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401 UPDATE – FALL 2022
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New Music Concerts
At NMC we inspire our listeners with extraordinary performances of the world’s most adventurous music. New Music Concerts is a leader in curating, performing, and promoting innovative and cutting-edge music by Canadian and international composers. NMC is internationally renowned and unique in Toronto as the foremost champion of contemporary works for large chamber ensemble.NMC is…
Events & Exhibitions
A/P Holiday Fundraiser
Suite #104 at 401 Richmond Street West Dec 8, 2022 to Dec 22, 20226:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Save the Date for Open Studio’s A/P Holiday Fundraiser! Opening Night PartyThursday, December 86:00 pm – 9:00 pm Suite 104 @ 401 Richmond Street WestToronto ON, M5V 3A8 The A/P Holiday Fundraiser is a lively in-person holiday event hosted within Open Studio’s galleries. The fundraiser will include the sale of contemporary prints, multiples and merch.…
April Hickox, Observance, 2022
Virtual Window Gallery
April Hickox, Observance, 2022, 7 minute video loop
“The fabric of memory is a malleable form – it shifts in your mind as a collection of lived experiences grows. We need to be open to what this process can teach us. Loss has a weight, an impact, it changes and strengthens you. It makes you reflect on what you have and what could have been. I don’t believe you ever stop grieving. It lessens, but the grief never leaves you.”
April Hickox
A sequence of single and gridded videos of floral arrangements, Observance reflects upon how we are both tied to and changed by our experiences of the loss of loved ones. Through this work, April creates a monument to the act of remembrance, reflecting on the AIDS crisis and its effect on the arts community. Activating and animating memory through the creation of these unique bouquets, April gives form to the observation that she holds those departed within her. The artist notes that “there is a duality in flowers that interests her. They are given in thanks and in sorrow. They are containers of multitudes.”
An excerpt from Observance, a Monument to Memory by Jennifer Long
April Hickox is an established Canadian artist, educator, and independent curator. Producing for over 35 years; her practice includes photography, film, video, and installation. Hickox’s work is based in narratives and explores how the passage from one life experience to another encompasses history and memory.
Another version of Observance is installed until the end of September at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets at the TD Bank on their media art wall that presents curated video presentations by Canadian artists from the TD Bank Art Collection holdings.
This version of Observance is on view now at 401 Richmond adjacent to Studio 120.
April Hickox
A sequence of single and gridded videos of floral arrangements, Observance reflects upon how we are both tied to and changed by our experiences of the loss of loved ones. Through this work, April creates a monument to the act of remembrance, reflecting on the AIDS crisis and its effect on the arts community. Activating and animating memory through the creation of these unique bouquets, April gives form to the observation that she holds those departed within her. The artist notes that “there is a duality in flowers that interests her. They are given in thanks and in sorrow. They are containers of multitudes.”
An excerpt from Observance, a Monument to Memory by Jennifer Long
April Hickox is an established Canadian artist, educator, and independent curator. Producing for over 35 years; her practice includes photography, film, video, and installation. Hickox’s work is based in narratives and explores how the passage from one life experience to another encompasses history and memory.
Another version of Observance is installed until the end of September at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets at the TD Bank on their media art wall that presents curated video presentations by Canadian artists from the TD Bank Art Collection holdings.
This version of Observance is on view now at 401 Richmond adjacent to Studio 120.