Akin Projects at the Toronto Art Book Fair

Join us at the inaugural Toronto Art Book Fair at Artscape Yongplace (180 Shaw Street). Akin will be in Studio 107 - stop by and say hello and check out all the amazing stuff we have to share with you from our incredibly talented members!

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW PARTY:
THURSDAY, JUNE 16 | 6pm - 9pm

FAIR HOURS:
FRIDAY, JUNE 17 | 11AM - 7PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 | 11AM - 7PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 19 | 11AM - 6PM

The Toronto Art Book Fair (TOABF) is a free public event taking featuring curated exhibitions, 75 Canadian and international vendors, and community programming that includes a speaker series, readings, talks, launches and workshops. In its inaugural year TOABF will highlight over 150 national and international artists, publishers, designers, curators, bookmakers, writers, and performers.

More details: http://www.torontoartbookfair.com/

*TONIGHT* Everything You Thought You Knew / Celia Moase & Julianne Ess

Join Julianne Ess of Akin Lansdowne and Celia Moase of Akin Dupont for an evening of
short films and poetry on the back patio of Tango Palace Coffee Company.

Wednesday June 8
Short film screening @ 9:30 (after nightfall)

Featuring
Analogue collage works by Julianne Ess

Animations and video work of
Julianne Ess, Celia Moase, and Dason Johnson

Poetry by
Ulysses and Ryan Van Winkle


Tango Palace is located on the corner of Queen St East and Jones, across from the 7-11. Also, this venue is not licensed, but plenty of coffee, tea, and delicious treats are available for purchase. Everyone is more than welcome to come by as early as they like, and the cafe's regular closing time is 11pm. Oh, and attendance is free.

Radiance in Uncontrollable Worlds / Jordan MacLachlan at the Art Gallery of Burlington

Radiance in Uncontrollable Worlds is an exhibition of sequential terracotta figures by Jordan MacLachlan of Akin Dupont with an accompanying stop motion film commissioned by the Art Gallery of Burlington.

Exhibition: June 11 - September 5, 2016
Opening Reception: June 15, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Preview the film here: https://vimeo.com/169172312.

Art Gallery of Burlington, Perry Gallery
1333 Lakeshore Rd

Akin at The Collage Party

Saturday June 4 / 2-4pm / Division Gallery - 45 Ernest Avenue / everyone welcome! / FREE

This Saturday come join Akin at Division Gallery for THE COLLAGE PARTY. Scissors, tape, glue and all other collage materials are provided. Come out for a casual afternoon of cut-and-paste, create and enjoy in Paul Butler's beautiful collage paradise!

Akin Collective members and friends will be gathering between 2-4pm but feel free to show up earlier and stay later as it is the LAST DAY to enjoy the collage fun at Division Gallery.

ABOUT PAUL BUTLER'S COLLAGE PARTY:
The Collage Party is a touring studio open to the public, where people come together and make art in a social setting. Over the past two decades, Butler has staged The Collage Party throughout North America and Europe, in museums, private residences, public schools, universities, hospitals, department stores, and community centres. Butler considers The Collage Party as his studio, where he is able to draw from participants’ ideas, energies, and more specifically, the scraps they produce. Butler invites participants (friends, artists, community groups), supplies materials (magazines, scissors, adhesives), and leaves out instruction. Display and production synchronize in a choreography of tearing, pasting, shuffling, searching, tacking and ripping that negates the precincts of personal space or private ownership. For this iteration at Division Gallery, Butler has restaged his Winnipeg studio in the gallery so that disparate realms—Winnipeg and Toronto, studio and gallery, labour and commerce—are folded into one another, cancelling the gulf that once maintained their seeming separation.

Forge: DIY Tote Bag Screenprinting w/ Alicia Nauta

Join us for a fun evening of screen printing with artist Alicia Nauta. Learn new (or improve) screen printing skills and techniques (screen preparation, ink mixing, printing and clean up) to create your own unique designs on two tote bags using fabric ink!

$25 per person.

Purchase tickets here:
www.universe.com/forgescreenprinting

*Materials and two tote bags included!*

June 22, 6:30-9:30pm.
AKIN Collective Dufferin- 444 Dufferin St. Unit E

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Alicia Nauta is a Toronto based artist whose practice is made up of collage, art prints, bookworks, posters, screenprinted wallpaper and installation, costumes and a growing collection of found oddities for a future museum. She is a member of Punchclock, a Toronto screenprinting studio and has taught DIY workshops, including screenprinting, at the AGO.

www.alicianauta.com

BEES (& the Birds) at Graven Feather Gallery

BEES (& the Birds) is a salon style art show to raise funds and awareness for our bee friends. A group of 38 artists coming together to use their art to help the bees including Jen Pilles of Akin Lansdowne.

The second annual show is once again at Graven Feather Gallery. The show runs from May 18 to 29, 2016 and the OPENING Reception will be held on Thursday, May 19 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Each of the artists participating in the show want to make a difference and help the bees. The works are bee inspired pieces that explore the role of this alchemist insect in our world.

These artists felt their work could play a big role in raising awareness and money - offering solutions for individuals - for our community - and for our world.

That's why 10% of all show proceeds - including sales - will go to the David Suzuki Foundation's efforts to save the bees.

Organized by artist Christine Pensa (Art That Moves) and Erin Candela and Pam Lobb (Graven Feather) the show features painting, prints, drawings, and photographs on the theme or bees and other pollinators.

CONTACT Gallery Crawl // AKIN & MOCA /

Akin Projects and Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada invite you to attend a special CONTACT edition of the Akin Gallery Crawl.

Saturday, May 28, 12 - 4 pm
All are welcome, open to the public.

Afterwards, join us for drinks at the AKIN Collective Dupont location (1485 Dupont Street, Second Floor).

1. Meet at Cooper Cole at 12:00pm
2. Visti Angell Gallery together
3. Visit Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects
4. Visit Erin Stump Projects
5. Visit AC Repair Co.
6. Visit Division Gallery
7. Reception/drinks at Akin Dupont.

www.akincollective.com
www.moca.ca

Click here to RSVP on our Facebook Event Page

AKIN COLOURING BOOK 2 + NEW STUDIO LAUNCH PARTY

AKIN Collective is thrilled to announce the launch of it's second artist publication, Colouring Book #2, and the opening of a new studio at the AKIN Dupont location- 1485 Dupont St.

Come grab a copy of the book, party 'til late in an industrial building that used to be a clock factory, and enjoy cheap drinks + free beer samples courtesy of Collective Arts Brewing.

Saturday, April 23: 6:00pm- Late. 1485 Dupont Street

Put it in your calendar.

ps. Looking for studio space? info@akincollective.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/1704473549809575/

FORGE: Workshop - Free Legal Advice for Artists & Creatives

FREE- Must Reserve Seat- https://www.universe.com/freelegaladvice

When is a lawyer necessary? How do protect my images? Is this contract binding? Is this agreement fair?

In this workshop participants will discuss the various legal concerns or issues artists and creatives should be informed about- ranging from copyrights, consignments, trademarks, patents, agreements and more.

After providing advice on each of these topics, Matthew Wiens and the Pro Bono Ontario team will offer specific advice to participants about any questions or concerns they may have and help you get find free legal help.

**Have something you'd like to make sure is discussed in the presentation? Let us know on our Facebook Event Page**

April 18, 6:30-8:30pm, City Hall, Committee Room 2

Presentation, Discussion & Q+A

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1005961709474374/

Akin Spring Gallery Crawl

Please join us for special tours of the current exhibitions at some of Toronto's best and brightest galleries on Dupont.

Saturday, April 16: 12-4pm

1. MEET AT COOPER COLE

2. VISIT ANGELL GALLERY

3. VISIT ERIN STRUMP PROJECTS

4. VISIT OUR FAVOURITE AFTERNOON WATERING HOLE ON DUPONT.

Bring friends! All are welcome, open to the public. #SPRINGSTROLL

Click here for more information

Cloth Dripping, Solo Exhibition by Mary Grisey at Xpace Cultural Centre

Opening Reception: Friday, March 18, 2016 7-10pm
Location: Xpace Cultural Centre, 303 Lansdowne Avenue, Unit 2, Toronto
Exhibition dates: March 18-April 30, 2016

“…cloth dripping…” (Sappho, fragment 119).

Sappho was an ancient poet whose words were meant to be sung. Cloth Dripping weaves together sculptural and sonic elements inspired by fragments of Sappho’s poetry to create a continuous fabric of a multi-sensorial environment. Ruinous forms of terra cotta structures will be situated among the weavings with traces of fingerprints, gestures and lost scripts. In this exhibition, the audience is welcomed into a liminal space where traces of the past echo the fragments of her poems and the ruinous materiality of Grisey’s sculptural work.

www.marygrisey.com

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mary Grisey is a sculptural installation artist currently based in Toronto, Ontario. She received an MFA in the Visual Arts program at York University in Toronto, a BFA in Fiber and Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Painting and Drawing from Marist College. She has exhibited her work in New York, Chicago, Kentucky, San Francisco and Toronto. She was recently awarded the Windgate full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for the Spring of 2016. Select solo exhibitions include Of Becoming at York University (2014), Sung From the Mouth of Cumae at The Art Gallery of Mississauga (2015) and Cloth Dripping at Xpace Gallery (2016). Select group exhibitions include Refined Linen at Katzman Contemporary (2014), Long Winter at The Great Hall (2015) and Escape Plans at YTB Gallery (2015).

 

PROSPECTOR Solo Exhibition by Sara Pearson at Project Gallery

Opening Reception: Thursday March 17, 6-9pm
Location: Project Gallery, 1109 Queen Street East, Toronto
Exhibition Dates: March 17 - April 3, 2016

The paintings and sculptures in PROSPECTOR, inspired by geological and gemmological formations, remind us of the strange and sublime beauty of nature. Gemstones, as coveted objects, present a complicated relationship between the natural world and us; As we hunt, collect and refine them, they become instilled with human values. In this body of work, Sara Pearson deconstructs and reinterprets their forms, removing facets and breaking stones into abstract shards, highlighting internal depths and building new structure. By pulling apart our vision of the perfect gem, she removes preconceived notions attached to it and focuses us on its extraordinariness. Pearson navigates this course through her early relationship to these materials; Growing up in her father’s jewellery studio instilled a sense of wonder in the presence of these otherworldly objects. She continues to live in awe of them, relating her art practice to that of an explorer, a treasure hunter. 

Pearson chooses subjects and materials for their relationship to the natural world, using the optical phenomena that exist within cut gemstones to inspire her oil paintings; bronze, copper, marble, and terra-skin paper made from stone are some of the materials that form her sculptures and installations. Working primarily with “analogue” methods, she plays with the dichotomy of traditional process in an increasingly digital world, pushing abstraction while honouring the process of mimesis. 

Sara Pearson is a Toronto based artist who graduated with a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University.

www.sarapearsonart.com

FORGE: $5 Life Drawing Session

Tuesday March 22, 2016: 6:30- 9:30pm

AKIN Dufferin - 444 Dufferin St. Unit E

Fee: $5- Purchase tickets here: https://www.universe.com/forgelifedrawing

AKIN is excited to host our first ever life drawing session at our Dufferin studios! All artists are welcome to join for this evening of uninstructed life drawing. No experience necessary, but all experience levels welcome.

Space is limited, reserve your spot by purchasing a ticket.

The session will consist of gestures and short poses followed by longer sustained poses by a costumed model. There will be short breaks throughout to chat and share your work but no talking during the poses, please.

BYOB but eat your snacks during the breaks. After the session feel free to share your work with each other.

BYOM- Bring your own materials please- paper, drawing materials and drawing board if you have one.

See you there!