CMS ART PROJECTS, TORONTO

March 1, 2023

Sanctuary Drawings: new work by Anne-Marie Cosgrove

March 1 – March 28, 2023

Statement

With this body of works, Anne-Marie Cosgrove relates romantic and formal concepts of inside and outside within broader categories of attractions including those of sanctuary and retreat. The drawn lines describe simple divisions of space that gravitate towards each other.

Press Release

CMS Art Projects is pleased to present an on-line exhibition of THE SANCTUARY DRAWINGS by Canadian artist Anne-Marie Cosgrove.
In this new series of works, Anne-Marie Cosgrove relates romantic and formal concepts of inside and outside within broader categories of attractions including those of sanctuary and retreat. The minimalist lines and forms describe simple divisions of space that gravitate towards each other.
Anne-Marie Cosgrove (b. Montréal, Québec) is a conceptual painter who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in cities such as Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Washington DC, New York, Miami, Lisbon and Madrid.
Her work draws from art history, graffiti and pop culture and engages with current cultural issues including personal identity and feminist spaces.
This series is being released in a limited edition. Anne-Marie Cosgrove is represented by CMS Art Projects in Toronto

https://www.artsy.net/show/cms-art-projects-sanctuary-drawings-new-work-by-anne-marie-cosgrove

Anne-Marie Cosgrove, SANCTUARY, Detail, 2022 Archival ink on cotton rag paper, 30 × 22 inches

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Burren College of Art, International Artist Residency, Ballyvaughan, Ireland

October 1, 2022

I began working on an iPad as an alternative to and in parallel with painting. Drawing with my fingers on the glass surface, I consciously chose a minimal palette of “brushes.” I used the medium to explore the facets of drawing and painting with lines, constructing spaces within which I could communicate using abstract narrative forms.

The first series took time as I was teaching myself how to use the different tools within the application. Once I was more familiar with the medium, I could explore the types and differences between brushes as much as I wanted to. This “freedom of choice” became the subject of my first series, which I humorously titled “Afternoon in a Candy Store.” This series was eventually exhibited on Artsy with CMS Art Projects in Toronto.

The second series began in Canada and physically materialized in Ballyvaughan, Ireland, in October 2022 during a Burren College of Art residency. During the month-long residency, I created new drawings on the iPad and continued to print the work using the BCA's digital studio facilities. This new series, “Sanctuary,” was also exhibited with Artsy and CMS Art Projects in 2023.

CMS Art Projects, Toronto

January 26, 2022

Afternoon in a Candy Store - Anne-Marie Cosgrove, nine new hand drawn works on paper.

January 26 – February 22, 2022

Statement

Deeply influenced by the visceral and corporeal qualities of painting, this work was born from the need to paint more directly. Drawing with her fingers had an impact on the look and characteristics of the lines undermining and commenting on the look of digital media culture.

Press Release

Anne-Marie Cosgrove began experimenting with digital format in the fall of 2021. These new, large-scale drawings developed from an exploration of the digital medium. As a result of working directly with her fingers, these new works embody an unfinishedness that is noted foremost in the edges of the works and in the multi-layered lines that drop off into the unfinished borders. CMS Art Projects is thrilled to release Cosgrove’s first digital drawing series, Afternoon in a Candy Store, in collaboration with the artist and Smokestack Studios in Hamilton, Ontario.

https://www.artsy.net/show/cms-art-projects-afternoon-in-a-candy-store-anne-marie-cosgrove-nine-new-hand-drawn-works-on-paper/info

Anne-Marie Cosgrove, TIGER, 2021 Digital archival print

Source: https://www.artsy.net/show/cms-art-project...

DRAWING 2021 : Juried by Steve Khan & Neda Omidvar

July 3, 2021

https://airdgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AIRD_Drawing-2021_compressed.pdf

PADA STUDIOS: LONG RANGE STUDIO VISITS →

October 3, 2020

In this conversation as part of our Long Range Studio Visits we introduce Henrique Neves and Anne-Marie Cosgrove. Artists talk about their practice during confinement and techniques they use while painting. They also discuss importance of questioning and rethinking older works and discovering new methods of painting.

CMS ART PROJECTS, TORONTO

September 25, 2020

CMS Art Projects is pleased to present an on-line exhibition of new drawings by Anne-Marie Cosgrove from October 7 - November 1, 2020.

The title You Can Have Any Line You Want reflects the artist’s desire to build intimacy between the viewer and the work. It’s an invitation to participate, to choose and in some sense to empower the viewer, to begin a dialogue about desire.

Born in Montréal, Québec, Anne-Marie Cosgrove lived and worked as an artist until moving to Toronto to complete her MFA in 1987. Anne-Marie maintained a studio in Toronto for 25 years. The impact of living and working in two of the largest, most populous and multi-culturally diverse cities in Canada has been the greatest influence on her identity, her production and her work.

Anne-Marie Cosgrove’s work pulls from art history, philosophy, poetry, religion, graffiti and pop culture and engages with current cultural issues including identity, feminism and human rights.

When the pandemic broke this spring, Anne-Marie closed her Toronto studio, placing her work in storage and began working north of Toronto.

About CMS ART PROJECTS

With over 25 years of international experience working in partnership with artists, writers, curators and galleries CMS Art Projects is embarking on a new series of ambitious artistic initiatives. CMS Art Projects is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

https://www.artsy.net/show/cms-art-projects-you-can-have-any-line-you-want

Anne-Marie Cosgrove, RABBIT, 2020 Acrylic on arches paper, 30 × 22 inches

AIRD GALLERY, TORONTO

January 30, 2020

CUTMR, THE GLADSTONE, TORONTO

January 2, 2020

COME UP TO MY ROOM 2020

THE GLADSTONE HOTEL

The historic spaces of the Gladstone Hotel come alive with site-specific art and design installations! Walk into a universe of art and design at Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) 2020, the Gladstone Hotel’s annual 4-day alternative design exhibition running from January 16-19. Find out what happens when art and design intersect through site-specific installations, within the walls of a historic hotel. Visitors can explore, discover and engage in conversation with the artists are on site throughout the festival. Different from our 37 permanent artist-designed hotel rooms (some of which will also be on display!), CUTMR presents temporary projects that occupy and alter spaces in dramatic, conceptual and experimental ways.

CUTMR is curated by artist, not project, giving artists the opportunity to take risks and explore their wildest dreams! Nobody (including the curators) will know what the exhibition will look like until it’s installed the day before!

For CUTMR 2020 space and scale are twisted and reimagined through interactive and tactile installations, curated by Megan Feheley and Astrid Ho, with the Gladstone’s Exhibitions Director Lee Petrie.

CUTMR 2020 PARTICIPANTS

All Odds (Nathan Clarke, Stephen Dalrymple, Leigh Dotey, Emily Falconer, Reba Forbes, Anna Guidoccio, Hena Han, Jasmine Hogg, Vanessa Jackson, Matt Macdonald, Natalie Sirianni, Tim Steadman, Stefan Tobolka, Jake Whillans), Janina Anderson, Bekah Brown, Anne-Marie Cosgrove, Elizabeth D’Agostino, Enchanted Forest Group (Sasha Bateman, Catharina Goldnau, Brenda Nieves, Kim Ross), Darian Goldin Stahl, Kal Honey, Aaron Jones, Svava Juliusson, Noni Kaur, Maxwell Lander, Alexandra Majerus, Heidi McKenzie, Paula McLean, Mariah Measawige, Yasmeen Nematt Alla, Kayla Polan, The Structural Design Build Workshop (Christy Cheng, Elizabeth C. English, Elizabeth Lenny, Mia Milanovic, Emma Moseley, Mariah Palantzas, Amanda Reyes-Martin, Alyssa Tang), Emmie Tsumura, Morris Wazney, Linda Zhang of Studio Pararaum

CUTMR 2020 EVENTS

Student Day: Friday January 17: $5 admission for Students with valid ID

Exhibition Party: Saturday January 18, 7-10pm (included with CUTMR admission, cash bar)

Love Design Party: Saturday January 18, 10pm until late (free admission, cash bar)

Love Design Market: Sunday January 19, 11am – 6pm

4/EDITION, ART TORONTO

October 22, 2019

I will have a series of works on paper in 4/EDITIONS with CMS Art Projects opening today!

4/editions Booth #10
Metro Convention Centre, North Building Lobby

255 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2W6

October 24, 6-10 PM, Opening Reception with Art Toronto Preview

October 25, 12-8 PM

October 26, 11 am -8 PM

October 27, 11 am -6 PM

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Anne-Marie Cosgrove, CAVE DWELLERS (I-V), 2017

AIRD GALLERY, TORONTO

October 1, 2019

PAINT 2019
Exhibition Dates: Thursday October 10 to Friday November 1, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday October 10 (6 to 8 pm)
Juried by: Christopher Cutts, Director of Cutts Gallery, Toronto

YNGSPC AT PADA STUDIOS, BARREIRO, PORTUGAL

April 27, 2019

Great to have two new works in the group exhibition I could go on forever! curated by Kate Mothes founder of YNGSPC at PADA Gallery in Barreiro, Portugal. The private viewing opens on April 27th, 2019 from 4 to 8 pm.

PADA STUDIOS AND RESIDENCIES, BARREIRO, PORTUGAL

March 25, 2019

I’m thrilled to be working in Kate Mothes’ curated residency at Pada Studios and Residencies in Barreiro, Portugal from April 3 to May 30th, 2019. I will be continuing on in residence at PADA for an additional month.

Participating artists are: Dord Burrough (Australia); Saskia Fleishman (USA); Tintin Cooper (UK); Alia Hamaoui (UK); Juliette Ezavin (UK); Anne-Marie Cosgrove (Canada)

The artist gratefully acknowledges and thanks the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous financial support through the Arts Abroad program.

Pada Studios and Residency

YoungSpace.com

The Canada Council for the Arts

Anne-Marie Cosgrove, Turbulence 2018 Acrylic paint on wood, diptych 12 x 20 x 2 inches (30.48 x 50.8 x 5.08 cm) — Anne-Marie Cosgrove, *Turbulence* 2018 Acrylic paint on wood, diptych 12 x 20 x 2 inches (30.48 x 50.8 x 5.08 cm)

SURFACES FESTIVAL, VENICE, ITALY

September 22, 2018

Happy to announce that one of my new paintings, Turbulence (2018), will be exhibited at the Palazzo Ca' Zanardi in Venice, Italy from September 27 to November 25, 2018 as part of the curated multi-disciplinary international SURFACES FESTIVAL.

www.itsliquid.com/press/ca_zanardi.pdf

The festival focuses on the concept of SURFACES, borders and structures between body, mind and soul, the human identity and the city, the space and the ground. The festival analyzes the idea of human and urban places, how people live them and how they are modified in contemporary society. Every human being lives in a world in which surfaces shape their attitudes and behaviors, limiting freedom and creating a sense of alienation. The man reacts breaking the limits and finding a new way of life. We imagine a world of "liquid bodies and cities", where differences create new possibilities, developing new structures, physical, intellectual and spiritual. The festival aims to analyze the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time.

PALAZZO CA' ZANARDI
SELECTED ARCHITECTS
Letizia Artioli & Olimpia Starzycka . Italy/Poland | Katharina Koeglberger with SPLITTERWERK . Austria

HYBRID FESTIVAL, MADRID, SPAIN

September 8, 2018

From September 13 to 30th, as part of the HYBRID Festival in Madrid, I will have work in the group exhibition Should I stay or should I go? along with artists Alvaro Borobio, Pablo Carpio, George Ridgeway, Laura Sebastianes and Denise Treizman.

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BARBECHO participa por primera vez en Hybrid, el festival de espacios de arte alternativos de Madrid de la mano de www.arscoco.com. La exposición que nos presentan es 'Should I stay or should I go?' y podremos disfrutar en ella de la obra de Álvaro Borobio, Pablo Carpio, Anne-Marie Cosgrove, George Ridgeway, Laura Sebastianes y Denise Treizman

EXPOSICIÓN: Should I stay or should I go?

ARTISTAS: álvaro Borobio, Pablo Carpio, Anne-Marie Cosgrove, George Ridgeway, Laura Sebastianes y Denise Treizman

Barbecho y Ars COCO plantean un ejercicio conjunto entre artistas, diseñadores y arquitectos en el cual se explorará el papel que juegan el diseño y la arquitectura a la hora de mediar entre arte y visitante. Durante una residencia de dos semanas, un equipo de diseñadores, arquitectos y creativos varios elaborarán una serie de intervenciones en el espacio cuyas técnicas abarcarán desde el objeto tridimensional y la estructura funcional a elementos más intangibles como la luz, el sonido, y el tiempo. El objeto será el de ralentizar al visitante en el espacio, dilatando la experiencia de la visualización de las obras (seleccionadas de la colección Ars COCO), reivindicando el carácter ‘performático’ del arte y la importancia del tiempo para su desenvoltura.

Horario: LU-VI 16-20.30 SA 11-20.30

Dirección: C/ Acebo, 6

www.barbecho.eu

OSA/AIRD GALLERY, TORONTO

March 24, 2018

Happy to announce that my work, Rêverie, 2017 has been included in the Ontario Society of Artists 145th Annual Juried exhibition to be held at the Aird Gallery in Toronto. Opening reception April 12, 2018 6-8 pm.

OSA OJE 2018 social media poster digital.jpg

ESTHÈTE, GALERIE ERGA, MONTRÉAL

March 15, 2018

Excited to be showing new work in this curated group exhibition at Galerie Erga in Montréal, Québec. The exhibition curated by Véronique Boissono includes works by Jérome Bertrand, Erick Contreras, Nelson Xavier Coronel, Sylvie Dagenais, Andrée-Anne Dufour, Igor El Ruso, Demetrios Papakostas and Anne Thériault. The vernissage is on April 6th from 17h to 22h.