Friday, September 25 at 12pm
Gordon Snelgrove Gallery
Join Derek Liddington at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery as he speaks about his practice in conjunction with his solo exhibition “It wasn’t until we closed our eyes that we could finally see what was there all along”, group billboard project “Local History Room” with Eleni Papadimitriou & Stefanos Ziras, and upcoming performance “An opera about a column made by union workers, who are played by non-union actors, without an opera”.
About the artist
Derek Liddington obtained his MFA from Western University (2007) and BFA from NSCAD University (2004). Liddington’s work has been exhibited in numerous public settings, including his intervention at the Art Gallery of Ontario The Sun has Always Set From East to West (Toronto, ON). Recent solo exhibitions include Every moment can be traced back to the first time the sun touched my face (Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Canada, 2013), Modern Love (Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2013) and It wasn’t until we closed our eyes that we could finally see what was there all along (AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, 2015). Liddington’s work has shown internationally at Art Berlin Contemporary (2013), Onagawa AIR, Japan (2013) as well as NADA New York (2014). In the fall of 2014 Liddington staged a 12-hour ballet electric guitar ballad in collaboration with Zev Farber and Cara Spooner as part of Denise Markonish’s curatorial project at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Liddington has been the recipient of numerous grants, including support from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts as well as being a finalist for the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Artist Prize in 2011. Liddington currently practices in Toronto, ON.
More info on the exhibition:
https://akaartistrun.com/
and Billboard:
https://akaartistrun.com/
