The Gallery - Campbell House Museum, Toronto

Upcoming Exhibits

Occupational Portraits by The Tintype Studio
A feature exhibition with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
May 1 - June 1

The Tintype Studio

Occupational Portraits depicts traditional trades people in a contemporary context, such as an artist, chef, carpenter or farmer, whose skill is determined by the tools of their trade and the hands that wield them. Tintype photography is a trade requiring the same passion and dedication to achieve a high degree of quality and success as its subjects reveal in their own trades. Whereas the tintype process inherently references a period in photography and history, The Tintype Studio artists observe and record the modern world. The distance between past and present is shortened as the representation of an individual’s professional pride proves to be both historic and contemporary.

The Tintype Studio engages the public in a conversation about this early photographic technique. Sign-up for a tintype workshop on May 11, or drop-in for portrait sessions on May 4, 18, 25 and 26. Over the course of the festival, The Tintype Studio will continue building their portrait series, resulting in a collection of tintypes that exemplify the resurgence and resilience of traditional craft and the value of the knowledge that its subjects possess.

Scotiabank CONTACT

Curated by Staceylee Turner
Gallery admission is free

Barbarians by Harley Valentine
An outdoor exhibition of sculptures
August 1 - September 30

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Barbarians is a series of five sculptures installed throughout the grounds of the historic Campbell House in downtown Toronto. The contrast between the 19th-century architecture and the 21st-century contemporary art is mediated here by the classicism of both. Valentine’s sculptures are inspired by the mythical creatures of ancient Greece and Rome – Minotaur, Cerberus, Persephone, &c. Similarly, Campbell House, Toronto’s finest example of late Georgian Palladian style, evokes the classical temple architecture of the ancient Mediterranean. The exhibition raises questions about the collapse and rebirth of civilizations; about creative destruction; and whether the new replaces the old, or the old is the hidden engine of the new.

Past Exhibits

Studio Artists of the Women's Art Association of Canada
Best of Eight

Best of Eight features selected work by Judith Davidson Palmer, Marjorie Moeser, Wendy Weaver, Wenda Watt, Beryl Goering, Gail Read, Patricia Howard, and Carolyn Jongeward.

House on Wheels, curated by Bronwen Roach


About 1876, Strathy family in front of Campbell House, at its original location (Adelaide and Frederick streets)	1972, Campbell House arriving at its new site at Queen and University

Michelle Louise Wilson
Close

Stablein and Morris by MIchelle Louise Wilson

Stablein and Morris, 5 years

Asif Rehman
"Muslims?!"

Mombasa, Boxer, PhD Candidate

Anonymous Pilgrim

Parul, Dancer, Choreographer

Dusan Petricic
"My Toronto"

Toronto / Lake View

Torontonians

Josh Thorpe
"The House"
Curated by Rose Bouthillier

Built in 1822, Campbell House is the oldest remaining building from the original town of York. In 1972, after many years of industrial use, the house was uprooted from the intersection of Frederick St. and Adelaide St., and brought to its current address to be restored. Now maintained as a museum, the house sits back from one of the busiest intersections of Toronto’s downtown core, setting up a divergent chronology.

For The House, Thorpe will respond loosely to this recent turn in the building’s history, using photographs of the empty lot at Queen and University taken just prior to the house’s arrival. In addition to these, the artist will draw from the archive of his father, Ron Thorpe, a Vancouver-based photographer. While these images resemble modern photography and photoconceptual artworks, they also evoke an older tradition of painting and illustration that bumps up against the void, the open, and the abstract. This installation both turns away from the historical domestic space in which it takes place, and also turns toward it, drawing it into an array of perceptual, affective, and historical resonances.

Josh Thorpe has a Master’s in Visual Studies from University of Toronto. His work has been shown in Canada, the US, and Europe. Recent exhibitions include On Printed Matter (2011) with David Court at Printed Matter, New York, The Sobey Art Award: 2011 Ontario Long List at Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Empire of Dreams (2010) at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, and The Object of the Attack (2009) at the David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK. In 2009 Art Metropole published Thorpe's first book, Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide.

Rose Bouthillier is a curator and writer based in Toronto. Her recent exhibitions include To Be Real (2010) at the Prefix institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, and Sublimation(2011) at Oakville Galleries, where she is Assistant Curator. Her writing has appeared in c magazine, frieze and esse arts + opinions.

Jonathan Brett "1972 - 1976"
for Nuit Blanche 2011

Jonathan Brett

Pat Dumas-Hudecki


In Transition	In Transiton - City II	Pole #161 Queen St.West & Bathurst

Mac McArthur

Mac MacArthur - Global Woman

Global Woman

Andrew Plum

" All I know is that through art I want to live my life;
to feel it, understand it and grasp it totally.
It's the ever-relentless desire to live, feel, experience and be a part of something."

Prayer of St. Francis