American Chordata: Issue Four
Publications / December 21, 2016
American Chordata
Issue Four
Fall 2016
Limited print edition.
Full color.
5.5 x 8.5 in. 224 pages.
ISSN 2378-2560 (print)
ISSN 2378-2579 (online)
Featuring:
An essay by Jerelle Kraus
Fiction by Amir Adam, Jekwu Anyaegbuna, and Olivia Parkes
Poems by Michael Brown Jr., Xava Nitzan De Cordova, Caitlin Dube, Tim Lavis, Maria Rosa Mills, Bryan Narendorf, Dennis O’Connell, Tim Robbins, Emily Sklar, Kevin Wood, Diana Woodcock, and Thomas Young
Art and photography by Kent Andreasen, Brian Arnold, Nathan Bajar, Nick Ballon, Elvert Barnes, Steven Beckly, Nick Boso, Parker Day, Maurice Van Es, McNair Evans, Jason Falchook, Nikita Gale, Jackie Gendel, Nicholas Gerber, Sandra Gramm, Harry Griffin, Harry Gould Harvey IV, Sarah Haug, Claudia Imbert, Zisis Kardianos, Cheryl Kelley, Arseni Khamzin, Adam Kremer, Jessica Labatte, Matthew C. Lange, Adam J Long, Charles Ludeke, Olaf Martens, Julian Master, Katie Vetter Miller, Nik Mirus, Aso Mohammadi, Sam Nixon, Tim Parchikov, Lucius Pax, John Francis Peters, Piotr Pietrus, Mimi Plumb, Annie Powers, Andrew Querner, Fabrizio Raschetti, Alexander Rotondo, Stephane Salvi, Lina Scheynius, Heather Sten, Hagihara Takuya, Camille Vivier, Carolin Walch, and Alba Yruela
Framework: Curated by Blair Swann, The Door, Toronto, ON
Exhibitions / November 1, 2016
Steven Beckly: Framework
November 9 to December 9, 2016
Opening: Wednesday November 9, 7 – 9 p.m.
The Door
121 Roncesvalles Ave
Toronto, ON M6R 2K9
Curated by Blair Swann
Framework is a colour transparency installed in the window frame of curator Blair Swann’s apartment door. Rotated over the course of the exhibition and illuminated by the changing light of day, the installation offers multiple ways of looking at a picture. Fluid in content and form, the work questions the fixity of its photographic frame through the destabilization of its four borders.
As an artist and curator, Blair Swann has worked on exhibitions, residencies, and publications. From 2014 to 2016, he served as the Art Editor of the University of Toronto’s Hart House Review. Recent curatorial projects include Ghost Story, a group exhibition at XPACE Cultural Centre, and The Door, a new window space that he programs from his home. Swann received his BA from the University of Toronto in 2016.
The Door is an accessible, street-level window space that is viewable 24 hours.
The exhibition is accompanied by a poem in four parts co-authored by Lindsay Miles, Amanda Norsworthy, and Fan Wu.
Edition Art Book Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
Publications / October 24, 2016
Edition Art Book Fair
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
255 Front St West
Toronto ON M5V 2W6
Free Admission
Fri Oct 28: 12 pm – 8 pm
Sat Oct 29: 11 am – 8 pm
Sun Oct 30: 11 am – 6 pm
Mon Oct 31: 12 pm – 6 pm
I’ll have many new books, editions, and other multiples at the first Edition Art Book Fair. Come say hi at Table #61!
Come to My Window: Curated by Matthew Kyba, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
Exhibitions / September 19, 2016
Steven Beckly: Come to My Window
Artscape Youngplace Billboard
September 2016 to January 2017
Curated by Matthew Kyba
In Come to My Window, a finger presses against a plane window waiting for a reciprocal touch. It is looking for contact, longing for intimacy. The title is taken from the 1994 Grammy Award-winning song by Melissa Etheridge. The first single released from her album Yes I Am, it confesses Etheridge’s intense longing for a beloved while implicating the singer’s queerness and activism.
Captured from the clouds and situated outside Artscape Youngplace, the billboard expresses a similar and unfulfilled wish: a desire for a public and global intimacy that stems from the ground and blooms from the individual. Against the backdrop of windows that adorn the repurposed school, Beckly’s image becomes a public invitation to engage these openings as sites for social connection.
–Matthew Kyba
Matthew Kyba is an independent curator and Founder/Director of Bunker 2, a Toronto-based contemporary art and project space. He received his MFA for Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD U and has organized shows in Toronto, Portland OR, and Kingston ON.
Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) provides opportunities for curators and artists to mount fully realized exhibitions within a critical framework. Through a wide-ranging annual program of exhibitions and projects supported by the production of original publications, editions, and events, CDCC is an open platform for diverse curatorial practices and perspectives, and a forum for the exchange of ideas on curating and exhibition-making as a way to engage and inform audiences from all walks of life.
https://criticaldistance.ca/program/bos-come-to-my-window-steven-beckly/
Various Small Portraits: Curated by Luis Mora, Working Title, Toronto, ON
Exhibitions / May 14, 2016
Working Title presents:
Various Small Portraits
A photo show curated by Luis Mora
Saturday May 21, 7 – 10 pm
Working Title
127 Davenport Road
Toronto, ON M5R 1H9
Aaron Mcelroy, Alana Celii, Ali Bosworth, Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Benedict Brink, Brett Gundlock, Dafy Hagai, Denelle Kennedy, Elizabeth Renstrom, Eriver Hijano, Eva Michon, Fantavious Fritz, Gemma Warren, Grace Ahlbom, Hayley Louisa Brown, Hudson Hayden, Jamie Campbell, Jody Rogac, Jonnie Craig, Jordan Sullivan, Julian Berman, Justin Aranha, Kane Hopkins, Kristie Muller, Laura Lynn Petrick, Lindley Warren, Matthew Tammaro, Molly Matalon, Nathan Cyprys, Noel Rodo Vankeulen, Ryan Allan, Ryan Lowry, Samuel Bradley, Sarah Blais, Scott Pilgrim, Seth Fluker, Steph Anienoritz, Steven Beckly, Suzanna Zak, Tess Roby, Vanessa Heins
Steven Beckly:
Of you, unfolding
May 6, 2016 – June 2, 2016
Opening reception:
Friday May 6th, 6 to 8 pm
Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Steven Beckly’s MFA thesis show Of you, unfolding in the project gallery.
Nude, male bodies surround me. Sweat condenses within creases of flesh, adding texture
to the forests of hair, the coated grit of sand, the glossy film of sunscreen.
I feel the heat of new love.
I reach across and drape my shirt over you to save you from the sun burning your
face. A beam of light infiltrates my shirt and pierces your ear, reddening it like a flame—
I take a picture of you.
Light has an edge that blinds and burns, penetrating the cellular depths of the
body. Likewise, light can damage the celluloid of film and mutate an image, scarring
it spectrally and unpredictably. These phantom wounds have always been comforting to
me. They remind me that I’m not alone just as you remind me that I’m not alone.
You make fun of me for duct-taping the back of my camera instead of getting it
fixed. Light leaks in sometimes.
A Public Display of Affection, AKA artist-run, Saskatoon, SK
Exhibitions / April 30, 2016
Steven Beckly:
A Public Display of Affection
AKA artist-run, Saskatoon
Billboard May and June, 2016
In A Public Display of Affection, a spectrum splashes across a tattoo of two connected circles. They share a slender arm, an anonymous fragment of a social body. Inhabiting AKA’s billboard, the image overlays symbols of unity, inclusion, pride, celebration, and love against Saskatoon’s spring sky.
http://akaartistrun.com/portfolio-item/a-public-display-of-affection/
Hart House Review: 25th Anniversary
Publications / April 15, 2016
Some photos in the 25th anniversary issue of the Hart House Review.
MFA Open Studios, University of Guelph, 23 March 2016
Exhibitions / March 23, 2016
MFA Open Studios 2016
University of Guelph
School of Fine Art and Music
Wednesday March 23, 2016
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.
The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the hothouse environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.
Open Studios 2016 features work by graduate candidates:
Hiba Abdallah, Steven Beckly, Amanda Boulos, Patrick Cruz, Peter Denton, Erika Dueck, Shannon Garden-Smith, John Haney, Simon M. Benedict, Paul MacIntyre, Kevin Murphy, Jean-Marc Perin, Larissa Tiggelers, Ambera Wellmann
Click here to view the 2016 MFA Open Studios brochure.
The University of Guelph offers a two year Master of Fine Arts Degree that combines intensive studio concentration with seminars in theory and pedagogy. Exceptionally committed graduate faculty and limited student enrolment result in a community that is intensely involved in contemporary art and its discourse. A consistently excellent program of visiting artists, critics and curators extends this community.
MFA Open Studios is held in conjunction with the 10th Annual Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art with Fred Wilson on Wednesday March 23, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.
Avec Magazine: 그리고 벽
Interviews, Publications / February 25, 2016
[그리고 벽: 벽으로 말하는 열네 개의 작업 이야기]
출판사 지콜론북이 발행하고 AVEC에서 기획한
신작 [그리고 벽]이 출간되었습니다.
저자 : 글 이원희, 사진 정은지
형태 : 170mm x 210mm / 무선제본 / 242면
가격 : 15,000원
발행일 : 2016년 2월 25일
ISBN 978-89-98656-55-3 03600
구입처 : 교보문고, 알라딘, YES24등 대형 서점
Contents
Prologue
벽 속의 세계 : 은밀한 작업실의 벽으로
* Kristin Texeira (페인터)
* Steven Beckly (포토그래퍼)
* 이소영 (식물세밀화가)
* 호상근 (작가, Artist)
작업과 벽의 사이 : 방문객과 함께 즐길 수 있는 벽으로
* 이지연 (쇼콜라티에)
* Workhorse Press (독립 출판 스튜디오)
* 박기철 (원예가)
* HEY Studio (그래픽디자인 스튜디오)
우리 모두의 벽 : 작가의 작업을 나의 벽으로
* Mimi Jung (위빙 디자이너)
* Wurstbande (벽화 아티스트)
* Sarah Benning (현대 자수가)
* Soña Lee (벽화 아티스트)
* CHIAOZZA (아트 듀오)
* MOMO (벽화 아티스트)
I have an interview in Avec Magazine’s latest book 그리고 벽.
