Abbas Akhavan

Born in Tehran, Abbas Akhavan currently lives in Toronto. His practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing and video, with a recent focus on spaces just outside the home, such as the garden, the backyard, and other domesticated landscapes. His work has been exhibited in galleries including the Vancouver Art Gallery and Artspeak (Canada), Kunsten Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), Le Printemps de septembre a Toulouse (France) and Belvedere Museum (Austria). He has upcoming solo exhibitions at Araan Gallery (Iran), Modern Fuel and The Darling Foundry (Canada).

courtesy the artist and The Third Line (Dubai)

Sara Angelucci

Regular 8 (Allan Gardens), 2009
Chromogenic print, 24" x 20"
courtesy the artist and Wynick Tuck Gallery
estimate $500 framed

A photo and video artist living in Toronto, Sara Angelucci has a BA from the University of Guelph and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). She has exhibited her work across Canada, including shows at Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Ace Art in Winnipeg, Vu in Quebec City, and in festivals in Europe and Hong Kong. Angelucci has participated in artist residencies at NSCAD, the Banff Centre and at Biz-Art in Shanghai, China and is currently teaching at Ryerson University.

Dean Baldwin

Fatrumor, 2011
two altered magazines, adhesive tape, 10.5" x 10.5"
courtesy the artist and Katharine Mulherin
estimate $250

Working in photography, sculpture and installation, Dean Baldwin has a BFA from York University in Toronto and an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. He has exhibited work in Iran, Turkey, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany, the United States and Canada and been reviewed in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, ArtUS and Artforum. In 2009 he was recipient of the Canada Council International Residency in London, and in July 2011 he will take position as Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland.

Nadia Belerique

untitled (Fabric), 2010
C-print, 20" x 20"
courtesy the artist
estimate $600 framed

A photo-based artist who lives and works in Toronto, Nadia Belerique creates banal and uncanny photo-objects, stand-ins, assemblages and installations that explore photography's possibilities and limitations. Her work has been featured in publications including The Walrus and Hunter and Cook.

Cecilia Berkovic

Rock Poster No. 2, 2010
archival ink jet print, 21.5" x 35"
courtesy the artist and Katharine Mulherin
estimate $900 framed

Cecilia Berkovic is a visual artist and graphic designer living in Toronto. Her work is photo-based and includes print and poster projects as well as installation. She practices collaboratively with Vancouver/Toronto-based art collective Instant Coffee and sits on the Board of Directors at Gallery TPW. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Bard College in upstate New York.

Katie Bethune-Leamen

Proposal For The Use of Bioluminescent Mushrooms to Revive Dead Slang, 2008/2009
digital C-print on matte paper, 20" x 17"
courtesy the artist and MKG127
estimate $800 framed

Katie Bethune-Leamen is a visual artist, and sometimes writer and curator. She received her MFA from the University of Guelph, and BFA from Concordia University. Recent exhibitions include Dazzle Shizzle at MKG127 in Toronto; Older, Sadder, And All In White This Time at Latcham Gallery in Stouffville; Mushroom Studio, commissioned by the Toronto Sculpture Garden; and the Nuit Blanche commissioned project Ghost Chorus: A Dirge for Dead Slang. Recent residencies include: Le Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse in France; Why Are Conceptual Artists Painting Again?... led by Jan Verwoert at the Banff Centre in Alberta; and an upcoming residency with SIM in Reykjavik Iceland.

BGL

Domaine de l'angle II, 2008
edition 2 of 7
c-print on dibond, 48" x 36"
courtesy of the artists, Parisian Laundry and Diaz Contemporary
estimate $4500

Formed in 1996, BGL is a multidisciplinary collective that includes three Quebec artists, Jasmine Bilodeau, Sebastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière. Described as being defiant, critical and explosive, their work has recourse to humour and extravagance, drawing attention to current social and political themes as well as promoting Quebec art abroad. Shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2006 and 2008, BGL has exhibited their work across Canada and internationally.

Bruno Billio

Stacks (1994), 2004
laser print diptych, 8" x 10" each
courtesy the artist
estimate $900 the pair framed

An installation artist, sculptor and designer, Bruno Billio lives and works in Toronto, where for the past several years he has been resident artist at the Gladstone Hotel. In his practice he seeks to displace and re-stage found objects, reinterpreting the material and social valence of the object in space. He has exhibited his work internationally in cities including Milan, London, Miami, New York and Los Angeles.

Diane Borsato

From Falling Piece, 2010
archival C-print (unique print), 30" x 22"
courtesy the artist
estimate $1,500 framed

Diane Borsato is a visual artist working in performance, intervention, video, installation, and photography. She has exhibited in galleries and museums across Canada and internationally including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Art Gallery of York University, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and The Power Plant. Diane Borsato is currently Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of Guelph, and lives in Toronto.

Leigh Bridges

Treehouse, 2010
pencil on vellum, 12" x 16"
courtesy the artist and Paul Petro Contemporary Art
estimate $800 framed

Originally from Edmonton, Leigh Bridges currently lives and works in Vancouver. She has shown internationally, in cities including Toronto, Berlin, Vancouver, Melbourne, Seattle and Skien, Norway. She completed her MFA from the University of Victoria in May 2005, where she was recipient of the University of Victoria Graduate Fellowship in 2004 and 2005. She currently teaches painting and drawing at Emily Carr University.

Adam David Brown

Zero Degrees, 2011
paper, 9" x 12" x 12"
courtesy the artist and MKG127
estimate $1,500 framed

Adam David Brown is a multidisciplinary artist living in Toronto. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he completed his Masters of Fine Art at the University of Guelph in 2007. Guided by the principle of “less is more," Brown’s work is frequently generated by his interest in silence and ephemerality. Intentionally spare, his work attempts to find a balance between emptiness and form, mark making and erasure.

Bill Burns

Undersea Rescue No. 4, 2007/11
watercolour and pencil on paper, 9" x 11"
courtesy the artist and MKG127, Toronto, Galerie Daviet-Thery, Paris and Mendes-Wood, Sao Paulo
estimate $900 framed

Bill Burns' work about animals and civil society has been shown and published widely. He has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work is included in collections at the Wellcome Trust, London, MoMA, New York and the Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva.

Paul Butler

Winnipeg without the Jets, 2006; edition 50
serigraph, 24" x 24"
courtesy the artist and The Other Gallery
estimate $600 framed

Paul Butler is an artist and gallerist with an interest in multidisciplinary, social and alternative pedagogical practices. His practice includes hosting the Collage Party, a touring experimental studio established 1997, and directing the operations of The Other Gallery, a nomadic commercial gallery focused on overlooked artists’ practices established in 2001. In 2007, he founded the UpperTradingPost.com, a website that facilitates artist trading. He also initiated the experimental school Reverse Pedagogy that began at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2008, and has since traveled to the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, among other locations. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto; White Columns, New York City; Creative Growth Art Centre, Oakland; and Sparwasser HQ, Berlin.

Sarah Cale

OVAL 2, 2010
acrylic on canvas, 8" x 10" x 0.5"
courtesy the artist
estimate $600

Sarah Cale is a visual artist who lives and works in Toronto. Her work explores the intersection of painting and collage. She earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2003 and an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2005. She was shortlisted for the 2009 and 2010 RBC painting competition and has recently shown at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects. She currently teaches at the University of Guelph.

Maryanne Casasanta

Kodak Wratten Gelatin Filter No 12 Foil Wrap, 2010
digital C-print, 12" x 18"
courtesy the artist
estimate $380 framed

Maryanne Casasanta is a Toronto-based visual artist who works primarily in photography. She stages and documents interventions that address the exchange between art and the commonplace. This process transforms her personal living environment and reacts to a desire to connect more deeply with her surroundings. She received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2005.

Ulysses Castellanos

Ready for Megiddo, 2009
digital C-print, 22" x 17"
courtesy the artist and Peak Gallery
estimate $500 framed

Ulysses Castellanos is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living and working in Toronto. His work encompasses new media, film, video, music, performance, painting, photography and sculpture-installation. The central aim of his art practice is to demystify established cultural constructs by involving the viewer in the (often humorous) debunking of idealized images, concepts and paradigms. Castellanos culls images from films, television, literature and popular music and transposes these images within a performance art setting, or distills them into installations wherein these components are manipulated, juxtaposed, contrasted and collided against each other, thereby eliciting a shift in perception and understanding.

Chris Curreri

Handle,2009
C-print, 11" x 13.5"
courtesy the artist
estimate $1000 framed

Chris Curreri is a Toronto-based artist who works predominantly with film and photography. He holds a BFA from the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. Recent exhibitions include: An Unpardonable Sin at castillo/corrales in Paris (2010), Restricted at Clark and Faria in Toronto (2010), Handle at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto (2009), and Perceptions and their Arousal (2008) at Agnes Etherington Art Center in Kingston. Recent film screenings include: Image Forum Festival, Japan; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Argentina; and the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada.

David Diviney

Well, 1998; edition of 3
bucket, trophy parts, 28" x32" x 28"
courtesy the artist
estimate $500

David Diviney has exhibited his work internationally at Galerie Wildwechsel (Frankfurt), Listasafn ASÍ and The Living Art Museum (Reykjavik) and Real Art Ways (Hartford). In Canada, he has exhibited at Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), Edmonton Art Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery, Owens Art Gallery (Sackville), AXENÉO7 (Gatineau), ODD Gallery (Dawson City), Helen Pitt Gallery and Belkin Satellite (Vancouver), and YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto), among other venues. His work is in numerous private and public collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Art Bank, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery (Halifax) and the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon).

Brian Donnelly

Dicephalic Squirrel, 2008
oil on canvas, 12" x 12" x 2"
courtesy the artist and Show & Tell Gallery
estimate $550 framed

Based in Toronto, and graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2003, Brian Donnelley has shown in cities including Brussels, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Strasbourg, and Bridel, Luxembourg. Writing on his work has appeared in magazines including Juxtapoz Magazine and ION Magazine.

Mark Dudiak

Monument with Searchlights, 2010
#1 of an edition of 3 with one artist proof
digital C-print, Fuji Crystal Archive Flex Paper, face-mounted to Plexiglas, 20" x 27"
courtesy the artist
estimate $800

Mark Dudiak is an artist working in sculpture and video currently living in Toronto. Recent exhibitions include Air Conditioned Jungle at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto and Time’s Museum of Shape and Form at Access Artist Run Centre in Vancouver. He holds a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

Dave Dyment

TV Dinner Plate, 2010
ceramic plate, linen box, text, 11.5" x 11.5" x 1.7"
courtesy the artist and MKG127
estimate $350

Dave Dyment is a Toronto-based artist whose work encompasses audio, video, performance, curating, writing, artist books and multiples. He has exhibited in Calgary, Dublin, Edmonton, Halifax, Kingston, New York City, Philadelphia, Surrey, Vancouver, and Varna, Bulgaria. His work can be seen at www.davedyment.com or heard on the YYZ Anthology “Aural Cultures” or the Art Metropole disk “New Life After Fire,” a collaboration with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. He is represented by MKG127.

Jessica Eaton

cfaal 74, 2010
ed. 3, archival pigment print, 32" x 50"
courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch
estimate $3,200 framed

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Jessica Eaton currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She completed her BFA in photography in 2006 at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Many of her recent photographs borrow strategies from John Zorn, punk rock, theoretical physics, as well as Descartes, and represent Douglas Adams' belief in the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things." Her work has been exhibited in galleries and artist-run centers across Canada, including LES Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Access Gallery, Blanket Gallery, Paul Petro Projects and Hunter and Cook HQ. Her photography can also been seen in a number of art publications, including Pyramid Power, Patti, The Vancouver Review and the Hunter and Cook issue # 4.

FASTWÜRMS

Ludakris, 2011
edition 1/20
digital print on polytarp, 14" x 14" unframed
courtesy the artists and Paul Petro Contemporary Art
estimate $175 framed

Formed in 1979 by Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse, Fastwürms is the trademark and joint authorship of these Toronto/Creemore- based multidisciplinary artists whose art work melds high and popular cultures, bent identity politics, social exchange and a DIY cinematic sensibility.

FASTWÜRMS (2)

Petunia, 2011
edition 1/20
digital print on polytarp, 12" x 12" unframed
courtesy the artists and Paul Petro Contemporary Art
estimate $175 framed

Formed in 1979 by Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse, Fastwürms is the trademark and joint authorship of these Toronto/Creemore- based multidisciplinary artists whose art work melds high and popular cultures, bent identity politics, social exchange and a DIY cinematic sensibility.

FASTWÜRMS (3)

Bunny, 2011
edition 1/20
digital print on polytarp, 16" x 16" unframed
courtesy the artists and Paul Petro Contemporary Art
estimate $175 framed

Formed in 1979 by Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse, Fastwürms is the trademark and joint authorship of these Toronto/Creemore- based multidisciplinary artists whose art work melds high and popular cultures, bent identity politics, social exchange and a DIY cinematic sensibility.

Brendan Fernandes

Fear Not, 2007
C-print, 24" x 16"
courtesy the artist and Diaz Contemporary
estimate $1,000 framed

Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and earned his MFA (2005) from The University of Western Ontario and his BFA (2002) from York University in Canada. He has exhibited internationally and nationally including exhibitions at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Andy Warhol Museum, Art in General, The Art Gallery of York University, Manif d’Art: The Quebec City Biennial, The Third Guangzhou Triennial and the Western New York Biennial through The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Fernandes was the Ontario finalist for the Sobey Art Award in 2010. He is based between Toronto and New York.

Eric Glavin

Brasilia 02, 2010
laser print on archival paper, 24" x 36"
courtesy the artist and Birch Libralato
estimate $250 framed

Eric Glavin is a Toronto-based artist working in digital media as well as painting and sculpture. He is a founding member of the Toronto painter’s collective Painting Disorders and has had his work included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally including “EV+A 2007” Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland, “Radiant City” Oakville Galleries (2005), “Utility Structures” Mercer Union, Toronto (2003), "Selling Out and Buying In" Biz-Art, Shanghai (2002), "Funktionseinheiten" Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf (2002), “Sprawl” Toronto Sculpture Garden (2000), “Spides World” Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Ireland (2000) and "Perspective '96" at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

He has also been an invited artist-in-residence at the Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna (2000), The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2004) the ORTE architekturnetzwerk niederösterreich, Krems, Austria (2004) and the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2009).

He is represented by the Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto and Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna.

Sara Graham

Proposition for a New System (16), 2010
ink on vellum with yellow plexi-glass, 18" x 14"
courtesy the artist and MKG127
estimate $700 framed

Sara Graham has been primarily concerned with the issues and ideas of the contemporary city. One of her central engagements in her practice is in the mapping of systems and networks and how their interconnectivity effects everyday lives. She is specifically engaged in a cross-disciplinary approach that incorporates philosophical, cultural, sociological and architectural criticism of the nature and condition of the city and city life.
Graham has recently exhibited at Museum London, Kenderdine Art Gallery (Saskatoon), MOCCA (Toronto), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Kitchener), MKG127 (Toronto), The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery (St John’s), Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum (Charlottetown), YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto), Articule (Montreal).

Eliza Griffiths

Sailor, 2009
oil on canvas, 20" x 20"
courtesy the artist and Katharine Mulherin
estimate $3,600 framed

Eliza Griffiths is a Canadian artist whose practice is centered on an exploration of psychological, sexual, and interpersonal themes through the creation of invented characters in painting. Born in London, England, Griffiths immigrated to Ottawa, Canada at the age of eight. She studied Studio Art at Concordia University and did graduate studies in Art History at Carleton University. Griffiths' paintings have been widely exhibited throughout Canada and internationally, including exhibitions at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre (Buffalo); Mercer Union (Toronto); the Saidye Bronfman Center (Montreal); Platform Gallery, (London, UK); The Painting Center (NY,NY); and ARCO, (Madrid, Spain). Her work has been featured in publications such as NYArts Magazine; Canadian Art; Border Crossings; C-Magazine; ARCO Madrid, and has been extensively collected both privately and publicly. Griffiths lives in Montreal and teaches at Concordia University. She is represented by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Arts Projects.

Maggie Groat

Studies for Possible Futures: Vision # 41, 2010
paper, 4.5" x 6.5"
courtesy the artist
estimate $275 framed

Maggie Groat is a visual artist currently working in collage, sculpture, intervention and Forest School studies. In 2010, she received an MFA degree from The University of Guelph. Maggie lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

Alberto Guedea Zamora

Untitled (from the Citric Acid series), 2010
edition 1 of 5
colour print, 9.5" x 14.2"
courtesy the artist
estimate $1,500 framed

Alberto Guedea Zamora studied photography at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara, and film history at La Casa de la Cultura in Colima, Mexico. Guedea Zamora has presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Museum of Contemporary Art Ex Teresa, Mexico City, Cineforo de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Archivo Historico de Colima, Colima, Aspekt1 Studios, Frankfurt, Patiharn Electron Festival, Chiang Mai, Hellenic American Union, Athens, The Western Front, Vancouver, among others. His work was recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to be part of their permanent collection. He lives in Toronto and works between Canada and Mexico.

Robert Hengeveld

C₈H₈:Pb, 2011
cast lead, 7 cm x 15 cm x 7 cm
courtesy the artist
estimate $500

Hengeveld is an installation and new media artist whose work explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, and where we find ourselves within that relationship.

He is currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. He completed his MFA at the University of Victoria in 2005 and received an AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Upcoming exhibitions will be held at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Mercer Union, Galerie Sans Nom, Latitdue 53, Latcham Gallery, and the MacLaren Art Centre.

Megan Hepburn

Was, 2010
oil on canvas, 9" x 12"
courtesy the artist
estimate $1,000

Utilizing geometries that build on, elaborate and inform one another other according to a shared logic that is established as it is created, Hepburn explores and translates the language of shapes and lines in her paintings. She received her BFA from Emily Carr Institute (now University) in Vancouver in 2005 and her MFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 2010. In 2008 she received the Velan Graduate Award in Painting from Concordia University. Megan was a participant in the international residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts: Why Are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because They Think It’s a Good Idea, led by Jan Verwoert in 2009. She has participated in exhibitions including Stride Gallery in Calgary, Art Mur in Montreal and LES Gallery in Vancouver. Her first solo exhibition took place at Galerie Werner Whitman, Montreal in 2009. In 2010 Megan Hepburn won the Canadian Joseph Plaskett Award for excellence in painting, and was short-listed for the Royal Bank of Canada Painting Competition. She is currently based in Europe.

Kristan Horton

Siphon, 2011
hand rendered unlimited edition #2
carbon paper, 11.5" x 8.5"
courtesy the artist
estimate $500 framed

Horton's multi-disciplinary practice includes sculpture, drawing, photography and video. Using layered processes of construction, both material and virtual, he has produced several long-term projects linked conceptually by their serial and episodic structure. Horton researches and creates his subjects in an intensive studio practice, ultimately realizing his artworks through inventive and experimental uses of digital technology.
- Jessica Bradley Art + Projects

Kristan Horton has shown his work widely in Canada and abroad. He currently resides in Toronto.

Jen Hutton

Small Black Manta, 2010
acrylic and graphite on denim, 18" x 26"
courtesy the artist
estimate $600

Jen Hutton is a Toronto-based artist and writer. Through varied and strategic uses of material Hutton uses geometric shapes to create tension and movement.

Instant Coffee

Sunset, 2010
bamboo, foam, tape, found afghan blanket
courtesy the artists and MKG 127
estimate $600

Instant Coffee's sculptures incorporate a variety of materials, integrating Instant Coffee’s own detritus and flash aesthetic. Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective based in Toronto and Vancouver. Through formal installations and event-based activities, it builds a public place to practice, where ideas, materials and actions can be explored outside of the isolated studio and in a manner that renegotiates traditional exhibition structures, but is still supported by them. Recent Instant Coffee Public Projects include: Western Front-London Bureau as part of No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern, London UK, 2010; IC Light Bar as part of Vancouver Winter Olympics Public Art Projects, 2010. Instant Coffee's most consistent members are Cecilia Berkovic, Jinhan Ko, Kelly Lycan, Jenifer Papararo, Kate Monro, and Khan Lee.

Luis Jacob

Untitled (Heaven 1-4), 1991-2010
edition of 5
silkscreen on cardstock paper, 17" x 11"
courtesy the artist and Birch Libralato
estimate $1000 framed

Luis Jacob has achieved an international reputation, particularly since his participation in Documenta 12 in 2007, with solo exhibitions at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg and the Hamburger Kunstverein, and in Canada at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Darling Foundry and Musée d’art de Joliette. In 2010 his work was featured at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in the exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, and in the Kunsthalle Bern in the exhibition Animism. His exhibition Luis Jacob: Pictures at an Exhibition, curated by David Liss, is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) Feb 04, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011.

Kelly Jazvac

Study, 2011
salvaged adhesive vinyl, 36" x 29"
courtesy the artist and Diaz Contemporary
estimate $1,300 framed

Kelly Jazvac’s works aspire to be mass-produced luxury consumer goods, and accordingly, they share a slick and glossy aesthetic. However, they are also handmade with materials that are accessible, yet unconventional. The result is a unique strangeness that elicits questions about consumption and creation, needs and desires, surface and quality, and above all, value. These objects, like any consumer product, have the ability to both delight and disappoint, depending, of course, on one’s expectations. Jazvac creates a space for those expectations to be confronted and perhaps, reformulated. - Diaz Contemporary

Kelly Jazvac works primarily in sculpture and installation. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently including i8 Gallery in Reykjavik, Soi Fischer in Vancouver, Diaz Contemporary in Toronto, Blackwood Gallery in Mississauga, the Khyber ICA in Halifax and Atelierhof Kreuzberg in Berlin. She is currently based in London where she teaches sculpture at the University of Western Ontario. Jazvac is represented by Diaz Contemporary.

Sholem Krishtalka

untitled, 2010
oil on canvas board, 9" x 12"
courtesy the artist
estimate $500

Sholem Krishtalka is a painter whose work engages with queer communities and histories. His art has been shown in galleries in Toronto and New York, and featured in numerous international publications. He has upcoming shows at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, MKG127 and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. His work can be seen at www.sholem.ca and sholem.tumblr.com. He received his MFA from York University.

Patrick Kryzanowski

The Challenge, 2010
watercolour on paper, 14.25" x 20"
courtesy the artist
estimate $800 framed

Exaggerating the spectacle and dramatic appeal of wrestling in his finely detailed watercolour images, Kryzanowski's work is playful and humourous, while provoking curiousity of spectacle sport. Having just completed his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at the University of Guelph, Patrick now lives and works in Toronto.

Tiziana La Melia

Pink Ribbon, 2009
oil on panel, 30" x 36"
courtesy the artist
estimate $500

"My drawings and paintings produce multiple readings. I seek to identify the unknowable, and in doing so, it constructs itself as form. Voice, artifice, and articulation are components of my poetics."

La Melia (b. 1982, Palermo, Italy) is a Vancouver based artist whose practice involves several mediums, including writing, paiting, sculpture, and performance. Her work is featured in the current issue of Pyramid Power. In 2010, she attended the Banff Residency Figure in a Mountain Landscape (Reprise) with Silke Otto-Knapp. She is currently a Masters of Fine Arts candidate at the University of Guelph.

Maryse Larivière

Mirror, mirror, 2010
chromogenic print, 20" x 20"
courtesy the artist
estimate $800 framed

As a multidisciplinary artist attempting to identify and examine manifestations of the “feminine” and the “romantic” within the genre of autofiction, Maryse Larivière's practice engages in a critical discourse about intimacy, identity and alterity. She uses appropriation as a strategy to create her own mythology from a variety of sources and different eras, all borrowed, diverted, rehabilitated and artistically replayed. She interrogates the traditional role and place of femininity, love, emotions, as well as the place of artistic creation. Her practice is guided by the arguments of feminism, a heavy interest in psychoanalysis and modernity, as well as a general historical reinvestment.

Larivière's work was presented at artist-run centres SKOL and Clark in Montréal. Grant-holder from the Art Council of Quebec, she was awarded the prestigious Villa Arson residency in Nice, France, in 2005. More recently, she participated in Reverse Pedagogy II, coinciding with the 53rd Biennale de Venise in 2009, as well as she sojourned at the Model in Sligo, Ireland, and Cité des Arts in Paris in 2010. As Pavilion Projects co-founder, she has initiated projects such as the Off-Biennial of Montreal, and the MTL ART MAP. She is currently a MFA candidate at the University of Guelph.

Micah Lexier

This is an arrow made for a fundraising auction, 2011
water-jet cut aluminum with enamel paint, 26" x 6"
courtesy the artist and Birch Libralato
estimate $3,200

Micah Lexier is an artist, a collector and a curator. He has a deep interest in measurement, numbers and the kinds of casual marks we make in our day-to-day lives. He has had over 90 solo exhibitions, participated in over 150 group exhibitions and produced a dozen permanent public commissions. This work is part of his ongoing arrow series but was made specifically for this auction. It is the first of three related arrows made for Toronto visual arts organization’s 2011 fundraising auctions. Micah Lexier is represented in Toronto by Birch Libralato, and in Calgary by TrepanierBaer.

Jimmy Limit

Gibbon Skull Coat Hanger Study #4, 2010
a/p, large format photography, digital print on archival Hannemule photograph paper, 16" x 20"
courtesy the artist
estimate $400 framed

Jimmy Limit is a photography based artist. His photos have recently been published in The New York Times and Frieze Magazine. Past exhibitions include Goodbye to Romance at Mercer Union in Toronto and the solo show 'I'm Not Forget' at 107 Shaw St. He has self published a large amount of artist books (zines) which are available around the world. He lives and works in Toronto.

Derek Liddington

shown here: Portrait Study (David Jones as David Bowie ca. Glass Spider Tour), 2008

Portrait Study (David Jones as David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust), 2008
graphite on paper, 40" x 47"
courtesy the artist and Daniel Faria
estimate $2,800 framed

Derek Liddington is a professional artist and curator working in Toronto, Ontario. He holds an MFA from the University of Western Ontario and BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Within his creative process and practice, forms of mimicry, appropriation and translation are displaced in an attempt to deconstruct contemporary narratives - those close to him call him a pomo. Derek has received project support from the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the London Community Foundation.

Annie MacDonell

Untitled concrete sculpture, 2010
cast concrete, mirror, dimensions variable
courtesy the artist and Katharine Mulherin
estimate $600

Annie MacDonell is a visual artist whose practice includes film, photography, sculpture, installation and sound. Her work deals with exhausted ideas and images, and the conventions of display as they exist in relation to art and the space of the gallery. She lives in Toronto, exhibiting her work in Canada and abroad. Recent exhibitions include "Dans la nuits, des images" at the Grand Palais, Paris, "Signals in the Dark" at the Blackwood Gallery, and “To Which Earth Does this Sweet Cold Belong” at The Power Plant. Currently, she teaches in the photography department at Ryerson University, and is working on a film that investigates the idea of originality within the avant garde.

Niall McClelland

Perpetuated Adolescence - A Window, 2010
spray paint on paper, 16.5" x 20.5"
courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch
estimate $600 framed

"With folded photocopies, old bed-sheets, fragile newsprint, and other basic materials, Niall McClelland makes compelling works that radiate a sense of formal elegance with arte povera-like zeal and a little bit of the sneering contrariness born of punk music."
-Clint Roenisch

Niall McClelland (b.1980), grew up in Toronto, Ontario, spent many of his summers in Northern Ireland, attended the Emily Carr University in Vancouver BC, and eight years later moved back to Toronto where he currently resides.

Olia Mishchenko

Olia Mishchenko is an emerging artist who primarily works in drawing, ranging from miniature bookworks to large-scale wallworks, and is active with several artist collectives on installations, sculpture and preformance. She has exhibited at Mercer Union, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Diaz Contemporary, YYZ and Doris McCarthy Gallery and is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto. Mishchenko studied Architectural Theory and Fine Art History at the University of Toronto, teaches at OCAD University, and runs architecture and new media projects for children at several contemporary art and design institutions.

courtesy the artist and Paul Petro Contemporary Art

Roula Partheniou

Composition with Red Xeroxed, 2010
graphite on paper, 17" x 11"
courtesy the artist and MKG127
estimate $1,800 framed

Roula Partheniou's work is marked by a concern for marriage of material and form and is drawn together by a strong sense of both logic and play. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions including Never Odd or Even at MKG127, Toronto; Permutations at Truck Gallery, Calgary; Out of Print at Mercer Union, Toronto; 100 Variations at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York and an upcoming show at Modern Fuel, Kingston. She is represented by MKG127, Toronto.

Graeme Patterson

Bear Rug from Taming the Wild Series, 2008
a/p, digital print, 30" x 20"
courtesy the artist and Trépanier Baer
estimate $1,200 framed

Originating from Saskatoon, now living in Halifax Graeme Patterson’s practice stems from a self developed approach to creating stop-motion animation. This “do it yourself” method is consistent in all facets of his production. Since graduating from NSCAD in 2002 his projects can be described as sculptural installations consisting of video, robotics, audio, music, and some interactive components. All of his work is based on personal memories and life experience with a mix of fantasy and surrealism, evincing the fluidity of imagination and burring the line between fact and fiction. He is represented by Taming The Wild (2008), a series of photographs and stop-motion puppets that humourously and poignantly the relationships and interactions we have with the natural world.
Graeme was a 2009 Sobey Award finalist.

Paulette Phillips

Detail From Edgar Allan Poe's House, Philadelphia, 2008
giclee print, 16" x 20"
courtesy the artist and Diaz Contemporary
estimate $800 framed

Paulette Phillips was born in Canada and during her career has established an international reputation for her tense, humourous and uncanny explorations of the phenomena of conflicting energies. She is a certified lie detector with an interest in the contradictions that play out in our construction of stability and states of unknowing. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally including The Tate Modern, The Pompidou Centre, The Tatton Park Biennale, The Berlin Film Festival’s Expanded Forum, The Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, The Ludwig Museum, Budapest, The Vancouver Art Gallery, ZKM, The National Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, The Power Plant and Heidelburger Kunstverein. She teaches contemporary art practice and is an Associate Professor of Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her work is represented by Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art; London, and Diaz Contemporary; Toronto.

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