George Gilmour Members' Gallery Exhibitions

2011-2012

Jennifer Linton, film still from the stop-motion animation Domestikia: An Account of Some Strange Disturbances, 2011.

Jennifer Linton: Domestikia: An Account of Some Strange Disturbances
February 24 – March 31, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, February 24, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Jennifer Linton continues to explore the interdisciplinary possibilities of printmaking in her new project Domestikia: An Account of Some Strange Disturbances. Creating jointed, movable paperdolls from her lithographic prints, Linton arranges these dolls in strange, dream-like shadow box tableaux. These same paperdolls are brought to life in a stop-motion animation. Ultimately, this project will include several animated short stories linked together by an overarching narrative, all taking place within an imagined dollhouse.

   
Kurt Pammer, L: High Park Stroll, screenprint, 22" x 30", 2011. R: Lakeshore Supreme, screenprint, 42" x 30", 2011.

Kurt Pammer: Lakeland Drive
April 12 – May 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

A tribute to family, time and place. Young immigrants to Canada in the 1960's were married in Toronto and had two children.  In 1970, they decided to buy their first home on Lakeland Drive, in Rexdale, where we grew up. Our street was very special, as it backed onto the Humber River. There were a lot of children on Lakeland, where playing outside was simple and meant everything... birthday parties, a drive to the lakeshore, a walk in High Park...it was like a Paradise.

Daryl Vocat & Peter Kingstone, Every Time We Played House, I Wanted to be the Pet Monkey, screenprint, 22" x 30", 2010.

Daryl Vocat & Peter Kingstone
May 25 – June 23, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, May 25, 2012, 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Sissies and Psychopaths is a collaborative suite of prints examining popular representations of queer sexuality through the eyes of child. These collage-based screen prints are evidence of a conversation between artists Peter Kingstone and Daryl Vocat. In creating this work the artists respond to one another in a playful manner, each addressing their own histories and understandings of growing up, and developing a queer sensibility. From dragons and death metal, to disco balls and pin-ups, a varied world of queer archetypes emerges. Sissies and Psychopaths questions notions of childhood self-awareness, of being and becoming queer, and of a person’s sexuality being biologically determined. By liberally adopting photos and illustrations from movies, music, and comic books as their own Kingstone and Vocat suggest that queerness is as much about an understanding of the world, as it is about sexual identity. By abusing and mixing up iconic imagery even the most aggressively and arguably heterosexual become at least a little bit queer.

Jenn Law
June 28 – July 28, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 7:00 - 9:00 PM