RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE

Arnaud Maggs
SCOTIABANK PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

May 1 – June 2, 2013
Main Gallery

Arnaud Maggs (1926 – 2012) was an artist of rigour, crystal clear vision, humour, and a humbling sense of awe for singular moments and the connections between them. Like other great artists before him, Arnaud Maggs leaves behind a wealth of artistic creation that at once challenges and adds to our understanding of the photographic medium. The Scotiabank Photography Award (SPA) exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) features a selection of work handpicked and poignantly curated by the artist during his final months: Kunstakademie (1980), André Kertész: 144 Views (1980), The Dada Portraits (2010) and After Nadar: Pierrot Turning (2012). Through the exhibition the ever-introspective Maggs allows us a glimpse of the photographer himself.

Arthur S. Goss: Works and Days

May 1 – June 2 and June 19 – August 25, 2013
Curated by Blake Fitzpatrick, John Bentley Mays
University Gallery

During his long tenure as Toronto’s official photographer (1911-1940), Arthur S. Goss created thousands of images that illustrate in fine detail the Victorian city’s ambitious, but often difficult, re-invention of itself as a modern Canadian metropolis. He has long been best known for his eloquent pictures of slums, destitute immigrants, and other dark elements of this historical passage.

Here and There: Photography and Video Works on Immigration

May 1 – June 2 and June 19 – August 25, 2013
Curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

Spanning from the 1950s with photographs from the Black Star collection to today with photographic, new media and video works by contemporary Canadian artists, this exhibition on the theme of immigration will be the first group show featured on the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall.

Lead and Light: The Evolution of Lumiere Press

May 1 – June 2, 2013
Student Gallery

Lead and Light explores twenty-seven years of hand-printed, hand-bound photography books published by Toronto’s Lumiere Press. The press, launched in 1986 by Canadian photographer Michael Torosian, has produced twenty-two limited edition volumes to date, on a diverse array of photographers including Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Aaron Siskind, and Edward Burtynsky.

Images of Women and War

June 4-14, 2013
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

The Women and War project is an exploration of the female experience within war. It attempts to create a greater understanding of women who were and are exposed to war. Targeted issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder help bring focus to the outcomes and effects war has on women.

Gabor Szilasi: The Eloquence of the Everyday

June 19 - August 25, 2013
Curated by David Harris
Main Gallery

Over the last 50 years, Gabor Szilasi has created one of Canada’s most significant and influential bodies of photographic work, comprising environmental portraits, domestic and urban views of Montreal and Budapest, and images of rural Quebec.

Ken Woroner: Hardscrabble

June 19 – July 14, 2013
Student Gallery

Now known as Golden Valley, Hardscrabble was the name European settlers first gave to the small northern Ontario community upon their arrival in the 1870s. These two names neatly bracket the combination of struggle and promise present in this rural location and its starkly beautiful, economically challenging terrain. Straddling a divide between subjective concerns and empathetic engagement, this series of photographs blends the personal with the documentary.

Kieran Dick: Bleigießen [lead casting]

July 24 – August 25, 2013
Student Gallery

The video Bleigießen [lead casting] presents an exaggerated moment within an old German New Year's Eve tradition of pouring a spoonful of molten lead into cold water. Upon contact the lead solidifies to form an abstract shape to be used as an interpretable form to extrapolate one's fortune for the New Year through symbolism and imagination.

Ghost Dance: Activism and Resistance in Indigenous Art