By “Bahram Dabiri“

June 30- July 26, 2011

Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call
416 361 6045

Private Opening reception (by invitation only):
Thursday, July 30, 2011, 6:30-9:00 pm

Public Opening reception:
Thursday July 07, 2011, 6:30-9:00 pm

Bahram Dabiri is a true artist. He understands balance and knows how to reach the limits and also how to pass them. He blends these all together. He has been playing with light and color for years. But his unique essence of his specialty is in his constant search to comprehend new phenomena and to use them in creating new and different pieces of work. With a full head, Dabiri pays attention to details thereby creating a totality of art each time creating a work of art in which love, beauty, and finesse are all present. Bahram Dabiri is an artist of today that carries with him all the world’s art cultures of the past. He is sincere, frank, and extremely proud. He says, “One has to be pure, unadulterated, and distinguished.” – Taraneh Yaldah,

By “Maryam Hafizirad“

June 02- June 27, 2011
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call
416 361 6045

Private Opening reception (by invitation only):
Thursday, June 02, 2011, 6:30-9:00 pm

Public Opening reception:
Saturday June 04, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm

Maryam Hafizirad is an Iranian painter, born 1980 in Esfahan, who is deaf. Maryam graduated from Esfahan University of Fine Arts in 2002. Maryam’s first exhibition was in Iran at the age of 18. Since then her work has been shown individually and as part of the artistic group “Farda”, meaning “Tomorrow”, in major cities of Iran, China, Germany, Malaysia and India.

Following her heart’s desire and performing well-beyond the imagined limitations of her hearing impairment, Maryam is a full-time artist today. Her passion for painting is the greatest engine driving her to succeed in a hearing world.

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Contact Media2011: Figure and ground

Featured Exhibitions

Contact 2011: Figure and ground
Featured Exhibitions

April 30- May 31, 2011
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Private Opening reception (by invitation only):
Thursday, May 05, 2011, 6:30-9:00 pm

Public Opening reception:
Saturday May 07, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm

By:

Ali Kamran
Gohar Dashti

Working with the Contact 2011 theme, Figure and Ground, Gohar Dashti and Ali Kamran explore their homeland, Iran, and its complex relationship between the people and the social and cultural issues that have swept the nation. Issues of war and censorship are the prevalent themes in these pieces and set against the stunning backdrop of the Iranian landscape it is at times difficult to imagine that such beauty could produce such hardships.

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Queen Gallery will be closed on Saturday, April 2, 2011!

We apologize for any inconvenience! Gallery hours will resume on Tuesday, April 5.

Queen Gallery is proud to announce that it will be extending the Norouz 2011 Group Show by one week.

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Queen Gallery is proud to announce that it will be extending the Norouz 2011 Group Show by one week.

Afsaneh Safari, Ali Soltani, Davood Mantegh, Firoozeh Tangestanian, Mohsen Khalili, Sayeh Irankhah, Touka Neyestani
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March 03- April 13, 2011
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 11:30-3:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Saturday March 05, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm

Closing reception:
Saturday March 26, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm

Norouz 2011

Norouz, meaning ‘New Day’ in Persian, is the traditional celebration of the Iranian New Year. Celebrated in Iran, this festival, which marks the first day of Spring, has now spread to other parts of the world.

Here in Toronto, Queen Gallery is delighted to host our second annual exhibition marking this festival of jubilation. This year we have four Iranian artists involved in the show, all of whom are all currently living and working in Toronto.

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February 8- February 26, 2011
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 11:30-3:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Saturday February 12, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm

Artist list:

Abel R. Massot, Afsaneh Safari, Ali Kamran, Ali Soltani, Andrew Ogus, Annette Seip, Bahar Pourpezeshk, Davood Mantegh, Firoozeh Tangestanian, Hashem Taghavi, Hugo E. Slepoy, J. Bradley Adams, Jorgeh Delgado Gutierrez, Kamelia Pezeshki, Kamly Bullaudy Rodriguez, Khosro Berahmandi, Lauralee K. Harris, Lida Alirezaei, Manuel Hernandez Valdez, Manuel Larrañaga Sardiñas, Milene Busutil Salgado, Natalie Clark, Oscar Wolfman, Paria Shahverdi, Parham Didehvar, Rod Trider, Tom Ridout, Touka Neyestani, Yardena Kurulkar, Yari Ostovany

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A Solo Exhibition By Sue Russell

January 13- January 25, 2011
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 11:30-4:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Saturday January 15, 2011, 2:00-5:00 pm

This social documentary project all started with the disappearances – at the time I lived north of Pickering on the infamous Airport Lands. I was driving home one day and suddenly had to stop and ask myself – “Am I on the right road? Where is the house at the T junction?” Sometime that day, it had vanished. As it turned out, this was just the beginning, as buildings of all kinds fell to the bulldozers.

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December 2- December 22, 2010
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 11:30-4:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Saturday December 4, 2010, 2:00-6:00 pm

One thing that all human societies have in common is their need to explain where they come from.  Whether it is as a nation, like Rome’s Romulus and Remus, or as a pan-national collective, like the Norse Valhalla legends; whether it is based on “beliefs,” like the Judeo-Christian Seven Days of Creation, or empirical “facts,” like the Big Bang Model or the Human Genome Project, knowing who we are is interwoven with knowing how we got here.  Even tracing one’s family tree is, in fact, a micro level ontology.  We can’t help looking for explanations. (more…)

By “Kamyl Bullaudy Rodríguez“

November 11- November 30, 2010
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Saturday November 13, 2010, 3:30-6:30 pm

El Gallo Chantecler, the Gestural Charms of Kamyl Bullaudy Rodríguez
by Valérie C. Kaelin, MFA
Instructor, Ryerson University School of Image Arts

A master of contemporary Cuban art, Bullaudy’s range of production is impressive, including charcoal murals, collages, paintings that incorporate coloured pulp made in a blender from discarded paper and egg cartons, and the lively run of roosters exhibited at Queen Gallery. One need not even consult the documentaries neither by Roberto Chile nor by Juder Laffita of the artist at work to sense the marvellous energy with which these pieces are executed.

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