Toronto Craft Alert

It’s a Big Deal!

May 6 – May 28, 2010
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen Street West, Toronto
Please join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, May 6, 5:30 – 8:30 pm.

Micah Adams
Alisha Marie Boyd
Norah Deacon
Niko Dimitrijevic
Margaret Lim
Shuyu Lu
Amanda McCavour
Adriana McNeely
Rose-Angeli Ringor
Johanna Schmidt
Patrycja Zwierzynska
Curated by Melanie Egan, Head of Craft and
Patrick Macaulay, Head of Visual Arts at Harbourfront Centre

This exhibition strives to communicate new ideas and shape perceptions about contemporary craft. It is about the opportunity to take risks, to experiment; to investigate and to push an art practice. To venture and to gain! To boldly go!

How Big is Big? What is Big? Is it Big Enough?
The works in this exhibition are about the expansion or extension of ideas.
The ‘acceptable limits of the craft object’ are presented in attention-grabbing ways. The works are bold, gutsy, exuberant, prominent and consequential. The everyday activities and objects in our lives are exalted, celebrated and amplified through ornament, scale or volume.
Yes indeed, It’s a Big Deal.

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