New directions/Adrian Norvid visits/New images
Visiting Painting and Drawing professor Adrian Norvid is coming to tomorrow’s session, (Friday, 10 to 130, VA 315) and you are invited to help take the Collective in a new direction. Adrian has many excellent ideas for where we can go and this is your chance to help shape the collective’s next stage. This is a hands-on session where we’ll be trying some new things, and you don’t want to miss it.
Adrian is providing feedback on the collective this year, following in the footsteps of high-profile Montreal artists François Morelli and Eric Simon.
To read about Adrian’s show at Jessica Bradley gallery in Toronto, click this link:
http://www.jessicabradleyartprojects.com/artists/adrian_norvid/show
Adrian has a show of drawings coming next month at Joyce Yahouda Gallery at the Belgo Building in Montreal.
This description below is at this web page which is part of a Road Trip project he was involved in, that also included Will Gorlitz, who has shown at Galerie Rene Blouin in the Belgo Building, Margaret Lawther and Adrian Blackwell:
Adrian Norvid received an MFA from York University in 1986. His recent solo
exhibitions include AKA Gallery in Saskatoon, Galerie B312 in Montreal and AxeNeo7 in Gatineau Quebec. His work was also featured recently in the “Other Worlds” exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art and Projects in Toronto. In 2005 he participated in the Symposium Internationale d’Art de Baie-Saint-Paul. He has upcoming exhibitions at Galerie Joyce Yahouda and the Societe des Arts sur Papier, both in Montreal. He currently teaches at Concordia University. Adrian Norvid works on very large format drawings exploring themes of underachievement, misbehaviour and decrepitude.
2) Check out the photo gallery section of our website for new images by Montreal artist Stephanie Reynolds, who is in her third year as a Collective member and participated in our live drawing project on Global Television in March with Art Matters co-producers Corina Kennedy and Emily Shanahan and festival Special Events co-ordinator Rebecca St. John, as well as collective members Shawn Kuruneru and Monica Eckert.
3) Last chance to see François Morelli’s not to be missed double show at Optica gallery and Joyce Yahouda gallery in the Belgo building; the shows end Saturday.
4) a photo of Montreal artist Holly King and her drawing students during a collaborative project is in the current issue of The Journal. The photo was taken after a visit by collective members to Holly’s class for the collaborative project critique:
http://cjournal.concordia.ca/journalarchives/2006-07/sept_28/007656.shtml
Robert Winters
co-ordinator of The Art Collective
robertwinters@videotron.ca