Gladstone
Hotel 2nd Fl
May
6-30, 2006
12-5pm
daily
Opening
Reception May 5, 2006 7pm-10pm
Featured Artists:
Dale M Reid
After my wife was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, my outlook
on life changed. I was looking through a different set of eyes.
With this new appreciation of my surroundings, I started to capture
these views through the photographic medium. Through experimentation,
I found myself developing a photographic eye and my own artistic
style. I look at changing environmental conditions; shadows; time
of the day; angle of the shot; and elements of activity to bring
a unique feeling/style to my photographs.
Trees provide critical elements of living in a large urban environment
including oxygen and a place to cool down on a hot summer's day.
In Toronto, we are fortunate with the number of trees that exist
within our city. The exhibit looks at the artistic beauty of the
starkness of trees during the winter months. The photographs featured
in the exhibit were shot primarily in High Park.
www.portfolios.com/dalemreid
 
Michael
Conway & Aaron
Finbow
"The
cities" presents a photographic installation
of neglected urban landscapes in Toronto. The spatially rich and
extensive infrastructural network of the Gardiner and the laneways
represents an automobile-oriented fabric which is, by nature of
zoning regulations and accepted norms of living, underutilized
at a human scale. The exploration of these infrastructures seeks
to dissolve and dislocate familiar objectified references towards
these conditions, offering new spaces of contemplation balanced
between attraction and repulsion, emptiness and potential inhabitation.
This dichotomy reflects the current complexity of views towards
appropriating these spaces beyond their initial intended use.
Michael Conway studied Architectural Technology at Fanshawe College
in London, Ontario before receiving his Bachelor of Architecture
in 2001 from the Carleton University School of Architecture in
Ottawa. He has traveled extensively and studied abroad in London,
UK. Currently he works and resides in Toronto and is represented
by the Elaine Fleck Gallery.
mb_conway@yahoo.com
Aaron Finbow received his Bachelor of Architecture in 2001 from
the Carleton University School of Architecture in Ottawa. He has
traveled extensively and studied abroad in Rome, Italy. Currently
he works and resides in Toronto.
aaronfinbow@hotmail.com
Stephanie
Fysh
Stephanie Fysh is an editor and publishing educator in Toronto with a university-induced
penchant for theory and a childhood aversion to cameras. Her photography
explores the relationship between the physical structures we build, the culture
we weave, and the selves we construct within the physical and cultural spaces
through which we move. In locating and tracing moments of sublimity in those
spaces -- moments both large-scale and intimate, intended and unintended
-- she seeks to illuminate the equivalent possibilities of the conscious
construction of self (a personal sublime) and of an erotics of the built
world.
sfysh@sympatico.ca
Mondo Lulu
Started drawing as a skinny kid in the Philippines.
Crayons on paper, pencil on walls, stick in dirt.
Gave up being an astronaut for art.
For a lingering love affair with Mistress Colour;
Spreading the word with brush on canvas, ink on paper, pixels on cathode.
Meandered 40 years in the desert of various visual disciplines,
Notably within the digital tribes of advertising and design.
Found new love in non-commercial finery, marrying old-and-new
Through a new dalliance with the Camera Eye.
If it moves - click it.
If it doesn't move - snap it.
Telling the tale silently told by St. Clair West
And its cast of neighbourhood characters.
Resistant to change, grumbling at inevitability.
This time, the messenger shoots back.
mondo lulu
04/15/06
Kevin Steele
Kevin Steele designs new and old media for a living and has been publishing
photos online at an eponymous domain since 2001 (www.kevinsteele.com).
Photographic processes have always been an important tool in his design
work, and digital photography has made it possible to use his camera habitually
to document, collect and create. Themes that have evolved from this process
of collection tend towards evidence of life - storefronts, roads, litter - rather
than people, but those do sometimes walk into his frames. He has lived
near Queen and Gladstone for 20 years and has been documenting the changing
public spaces there since the turn of this century. Steele will be publishing
a small book of his pictures of Queen West this fall.
www.kevinsteele.com
Jonah Zalken
Jonah
Zalken is a full-time media professional, a self-professed
film geek and a pop culture aficionado, but his passion is photography.
While his photographic subjects run the gamut, he takes particular
satisfaction in shooting portraiture and documentary. He works
in both film and digital formats using a variety of cameras
-- from a 1940s Kodak rangefinder to a modern Canon 35mm SLR.
His fuse is all things garish, sleazy and beautiful. He aims
to capture what is fleeting in life, attempting to turn the ephemeral
that escapes our grasp into the truly tangible. Zalken is a graduate
of the school of Radio & Television
Arts at Ryerson University. New work can be found on his photoblog/gallery.
www.burlapjacket.com
Talia
Talia Erlich is an environmental artist who works out of a Toronto
island studio in an eclectic range of media.
A
graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Sc.) and The Arts Centre
in Toronto (Dip. Art), Talia has taken further studies in ecological
design, and experimented widely with a diversity of techniques.
She has been commissioned to do projects and installations for
both arts and environmental organizations. She is currently
the artist-in-residence for the Toronto Green community.
She believes in the wisdom of seeds and quiet acts of transformation.
"... I'm
interested in evoking empathy for the natural world and awareness
of the larger, unimagined landscape of being..."
talia.art@gmail.com
Lisa Binnie
Discarded objects and forgotten corners give evidence of an earlier
era. My photographs are reminders of landmarks and typical findings
of a neighbourhood that is currently being driven out of obscurity.
They were shot in the vicinity of the Gladstone Hotel and Liberty
Village. These images are part of the ongoing Urban Nature series,
and were recorded just before the re-invention of the area.
Lisa Binnie has always taken photographs, and exhibits every couple
of years. She teaches creative approaches to photography, and works
at Toronto Image Works, the artist's photo lab. Photography can
distract her from working on her metal artwork, but she sometimes
combines the two mediums and is currently building a body of work
with the resulting pieces.
ultra50@sympatico.ca 
Stephen Brookbank
Stephen
has recently been working on a series urban, suburban and rural
"street photography". Originally the New York
City work shown here was intended to be included in this series,
but it quickly became evident that the character of New York was
so distinct and unique that the work needed to be seen on its'
own. As a photographer he appreciates the swagger of the
inhabitants of New Yorkers. They have a strong sense of
the myth of the city that colours the experience of life in New
York City.
Stephen
attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has lived
and worked all over Canada.
Cece Scott
The
gift of a camera for Cece's birthday cultivated in her an unbridled
passion for photography that aligned perfectly with her love
for travel. Cece
is a believer in making pictures in their purest format-Film-through
rolls and rolls of output, both black and white and colour.
Photo
credits include the cover of Palm Beach's prestigious The Society
of the Four Arts magazine and the Toronto Star's Travel sections. Her
photos also appear on her 'travelling
photos' retail card offerings.
Cece's recent photography exhibition at Fusilli's Ristorante on
Queen Street was an artistic and commercial success.
Cece
Scott is president of LatchScott Writing and Photography Services
cecescott@rogers.blackberry.net |
