the liminal space between the
physical and metaphysical.
Brett is a multidisciplinary artist living in Toronto. He studied at OCAD before leaving to
work on the multi-award winning feature documentary FLicKeR (NFB/Bravo! 2008). He
organized Toronto's seminal alternative figure drawing event 'Dr Sketchy's Toronto' from
2007-2011. Brett currently works as the 'Head of Visitor Services and Gallery Operations'
at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.

Faye Mullen

Artist: Faye Mullen
Title: à jamais.
Medium: Still from a performance-based three-channel video installation.
Dimensions: 33" x 21.5"
Work is framed


Often through a dissection of space, Faye Mullen employs the body to speculate theories concerned of loss, lack and limitation. Her work has been informed by her sculptural practice and is often combined with performance, video and installation. Her phenomenological investigations are articulated through durational and poetic imagery. Mullen grew up in the Niagara Region, Canada. She studied studio art at l'école National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at the Ontario College of Art & Design where she received her BFA and the University of Toronto, where she earned her Masters. Mullen has exhibited internationally in solo and curated group exhibitions in Paris, Seoul, Portland, Melbourne and Toronto and has participated in residencies in Canada, United States and South Korea. She is the founder of minnow & bass Gallery, a nomadic artist-run space (currently dormant). Currently, Faye situates her practice in Toronto.

Sarah D'Angelo

Artist: Sarah D'Angelo
Title: After Midnight
Medium: Copic Marker on Paper
Dimensions: 10.5" x 13.5"
Work is mounted


Sarah D'Angelo is a multi-disciplinary artist working out of The White House Studio Project. She approaches her work with a whimsical attitude, aiming to pull narratives from the fragmented space of the subconscious. She is currently working on a Bachelor of Design in Illustration at OCAD University.     
sarahaha.com

Philippe Blanchard

Artist: Philippe Blanchard

Title: Untitled (Caveman Contemplating Fire, Orange Version)

Medium: 4 Colour Screenprint on Paper (print 5 out of edition of 20)

Dimensions: 17" x 21"

Philippe Blanchard is a Toronto-based artist, animator and teacher. His diverse creative background (film production, digital visual effects, studio arts) has informed an interdisciplinary practice combining animation, installation, light shows, drawing, painting and printmaking. His recent projects include Quest for Fire, LAN Party, Mass Hypnosis and Time Tunnel: expanded animation installations featuring screen-printed imagery animated by coloured light.  

Philippe Blanchard's animation work has been shown at Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC), National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC), LACMA, Cal Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Impakt Festival (Netherlands), Center for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), InterAccess, Angell Gallery and AGYU.

Julian Higuerey

Artist: Juliam Higuerey

Title: Postcolonialism: Victoria Day Dance Party

Medium: Screen printed dust and dust ink

Dimensions: 30" x 22"

Work is framed

Julian Higuerey Núñez was born in London, England in 1983, but was raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After dropping out of Physics School he turned to Fine Arts, and has recently completed an MFA degree at OCAD University. His work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows internationally, and his interest lay in the convergence of research, craft, critical and theoretical inquiry, economics, affect and labour, as part of a contemporary art practice. He currently lives and works in Toronto. 

www.cualquierotracosa.com

Jennie Suddick

Artist: Jennie Suddick
Title: Bigfoot Trap Matchstick Model Kit
Medium: Hand printed and constructed box, screenprinted blueprints, 300 matchsticks, wood glue, acetate sheet Dimensions: Variable, Box: 25 cm x 16 cm x 7.5 cm


Jennie Suddick is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada.
Her work has been exhibited in Canada, The United States, Germany and
Italy. She received both a BFA and Advanced Visual Studies Certificate
from OCAD University She went on to receive her Masters of Fine Art at
York University in Spring 2009. She creates work in print, photography and
sculpture, which deals with issues of Canadian identity, cryptozoology,
museological display, and hyper reality. 

Liam Wylie

Artist: Liam Wylie
Title: Flattened Grid III
Medium: Stainless Steel, MDF, Dyed Linen, Acrylic
Dimensions: 16" x 20"
Work is framed


Liam was born in Ottawa in 1989. He received his BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University and he currently lives and works in Toronto. Liam's recent artworks explore the relationships between geometric forms in the attempt to apprehend what we cannot articulate within the core dilemma claimed by the role of the visual artist in representing the unrepresentable.

Come get your tickets!

Tickets are available for purchase at 

XPACE Cultural Centre 

Tuesday- Saturday 12-6pm

58 Ossington Ave

Toronto, Ontario

$20 (includes appetizers only buffet and complimentary drinks)

(416) 849-2864

*If you cannot purchase ticket beforehand, email Alicia to reserve one

alicia@xpace.info

Andrea Manica

Artist: Andrea Manica

Title: Borderline Rose
Medium: Linocut Print

Dimensions: 9.25" x 13.25"

Andrea Manica is an illustrator based in Toronto, hailing from Kitchener Ontario. She recently completed her Illustration Thesis at OCADU. Andrea paints, draws and hand-prints her images. She creates zines and comics. She is inspired by food, friends, animals, plant-life & positivity.
 
www.andreamanica.com

David Hanes

Artist: David Hanes
Title: Monument-Down (Black & Blue)
Medium: Digital Print
Dimensions: 22" x 22"


David FM Hanes, b. 1987, Toronto ON Canada. Half american. Lives and works in Toronto.

Zev Farber

Artist: Zev Farber

Title: Divination #3 (Cub Scouts Guide)

Medium: Digital Inkjet Print

Dimensions: 18" x 23"

Represented by The Red Head Gallery 

Zev Farber is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. He studied music at the

University of Toronto and received his MFA in Visual Art from York University.

He has shown work and performed in a number of Canadian and international galleries, including the Red Head Gallery, Blackwood Gallery, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Flux Factory in New York and the Incheon Biennale in South Korea. Farber currently also works at OCAD University.

Sarah Butterill

Artist: Sarah Butterill

Title: Kids in the Hall Sketch

Medium: Ink, Paper

Dimensions: 8" x10"

Work is framed

Sarah Butterill studies Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCAD and holds an Honours BA in Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. She is founder of the Boogie W. Mix Tape Library, and the Top Top Pop Cop video dance, as well as co-founder of now-defunct art space Jamie's Area, and the culinary performance series "Food". Her drawing style is inspired in part by the ink drawings of Lucebert, the Dutch poet and artist whose work she encountered while attending classes at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and living in a squat in Amsterdam.

Laura McCoy

 

Artist: Laura McCoy

Title: Untitled

Medium: Mixed Media

Work is framed

Laura McCoy (b.1981) lives and works in Toronto.
http://www.lauramccoy.ca/
http://ratherthemumble.blogspot.ca/

Lili Huston- Herterich

 

Artist: Lili Huston- Herterich

Title: Sud Set

Medium: Archival inkjet prints, dried soap suds in custom frames

Dimensions: Two 12.75" x 16.5" frames (diptych)

In 2011, Lili Huston- Herterich conceded to her fetish for craft. Her opposing explorations of physical materiality and virtual imitation have collided to form a diverse body of work concerning entitled femininity in the artist’s studio. Huston- Herterich redefines her entitlement as a young, female artist, celebrating the parallels between domestic maintenance and creative sustenance. Lili graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts at York University in 2010, and has since exhibited in various virtual and physical spaces in Canada and the United States.

Joele Walinga

Artist: Joele Walinga

Title: Fifteen Days

Medium: Enlarged photocopy, ink on Decolit

Dimensions: 24" x 29"
Work is Mounted

Joële Walinga is a multi-disciplinary artist whose intent is to comically highlight the absurdity inherent in our ever serious lives. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA pending).
Currently lives and works in Toronto.

Teresa Aversa

Artist: Teresa Aversa

Title: Untitled (Flower Portraits) 

*work is one of a series, print may not be the one pictured here

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 15 x 4” x 6” prints housed within a custom made box

Teresa Aversa is a multi disciplinary artists based in Toronto. She has a short attention span which is evident in her practice. She enjoys long walks on the beach, art theory and tall, dark and handsome men.

These prints are part of an ongoing series. The work is composed of photographs of fake flower bouquets found in cemeteries in Toronto. The photos are taken with a disposable camera and developed at Wal Mart.

Elise Victoria Louise Windsor

Artist: Elise Victoria Louise Windsor

Title: N Warren S

Medium: Digital C Print

Dimensions: 20" x 20"

Work is framed

Elise Victoria Louise Windsor is an emerging visual artist working in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from OCAD University’s BFA program, focusing in photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Her work focuses on the use of illusions created by fantasy, mystery and the duplication of reality. Elise recently participated in an XPACE/SPARK Contemporary Art Space Residency in Syracuse, New York and The State Hermitage Museum Foundation of Canada Young Artist Program, in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has been the recipient of various awards and participated in art exhibitions across Canada, the U.S. and Russia.

Jennifer Long

Artist: Jennifer Long

Title: Untitled, 2000

Medium: Chromogenic Print

Dimensions: 10" x 8"

Represented by: Katzman Kamen Gallery

Jennifer Long is a Toronto-based artist, curator, and educator holding a BAA from Ryerson University and a MFA from York University.  For the last fourteen years, her artistic practice has explored issues of doubt, vulnerability, perceived ideals, and communication within the context of interpersonal relationships.  This lens-based work uses constructed narratives to describe the emotions and quiet moments of everyday life. Jennifer’s artwork has been exhibited in over thirty shows nationally and internationally, numerous publications, and has received funding from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and The Canada Council for The Arts.  Jennifer is represented by the Katzman Kamen Gallery.

Cameron Lee

Artist: Cameron Lee

Title: Just Between Us Girls

Medium: Plywood

Dimensions: 2 x 16"x 8" approx.

Cameron Lee is an Alumni of OCADU with BFA in Drawing & Painting. Generally working with found objects, Cameron uses humour as an approach to material, community and performance. Cameron is a founding member of the White House Studio Project and a member of art collective Cry School Yearbook. Cameron is currently a Programming Coordinator at XPACE Cultural Center, and Resident Artist for Feast in the East.

Melissa Fisher

Title: Meet Me There (reality check #2)
Medium: dye sublimations on polyester
Dimensions: 32" x 36"  (2 panels at 15" x 36") 

Work hangs with earth magnets  

Melissa Fisher is a Toronto based artist working within the realms of sculpture and installation. The autobiographical, yet abstract practice that she has formed attempts to decipher ideas surrounding current states of reality, and our relationship with ourselves, our surroundings, objects and other people. Having developed an ongoing window installation series in several venues throughout Toronto (Magic Pony/Narwhal, XPACE Cultural Centre, HALO HALO Village), Fisher was very excited to bring new work (the evolution of her site-specific installations) to Berlin for the exhibition FIFTY / FIFTY.

Matt Moreland

Artist: Matt Moreland

Title: Moon

Medium: resin coated photograph on wood panel

Dimensions: 24" x 24"

Matt uses visual interpretations of his own memories to critique the idea that memories are truth. This creates his emotional perceptions of his past with all of their subconscious flaws included.

Carolyn Tripp

Artist: Carolyn Tripp

Title: Untitled 25% Grey Cloud, 1981

Medium: Vinyl on glass

Dimensions: 6" x 7"

Carolyn Tripp is an artist and writer living in Toronto. Her work has been previously exhibited with Trinity Square Video, Xpace Cultural Centre, Blackwood Gallery, the Toronto Urban Film Festival, K-Town Karaoke, the Parkdale Film & Video Showcase, The Khyber, and the Gladstone Hotel.

Georgia Dickie

Artist: Georgia Dickie

Title: Taping Remnant, 2012

Medium: Acrylic and tape on paper

Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"

Georgia Dickie (b. 1989) graduated with a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2011. She currently lives and works in Toronto. Her work addresses the complexities of contemporary object-based practice, and is characterized by a deep interest in found materials and their inherent limitations.

Luke Painter

Artist: Luke Painter

Title: The Descent

Medium: Intaglio Etching

Amber Landgraff

Artist: Amber Landgraff

Title: I have to stop telling myself that this will make me feel better

Medium: Laser Jet Print

Dimensions: 22" x 30"

Work is framed

Amber Landgraff is an artist/curator who uses community and political engagement as an integral part of her curatorial and artistic practice. She has an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practices, and has facilitated, and collaborated on such events as Building Together, FEAST Toronto and Toronto Free Gallery's The Bridge series. She is currently the director at XPACE Cultural Centre, a not-for-profit artist run centre that focuses on supporting and offering professional opportunities to student and emerging artists.

Stacey Sproule

Artist: Stacey Sproule

Title: Head, Heart, Hands (Pillow case diptych)

Medium: Hand embroidery on cotton

Dimension: Two pillow cases

Stacey Sproule is a performance and installation artist. Her work oftens involves the use of knitting, embroidery, and other tactile textile techniques. She holds a BFA in drawing and painting from OCAD and has exhibited locally and regionally for over five years. Her installations have been exhibited at Wynick Tuck Gallery, Xpace, and Gallery 1313 in Toronto; Awkward Gallery, in Barrie; and Forest City Gallery in London. She is currently participating in a residency at Concord Space in Los Angeles, California.

Brad Tinmouth

Artist: Brad Tinmouth

Title: Forever, You.

Medium: Arylic, Mirror and Light Fixture on Canvas

Dimensions: 30" x 30"

http://www.bradtinmouth.com

Alicia Nauta

Artist: Alicia Nauta

Title: Worm Moon

Medium: Screenprint

Dimensions: 18" x 24"

Alicia Nauta is a recent Printmaking BFA graduate from OCADU. She works in a variety of methods, including screenprinting, collage, installation, and collaborative based projects. She established the OCADU Zine Library and co-established a Three Part Library (including a Zine Library) at XPACE Cultural Centre. She currently works as a Programming Coordinator at XPACE Cultural Centre and is a member of Punchclock print studios.

Matthew Williamson

Artist: Matthew Williamson

Title: borg swag tie dye

Medium: Tie dyed t-shirt

Dimensions: 4 different sizes

Described once as "frustratingly engaging", Artist Matthew Williamson examines the cohesion between the internet and so-called 'real life'. While working in a broad range of formats from print to video, websites to electronics his work is focused on the humorous relationships we forge with our machines. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design and MFA candidate at Syracuse University, Matthew has shown work in Italy, the U.S.A, China, and Canada. He resently presented "Degeneracy in Online Video" at Video Vortex in Amsterdam.

Jacob Whibley

Artist: Jacob Whibley

Title: Maker's Medallion

Medium: Bronze Sculpture

Dimensions: 2" in diameter, 3mm thick

Represented by Narwhal Art Projects

Sarah Nasby and Liana Schmidt

Artists: Sarah Nasby and Liana Schmidt

Title: Draping Exercise #1

Medium: C-Print

Dimensions: 16" x 24"

Work is framed

Sarah Nasby's work often references forms associated with design, working with typography and everyday objects through sculpture, drawing and professional printing. Themes related to visual connotation, the meaning of objects, communication and connection are explored from a playful and conceptual vantage. Nasby lives and works in Toronto. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in Canada and China. She received her MFA from NSCAD University in 2007.

Liana Schmidt was born in Vancouver and lives in Toronto. Working in photography, video and installation, Schmidt’s work revolves around injecting the absurd and fantastical into everyday life. Her work is influenced by set design and retail display, focusing on arrangements that create an atmosphere of promise. The visual language around the dramatic and theatrical are also central themes in her work.

Brandon A. Dalmer

Artist: Brandon A. Dalmer

Title: Exploration of the Boring Commonalities Found on Our Own World
Medium: Mixed Media Installation within a Sealed Plywood BoxDimensions: 12” X 17” X 6”
Work is framed


Brandon A. Dalmer was born in Edmonton, AB. Living there until attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary where he received his BFA in Painting. Brandon has exhibited in various spaces such as Xpace, Stride, and Latitude 53; he has also been involved with organizations such as the New Gallery, 809, The Whitehouse and M:ST.
Currently he resides in Calgary where he runs a grant funded residency program from out of his garage.

Petar Boskovic

Artist: Petar Boskovic

Title: Untitled

Medium: Digital Photography

Dimensions: 11" x 17"

Petar Boskovic is a Toronto-based artist working primarily in digital photography. He completed his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto in 2009 and is currently studying at the OCAD University. His practice is centered on the relationship between line and form, with interest in the relationships between individuals and anonymity. He recently contributed to a publication on behalf of OCAD U’s First Generation Students Organization.

Natasha Bailey

Artist: Natasha Bailey

Title: Dear Emboss

Medium: Paper

Dimensions: 22 x 30cm 

I am originally from Toronto, Canada and received my MFA in Media at Slade School of Fine Art in London England. I work primarily with performance and mixed media. Through my performances I strive to break down the boundary between the performer and the audience while revealing the dynamics of relationships. At the core of my work I challenge the symptoms I suffer from as a result of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Although the subject of PTSD can be viewed as very serious, I aim to explore my symptoms in a humorous and light-hearted way.

A. S. M. Kobyashi

Artist: Alison S. M. Kobyashi

Title: Dorothy Baker Toronto Seniors' Assembly Identification Card

Medium: Paper, Laminate

Work is framed

A. S. M. Kobayashi is a visual artist working in video, performance, installation and drawing. She was born and raised in Mississauga and is currently working between Toronto and Brooklyn. Her interest in found narratives resulted in two video works, From Alex To Alex and Dan Carter. Finding a lost letter in the first case, and a discarded answering machine tape in the second, Kobayashi imagines identities for each person mentioned in the narrative and then performs all the roles herself. In 2006 she won the TSV Artistic Vision Award for Best Local Short Film at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival and in 2007 was awarded the Mississauga Arts Award for Best Emerging Artist. Her films have been shown in Canada, the U.S., Spain, the Netherlands and Hong Kong.

Adrian Forrow

Artist: Adrian Forrow
Title: Few Of My Favourite Things
Medium: Ink and gouache on watercolour paper
Dimensions: 13” x 17”
Work is framed

Adrian Forrow was born and raised on the outskirts of Toronto. In His youth he filled endless sketchbooks with doodles of imaginary worlds he dreamt up. Now that he is grown, Adrian continues to fill endless sketchbooks for a living. His unique stylized imagery has sophisticated concepts as well as a amazingly wonderful graphic sensibility. His enthusiasm and hard work has enabled Adrian to produce a well rounded body of work that has allowed him to win professional awards, such as the prestigious American Illustration annual and the 2010 OCAD gold medal winner, as well as a exhibition in Los Angeles as of recent. When Adrian isn't working in the studio you can usually find him racing one of his bikes or cycle touring around.