Join us in celebrating Art Metropole’s 50th anniversary!
November 8, 2024
7 PM—12 AM
East Room, 68 Claremont Street
To celebrate 50 years of Art Metropole, we’re throwing a huge anniversary party!
The night begins with the Lucky Draw – all guests who purchase a ticket to the Draw will be guaranteed to go home with an artwork. MC’ed by artist Keith Cole, the Draw determines who gets first pick! Proxy picks are available if you are unable to join the Lucky Draw in-person.
With a Party Ticket, you can come watch the Draw, and enjoy the night of celebration, with a music performance by Moon King, as well as plenty of food, drinks, DJ sets, and dancing.
In recognition of your support, each ticket will come with a special 50th Anniversary Art Metropole Membership, with a limited edition membership card by artist Alex Turgeon, and a full year of Membership benefits such as shop discounts. All tickets will also receive a tax receipt.
Lucky Draw Artists Include:
Aaron Jones, Alex Turgeon, Alvin Luong, Andrew James Paterson, Antonia Hirsch, Azadeh Elmizadeh, Brian Rideout, Bruce LaBruce, Catherine Telford Keogh, Claire Greenshaw, Derek Sullivan, Douglas Coupland, Ella Gonzales, Eunice Luk, Gareth Long, Garrett Lockhart, General Idea, Hannah Doucet, Jacob Whibley, Jeremy Laing, Lan "Florence" Yee, Lawrence Weiner, Luis Jacob, Maggie Groat, Margaux Smith, Marvin Luvualu António, Micah Lexier, Morris Lum, Nadia Belerique, Nour Bishouty, Patrick Cruz, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Robert O'Halloran, Robin Cameron, Tom Dean, Van Maltese, Walter Scott, Yan Wen Chang, Yoko Ono, Zin Taylor
| 7-8 PM | Lucky Draw Preview Hour |
| 8 PM | Party Begins |
| 8:30 PM | Lucky Draw |
| 9:30 PM | Music Performance by Moon King |
| 10:30 PM–12 AM | DJ Lily |
Founded in 1974 by the Canadian artist group General Idea, Art Metropole is a non-profit artist-run centre that publishes, promotes, exhibits, archives, and distributes artists' books, multiples, and related media. We produce exhibitions, talks, readings, and other programs that highlight artists who make books and other artworks that can be widely circulated. Our non-profit shop, which has featured over 16,000 unique inventory items, is an essential service to artists – and is the oldest and longest-running artist-run bookstore in the world.
At this critical point in our history, your support will go towards the creation of a fund to sustain Art Metropole over the long term, which will allow us to continue to publish and distribute the work of artists for years to come.
Alvin Luong
The Refugees and the Corals
2024
Photography
15 in
Robert Anthony O'Halloran
Polyp #291-301 (Stacked)
2024
Hydrostone
17 × 9 × 12 in
Tom Dean
Swank, vol. 18, #10, March 1994, Page 62
1994
Laser print
10 × 12 in
Morris Lum
Yuen Hop Noodle Company
2023
Archival Pigment Print
16 × 20 in
Garrett Lockhart
Starlight
2024
watercolour pencil, lumber crayon, and inkjet transfer on reclaimed dropcloth over board
4 × 6.5 in
Bruce LaBruce
L.A. Zombie Lobby Cards
2010
Photographs
33 × 45.5 cm
Gareth Long
Let's Look at the Figures (1971: Imperialism and Revolution)
2019
Laser-cut aluminum, spray paint, rare earth magnets
8 × 9 × 0.25 in
Hannah Doucet
Perpetual Curtsy
2023
Framed digital photograph with colored matte
10.5 × 7 in
Antonia Hirsch
Work on Paper 27
2023
Vellum, paper, glue
21cm × 29.7 cm
Jacob Whibley
built up, not out
2016
block printing on found paper
16.5 × 16.5 in
Robin Cameron
T-R-U-T-H
2012
Artist's Book Edition Multiple
16 × 22.5 × 3 cm
Catherine Telford Keough
Residue Register 1
2024
Waterjet Cut Multicolored Onyx
6 × 11 in
Patrick Cruz
two curse removal sessions
2024
in person ritual, approximately 1-2 hrs each
Azadeh Elmizadeh
Diver I
2023
Oil on linen
10 × 8 in
Lan "Florence" Yee
Oh, Canada
2017
Embroidered yarn on canvas
10.5 × 10.5 in
Ella Gonzales
study for Gestures Between
2024
watercolour on paper
10 × 8 in
Eunice Luk
From whose perspective ?
2016
Ceramic and Acrylic Gouache
58 × 46 × 1 cm
Philip Leonard Ocampo
Hope sparks eternal
2024
Digital / images on woven tapestry
50 × 60 in
Walter Scott
Let’s Talk About Identity Art
2024
Three color acrylic screenprint on paper
20 × 18 in
Claire Greenshaw
Shadow, 2016
Graphite on paper
11 × 14 in
Alex Turgeon
Militarize (This City)
2022
IBM Selectric II typewriter on paper
9 × 12 in
Aaron Jones
me rn
2019
Paper collage; vinyl sleeve and textbook paper
6 × 10 in
Andrew James Paterson
Not Morning
2024
Acrylic on wood
9 × 12 in
Van Maltese
Floored no. 3
2021
Patinated bronze, lacquer, wax
3 × 3 × 1 in
Marvin Luvualu António
Incense holder
2024
Bone, marble, acrylic paint on clay
7 × 13 in
Roula Partheniou
Left Leaflet
2013
acrylic on MDF
Luis Mora
#1 Paloquemao Bogotá, Colombia, 2018 From the Series "SayItWithFlowers"
2018
Photography
14 × 12 in
Lawrence Weiner
CAUGHT BETWEEN SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT (POSTER)
1999
Printed Poster
36 × 26 in
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Maggie Groat
Double Pendulum
2023
Paper collage
11 × 14
Margaux Smith
Title TBC
2024
Oil on panel
12 × 10 in
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Nadia Belerique
SLICE (mousetraps)7
2022
Catch and release acrylic traps, found miniature furniture, photographs, resin, various objects
Variable
Nour Bishouty
Untitled
2022
Screenprint
10 × 18 in
Derek Sullivan
Illustration for (and/or from) a book that is (and/or will be) titled "On Filling In"
2018
silkscreen and coloured pencil on paper
24 × 18 in
Douglas Coupland
Room at Top
2007
Vinyl, resin, book covers
9 × 12 in
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Brian Rideout
Painting of Rose Seidler House and Landscape
2023
Oil on canvas
20 × 16 in
Yan Wen Chang
Study for One Dollar Banknote Heart
2024
gunpowder and chromium oxide on paper
9 × 12 in
Yoko Ono
ADD COLOUR PAINTING: TOUCH ME
2008
Stretched canvas and acrylic glass
7 × 6 in
Luis Jacob
The Book-lover’, Ten Editions Bookstore, Spadina Avenue, Toronto
2017
Inkjet print mounted on dibond
18 × 24 in
Zin Taylor
Silver Knives
2024
Five color photographs in archival envelopes with an handmade card-stock case and two elastic bands
3 × 4 in
General Idea
General Idea’s Test Tube
1980
Offset on paper
24 × 18 in
Jeremy Laing
Single Sitting Sampler
2020
Found yarns on cotton monkscloth, on panel
12 × 9 in
Micah Lexier
Piece Number (25B-S/19B-P)
2015
laser-cut steel, laser-cut birch plywood, nail
13 × 12 in
Event Sponsors: Burdock Collective Arts