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Function13 would like to say goodbye and thank you to all of it’s friends, supporters, featured artists and neighbours.

Function13 closed down on May 22, 2011

Keep on reading, listening, creating and exploring.

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Opening: May 14th 7-11pm

Ten emerging artists from the OCAD University Sculpture and Installation program explore how presence and absence is contained in sculptural form. How can an object show evidence of life? What remains after the piece is inhabited? At times this theme is approached though objects shaped to fit human skin and at others through the bodies that are different from, yet parallel, to our own.

Shannon Doyle, Alex Beriault and Stephanie Flowers address the body on different terms. Doyle maps and merges two figures with steel bars, conveying both strength and vulnerability. She seamlessly combines abstraction and figuration. Beriault’s structure contains and divides an absent body. She references the magician and the filmstrip while keeping a sense of confrontation close at hand. Flowers disrupts the classical female nude with an incision that does not reveal an interior. The museum like display has the nude both transfixed and writhing.

Kayla Butt both constrains and nurtures grass inside fifty inhospitable mass-produced thimbles. Thimbles are both industrial and domestic and Butt adds further dimensions to this object by incorporating natural elements. Jessica Mifsud similarly creates unlikely conjunctions. Her hairy installation shakes gender codes by transforming a domestic icon into a wild creature. Ian Norton furthers this conversation with his integration of knitted wool and machined parts. His piece is in motion; cycling like a conveyer belt, it is functional without a clear purpose.

Maria Cupani shakes the signifiers of authority with a humorous take on the bronze bust. Ali Short continues an intuitive practice with her cornered yet flexible Casings. Subtly referencing classic male and female pairings Short ruminates on the connection between forming an identity and becoming anonymous. Sexual undertones set off Jeff Devine’s work where bulbous smoke pours from a pipe. The question here is not so much what a pipe is, but what it can be used for. Charlotte Stewardson’s casts of piled clothing preserves the unexpected aesthetic appeal of these everyday ephemeral forms. Her casts retain the spirit of things forgotten.

Finally, Nick Crombach and Megan Sproule present creatures of very different sorts. While Sproule’s mysterious and magical forms glow inside a glass jar, Crombach’s whale floats between steel and flesh, hunter and hunted.

read more]]> Sheridan Interactive Multimedia is having our 2011 Open House

Friday the 13 of May at Function 13 starting at 13:00 hours… hence:

S U P E R S T I T I O N

http://imm.sheridanc.on.ca/go/superstition

Our grads will show the latest in:

* Flash Mobile for Android and iPhone
* JQuery for Mobile Web Apps
* Gesture Technology for Gesture Tek Cube
* FLAR Augmented Reality & Arduino
* Games, Apps, Sites, Social Media API’s and More!

Be there or be hexed! #CC0000 #EEEEEE #13AA00

From 1PM – 7PM
Refreshments
Function 13
Kensington Market
156 Augusta Avenue
Toronto, ON M5T 2L5
416-840-1010

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Opening May 4th 7pm-10pm

A collective of artists who have a genuine connection and love for Japan and have created art for the fund raising relief efforts.

You can view details and the artwork on the websitehttp://tojapanwithlove.ca/

Pay what you can donation at the door

Art prints and postcards of the artwork featured on this website will be available at the gallery.

All net proceeds will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross for the relief efforts in Japan.

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Space and Site Initiative

From April 23^rd to the 29^th, Function 13 Gallery will present the collaborative work of eighteen senior York University students from the Space and Site Photography Initiative.

The show is organized around each individual artist’s subjective interpretation of the word ‘Outside(r)’. The theme will be understood differently by each artist through photo-based/mixed-media artwork. Never having worked in collaboration with each other before, this project offers a challenging as well as rewarding opportunity for the group. Don’t miss this chance to see the work of these emerging artists.

The Space and Site Initiative includes: Melissa Armstrong, Amanda Barratt, Emily Chan, Julia Joori Chung, Keri-Lynn Elsey, Emily Embury, Janet Hinkle, Archana Jagtianey, Chad Charles Kirvan, Asli Kizikli, Sarah Klus, Alyson Lion, James MacMullin, Aidan O’Boyle, Hilde Romme, Michelle Simpson, Sandra Elizabeth Vadasz, and Shuran Wang.

Opening reception: Saturday April 23^rd

7 to 11pm

Refreshments and cash bar.

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Opening April 15th 7pm-11pm

Ecdysis is a transformative state and perfectly describes the eclectic mix of work in this exhibition.  Here, Ryerson University’s School of Fashion showcases varied approaches, themes and content from twenty-seven students.  The  exhibition focuses on concept based, self-directed work that tackles topics such as images of identity, pain, and love.  Some of the work challenges the idea of illustration utilizing dolls and maquettes to illustrate and convey stories.  There are non-figurative portraits revealed through collections of objects and issues of beauty and addiction, which only touches on a few of the many works to be exhibited.

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Gallery Opening Friday April 8th 6pm-11pm

This annual printmaking show celebrates the creative process of stone lithography. It features students, alumni, and guest artists mostly from the OCADU, however this year we are expanding for the first time to feature some Montreal artists. The show explores stone lithography as a contemporary vehicle for artistic methodology. More experienced printers will be working collaboratively with artists to help them achieve a new realization of their work in the context of the medium. We are also in the process of creating ways to help demystify the process in order for the public to have a greater understanding of the means of production.

Featured Artists

• Eric Euler
• Hayden Thomas
• Oksanna harylwak
• Miru Kim
• Flora Shum
• Mellisa Cormier
• Annyen Lam
• Leah Ataide
• Allison Philp
• Ashley Eisen
• Andrea Clifford *
• Cheyenne Twinner
• Iris Karuna
• Bradford Wilson*
• Erin Loree*
• Sean Martin*
• John Ekonomakos
• Aanchal Malhotra*
• Claire Grinstead
• Nick Schick
• Jack Cassady
• Blake Jackson
• Natalie Draz

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read more]]> “Young Art” (in Latvian – ‘Šī māksla ir jauna’) is a collective art

show organized by the Latvian National Youth Association of Can-

ada every year in Toronto. An art-centric weekend full of group

activities and events, it highlights the arts as a distinct and vital

component of our Latvian heritage in North America.

One of the main attractions of the weekend is an art gallery com-

prised of works of art by up to 20 artists, ranging from skilled hob-

byists to design students to professional artists, all between the

ages of 14 and 30, and of Latvian descent. We accept most types

of media, so the exhibit often contains a great variety of works –

paintings, photos, drawings, some sculptures and videos.

This year, Young Art takes place from March 10 to March 16.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011

7:00 pm – 11:00 pm – Gallery opening

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2011

10:45 am to 2:00 pm – Seminars by professionals working in artistic fields

2:00 pm  to 3:00 pm– Sandwich lunch served

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Friday February 11th 6pm-11pm

Runs until Thursday February 17th, 2011

Featured Artists:

Sarah McCaw

Leigh McLaughlin

Caitlyn Chisamore

Erin Loree

eryn Hill

Callum Schuster

Supported by OCADSU

read more]]> Dear friends,

We would like to cordially invite you to the reception of a contemporary art exhibition entitled Two perspectives on Identity and Diaspora, which will take place at 7pm on Saturday, January 29^th, 2011. Tickets are $10 each at the door. Light refreshments will be served.

The show will explore issues of identity and how socially constructed notions of race, class and gender manifest in diaspora.

The exhibition will run from January 29^th, 2011 to February 4th at Function 13 Gallery located in Kensington Market. The gallery is located at 156 Augusta Ave downtown Toronto. For more information please visit www.function13.ca.

All proceeds from the show will go towards Ernestine’s Shelter for Women, a Toronto-based organization, which provides support and shelter for women and children escaping violence. For more info regarding Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter please visit www.ernestines.ca.

Come out to mingle, support your local artists and give back to your community!

Sincerely,

Olga Mamitko and Stephanie Sweetnam

For any additional details call 647 818 5113 / 416 854 1806 or

email us at glittzz@gmail.com / stephaniesweetnam@gmail.com.