Be sure to check out this exhibition by CCCP board member Andrew Harwood
Exhibition
Friday 13 January - Saturday 25 February 2012
Opening Reception / Performance + Prefix Photo 24 _ Big Skies Issue Launch
Friday 13 January, 8PM
Artist Talk
Saturday 18 February, 3PM
Intermittent Performances Throughout the Exhibition
PLATFORM is very excited to be presenting local Toronto transplant,
Andrew Harwood, in his first solo exhibition in Winnipeg. Infamous in
the Toronto Queen West scene as an artist and performer (under the
stage name Madame Zsa Zsa), Harwood is crafting a new body of work
confusing the internationally-renowned history of Winnipeg séance
photography circa 1900, and the contemporary queer bar dance
circuit. Using a hybrid installation of large-scale photography, video
installation, and glue-gun sequin crafts, Harwood’s Séancé will be a
feast for the eyes and senses!
PLATFORM is also pleased to host the official Winnipeg launch of
Prefix Photo 24 _ Big Skies Issue, featuring portfolios by prairie
artists from Winnipeg and beyond.
Please join us for the opening reception with performance / readings
by Madame Zsa Zsa, the $2 Psychic, and the Prefix Photo launch :
Friday 13 January from 8PM to 11PM.
About the Artist:
Andrew Harwood is a Toronto-based artist, curator, drag queen and
writer. Among the first artists to establish a presence in what is now
called the Queer West Village Toronto, Art and Design District, his
gallery, Zsa Zsa, operated in Queer West from 1998-2005. Andrew was
also a founding member of the Toronto Alternative Art Fair
International Collective and served as Board of Directors President of
A Space Gallery and Board Member of Gallery TPW. He has given lectures
on visual art and related topics at the University of Texas, Ontario
College of Art and Design, University of Waterloo, Georgian College
and at artist-run centres in Ontario and Alberta. His work is held in
permanent collections at the University of Guelph, Queen’s University,
and in private collections. With nearly two dozen solo shows, and
twice as many group shows, for his practice Harwood has received
support from the Toronto and Ontario and Arts Councils. He relocated
to Winnipeg in 2010 and has since been active in the local community,
including commencing his graduate studies MFA at the University of
Manitoba’s School of Art.
About Prefix Photo 24 _ Big Skies
Prefix Photo 24 _ Big Skies features portfolios by: Scott
Benesiinaabandan and Kerri-Lynn Reeves, Deana Bowen, Evin Collis,
Willie Doherty, Kandis Friesen, Don Gill, John Haney, Meghan Krauss,
Peter Lynch, Aidan McNeill, Bruce Nauman, Trevor Paglen, Danny Singer,
Mungo Thomson, Diana Thorneycroft, and Time and Desire.
Prefix Photo is an engaging magazine dedicated to contemporary
photography and related arts. Characterized by innovative design and
outstanding production values, Prefix Photo consists primarily of
portfolio and essay sections, providing a complement of intelligent
texts and breath-taking visuals. These features are accompanied by
newsbriefs which provide information and opportunities for
professional photographers, including new technological developments.
Each issue of Prefix Photo presents the work of Canadian
photographers, both emerging and established, alongside that of their
international counterparts. But Prefix Photo is not restricted to
images conventionally considered to be “photographic”; its mandate
encompasses film, video and digital art. Whether photographic or
photo-based, photocollage or photocopied, photogravure or photogram,
Prefix Photo seeks to represent the breadth of practices and concepts,
old, new, or as yet unimagined, which surround the transformation of
light into image. Prefix Photo creates a space in which the notion of
photography is open to infinite possibilities of change, development
and growth — where photography is, in a sense, “prefixed.” Prefix
Photo has received numerous awards to date and was named Best New
Magazine at the National Magazine Awards in 2002. Published twice
annually by Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in Toronto, the
arrival of each issue is announced with a series of celebratory
launches in major centres across Canada.
PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of
Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project
assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts
Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and The
W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation.
For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM
programming, please contact the Centre directly:
PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg,
Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org
