Welcome to the Fort

The Best of Film Fort
Tuesday August 28, 2007
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage, on the grounds of the Mississauga Central Library,

301 Burnhamthorpe Road West
The Film Fort collective will transform the Civic Centre into a series of large child-like theatres. Creating the sense of wonder and nostalgia of home-movies and family slide shows each fort will house a different video programme. Prepare for a cozy night in - out.

With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

The Sights & Sounds of Rhapsody

Art Gallery of Mississauga Video Programme II
Karoke Rhapsody
Tuesday August 21, 20079:00– 10:30 pm FREE!
Main Stage, grounds of the Mississauga Central Library,
301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.

Curated by Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot
The works presented in the video programme Karaoke Rhapsody utilize karaoke as a vehicle. Stylistically mimicking its form and function, the artists rely on the repertoire of karaoke's highlighted text, current songs, and moving symbols. Guiding the viewer through a narrative, they emphasize or dismiss the lyrics and (re)contextualize them in a separate and distinct way, soliciting a response that was not the original intent of the song.












Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Subtitled, 2005 2 min
Utilizing the lyrics of the pop-dance song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue Can't Get You out of My Head for her eighth studio album Fever (2001), artist Nemerofsky Ramsay fantasizes in bed.

Daniel Cockburn
Rocket Man, 2000 5 min
Rocket Man is a karaoke video which takes the lyrics and sentiment of the Elton John classic written by Bernie Taupin for the 1972 album Honkey Chateau.

Jubal Brown
Children of the Grave, 2000 3 min
A Karaoke video created for the classic Black Sabbath song Children of the Grave from their 1971 album Master of Reality. A group of youths out for a night of fun, drinking and driving in the country in the parents mini van, play fighting, and running through graveyards.

Emelie Chhangur
PASSING FOR WHITE; PASSING FOR BLACK IN SÃO PAULO, 2007 3:04 min
Singing over Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Three Little Birds from their 1977 album Exodus Chhangur responds to being a first generation Canadian, who passes for black in her home country, finds herself passing for white in Brazil.

Stefan St-Laurent / Minnie St-Laurent
I Want You to Need Me / J'veux qu' tu m'veux, 2001 4 min
Part of St-Laurent’s ongoing series of autobiographical performance videos named Overmelodramas, the artist explores our relationship to violence and culture. Written by Diane Warren, I Want You to Need Me is the fourth and last single from Celine Dion's All the Way...A Decade of Song album, released in 2000.

Clark Nikolai
An der Nordseeküste, 2003 3:40 min
A German language homo-romantic karaoke video set to the classic drinking Irish folk song Black Velvet Band.

Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody, 5:55 sec
Recommended as one of the top four performed Karaoke songs by Peter Styles of the famous Gladstone Hotel Karaoke nights every Thursday to Sunday in the Melody Bar, Toronto, Bohemian Rhapsody is a song written by Freddie Mercury and originally recorded by the band Queen for the 1975 album A Night At The Opera. The video was supplied by Karaoke Canada, serving Canada and other countries with high quality Karaoke products.



With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Suburban Cinema

Art Gallery of Mississauga Video Programme I
Bedroom Community
Tuesday August 14, 2007
9:00– 10:30 pm FREE!
Main Stage, grounds of the Mississauga Central Library,
301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.

Curated by Su-Ying Lee
Join us for a night of video with a suburban theme which will reveal the fantastically banal, mystical, and absurd all residing in bedroom communities.







Heather Keung & Michael Connor
City Centre, 2006 4:30 min

Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
A Cure for Being Ordinary, 2004 6:00 min

Aleesa Cohene
Supposed To, 2006 7:00 min

Alex Grant
Magic Memory, 2006 2:55 min

Libby Hague
Our Town, 2001 9:10 min

Alison S.M. Kobayashi
From Alex To Alex, 2006 6:11 min

Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure, 2006 14:40 min

With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Artists' collectables from the AGM

Art Gallery of Mississauga pinning project sneak preview

The Art Gallery of Mississauga has produced limited edition 1.5 inch pins, designed by four artists. One design will be available FREE at each of the events listed below!


This is a sneak preview only. To see the entire design and get your pin, come out to any of the following events! To collect all four, attend all events.










PRINT E-Z: DIY screen-printing
Demonstrations:
Wednesday August 1, 2007 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Activity Tent, Civic Square
Focusing on the entire process of screen-printing, the demonstrations will cover every aspect of the print-making process from drawing the initial designs to the finished product. Do it yourself and join the exciting assembly line of poster art production.

An exhibition of Jesjit Gill’s recent work and pieces resulting in the collaborative efforts of the participants from the Square One Youth Centre will be on display in the gallery space from July 19 – September 9.

AGM Video Programme
Bedroom Community
Tuesday August 14, 2007
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage
Video programme curated by Su-Ying Lee, Curatorial/Administrative Assistant, Art Gallery of Mississauga

AGM Video Programme
TBA
Tuesday August 21, 2007
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage
Video programme curated by Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot, Outreach Programmer, Art Gallery of Mississauga

The Best of Film Fort
Tuesday August 28, 2007
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Main Stage
The Film Fort collective will transform the Civic Centre into a series of large child-like theatres. Creating the sense of wonder and nostalgia of home-movies and family slide shows each fort will house a different video programme. Prepare for a cozy night in - out.

With support from the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

DIY screen-printing - This week!

PRINT E-Z: DIY screen-printing

Demonstration: Wednesday August 1, 2007 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Activity Tent, Civic Square, Mississauga Civic Centre

Focusing on the entire process of screen-printing, the demonstrations will cover every aspect of the print-making process from drawing the initial designs to the finished product. Do-it-yourself and join the exciting assembly line of poster art production.
An exhibition of Jesjit Gill’s recent work and pieces resulting in the collaborative efforts of the participants from the Square One Youth Centre are on display at the Art Gallery of Mississauga until September 9th.














If you have any questions please contact Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot at 905-896-5507 or suzanne.carte-blanchenot@mississauga.ca.




With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Cull of the Wild

Cull of the Wild

Saturday, July 14, 2007, 9pm, Main Stage

Artist Geoffry Pugen with Museum, musicians Brendan Koen & Patric Colosimo
























A rapt audience at The Cull of the Wild, live performance which featured artist Geoffrey Pugen's extraordinary hybrid of video mixing, projection, and electronic soundscape creation. A meditative, transformative experience.




































Visit Geoffery Pugen's Utopics project at
www.utopics.ca

Images thanks to Carte Blanche Photography





With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

The suburbs isn't the city and vice versa

Don't get me wrong, I adore Toronto but, why compare? Mississauga is it's own distinct city. People choose to live here for many reasons.

Recently I was paid a visit by an artist from Toronto. He commented several times about how dead quiet it all seemed. It wasn't peculiar to me that at 10:30 am on Monday that it wasn't a bustle of activity. He spoke about Mississauga as if it were an oddity for one coming from far off Toronto.

My answer is that Mississauga shouldn't be measured by the same criteria as Toronto. I don't measure Toronto's success as a city by what it lacks in comparison to Mississauga.

One valid question he did pose was "why is it so hard to get anything going?". He was referring to the momentum, energy and attendance excitement behind successful festivals and events.

I think Mississauga hasn't created an atmosphere/culture for such events yet. However, there are definitely many people trying!

What do you think? Why isn't there more momentum for public events, festivals, film, performance? Have you organized or, are organizing something here in Mississauga. How's it going?

The Beating Heart Festival 2007

The Beating Heart Festival, part of My Mississauga, is Mississauga's only summer festival that highlights the wealth of solid independent music in and around the G.T.A. Most of these bands have taken significant pay cuts in order to bring fantastic music back to the city core.

Exclaim! Magazine is official sponsor of the festival this year. Come out and relax; bring friends, and enjoy some of the best music in the G.T.A, outdoors, every Friday evening, right in the heart of the city, entirely for FREE.














Visit the links below for more info and to check out the acts.

Mississauga News Article:www.mississauga.com/article/4303
Artwork By: Matt Daley http://www.shinypliers.com/

The line up:

FRIDAY, JULY 6th, 2007 [OPENING DAY]
THE NEXT BEST THING [Burlington]www.myspace.com/thenextbestthing
The Knockouts [Mississauga]www.myspace.com/knockouts
The Saint Alvia Cartel [Burlington] [Stomp Records]www.myspace.com/thesaintalviacartel
The Identity Crisis [Mississauga]www.myspace.com/theidentitycrisis

FRIDAY, JULY 13th, 2007
THE JUNCTION [Brampton] [Universal]www.myspace.com/thejunction http://www.thejunction.ca/ Escalate [Toronto]www.myspace.com/escalatemusic
The Imports [Mississauga / Brampton] [Laris Records]www.myspace.com/theimports
I am Robot and Proud [Toronto] [Catmobile / Darla]www.myspace.com/iamrobotandproud www.robotandproud.com/

FRIDAY, JULY 27th, 2007
ARISE & RUIN [Guelph] [Victory Records]www.myspace.com/ariseandruin
Hoosier Poet [Hamilton] [TikTokTikTok]www.myspace.com/hoosierpoet
Cain & Abel [Acton] [Sunday League Records]www.myspace.com/cainandabel
The Wooden Sky [Formerly "Friday Morning's Regret] [Toronto]www.myspace.com/thewoodensky http://www.thewoodensky.com/

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd, 2007
THE REASON [Hamilton] [Smallman / Warner]www.myspace.com/thereasonrock http://www.thereason.ca/
The Mark Inside [Toronto] [Maple Music Recordings]http://www.markinside.com/ www.myspace.com/themarkinside
Five Blank Pages [Toronto] [Sunday League Records]www.myspace.com/fiveblankpages Ghost Hands [Mississauga] [We Are Busy Bodies]www.myspace.com/andretheriault

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10th, 2007
ULTRA MAGNUS [10 Piece Afrobeat Orchestra] [Toronto]www.myspace.com/umagnus Matthew Johnston [London]www.myspace.com/matthewjohnston
Theology 3 [Toronto]www.myspace.com/theology3
Peter Katz [Toronto]www.myspace.com/peterkatz http://www.peterkatz.com/

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17th, 2007
THE DIABLEROS [Toronto] [Baudelaire]www.myspace.com/thediableros www.thediableros.tv/
The Vulcan Dub Squad [Brampton / Mississauga]www.myspace.com/thevulcandubsquad www.thevulcandubsquad.com/
Fox Jaws [Barrie] [Chaulk Records]www.myspace.com/foxjaws
Woodhands [Toronto]www.myspace.com/woodhands http://www.woodhands.com/

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24th, 2007
BAPTIZED IN BLOOD [London]www.myspace.com/baptizedinblood http://www.baptizedinblood.ca/
Del Asher [London]www.myspace.com/delasher
The Love & Terror Cult [Mississauga] www.myspace.com/theloveandterrorcult
As Is [Mississauga]www.myspace.com/asisrock

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31st, 2007 [FINAL SHOW]
DD/MM/YYYY [Toronto] [We Are Busy Bodies]www.myspace.com/ddmmyyyy
Germans [Toronto] [Arena Rock Records]www.myspace.com/germans
Clothes Make The Man [Toronto]www.myspace.com/clothesmaketheman
This Is Picture [Toronto]www.myspace.com/thisispicture

All shows w. DJ Trails@ The Beating Heart Festival - 301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. @ The Civic Square - Mississauga ---->FREE FREE FREE<---- All-Ages Weather Permitting Music: 7:30pm More Info: www.myspace.com/beatingheartshows

We're also on Facebook. Search for, "The Beating Heart Festival" and add us!The Beating Heart After-Party Series will be returning to the Duke of Marlborough this year. Make sure to check out: www.myspace.com/thedukeofmarlborough905 to stay up to date on upcoming shows and possible secret guests.

Ryan Tobin, Executive Producer,The Beating Heart Festival www.myspace.com/beatingheartshows
p: 647-228-1328

Animation by young Mississauga talent

On view until July 15th
Winning Entries from the Cawthra Park Animation Festival
at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in the back gallery screening room

Aleks Bartosik at TOAE

What are you doing next weekend?

Visit Mississauga based artist Aleks Bartosik at Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.


















and she was not his Venus in furs (acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120cm, 2007)

The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
July 6, 7 & 8, 2007

Friday: 10am – 8pm
Saturday: 10am – 7pm
Sunday: 10am - 6pm
Rain or Shine Free Admission

Look for a special 1.5 inch button designed by Alex Bartosik at Art Gallery of Mississauga summer events soon!

Live music and video mixed under the stars...

Live on Saturday, June 16th on the Main Stage across from Civic Square (on the grounds of the Central Library).




DJ Kurtis Lewis & Katie Bethune-Leamen

























DJ Lotsasongs & Partick Borjal


























DJ Sable SL & Hri Neil

This event was brought to Mississauga music & video lovers, night wanderers and star gazers by the Art Gallery of Mississauga as part of My Mississauga.

Next Art Gallery of Mississauga, Main Stage event, July 14th. Visit this link for details or stay tuned...

Images courtesy of Carte-Blanche Photography

With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Aaaay VJ!

Audio Video Jockey (AVJ)
Saturday June 16, 2007
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Mississauga Civic Centre, 300 City Centre Drive
Civic Square, Main Stage
FREE
DJ Kurtis Lewis & Katie Bethune-Leamen
DJ Lotsasongs & Partick Borjal
DJ Sable SL & Hri Neil
AVJ showcases collaborative efforts of video/media artists and DJs. Each commissioned performance team entrusts the combined creativity of an artist commandeering the role of the audio or the visual conductor.

Fueled by the Art Gallery of Mississauga







as part of My Mississauga






With support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga

Stay tuned for more live action...

Get educated

You say you want to be an artist when you grow up?

Professional Development Workshops
In collaboration with MOSAIC The South Asian Heritage Festival of Mississauga

Ontario Arts Council Grant Writing Session Thursday, June 21, 2007 1-3 pm
Speak with artist Lisa Wöhrle, Associate Visual and Media Arts Officer and Janice Lambrakos, Information Services Coordinator as the present information about the range of Ontario Arts Council grant programs that are available to you, how to present a strong application, and demystify the jury process.

Our guests have been invited to speak to the following questions:

• " Are you eligible for grants? "
• What is the grant application process,
• deadlines, support material
• " How to draft clear, concise grant applications "
• How grant decisions are made "
• How juries are selected.

Presenting an Effective Proposal Friday, June 22, 2007 1-3 pm

Learn the essential elements of a professional visual art portfolio and developing strategies to articulate a focused presentation of materials. From advice on building your curriculum vitae to building sustainable budgets this workshop will provide practical information on creating an effective proposal.

Content Providers: Nadia Kurd, Programming Coordinator, SAVAC (South Asian Artists Collective) Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot, Outreach Programmer, Art Gallery of Mississauga

Educational objectives:

• " Submitting to the public art gallery and artist run centres "
• Preparing exhibition assistance applications
• " Overview of researching calls for submissions and juried exhibitions "
• Analyzing artist's statements and organizing proposal development
• " Address the importance concise visual support materials

For more information or to register please contact Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot Outreach Programmer at the Art Gallery of Mississauga Tel: 905-896-5507 or email suzanne.carte-blanchenot@missisauga.caThe Art Gallery of Mississauga's outreach programming is generously supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

We know what she paints but, what does she think about the suburbs?

Interview with Martha Eleen conducted via email by Su-Ying Lee, Curatorial/Administrative Assistant, Art Gallery of Mississauga.

Su-Ying Lee: The title of your exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga was Into the 905: The View from the Car. Was this title meant to imply anything about the character of the 905 communities?

Martha Eleen: My experience of the suburbs has been about passing through on my way between my cabin near Port Hope and my home in Toronto. The suburban landscape is so familiar that for many years I hardly noticed it, and then as a result of my observational painting practice, certain things began to catch my interest. It occured to me that since the car is the connector between the domestic, commercial and industrial spaces, and a lot of people commute along this route, the view from the car is probably the way a lot of people experience this landscape.

SL: The title was taken in a strictly literal way by some viewers who believed exhibiting the work here meant it was a portrait of Mississauga. Please clarify weather there is truth in that assumption.

ME: I had not been to Mississauga before the show and I was amazed when I saw it! Everything is bigger and vaster and more modern there. I want to paint it next. Mississauga makes the suburbs of my paintings look old-fashioned and scruffy in comparison.

SL:What drew you to paint the images in the series? The paintings in the exhibition, while they held evidence of human life (buildings, towers etc.), were void of the actual people who live in the 905.

ME: I like the way the tops of buildings look over the highway barricades. My first inspiration was the Yellow Pages building in Scarborough. There's a curve in the highway...at first you see it on the left, then viewed over and then under a bridge and then it's on the right side. I love the way the buildings rearrange themselves as you drive by. I was interested in the simple forms in space. Sometimes I included the cars. In this environment (along the highway) there are few people outside of their cars, a striking feature of this landscape, and a real adventure for me as I often was conspicuous outside. For Part 2 of this series I was Artist in Residence in a Muslim subdivision, north of Toronto, where I produced a body of paintings, Peace Village: a portrait of the place and the people (not shown at the AGM). Because the Muslim religion restricts portraiture of women I painted their glorious fabrics, which is a particularly Islamic approach to art. As well I painted children in the prayer postures

SL:The way in which you treat the sky, although on small panels, gives the feeling of expanse which lent a sense of isolation. What was this compositional choice dictated by?

ME:The sky is huge in the suburbs and Southern Ontario has a very particular light, it can be a kind of light grey glare. The season between winter and spring has a lot of colour in the sky and I love to paint in this season as the sky is dramatic and changing early in the afternoon.

SL:Some of the comments about the exhibition called for more colour! I think those who craved colour felt that the series would have been more successful if a different pallet was chosen. I think the pallet you used was successful because it elicited such strong reactions. Why the steely blues and neutrals?

ME:I try to mix the exact local colour. To my eye, these paintings represent the colours that are there. Many of my paintings show the light changing as well as the changing point of view. As a painter, subtle nuances of colour fascinate me i.e. light cement against grey sky, close in value, but affecting each other. When I painted in Newfoundland the palette was completely different. I'm on my way to paint in the Yukon. I'm expecting the light and colour to be interesting there.

SL:Do you believe there is a correct or incorrect way to read a painting?

ME:Painting is a visual language, not to be confused with household decor. Painting can be a very visceral form: it can engage all the senses...sound, temperature, emotion for example. Like music, painting can be read on many levels, from a catchy tune with mass appeal to a jazz arrangement, the nuances perhaps appreciated more by other musicians. I think most artists feel successful when their language can be interpreted by anyone, when they cross these boundaries, and when they can show people new ways of seeing and change the way they look at the world around. I have been influenced by Morandi who painted bottles for his whole career with an ever-increasing devotion to the nuances of colour, composition, space and light concerns. Some people think these paintings are dull and not entertaining. I have been moved to tears by the tenderness of emotion and the ability of the artist to be present to his subject matter......and it's just bottles! I think the more painting that people see and take the time to understand, the more ability they will have to interpret and appreciate the visual language. I think of painting as a tool for looking.

SL:Your work was created on the periphery of the communities you painted. Over the course of the exhibition you made several trips into Mississauga's downtown core where the Gallery is situated. What are your thoughts on that landscape?

ME:I want to paint it. I'm fascinated by the monolithic aesthetic, the brightness and reflections on the glass, the fact that you must drive between buildings even downtown, the huge spaces. The scale of everything is so big. I think I would paint really big. Also at the cafeteria of the Civic Centre I had my first view of the suburbs from above! Quite different from looking up at small buildings over the highway barricades.

SL:You painted on the side of the 400 highways with a custom easel attached to your steering wheel. From what I've read, this view engaged you while you were driving to more pastoral locations for landscape painting. Does The View from the Car have a place in the genre of landscape?

ME:I think I have added the idea of time and motion to a genre that is often static. Adding a conceptual element to traditional plein-air oil painting bridges the 2 disparate art forms that are at odds with each other in today's art world. As well landscape is often romanticized in observational painting i.e. pastoral locations and old buildings which refer more to art history than our daily world. I'm interested in being present to what's around me in my daily life as well as the conceptual and new media modern art.

SL:Some viewers recognized the view as part of their weekly commute, others commented that you revealed something new, poetic even, still others were offended by the way in which they believed you were depicting the 905. Recently I have been approached by reporters wishing to discuss the suburbs as the new frontier for artists moving away from an urban core. Is the relevance of the suburbs to be simply defined by it's contrast to urban centres?

ME: I don't see it as a contrast so much as a growing context for daily life. There's a lot of people living in the suburbs now and its also very multi-cultural. I think the inner city has been exploited as much as possible as a subject of art and there are fewer surprises there. The suburbs is a new phenomenon and free to be discovered. My intention is not as an authority on the suburbs, but rather to turn my artist eye toward the landscape as a passer-by and perhaps this a fresh viewpoint that I would not have if I was continually surrounded by this environment. A tourist always sees more excitement in the things that are too ordinary to notice by the inhabitants.

Martha Eleen's series, Into the 905: The View From the Car was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Mississauga from March 29 to May 3, 2007 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga

www.marthaeleen.com

www.artgalleryofmississauga.com

What are you looking at?

Not as random as you think

All will be illuminated.
If you can't wait....go here.

www.filmfort.ca

You have until July 15th

What's this and what's it doing in a gallery?

Find out here.

Auction, art, food, beverages

You'll want to be there

The fourth annual event features an entertaining live auction of approximately 30 original art works and a silent auction of over 20 original art works. This elegant evening includes hors d'oeuvres by Enfield Fox & Gourmet Cuisine, sushi by Dai Ichi Sushi, beer by Steam Whistle and wine by Select Wine Merchants. Inspirational sweets will be provided by The Apricot Tree Cafe and Cakesbypam.Live music performed by the Mississauga Youth Orchestra.Preview of the artworks begins at 6pm.The live auction begin at 7pm sharp with Auctioneer Jay Mandarino.

Location:
Art Gallery of MississaugaMississauga Civic CentreMain floor, south east corner300 City Centre DriveMississauga, Ontario

Tickets:
Tickets are $75.00 and may be purchased from the Art Gallery of Mississaugavia cash, VISA, MasterCard or cheque.Telephone purchases with VISA or MasterCard.

Visit the Auction website for details and to view the art.

Into the 905

Opening Thursday, March 29th at 6pm
All are welcome! This event is FREE

Into the 905: The View From the Car Martha Eleen
March 29 to May 3, 2007








Martha Eleen, Subdivision, 2002, oil on wood

The title of Martha Eleen’s exhibition references the area code designated to Mississauga, Brampton and Oakville among others. It also references the hypnotic ritual of commuting and vehicle dependence associated with suburban life. In this part of Ontario, with our proximity to Toronto, 905 is an idiom for a location and identifies the suburbanite. Martha Eleen’s work is the result of an urbanite circling the perimeter of the suburbs, pausing there and penetrating with her gaze and brush.

Each series, comprised of Eleen’s small paintings, is titled after a location. The location, quite literally, was The View From the Car. She was drawn by the vista as she peered over highway barricades while speeding along in her car between Port Hope, where she was landscape painting, and her Toronto home. In Eleen’s paintings we view the structures that constitute the suburbs, just beyond the highway, bathed in the particular light of day.

Eleen writes “I believe that there is no form or structure that cannot be viewed as a subject for art. The fall of light on surfaces, the placement of forms in space, and the colours, natural and artificial, are as much a part of the meaning of my paintings as are the functions of these forms...Initially I was interested in the shock of the large subdivisions as seen from the road: the repetitive geometric patterns of rooftops circling cul de sacs, the impersonal facades composed of garages and the wasteland of treeless construction sites. But it is impossible to ignore the cultural diversity of the new neighbourhoods growing on the outskirts of Toronto.”

With a specifically engineered easel constructed to fit over the steering wheel of her car for plein air excursions Eleen calculated perspective and faced the challenge of “nailing a colour” to capture the view.

Marth Eleen
From the Yellow Pages series, 2003





















Also opening the same evening: If 905 isn't 416, why do we have YYZ?


The title of this exhibiton refers to the area codes that differentiate the GTA from the surrounding suburbs. YYZ is the airport code for Toronto however, Pearson International Airport is located in Malton, which is 905 territory.

This exhibition, coinciding with Martha Eleen's Into the 905, explores Mississauga's identity through works 12 x 12 inches and smaller. The artists in this exhibition have been selected from a call for submissions. Additional submissions may be viewed on a CD catalogue at the Gallery.


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