Cover and portfolio in the latest issue of BlackFlash with an introduction by editor Maxine Proctor.

Steven Beckly:
Love S.O.S.

Centre3, Hamilton
173 James St. North

February 23 – April 6, 2019
Opening reception: Friday March 8, 7 – 10 pm

Curated by Sally Frater

Centre3 is pleased to present Love S.O.S., a new installation by Toronto-based artist and photographer Steven Beckly. Over the past 8 years, Beckly has produced hundreds of images. Cultivating moments of closeness and intimacy, he approaches photography as both a personal and a social practice, an act that connects rather than distances, feels rather than explains.

In Love S.O.S., Beckly’s images are assembled in a slideshow of almost 400 photographs. A multiplicity of encounters, they form a spectrum of interactions shaped by the artist’s desire for connection with his surrounding world. Accompanying Beckly’s slideshow is an evocative soundtrack of love songs, featuring tracks by Leonard Cohen, Daft Punk and Tina Turner, among others. Selected for their varied perspectives on love, these voices reflect on matters of the heart against Beckly’s shifting imagery. In one corner of the gallery, visitors are invited to leave their suggestions for love songs, adding to the project’s growing playlist. Continuous and mutable, Beckly’s project frames intimacy as an endless and interrelated process of transformation. Set against a contemporary world undergoing dramatic change, Love S.O.S. operates as an emergency call to reconsider the poetic and political dimensions of intimacy.

Presented with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

http://centre3.com/exhibition/love-s-o-s/

Installation view, Love S.O.S., Centre3, Hamilton (Photo: Andrew Butkevicius)

Reframing Doris McCarthy: A Symposium on the Life and Work of Doris McCarthy

Doris McCarthy Gallery
University of Toronto, Scarborough

Sat, November 17, 2018
9 am – 6 pm

Join us for a free, one-day, public symposium exploring fresh perspectives on the life and work of Doris McCarthy.

Keynote by: Erin Silver

Presentations by: Steven Beckly, Jan L. Coates, Dustin Garnet, Nancy Holmes, Meaghan Hyckie, Harold Klunder and Catherine Carmichael, Eva Kolcze, Ralph Kolewe, Lou Sheppard, Wendy Wacko, and Lynne Wynick

The Doris McCarthy Gallery presents Reframing Doris McCarthy, a free, one-day, public symposium exploring fresh perspectives on the life and work of the artist. The symposium will feature artist talks, poetry readings, academic papers, performances, a book launch, group choreography, participatory choral singing, and moderated discussions. Ranging from long-time friends and colleagues of McCarthy’s, to young artists and producers, the presenters will contribute new interpretations from a broad range of expertise within the fields of contemporary art, music, poetry, filmmaking, and dance that trace the artist’s legacy through spirituality, mythology, and the power of place. This multi-disciplinary symposium will examine McCarthy’s impact on local and artistic communities as a pioneering feminist, innovative artist, and community builder.

https://utsc.utoronto.ca/~dmg/
https://reframing-doris-mccarthy.eventbrite.ca/

NEW NAILS
Friday November 16, 2018 10:30 PM – 4:00 AM
Poster by Eric Kostiuk Williams

NEW NAILS returns with a private queerdo baby rave fundraiser for friends and/or lovers, with music and vibes until 4am

PWYC, but allow us to suggest $15-20 as all the proceeds are going to RAINBOW RAILROAD

“Sponsored by” PASTAGONIA™ with contributions from:

Acid House, Andi Larocca, Al Dente, Black Light, Brendan Jensen, Cannelloni Couplets, Consent, Controlled Substance, Diana Vandermeulen, Dollar Store Deco, Extreme Look, Fan Wu, Farfalle, Jaime Sin, Jeremy Laing, Lazer, Naloxone Kit, Non-Alcoholic Option, Macaronay, Matthew Chiu, Mark-Ché Devonish, Mixed Drink, Mutual Respect, Palo Santo, Penne, Play Area, P☻ny, Robert Anthony O’Halloran, Semolinana, Smoke Machine, Steven Beckly, Techno, Valeroo, Vaughan, Vibrant Matter, Your Body

While being an exceptional venue in many regards, Club 120 is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.

New limited edition for ARTATTACK! an auction in support of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s 40th year.

http://artattack.buddiesinbadtimes.com/artists-limited-edition/

Daniel Faria Gallery at Art Toronto 2018
Booth C28
October 26 – 29, 2018

Featuring work by:

Steven Beckly
Nadia Belerique
Shannon Bool
Douglas Coupland
Chris Curreri
Iris Häussler
Kapwani Kiwanga
Mark Lewis
Derek Liddington
Kristine Moran
Jennifer Rose Sciarrino
Elizabeth Zvonar

https://danielfariagallery.com/fair/art-toronto-2018
https://www.arttoronto.ca/en/galleries/2018-exhibitors.html

Steven Beckly: Earthbound

Bunker 2 at The Bentway
250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto

September 15 – October 21, 2018
Exhibition hours: Saturday & Sunday, 12 – 5 pm or by appointment

Bunker 2 and The Bentway are pleased to co-present Earthbound, an exhibition of new works by Toronto-based artist Steven Beckly. Cultivating moments of closeness and intimacy, Beckly creates images that straddle photography and sculpture. In Earthbound, various figures are entwined in a mythic botanical world. Located inside The Bentway’s skate-rental shipping container, Beckly’s photographs take on three-dimensional forms shaped by their unique habitat. Printed on various materials—opaque and translucent, hard and soft—they reflect an ethos of light, renewal, and transformation. Amid a rapidly changing landscape, Earthbound points to our primordial beginnings to regenerate an intimacy with our natural environment.

Part of The Bentway’s Fall Art Exhibition “If, But, What If?”

Presented with generous support from the Ontario Arts Council.

http://www.bunker2.ca
http://www.thebentway.ca

Photo: Meera Margaret Singh

forward motion
September 8 – October 20, 2018

Christina Battle, Steven Beckly, Patrick Cruz, Soheila Esfahani, Melissa General, Julius Poncelet Manapul, Jihee Min, Ed Pien, Véronique Sunatori, Meera Margaret Singh, Tazeen Qayyum

Curated by Noa Bronstein

Small Arms Inspection Building
1352 Lakeshore Road East, Mississauga

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 1 – 4 pm
Exhibition hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 4 pm

Join us in celebrating the inaugural exhibition at the newly opened Small Arms Inspection Building (SAIB).

forward motion brings together artworks that converge on concepts of mobility and movement, of transit and the transitory. Exploring ideas ranging from flight, time travel and immigration to displacement and circulation, each of the artists featured within the exhibition navigates the physical and conceptual dimensions of movement across time and space. What emerges through these multiple pathways are deeply felt responses to how the movement of bodies, objects and ideas influences the ways in which the artists featured here conceive of place-making, of awayness and hereness.

The SAIB is a historic, multi-purpose building that presents a wide range of arts and cultural programs. As the only cultural hub of its kind in Mississauga, the SAIB supports meaningful engagement through dynamic exhibitions, events and experiences. This unique venue strives to provide an open and responsive programming model that fosters collaboration and community-building.

http://smallarmsinspectionbuilding.ca

Photo: Alyssa Bistonath

It Can Only Be This Place
September 4 – November 3, 2018

Hiba Abdallah with Steven Beckly, Alyssa Bistonath & Patrick Cruz

Curated by Tiffany Schofield

Doris McCarthy Gallery
University of Toronto, Scarborough

Opening reception: Wednesday, September 19, 6 – 8:30 pm
Exhibition tour by Tiffany Schofield at 7 pm

It Can Only Be This Place is an open collection of stories, impressions, and speculations of Scarborough developed by artist Hiba Abdallah. Generated in conversation with local residents, Abdallah produced a series of projects specifically for the Doris McCarthy Gallery. Texts, images, and stories gathered throughout an extended research period were transformed into objects and installations that consider the ways in which place is remembered and commemorated. Alongside this new body of work, Abdallah has invited artists Steven Beckly, Alyssa Bistonath, and Patrick Cruz to contribute to the exhibition. Engaged in various approaches to myth-making and story-telling, their responses inscribe fiction onto Scarborough’s natural, cultural, and diasporic landscapes. Each work provides an intimate look at Scarborough and the various communities that have come to call it home. Through complex, intersecting, and often unresolved narratives, It Can Only Be This Place makes space for past, present, and future versions of Scarborough previously untold.

https://utsc.utoronto.ca/~dmg/

Some Mobility Group Photography Exhibition Presents…
☺ POP UP ARTS MARKET ☺

✄❀♫ Friday, August 24th, 2018 4-9 pm ✄❀♫

ZINES! CERAMICS! JEWELLERY! CLOTHES! BAGS! ART PRINTS!

Come see our current group photography exhibition “Some Mobility” while supporting local artists and makers. Find one of a kind artworks and gifts for a friend, a foe, or for yourself. You deserve it.

Free Admission*

FEATURED VENDORS:
Steven Beckly
Kendra Yee
Grayson James
Fehn Foss
Clea Christakos-Gee
Brandon Hurtado Sandler
Eleventh House Jewellery
Platinum Playhouse
Hannah Zbitnew
Holly Chang
Sweet Juju

*** We will be accepting cash donations to Sistering: A Woman’s Place, an incredible multi-service agency for at-risk, socially isolated women in Toronto who are homeless or precariously housed. ***

Some Mobility
Exhibition Run:​ Thursday, August 2nd – Sunday, August 26th, 2018

FEATURING
Jeff Bierk, Jimmy & Donnie Evans, Long Hair Brent
Nam Phi Dang
Ethan Murphy
Ananna Oisharja Rafa
Camille Rojas

“What is a quote? A quote is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary technique is the sense of banditry. To loot someone else’s life or sentences and make off with a point of view, which is called “objective” because you can make anything into an object by treating it this way, is exciting and dangerous. Let us see who controls the danger.”

–Anne Carson

 http://www.ryersonartspace.com