Articles from:September 2023

• Geoff Farnsworth and the Small Walker Press, launch Tuesday, Sept. 26, at the MIWSFPA

  Monday, September 25, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Stockholm Interior, 2023. Oil and acrylic on panel, 30 x 24 inches. Image: Geoff Farnsworth.

  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture presents

  Geoff Farnsworth: Blurs and Vagueness – An exhibition of small paintings
  Sept. 26 to Oct. 22, 2023
  Opening reception – Sept. 26, 2023 from noon to 2 p.m.
  Museum in the Hallway/Boîte-en-valise
  (2nd floor by the Theatre entrance)
  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts
  15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
  Ontario Culture Days event

  In partnership with 13th Street Gallery’s exhibition of larger paintings by Geoff Farnsworth running Sept. 23 to Oct. 21, 2023.

  Demonstrating a spirit for process, experimentation, and colour exploration, Geoff Farnsworth’s small-sized paintings offer a meditative reflection between figurative and abstraction. They are presented here with small drawings.

  Rarely shown to the public, Farnsworth’s drawings form a significant part of his work. They often – although not always – represent a more tightly structured environment. When seen together, his paintings and drawings evoke a fluctuating world of everyday realities and the dreamy fantasies of our imagination.

  Geoff Farnsworth studied with the Federation of Canadian Artists (Vancouver chapter), Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Capilano University (Graphic Design & Illustration Program), and the Art Students League of New York. After five years in New York City, Farnsworth relocated to Toronto. 4He currently lives and works in downtown St. Catharines. His paintings have been shown in New York City, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Niagara Falls, Norway, Sweden, and Trinidad.

  Curators: Catherine Parayre and David Vivian
  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture

  The virtual catalogue for the exhibition is available here:
  https://exhibits.library.brocku.ca/s/geoff-farnsworth-blurs-and-vagueness/page/virtual-catalogue

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  Small Walker Press book launch:

  

  Photo credits: Annette le Fort; Bernhard Cella

  Books and Archives
  Presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and  Walker Cultural Leader Series

  Tuesday, Sept. 26 from 12 to 2 p.m.
  Museum in the Hallway/Boîte-en-valise
  (2nd floor by the Theatre entrance), MIWSFPA
  Ontario Culture Days event

  In conjunction with exhibition opening of Geoff Farnsworth: Blurs and Vagueness, 

  Four book designers publish their reflection on Books and Archives:

  • Annette le Fort / Brandon Labelle, Touch and Tender Readings. Books As Archives, a sensory experience at the local library.
  • Seth Weiner, Bernhard Cella, Handmade, an illustrated catalogue of books that do not exist.

  Small Walker Press Catalogue Fall 2023

  Small Walker Press Book Launch two-pager Fall 2023

  A Walker Cultural Leader event.

  Tags: Blurs and Vagueness, Catherine Parayre, david vivian, Geoff Farnsworth, Geoff Farnsworth; Blurs and Vagueness, Small Walker Press, swp
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• STAC collaborating artists exhibit at PARALLEL VIENNA

  Monday, September 11, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Installation view at PARALLEL VIENNA in September, 2023. Photo by Bernhard Cella. Used with permission.

  The PARALLEL VIENNA Art Fair takes place every September in Vienna Austria. PARALLEL VIENNA presents young and emerging as well as established artistic practices and brings together art initiatives of every kind – art associations, galleries, project spaces, off spaces and artist spaces – both Austrian and international, all under one roof. It thus combines local artistic creation with international trends and contributes to building networks and fosters exchanges between artists, curators, collectors and exhibition visitors.

  This year from 5-10 September, 2023 the event takes place in an architectural and historic landmark known locally as Steinhof: the huge, old psychiatric hospital designed by Otto Wagner, built in 1907 and the site of a memorial to the crimes committed by the Nazis during before and during World War II. It is also the site of a magnificent Jugendstil theatre (of the Vienna Secession movement, closely related to Art Nouveau).

  Bernhard Cella, the author of one of the Small Walker press volumes this year, Handmade, and lead designer of the SWP catalogue, and Seth Weiner, a Walker Cultural leader for 2022-23 and author of a STAC-produced online tutorial in zine-making, are presenting at PARALLEL VIENNA in 2023. Bernhard and Seth’s project at PARALLEL VIENNA is Handmade (our SWP book). This is a Handmade project, a collaboration between two artists. Some of the posters at Steinhof show images that the Small Walker Press editors did not include for the final SWP publication. Copies of Handmade will be available at the art fair.

  

  The Catalogue PDF. CLICK to read.

  For more information about the Parallel Art Fair see the website and read the catalogue.

  Images included in the article show installation views at PARALLEL VIENNA in September, 2023. Photos by Bernhard Cella. Used by permission.

  Tags: Cella, Handmade, Parallel, Small Walker Press, Steinhof, Vienna, Weiner
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