Savageable
Floodline Collective
May 1st to June 5th
Claudette Abrams, Michael Dewdney, Anthea Baxter-Page & Berkley J Abrams Page
Artists present site-specific inventories of images and ideas exploring personal accumulation and global footprint.
As casualties of modernity, we find ourselves unwitting collectors of castaway forms and findings, in whose composite we discern something like a mass biography of human activity, influence and impact. This process is in constant flux and veritable as the particulate matter we breathe and the micro-plastics that flow through our veins. Reflecting on this recombinant impulse, like ragpickers, we recycle fragmentary fictions and inconvenient truths.
Exhibited outdoors as a collective of individual freestanding vitrines mapped around Toronto Island.
EXHIBITION
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CLAUDETTE ABRAMS
Plasticity, 2020, Leavings series
Archival Pigment Print
14 x 20”, Edition of 20
*Available in other limited edition sizes
ANTHEA BAXTER-PAGE
Feeling, June 16-67, 2022, The Auction series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12", Edition of 10
CLAUDETTE ABRAMS
Durability, 2020, Leavings series
Archival Pigment Print
14 x 20”, Edition of 20
*available in other limited edition sizes
ANTHEA BAXTER-PAGE
Collecting, 2022, The Auction series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12", Edition of 10
CLAUDETTE ABRAMS
Resilience, 2020, Leavings series
Archival Pigment Print
14 x 20”, Edition of 20
*available in other limited edition sizes
ANTHEA BAXTER-PAGE
Seeing, Euclid, 2022, The Auction series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12", Edition of 10
MICHAEL DEWDNEY
Algonquin Queen, 2022, Lake Effect series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12
MICHAEL DEWDNEY
unidentified floating objets d’art, 2020, Lake Effect series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12”
BERKLEY J ABRAMS PAGE
Andrea 1, 2022, Clean Cut series
Unique Archival Pigment Print, bubble wrap
13" x 19"
MICHAEL DEWDNEY
Tires in Ice, 2022, Lake Effect series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12”
BERKLEY J ABRAMS PAGE
Adelaide 1, 2022, Clean Cut series
Unique Archival Pigment Print, bubble wrap
13" x 19"
MICHAEL DEWDNEY
Ice Floe, 2022, Lake Effect series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12
BERKLEY J ABRAMS PAGE
Ross 1, 2022, Clean Cut series
Unique Archival Pigment Print, bubble wrap
13" x 19"
ANTHEA BAXTER-PAGE
Listening, Manila Memories, 2022, The Auction series
Archival Pigment Print
8" x 12", Edition of 10
ARTISTS
Claudette Abrams is a Canadian, Toronto-based multimedia artist, curator and art educator. Her work employs photography, video, projection, holography, fabricated material construction, site-specific and immersive installation.
The Leavings series attempts to reclaim the ethos of abandoned places and things.
Michael Dewdney
Emerging Canadian photographer Michael Dewdney has centred his practice in and around the Toronto Islands where he was raised.
As someone who spends much time crossing Toronto's inner harbour, Michael Dewdney is lured by the cornucopia of salvageable, everyday objects found in these waters, both literal and metaphorical. In the Lake Effect series he explores this; be it flotsam and jetsam in the island lagoons or any manner of aged watercraft plying the waters of the harbour, all have their own stories to tell.
Anthea Baxter-Page is a world-travelling visual artist and curator based in Toronto, Canada.
The Auction series aims to reclaim and revitalize previously owned objects, grasping at the stories and experiences of those who collected, utilized or cherished them.
Berkley J Abrams Page is a Toronto-based artist who started producing traditional photographs in her youth. Today her photographic process includes materiality and print manipulation. Through her process, she practices escapism from an increasingly digital world.
The Clean Cut Series reflects disempowerment and frustration of the conscious individual in the context of the climate disaster era. In a society that is increasingly reliant on petroleum products, we are at the mercy of a handful of capitalist who manipulate consumers to divert responsibility in the name of profit. This series plays witness to the plastic cuffs of corporate greed.
Currently On View:
CLAUDETTE ABRAMS
Claudette Abrams - 22 Bayview Ave
MICHAEL DEWDNEY
Michael Dewdney - 28 Bayview Ave
ANTHEA BAXTER-PAGE
Anthea Baxter-Page - 14 Channel Ave
BERKLEY J ABRAMS PAGE
Berkley J Abrams Page - 5 Channel Ave
Previously On View:
CLAUDETTE ABRAMS
MICHAEL DEWDNEY
ANTHEA BAXTER-PAGE
BERKLEY J ABRAMS PAGE
Visit
Ward’s Island Vitrine Galleries
Toronto Island
Claudette Abrams - 22 Bayview Ave.
Michael Dewdney - 28 Bayview Ave.
Anthea Baxter-Page - 14 Channel Ave.
Berkley J Abrams Page - 5 Channel Ave.
7 min walking approx. 400 m distance.
Dates
May 1st to June 5th 2022
Opening: Sunday May 1st
Reception Saturday May 7th, 3-5pm
We will meet to toast at 4:30pm at 22 Bayview Ave.
Hours
24 hours
Directions
Take ferry from the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal to Ward’s Island. Water taxis also available.
You can find the current ferry schedule here. Please purchase tickets online in advance here to secure limited daily availability.
Water Taxis:
Toronto Harbour Water Taxi - 416-203-8294
T Dot Water Taxi - 647-370-8368
Ward’s Island
Accessibility
The exhibition is fully accessible. The ferry terminal and ferries have accessibility practices and Ward’s Island has an accessible public washroom. The vitrines are outdoor viewable from the sidewalk.
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CONTACT Walking Tour: Salvageable and Fragments
Claudette Abrams - 22 Bayview Ave.
Michael Dewdney - 28 Bayview Ave.
Anthea Baxter-Page - 14 Channel Ave.
Berkley J Abrams Page - 5 Channel Ave.
Yuriko Kubota - 26 Lakeshore Ave.
12 min walking approx. 750 m distance.
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Exhibition
CONTACT is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating and fostering the art and profession of photography with an annual Festival in May throughout Toronto and year-round programming in the CONTACT Gallery. CONTACT embraces an inclusive and accessible approach to the medium, and cultivates collaborations with and among artists, curators, institutions, and organizations.
Each year CONTACT showcases lens-based projects by Canadian and international artists. The Festival’s Core Exhibitions are comprised of collaborations with major museums, leading galleries, and artist-run centres as well as site-specific public art projects. These are cultivated through partnerships and commissions, and frame the cultural, social, and political events of our times. The Featured Exhibitions, selected through a jury process, and the Open Call Exhibitions present a wide range of works at galleries and alternative spaces across the city, The Festival’s Programs include photo-book initiatives, lectures, artist talks, panel discussions, and workshops. CONTACT exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public, with some exceptions at major museums.