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MARY HAYES - A Pantheon of Minor Deities

A Pantheon of Minor Deities
Tableaux récents de Mary Hayes

03-27 novembre 2016
vernissage jeudi 3 novembre 18 - 21hr

Monastiraki
5478 Blvd. Saint-Laurent
Mtl, Qc., H2T 1S1 Canada


The work of Mary Hayes mines the expressive, psychological and sociological implications of the head and the human figure. Most recently, she reinterprets Old Master paintings and archetypes from popular culture with paintings that conflate, morph and mutate, exploring an emotional range between the macabre and the tender.  

A Pantheon of Minor Deities takes a look at archetypes that resurface with each generation in popular culture, through myth, fairy tales, film and video games. Misunderstood monster, imperious goddess, inquisitive alien - come back to us in various forms to guide us through the physical emotional and psychological trials of contemporary life.

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Le travail de Mary Hayes sonde les aspects expressif, psychologique et sociologique de la tête et de la figure humaine. L’artiste se consacre depuis peu à l’interprétation d’œuvres de Grands Maîtres et d’archétypes de la culture populaire. Elle explore au moyen de fusions, morphismes et mutations toute une gamme d’émotions entre le tendre et le macabre. 

A Pantheon of Minor Deities pose un regard sur les archétypes générationnels de la culture populaire par l’entremise du mythe, des contes de fées, du cinéma et des jeux vidéo. Le monstre mal-aimé, la déesse impérieuse, l’extraterrestre curieux – reviennent nous visiter sous différentes formes pour nous guider à traversles épreuves physiques, émotionnelles, et psychologiques, de la vie contemporaine.

www.maryhayes.ca

Bass Piano VII

Andrew Wedman (Naramata, BC) will be installing Bass Piano VII in the Monastiraki gallery, with a performance on Friday October 28th.

The Bass Piano is a piano that has been tuned down a full octave to A220. With slightly unstable tuning and long sustains, strange and wonderful anomalies occur within its harmonics.

The night features three free improv duos who will explore the sonic possibilities of bass and Bass Piano: Andrew Wedman (bass piano) with Jason Sharp (bass saxophone), Marielle Groven (bass piano) with Aaron Lumley (contrabass) and Guillaume Dostaler (bass piano) with Lori Freedman (contrabass and bass clarinet).

More about the Bass Piano:

Piano Technician and experimental musician, Andrew Wedman developed the Bass Piano through his work with various altered tunings. The result of detuning a piano is a reduced tension in the strings and a unique tonal quality similar to bells or steel drums. Extreme tunings can be difficult for pianos to adjust to, so Andrew chooses to detune old pianos that would otherwise end up in the garbage. He repurposes these unwanted instruments as Bass Pianos so that they can be playable again.

The Bass Piano was debuted in Berlin in January 2013 with performances by Andrew Wedman and John Kameel Farah. Since then the Bass Piano has been performed by and alongside Ryan Driver, Tania Gill, Marilyn Lerner and John Oswald.

For more information contact Andrew Wedman: andrew@wedmanpianotech.com
http://wedmanpianotech.com/?page_id=1194

Bass Piano VII
Friday October 28th, 2016
6:00 – 8:00
Monastiraki
5478 Blvd St Laurent, Montreal
by donation




Le Piano Bass VII

Le vendredi 28 octobre, Andrew Wedman (Naramata, BC) s’installera à la Gallerie Monastiraki pour une performance de Piano Bass VII. Cet instrument est un piano qu’il a désaccordé d’une octave plus bas. Ce réglage légèrement instable produit des anomalies étranges et merveilleuses qui s’ajoutent aux harmonies du piano.

La soirée propose trois duos d'improvisation libre qui explorent les possibilités soniques de la basse et du Piano Bass: Andrew Wedman (piano bass) et Jason Sharp (saxophone basse), Marielle Groven (piano bass) et Aaron Lumley (contrebasse), ainsi que Guillaume Dostaler (piano bass) et Lori Freedman (contrebasse et clarinette basse).

À propos du Piano Bass:

Technicien accordeur de piano et musicien expérimental, Andrew Wedman a conçu le Piano Bass à travers son travail sur différents accords modifiés. Le désaccordage d’un piano a pour résultat une baisse de tension sur les cordes et une qualité tonale unique similaire aux cloches ou aux tambours en acier (steel-drums). Les pianos ont parfois du mal à s’adapter à ce type d’accordage, c’est pourquoi Andrew utilise uniquement des pianos qui sont voués à être jetés. Il transforme ces instruments en Pianos Bass afin qu'ils puissent être joués de nouveau.

Andrew Wedman a débuté ses performances de Piano Bass à Berlin en janvier 2013 en duo avec John Kameel Farah. Depuis, le Piano Bass a été joué par (et avec) Ryan Driver, Tania Gill, Marilyn Lerner et John Oswald.

Pour plus d'informations, contactez Andrew Wedman: andrew@wedmanpianotech.com
http://wedmanpianotech.com/?page_id=1194

Piano Bass VII
Vendredi le 28 octobre 2016
18h à 20h
Monastiraki
5478 Blvd St Laurent Montréal
Contribution volontaire

Kevin Spenst reads poetry at Monastiraki

Kevin Spenst will drop by Monastiraki to write and read some of his poems on the eastern leg of his casual reading tour !

October 3 
1:30PM @ Causa: a craft art jewelry book shop (13 Kensington) 
3:30PM @ Sovereign State, idea consultancy (827 Dundas St West)
6:45PM @ Full of Beans Coffee (1348 Dundas St West)

October 4 @ 7PM
Boneshaker Reading Series, Toronto
https://www.facebook.com/Boneshaker-Reading-Series-267829029907961/

October 5 @ 8PM
Pivot Reading Series, Toronto 
with John Wall Barger, Joe Denham, and Susan Perly
1051 Bloor St West
https://pivotreadings.ca/

October 7 @ 7PM
Book Launch, Novel Idea Bookstore, Kingston
with Michael Casteels and Jason Heroux
156 Princess St
https://www.facebook.com/NovelIdeaBookstoreKingston/

October 9 @ 8:30PM
An Evening of Poetry by Poets from Canada, New York
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
https://www.facebook.com/events/1867308573497263/

October 14 @ 3PM
Monastiraki -Le Petit Monastère
5478 Boul St-Laurent, Montréal
http://monastiraki.blogspot.ca/

Todd Stewart - Shield Country

Todd Stewart
Shield Country

Vernissage jeudi 6 octobre
expo 6 - 30 octobre, 2016


Todd Stewart : I'm an illustrator and a printmaker. The works in this show are all printed, and are compositions drawing heavily on illustration, either directly on wood or paper, with varying levels of abstraction. The silkscreen process allows me to work automatically, exploring symbol, transparency and light by printing multiples of simple elements and patterns. The work on display was created in the last two years, which includes time spent on residency in Scarborough, Ontario and Saint-Louis, Senegal. Much of it is about landscape and meaning in the symbols in the spaces around us.

Arranging Flowers: New Pictures by JG

ARRANGING FLOWERS 
New Pictures by JG

Vernissage jeudi 8 septembre 18-22hr
Expo 8 - 25 septembre 2016

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Arranging Flowers  
NEW PICTURES
BY JG

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Eye rationale.

Leaning from this stoop into the imaginary arms of Booger Brie, considering how we are formed or influenced by the people and immersive situations we find ourselves in. Arranging Flowers is an installation of screenprinted paper, drawings in frames and paintings responding to the affairs of what and what and what our painted eyes are paying attention to, when there is so much to tend to.

JG is a queer, mostly self-taught visual artist who lives in Montreal. They have been dramatically influenced by anti-aesthetic theory and experimental print based work, underground comics and small press book culture and participate in making art through this lens. You can find them working as a human photocopier at Atelier Lost Cause in the plateau, or listening to mutant disco recordings while tending to the garden growing inside their apartment, as the plant lady.

Thank you ♥


*Works by JG (TINDRUMS) as well as a set of collaborative posters made with illustrations by Brie Moreno (BOOGER BRIE, from Toronto, ON).

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TOTUM expo & zine launch

TOTUM is a group-oriented art zine collecting the works of up-and-coming Montreal illustrators. The idea behind it is to create a book with a rich variety of voices and visions, a place to take these individual pieces and to create a whole with them. 
With the 4th issue now in the process of completion, we've decided to celebrate and put together an exhibition showcasing over two dozen contributions made by the diverse set of artists involved. Exhibiting works spread through both the third and fourth issues, you'll get the chance to see all the illustrations in person, as well as the official launch of TOTUM No. 4. 

VERNISSAGE
Thursday, August 25th from 6 to 10 PM. 
The Event will be held at Monastiraki - Le Petit Monastère
Food and drinks will be supplied. Free entrance.

ARTISTS EXHIBITED
Gabor Bata
Indiana Brierley
Mathieu Larone
Darcy Roop
Graeme Shorten Adams
Alexandra Poulin
Tony Luzano
Julian Bata
Patrick Callahan
Annette Fanzhu
Kaia'tanoron
Mony Pich
Trevor Yardley-Jones
Sara Hum

Share with friends and family and help spread the word! We hope to see you all there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/314618942215990/

Sabrina Basten at monastiraki

http://sabrinabasten.com

Nadia Moss - Drawings

Nadia Moss will enter our space and leave her mark June 2nd 2016.
Show is up all month.

CONUNDRUM PRESS 20th ANNIV PARTY / EXPO / BOOK LAUNCH MAY 2016

20x20:

Twenty Years of

Conundrum Press

Montreal: Monastiraki, 5478 Boul. St Laurent

Saturday May 7 2016

4pm onwards. Free to all.

The Twenty Year Conundrum

This will be a month long art show (May 4-29) comprised of the originals

given to editor and pubisher Andy Brown over the years, featuring: Shary

Boyle, Sherwin Tjia, Nina Bunjevac, Dakota McFadzean, Marc Ngui, Yvette

Poorter, Simon Bosse, Richard Suicide, Philipe Girard, Pascal Girard, Claire

Seringhaus, Billy Mavreas, Joey Dubuc, Ian Sullivan Cant.

There will be all the Conundrum books for sale and many early out of print

treasures under glass. Come Saturday May 7 for the launch of the anthology

and Conundrum reunion party. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1599396703719489/

Julie Desquand April 2016

Vernissage Thursday April 7 6 - 9 pm

Expo 7 avril - 30 avril 2016

Julie est une artiste vivant à Montréal, son travail nous présente une :

Allégorie d’un monde flottant, indicible, évocateur de rêve, cette série d’estampes faites d’huile et d’encre, nous livre un univers fantasmagorique née d’une affinité entre dessin et peinture.

Julie is an artist living in Montreal, her recent work presents:

An allegory of a floating world, indescribable, evoking an aura of dreams. This oil and ink print series reveals a phantasmagoric universe born from an affinity between drawing and painting

juliedesquand.com

iconosquare.com/julie.desquand

Our annual Nuit Blanche collage party 2016 edition !

Once again come and chill out with scissors, glue and vintage magazines

Saturday, February 27, 8 p.m. to midnight ! we are early birds ;)

Jason Gillingham - RADIUS

We are very excited to launch our 2016 exhibition season with Jason Gillingham. Jason is an artist with a varied practise, making visual poetry with text and tape as well as
working with all manner of found metal strapping to create exquisite weavings, often embellished with punched text. These weavings act as binding between the more ephemeral qualities of language and the undeniably tactile.

The opening will be on Thursday, March 3rd from 6 pm until 9pm. The exhibit continues until the 27th of March 2016.

We hope to see you there !

COMING UP MARCH 2016 Jason Gillingham - RADIUS

Jason Gillingham - RADIUS

Jason Gillingham is an artist living in Montreal, Canada. 
His recent workings are primarily of woven industrial materials.

3 mars - 27 mars 2016

http://jasongillingham.com/

slow opening into 2016 cont'd

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HORAIRE FEVRIER 2016

OUVERT 

JEUDI   12 - 20

VENDREDI 12 - 20

SAMEDI  12 - 17

DIMANCHE 12 - 17

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FEBRUARY 2016 SCHEDULE

OPEN

THURSDAY 12 - 8

FRIDAY 12 - 8

SATURDAY 12 - 5

SUNDAY 12 - 5 

MERCI

THANKS

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