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Ben Darrah
White Elk, 2009
11 3/8 x 9 3/8, Acrylic on fabric
Retail value: $440 Reserve bid: $220
Ben Darrah is a Kingston-based artist. He is also a teacher and writes about art.
Darrah uses orphaned imagery of flora and fauna (and the tools we use to engage with our environment) in combination with painted abstract grounds to suggest narratives about identity, environment and sense of place. Darrah has always been concerned with the interplay of colour and mark-making, focusing on subtle, and not-so-subtle, colour combinations that are both evocative and beautiful.
Alyson Ogasian
Untitled
12 x 12 inches. ink, Japanese paper and resin on wood panel
Retail value: $200 Reserve bid: $120
Aly Ogasian graduated from the Fine Art program at Queen's in 2008 and now lives and works in Toronto.
Daniel Oxley
Sengal Night (2009)
16” x 20”, Oil on canvas
Retail value: $ 1800 Reserve bid: $500
I was born in Montreal. Over the past 20 years I have divided my time between Montreal and Kingston. I still make and exhibit paintings.
Dave Gordon
Pie in the Sky (2008)
26” x 32” x2”, Acrylic on canvas
Retail value: $1200 Reserve bid: $600
Dave Gordon lives & works in Kingston, ON. He recently exhibited a piece entitled “Inside” as part of the ongoing Swamp Ward Window Project. He has work in Public and private collections in Ontario.
Deborah Margo
From “40019’s Ceaseless Transformation” (2009)
4” x 4” x 4” (approx.), Sculpture made of sugar and varnish
Retail value: $100 Reserve bid: $30
Deborah Margo’s work combines different disciplines including sculpture, painting, drawing and ephemeral installations. Born in Montreal, Deborah lives in Ottawa where she started working with jawbreaker candies about seven years ago after learning how to stone carve. 40019’s Ceaseless Transformation has now been exhibited in Ottawa, Almonte, Toronto and Calgary.
I am not interested in grand events, neither in monuments to commemorate them. Instead I find wonder in the everyday and in the task of tracking time. Small events are to be followed despite the constant reminder of our insignificance. I do so using a wide array of materials and forms, questioning the boundaries of a two and three-dimensional world.
Jennifer Long
Untitled (2009)
14” x 11”, C. Print
Retail value: $250 Reserve bid: $100
Jennifer Long has been a practicing artist for eleven years and has exhibited in twelve solo exhibitions and over twenty group shows nationally and internationally. She is currently teaching at the Ontario College of Art & Design and is represented by Leo Kamen Gallery (Toronto) and Galerie Poller (Germany).
Jennifer Long’s lens-based practice explores issues of doubt, vulnerability, perceived ideals, and communication, within the context of interpersonal relationships. In addition, she is interested in the “everyday” moments or pauses, which are not typically considered worth documenting.
Jo-Anne Balcaen
Big Pink (2006)
23” x 17”, colour ink jet print
Retail value: $500 Reserve bid: $300
Jo-Anne Balcaen is a Montreal-based artist and cultural worker. She completed studies at the University of Manitoba (BFA) and Concordia University (MFA), Montreal. Her work has been shown throughout Canada, and in Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland and the U.S.A.
J. T. Winik
XOX Hartjeuk (2006)
14 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches, oil on canvas
Retail value: $1200 Reserve bid: $650
J. T. Winik is currently represented in galleries in Montreal, Toronto and area, as well as in Amsterdam and Tijnje, the Netherlands. Locally, she is represented by Sandra Whitton Gallery. Her paintings have been featured on various book covers, art books and magazines including publications in London, England (Marilyn in Art), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Artacucina I and II), Istanbul, Turkey (Tinsel Yocullugun Yedi Adimi), and Toronto, Canada (Fishing Up The Moon, Let's Pretend We Never Met, The Other Sister). To fuel her work she continues to work in different environments for periods of four to six months each year, including The Netherlands, Mexico and Spain.
XOX Hartjeuk is part of a series inspired by the red light district in Amsterdam. The female figures in these paintings withdraw into themselves while exposing their bodies to varying degrees. Hartjeuk translated means "Heart Itch," the itch representing a longing for love in a world where the act of love signifies little more than a monetary transaction.
June Pak
Paint Job 17: Lois & Greg’s Living Room, Kelowna, BC, 2006
11”x17” (dibond mounting), digital print
Retail value: $500 Reserve bid: $250
Statement:
Stemming from the interest in investigating the relationship and the effects of surroundings to those who occupy that space, I decided to take my project into different people’s homes. By proposing the choice of colour to the participants, we engage in a subtle exchange of culture and art-making. With the invitation to their home, I bring my materials and paint a square on their choice of wall. The colour swatch I am using in this project is called “Algonquin Autumn”: The name of the colour series suggests the idea of the Great Northern Ontario landscape and its pivotal role in the Group of Seven’s paintings, and the underlining reflection on the Canadian cultural identity. As an immigrant from Korea, the act of “self-invitation” to various Canadian homes is an intriguing play on the idea of ownership. Paint Job is an on-going project that engages with everyday life and its social dynamic. It emphasizes the dialogue and the interaction rather than the final art as a tangible product. Prints that I make at the end of each visit are documentation of the ephemeral exchange along with short text and occasional videos recording the moment. Paint Job blurs the boundary between art and design, the artist and the audience and, the object and the consumption.
Bio:
June Pak was born in Seoul, South Korea, and now lives in Toronto, Canada. She holds a BFA from York University and a MFA from the University of Windsor. Her time-based and digital media projects explore the human-ness found in the fragmented Self. She currently teaches time-based media and interdisciplinary courses at the University of Western Ontario. Her single-channel videos and media installations have shown at various venues throughout Canada, the US and Europe since 1996.
Marisa Portolese
Still from the series Breathless (2007)
8 x 10, c-print
Retail value: $200 Reserve Bid: TBD
Marisa Portolese’s work often explores the relationship between the fixed photographic portrait, her subject’s identities and narrative desire. Her explorations in contemporary portraiture concentrate on elucidating facets of human experiences in relation to psychological and physical environments, relating to larger themes concerning identity and spectatorship.
Upon graduating with an MFA degree from Concordia University in 2001, she has produced many photographic projects which have received critical acclaim, namely Belle de Jour (2002), The Recognitions (2004-05), Breathless (2007), and recently the Dandy Collection (2008). She has exhibited widely in Canada, Europe and the United States, notably in cities such as Berlin, New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Palermo and Bologna, Italy. In 2007, she was invited to participate in the prestigious international biennale of contemporary photography: Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, whereby she presented work from her latest series of images ‘Dream Weavers’. She has also curated several exhibitions and has recently helped organize the McGill street project entitled ‘Inspirations’, a McCord Museum initiative. She is currently working on a documentary film on Italian immigration in Montreal, as well as a photographic and video project on the complex nature of family and community, focusing on issues relating to identity, abandonment and displacement.
Alongside her exhibition record, critics have written about her work in publications such as Canadian Art, Border Crossings, Ciel Variable magazine, ETC Montreal, as well as other journals, magazines, newspapers and art books. In addition, Dazibao publications published a book of her photographs. She is the recipient of several awards and numerous grants from the Canada and Québec Arts Councils, as well as the DuMaurier Arts Foundation. Her work is part of private and public collections.
Melanie Authier
"Mega Lith" (2009)
18" x 22" x 1 5/8", Acrylic on Canvas
Retail value: $1700 Reserve bid: $850
Melanie Authier, recipient of the Honourable Mention prize for the 9th Annual RBC Painting Competition 2007; completed her MFA at the University of Guelph in 2006. Authier is represented by the Michael Gibson Gallery and has exhibited across Canada. In April 2009 an interview with Leah Sandals was featured in the National Post. Authier’s work is located in prominent private and corporate art collections including the BMO Financial Group, Royal Bank of Canada and the TD Bank Financial Group as well as the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Authier's paintings bring together visual contradictions into one imaginary space. By drawing upon the histories of abstraction and the strategies of representation, she creates improbable environments. A sense of disorientation comes about through the way in which colour, texture, line and shape compete for room within the canvas. Each work presents visual oppositions that the viewer is invited to bring into order. The combinations of space that she works to produce in my paintings reveal elements of the irrational and the evocation of unfathomable spaces. The conventions of beauty and the sublime that have existed since the 18th century can be looked at reflexively within a contemporary context. The artistic movements of the picturesque and the sublime were the early symptoms of a continuing relationship with nature and landscape as something that is romanticized and lost. The concept of Nature is a provisional category that is ideologically determined. Authier's paintings negotiate the idea of “nature” as a mediated social construct.
Melanie MacDonald
X-mas Ornament (2008)
24x24”x1”, Acrylic on canvas
Retail value: $500 Reserve bid: $400
Melanie MacDonald lives and works in downtown St. Catharines, ON.
She is an active member of the Niagara Artists’ Centre and a member of the CRAM collective (both located in St. Catharines).Examples of her work can be viewed at www.melaniemacdonald.ca.
In 2008, she was selected as an emerging artist for publication in the Magenta Foundation’s “Carte Blanche II”--a book that features the work of 180 contemporary Canadian painters.
Robert Linsley
Untitled (2009)
9x12 inches unframed, watercolour
Retail value: $900 Reserve bid: $250
Robert Linsley lives in Kitchener Ontario. He has an upcoming group show in LA in January and solo show at Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery in January 2011.
Chantal Rousseau
And now let us weep for the lovely lovely ladies of CSI: barn owls (2009)
11” x 9” x 1.5”, Ink on paper
Retail value: $250 Reserve bid: $150
This ink drawing is from the series And now let us weep for the lovely lovely ladies of CSI, where bodies of fictional female victims from the television shows CSI Vegas, CSI Miami, and CSI New York are depicted with a diverse range of predatory animals.
Chantal Rousseau's practice includes painting, drawing, video and animation. Recent exhibitions include: Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario (2009), Gallery Lambton, Sarnia Ontario (2009), Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Ontario (2008), and Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario (2008). She completed an MFA at the University of Guelph in 2005.
Sarindar Dhaliwal
Powdered Pigments: Venice (2000-6)
22 inches x 30", handcoloured etching
Retail value: $1000 Reserve bid: $300
Sarindar Dhaliwal is a visual artist based in Toronto. She was born in India, raised in Britain and has lived in Canada since 1968. Dhaliwal received her BFA with a concentration in sculpture at University College (Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK), and her MFA from York University (Toronto, Canada).
Scott Wallis
Untitled No. 547 (2003)
6.5” x 6.5” x ½”, 10”x 10” framed, Alkyd on Mylar
Retail value: $750 Reserve bid: $750
Scott Wallis is a Kingston based artist, and is represented by the David Kaye Gallery in Toronto.
Ted Rettig
kindness & graciousness (2008)
10 x 14 inches - 4 prints, all same, ink on paper
Retail value: $150 Reserve bid: $125
Ted Rettig was born in West Germany in 1949. He studied at York University and has been exhibiting since 1974. He has long researched the areas of art and contemplative practices as well as Asian art and contemporary art. He teaches in the Dept. of Art at Queen's University.
Margaux Williamson
painting study – parking lot/ graveyard (2008)
81/2 x 11 inches, not framed Paper, pen, tape
Retail Value: $100, Reserve:$30
Margaux Williamson received her BFA from Queen’s University. She has shown her paintings internationally and premiered her first movie project at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her most recent Youtube video project was mentioned by the New York Times Magazine as a terrific thing to have seen on any screen.
Lynne Wynick
MF Foiled (2008)
8.5 x 11 inches, Ink jet print
Retail Value: $75 Reserve: $30
-Born in London, England, Canadian citizen, Associate of the Ontario College of Art, co-director of Wynick/Tuck Gallery.
-Continued a studio practice since 1968, curated many exhibitions and exhibited in Canada and abroad.
-Private and public collections including The National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario and The Agnes Etherington Art Centre
In the recent work, Façade, created for the State of Flux Gallery, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Ontario, 2008, I referred to a photograph of the Modern Fuel façade found on its’ website as my starting point. Studio based references recur throughout the work utilizing various media. Parts from a red, clay brick model set were used for one of the facade models. One drawing of the facade became a model leading to the photographs, MF Model 2 with Found Light, MF Model 2 Projected and Modern Fuel as a Joseph Légaré Painting. A discarded foil wrapper was used to cast a MF façade shadow –MF Foiled. Filmic strips became book like multiples and Brancusi references were made.
Mark Thompson
Pineapple (2007)
14x14x4 Oil on wood, sheet lead (sealed), glass, vitreous enamel
Retail Value: $4200, Reserve Bid: $750
I graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1985 having studied painting and sound sculpture. Upon graduating, I became the in-house designer and studio manager for a large, traditional, stained glass company in Toronto. I have been self-employed as an artists working predominantly with glass since 1991. Since then, I have undertaken many large-scale achritectural glass commissions and have generated a steady stream of studio artwork including : autonomous glassworks, paintings and mixed media sculpture. I’ve been exhibiting in group shows since the early 90s and in 1999 I had my first one person. I maintain a fully equipped glass/art studio in Kingston, Ontario. I occasionally subsidize my artwork with the conservation and restoration of historic stained glass windows.
Pat McDermott
I Want to Know Why No 1 (2006)
15 x 12.5 x 3” Wax, pigment, imitation gold leaf and paper on MDF box
Retail Value: $1600 Reserve Bid: $800
Pat McDermott works primarily in wax and has been living in Kingston for 8 years.
Preston Schiedel
Lake Ontario Park Series:“Looking N.E. Near Boundary Fence” (2008)
18” x 26” Silver contact print,
Retail Value: $800, Reserve Bid $300
Most of my work to date has centered on the interaction between humankind and nature. I do not see it in terms of being environmental, but rather as two forces acting in a cyclical manner through a series of events: birth, death, decay, and rebirth. They are subtle images that could be read in a number of different ways; as pure landscape, as documents of a place, or as cultural material. I use a 12x20” banquet camera for the b/w contact prints, and a 4x5” camera for the color work, which is then scanned and printed digitally.
Christine D'Onofrio
Pearl (Nail Polish Drop)
12 x 12 x 1.5 inches Digital C-Print
Retail Value $300, Reserve Bid $70
Donation to Gallery 100%
Christine D'Onofrio is a visual artist currently living and practicing in Vancouver. Her work focuses on the re-staging of objects where she utilizes the tropes of commercial photography and film to investigate the problematics of identity, femininity and the body.
Amy Uyeda
Untitled (2008)
11 x 14 pen on paper
Retail Value $100 Reserve Bid $20