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One week left to see Auto Feeling -- come by and make faces with Maegan Rose Mehler’s paintings! Gallery hours: Tue - Thu 11-4:30 pm, Fri - Sat 11 - 6 pm, or by appointment.

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Left to right: Erika Dueck, Maegan Harbridge, Steven Beckly. Installation view: Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, July 18 - August 8, 2015.

12 days left to see the show!

Gallery hours: Tue - Thu 11-4:30 pm, Fri - Sat 11 - 6 pm, or by appointment.

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FLASHBACK: End-of-semester party at Diane Borsato’s beautiful backyard.

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Left to right: Ambera Wellmann, Paul MacIntyre, Patrick Cruz. Installation view: Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, July 18 - August 8, 2015. Thanks to everyone who came to the opening on Saturday. Our show still has that new car smell, so come see it today! Gallery hours: Tue - Thu 11-4:30 pm, Fri - Sat 11 - 6 pm, or by appointment.

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Our grads are on summer break, but they’re keeping busy! Steven Leyden Cochrane reviews Erika Dueck’s In Between Spaces at UM’s School of Art Gallery for Akimblog. Until July 31.

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We have the most dedicated faculty ever!

Here’s Nestor Kruger scaling a precarious 17ft ladder to install one of the works in Auto Feeling. See it in person tmrw 2-5 pm at Katzman Contemporary. Thanks, Super Nestor! 

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Hot off the press! Our Auto Feeling editioned multiple. Pick one up tomorrow 2-5 pm at Katzman Contemporary.

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Our gorgeous new catalogue for Auto Feeling. Pick one up tomorrow at the opening! Video: Ambera Wellmann

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AutoFeeling

On View: July 18 to August 8, 2015 @ KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 18 from 2 – 5 p

Featuring artwork by: Steven Beckly, Simon M. Benedict, Patrick Cruz, Brandan Doty, Erika Dueck, John Haney, Maegan Harbridge, Minwoo Lee, Paul MacIntryre, Maegan Rose Mehler, Janine Miedzik, Jasmine Reimer, and Ambera Wellmann

AutoFeeling educes a split-motivation – automatic and involuntary, regular and repeated, mechanical and habituated … it looks like breathing, it sounds like hearts beating – conversely, yet somehow equally, it is also the state of unconsciousness, an inability to forecast. To work under the condition of an AutoFeeling is to investigate by Feeling. As an immediate sense and sensibility, AutoFeeling is an intuitive understanding – fluid like a mood, it is subject to fluctuation.

Each work in this exhibition displays openness towards intention and desire as a means of surrendering control within the ritual of making. Some works are brashly expressive: bent metal, dripped paint, and crumpled duct tape; crooked effigies, streaked and erased, rude and rough, composed of fragmented and seemingly illogical objects whose immediate associations are uncertain. Others are meticulously rendered: delicate, skilled strokes revealing figurative accuracy and sensual patterns; seamlessly conjoined collages; and prosaic photographic captures. The inquisitiveness on display in this exhibition speaks to a dedication in experimentation.

A catalogue accompanying the exhibition, including an essay by Jasmine Reimer and Aaron Weldon, will be available through Katzman Contemporary.

For additional information, or to inquire about this exhibition, please contact us at info@katzmancontemporary.com.

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY 86 Miller Street Toronto, Ontario, M6N 2Z9 416-654-9515 info@katzmancontemporary.com www.katzmancontemporary.com

Hours: Tuesday to Thursday 11 – 4:30 p Friday to Saturday 11 – 6 p or by appointment

This exhibition is presented with the support of the School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph.

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FLASHBACK: Erika Dueck was the National Winner of BMO Financial Group’s 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition in 2013 during her undergraduate studies at the University of Manitoba. The Ephemeral Mind (exterior), mixed media installation, 80″ x 80″, 2013.

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FLASHBACK: Steven Beckly’s Untitled Love Puzzle, C-print jigsaw puzzle, 958 of 1008 pieces assembled, approximately 50.8 cm x 66.1 cm. Part of Love in Translation at XPACE Cultural Centre in Nov/Dec 2011.

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Jasmine Reimer Coherent Disorder and Confused Arousal Please join us for the opening Saturday 4 July from 2 to 4 p.m. Georgia Sherman Projects 133 Tecumseth Street Toronto, ON Countermanding the function and normalcy of the everyday, I resurface objects and reposition them within absurd amalgamations of materials and things. To escape the confinement of predictability rooted within the banal and the domestic, I perform invented orders and abide by reasoning that is mostly without conventional logic. Misdirecting a singular reading I play with distortion and perversion aiming for coherent disorder and confused arousal. Dots connected that do not make logical sense; I aim to build strangeness and duration into the moment of recognition. In my sculpture mundane things become foreign, idealized substitutes for shielded, secretive subject matter while revealing a longing for closeness, a desire for difference and yet also for certainty. Charged with sensuality; absurd cadence, colour and texture I conjoin domestic goods in provocative placement to transmutate daily life and amplify its corporeal and libidinal effects.

http://www.georgiascherman.com

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Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Special congrats to our very own Patrick Cruz!

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FLASHBACK: Maegan Rose Mehler, Offer-Up a Take-Away (detail), 2014.

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FLASHBACK: Patrick Cruz, end-of-semester critique, April 2015.

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FLASHBACK: Minwoo Lee’s Carpeted Flight, folded silver gelatin prints, dimensions variable, 2013.

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FLASHBACK: John Haney’s Ghost Barn (in collaboration with Carey Jernigan) installed for the exhibition Fieldwork in Perth, ON, 2012.