The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery presents Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 - 1980 September 11 – November 28, 2010
Conference: November 25 – 27, 2010 Presented at the University of Toronto Galleries: Blackwood Gallery Doris McCarthy Gallery Justina M. Barnicke Gallery University of Toronto Art Centre Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980 is the first major exhibition to focus on the influence and manifestations of Conceptual Art in Canada. As demonstrated by the works in this exhibition, Conceptual Art was taken up in complex and diverse manifestations with its premises enacted, hybridized and inflected by the particular local and geographic needs and interests of individual artists, collectives and art communities. Presenting works by over one-hundred artists from across Canada, Europe and the United States, the exhibition bears witness to the formation of artist-driven exchanges and institutions, as well as social networks in the emergence of this global phenomenon. Concerned with language, body, place and geography—all constitutive elements and primary interests of Conceptual Art internationally—Traffic is organized around urban and regional centres from Halifax to Vancouver, but seeks to capture the effervescent, and often contentious, lines of traffic between them. The exhibition includes works by Vito Acconci, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Bruce Barber, Marcella Bienvenue, Robert Bowers, Wallace Brannen, Tom Burrows, James Lee Byars, Eric Cameron, Colin Campbell, Ian Carr-Harris, Tim Clark, Robin Collyer, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Michael de Courcy, Sylvain Cousineau and Francis Coutelier, Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Gary Coward, Stephen Cruise, Greg Curnoe, Max Dean, Tom Dean, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Graham Dube, Brian Dyson, Dean Ellis, Gerald Ferguson, Michael Fernandes, Robert Fones, Vera Frenkel, Jeff Funnell, Charles Gagnon, Yves Gaucher, General Idea, Raymond Gervais, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Greer, Hans Haacke, Noel Harding, John Heward (with Alex Neuman), Douglas Huebler, Image Bank (Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov), Richards Jarden, Bill Jones, Donald Judd, Pat Kelly, Garry Neill Kennedy, Robert Kleyn, Roy Kiyooka, Joseph Kosuth, Suzy Lake, Michele Lalonde, Gordon Lebredt, Les Levin e, Glenn Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Ken Lum, Duane Lunden, Don Mabie, Allan MacKay and Lionel Simons, Albert McNamara, Brian MacNevin, Barry MacPherson, Arnaud Maggs, John McEwen, Robin McKenzie, Ian Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Gunter Nolte, Dennis Oppenheim, Harold Pearse, Bruce Parsons, Andy Patton, Rober Racine, Yvonne Rainer, Clive Robertson, Ellison Robertson, Martha Rosler, Tom Sherman, Rebecca Singleton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Jeffrey Spalding, Lisa Steele, Françoise Sullivan, David Tomas, Serge Tousignant, Bill Vazan, Robert Walker, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Theodore Wan, Douglas Waterman, John Watt, Lawrence Weiner, Joyce Wieland, Martha Wilson, Irene F. Whittome, Paul Woodrow, Jon Young, Tim Zuck The exhibition will conclude with the conference Traffic: Conceptualism in Canada which takes place at the University of Toronto from November 25 to 27, 2010. Organized by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, the conference is made possible through a generous grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Registration opens November 1, 2010. Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980 is curated jointly by Grant Arnold, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin, and Jayne Wark. The exhibition is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery, in partnership with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University) and Halifax, INK. It is presented in Toronto in collaboration with the Blackwood Gallery, Doris McCarthy Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre. The exhibition travels across Canada in 2011 and 2012. Financially supported by the Museums Assistance program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle http://www.jmbgallery.ca University of Toronto Art Centre University College, University of Toronto 15 King’s College Circle http://www.utac.utoronto.ca Blackwood Gallery University of Toronto Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Road North http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca Doris McCarthy Gallery University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dmg
