Joan Kaufman featured in the National Post and Now Magazine

Congratulations to artist Joan Kaufman on her recent press coverage in both the National Post and Now Magazine for her "Suspended" Series. This series is featured in two shows for the Contact photography festival, both as part of Illusion, Transformation, Creating the Impossible at Lonsdale Gallery as well as a solo show at Red Head Gallery in the 401 Richmond Art Centre.

For full copies of these articles, please click the following links:

Globe and Mail review: http://joankaufman.com/pdfs/dault_09.pdf

NOW review: http://joankaufman.com/pdfs/schechter.pdf

Joan Kaufman will be giving an artist's talk at Lonsdale Gallery on Saturday, May 23rd from 2-4pm. Contact Festival programing will continue at Lonsdale Gallery until Sunday, May 31st.

Illusion, Transformation, Creating the Impossible

Artists Joan Kaufman, William Mokrynski, Mabel Odessey and Ilan Wolff use photography as a means of constructing still and moving images, for illustrating the fantastic and the bizarre. While photography has been viewed historically as a means of documentation, using a variety of technologies, these artists alter their subjects through photo manipulation, digital processes, or simple multiple pinholes to invent new realities.




mutliple pinhole photo and video installation by William Mokrynski


camera obscura photos by Ilan Wolff


photos for "Suspended" series by Joan Kaufman


coloured pinhole photos and video installation by Mabel Odessey

"The Principles of Design" reception for grade 8 photography students from Forest Hill Public School

Every year, Londale Gallery donates an exhibition space on its second floor to local school groups to display their photography for the Contact Festival. Pleas join us to celebrate the remarkable achievements of these young artists. The principles of design are the elements of composition used in all art works. For the exhibit, each student chose a different element to portray in his or her photograph. Along with their photos brightly coloured collective group portraits of the student-artists are on display. This exhibition will run until May 10th.