CARLA GARNET

Some highlights from Garnet Press Gallery exhibits:

1997
December
Sharon Switzer “pulling through” 
Sasha Yung Ju Lee “Making Invisible, Visible” 
Both artists, recent MFA graduates, create using computer-assisted images. Sasha's portraits of herself as a cover girl for ‘Vanity Fair’, ‘Cosmo’, ‘Rolling Stone’, ‘House & Garden’, etc., are reviewed in the Toronto Star and on December 21, 1997. Christopher Hume's review claims that Lee is "Artist of the Year!" Martha Hanna selects Lee’s work for exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography/The National Gallery of Canada.  Julia Creet review of Sharon’s evocative installation appears in Mixed Magazine. 
 

October - November
John Abrams “Tableau” 
New work from two continuing series, Wild Life & Super Models and Criminals and Deities, are presented as large paintings and shelf installations. Work from the exhibition is placed in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of North York, and exhibited as part of the Garnet Press Gallery installation at the Sherry Frumkin Gallery at the Absolut Los Angeles International Biennial 1997. 
 

September
Sean Watson “Meditations on Red, White and Blue” 
Computer Assisted Prints by Watson mines the artist experience of growing up Black in North America. The show, in the artist's words "describes what could be and what is”. During the exhibition, headhunters from the Disney Channel descend and whisk Sean off to Los Angles to perform a little computer magic for them. This inaugural solo show is given a full-page review inCanadian Art Magazine.
 

July - August
“Absolut Los Angeles International Biennial Invitational” 
John Abrams, Janieta Eyre, Angela Grossmann and Natalka Husar
Sherry Frumkin Gallery of Santa Monica. 
Garnet Press Gallery receives External Affairs funding for flights, accommodations. Garnet Press selects, crates, and insures, brokers and ships show to LA and back.  Garnet Press initiates a reception held by Kim Campbell, the Canadian Ambassador in LA for the four Canadian galleries participating. The Garnet Press show at Sherry Frumkin is positively reviewed in the Los Angles Times.
 

May – June
Ben Walmsley “STILL” 
“STILL” both enchants and disturbs its audience with its potent symbolism and obvious technical beauty. This compelling series of oils elicit painting styles from the Dutch Renaissance through to Pop Art. The exhibition is featured with an article and on the cover 

C Magazine the exhibition. The gallery places works with McCarthy Tetrault and Johnson and Johnson’s permanent collections.
 

April
Janieta Eyre “3/4 BLIND” 
“3/4 BLIND” a show of photographs from Eyre’s continuing “Incarnations” series, in which the artist portrays her fictional self and its twin by using double exposure techniques is reviewed in Toronto Life and NOW magazines. The gallery places work with the C.M.C.P., Mendel Art Gallery, Bailey & Company, and Vos Productions’ collections.  Garnet Press Gallery procures additional representation for Eyre with commercial galleries in Vancouver, New York and Santa Monica.
 

March
Oliver Girling and Angela Grossmann, “Surrender” 
“Surrender” presents the work of two important conceptual painters, Oliver Girling, (Toronto) and Angela Grossmann, (Vancouver) who are adept at creating disturbingly beautiful works featuring convicts and mournful physiognomies. The Toronto Star reviews the exhibition.
 

1996
 

January - February
Carol Podedworny, Guest Curator

“Swoon” Janieta Eyre, Christianne L'Esperance and Carolyn Samkova 
“Swoon”, presents a complex perspective on sensuality and femininity on the work of Janieta Eyre, Christianne L'Esperance and Carolyn Samkova. Podedworny writes, "Within the work of theses artists’, history is called forth, embodied both in ‘props' and materials, to reckon with the human conscience as the third millennium rises.” Garnet Press places pieces from this show in the collections of the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The show is reviewed in the Globe and Mail.
 

December
“Snow” Gallery Artist & Associates 
Snow, a seasonal celebration of light, features the work of: Natalka Husar, Sean Watson, Ben Smit, Miles Roberts, Sasha Yung Ju Lee, Carlo Cesta, Gretchen Sankey, Natalie Olanick, Sharon Switzer, Nancy Kembry, Janieta Eyre, Gabriel Isrealievitch, Susan Evenson, Robert Houle, W.S. Brown, Ho Tam, Martha Judge, Bill Jones, Ben Walmsley, Katharine Harvey, Phil Jackson, John Abrams, Oliver Girling, Michael Belmore, Howard Ross, David Morrow, Warren Quigley and Alex de Cosson.  The Globe & Mail, devotes two articles tot the show. The art critic, Gillian Mackay, states that the inclusive nature of exhibition captures the spirit of the Christmas season by exhibiting fine work that revels in our cultural diversity.
 

October - November
Warren Quigley “Garden Variety” 
Environmentalist explorations of nature and artifice in the realm of the garden are explored in a Donald Judd inspired installation. Quigley is invited to create an installation for the Toronto Sculpture Garden, The Dundas Valley School and the Koffler Centre.
 

September
Ho Tam “The Secret Garden” 
A brochure accompanies Ho Tam’s “The Secret Garden” with text by poet Wayson Choy and cultural theorist Andy Fabo. Fabo states that although influenced by a American "Pop” sensibilities, Ho Tam's practices flips the American mythology of the melting pot by asserting that roots do matter, and that we can neither escape outposts or nor the stereotypes that are projected unto us. The exhibition tours to Gallery 101, Ottawa and Plug In, Winnipeg. Ho is invited to do a residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
 

June - July
Michael Belmore “Acculturated” 
“Acculturated” is composed of drawings of urban and clear-cut landscapes mounted on Lexan light-boxes, and of Lucite sculptures of Wampun Belts on which the artist has sand-blasted messages critiquing the acculturation of Aboriginal People. Work is placed in the permanent collections of Indian Affairs, the Woodland Cultural Centre (Brantford) and the McMichael Art Centre (Klienburg). The show is reviewed in Fuse Magazine and Aboriginal Voices. The Banff Centre for their residency program invites Michael.
 

May
Robert Houle “Pontiac's Conspiracy” 
Robert Houle's “Pontiac's Conspiracy” commemorates the historical Odawa chief and the family car. By threading through 17th century North American history to the present day, Houle plays with the double meaning of the brand name "Pontiac", thereby examining how history may be simultaneously exploited and celebrated. The Art Gallery of Windsor, The Burnaby Art Gallery, the Whitby Station Gallery and the Royal Bank of Canada collect paintings from this show.
 

April
Carlo Cesta “Romance Language” 
Carlo Cesta's “Romance Language” is a storehouse of finde-siècle drawings, sculptures and mixed media constructions. Sculptures from this show are selected for exhibition at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the London Regional, and the Power Plant's 1997 summer exhibition, Rococo Tattoo and for the Daglas Underground, an international group show in Copenhagen. Cesta’s exhibition at Garnet Press is reviewed in C Magazine and the Globe and Mail.
 

March 
Bill Jones “Idolatry” 
In “Idolatry”, Bill Jones continues to uncover the fictions of chance and the elimination of the hand from image making, alluding to the ancient biblical prohibitions against idolatry. Selections of this work are chosen for “Chasing Angels” at the Christine Rose Gallery and “Wheel of Fortune” at Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York.
 

January – February
Alex de Cosson “Flora Island” Exterior & Interior Installation
Alex de Cosson's “Flora Island” is a two-part sculpture installation of photographs, notes and found objects collected from British Columbia's Flora Island. This assemblage speaks about the typically Canadian longing to both escape from nature and return to it, and the spiritual ache brought about by this environmental insanity. Gail Swinthenbank and David Clarkson invite Alex to create a site-specific piece for Arts Initiative in Tribecca, New York. Glen Cumming represents, the exterior component of  “Flora Island” at “The Boat Show” at the Art Gallery of North York.
 

1995
December
Gallery Artists “Christmas Story”
Garnet Press presents a group exhibition by gallery artists Janieta Eyre, Sharon Switzer, Natalka Husar, Jane Buyers, Natalie Olanick, Ilse Gassinger, Chris Wilcox, Carlo Cesta, Andy Fabo, Bill Jones, Ben Walmsley, Ho Tam, Stephen Andrews, Geofrey Shea, Phil Jackson, Sean Watson, Robert Houle, Michael Belmore, John Abrams, Brendan Duggan, Warren Quigley, Alex de Cosson, and Michael Hoolbloom.
 

October - November
John Abrams “Criminals and Deities” 
John Abrams' exhibition “Criminals and Deities” is covered by CBC TV News. The Cameron Public House commissions an exterior mural and several works are placed in private collections.
 

September
Deborah Esch and Phil Jackson “would you turn back?”  
“would you turn back?” combines text by Deborah Esch, Director of University of Toronto's Department of Comparative Literature, with piercingly beautiful selenium-toned black & white large format photographs by Phil Jackson. The exhibition tours to the Cambridge Print Room in England and the Woodstock Art Gallery in Ontario.
 

June 
Janieta Eyre “Incarnations” 
“Incarnations” is Janieta Eyre's first photography exhibition. In these psychologically charged narratives, the artist acts as photographer and model, depicting herself as an eerie doppelganger. Curator, Philip Monk selects photographs from this show for the Power Plant's “Beauty #2”, and for Gallery 44's “Proof”, curator, James Patton selects Eyre’s photographs for the London Reginald’s touring exhibition Young Contemporaries. “Incarnations” is reviewed in NOW Magazine, the Globe and Mail, and theToronto Star
 

May 
Ben Walmsley “Poems for Lost Children” 
Ben Walmsley's beautifully simple images of common objects are juxtaposed with the bold typeface of banner headlines or ad copy. Law firms McCarthy Tetrault, and Gowling Strathy & Henderson acquire paintings from this exhibition.
 

April
Chrysanne Stathacos “Rose” 
In her “Rose” installation, Chrysanne Stathacos fleshes out her fictional persona Anne de Cybelle, investigating earlier romanticism and analyzing beauty on the edge. Chrysanne is invited to exhibit "Rose Wall” as part of the “Wallflower” show at the Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago. Stathacos’ work is chosen along with that of artists such as Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo Hall Walls' “20th Anniversary” exhibition at the Burchfield Penny Centre, Buffalo.
 

February - March
Natalka Husar “Black Sea Blue”
For Natalka Husar's “Black Sea Blue”, Garnet Press produces an innovative catalogue-book in collaboration with Karen Schnoover, curator at the Rosemont Public Art Gallery, with an essay by Carol Podedworny and fiction by Ihor Holubizky. The exhibition travels to the Douglas Udell Galleries, the Rosemount Art Gallery, the
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and the Mendel Art Gallery. Garnet Press Gallery places paintings in the collections of The National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank and several private collections. Reviews appear everywhere as the show crosses the country.
 

1994
November- December 
Andy Fabo “Rules of the Game”  
In “Rules of the Game’, Andy Fabo explores transgressive sexuality while gently lampooning the modernist school of geometric abstraction. Two of Andy's installations are shown in Carol Podedworny's exhibition “Reading/The Language of Culture” at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. His series “Manhandling Matisse” is selected by curator Bill Arning along with pieces by: Cary Liebowitz, Deborah Kass, Nayland Blake Phrank and Nicole Eisenmann for the White Columns gallery's exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Stone Wall Riots.
 

September – October 
Robert Houle “Premises for Self-Rule”  
Robert Houle's “Premises for Self Rule” combines photography, painting and text in order to create a site of politicization. Five tableaux address treaties signed between 1763 and 1982 establishing a place to begin to understand the current aboriginal dialogue with the government of Canada. These self described "cultural conceits” are informed by Robert's indigenous history, identity and experience. Robert's work is acquired from this exhibition by: The Art Gallery of Winnipeg, The Art Gallery of North York, The Canada Council Art Bank, and by the law Firms Genest Murray Debrisay Lamek and Osler Hoskin and Harcourt. Phillip Monk commissions Houle to create an installation for the AGO and Houle’s "Anishabe Walker Court" is mounted and remains on view for one year at the AGO. Later, paintings from Houle’s Garnet Press show are borrowed from their various institutional holdings for shows curated by Linda Michael's for the Art Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia and by Doreen Mignot for the Stedjegist Museum in Amsterdam.
 

July – August 
“Dreaming of You” 
Dreaming of You, is the fruit of an open call to celebrate and remember the charm, talent and generosity of David Buchan, Robert Flack and Tim Jocelyn. These three artists were able to create real intersections between the visual arts, gay, fashion, theatre and music communities. They invited us to participate in events larger than ourselves and gave us moments of pure ecstasy. Their spirit of intelligence and delight continues to prevail and to give us hope even after they've all been felled by the complications of HIV. Over seventy-five artists responded to dream a place where souls collide, slip into the bedclothes of remembrance or dress up for the night. Over 1,000 people joined us on that hot sweet summer night. The opening was covered live on CITY TV, and the show reviewed by the Globe and Mail, NOW, and CKLN radio.
 

June
Jane Buyers “Practica”
“Practica” continues Jane Buyer's thesis on growth and learning, a central theme in her work for the past two decades. Sylviane de Roquebrune, curator at the Glendon Gallery, York University selects work out of the show for her two-person project Harvest. Jane is invited to show at the Anderson Gallery in Buffalo. The Art Gallery of North York and the Canada Council Art Bank acquire bronzes for their collections.
 

May
Bill Jones “Superstition”  
In “Superstition”, Bill Jones tackles issues of perception, representation, and the nature of sight. Curator, Ingrid Jenkner,
Of the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina selects Jones’ photo-based “Superstition”  for inclusion in her project “Visual Evidence”. Garnet Press produces a curatorial project entitled “Scared Comedies - Bill Jones/Chrysanne Stathacos with a catalogue for the director Elizabeth Licata at Castellani Art Museum at Niagara University. The Castellani acquires work from both artists for its permanent collection.
 

April
Sheila Butler “She Takes Refuge in Dreams”
Garnet Press and Paul Petro Contemporary Fine Art collaborate to present an exhibition of new work on paper by Sheila Butler, Fine Arts Professor at Western University, and entitled “She Takes Refuge in Dreams”. Sheila's drawings are informed by her recent thesis on Meret Oppenheim and her interest in psychoanalysis. The Woodstock Art Gallery and the law firm Osler & Hoskin acquire drawings from the exhibition.
 

March 
Warren Quigley “Chronicle”
“Chronicle” continues Warren Quigley's examination of the dynamic of rupture and control between modern civilization and nature. The exhibition tours to the White Water Gallery, North Bay.
 

January - February
April Hickox “When the Mind Hears” 
Garnet Press presents April Hickox's “When the Mind Hears” in collaboration with Gallery 44's Centre for Contemporary Photography. April focuses on language and communication issues in photographic diptychs and single images documenting her deaf daughter's development. Garnet Press places work from this show in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank and the CMCP) Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
 

1993
November - December
Natalie Olanick, Guest Curator

Alex de Cosson, Marie-Josée Lafortune, Ilse Gassinger, Carlos Cesta, Geoffrey Shea and John Dickson “Manual”  
Garnet Press produces guest curator Natalie Olanick's project “Manual” along with accompanying brochure with a text by the curator, which addresses the work of Alex de Cosson, Marie-Josée Lafortune, Ilse Gassinger, Carlos Cesta, Geoffrey Shea and John Dickson. 
 

October
Stephen Andrews and Deborah Esch “Safe” 
“Safe” features words by Deborah Esch and pictures by Stephen Andrews in a collaborative bookwork. Betty Anne Jordan for Canadian Art Magazine reviews safe. Work from the exhibition is place in numerous private collections.
 

September
John Abrams “Wild Life and Super Models”
In “Wild Life & Super Models”, Abrams pursues his analysis of the relationship of industry to culture. The Eastwick Gallery in Chicago picks up the artist. Hall Walls curator, Sara Kellner, selects work from the exhibition for her project "Will You Go Out With Me?” The show is reviewed in NOW Magazine. Work is placed in the collection of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Abrams is selected by the Chicago Jury to represent Toronto in the Chicago Sister City Mural Project for the New International Terminal of O'Hare Airport.
 

July – August
Robert Flack, Guest Project “Smash Mega Hits Explosion”  
Garnet Press produces Robert Flack's invitational exhibition “Smash Mega Hits Explosion”, with work by Toronto artists, Julie Voyce, Carlo Cesta, David Rasmus and Ben Smit, as well as by New York artists Rob Clarke and Nancy Davenport. The show receives coverage in XTRA!, NOW and C Magazine.
 

June
Ben Walmsley “Ten stanzas: 360 Degrees”
“Ten stanzas: 360 Degrees” is Ben Walmsley's fourth installment in his ongoing examination of colour and the mechanics of representational painting. Oakville Galleries picks up the entire series for a solo exhibition entitled “Gospelling the Sound of Colour” and tours the show to the Cambridge Art Gallery. Oakville also produces a beautiful colour brochure with text by Carolyn Farrell Bell and purchases work from the show.  Garnet Press places work from this exhibition in the collections of McCarthy Tetrault, Genest Murray Debrisay and Lemeck, and the London Life Insurance Company.
 

May
Chrysanne Stathacos “Pop, Pop, Pop - After Her Life”
“Pop, Pop, Pop - After Her Life” introduces Anne de Cybelle as the artist's alter ego. Chrysanne Stathacos creates a fictional female character that is shunned by the academies in 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Dancing across time Chrysanne creates the dresses, and paintings her character Anne de Cybelle might have created and exhibited had she be given the chance. Mary Misner, director of the
Cambridge Art Gallery selects two of Stathacos’ "ball gowns" for the Cambridge collection. NYC Arts Magazine prints full page review. 
 

April
Carlo Cesta “Handi-Work” 
“Handi-Work” Cesta's fifth solo exhibition with Garnet Press is preceded by exhibition at the AGO which showcases Cesta in a two person exahibition curated by Christina Ritchie. Art Gallery of Mississauga, curator Stuart Reid commissions an outdoor site-specific work for AGM by Cesta.
 

March
Bill Jones “Black Heart and Other Photographic Hallucinations” 
In “Black Heart and Other Photographic Hallucinations”; Bill Jones identifies light not just as a topic but also as a meditation. This body of work that is first presented in Toronto travels to the Amy Lipton Gallery, New York. Carry Pryzbola, curator at the High Museum, represents this exhibition in fall 1994 in Atlanta. Bill Jones is asked to guest edits Volume #1 of the Journal of Emily Carr college of Art and Design, "Photography Without Apology" which features essays by Jones, Walter Ben Michaels and Helga Pakasarr.
 

January – February 
Carol Podedworny, Guest Curator

Isaac Applebaum and Robert Houle “Trajectories of Meaning...” 
Garnet Press produces a guest curatorial project and brochure by Thunder Bay Exhibition Centre curator, Carol Podedworny. “Trajectories of Meaning...” includes work by Isaac Applebaum and Robert Houle. C Magazine invites Applebaum to create an artist project based on his work in the exhibition “power of the dead”; the National Gallery of Canada acquires Houle’s “Seven In Steel”.
 

1992
November - December
Andy Fabo “Detritus” 
Andy Fabo's fifth exhibition with Garnet Press Gallery is an installation made up of hundreds of collages and drawings deals with accumulation, debasement and devolution of art as part of the post-modern condition. Garnet Press places Fabo’s installation entitled “Aphasia”, which toured the United Kingdom along with the work of Micah Lexier, with the Glenbow in Calgary. Andy is invited by the Banff Centre to create a series of AIDS public service announcements.
 

October
Isaac Applebaum “weeping” 
Using his camera as a witness, Isaac Applebaum shoots British Columbia's mountains “weeping”. Ace Art, Winnipeg, curator Debra Mosher selects photographs from “weeping” for her show “Passionate Regards” and Michael Regan of Canada House selects work from Isaac’s previous Garnet Press exhibition, “UN”, for the British International Print Biennial. Garnet Press places an Applebaum photo-based work in the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK.
 

September 
Jane Buyers “Prossimita e Distanza”
“Prossimita e Distanza” is a show curated by Gilbert Reid for the Canadian Cultural Centre in Rome. Garnet Press presents it in Toronto. For the Toronto exhibit, Jane adds two new sculptures created during her sojourn in Italy. Her cultivated bronzes depict open books sprouting with fruit trees, plants, roses and cabbages. She is invited to collaborate with Stephen Andrews on “A Knot Garden” for the Power Plant's Redesigning Paradise. Bronzes from this show are placed in the permanent collection of the Canada Council Art Bank and the Art Gallery of North York.
 

July - August
Clamorous Intentions' Guest Curators, (Sharon Switzer, Claire Sykes and Frederick Peters)

Hamish Buchanan, Martha Judge, Cornelia Meyer, Kika Throne and Robert Windrum. “Re: Dressing the Body”
Garnet Press Gallery produces a brochure and hosts curatorial collective Clamorous Intentions' (Sharon Switzer, Claire Sykes and Frederick Peters) project: “Re: Dressing the Body”. The exhibition addresses two central issues: the subject's relationship to history, and the body in relation to the self through the work of Hamish Buchanan, Martha Judge, Cornelia Meyer, Kika Throne and Robert Windrum. Re: Dressing the Body is covered by CITY TV and XTRA!
 

June
John Abrams, Simon Glass, Bill Jones, Andy Moses and Chrysanne Stathacos “Five Sheets to the Wind”
Five Sheets to the Wind celebrates the intoxicating vitality of creativity. The show features the work of New York's Bill Jones, Andy Moses and Chrysanne Stathacos as well as Toronto’s John Abrams and Simon Glass. A brochure was produced. Show is reviewed in the Toronto Star and NOW Magazine.
 

May 
Stephen Andrews “Facsimile” 
Stephen Andrews' “Facsimile” is a four-part exhibition of graphite and beeswax drawings. This exhibition proves to be a breakthrough for the artist and Garnet Press Gallery. Part I (48 drawings) is acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Part II (24 drawings) by the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Part III (24 drawings) by Oakville Galleries, and Part IV (28 drawings) by the Art Gallery of North York. 
 

April 
Isaac Applebaum, Andy Fabo, Natalie Olanick and Tove Patterson “Cachet & Currency” 
This project includes the work of Canadian artists Isaac Applebaum, Andy Fabo and Natalie Olanick along with Italian artist Tove Patterson. Parachute and the Toronto Star favorably review the exhibition.
 

March
April Hickox “Roses, Wind & Other Stories”
April Hickox's Roses, Wind & Other Stories is presented by Presentation House in Vancouver. The show tours to Galerie Sequence in Chicoutimi, Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Floating Gallery in Winnipeg and .Garnet Press. The Gallery works closely with all of these public galleries and assists in the production of a brochure.
 

February - March
Janis Bowely & Oliver Kellhammer   
Garnet Press Gallery presents installations by British Colombians Janis Bowely and Oliver Kellhamer. The outcome of this exhibition is our first sale to bona fide celebrities: singers/ songwriters Paul Simon & Edie Brickell.
 

January - February
Natalka Husar “True Confessions” 
Natalka Husar's “True Confessions” originates at Garnet Press and tours to La Centrale/Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Woltjen/Udell Galleries Vancouver, Edmonton and Plug-In Inc., in Winnipeg. Garnet Press Gallery produces a colour catalogue to accompany Husar’s touring exhibit. Work from the exhibition is placed in the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
 

1991
November 
John Abrams “Rethinking History”
“Rethinking History” tours to the Niagara Artist Centre. Carol Podedworny selects paintings from this exhibition for a group exhibition with artists Ed Poitras, Jane Ash Poitras, Robert Houle, Sara Leydon, and Stephen Andrews at Mercer Union. Garnet Press places paintings from Abrams’ show in the permanent collections of The Art Gallery of North York, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The exhibition is reviewed in C Magazine.
 

October
Andy Fabo “Accumulated Drawings”
In “Accumulated Drawings”, Andy Fabo gathers recent drawings to form meaning through association. UK, Canada House curator, Michael Regan selects work from exhibition in London. Curator Annette Hurtig also selects drawings from this exhibition and Stephen Andrews' previous show “Sins of the Fathers” for her project, “Singing the Body Ephemeral” at the Burnaby Art Gallery. In another project by the same curator, work by Andy Fabo and Shelagh Keeley is selected to tour from the Canadian Cultural Services Gallery in Paris to the Kamloops Art Gallery in British Columbia. 
 

September
Carlo Cesta “Imaginerring” 
Carlo Cesta's “Imagineering” continues the artist’s exploration of putting industrial materials to the service of image making. Cesta's work embraces the aesthetics of "high" and "low" art, charting a complex attitude toward nature, culture and technology. Work is placed in the Canada Council Art Bank. 
 

July – August
Sharon Switzer, Guest Curator

John Armstrong, Paul Collins, Robert Flack, and Bill Jones “Light Sensitive - Academy en Rose” 
Garnet Press Gallery presents an exhibition curated by Sharon Switzer that includes the photo-based work of John Armstrong, Paul Collins, Robert Flack, and Bill Jones. The Gallery produces a brochure and tours the exhibition to the Art Gallery of Woodstock. “Light Sensitive” is reviewed by the Globe and Mail.
 

June
Michael Merrill “Reclining Nude - Over the Edge” 
Michael Merrill's Reclining Nude - Over the Edge represents a shift in sensibilities for the Montreal artist. This new work is informed by realities of working from life, and the immediacy, which results from decay. Merrill's paintings are selected for shows at Gallery Pink and the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal. Merrill's Garnet Press show is reviewed the Toronto Star and C Magazine.
 

May
Chrysanne Stathacos   
New York's Chrysanne Stathacos second solo exhibition at Garnet Press is reviewed in ARTS Magazine. Selections from Stathacos’ Garnet Press show are chosen by curator Bill Arning for “Lyric” at White Columns, by Roger G Denson for “The New Metaphysics” at the Amy Lipton Gallery, New York and for Real Art Ways in 
Hartford, Connecticut.
 

April
Ben Walmsley “White”
White is third component of Walmsley's three-part programme, 
“Gospelling the Sound of Colour”. Paintings from this exhibition are selected by Peter Day for the London Regional's National touring exhibition. “Young Contemporaries”. Karen Henry, curator of the Burnaby Art Gallery presents all three parts of “Gospelling the Sound of Colour” in 1992 in British Columbia.
 

March - April 
Kenny and Rebecca Baird “Thirst” 
“Thirst” is the second collaborative exhibition by Kenny and Rebecca Baird, two Canadian aboriginal artists who happen to be siblings at Garnet Press. Gerald Ferguson selects some work for the Canadian Museum of Civilizations' 1992 anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the New World show and the Museum acquires theses pieces for its permanent collection.
 

February - March
Bill Jones “Orectic Objects” 
Bill Jones' “Orectic Objects” means objects that "reach out". This exhibition by the New York artist explores the process of making a photograph.  Charlota Kotick, curator of the Brooklyn Museum remounts this exhibition in New York. “Orectic Objects” is reviewed in C Magazine. Its Brooklyn showing is reviewed in Arts Magazine.
 

January - February
Robert Flack “Empowerment” 
Robert Flack’s “Empowerment” is co-production between Feature New York, Philip Rizo Paris, and Garnet Press Gallery, which has the photo-based installation opening in all three spaces within the same week! Bruce Grenville, curator of the Mendel Art Gallery selects work from “Empowerment” for his two-part project “Corpus”. Nancy Campbell curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre presents exhibition of Flack’s work in Guelph. Garnet Press places Flack's work in the permanent collections of both institutions.
 

1990
December 
Janice Andre, Guest Curator

Rebecca Baird, Jane Buyers, Sybil Goldstein, Natalka Husar, Chrysanne Stathacos, and Janet Werner. “Memory & Subjectivity”  
In “Memory & Subjectivity”, six women artists’ present works, which explores how, remembered detail functions in the construction of the subject. Garnet Press Gallery produces a catalogue with an essay by Janice Andrea and reproductions of works by Rebecca Baird, Jane Buyers, Sybil Goldstein, Natalka Husar, Chrysanne Stathacos, and Janet Werner. Garnet Press tours the show to the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, the Chatham Cultural Centre, and the Thunder Bay Exhibition Centre.
 

November 
Janet Werner 
Garnet Press Gallery presents the paintings of Janet Werner, a graduate of Yale's MFA program and a professor of Art and Art History at University of Saskatchewan. Bruce Grenville selects Werner’s paintings for an exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery.
 

October 
Stephen Andrews “Sins of the Fathers” 
“Sins of the Fathers”, Stephen Andrews's lyrical exhibition, is accompanied by a hardbound book co produced by the artist and Garnet Press Gallery. The Gallery places Andrews's beautiful drawings in a number of important collections, such as Bailey & Company, the Canada Council Art Bank, Gluckstein & Sheff, and the AGO's.
 

September 
Paul Collins “Magnetic Tapes” 
“Magnetic Tapes” by Paris artist Paul Collins is suggestive of blackboards or television screens. In these "prerecorded paintings”, paint is referred to without actually being present, and information is present without actually being accessible. Work from this exhibition is selected for "Word Perfect" by Ihor Holubizky, the curator of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and later acquired for the AGH's permanent collection. Some pieces are selected for an exhibition at CREAC, a contemporary art centre in metro Paris.
 

June – July
Simon Glass, Bill Jones, Warren Quigley and Carlo Cesta “Furnace” 
“Furnace” showcases the photographs of Simon Glass and Bill Jones, paintings by and the sculptures of Warren Quigley and Carlo Cesta. Both the Globe and Mail and C Magazine review the exhibition.

 
April/May
Isaac Applebaum “Cruelty of Stone”

Michael Merrill 
Garnet Press presents Isaac Applebaum's new photo based installation “Cruelty of Stone”. The show engages curator Peter Krause, who invites Isaac to show at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal. Martha Hanna selects excerpts for the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Michael Merrill's new large oils and small gauche paintings are also exhibited. Merrill is awarded the Canada Council studio in Paris, France.
 

March
Jane Buyers, 
University of Waterloo; Fine Arts Professor Jane Buyers presents new sculptures. Work from the exhibition is placed in the permanent collection of Charles Street Video. The Buyer’s exhibition is reviewed in the Toronto Star and Parachute Magazine.
 

February

“Sex and Language” Chrysanne Stathacos Guest Curator

Kathe Burkhart Susan Silas Perry Bard; Andy Moses John Miller Jessica Diamond Robert Morgan Marilyn Minter, Aura Rosenberg, Juede Schndenwien and Bill Jones 
“Sex and Language” is produced as a means of opening both theoretical and practical relationships with artist and galleries in New York. Garnet Press invites New York artists Kathe Burkhart (Feature Gallery); Susan Silas (Fiction/Nonfiction Gallery); Perry Bard; Andy Moses (Marta Cervera Gallery); John Miller (Metro Pictures); Jessica Diamond (American Fine Arts); Robert Morgan (editor, Art Forum); Marilyn Minter, Max Protec; Aura Rosenberg, Juede Schndenwien (editor Arts), and Bill Jones (Jayne Baum Gallery). Sex & Language opens on Valentine's eve in a blizzard! CBC News crew and Toronto Star art critic Christopher Hume are there to meet the artists and cover the show.