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Stan Denniston

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Artist and art restorer, Stan Denniston, lives and works in Toronto and constantly struggles to find creative time outside the pressures of his art restoration business.  Early in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was graced with the time and calm to initiate, and finish, the shooting of his first photographic project in 15 years.  His work revolves around the themes of travel, memory and representation.
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Denniston is represented by Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto.  He has exhibited extensively throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe and his works are included in many collections private and public including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada.  In 1986, he participated in the group show YYZ "World Tour at the Embassy Cultural House and will be exhibiting work at the Hiding in Plain Sight virtual exhibit launching October 30th, 2020. 

 Just Until..., at Olga Korper Gallery,  2007 

The saguaro cactus has long been synonymous with the deserts of the American west and a symbol of rugged endurance in a harsh environment. But I chose these cacti, their trunks and limbs cradled and braced, in contrast to that legendary toughness, to add poignancy to their potential as icons of degradation in this case the degradation of two centuries of political and social achievement in the United States by the actions of the Bush administration. Provoked by my simmering anger, I sought affirmative moments in American history that were obviously, the antithesis of the policies of this disreputable bunch.

Subtly embedded in the skies of these barely coloured photographs are historical texts of social and political aspiration and idealism such as 1863”s Emancipation Proclamation, 1872’s Yellowstone Act (creating the world’s first national park), or Lynden Johnson’s The Great Society speech, 1964, or even The New Colossus, an 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus that graces the base of the Statue of Liberty (“give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses”).


Just Until... 



EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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