scotiabank nuit blanche
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is a signature event produced by the City of Toronto.
DISH GALLERY + STUDIO IMAGES
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010
MYSTIC CLAY PAD
Images by: Eden Bender, Susan Card,Gabrielle Kauffman, Judith Graham, Irit Lepkin, Cory Pinassi
graphic design: Derek Chung
photo credit: Susan card
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009
GRAFFITI TILE COLLAGE
by Abbey Smith, Ian Chung, and Susan Card
graphic design: Derek Chung
photo credit: Abbey Smith, Ian Chung, Dale Roddick
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008
SECRET DISC
by Wendy Vervoort graphic design: Derek Chung
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The Toronto Distillery Historic District is a
national historic site that has been transformed into a center
for arts, culture and entertainment in downtown Toronto. Set
on 13 acres, the 40 buildings on the site constitute the best-preserved
collection of Victorian Industrial Architecture in North America.
As an area that hosts the filming of movies, tv shows and music
videos, the District is also home to internationally acclaimed
festivals, galleries, theatres, restaurants, boutiques and artists
studios including
DISH GALLERY + STUDIO.
During Scotiabank Nuit Blanche2010, DISH GALLERY + STUDIO will mount the MYSTIC CLAY PAD Project October 2, 2010
6:55 pm to sunrise
Accompanying the Project, the Ceramic Exhibition TEXT AS DRAWING by 20 ceramic artists opens 7pm
Portfolio of participating artists
Biographies of participating artists:
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Artists and visitors collaborated in DISH GALLERY + STUDIO using wet clay tiles to create a wall of graffiti for this interactive public art exhibition. Artist-designed graffiti tiles on display inspired visitors to scratch, scrawl, paint, impress or add parts to prepared tiles of wet clay. A new form of art, graffiti relief, emerged overnight on a wall in the Toronto Distillery's Case Goods Warehouse.
From the beginning of human history, people have documented events, emotions and observations through drawing on walls of caves or rocks. While walls of buildings not only reflect the architecture and history of the time in which they were constructed, they provide a record of the social, political, economic, and geographic environment of that time. They also tempt graffiti artists.
Although graffiti, the modern-day equivalent of cave paintings, is a criminal offence, contemporary views recognize it’s artistic merit as a form of public art. Often expressing social or political views, it has been known to incite dialogue between opposing points of view as part of an underground rebel culture.
If Walls Could Speak was mounted as an exhibition and an event to legitimize the inclination of people to make marks on a wall. Outside DISH GALLERY + STUDIO a 20 foot wall of graffiti was created. The public was permitted to scratch, scrawl, paint, impress, or add clay to raw clay tiles prepared for the purpose of creating a graffiti wall of clay. An art form traditionally created with spray paint, this project introduced a new art form, graffiti relief, especially for scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009.
The project wall will be “seeded” with graffiti tiles created by artists Through the night, DISH GALLERY + STUDIO with 19 artists from diverse disciplines created a wall of artist-designed graffiti tiles interspersed with visitor-created graffiti tiles in wet clay. Artists’ tiles sowed the seeds of creativity to inspire visitors to scratch, scrawl, paint, impress, or add “sprigs”, or bits of clay, to wet clay tiles prepared for the purpose.
Other works by artists exhibiting graffiti tiles on display inside the gallery inspired the public to construct the graffiti wall as the hours ticked by.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN scotiabank nuit blanche 09
After having owned and operated her own garment manufacturing business, Barbara Banfield has turned her creative explorations to clay. As recent graduate of Sheridan College Ceramics Programme, her work is featured in the September issue of Ceramics Monthly.
Eden Bender’s award-winning work explores human relationships, compassion and the inner spirit through her figurative pieces. artjunkie.ca
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Trained as a graphic designer in her native Sao Paulo, Brazil, Celia Zveibil Brandao is captivated by the possibilities of the clay. Celia work is centered in the exploration of form and decoration as applied to both functional ware and sculpture. www.celiaceramics.com
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Susan Card opened DISH GALLERY + STUDIO in 2006 in the Toronto Distillery Historic District’s Casegoods Warehouse. DISH GALLERY + STUDIO offers a retail shop, exhibitions, and pottery classes.
www.dishgalleryandstudio.clayandglass.on.ca
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Graphic Designer Derek Chung was responsible for organizing the 2007 exhibition of work of the Durham Potters Guild at the Station Gallery in Whitby and has served on the ceramics community on the board of FUSION for many years.
Initially educated in Commercial Design in Hong Kong, Ian Chung is a founding member of Markham 48 Studio Tour and is actively involved in the ceramics community as VP of the Durham Potters. His work is found in the collections of Herbert O. Bunt and The Burlington Art Centre.
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Aneela Dias D’Sousa, a native of Mumbai, India and graduate of the Sheridan College Ceramics Programme, is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre. Aneela will coordinate the Toronto Potters Exhibition opening in 2010 at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. www.aneeladiasdsousa.com
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Judy Donaldson has been actively involved with several Ontario arts organizations since 1989 on the organizing committees for several clay conferences and has written workshop and exhibition reviews and technical articles for the Ontario Crafts Council, FUSION Magazine, and Ceramics Monthly.
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Karen Franzen’s painterly styled work was chosen for the window display at the AGO during the Barnes Exhibition of Impressionist art works. www.karenfranzen.com
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Inspired by her wooded surroundings, Gabrielle Kauffman’s pottery exhibits textures, colours and patterns based on natural forms and lines. Gabrielle donates 50% of all her pottery proceeds to the Canadian Food for Children charity. www.gkstoneware.com
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Margie Kelk has exhibited her work in over 25 solo exhibitions and group shows since 1984, most recently (2009) in “A Postcard is worth 1,000 words” exhibition, APW Gallery, N.Y. City, N.Y. U.S.A. and “im/AGE” at Propeller Gallery, curated by Moses Znaimer. Currently President of Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts in Toronto, her artistic works span a multitude of media. A recent foray into ceramics extends her collaged photographic pieces whose main characters appeared as graffiti on walls. www.margiekelk.com
Although Irit Lepkin’s sculptures are small in scale, they are powerful in emotional evocation. In her work, Lepkin attempts to mirror the human predicament.
Colleen O’Reilly’s fanciful ceramic work is included in many international collections and has been received by numerous world leaders as diplomatic gifts. Colleen owns and operates Hamilton based gallery James North Studio with her partner, photographer Jim Chambers. www.jamesnorthstudio.com
Gerri Orwin, a retiree from a career in Film and Music Production in the Advertising and Documentary fields, in Toronto and New York, volunteers at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art and as a clay instructor to seniors.
Linda Rosen is a full time Ceramic Technician at Northern Secondary School and as a Continuing Education Instructor, for the Toronto District School Board, which allows her to indulge her wide ranging ceramic interests and provides for continued in-depth study of unexplored ceramic territory.
Abbey Smith’s recent work consists of murals available for commission for public and residential spaces, as well as freestanding sculpture and functional pottery. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Abbey settled in ON in 1967 where she taught in Toronto public schools, at the Royal Ontario Museum, Seneca College and her own studio.
Brenda Sullivan has owned and operated a ceramic studio for 36 years; her current studio, Dragon Clay Productions, is located in Port Hope. www.dragonclayproductions.com
Robert Têtu’s porcelain is included in private and public art collections, notably, the Governments of Ontario and Brazil, and the permanent collections of the Potters' Guild of Hamilton and Region, the Waterloo Potters' Workshop, and The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Canada. A professional ceramist for 35 years, Robert’s studio Beechwood Pottery is located in an historic general store near Seaforth, Ontario.
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PREVIOUSLY...
During scotiabank nuit blanche 08, DISH GALLERY + STUDIO mounted the SECRET OF THE DISC EXHIBITION Oct 4/Oct 5, 2008. |
| Ceramic artists (22) collaborated in an interactive public art exhibition. Combining secrets with the clay medium was inspired by the 4000 year old “Phaistos Disk”, a Minoan clay treasure, unearthed in 1908 Crete, but never deciphered. Motivated by the historic disk and contemporary CD /DVD discs, carriers of “mysterious” electronic information, ceramistsl embeded secret messages in CLAY DISCS. Visitors made charcoal rubbings of the discs on paper to de-code them. Artists creating the works received feedback from the public as works were interpreted or deciphered. DISH GALLERY + STUDIO mounted the rubbings as a group exhibition. In the gallery the audience saw “wheel throwing” and created their own Secret Disc with secret coded message from a ball of clay. .
22 CERAMISTS PARTICIPATED IN scotiabank nuit blanche 08
View portfolio of images of other works by participating ceramsts
Portfolio of participating artists
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Barbara Banfield, Eden Bender, Celia Zveibil Brandao, Susan Card, Shu-Chen Cheng, Derek Chung, Judy Donaldson, Karen Franzen, Judith Graham, Deborah Johnston, Gabrielle Kauffman, Irit Lepkin, Gerri Orwin, Cory Pinassi, Barbara Rose, Linda Rosen, Margaux Smith, Brenda Sullivan, Robert Têtu, Wendy Vervoort, Andrea Vuletin, Catherine Weir.
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