January 2012
Dave Dyment, Emerald City (Any Colour You Like), 2010
Like-Minded
January 28, 2012 to March 25, 2012
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg MB
Curated by Micah Lexier
Romas Astrauskas, Robert Bean, Martin Bennett, Paul Butler, Maryanne Casasanta, Martin Creed, David Dyment, Liza Eurich, Brian Groombridge, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Jesse Harris, Nelson Henricks, Joel Herman, Jeremy Jansen, Matt King, Jake Kosciuk, Stéphane La Rue, Kelly Lycan, Euan Macdonald, Arnaud Maggs, Sara MacKillop, Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, Sylvia Matas, Niall McClelland, Mathew McWilliams, Ken Nicol, Roula Parthenou, Mitzi Pederson, Margaret Priest, Susana Reisman, Alison Rossiter, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Michael Snow, Josh Thorpe, Joy Walker, and Laurel Woodcock
Like-Minded is a group show that is meant to act as a companion exhibition to Michael Dumontier’s solo exhibition A Moon or a Button. Curator Micah Lexier has brought together artworks of over 30 artists which resonate with Dumontier’s interests and sensibilities, works which include simplified forms, found imagery, stationary and trompe l’oeil. The artists themselves are diverse, ranging from emerging artists, to Dumontier’s contemporaries to some of Canada’s more established artists. In addition to mounting works on the gallery walls, Lexier has chosen to place a number of the works inside a pair of vitrines placed in the centre of the gallery space, and will be presenting two video works in an adjacent space.
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I have a monthly dj night at the Holy Oak Cafe at 1241 Bloor St. West in Toronto on the 3rd Saturday of the month where I typically play lush, warm, rhythmically groovy sounds.
December 2011
I have some work up at Narwhal Art Project's Junction location in Toronto for POM POM - a pop up boutique shop.
Showcasing handmade treasures, original artwork and printed matter from around the globe, POM POM is a celebration of the best in fun and fine art.
Featuring Alibi, Alicia Nauta, Andrea Glenn, Bad Day, CryWolf, Diana VanderMeulin, Douglas Brown, Eric Quebral, Elizabeth Knight, Erica Weiner, Fieldguided, Ginette Lapalme, Hunter and Cook, Jennie Suddick, Julie Moon, Kiel Meade, Laura Lombardi, Lara Vincent, Lazy Oaf, Maryanne Casasanta, Noel Middleton, Selena Wong, Shannon Gerard, Species by the Thousands, Tania Sanhueza, The Regional Assembly of Text, Touch the Dutch, Wool and the Gang, Yellow Owl and more magicians.
POM POM will be open at Narwhal at 2988 Dundas Street West until February 19th, 2012. Hours are Mon-Wed by appointment, Thurs-Sat 10-7pm and Sunday 12-6pm.
I curated a new playlist, as it's been awhile. This one is designed to induce a visual slumber and the surfacing of new insights from deep within our subconscious.
I have a couple of limited edition photos up for grabs at this year's Photorama 2011 fundraiser at Gallery TPW in Toronto.
Collectors Preview Thursday, December 1, 6 – 9 pm
Opening Reception Friday, December 2, 6 – 9 pm
Sale continues Saturday, December 3, Noon – 6 pm
Tuesday, December 6 – December 10, Noon – 6 pm
November 2011
Special thanks to Hunter and Cook for featuring some installation photos from my group exhibition, What it Seems is Something Too currently showing at Neubacher Shor Contemporary until November 26th, 2011 in Toronto.
October 2011
I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.
- Eminem
What it Seems is Something Too presents the work of Nadia Belerique, Maryanne
Casasanta, Karen Kraven and Jennifer Sciarrino. As a group, a point of intersection in
their work is one of objects and materials in transition, a process of transformation
over and through time. In different ways, they explore an allowance for the
provisional, the space between document and photograph, and the possible
disconnect between what things seem to be and what they are. Through
combinations of sculpture, installation and photography, What it Seems is Something
Too considers the power of everyday objects, their potential to stand in for more
rarified materials, and the possibilities for the commonplace to be otherwise.
Nadia Belerique works with combinations of objects and photographs (made and
found) to convey the emotional and spiritual content of things. Creating a sculptural
back-and-forth between photographs and objects, they function like props in a non-
narrative that is simultaneously theatrical and restrained.
Using mainly found objects from her apartment, Maryanne Casasanta creates
images that are transformed, re-transformed, recombined and layered so that
their finality as art works remains in flux. As documents of constructed scenes,
photographs, and photographs-of-photographs, their transition as material objects is
ongoing while they maintain a link to personal space and memory.
Karen Kraven considers the past lives of objects and the way in which they
are transformed by their journey through the world, in both the physical and
metaphysical sense. Like Casasanta and Belerique, her objects have accrued
meaning through use and history, which can belie their mundane appearance.
Almost conversely, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino’s sculptures appear to be “real” and more
valuable materials, when in fact they are made of plaster and graphite, bringing
them back to the world of the everyday. Imagined as models for monumental public
pieces or fragments of larger architectural projects, they take their place at the
beginning of a temporal process, proposals for a later stage that may never occur.
...............................................
Woman of Wootz
Oil on panel, 2011
My friend, Lauchie Reid has painted a portrait of me, among many other amazing portraits for his exhibition entitled, The World Turned Upside Down currently on display at Narwhal Art Projects until November 7th, 2011 in Toronto. Be sure to check it out!
September 2011
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects. The temporal position of events with respect to the transitory present is continually changing; future events become present, then pass further and further into the past. – from Wikipedia
The image with consideration of time becomes antiquated. Simply recreating it will forever shrink the gap between space and time. SLOW-BURNER will define an interaction between the physicality and actuality of the image; celebrating the moment and restructuring time by constructing it in its physical form.
——
SLOW-BURNER is curated by Ryan Beckemeyer (Bartholomew Editions) with an exhibition to be held at Residence Gallery in Long Beach, California. A PDF will be released documenting the project after the opening on September 24.
Featuring work by Maryanne Casasanta, David Brandon Geeting, Brandon Harris, Alex Martinez, Oscar Mendoza, Matt Morgan and Gina Stine.
Facebook Event
I am very pleased to be a participant in this year's Canadian Art Foundation Benefit Auction on September 21st, 2011 at the Carlu in Toronto. Here is a link to the selected work.
August 2011
Have some work up at the Margate Photo Festival in Margate, Kent UK on August 13th and 14th along side a slew of many fantastic photographer friends and peers.
Sunny Side Up is curated by Wandering Bears Collective, Nik Adam, Luke Norman & Peter Haynes.
More info on the exhibition here.
July 2011
Photo document of my Peace Bard project installed along side Les Ramsey and Bitsy Knox's cat at LES Gallery in Vancouver for the exhibition, Whilst moving backwards through a series of thresholds, one finds oneself, inexorably, indoors.
..........................................
I am humbled to be a part of two group exhibitions this month, both open on July 8th in Vancouver:
Whilst moving backwards through a series of thresholds, one finds oneself, inexorably, indoors
A GROUP SHOW FEATURING WORKS BY MARYANNE CASASANTA, STEVEN HUBERT, BITSY KNOX AND LES RAMSAY
CURATED BY JILL ORSTEN
JULY 8 – AUGUST 6 2011
OPENING RECEPTION JULY 8TH 7PM – 11PM
Les Gallery, Vancouver BC
May 2011
My curated web project, together has launched!
Please visit and consider submitting!
(work by Matthew Pecina)
March 2011
I will be participating in C Magazine's Annual Benefit Auction happening on April 5th, 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto.
Live Auction begins at 7pm
Online preview here
February 2011
Will be installing work at Double Double Land for Laura McCoy's curated event, The Real Boob.
This event takes place on February 25th, 2011 at 9pm.
Facebook invite
Double Double Land
209 Augusta Avenue
Kensington Market
Toronto, ON
Palimpsest’s ISSUE 02/MEDICINE is an unbound collection of printed matter and multimedia work concerned with ideas of the body, illness, physicality and spirituality. ISSUE/02 MEDICINE incorporates video, text, illustration, photography, and other ephemera from Steven Beckly, Xenia Benivolski, Willie Brisco in conversation with AA Bronson, Maryanne Casasanta, Stacey Ho and Lindsey Nolan, Dan Joyce, Matthew King, Pierre Le Hors, Adam O’Reilly, the Parker Branch (Jason Hallows and Anna Madelska), Nickholis Planck and William Young. All pieces individually packaged in acid-free paper and collected in a handmade archival folder.
ISSUE 02/MEDICINE launches at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) bookstore for Nuit blanche à Montréal on February 26, 2011.
My new web project, together has just gone live! Please consider submitting work.
December 2010
Book of Books Poster by Denise Schatz
Photo contributions from Aiwei Foo, Peter Puklus, Casey Cook, James J. Williams III, Kimm Whiskie, Ashley Neese, Laura Baran, Jason Polan, George Chen, Aaron Johnson, Kathryn Politis, Vicky Fong, Amanda Saxe Barr, Jessica Williams, Rachel Corry, Emmett Walsh, Jennilee Margimen, Ezra Johnson and Sunny Payson, Kasia Houlihan, Tom Scott, David Horvitz, Robin Cameron, Sasha Weinbaum, Claudia Peña Salinas, Brian Silvera, Joshua Abelow, Nieske Kalkman, Hope Hilton, Esperanza Morebe, Mia Nolting, Emily Noelle Lambert, Amra Brooks, Catherine Krudy, Maryanne Casasanta, Patricia Valenica.
12 x 18 white glossy paper edition of 50.
12 x 18 grey paper as insert in book of books, edition of 100.
Available at Miniature Garden.
November 2010
Very excited to be a part of this issue of Unpublished Mag! The launch will be on November 11th, 2010 at Le Dictateur gallery in Milan.
October 2010
Short interview with my friend, Jabari Jordan-Walker for his blog, BLACK TAIGA.
Five Questions | Maryanne Casasanta
01 Magazine is pleased to present their traveling group exhibition, 01, at the No 6 Gallery in New York. Curated by Redia Soltis and Jennilee Marigomen, the exhibition showcases 34 inspiring artists of different disciplines that have been previously featured in the magazine. The exhibition in New York is the second showing of 01, following its Toronto debut.
01 Magazine is an independently owned arts and culture online magazine that encompasses contemporary art, photography, and fashion with a focus on emerging artists. 01 Magazine is based in Vancouver, Canada.
01 Magazine Group Exhibition - New York
Presented by 01 Magazine & No.6 Store
Opening Reception Party: Friday October 15, 2010 / 8 - 11pm
Music by Chances With Wolves
...
Subject to capacity, RSVP required:
01galleryatno6store@peoplesrevolution.com
Strict guest list door code.
No.6 Store, Gallery at Lower Level
6 Centre Market Place, New York, NY
Between Broome and Grand and Centre and Mulberry
On view: October 16 - 24, 2010
Monday - Friday 2 - 7pm / Saturday 12 - 7pm / Sunday 12 - 6pm
September 2010
Selected Solo Exhibition:
As you were: Maryanne Casasanta
Parts & Labour
1566 Queen St W
Toronto ON
September 16th 2010 - October 16th 2010
As you were is an ongoing series of work by Toronto-based artist Maryanne Casasanta that contemplates the exchange between art and the commonplace. Casasanta approaches the act of documenting her personal living environment in a democratic fashion. She variously rearranges objects, alters their function, forges new connections between them, or simply takes their portraits. Through this process, Casasanta reacts to a desire to connect more deeply with her surroundings. As you were is also concerned with the presentation of the body as an object or form, the poetic associations that cling to materials, and the merging of photography and conceptual art.
Opening reception, Thursday September 16th 9pm
After Party to follow at The Shop with selected music by Mark K MarkMark and Benjamin Gabriel.
Curated by Nicholas Brown and Catherine Dean
August 2010
Little feature on The Photography Post by Kate Steciw.
Small interview over at photography blog, MULL IT OVER
July 2010
In The Light Of Night II
-
It all started with 8 rolls of film and 4 photographers,
Adam Levett
Maryanne Casasanta
Sara Cwynar
Jeremy Jansen
Taking 2 rolls each, we all shot one roll of portraits
and one roll of textures.
We then all swapped our 2 rolls of exposed film,
reloaded and shot textures on top of portraits
and portraits on top of textures.
Creating a double exposure.
These were our results.
Slide Show Presentation:
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
1 Bellwoods Park
Toronto
9pm - 11pm
June 2010
Portfolio featured in Issue No.46 on Culturehall, along side Emilie Halpern, David Horvitz and Sam Falls.
Curated by Matt Olson.
&Review Issue No. 2 Islands
Artist-run publication based out of Portland.
Poncz Magazine Issue No.2, made in Poland
May 2010
01 Magazine | No. 5
In this issue, I interview artists Ronnie Yarisal and Katja Kublitz.
April 2010
I did an interview with San Francisco based website, Fecal Face.
March 2010
01 Magazine Group Show Limited Poster Edition
Edition of 100 + 1 AP (1st Edition)
11″ x 17″ - Digital Colour Printed on Cardstock
An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers presents installation images of an exhibit that never physically took place. Using digital compositing techniques, we have re-imagined the process of browsing through a Google Reader by adding art to images of the Sullivan Galleries’ empty walls. This presentational gesture of conflating scrolling with strolling is meant to question the ongoing tendency to believe material interaction with art is mandatory despite living in an age of utter dependency on the digital image as an informational source. Like the Argentinean Communication Media artists before us, we have cut out the middle-man (objects) and inserted the image as our final product, aware that the documentary media art receives plays the most pivotal role in defining its public discourse anyway. To expedite this process of media exposure, An Immaterial Survey is simultaneously being debuted online in addition to its projection in Chicago, confusing the boundaries of when and where the exhibit took place.
It is an intentional choice to offer no objects and no work of our own as our final display at SAIC. This is in part a tribute to the decentralized network of artists who comprise An Immaterial Survey. To present art online is an act of selflessness; the creator forfeits stringent control over their work’s meaning in favor of allowing the most generous opportunity for global viewership possible. For this we are thankful and indebted to the names that comprise our list of participants. We choose not to present sellable goods because we are fully aware of the irony of the BFA Exhibit itself; four years of a Feminist-Marxist education culminating in a grand celebration of luxury goods and the willful commodification of artist identity brands (best exemplified by the entire shelving units dedicated to freshly printed business cards). It is our intent to use this opportunity not for our own market assimilation, but for the praise of others and the criticism of art’s hierarchy of material value still present in our digital age.
An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers includes work by:
Aaron Graham
Abigail McGuane
AIDS-3D
Andreas Banderas
Anna Mack
Ben Schumacher
Brad Tinmouth
Brenna Murphy
Brian Khek
Kevin Caldwell
Chris Collins
Chris Coy
Daniel Everett
David Horvitz
Derek Frech
Elina Minn
Esteban Schimpf
Hanna Terese Nilsson
Hermonie Only
Iain Ball
Ilia Ovechkin
Israel Lund
Ivan Gaytan
Jamie Felton
Jason Lazarus
Jeff O’Brien
Jenilee Marigomen
Jon Rafman
Jordan Rhoat
Kari Altmann
Katy Heinlein
Lili Huston-Herterich
Manny Mireles
Martijn Hendriks
Martin Kohout
Maryanne Casasanta
Matthew Green
Micah Schippa
Mitch Thar
Natalie Rognsoy
Parker Ito
Rachael Milton
Ryan Barone
Samara Golden
Timur Siqin
Travess Smalley
Zach Shipko
Waterfall Magazine (瀑布雜誌)
Taipei City, Taiwan
February 2010
January 2010
My series, Square of Monday is featured on Je Suis Une Bande De Jeunes.
Curated by Jérémie Egry, Aurélien Arbet and Marco Barrera.
JSBJ supports the diffusion of contemporary photography. Initially through portfolios visible on the internet, JSBJ also produces publications and fanzines exclusively on photography.
December 2009
01 Magazine | No. 4
In this issue, I interview photographer Jessica Eaton.
November 2009
01_100 Editions · No. 5 Milano IT
Ali Bosworth, Maryanne Casasanta, Mai Chaya, Dusdin Condren, Jonathan Feinstein, Seth Fluker, Andrea Geremia, Cristiano Guerri, Li Hui, Young Kyu Yoo, Jennilee Marigomen, Hasisi Park, Pedro Ramos, Ugne Straigyte, Peter Sutherland
October 2009
Slideluck Potshow October 15, 2009 · Montréal, Québec
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MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
a collaborative poster project by Robin Cameron and Denise Schatz
Currently available at Printed Matter , Mastermind Shop and Art Metropole
CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE
Joshua Abelow, Bree Apperley, Natalie Beall, Wilson Cameron, Robin Cameron, Maryanne Casasanta, Casey Cook, David Cuesta, Catherine Czacki, Alex DeCarli, Jacqueline Di Milia, Ariel Dill, Rachel Domm, Gary Fogelson, Lukas Geronimas, David Horvitz, Jeremy R. Jansen, Christy-Claire Katien, Soleil Konkel, Anne Lai, Jennilee Marigomen, Chris Newmyer, Mia Nolting, Hasisi Park, Claudia Pena Salinas, Jason Polan, Kathryn Politis, Jody Rogac, Denise Schatz, Molly Surno, Patricia Valencia, Emmett Walsh, Kimm Whiskie, Young Kyu Yoo
22.5 IN X 33 IN DOUBLE SIDED MATTE PAPER
EDITION OF 500
Dave Dyment, Emerald City (Any Colour You Like), 2010
Like-Minded
January 28, 2012 to March 25, 2012
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg MB
Curated by Micah Lexier
Romas Astrauskas, Robert Bean, Martin Bennett, Paul Butler, Maryanne Casasanta, Martin Creed, David Dyment, Liza Eurich, Brian Groombridge, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Jesse Harris, Nelson Henricks, Joel Herman, Jeremy Jansen, Matt King, Jake Kosciuk, Stéphane La Rue, Kelly Lycan, Euan Macdonald, Arnaud Maggs, Sara MacKillop, Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, Sylvia Matas, Niall McClelland, Mathew McWilliams, Ken Nicol, Roula Parthenou, Mitzi Pederson, Margaret Priest, Susana Reisman, Alison Rossiter, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Michael Snow, Josh Thorpe, Joy Walker, and Laurel Woodcock
Like-Minded is a group show that is meant to act as a companion exhibition to Michael Dumontier’s solo exhibition A Moon or a Button. Curator Micah Lexier has brought together artworks of over 30 artists which resonate with Dumontier’s interests and sensibilities, works which include simplified forms, found imagery, stationary and trompe l’oeil. The artists themselves are diverse, ranging from emerging artists, to Dumontier’s contemporaries to some of Canada’s more established artists. In addition to mounting works on the gallery walls, Lexier has chosen to place a number of the works inside a pair of vitrines placed in the centre of the gallery space, and will be presenting two video works in an adjacent space.
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I have a monthly dj night at the Holy Oak Cafe at 1241 Bloor St. West in Toronto on the 3rd Saturday of the month where I typically play lush, warm, rhythmically groovy sounds.
December 2011
I have some work up at Narwhal Art Project's Junction location in Toronto for POM POM - a pop up boutique shop.
Showcasing handmade treasures, original artwork and printed matter from around the globe, POM POM is a celebration of the best in fun and fine art.
Featuring Alibi, Alicia Nauta, Andrea Glenn, Bad Day, CryWolf, Diana VanderMeulin, Douglas Brown, Eric Quebral, Elizabeth Knight, Erica Weiner, Fieldguided, Ginette Lapalme, Hunter and Cook, Jennie Suddick, Julie Moon, Kiel Meade, Laura Lombardi, Lara Vincent, Lazy Oaf, Maryanne Casasanta, Noel Middleton, Selena Wong, Shannon Gerard, Species by the Thousands, Tania Sanhueza, The Regional Assembly of Text, Touch the Dutch, Wool and the Gang, Yellow Owl and more magicians.
POM POM will be open at Narwhal at 2988 Dundas Street West until February 19th, 2012. Hours are Mon-Wed by appointment, Thurs-Sat 10-7pm and Sunday 12-6pm.
I curated a new playlist, as it's been awhile. This one is designed to induce a visual slumber and the surfacing of new insights from deep within our subconscious.
I have a couple of limited edition photos up for grabs at this year's Photorama 2011 fundraiser at Gallery TPW in Toronto.
Collectors Preview Thursday, December 1, 6 – 9 pm
Opening Reception Friday, December 2, 6 – 9 pm
Sale continues Saturday, December 3, Noon – 6 pm
Tuesday, December 6 – December 10, Noon – 6 pm
November 2011
Special thanks to Hunter and Cook for featuring some installation photos from my group exhibition, What it Seems is Something Too currently showing at Neubacher Shor Contemporary until November 26th, 2011 in Toronto.
October 2011
I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.
- Eminem
What it Seems is Something Too presents the work of Nadia Belerique, Maryanne
Casasanta, Karen Kraven and Jennifer Sciarrino. As a group, a point of intersection in
their work is one of objects and materials in transition, a process of transformation
over and through time. In different ways, they explore an allowance for the
provisional, the space between document and photograph, and the possible
disconnect between what things seem to be and what they are. Through
combinations of sculpture, installation and photography, What it Seems is Something
Too considers the power of everyday objects, their potential to stand in for more
rarified materials, and the possibilities for the commonplace to be otherwise.
Nadia Belerique works with combinations of objects and photographs (made and
found) to convey the emotional and spiritual content of things. Creating a sculptural
back-and-forth between photographs and objects, they function like props in a non-
narrative that is simultaneously theatrical and restrained.
Using mainly found objects from her apartment, Maryanne Casasanta creates
images that are transformed, re-transformed, recombined and layered so that
their finality as art works remains in flux. As documents of constructed scenes,
photographs, and photographs-of-photographs, their transition as material objects is
ongoing while they maintain a link to personal space and memory.
Karen Kraven considers the past lives of objects and the way in which they
are transformed by their journey through the world, in both the physical and
metaphysical sense. Like Casasanta and Belerique, her objects have accrued
meaning through use and history, which can belie their mundane appearance.
Almost conversely, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino’s sculptures appear to be “real” and more
valuable materials, when in fact they are made of plaster and graphite, bringing
them back to the world of the everyday. Imagined as models for monumental public
pieces or fragments of larger architectural projects, they take their place at the
beginning of a temporal process, proposals for a later stage that may never occur.
...............................................
Woman of Wootz
Oil on panel, 2011
My friend, Lauchie Reid has painted a portrait of me, among many other amazing portraits for his exhibition entitled, The World Turned Upside Down currently on display at Narwhal Art Projects until November 7th, 2011 in Toronto. Be sure to check it out!
September 2011
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects. The temporal position of events with respect to the transitory present is continually changing; future events become present, then pass further and further into the past. – from Wikipedia
The image with consideration of time becomes antiquated. Simply recreating it will forever shrink the gap between space and time. SLOW-BURNER will define an interaction between the physicality and actuality of the image; celebrating the moment and restructuring time by constructing it in its physical form.
——
SLOW-BURNER is curated by Ryan Beckemeyer (Bartholomew Editions) with an exhibition to be held at Residence Gallery in Long Beach, California. A PDF will be released documenting the project after the opening on September 24.
Featuring work by Maryanne Casasanta, David Brandon Geeting, Brandon Harris, Alex Martinez, Oscar Mendoza, Matt Morgan and Gina Stine.
Facebook Event
I am very pleased to be a participant in this year's Canadian Art Foundation Benefit Auction on September 21st, 2011 at the Carlu in Toronto. Here is a link to the selected work.
August 2011
Have some work up at the Margate Photo Festival in Margate, Kent UK on August 13th and 14th along side a slew of many fantastic photographer friends and peers.
Sunny Side Up is curated by Wandering Bears Collective, Nik Adam, Luke Norman & Peter Haynes.
More info on the exhibition here.
July 2011
Photo document of my Peace Bard project installed along side Les Ramsey and Bitsy Knox's cat at LES Gallery in Vancouver for the exhibition, Whilst moving backwards through a series of thresholds, one finds oneself, inexorably, indoors.
..........................................
I am humbled to be a part of two group exhibitions this month, both open on July 8th in Vancouver:
Whilst moving backwards through a series of thresholds, one finds oneself, inexorably, indoors
A GROUP SHOW FEATURING WORKS BY MARYANNE CASASANTA, STEVEN HUBERT, BITSY KNOX AND LES RAMSAY
CURATED BY JILL ORSTEN
JULY 8 – AUGUST 6 2011
OPENING RECEPTION JULY 8TH 7PM – 11PM
Les Gallery, Vancouver BC
May 2011
My curated web project, together has launched!
Please visit and consider submitting!
(work by Matthew Pecina)
March 2011
I will be participating in C Magazine's Annual Benefit Auction happening on April 5th, 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto.
Live Auction begins at 7pm
Online preview here
February 2011
Will be installing work at Double Double Land for Laura McCoy's curated event, The Real Boob.
This event takes place on February 25th, 2011 at 9pm.
Facebook invite
Double Double Land
209 Augusta Avenue
Kensington Market
Toronto, ON
Palimpsest’s ISSUE 02/MEDICINE is an unbound collection of printed matter and multimedia work concerned with ideas of the body, illness, physicality and spirituality. ISSUE/02 MEDICINE incorporates video, text, illustration, photography, and other ephemera from Steven Beckly, Xenia Benivolski, Willie Brisco in conversation with AA Bronson, Maryanne Casasanta, Stacey Ho and Lindsey Nolan, Dan Joyce, Matthew King, Pierre Le Hors, Adam O’Reilly, the Parker Branch (Jason Hallows and Anna Madelska), Nickholis Planck and William Young. All pieces individually packaged in acid-free paper and collected in a handmade archival folder.
ISSUE 02/MEDICINE launches at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) bookstore for Nuit blanche à Montréal on February 26, 2011.
My new web project, together has just gone live! Please consider submitting work.
December 2010
Book of Books Poster by Denise Schatz
Photo contributions from Aiwei Foo, Peter Puklus, Casey Cook, James J. Williams III, Kimm Whiskie, Ashley Neese, Laura Baran, Jason Polan, George Chen, Aaron Johnson, Kathryn Politis, Vicky Fong, Amanda Saxe Barr, Jessica Williams, Rachel Corry, Emmett Walsh, Jennilee Margimen, Ezra Johnson and Sunny Payson, Kasia Houlihan, Tom Scott, David Horvitz, Robin Cameron, Sasha Weinbaum, Claudia Peña Salinas, Brian Silvera, Joshua Abelow, Nieske Kalkman, Hope Hilton, Esperanza Morebe, Mia Nolting, Emily Noelle Lambert, Amra Brooks, Catherine Krudy, Maryanne Casasanta, Patricia Valenica.
12 x 18 white glossy paper edition of 50.
12 x 18 grey paper as insert in book of books, edition of 100.
Available at Miniature Garden.
November 2010
Very excited to be a part of this issue of Unpublished Mag! The launch will be on November 11th, 2010 at Le Dictateur gallery in Milan.
October 2010
Short interview with my friend, Jabari Jordan-Walker for his blog, BLACK TAIGA.
Five Questions | Maryanne Casasanta
01 Magazine is pleased to present their traveling group exhibition, 01, at the No 6 Gallery in New York. Curated by Redia Soltis and Jennilee Marigomen, the exhibition showcases 34 inspiring artists of different disciplines that have been previously featured in the magazine. The exhibition in New York is the second showing of 01, following its Toronto debut.
01 Magazine is an independently owned arts and culture online magazine that encompasses contemporary art, photography, and fashion with a focus on emerging artists. 01 Magazine is based in Vancouver, Canada.
01 Magazine Group Exhibition - New York
Presented by 01 Magazine & No.6 Store
Opening Reception Party: Friday October 15, 2010 / 8 - 11pm
Music by Chances With Wolves
...
Subject to capacity, RSVP required:
01galleryatno6store@peoplesrevolution.com
Strict guest list door code.
No.6 Store, Gallery at Lower Level
6 Centre Market Place, New York, NY
Between Broome and Grand and Centre and Mulberry
On view: October 16 - 24, 2010
Monday - Friday 2 - 7pm / Saturday 12 - 7pm / Sunday 12 - 6pm
September 2010
Selected Solo Exhibition:
As you were: Maryanne Casasanta
Parts & Labour
1566 Queen St W
Toronto ON
September 16th 2010 - October 16th 2010
As you were is an ongoing series of work by Toronto-based artist Maryanne Casasanta that contemplates the exchange between art and the commonplace. Casasanta approaches the act of documenting her personal living environment in a democratic fashion. She variously rearranges objects, alters their function, forges new connections between them, or simply takes their portraits. Through this process, Casasanta reacts to a desire to connect more deeply with her surroundings. As you were is also concerned with the presentation of the body as an object or form, the poetic associations that cling to materials, and the merging of photography and conceptual art.
Opening reception, Thursday September 16th 9pm
After Party to follow at The Shop with selected music by Mark K MarkMark and Benjamin Gabriel.
Curated by Nicholas Brown and Catherine Dean
August 2010
Little feature on The Photography Post by Kate Steciw.
Small interview over at photography blog, MULL IT OVER
July 2010
In The Light Of Night II
-
It all started with 8 rolls of film and 4 photographers,
Adam Levett
Maryanne Casasanta
Sara Cwynar
Jeremy Jansen
Taking 2 rolls each, we all shot one roll of portraits
and one roll of textures.
We then all swapped our 2 rolls of exposed film,
reloaded and shot textures on top of portraits
and portraits on top of textures.
Creating a double exposure.
These were our results.
Slide Show Presentation:
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
1 Bellwoods Park
Toronto
9pm - 11pm
June 2010
Portfolio featured in Issue No.46 on Culturehall, along side Emilie Halpern, David Horvitz and Sam Falls.
Curated by Matt Olson.
&Review Issue No. 2 Islands
Artist-run publication based out of Portland.
Poncz Magazine Issue No.2, made in Poland
May 2010
01 Magazine | No. 5
In this issue, I interview artists Ronnie Yarisal and Katja Kublitz.
April 2010
I did an interview with San Francisco based website, Fecal Face.
March 2010
01 Magazine Group Show Limited Poster Edition
Edition of 100 + 1 AP (1st Edition)
11″ x 17″ - Digital Colour Printed on Cardstock
An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers presents installation images of an exhibit that never physically took place. Using digital compositing techniques, we have re-imagined the process of browsing through a Google Reader by adding art to images of the Sullivan Galleries’ empty walls. This presentational gesture of conflating scrolling with strolling is meant to question the ongoing tendency to believe material interaction with art is mandatory despite living in an age of utter dependency on the digital image as an informational source. Like the Argentinean Communication Media artists before us, we have cut out the middle-man (objects) and inserted the image as our final product, aware that the documentary media art receives plays the most pivotal role in defining its public discourse anyway. To expedite this process of media exposure, An Immaterial Survey is simultaneously being debuted online in addition to its projection in Chicago, confusing the boundaries of when and where the exhibit took place.
It is an intentional choice to offer no objects and no work of our own as our final display at SAIC. This is in part a tribute to the decentralized network of artists who comprise An Immaterial Survey. To present art online is an act of selflessness; the creator forfeits stringent control over their work’s meaning in favor of allowing the most generous opportunity for global viewership possible. For this we are thankful and indebted to the names that comprise our list of participants. We choose not to present sellable goods because we are fully aware of the irony of the BFA Exhibit itself; four years of a Feminist-Marxist education culminating in a grand celebration of luxury goods and the willful commodification of artist identity brands (best exemplified by the entire shelving units dedicated to freshly printed business cards). It is our intent to use this opportunity not for our own market assimilation, but for the praise of others and the criticism of art’s hierarchy of material value still present in our digital age.
An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers includes work by:
Aaron Graham
Abigail McGuane
AIDS-3D
Andreas Banderas
Anna Mack
Ben Schumacher
Brad Tinmouth
Brenna Murphy
Brian Khek
Kevin Caldwell
Chris Collins
Chris Coy
Daniel Everett
David Horvitz
Derek Frech
Elina Minn
Esteban Schimpf
Hanna Terese Nilsson
Hermonie Only
Iain Ball
Ilia Ovechkin
Israel Lund
Ivan Gaytan
Jamie Felton
Jason Lazarus
Jeff O’Brien
Jenilee Marigomen
Jon Rafman
Jordan Rhoat
Kari Altmann
Katy Heinlein
Lili Huston-Herterich
Manny Mireles
Martijn Hendriks
Martin Kohout
Maryanne Casasanta
Matthew Green
Micah Schippa
Mitch Thar
Natalie Rognsoy
Parker Ito
Rachael Milton
Ryan Barone
Samara Golden
Timur Siqin
Travess Smalley
Zach Shipko
Waterfall Magazine (瀑布雜誌)
Taipei City, Taiwan
February 2010
January 2010
My series, Square of Monday is featured on Je Suis Une Bande De Jeunes.
Curated by Jérémie Egry, Aurélien Arbet and Marco Barrera.
JSBJ supports the diffusion of contemporary photography. Initially through portfolios visible on the internet, JSBJ also produces publications and fanzines exclusively on photography.
December 2009
01 Magazine | No. 4
In this issue, I interview photographer Jessica Eaton.
November 2009
01_100 Editions · No. 5 Milano IT
Ali Bosworth, Maryanne Casasanta, Mai Chaya, Dusdin Condren, Jonathan Feinstein, Seth Fluker, Andrea Geremia, Cristiano Guerri, Li Hui, Young Kyu Yoo, Jennilee Marigomen, Hasisi Park, Pedro Ramos, Ugne Straigyte, Peter Sutherland
October 2009
Slideluck Potshow October 15, 2009 · Montréal, Québec
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MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
a collaborative poster project by Robin Cameron and Denise Schatz
Currently available at Printed Matter , Mastermind Shop and Art Metropole
CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE
Joshua Abelow, Bree Apperley, Natalie Beall, Wilson Cameron, Robin Cameron, Maryanne Casasanta, Casey Cook, David Cuesta, Catherine Czacki, Alex DeCarli, Jacqueline Di Milia, Ariel Dill, Rachel Domm, Gary Fogelson, Lukas Geronimas, David Horvitz, Jeremy R. Jansen, Christy-Claire Katien, Soleil Konkel, Anne Lai, Jennilee Marigomen, Chris Newmyer, Mia Nolting, Hasisi Park, Claudia Pena Salinas, Jason Polan, Kathryn Politis, Jody Rogac, Denise Schatz, Molly Surno, Patricia Valencia, Emmett Walsh, Kimm Whiskie, Young Kyu Yoo
22.5 IN X 33 IN DOUBLE SIDED MATTE PAPER
EDITION OF 500