I am on the board at Gallery 1313, an artist run center in Toronto. Typically, Gallery 1313 runs a fast rotation of two week shows in its main gallery and two smaller galleries. When Covid hit, we had to shut the place down. Lights-out completely. We have now carefully started to re-open. But in the meantime, while the physical space was shuttered, we put on several ‘Virtual’ group shows.
Our First Virtual Portrait Show - followed by Portraits II and Portraits III
We put a call out to artists and our director, Phil Anderson curated the submission. We got hundreds, from all around the world! We had to put on two more shows just to deal with the volume. Take a look at here:
This then led to a couple of more shows: one by IATSE, the union of movie and television workers and one on the theme of coming back home:
These shows have been very popular. We’ve had press in The Globe and Mail, ArToronto and the Toronto Star! It’s been a long time since we had so much publicity in such a short time - and our doors were never even open!
The Toronto Star, June 7, 2020
