April 1st to 25th | Opening Reception on Thursday April 1st from 7pm to 10pm
galleryDK is proud to present Jane Fulton Alt’s “Mourning Light” exhibition of mixed media pieces (photography and encaustics on wood).
Man is forever confronted with a range of choices between good and evil. In exploring our potential to view our fellow man as “other,” I felt compelled to understand our collective “shadow” side. This is what propelled me to visit the Slave Forts of Africa and the Nazi Concentration Camps, places of extraordinary darkness…
Jane Fulton Alt - Mourning Light
Immersed in the black spaces of the holding cells, the transport cars, and the gas chamber, I was desperate to find any light, visible through a doorway, a ceiling, a crack in the wall … an attempt to counter the darkness that had enveloped me. These photographs speak to the light in the face of that darkness, and are an effort to memorialize all who have suffered thru out time.
Please note that galleryDK is closed April 2-4 for the Easter long weekend.
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About galleryDK
Located at 1332 Queen Street West, galleryDK is an artist-run space
that specializes in contemporary urban photography. The gallery seeks
to present photographic and photo-based work examining and exploring
all facets of the urban experience – not only in Toronto, but around
the world.
The gallery is open Thursdays through Sunday, from 12pm-5pm, otherwise
by appointment.
http://www.galleryDK.com
info@gallerydk.com
416-913-7116
Exhibitions by Past galleryDK exhibitors
May is a big month for photography in Toronto, as it is the Contact Photography Festival. The owners of galleryDK themselves have 3 exhibitions coming up, and a number of artists who have exhibited at the gallery do as well.
Felicity Somerset presents Tidal Remnants
Tidal Remnants captures brief inter-tidal moments on the seashores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The
textural quality of the sand and rocks creates the background for macro and abstract compositions that
last for only a few hours between the ocean tides.
May 1-30
Opening Reception: May 5, 2010 from 7pm-9pm
Cobalt Gallery, 870A Kingston Road (at Beach), Toronto
Louis Helbig presents Beautiful Destruction, Aerial Photographs of the Alberta Tar Sands
The Alberta Tar Sands are a place of superlatives, a place of awesome beauty and destruction where exaggeration of scale and proportion seems almost impossible. They are simply awe-inspiring. With every twist and turn of the airplane, another incredible scene presents itself, followed by another. It’s a linear kaleidoscope of contrasts, colours, and patterns garnished by the movement of machinery below, smoke and effluent; the scene resetting, again and again as the paint of photography – light – makes its daily changes.
May 1-31
Opening Reception: May 1, 2010 from 3pm-7pm
The Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West, Toronto
Chris Hutcheson presents At Rest
Hutcheson photographs places at rest – for a season, or at the end of their useful lives. These places, once active, are now silent, often ignored andisolated, even in busy surroundings. Their presence is often surprising; something happened-across rather than expected. These places have provided services to families, congregations and communities. Hutcheson places great importance on these sites and asks the viewer to remember.
May 1-31
Opening Reception: May 8, 6pm-9pm
The Sweet Potato, 2995 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Tanja-Tiziana and Georgia Kristoffersen present Mind’s Eye
What if a documentary photographer, observing the painter at work, could move beyond the constrictions of her field of view and into the mind’s eye? In this series, both artists allow their medium to envelop them, drawing their eyes away from the surface and into the space where inspiration is drawn.
May, 2010
Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Boulevard, Toronto