Pierre Durette
Mix Parade 9
pencil and acrylic on paper mounted on wood
8"x8"
Estimated Market Value: $500.00
Originally from Causapscal, he lives and works in Montreal since 2002. In 2006, he completed his degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. During his studies, he won in 2005 the competition of Projet insertion organized by Atelier Graff in Montreal and in 2004 he was awarded the Grand Prix Albert-Dumouchel. After his studies, Durette has received many awards and grants amongst which in 2007 the excellency grant Marcel Bellerive as well as an excellency grant from the Festival international de Montréal en Art. In 2009 a research and creation grant by the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec. His works have been exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, at The Power Plant in Toronto and in many art centers in province of Quebec. In Toronto, his workis exhibit at Le gallery. He is represented by Galerie Lacerte in Quebec city and Montréal.
Adrian Forrow
Strange Fruit
Ink & acrylic gouache
9"x12"
Estimated Market Value: $250.00
Artists' bio will be posted soon
Melissa Fisher
Secret Stack Attack (element of lately I feel both
beginning and the end)
Sculpture; glass vase, melamine, plates, pvc pipe,
pudding moulds, sparkly paper, mdf
11"x11"x20"
Estimated Market Value: $250.00
Melissa Fisher is a Toronto based maker. A graduate from OCAD University with a BFA in Sculpture/Installation. She has spent the past few years developing a practice that relies heavily on the spaces she has the opportunity to make in and doing so intuitively. Recent projects have included Afterthought in Paradise (Not Your Father’s Contemporary), lately I sleep more than I am awake (Fine & Dandy Window Gallery), and lately I feel both the beginning and the end (Magic Pony Window).
Abby McGuane
Untitled
collage
18"x24"
Estimated Market Value: $400.00
Abby McGuane is an emerging artist and recent graduate of OCAD’s Sculpture and Installation program. Her practice negotiates a preoccupation with tactility and materiality with issues of identity and authenticity, manifested through forms that are often as bleakly humorous as they are moodily expressive. In recent collages, she creates layered abstractions of representational images, enabling a disintegration of illusionistic space and a simultaneous exacerbation and depletion of expressionistic content. McGuane lives and works in Toronto.
David M Bender
Chariot for a Gloved Figure
Graphite on Paper
Estimated Market Value: $800.00
Artists' bio will be posted soon
Lisa Visser
The way we describe goodness
Bookwork: Set of 12 volumes. Edition of 40
1.5"x3"x4"
Estimated Market Value: $140
Lisa Visser graduated from Queen's University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), focusing on sculpture and printmaking, and is currently in the Interdisciplinary Master's of Art, Media and Design (MA ‘ 11) at OCAD University. Visser’s practice is performative, drawing influence and inspiration from art and craft to produce video, photographs, bookworks and more.
Stacey Sproule
They Never Had a Moment to Flee Alive
wool felt, paper, basswood, wire, cotton fabric, pine and light
21.5"x24"x11.5"
Estimated Market Value: $550.00
Stacey Sproule is a performance and installation artist. Her work
often 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. In 2007, Stacey Sproule and Diane Borsato
collaborated on a piece for FADO. Stacey also collaborates frequently
with Randy Gagne including performances at 7a*11d International
Festival of Performance Art and Peterborough’s Artsweek Festival.
Zev Farber
Untitled
Digital C-Print
12"x18"
Estimated Market Value: $400.00
Artists' bio will be posted soon.
Brandon Dalmer
Untitled
two mixed media installations in vials
2"x4"
Estimated Market Value: $400.00
Brandon A. Dalmer was born in Edmonton, AB. Living there until attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary where he received a BFA in Painting. Brandon has exhibited in various spaces such as the Xpace, Stride Gallery and Latitude 53; he has also been involved in organizations such as the New Gallery, The Whitehouse and M:ST. as well as being of the founders of the 809 Gallery in Calgary. Currently he resides in Toronto where he lives and works. He mainly spends his time playing video games and watching old cartoons.
Natasha Baily
Dear Envelope (Edition 4/10)
ink on acid free envelope
21.2x16.5 cm
Estimated Market Value: $80.00
Natasha Bailey is originally from Toronto, Canada. She received an MFA in Media at Slade School of Fine Art in London England. She is currently based in Toronto Canada and London UK. Bailey works primarily in performance but also explores ideas through mixed media. Through her performances she strives to brake down the boundary between the performer and the audience while revealing the dynamics of relationships. Her mixed media work also explores her relationships with everyday things. At the core of her work she challenges the symptoms she suffers from as a result of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Although the subject of PTSD can be viewed as very serious, Bailey aims to explore her symptoms in a humorous and light-hearted way.
Carolyn E Tripp
Migration
pen and ink on paper
Estimated Market Value: $300.00
Carolyn Tripp is an artist and writer living in Toronto. Writing and reviews have been published with Magenta Magazine, Spacing, C Magazine, and Mondo Magazine. Her visual work has been exhibited with Xpace, Site-specific projects The House that Masons Built and As Is, The Gladstone Hotel (upArt), and the Vini Vidi O curated video series. Recently, her video work was screened at the One Minute Film and Video Festival at the Toronto Underground Cinema.
Alicia Nauta
Untitled
Collage
18"x24"
Estimated Market Value: $100.00
Artists' bio will be posted soon.
Xenia Benivolski
Teeth 8/12
painting: volcanic ash from
Eyjafjallajokul, paper
8.5"x11"
Estimated Market Value: $300.00
Xenia Benivolski is an artist and curator based in Toronto, Canada. She had studied visual art in Israel, Toronto, Canada and Florence Italy. She is the founder and director of the Whitehouse Studio (2008), and a member of the Board of Directors of Mercer Union Artist Run Centre.
As a multi platform artist, Xenia often engages materials and processes of sentimental value, working with tools of uncommon sensations, comfort, tradition, noise and repetition. In her artwork, she often addresses feelings and fears of decay.
Jennifer Long
Untitled, 1998, edition 1/20
chromogenic prints
17.5"x22"
Estimated Market Value: $700.00
Jennifer Long is an artist, curator, arts administrator, 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 and has received funding from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and The Canada Council for The Arts. Jennifer is represented by Leo Kamen Gallery (Ontario) and Galerie Poller (Germany).
Kate McQuillen
Disasters in Space 1.1: Deep Space Network
Woodcut
15"x15"
Estimated Market Value: $400.00
Kate McQuillen is a Chicago-based artist working in print, photography and installation. In the past two years, she attended residencies in the U.S. and abroad: Ox-Bow (Michigan), Open Studio (Toronto), Frans Masereel Center (Belgium) and the Center for Book & Paper Arts (Chicago). She has exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, Boston, and Chicago, and is represented in Canada by O’Born Contemporary. Her current work examines makeshift weaponry, and the destructive power inherent in seemingly mundane objects.
Brad Tinmouth
Untitled (white 8)
acrylic, ink, oil stick & tape on glass in artist's frame
30" x 24.5"
Estimated Market Value: $400.00
Brad Tinmouth is an artist working and living in Toronto, Canada. He is a graduate of York University's Film and Video Production BFA program with honors. With a passion for video art, born from a love of editing and simplistic production techniques Tinmouth creates new media works for the screen, installation and the internet. Recently exploring new avenues in more traditional pursuits like painting and sculpture Tinmouth blends the hyper contemporary web 2.0 world into his real life creations. Applying a new media work ethic to traditional formats. He has exhibited in Nuit Blanche, The Images Festival and at various galleries throughout Toronto, the States and Mexico. He is currently acting as the co-founder and co-director of Butcher Gallery and the Distribution Assistant at Vtape.
Mathew Williamson
Free Weezy - Elven
T-Shirt
Variable sizes
Estimated Market Value: $50.00
Artists’ bio will be posted shortly
Georgia Dickie
Lazy Baster (Mullet Fish)
mixed media
8.5"x11"
Estimated Market Value: $100.00
Sculptor, Georgia Dickie, was born in Toronto, Canada in 1989. She currently lives and works in Toronto. She is a person of few words.
Myung-Sun Kim
Untitled
mixed media
15"x15"
Estimated Market Value: $600.00
Myung-Sun Kim is a Korean-born, Toronto-based artist, primarily
working in the field of sculpture and installation. Her work playfully
explores everyday objects and spaces, dealing with issues of
aesthetics, functionality, nomadism, mobility, intervention, and
architecture. She has completed BFA in Sculpture/ Installation at the
Ontario College of Art & Design in 2005, and MFA in Visual Arts
Program at York University in 2009. She has received several awards
and scholarships, including Dr.Eugene A. Poggetto Award, MST Bronze
Sculpture Award, Sculpture Installation Faculty Award, and Graduate
Entrance Scholarship to York University Graduate Program in Visual
Arts. She has exhibited and presented her work in Ontario, Nova
Scotia, and North Carolina. In June 2010, she has completed an artist
residency at Summer Institute: Postcommodity, Plug In Institute of
Contemporary Art in Winnipeg. Currently, Myung-Sun Kim is a part of
KS3, a four member collaborative that brings architecture, new media,
sculpture, graphics, and painting methodologies to the investigation
of interactivity, movement, visual gravity, parametric structures, and
domestic engineering.
