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Past Events
2008 September 20th Metalogos
As part of the exhibition Metalogos Forest City Gallery in Partnership with London Live Arts Festival (LOLA) presents performances by Paul Dutton, Nobuo Kubota, Beth Learn, Steve McCaffery, W. Mark Sutherland and Darren Wershler-Henry.
2008 July 18th - July 26th London Pride Art Exhibition
Bruce Flowers, David Grenier (Toronto), Lynette Richards, Sandy Ross (Florida), Margaret Rossiter, and Daryl Vocat (Toronto) with student/hobbyist Alfred Lam and Erin Fuller (Hamilton), Jonathan Starkey (University of Western Ontario), Joshua Ferguson (University of Western Ontario), and Steven Kato (The Robarts School for the Deaf)
2008 June 29 Artist Talk: Stephen Lavigne
Using a late 1960's model trailer home as a formal and conceptual subject, I have been producing drawings and paintings that attempt to reconcile the differences between various fundamental opposites intrinsic to the paint medium. Most recently, these two-dimensional works have become source material for a complete rebuild of an actual mobile home. My goal is for the finished design is to blur the line between two-dimensional abstraction and three-dimensional representation. The vintage of the mobile home corresponds with my interest in the critical period during the late 1960s, which saw various conceptually based strategies for art making arise in opposition to the material specificity of modern painting. With the drawings as a 'jumping-off' point, and using a process-based method to both design and construct the project, I have converted the traditional trailer home into a hybrid form which I like to think of as a mobile home storage home.
2008 June 22 - July 9th Driving in the Landscape: touring motor home
Artist Stephen Lavigne will 'tour' his finished motor home thoughout London. Drop by the FCG during operating hours from May 26th - June 17th to talk to the artist and see the 'construction' first hand. See below for a list of dates and times!
Motor Home Tour Schedule
1st location: 251 Waterloo St.
Sunday June 22 – Tuesday June 24
2nd location: Museum London (421 Ridout St. N.)
Wednesday June 25 – Friday June 27
3rd location: Alex P. Keaton (580 Talbot St.)
Saturday June 28 – Monday June 30
4th location: East London Branch Library (2016 Dundas St. E.)
Tuesday July 1 – Thursday July 3
5th location: Lambeth Branch Library (7112 Beattie St.)
Friday July 4 – Sunday July 6
6th location: Sherwood Branch Library (1225 Wonderland Rd. N.)
Monday July 7 – Wednesday July 9
2008 July 7th Special Noise: Live at the Forest City Gallery!!!
Special Noise are a montreal based two-piece rock band who recently learned to play a Canned Heat song. Los Hechiceros are a three-piece 'rock band' who wish they could play a Canned Heat song. The Nihilist Spasm Band are a legendary london-based noise band who do not play Canned Heat songs.
2008 May 30th City Beautification Ensemble
In partnership with the River Project the Forest City Gallery is pleased to present Toronto's City Beautification Ensemble, May 30th at 7:30pm. The talk will explore notions of urbanization and modern development in connection to aesthetic surroundings. In their words "The primary goal of the CBE is to off set the problems existing within the current state of our aesthetic surroundings by reducing what we refer to as the 'Grey-Level' of the built environment by replacing, or masking it with appropriate site-specific mood enhancing colours, otherwise known as 'Rainbow-Energy'."In addition CBE produced an offsite project at a local Hasty Market (Hamilton rd.)
2008 May 30th - 31st Z'otz* Collective Mural Project
As part of the exhibition Driving in the Landscape, Toronto based Z'otz* Collective collaborated with local youth on a two storey mural project in the East end of London. This project was made possible by the generous support of the London Community Foundation.