January 16th - February 1st, 2015

Opening Reception: January 16th   7:00 – 10:00PM

Originally, the architecture of the white cube was designed in a way that would allow the gallery to melt away in order to focus the viewer’s attention towards the artwork in the space. Rather than a void space, the gallery has turned into a space that says “whatever is inside these walls is art,” which gives these architectural features great power. Parker Kay and Michael Abel examine the architectural features of a gallery space and use these materials as the basis for sculptural installation. The walls, the floor, the wood and the drywall of the gallery become the artwork, negating any need for the inclusion of traditional art objects.

This is part of the Gladstone’s Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR) is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

Parker Kay is a multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited in Canada and the United States. Kay strives to articulate concepts in the medium best suited to do so, for the most part using video, sculpture, images, and web-based media. Much of Kay’s work responds to an Internet-aware culture, while also exploring notions of embodiment, archival practices, and experience design.

Michael Abel is an artist born in Didsbury Alberta and is based out of Toronto, Ontario. Abel’s most recent pursuits are completing his masters in architecture at the University of Toronto, and editing a publication under the idea of art and architecture production in the age of network culture, which has created a discourse that he explores in his personal artist practice.

Our Annual Holiday Print Sale and Fundraiser is here!

November 27 – December 14, 2014

RECEPTION: November 27, 7-10pm

This event is the gallery’s largest fundraiser featuring the work of over 60 Ryerson students, Alumni and Faculty. Highlights of Full Frame include work by accomplished artists Max Dean, Robert Burley, Annie MacDonell, Andrew B Myers, Vid Ingelevics & Blake Fitzpatrick, Rafael Goldchain, Justin Somjen, Robyn Cumming, Sara Angelucci, Hugh Martin, Paige Lindsay and many more.

The reception runs from 7-10pm and includes a raffle featuring fantastic prizes from our sponsors including a $250 gift card to Toronto Image Works, A Family TIFF membership including 4 admission vouchers, A collection of photo-books from Bulger Gallery, a $100 gift card at the Drake Hotel, $500 gift card at Akasha Framing, One night stay at the Gladstone Hotel and so much more! Raffle tickets will be on sale from 4-9pm.

ALSO DJ Paul Swanson will be spinning sweet sweet holiday beats from 9pm-2am.

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Cue Depth is a playful nod at indicators of depth in two-dimensional representations. The show makes light of the two-dimensional art object’s dependence on illusion to create a sense of depth, or three-dimensional space. Vickery creates wax cast blocks poured and coloured by hand, obsessively organizing them in rigid assembly-like combinations that obscure visual comprehension. Somjen uses various materials, both man-made and organic, to manifest depth cues as objects themselves. The exhibition presents an acknowledgement of the artist’s active seeking or negating of depth to expose the photograph’s role as a flat representation of three-dimensional space.

Exhibition runs: Nov 6-Nov 23, 2014
Opening Reception: Nov 6, 7-10pm