Youppi Cheers Us On !

thanks to Geza Hermann for the pic !

Youppi's wiki page

No Kings Multi-Book Launch

Artist James Whitman
will be launching his new publishing imprint
No Kings chez nous
April 29 from 7 to 9.

Books By

Jo Cook

Mark Dahl

Megan Hepburn

Collin Johanson

Alisdair Macrae

Nathan Matthews

http://www.nokingspress.com/

Donna Akrey's April show

Immediate Productions

Immediate productions is a Montreal based film company specializing in artist profiles. The driving force behind this initiative is Jen MacIntyre, Monastiraki friend and ally, along with her partner Jesse Bochner. They have produced several films of artists we have had the pleasure of working with at Monastiraki. Here they are !











Here is their official bio :
Immediate Productions is the video production company of Jen MacIntyre and Jesse Bochner. Jen is a Montreal videographer that studied at Concordia and currently makes artsy documentaries. She's worked as a docent at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as a freelance curator for Galerie Monastiraki and the Osheaga Arts and Music festival. Jesse is an artist and video editor who has 18 years of experience in the film Industry including working as a stage hand on the Mr. Dress up Show for the CBC! Our current project is the Postage Stamp Video series featuring short biographies of artists.

Check out their youtube channel !
http://www.youtube.com/user/haikugreen

YOUR KIDS' BIRTHDAY PARTY AT MONASTIRAKI !

We are pleased to now offer crafty birthday parties for children on Saturdays and Sundays.
Projects in drawing, book-making and collage will be tailored to suit the children's ages, with time for cake and treats at the end.
Cost is $140 for a party of up to 8 children. The times available are Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 - 12:30 or 1:00 - 3:00 pm.

Email or give us a call for more information, and view our online document here:

BIRTHDAYS AT MONASTIRAKI


We look forward to making some art with you!

Best of Montreal 2011 Poll - go vote !

The Montreal Mirror is conducting their yearly readers poll to determine who sells the best french fries in our sweet little town.

Over at the Drawn & Quarterly blog some suggestions are made ...including Monastiraki (that's us) for the best gallery category !
A fine suggestion indeed !
Thanks D&Q !



http://211blog.drawnandquarterly.com/2011_03_01_archive.html#2575728274716886221


http://www.montrealmirror.com/bom/

Donna Akrey - 'phew'

Donna Akrey is an artist and educator living in Montreal. She is also one of our favorite people and we are very pleased to present her work here at Monastiraki. She will be exhibiting video work, photography, sculpture and installation. We are also happy that she is the first artist we've hosted to seriously interact with all the doodads and thingamabobs that litter our space !

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PHEW

an exclamation of relief used to express fatigue, surprise, disgust, disbelief, weariness, tiredness, etc.

I am interested in the parts that make up a 'whole'. I see my job as somewhat of a 'wrangler', aware of the futility of the 'ultimate' and the contradictions and idiosyncrasies therein. I use an interdisciplinary approach to articulate ideas to create large installations and sculptural objects, single channel video, video installation and book works.

I believe knowledge is relative and fallible rather than absolute and certain and I endeavor to discover the richness in between intention and result. Utilizing common, surplus and discarded materials such as foam, concrete, found objects, junk mail, wood, rubber and household products etc., I create both large installations and sculptural objects. I think of some of my sculptures and installations as gigantic understatements, ruminations on the spectacle of the unspectacular.

-Donna Akrey

Vernissage Friday, April 1st, 7pm - 10 pm
Exhibit runs to April 30, 2011

http://mobiusstripmall.blogspot.com/

Elisabeth Belliveau - Entre Chien et Loup

Some shots from Elisabeth Belliveau's exhibition Entre Chien et Loup. There is a lovely little animation in the window too. If you walk by in the evening you may catch it on it's random loop. Look for a small figure with an armful of flowers. As well as the drawings, Elisabeth is selling one of her beautiful hand-printed artist books, as well as single prints from the series.