It’s that time of year again! Here are some of the exhibitions/events happening in the Belgo this month.

Galerie Trois-Points:
Reaction at a Distance: Collaborative Drawings – Kristin Bjornerud and Erik Jerezano
November 20th – December 18th, 2010
Their collaborative project is essentially a correspondence through drawing. Separately, each of them begins a set of drawings to be exchanged through the mail and completed by the other. When they started the work a year ago, the guidelines they laid out for themselves were quite simple: there would be no rules about how they could alter the original piece and there would be no quitting whatever the results. This sharing back and forth without boundaries allowed them to work without inhibition.
www.galerietroispoints.qc.ca

Galerie Laroche/Joncas:
HOLI – Louise Masson
November 17th – December 24th
Holi is the name of an Idian color festival where participants throw different colored water and powder. Louise Masson’s portraits are based on photographs of people she took while traveling in India.
www.projex-mtl.com

Galerie d’Art Visual Voice:
Homage to Jean-Paul Riopelle – Arnold Shives
December 2nd – 22nd, 2010
On one of his visits to Montreal, west coast artist Arnold Shives was asked to create an original black and white drypoint etching to accompany a poem written by John K. Grande and dedicated to artist Jean-Paul Riopelle. The project inspired Shives to expand this etching into a collection of artworks in homage to the late Quebec artist. Adopting various colors and textures to further mediate as well as explore the spirit of Riopelleâ€s work, Shives placed broken picture glass shards on his images and spray painted them in a process that evokes Jean-Paul Riopelleâ€s later works. Homage to Jean-Paul Riopelle employs a vigorous abstract language that Riopelleâ€s 1950s and early 1960â€s painting embodies, as well as draws on the Snow Goose image that Riopelle so loved.
www.visualvoicegallery.com

Galerie Les Territoires:
Call for video submissions – Monobandes
Deadline – February 4th, 2010
Monobandes will be presented from Wednesday, May 18th to Tuesday, June 7th, 2011.
The Jury’s selection criteria are originality, quality and the coherence of the artistic vision. There is no specific theme. The only limitation is to keep the length of each video to 10 minutes or less. Up to four videos per artist may be submitted.
For more info: www.lesterritoires.org

Galerie Push:
Out Thinking in Circles, In Circles Thinking Out – Group Exhibition
December 2nd, 2010 – January 15th, 2011
Galerie PUSH is delighted to host Kyle Beal as guest curator of our latest exhibition: Out Thinking in Circles, in Circles Thinking Out featuring multi-disciplinary works by Amélie Guérin, Robert Hengeveld, Kris Lindskoog, Shawna McLeod, David Prince and Lucy Pullen. The work assembled in Out Thinking in Circles, in Circles Thinking Out deals uniquely and specifically with the circle or circular as the dominant formal or conceptual element. Turning around traditional connotations such as time, unity or the universe, to loopy spiritual rings and meanings found at the periphery, the works in the exhibition orbit a space from the horizon to the belly button. A text by Kyle Beal accompanies the exhibition.
www.galeriepush.com

 

Richard Rossetto’s solo exhibition Inner Dialogue features highlights of his Automatic Word Drawings series, as well as a collection of his most recent three-dimensional works. Rossetto’s unique Automatic Word Drawings are created by writing words on top of each other without conscious direction or fore-thought in order to create a nearly accidental image. His intense ink drawings are filled with areas of deep blacks which dissolve into cloud shapes suggestive of figures and landscapes. As they fade into the edges of the paper words become legible, suggesting a narrative. Even though his process of drawing is based on automatism, the artist’s choice of words is not at all random. Rossetto draws his inspiration from the writings of Napoleon Hill, Antony Robbins and Brian Tracy.
 

 

 

Visual Voice Art Gallery
space 421
Richard Rossetto
Inner Dialogue
September 9th – October 2nd, 2010 
www.visualvoicegallery.com

With Cités voraces, Jérôme Ruby transforms the crests and symbols of the world’s great cities in surrealistic elegies. These city-states constitute the temple of a new theology, one of corporate power, where multinationals, strategists of invisible wars, have replaced sacred princes and antique gods. The artist multiplies the mythological, artistic and contemporary references, passing through History, politics and current events.
 
Grazing the «bande dessinée» genre, Ruby’s drawings oscillate between a refined aesthetic and a dreamlike illustration. The ensemble of drawings, executed with ballpoint pen and pencil crayon, stand beside a collection of objects suggesting the confrontation of man and nature, as much as the artist’s struggle against the dictatorship of the new. These intimate and highly charged works are marked by the ambiguity of criticism and playfulness, of strangeness and kitsch, without ever turning into political caricature.

(from the galerie Donald Browne press release)

galerie Donald Browne
space 528
Jérôme Ruby
Cites Voraces
August 28th to October 2nd, 2010

www.galeriedonaldbrowne.com