Inside Out show for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011 at Spadina Museum

Several Photos from " Under the Surface" 2010

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 wendy wobeser

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Under the Surface Show at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010

Artist Cooperative of Canada and guest artists, our scientist and the Hathorah Sound Collective had a spectacular show at Spadina Museum.
This was the third year that we participated at Spadina Museum for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.
Our footpath for the show was different from the previous years and we installed some of the show inside the museum, to be viewed from the grounds. With great appreciation and thanks to our artists, museum staff, musicians and our scientist for an outstanding show.
A huge thank you as well to our audience for your continued support and interest!
Photographs to follow

Artist Residencies and Curated Studio Show

Elizabeth Greisman returned to Ireland for two Artist Residencies in July/August 2010

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan and the Cill Rialaig Project in Co. Kerry, Ireland

Elizabeth spent July with old and new friends at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.

She concentrated on her dance figures, images from Dance Canada and the landscape of Ireland. Elizabeth spent some time drawing the Coisceim dancers in Dublin and then began to develop her portrait series. The portrait series of other artists was a concept developed at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Elizabeth asked an artist to give her an hour and a half to sit for their portrait. She worked in acrylics for the portraits.

Elizabeth does two pictures of her subject and gives one to the sitter and keeps one for her series.

Elizabeth curated a show in her Studio at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.  The show was open for informal visits during her stay and also during the Open Studio. Poets, writers, performance artists and visual artists were asked to contribute one photo of their work or one article or poem.

This year’s participants were:

Visual Artists:

Frith Bail, Canada

Gloria Stein, Canada

Alexander Moyle, Canada

Wendy Wobeser, Canada

Osnat Lippa, Canada,

Lluis Farre, Spain

Claudia del Rio, Argentina

Maya Foltyn, Canada

Robin Hollingbrook, Canada

Antoinette Breen, Ireland

Chari Cohen, Canada

Performance Artists:

Hortense Gerardo, USA

Poets and Writers

Juliet Bressan, Ireland

Jean O’Brien, Ireland

Helen Ryan, Ireland

Hoa Pham, Australia

Nick MacIssac, Canada

Rebekah Clarkson, Australia

Ariella Damelin, Canada

"Under The Surface" (Spadina Museum) - Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010

Elizabeth Greisman, lead artist

Artist Cooperative of Canada plus guest artists and vocal sound collective, Hathorah, will provide the viewer with an outstanding opportunity to experience the  spectacular six acre site in downtown Toronto at Spadina Museum. The show will be outdoor, with multimedia exhibits and artwork lit within the House. The viewer will experience a varied response to the theme on a lit pathway around the site.  Paintings of the costumed activities of women and men in the interwar period will illuminate the house. Ceramic sculptures, a mobile and digital imagery will convey the restoration theme currently being carried out at Spadina Museum. The medical history of Tuberculosis in the interwar period will be added by our medical advisor /artist. Hathorah Sound Collective will provide the added dimension of sound to the visuals of the show.

News for 2010

2010 Residencies for Elizabeth Greisman

Elizabeth will be in Residence in Ireland in summer of 2010

She will be painting the historic dance figure and landscape while in Residence at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co. Monaghan and then will go on to her scholarship Residency at The Cill Rialaig Project in Co. Kerry. She will be painting landscape at Cill Rialaig.

News about Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010 -

Artist Cooperative and guest artists will be creating " Under the Surface" at Spadina Museum for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010

This year we have two artists, a doctor/ artist and a sound collective joining our group:

Elizabeth Greisman, painter

Gloria Stein, installation artist

Frith Bail, ceramicist

with guest artists

Alexander Moyle, sculptor

Osnat Lippa, digital artist

Wendy Wobeser, scientist/artist

The Hathorah Sound Collective

The theme of the show is what is under the surface, keeping with the restoration of Spadina Museum to the 1920's period. 

ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche 2009 - Another Fabulous Year!!!

The Artist Cooperative of Canada and guest artist Ximena Berecochea did it again! We pulled it off! Despite challenging weather conditions, technical issues and last minutes adjustments the show was an even better than the year before. As last year this was primarily an outdoor exhibit on the grounds of historical Spadina museum. Due to the fact that the show was outside the weather played an important role in what needed to be done. And it did not cooperate at all. The rain did not stop until an hour before, preventing us from properly pre-installing as we did last year; the wind was obnoxious, ripping the installations from their places and hurling pieces of artwork into the ditch; the lighting provided an added melodrama to a drenched and tense scene.

But we did it in spite of all of this. The lighting people and our installers worked till midnight. Your efforts will not be soon forgotten. Everyone who worked outside had major adjustments to deal with. Nancy Reynolds, the Museum Site Co-ordinator at Spadina was key to our success. Her kindnesses, generosity, support and flexibility was priceless. We could not have pulled it off without her.

Great many thanks to all involved! With well over 2200 visitors and many accolades we will not soon forget this memorable night.