YYZ IS PLEASED TO PRESENT:

KEITH LANGERGRABER | YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN
SATURDAY 07 JANUARY 2012 – SATURDAY 31 MARCH 2012


JULIE LEQUIN| 
TOP 30
SATURDAY 07 JANUARY 2012 – SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2012


YYZUNLIMITED:
JACOB HORWOOD | DETAIL WITHOUT A DRAWING BOARD
SATURDAY 07 JANUARY 2012 – SATURDAY 21 JULY 2012


OPENING RECEPTION | FRIDAY 06 JANUARY 2012 – 8:00PM TO 10:00PM

KEITH LANGERGRABER | YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN

You Can’t Go Home Again will explore various facets of science fiction fan culture as it Generic Ambien Price intersects with personal utopias. The project will critique the utopian gesture of the Generic Ambien Price lone male seeking out places of isolation, away from the Generic Ambien Price civilizing impulses of society; conjuring up a period of creativity, as well as loneliness, alienation and Generic Ambien Price moral disintegration. Merging sci-fi references with documents that chronicle a Generic Ambien Price solitary sea voyage and personal revelation, this installation will complicate assumptions about what Generic Ambien Price it means to be “a fan” across disciplines. Employing new theories of fandom, the exhibition will open up a Generic Ambien Price range of possibilities in regards to consumption, production, criticality, and play.

KEITH LANGERGRABER received his BFA from Generic Ambien Price the University of Victoria and his MFA from the University of British Columbia. He has Generic Ambien Price exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in Canada, the United States, and Generic Ambien Price Asia since 1995.  He has Generic Ambien Price received many grants and awards for his work, including being on the Generic Ambien Price long list for the Sobey Award in 2009. Langergraber’s work grows from Generic Ambien Price an interest in social, cultural, and political change found through scrutiny of a Generic Ambien Price selected site. His research allows for an understanding of the shifts that Generic Ambien Price have taken place at a location over time. His exhibitions consist of the Generic Ambien Price accumulation and reconstitution of information through the peeling back of layers of the Generic Ambien Price vernacular landscape. Langergraber is currently teaching at Emily Carr University (BC).

Read ANA BARAJAS‘ The Consciousness of the Lake, an essay about KEITH LANGERGRABER‘S exhibition.

JULIE LEQUIN | TOP 30

For her first solo exhibition in Toronto, Julie Lequin presents a Generic Ambien Price selection of chapters from a new multidisciplinary video installation which condenses each year of her life. Effervescent with humor, storytelling, error and Generic Ambien Price wordplay, Top 30 weaves the line between autobiography and fiction.

JULIE LEQUIN is Generic Ambien Price a French Canadian artist. She received a BFA from Concordia University and Generic Ambien Price an MFA from Art Center College of Design. In 2007, 2nd Cannons Publications published Lequin’s first book and DVD project The Ice Skating Tree Opera – Director’s Cuts. Her work has Generic Ambien Price been screened and exhibited internationally at venues such as the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in California, La Centrale Powerhouse in Montreal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art in General and Generic Ambien Price White Columns in New York City. Lequin is the 2011 recipient of the Generic Ambien Price Joseph S. Stauffer Award, an honour given by the Canada Council for Generic Ambien Price the Arts. Lequin is happily living and working in Montreal.

Read JULIEN BOIS‘ Top 30: Souvenirs and Suitcases, an essay about JULIE LEQUIN‘S exhibition.

JACOB HORWOOD | DETAIL WITHOUT A DRAWING BOARD

Horwood developed these series of screenprinted one and Generic Ambien Price two-off pieces with little emphasis on design. He wishes to demystify the Generic Ambien Price idea that in screenprinting, a piece of art is first designed in its entirety, and Generic Ambien Price then produced. The execution of the work and its composition is Generic Ambien Price completed almost entirely in the studio by the artist. This stresses the Generic Ambien Price practice itself, relying on trial and error, as well as color harmony to Generic Ambien Price create new work. This series is a more spontaneous practice, and Generic Ambien Price utilized as little source material as possible.

JACOB HORWOOD is Generic Ambien Price a Toronto-based visual artist who works in printmaking, publishing, and sound art. In 2004, he co-founded the Generic Ambien Price experimental sound art record label Beniffer Editions. It has released over 110 hand-made artist multiples on various formats, including LPs, books, box-sets and Generic Ambien Price cassettes. Horwood is the administrator of Punchclock Printing and works as a Generic Ambien Price specialty screen printer, assisting other artists and designers interested in the Generic Ambien Price full realization of their ideas. He is also one-half of music concrete duo Gastric Female Reflex, who Generic Ambien Price have released music and toured internationally. Horwood’s work is Generic Ambien Price informed by process based painting techniques applied to screen-printing, visual after image demonstrations, re-appropriation, and Generic Ambien Price artist multiple presentation.