Peep Show: New Artists Exposed - write up on Canadian Art.ca

"Peep Show: New Artists Exposed!
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto Aug 12 to Sep 27 2009
Lonsdale Gallery ushers in a new wave of playfully experimental artists this summer with “Peep Show.” This media-diverse exhibition includes works by Jamie Bradbury, Bogdan Luca, Osheen Harruthoonyan, Amanda McCavour and Alex McLeod that share a spirit of creative inventiveness. Photo-based artist Osheen Harruthoonyan, for instance, poetically explores memory dissolution by altering found and personal photographs through unique analog printing processes, while Amanda McCavour specializes in intricate thread drawings that add warm tactility to an otherwise removed viewing experience. Bogdan Luca’s figurative practice weaves in “concepts of distortion, repetition, perspective and even complete disintegration of the form” to create paintings that tingle with colour, motion and feeling, vividly capturing subjective impressions of moments in time. Ultimately, the works in this exhibition are suffused with enough ingenuity and insight to warrant more than just a peep. (410 Spadina Rd, Toronto ON)
www.lonsdalegallery.com"

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http://www.canadianart.ca/online/see-it/2009/08/27/peep-show/

Images from Peep Show - open now until September 27th

images from opening night of PEEP SHOW, Thursday August 13, 2009




artist Amanda McCavour prepared two installations for the show. This install on display in the front window of the gallery.



interior view of installation beside photographs by Osheen Harruthoonyan.


installation shot of second floor of gallery. Watercolour painting by Jamie Bradbury in foreground.


Second floor installation by Amanda McCavour.


Main floor installation view.


Digital works by Alex McLeod.

Noticed: A Summer of Gallery Love for Alex McLeod

image: Alex McLeod, Banked Tallship,2009

Artist Alex McLeod was recently featured on "Unedit My Heart", the blog of Toronto Art Writer and Critic, Leah Sandals.

Sandals writes:

I first saw McLeod's work in a solo at Switch Contemporary earlier in June, and now it turns out the the guy has a two-person show opening at Queen West dealer Angell Gallery this Saturday, as well as a hand in an emerging-artist group show at Lonsdale Gallery opening next Wednesday.

So what is it, many young artists may be wondering, that makes McLeod's work "so different, so appealing"? (Or, in the very least, much exhibited.)

For the rest of the story visit:
http://neditpasmoncoeur.blogspot.com/2009/08/noticed-summer-of-gallery-love-for-alex.html