May 15- June 17, 2008
Shedding Skin
The private world of Yang Yongsheng’s models touches our deepest psychological issues with nudity, inviting us to examine our own curiosities and desires. When we look at these bodies - frontal and exposed, competing ideas of private and public, observer and observed emerges. Yang Yongsheng’s paintings hover between realistic depiction and dreamy illusion allowing us to respond both viscerally and imaginatively.
April 18, 2008
Gibsone Jessop together with director Robert Adanto bring you this timely and enlightening film.
April 24-26, 2008
This is for you, Anna is a play directed and produced by Jessica Glanfield. The Gibsone Jessop Gallery is a proud sponsor of the production. All profit from the production will be donated to the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, a federation of 26 community-based groups who work with marginalized, victimized, criminalized and imprisoned women and girls.
Saturday, April 5, 8pm
This breathtaking performance at the Gibsone Jessop gallery features a combination
of aerial dance, modern dance and multimedia. This is a fundraising event for Toronto
Aerial Dance, presenting Fernando Escoto from the National Ballet of Canada, Jeremy
Nasmith as a guest choreographer and Ireneusz Muchalski as an artistic director.
Wednesday, March 12. 7:30 pm
Pentak has resisted the temptations of an attention deficit world by devoting 25 years
to creating painted meditations on the nature of rivers and lakes. On Wednesday evening,
hear him give dramatic expression to ideas about representation and abstraction, surface
and illusion.
Friday, Novemer 23, 2007
An art-themed dinner by Perigee’s Chris Brown set to the remarkable paintings of Zeng Hong.
Guest lecturer, Harvard Ph.D Grace Shen will explore both religious and cultural shifts in
contemporary Chinese society, providing a much needed context for assessing how memory
lends itself to the present in Hong’s paintings.