
Loose Ends | Mary Grisey, Faye Mullen, Jérôme Nadeau, Deborah Wang
Jan 14 — Mar 6, 2016
Each decay is a form of transformation into other living things, part of the great rampage of becoming that is also unbecoming. It is cruel, it is death, and it is also life, degeneration and regeneration, for nearly all living things live by the death of other things.
— Rebecca Solnit
TYPOLOGY is pleased to present Loose Ends, curated by Noa Bronstein and featuring sculpture, video, and photo-based works by Mary Grisey, Faye Mullen, Jérôme Nadeau, and Deborah Wang.
Exploring the spaces between states of being, the exhibition traces the cyclical and vernacular places between appearance and disappearance, presence and absence, construction and deconstruction. Each work questions the currency of permanence. Moving between and within, a new kind of relic is realized, one that is both past and present, confined only to the metamorphic. As ruin and entropy take hold of tectonic planes, matter ebbs within ephemerality.
Loose Ends will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with curatorial essay by Noa Bronstein and original writings by each artist, plus full documentation of the show.
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Please join us for a public opening reception and exhibition tour with the curator and artists on
Thursday, January 14, from 5–8 pm
Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.
TYPOLOGY
No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
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About the Artists
Mary Grisey is an American sculptural installation artist currently based in Toronto, Ontario. She received an MFA in the Visual Arts program at York University, 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 solo and group exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Kentucky, San Francisco and Toronto, and was recently awarded the Windgate full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for the Spring of 2016.
Faye Mullen makes work which is informed by a sculptural sensibility combining elements of performance, site, sound, light and image — both moving and still. Mullen studied at l’École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, at the Ontario College of Art+Design, and at the University of Toronto where she received her master’s. She has participated in several international artist residencies and her work has been exhibited internationally in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, South Korea, Spain, the UK and the US. Mullen currently situates her practice between Toronto, Canada and Roubaix, France.
Jérôme Nadeau is a Montreal-based artist, curator and editor. He is an MFA candidate at Concordia University and also attended the Photography MA program at the Valand Academy in Sweden. Nadeau is the founder of soon.tw, a publishing platform dedicated to the production of artist books, monographs and multiples, and co-director of Galerie Éphémère, a nomadic initiative promoting the work of emerging artists in atypical environments. He has exhibited his photo-based works widely in Canada, as well as in Portland, Maine, Sweden, and Iceland.
Deborah Wang is an independent curator and designer. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Fine Arts from OCAD University. She has curated exhibitions widely in Toronto, and exhibited and spoken on her own work both locally and internationally. Currently Wang splits her time as Creative Director of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival, a senior designer for superkül, and as a scholar/maker.
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About the Curator
Noa Bronstein is a researcher and curator based in Toronto. Recent curatorial projects include Come Up to My Room at the Gladstone Hotel, where she was the Director of Exhibitions and Cultural Promotions, and Out of Sorts: Print Culture & Book Design at the Design Exchange, where she was the Director of Public Programs and Acting Curator. She is also the co-curator (with Katherine Dennis) of Memories of the Future, an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists to intervene in historic house museums. Bronstein has contributed to such publications as C Magazine, esse art + opinions, and Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. She is currently the Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.
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Loose Ends is a featured exhibition of the 2016 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.
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images, left to right: Mary Grisey, Remains of the Ephemeral III (detail), 2014, photo by Thomas Blanchard; Jérôme Nadeau, Untitled from the RUINS series, 2012–ongoing; Faye Mullen (top), à jamais (still), 2011; Deborah Wang (bottom), Drip (still), 2013
Events
Please join us for the following exhibiton-related events. Click below for more info.
Opening Reception and Exhibition Walkthrough : Thursday, January 14th from 5–8 pm
Please join us for a public opening reception, exhibition walkthrough with the curator and artists, and edition launch for Loose Ends | Mary Grisey, Faye Mullen, Jérôme Nadeau, Deborah Wang on Thursday, January 14, from 5–8 pm. Curated by Noa Bronstein, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring an original curatorial essay, texts by each of the artists, and full documentation of the installation. A limited edition print by Deborah Wang will also be available. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.
Note there will be three other exhibitions opening in the building this evening, including the Koffler Gallery’s new show featuring Howard Podeswa.
Reception date and time
Thursday, January 14, 2016 from 5–8 pm
Event location
TYPOLOGY
180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
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We look forward to seeing you!
Afternoon with the Artist: Faye Mullen : Saturday, January 17th from 2–5 pm
Drop in anytime from 2–5 pm for refreshments and casual conversation with Faye Mullen, who will be at the project space to answer questions about her art and process.
Mullen’s work is informed by a sculptural sensibility combining elements of performance, site, sound, light and image — both moving and still. Informed by time and place, the practice she pursues is self-reflective and considers itself as precisely such, a practice. Characterized by a sustained interest in failure, body, materiality, her studio practice acknowledges weight as it bears as much what is physical as what is immaterial.
Mullen studied at l’École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, at the Ontario College of Art+Design, and at the University of Toronto where she received her master’s. She has participated in several international artist residencies including a two-year post-graduate residency at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing, France. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and curated group shows in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, South Korea, Spain, the UK and the US. Mullen currently situates her practice between Toronto, Canada and Roubaix, France.
Date and time
Sunday, January 17, 2016 from 2—5 pm
Event location
TYPOLOGY
180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
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Intuitive Sculpture: a fibre arts workshop with Mary Grisey : Feb 27 and Mar 6 from 1–4 pm
Intuition is the artist’s most valuable tool. The urgency to unfold ideas from an uninhibited place happens through spontaneous discovering and inventing of materials and methods.
In this adventurous workshop, Mary Grisey will guide you through various modes of fibre-based sculpture techniques and natural dyeing using materials similar to what she has used in her sculptures in the exhibition — horsehair, rope, cotton/linen thread, cheesecloth and/or silk fabric — and dyes hand processed from plants such as madder root and black walnut.
Workshop Dates, Location, and Registration
Saturday, February 27, and due to popular demand, a second session on Sunday, March 6
Both sessions are from 1–4 pm
The workshop will be held in Paperhouse’s beautiful studio on the first floor of Artscape Youngplace.
(The exhibition at TYPOLOGY on the third floor will be open from 12–5 pm, so if you would like to see Mary’s work you can do so before or after the workshop.)
Paperhouse Studio, Suite 102
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2W5
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Registration Instructions
This workshop is open to everyone including kids 8–14 with caregiver.
Participation fee is subsidized by TYPOLOGY and is just:
$30 for a 3-hour artist-led workshop plus $10 to cover materials including horsehair, silk, and hand processed dyes. Up to 2 kids attending with caregiver are free. All proceeds go toward the artist’s fee, space rental, and materials.
To register, please email info (at) typology (dot) ca with your name and number attending
(if attending with kids, please list their ages).
Upon receipt of your registration, we will send an invoice which you can pay by e-transfer or PayPal. Alternately we can accept cash or credit in the project space during gallery hours. Spaces in the workshops will be allotted on a first come, first served basis depending on payment date.
Come prepared to get your hands wet and your clothes dirty. There will be a limited supply of aprons, or you are welcome to bring your own. The studio floor can get slippery, so please wear closed-toe shoes with good grippy soles. Also, if you have long hair it’s a good idea to bring something to tie it up. Then, have fun!
About the Artist
Mary Grisey is an American 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).
Afternoon with the Artist: Deborah Wang : Sunday, February 28th from 12–5 pm
Drop in anytime from 12–5 pm for refreshments and casual conversation with Deborah Wang, who will be at the project space to answer questions about her art and process.
Based in Toronto, Deborah is an independent curator and designer. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Fine Arts from OCAD University. Through her diverse practice, Deborah has curated and co-curated exhibitions for the Textile Museum of Canada, Gladstone Hotel, XPACE Cultural Centre, and the Art Gallery of Ontario; worked with Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects; and taught design studio at Ryerson University. She has exhibited in Toronto and abroad, and presented her art and design work as a guest speaker in academic and cultural forums.
Currently, Deborah splits her time as Creative Director of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival, a senior designer for superkül, and as a scholar/maker.
Date and time
Sunday, February 28, 2016 from 12—5 pm
Event location
TYPOLOGY
180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
See Google map of location
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