looking up

michael dumontier, untitled, 2013
(coloured pencil, crayon, and graphite on mdf, paper) (photo by Ernest Mayer)

The exhibition Looking Up: Contemporary Connections with Inuit Art closes this weekend (March 16th) at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Luke Angudadluq, Appa, Shuvinai Ashoona, Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Michael Dumontier, Aganetha Dyck, Isaci Etidlui, Tommy Evvik, Neil Farber, Simon Hughes, Jacob Irkok, Jeanette Johns, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, John Kaunak, Janet Kigusiuq, Qaqasiralaq Kullualik, Sylvia Matas, Andy Miki, Martha Noah, William Noah, Jessie Oonark, John Pangnark, Pudlo Pudlat, Nancy Pukingrnak Aupaluktuq, Paul Robles, Nick Sikkurak, Simon Tookoome, Charlie Ugyuk

curated by Paul Butler

Meadow Table

Fergus Feehily: Disappearance at Mother's Tankstation, Dublin

*wish I could have seen this*

Rankin Inlet

Arlook Arluk, Figure, 1972, grey stone / John Kavin, Figure, 1973, black stone / John Kavin, Figure, 1973, black stone / John Tiktak, Standing Figure, grey stone 

Selections from Rankin Inlet - On Loan to The Winnipeg Art Gallery, from a one page exhibition checklist, no date.

dave dyment

opens today at MKG127, Toronto. wish i was there.

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MKG127 booth at Art Toronto.
me, laurel woodcock, dave dyment, roula partheniou, ken nicol, liza eurich, bill burns...(in no particular order). 
photo thanks to PVK.

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If you're in Toronto, I have some work at TIAF (Oct. 26-29)----visit MKG127 (booth 1120) and Galerie Division.

call ampersand response

Some photos of our exhibition at Artexte in Montreal. The show featured all the source material from our book Call Ampersand Response, published by Artexte and Nieves.

Micah Lexier and I will be at this year's New York Art Book Fair (which starts tomorrow). On Friday at 2PM, we'll be sitting with our book at the Nieves table (table Z02) .  Looking forward!

photos by Paul Litherland, courtesy of Artexte Information Centre.

S.H.

Simon Hughes at Galerie Division. Opens today!

attention as place/temporary library

My contribution to ROLU's residency at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 14 books---a temporary library:
1. Floral Art of Japan--Tourist Library: 1 by Issotei Nishikawa, Japan Travel Bureau, 1936, 1949
2. Making Simple Constructions by Hansi Bohm, Studio Vista, 1971
3. The Art of Paper Tearing by Eric Hawkesworth, Faber and Faber, 1970, 1973
4. Whittling and Woodcarving by E.J.Tangerman, Dover Publications, 1936, 1962
5. Weathered Wood with Flowers by Mary G. Knight, William Morrow and Co., 1968
6. Creative Wood Design by Ernst Rottger, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1960
7. Building an Igloo by Ulli Steltzer, Groundwood/Douglas and McIntyre, 1981, 1990
8. Architecture: A book of projects for young adults by Forrest Wilson,Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1968
9. Sculpture in Wood by Ferelyth & Bill Wills, Douglas, David, & Charles, 1975
10. Meaning in Crafts by Edward L. Mattil, Prentice Hall Inc., 1959
11. Fun with Figures by Mae and Ira Freeman, Random House, 1946
12. Paper: Folded, Cut, Sculpted by Florence Temko, MacMillan Publishing, 1974
13. Sculpture in Stone by Paul Cummings, self published, 1989
14. The Further Adventures of Cardboard Carpentry by George Cope & Phylis Morrison, Workshop for Learning Things, 1973

I feel really honoured to be in a small way part of ROLU's residency. Thanks to Matt for the invitation. Please follow the action here and also here.

Envoi esperluette Réponse

exhibition/book launch
Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
Artexte, Montreal
June 7 - September 8, 2012

Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made of images exchanged via email. Over a period of several months, Dumontier and Lexier sustained an image-based correspondence by sending each other scans of book covers, found objects, drawings and illustrations belonging to each artist's respective collection. The project is based on the idea that their collections speak of their shared artistic affinities while informing their practices. Two rules dictated their conduct: each image was to function as a "call" seeking a "response" from the other artist, and the dialogue was to end when an image recalling the project's opening image emerged, thereby constituting a narrative loop. Their conversation gave rise to a bookwork co-edited by Nieves (Zurich) and Artexte. In Artexte's new gallery space, the project is shown as an installation in which shared themes and motifs are seen to play out over time, alongside objects selected from the source material.

Call Ampersand Response
196 pp. (including covers), 196 b&w illus.,
25.5 x 19.5 cm. Co-published by
Nieves and Artexte.
ISBN 978-3-905999-08-2

the middle of the air

My exhibition at MKG127

dumdums and whatnot

CHACHACHA by Rob Wakshinski, b/w photocopy, 20pages, 8.25X10.75, 2012 ($12+ship, inquire here)

See also ROLY POLY BAT FACED GIRL blog with pictures and music and whatnot.

Rob's exhibition DumDums/ChaChaCha opens tomorrow, March 30th at Le Taudis (info), Winnipeg.

temporary and travelling

Temporary and Travelling Exhibitions (Museums and Monuments - X), Unesco, Dusseldorf,1963

a moon or a button

My exhibition A Moon or a Button, along with its companion show Like Minded, both curated by Micah Lexier, ends tomorrow at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg.
My show The Middle of the Air continues until April 14th at MKG127, Toronto.

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my exhibition the middle of the air, opens March 17th at MKG127 in Toronto.

more info here.

The birds are buried today.

Ray Johnson/Feigen Gallery art ad from Artforum, Feb., 1970