Art at Evergreen Brick Works
Vision statement
"Rather than art being a layer on top of a building, we are embedding art into the whole Evergreen Brick Works project. This is not the way things are traditionally done. Art changes the way you look at and engage with space. The subject matter here is sustainability, and art brings out its emotional qualities. The role of art on site is to bring voice to the spirit of a place that holds sustainability as a core value."
— Ferruccio Sardella, artist-in-residence, Evergreen Brick Works
The site-specific artworks on display at Evergreen Brick Works reflect on aspects of geology, industrial heritage and ecology on the site, and tell the stories of this restored land.
Self-Guided Art Tour (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Special Exhibits
The Art of Barbara Reid Art, Plascticine illustrations
April 17–May 21, 2012, Young Welcome Centre
This exhibit features 40 small works from Picture a Tree, by celebrated Canadian author and illustrator, Barbara Reid. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Illustration, Barbara’s unique plasticine images are recognized around the world. Picture a Tree was inspired by the Don Valley Ravine surrounding EBW.
ARIDO Awards: Make Space for Good Design, 2011
Photographs
To February 2012, The Kilns
This exhibit showcases the 2011 ARIDO Award-winning projects. It includes projects from across North America and abroad and stands as testament to the international scope of Canadian interior design excellence.
Green design has become an integral part of the Canadian interior design philosophy. The Sustainable category in the ARIDO Awards program recognizes projects that incorporate eco-friendly solutions with exceptional design.
Ongoing
Deep Time, Ferruccio Sardella, 2011
Mixed media
This installation is a poetic interpretation of the geologically significant north slope. The artwork interprets two glacial periods with an interglacial period between. The panels within the doorways represent a snapshot of this interglacial period approximately 120,000 years ago—a time when this place was home to giant prehistoric beavers, bison, deer and catfish—entire ecosystems thriving in a carolinian temperate that was 2 degrees warmer than today.
Green Design, 2011
Curated by Robert Plitt, Evergreen Sustainability Manager
Located on the ground floor of the Centre for Green Cities, Green Design explores the lessons learned in creating this unique site. Discover what key features of the project contribute to our LEED Platinum status and learn about the benefits and challenges of adaptive reuse. Themes explored include Conservation, Reuse, Remediation, and Sustainability. You can also find out more about green design and sustainability features here.
Site Specific installations by Ferruccio Sardella, Dave Hind, Amelia Jiménez, Sketch, Dan Bergeron and Morgan Zigler.
Montage of archival photographs depicting aspects of the site's industrial heritage. Curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer.
Photographs by Craig Boyko, Bill Deneau, Michael Reichmann and Evergreen staff. Curated by Liz Stewart.
Video program with works by Shelley Niro, Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Marie Burke, Su Rynard, Kim Derko, John Osborne, Jimmy Medellin, Manfred Smollich, Zeesy Powers and Luke Ramsey, Sarah Alden, Anne Koizumi, and Tania Uitto. Curated by Kohen McBride.
Previous exhibits
Transit Kitchen, Folke Köebberling & Martin Kaltwasser, 2011
Mixed media, Performance, Video
Transit Kitchen was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut and co-curated by No. 9: Contemporary Art & the Environment and the Goethe-Institut. Transit Kitchen is an invitation to Torontonians to think about ideas and solutions to public transit, cycling, automobile traffic and pedestrian movement within our city. Modeled after a TV-style cooking show, the piece was first installed at Union Station on June 1–2, 2011 for a performance before moving to Evergreen Brick Works. Now on display in the Kilns building, visitors are invited to watch video of the performance and to add their own transit "recipes" to the Recipe Box.
Four Directions: An Exhibition
Kilns Building Gallery, September–December 2010. Film and video works by Werner Herzog (Lessons of Darkness, 1992), Isabelle Hayeur (White Gold / L'or blanc, 2010), Val Klassen (The Cyanide Flats, 2010) and Dana Claxton (Waterspeak, 2002).
Presented by No.9: Contemporary Art & the Environment. Curated by Andrea Carson.
