8 Vignettes

8 Vignettes

A Collaboration of Art and Music between
OCAD University and the Royal Conservatory of Music

April 20th, 2012
Performances begin at 7:30pm

The Music Gallery

197 John Street, Toronto

On Friday, April 20, a once-in-a-lifetime collaborative performance between OCAD U’s fourth-year Printmaking students and musicians from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music will take place at The Music Gallery in Toronto. The collaboration is the brainchild of renowned Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer and his good friend, OCAD U Printmaking Professor Rudolf Bikkers.

Invited guests will experience eight vignettes, each featuring a musical composition written by an RCM student paired with one or more printmaking students, who have created works that range from sculptural in nature to those that include projected elements, lighting, animation and installation. Guests will intermingle among the performances as a part of them.

The performance will feature works by OCAD U students Arend Currie, John Ekonomakos, Elizabeth Ortolan, Melissa Cormier, Annie Cormier, Megan Cunningham, Krystina Plante, Lee Aaron Wiesblatt, Ryan Reid Millard, Ashley Lil Eisen, Alexa Hatanaka, Jean Romano, and Annyen Lam.

The students from the Glenn Gould School are Taylor N McGee (violinist), Danielle Girard (violinist), Sophie Baird-Daniel (harpist), Ruth D’Souza (vocalist), Teddy Wiggins (violinist), Vladimir Tsyglian (vocalist), Carlos Hernondez (pianist), Sahara Sloan (vocalist), Dave Shewchuk (violinist/composer), Nicholas King (pianist), Autumn Chodorowski (vocalist), Minjoo Jo (pianist), Lucas Porter (composer) and Tao Chen (coordinator).

Due to space considerations the event is restricted to invited guests, but the performance will be documented by OCAD U Visual Resources, and made available via the university’s library later this summer.


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Rock N Roll 4

Rock N Roll 4

A Celebration of Stone Lithography

April 19th - 29th, 2012

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday   12 - 7pm

Closing Reception April 28th, 2012   7pm - 1am

Oz Studios

134 Ossington Avenue

Rock N Roll shows are always a bangin' party with awesome people and artists from the community. Come out and celebrate with us on Saturday April 28th!!

Works for sale

We Killed It!

WE KILLED IT!!!!

Black Sheep was a HUGE success!!

Thank you to the hundreds of people who came out to celebrate with

us and make it such a special night!!

Also, special thanks to The Gladstone Hotel and their excellent staff

who have gone above and beyond for us.

Stay tuned for the next Black Sheep show!
Baaahhh!!!

Black Sheep Press - Toronto's Best Parties

Local magazine, The Grid, has featured the Black Sheep show in this weeks edition of The Night List, a prediction of the top 5 best parties to attend in Toronto, during April 5th-11th!

Go Black Sheep! We're everywhere!! We can't be stopped!!! BAAAHHH!!!!

Highlight:

Thursday: Black Sheep, an OCAD printmaking exhibition

Gladstone Gallery, 1214 Queen Street West, second floor. #WQW Free. Runs until April 24. Doors at 7 p.m.
Looking for a custom throw pillow? Maybe fund a rad t-shirt line upstart? If you’re looking to stumble upon the next big nu-art thing being birthed in this town, stumble no further than OCAD’s thesis exhibit. The exhibit’s namesake, the “Black Sheep,” is merely the beginning of realness, and what I’m taking as an allegory for the incoming generation’s craving/quest for the unique among the complacent and conservative. Look for lithography, etching, relief and screen printing transformed into sculptural, installation and bookmaking projects. Themes include: “the death drive to post-human transformations, folklore to popular culture, collecting to cultural persistence, and traditional ideologies from the Classical to the Romantic.” Ones to watch: nature-led Melissa Cormier, visionary-of-all-trades Jimmy Brannen, and rebel girl Kaelan Karjalainen. Find out more here, and watch a promo video from the class here.

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Black Sheep

Black Sheep

April 5th – 23rd, 2012

Gallery Hours 12 – 5pm daily

Opening Reception April 5th, 2012 7 – 10pm

The Gladstone Hotel – 2nd Floor Gallery

1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

Poster version designed by Krystina Plante

Showcasing the artwork of OCAD University’s 2012 Printmaking Thesis Graduates:

Jimmy Brannen

Megan Cunningham

Annie Cormier

Melissa Cormier

Arend Currie

John Ekonomakos

Nathan Enkel

Jean Ferderber

Alexa Hatanaka

Kaelan Karjalainen

Annyen Lam

Ashley Lil

Ryan Reid Millard

Allison Philp

Krystina Plante

Xenia Vakova

Lee Aaron Wiesblatt

The Gladstone Hotel - Upcoming Events Listing - Black Sheep

The Gladstone Hotel features Black Sheep:

Black Sheep

Thu, Apr 5, 2012 - Tue, Apr 24, 2012

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Cover: FREE

Venue: Gladstone Gallery (2nd Floor)

Visual Arts

Poster design by Krystina Plante

In the Printmaking Department of OCADU, each student offers their unique vision to the timeless mediums of lithography, etching, relief and screen printing. In this exhibition, Printmaking’s graduates have both supported the mediums two dimensional tradition, and transformed it into sculptural, installation and bookmaking projects.

With urgency and enthusiasm, these artists find their own niches and approaches for their work, expanding their sights beyond the institutional space to a cultural landscape. Themes explore a variety of delights including: the death drive to post-human transformations, folk lore to popular culture, collecting to cultural persistence, and traditional ideologies from the Classical to the Romantic.

Come celebrate with the graduating printmakers, as they reveal their thesis works!

With works by: Jimmy Brannen, Annie Cormier, Melissa Cormier, Megan Cunningham, Arend Currie, Ashley Eisen, John Ekonomakos, Nathan Enkel, Jean Ferderber, Alexa Hatanaka, Kaelan Karjalainen, Annyen Lam, Ryan Reid Millard, Allison Philp, Krystina Plante, Xenia Vakova, and Lee Wiesblatt.

Please join us for the opening reception Thurs April 5th, 7-10pm

 The Gladstone Hotel Events Listing for Black Sheep

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