Keep Six Contemporary

…more EXPLICIT FANTASTIC

keepsix — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:22:08 +0000

Readings:

Date: October 29 Wednesday 7:00pm sharp
Location: Hollywood Coin Lounge, 180 Ossington St.
Free, but we ask that you bring your laundry Dirty Laundry

Curated by Loiuse Bak
Readings by:Greg Kearney, Tamai Kobayashi, Dwayne Morgan, Angela Rawlings, Steve Venright, Zoe Whittall

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EXPLICIT FANTASTIC

keepsix — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:57:49 +0000

Date: October 9-November 30, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, Oct. 9, 6-10pm
Location: KEEP SIX CONTEMPORARY, 938 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Canada

Explicit Fantastic is a multidimensional exhibition, which will explore the issues of sex and sexuality in contemporary culture by introducing international and alternative perspectives. The exhibition will focus on the works of living contemporary artists from different cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and feminist perspectives and who use sexuality and the body as means of expression through mediums such as painting, photography, film, sculpture, installation and performance.

Visual Artists: Bruce La Bruce, Shary Boyle, Thrush Holmes, Kelsey Brookes, Richard Kern, CUM, Dan Witz, TILT, Junko Mizuno, Rikki Kasso, Allyson Mitchell, Tomori Nagamoto

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essential motion

keepsix — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:39:27 +0000

statement:

Alfred Engerer

“My work is essentially an exploration of ideas, my own and others, about architectural space, shape and form, combined with my thoughts and feelings about histories and mythologies. The latter of these may be of a national, religious, aesthetic or pop cultural origin. Though everything created by man springs forth from some kind of need, once materialized, all things become part of a larger legacy, legitimate or otherwise. These may later be used as elements in other ideas and developments. The examination of these possible dialects is the focus of my sculptural endeavor.”

Anna Panthev

Tantalizing, systematic, kinetic, sleek, lustrous, seductive, girly, silky, plastic, alien, and polished. These all embody the world in which I paint. My paintings utilize what paint does best: pouring, mixing, spreading, gliding, embellishing, and lasciviously running across the surface in all of its fluidity

I am interested in navigation through process, surfaces of built up paint, creating spatial relationships, as well as the selective processes of collage in the form of additive and subtractive methodologies. Clashing angular forms like origami map out the painted surface. Billowing clouds of diluted paint washes co-exist within a network of samplings of graphic devices and more gestural looping cartoon knots of paint. This amalgamation of things and processes works on the basic premise that the tactile pleasures of paint, colour and form, tell the story of each painting’s making. Ultimately I am dealing with the idea that these paintings are all a part of one big conglomeration of all things in my visual diet in a world where artifice and nature are becoming increasingly difficult to disentangle.

Inside Outside Overlap by Billy Mavreas

keepsix — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:45:28 +0000

Inside Outside Overlap by Billy Mavreas

Friday July 18^th to Sunday August 3^rd, 2008

Celebrating the Toronto Launch of Billy Mavreas’ latest book Inside Outside Overlap.

Exhibition featuring the work of Billy Mavreas (Montreal) and Michael Comeau (Toronto).

Friday July 18^th, 6 – 11 pm: Book Launch / Opening

8pm: Mavreas / Comeau talk show with special musical guest Two Pack Fer Sure, book signing, DJ Marcus Boon

Saturday July 19^th, 4 – 6 pm: Drawing Party with Billy Mavreas, Michael Comeau and Friends

Montreal underground legend Billy Mavreas pits his neo-pegan, sinister cartoons of cute bunny gods against the silk-screened, oil-mongering fundamentalist Helbertain humans of Toronto’s Punchclock hero Michael Comeau.

Keep Six Contemporary

gallery and project space

938 Bathurst Street

647 436 6594

www. keep6c.com

www.timeless.org

International Eco-Bag exhibit

keepsix — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:44:14 +0000

EXTENDED! June 26 –

July 13,2008

Visit online catalogue here

Keep Six Contemporary: gallery and project space

938 Bathurst street,Toronto, Canada, M3R 3G5, tele: 647 436 6594 web: www.keep6c.com

EXTENDED!

June 26 –

July 13,2008

Artists: Kaori Sumi (JPN), Hiromi Kim (JPN), Jeff Szuc (CAN), Hina Aoyama (FRA), franklinHEAVYstudio (CAN), Kyosuke Uchida (JPN), Charlene Chua (CAN), Rieko Toda (JPN), Fiona Smyth (CAN), Makiko Okugawa (JPN), Tomolennon (CAN), Maki Kaneko (JPN), Miho Kinomura (USA), Harvey Chan (CAN), OKN (JPN), Eiji Sumi (USA), Fumiko Ozawa (CAN), OOMI (CAN), REnshu (CAN), Lisa Ng (CAN), Pat Butler (CAN), Daniela Yamada (USA), Akiko Ray (JPN), Kojiro (JPN), Rafi (CAN), Takatomo Homma (JPN), Typotherapy Design Inc. (CAN), Masako Inose (JPN), Jade Rude (CAN), Kimaki Tokyama (JPN), Shohei Kimura (USA), Sotaro Kuruma (JPN), Nobuko Ota (JPN), Marie Marin (CAN), Pecorin (JPN), Aya Narita (JPN), Renji MIsugi (JPN), Izumi Kitazawa (JPN), Kaori Ito (JPN), Pesu (USA), Tsukasa Asan (JPN), Steve Wilson (CAN), Kunihiko Kimura (JPN), Makiko Toya (JPN), Tomoki Ota (JPN), Tomoko Ichimura (JPN).

In midst of the global environmental issues, we believe taking initiative on what we can do locally, around our personal surroundings is the step towards solving the global issue. The hand-made eco-bag, Decorated Eco-Bag (DECOB) will be shown to international audiences in effort to raise awareness of environmental issues and call to take initiatives

Artist from around the world have been invited to participate in this exhibition by using these bags as a canvas to express their thoughts about the subject.

All original works will be for sale.

Visit online catalogue here

Also available limited edition print bags by artist Jade Rude, Typotherapy and Keep Six

This exhibit will travel to the following cities: Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, London and New York

You can also submit your design at cool-ny.com/decob

good the bad and the ugly

keepsix — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:27:00 +0000

Keep Six Contemporary would like to present the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY

Works by artists and screen printers Stacey Case, Louise Durand and Adam Swinbourne

Duration of Exhibit: June 6-22, 2008

Friday June 6, 6-11pm: Opening reception

Opening night special performances by: the Weirdies

About the show:

During the psychedelic 60’s, rock posters reflected the sound and vibe of that generation. The artists and their rock posters gained as huge a following as the bands that were on the posters. Screen printing studios were very common and at the time quite accessible.

In the 70’s and later the 80’s hand printed poster was challenged by the emerging computers and photocopiers that made duplicates quick and cheap. Yet, even with today’s super precision software and printers, we see a resurgence of contemporary artists using hand printed silkscreen techniques. In particular we see this growth in the Rock/abilly scene.

In the “Good the Bad and the Ugly” Keep Six Contemporary will feature three top artists who play a significant role in the creation of the artwork and also in bringing back the hand printed silkscreen process.

In this exhibition we will feature the limited edition posters created by artists Stacey Case, Louise Durand and Adam Swinbourne for musicians such as the Tijuana Bibles, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sonic Youth, Queens of the Stone Age, Arcade Fire and many more.

About the artists:

Stacey Case: Screen printer to the stars, filmmaker, musician (Tijuana Bibles), artist…this only begins to describe the one-man enterprise also known as Stacey Case. His current project under Studio Lucha is the now world renowned Pillow Fight League!

Louise Durand: Musician and artist Durand has worked with Broken Social Scene, Queens of the Stone Age, Arcade Fire and many more.

Adam Swinbourne: Adam over many years has worked with the following people. There are to many to mention. Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Rancid, Sonic Youth and many many more.

7″ record fundraiser for Nifty and Tradition

keepsix — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:12:08 +0000

Saturday May 24th, 9pm, 8$

Location: Keep Six Contemporary Gallery - 938 Bathurst St.

Keep Six Contemporary Gallery will be holding a 7″ record fundraiser featuring Toronto bands Nifty and Tradition. Performing that night will be Tradition, Nifty and Broken Treefort while fleshing out the night will be DJ Daniel Vila.

Nifty - www.myspace.com/princenifty - Nifty is Matt Smith (Les Mouches) who has recently released an album on Blocks Recording Club titled “A Sparrow! A Sparrow!”. It is a collection of 7 songs in as many different genres. “Two Figures” is reminiscent of a Tom Waitsian-sonic junkyard while many of the other tracks take off from pop starts into rhythm and drone rhumbas not unlike Arthur Russell or Cluster.

Tradition - www.myspace.com/tradition - James Klassen is the spirit and force behind the curiously timeless Toronto act known as Tradition. The bedraggled and lucid conscience of the animal kingdom, Tradition performs songs that are equal parts poetic, complex, sad, wild and full of joy. He currently has an album out on Blocks Recording Club and will release a new album + tour soon.

Broken Treefort - www.myspace.com/brokentreefort - Broken Tree Fort has been molesting magnetic tape for over 10 years, releasing countless tapes, cd-rs, and svankmajer inspired live shows, self-described as “yr forfathers being bathed with a sponge by a dolphin-monkey while they stare at the night sky all confused like. the delfonics.”

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18480976613&ref=mf

MyType:type inspired posters

keepsix — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:42:25 +0000

typotherapy+design, Keep Six Contemporary Gallery and the Festival of Architecture and Design invite you to…

MyType:

An exhibit of limited-edition, new modernist posters by graphic design genius Noel Nanton.

Opening night: Saturday May 3rd, 6-10 pm (free)

Exhibition dates: May 2- May 11th. 2008

Location: Keep6 Contemporary Gallery, 938 Bathurst Street (north of Bloor) Toronto, Canada

Eye-popping popsicle colours, Italian cinema beauty and a very new take on classic modernist typography.

Starting with the premise that typefaces are as expressive as the words they form, typotherapy has created a series of posters that explore the relationship between positive and negative space. “Letters speak,” says typotherapy+design creative director Noël Nanton. “If you remove them from the constraints of sentences and even words, they have a language of their own.”

‘MyType’ uses the craft of typography to find new ways of speaking using fonts famous and unknown including Helvetica, Avant Garde and typotherapy creations like Tomeri and VW Mobile.

For more information visit: www.toronto.ca/fad

For more new modernist design genius, visit: www.typotherapy.com

Nick van Woert and Shawn Kuruneru

keepsix — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:21:00 +0000

Keep Six Contemporary presents…
New Works by artists
Nick van Woert and Shawn Kuruneru

Dates: April 11-27, 2008

Friday April 11, 6-10pm
Opening reception

Location: Keep Six Contemporary: exhibition and project space (keep6c.com)
938 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Canada, M5R 3G5, 647 436 6594

About the exhibit:

Nick van Woert, is a 2007 graduate of Parsons MFA program and winner of the 2007 International Sculpture Center Student Award, creates sculptures that, like his impression of culture, result from “the pressure to produce, acquire and abandon consumable goods and information.” Shawn Kuruneru is a Montreal-based artist whose pen-on-paper drawings and collages combine elements of portraiture and landscape. Both artists are currently living in Brooklyn NY.

Nick and Shawn’s works both engage with contemporary culture while their processes suggest that surprise and beauty can emerge from a million repetitive movements. Nick’s sculptures begin with mass-produced pop culture in the form of plastic figurines of characters such as the Tin Man and Dorothy. These form the structured, symbolically-laden core of what will become an organic shape of vibrant colour. By dipping the figurines repeatedly into a bucket of paint, they emerge from the process looking like stalagmites, with their original form suggested by a pair of intact feet. While Nick starts out with a product that has been carefully planned, researched and focus-group tested, he subjects them to a mechanical treatment, ultimately unpredictable, pointless and without underlying logic.

Nick’s vibrant sculptures are contrasted by Shawn’s stark black-and-white drawings of iconic personalities and scenarios that are strangely juxtaposed. Shawn’s large-scale drawings are created from meticulous, careful execution with a ballpoint pen. The thousands of penstrokes eventually combine into an ordered image conjuring up associations with nature, pop culture,
experiences.

Call for submission

keepsix — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:07:02 +0000

General call for submission:

Dates:
June 26- July 6, 2008
Location:Keep Six Contemporary (keep6c.com) 938 Bathurst St., Toronto, Canada

About the show:
Freely express your “ECO” with “decob”
In collaboration with Gallery Keep Six Contemporary and art magazine, COOL is calling for artists to contribute their original, hand-maid eco-bags: Decorated Eco-Bag, a.k.a “decob,” for an exhibition and a product-release project, The Nomadic “decob.”
In midst of the global environmental issues, we believe taking initiative on what we can do locally, around our personal surroundings is the step towards solving the global issue. The hand-made eco-bag, Decorated Eco-Bag, a.k.a.“decob”

will be shown to international audiences in effort to raise awareness of environmental issues and call to take initiatives.

We would like you to participate in this very important exhibit by submitting your designs!
Please follow the directions below carefully:

The“decob”

project will take place from Thursday June 26th to Sunday July 6th,, 2008.

We would like for you to submit your design, online, by no later then May 16th. You can download our template here. All online submissions must be emailed to cool.decob@gmail.com

A select group of arts and design community representatives will select works on the following submission guidelines:

1: All works must be clearly related to the concept of “decob”
2: All bags must be wearable and function as a bag
3: Artists selected by the committee will be provide the bags by the organizers
4: All works must be original and produced solely for the exhibit
5: All submission are free
6: Works not selected for the exhibition will be posted on the organizers website (a non refundable fee for selected artists will cover the cost
7: All original works on display will be for sale. The artists will spilt the sale 50/50 with the organizers
8: all bags are 40hx35w cm

Deadlines for submission:
May 18 All artwork must be submitted online by no later then
May 21 artists selected will be contacted
May 23-25 selected artists will pick up bags from 2 locations (a non refundable administration fee of $20 must be paid at this point)
June 13 deadline for finished work by selected artists