Join us in celebrating Gallery 44's late fall exhibitions opening in all four galleries!
In the Main Gallery, Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham presents Selections from the Photographic Archive of Kosen Ohtsubo, a historical contextualization and survey of the work of their ikebana sensei, Kosen Ohtsubo. Ohtsubo is one of the most significant practitioners of the medium over the past five decades, masterful in both classical and avant-garde approaches, so much so that he’s known as the Legend of Ikebana. Oldham’s work with Ohtsubo’s archive as both protégé and scholar reproduces ikebana’s circulation as photographic ephemera and echoes the medium's physical transience with a rotation of images that respond to mood and season.
In the Vitrines, Double Negative celebrates the culminating work developed during Jordan King’s term as Artist-in-Residence—featuring analogue documentation of a new performance. King uses medium format film photography and Gallery 44’s darkroom to produce images of her performance staged in the Main Gallery. Double Negative explores visual access points to live performance and performance as a vehicle to embody key components of artistic research.
In the Members' Gallery, Already, Not Yet explores the tension of the in-between, where belonging and faith grow in complexity. Drawing on photographs taken while Malik Dieleman revisited his childhood homes in southern France, Dieleman leans into the tension of returning to once-familiar landscapes.
In the Production Gallery, In Public mounts Ethan Eisenberg's photographs made on assignment for Now Magazine’s “Newsfront” page, circa 2007-2017. Despite several name and design changes, the stand-alone feature on page three was a rare space for photographs documenting overlooked aspects of Toronto’s social and cultural life. In Public represents a modest contribution to a much larger archive tracing the public life of Toronto at a particular time in its history.
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