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We specialize in drawing and contemporary works on paper - from sketches, visualizations of ideas, concept drawings, obsessive scribbling, and informed doodles to finished and accomplished works on paper - developed drawings and original prints. If there is workmanship with integrity, an individual hand and we respond to the impetus, we'll give the works a drawer. Small sculpture sometimes finds its way into the drawers.
Headbones, The Drawers manages the storage, exhibition, and sales of drawings and works on paper of approximately one hundred visual artists in a one-year period. Each artist featured provides ten works to the drawers and a small catalog is produced with a written commentary by Julie Oakes. Collectors have access to about one thousand catalogued works in the gallery at any given time. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6pm or by appointment.
You're invited to visit The Drawers. We will put on the white gloves and share the artworks with you.
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Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto
September 8, 2007
Abstract (Colour) Color can be the sole focus of abstraction as in the color field paintings of Heidi Thompson. It can differentiate between elements and describe space as in the work of Steve Rockwell or it can carry geometric associations as with George Dewitte's dot works. Color serves to express a display of emotional states, symbols and conditions in Cesar Forero's paintings and choreographed performances. And then there is color as a team member, a component in a symphony where form, composition and color combine to celebrate a new vision as in Klunder's, Bigelow’s, Noestheden’s and Meledandri's work. In this exhibition, the component of color is as necessary to the work as the spirit that carries life. Gykan Project Room The Gykan Project Room will be featuring colour abstract paintings by George Dewitte October 6 - November 1 Robert Bigelow George Dewitte Cesar Forero Harold Klunder Nina Meledandri John Noestheden Steve Rockwell Heidi Thompson Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto September 8, 2007 Abstract (B&W) Abstraction – an opportunity to ignore the pressing concerns of representational thinking, loaded as it is with meaning – delves into a freer vision. By paring the flight of freedom down to black and white, Headbones Gallery opens its fall season with a power packed slate of artists whose diversity exemplifies numerous visual possibilities with an astonishing range of greys in between the polarized opposites. Gykan Project Room The Gykan Project Room will be featuring colour abstract paintings by Gertrude Kearns September 8 - October 4 Karl Heinz Boyke Angiola Churchill Alan Glicksman Gertrude Kearns Ortansa Moraru John Noestheden Bryan Ryley Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto May 17, 2007 Bona fide Have you ever felt when looking at a piece of art work that you might be falling into the state of one of those silly peasants who were fooled into believing that the Emperor had on clothes and that perhaps there was an element of fraud in the work? “Bona Fide” is a presentation of work that is absolutely real and without fraud. We have gathered solid, earnest artists that have made work in good faith that attests to an inherent veracity, rare hits of substance in a world prone to a quick fix. Gykan Project Room The Gykan Project Room will be featuring animated vignettes by: Paula Jean Cowan May 17 - June 28 Paula Jean Cowan Diane Feught Johann Feught Ed Giordano Jr. Susan Hamburger Jenny Laden Jeffrey Thompson Nanna Vonessamieh Ruth Waldman Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto April 5, 2007 For Font's Sake Before the Tower of Babel fell, it attempted to reach heaven but the confusion of language brought the grand ambition to a crumbling close. Text based work, often dry visually has a critical bite that clearly is picking up on a chaotic chatter. Transferred into didactic sayings or cryptic clues to the meanings of societal mores; the messages seem to be working as visual configurations in league with the shapely fonts. Gykan Project Room Stephan Bircher and Patrick Mimran along with story telling by Allen Merovitz will be featured in the Gykan Project Room. Headbones Gallery would like to thank both Gykan Enterprises Inc. for the use of the space and SML Graphic Solutions for their generous support in printing the large banners for this project. Apr. 5 - May. 15 Carin Covin Briar Craig Scott Ellis Stephan Erasmus Patrick Mimran Christopher Olson Ed Varney Daryl Vocat Stephan Bircher Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto February 22, 2007 Ethnic Convergence There is an ethnic convergence within the art world that makes it a far richer place in which to appreciate cultural and characteristic diversities. By bringing together the work of ten artists whose nascent cries were first made in far distant lands, Headbones, The Drawers, pays homage to cultures other than Canadian, and like a global bazaar, the sights are astounding. Feb. 22 - Apr. 3 Rana Bishara Ellen Butler Adrian Doura Saroj Jain Erik Jerezano Ashley Johnson Goro Kadoi Victor Klassen Mahmoud Meraji Srdjan Segan Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto January 11, 2006 Highly Recommended The most enthusiastic, vociferous and intuitive audience for art is the one made up of artists. They stay the longest, discuss the most, pinch pennies in order to acquire, boo the loudest and leap the highest in standing ovations. Headbones, The Drawers has turned to the artists from 2006 for their recommendations. How apt for the title of the exhibition that coincides with the presentation of the HEADBONE AWARD to be Highly Recommended, referring to the fact that the current choice of paper works was chosen from Headbone's artist's recommendation, for who has a better and more concerned finger on the pulse than the artists themselves! Jan 11 - Feb 20, 2007 Billy Copley Mitchell Friedman Sybil Goldstein Karina Kalvaitis Jesse McCloskey Becky Parisotto Laurie Sponagle Anthony Taylor Kathleen Vance Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto December 9, 2006 An Exotic Erotic Christmas In a season when clichés abound, Headbones, The Drawers is stepping outside of the norm and presenting a show of exotic works that are striking and unusual in their effect and appearance. With paper works both suggestive and explicit, a fire performance, the titillation of eroticism amongst an exotic crowd and the swinging jazz of Joe Sealey and Paul Novotny on opening night - an Exotic Erotic celebration is in place. Dec. 9 - Jan. 11 Tom Ackermann Michaele Berman Irina Dascalu Andy Graffiti Bogos Kalemkiar Donna Kriekle Zachari Logan Julie Oakes Gord Smith E.J. Wickes Ivan Yovanovich Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto November 16, 2006 Indie-Picks (Independent Curator’s Selection) With the recommendations and commentaries from perspectives other than our own, Headbones Gallery is stirring the mix by inviting curators to select or comment on a phenomenal drawer. This refreshing show that ignites through spontaneous combustion once again attests to the wisdom of 'two heads'. Artist followed by Curator: David Pirrie by Julie Oakes, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo by Zachari Logan, Dakota McFadzean by David Garneau, Robert Malinowski by Monika Burman, Andy Moon Wilson by Andrea Pollan, Ron Giii by Oliver Girling, Guy Boutin by Daniel Erban, and Charles Bronson by Headbones. Nov. 16 - Dec. 9 Charles Bronson Guy Boutin Osvaldo R. Castillo Ron Giii* Robert Malinowski Dakota McFadzean David Pirrie** Gord Smith Andy Moon Wilson Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto October 12, 2006 X-Country Selection From July 1st to August 31st, Headbones, The Drawers, took to the road, driving from Quebec to British Columbia taking the Canadian route on the way there and the American on the return, exposing artworks presently held by Headbones from a portable drawer containing over one hundred works on paper and reviewing new work. From this exploratory viewing program, we have selected the works of ten artists for our “Cross Country Selection” with an opening reception on Thursday, October 12 from 4 until 8 PM. The fact that Halloween falls within this show seems to have spookily worked its way into the content. From the skeletal sculptures of Stephan Bircher, to the macabre blood drawings of Daniel Erban, even extending into Sue Rusk with her Sonata series or John Noestheden's meticulously rendered night skies, the atmosphere in the gallery will be charged, 'all hallow', and in tune with the spirit of magic. Oct. 12 - Nov. 16 Thomas Ackermann Stephan Bircher Angus Bungay Daniel Erban Mary Hrbacek Michael Lane Jefferson Little Khaled Mansur John Noestheden Sue Rusk Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto September 7, 2006 Beauty & Obsession Beauty and Obsession meet each other in the realms of love and art, realms where an allowance is made for the indiscretion of indulgences. Headbones, The Drawers addresses Beauty and Obsession through the subject, the technique, the aesthetic and the body in the works of Aleks Bartosik, Carin Covin, Johann Feught, Alan Glicksman, Catherine Hahn, Shelagh Keeley, Jodi Panas, Heidi Thompson, Gord Smith, and Kerry Stevens. Each of these artists has their approach and specific concern where the obsessive nature of creating art is placed at the beck and call of our notions of Beauty. Headbones, The Drawers is beginning the fall season by addressing two great themes. You are invited to the opening from 4 to 8 PM on Thursday, September 7 when we will be presenting the work in our new street level location at #102, 260 Carlaw Avenue with a project room featuring the large scale drawings of Aleks Bartosik and Carin Covin and an alley installation by Scott Ellis celebrating the completion of his fiftieth collage from The Political Series. Sept. 7 - Oct. 10 Aleks Bartosik Carin Covin Alan Glicksman Johann Feught Catherine Hahn Shelagh Keeley Jodi Panas Heidi Thompson Gord Smith Kerry Stevens . Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto May 25, 2006 Situation, Positioning, Location Situation, Positioning, Location As summer approaches and the nomad movements of urbanites seek their country respites, Headbones, The Drawers traces the imagery that comes from our personal situations, which affected through positioning, results in location. Primarily landscape based, this exhibition extrapolates on an essentially vague theme and links the works of ten diverse oeuvres. The Gykan Project Room Iran , Iran and I ran with Bogos There is another interpretation for 'situation' that pertains to ethnic and cultural origin. By focusing on four Canadians with sympathetic backgrounds and a combination of cultures and generations, the gaze of assimilation confronts the present challenge - the making of art. Mahmoud Meraji and Mehrad Meraji are father and son. Mehrad is in his second year at OCAD. Mohammad Mofrad graduated from OCAD this year. All three were born in Iran. The generational and experiential differences are intriguing as are the similarities and trends between their bodies of work. Bogos Kalemkiar is Mahmoud's friend, of Armenian descent and married to an Iranian woman. Armenia was occupied by Iran at one time. Their styles are diverse, even their mediums - Mohammad is a photographer - but the subject remains the same. They all address 'their people’. The Meraji's focus on family, Mohammad on stereotypical translations of ethnicity and Bogos presents the masses. May 25 - June 24 Daniel Anhorn Susan Austad Daphne Gerou Margie Kelk Peter Reginato Robin Tewes John Torreano Lorne Wagman Charles Yuen Ben Woolfitt Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto April 22, 2006 Results of the headhunt A Selection of Heads There are artists who are known for their heads - Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Angus Bungay, Cynthia Karalla or Ann Kipling where a primary source of their research and practice has been the human physiognomy. They are hanging on our walls, a result of the headhunt. This generation of heads came after the tradition of portraiture where egoism and historical record-keeping motivated the use of heads as subject. Headbones, The Drawers presents a portrait attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds and documents the search for it's authenticity, but this is not a portrait show. The Results of the Headhunt brings forward a selection from artists who have succumbed to the irresistible urge to headhunt, to have a head to hang up, 'a head of one's own' to examine with all of the ramifications of expression, execution, subject, and association that they embody. Daniel Anhorn, Michaele Jordana Berman, Daniel David, Andy Graffiti, Cherry Hood, Gertrude Kearns, Kris Knight, Daniel Lee, Tom MacKenzie, Jennifer MacKlemm, Mehrad Meraji, Maurizio Pellegrin, Srdjan Segan, Julie Oakes, Malcom Poynter, Fred Tomaselli, Alphonse Van Woerkom, Charles Yuen and others address the head from their particular perspectives. April 22-May 23 Sergio Finamore Rae Johnson Harold Klunder Judith Page Lorraine Pritchard Gord Smith Jenny Wing Yee Tong Selection of Heads Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto March 18, 2006 Narrative? On Saturday, March 18, Headbones, The Drawers introduces ten additional Canadian and international artists to its drawers. Exhibition dates are March 18 – April 21. The opening reception is March 18, from 4-8 PM. Interrogating narrative has been the concern of art historians ever since the end of the Renaissance when the meaning of the religious iconography was understood by everyone laymen and the initiated alike. Now, as we attempt to grab a handle of commonality in the many diverse narratives that run through our multi-ethnic/racial/gender/political/ fantastical contemporary story telling, Headbones, The Drawers assembles a selection of works on paper and questions the narrative intent, the couching of the tale and the interpretation. March 18-April 20 Daniel David Jen Dyck Eric Jerezano Judith Jurica Wanda Lock Jesus Mora Shauna Oddleifson Srdjan Segan Ruth Waldman Scott Waters Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto February 4, 2006 Drawers' Selection On Saturday, February 4th Headbones, The Drawers introduces ten new Canadian and International Artist’s to its drawers. Exhibition dates are February 4th – March 11th. A hybrid gallery, something between Pierogi, Brooklyn and The Drawing Center in New York, Headbones Gallery, The Drawers is inspired by the recent interest in drawings and works on paper in the contemporary art market. Managing Director of Headbones, The Drawers, Richard Fogarty translated his interest in collecting artwork into Rich Fog Micro Publishing, printing and publishing art catalogues and art books. He is producing catalogues for each of the artists represented in the Drawers. Assistant director, previous owner of Headbones Gallery, visual artist and art writer Julie Oakes brings her established career and expertise to guide selection and programming. For the past six years, Oakes has been living in New York City where she acquired a Masters in Art and Art Professions from NYU, a Masters in Social and Political Science (Cultural Theory and Criticism) from The New School for Social Research and maintained a studio. February 4-March 16 Ellen Butler Phyllis Godwin Jim Kalnin Attila Richard Lukacs* Malcolm Poynter Tina Poplawski Birgit Ruff Bryan Ryley Alphonse van Woerkom Tom Wren Press Release & Artist Profile -Visual Art, Toronto December 14, 2005 Inaugural Drawers' Selection On December 14, 2005, Headbones, The Drawers introduces the first ten Canadian and International Artist’s to its drawers in Toronto. Exhibition dates are December 14 – February 2. In existence in British Columbia since 1995, now, “Headbones, The Drawers” will be focusing on contemporary drawing and works on paper. “The Drawers” will exhibit ten Canadian and International artists every month. Following the exhibition month, the works will be placed in the drawers for on-going viewing. This will make space for up to ten new artists to be exhibited in the gallery space. The mandate of the gallery is to encourage collecting at an entry level by offering works for sale that are both affordable and of a high caliber. Director, Richard Fogarty Dec. 14/05 - Feb. 02/06 Robert Bigelow Billy Copley Ed Giordano Catherine Hahn Cynthia Karalla Donna Kriekle Zachari Logan Jesse McCloskey Julie Oakes Katia Santibanez |
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