METHINKS PRESENTS UNCLE RONNIE’S POPUP HOLIDAY ART SHOP, AN INTERACTIVE SPACE FOR LAST-MINUTE HOLIDAY SHOPPERS, FRANTIC SECRET SANTAS AND EVERYONE INBETWEEN
Holiday Reception:
Saturday, December 20, 7 - 11pm
Location:
Project 165
165 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market, Toronto, ON
Shop Hours:
December 20 - 24
11am - 7pm daily
Grab your list of people-to-buy-for, slip into your most cozy winter sweater and join us on Saturday December 20, from 7 - 11pm, as we activate this super-fun installation of art and craft with some good ol’ fashioned holiday cheer.
Inspired by the defunct rare-junk shop of an increasingly reclusive, virtually unknown Toronto art collector and hoarder of curiosities, “Uncle” Ronnie Graham, this livingroom-gift shop-installation-kitchen table hybrid is a tribute to a rare bird and its keeper, a living memory of a distant place of careful wonder.
The shop that inspired this project existed for many years as a by-appointment-only, home-based museum of antique oddities and rare junk until Ronnie Graham, due to personal reasons, closed it to the public and “threw away the key”.
Uncle Ronnie’s PopUp Holiday Art Shop comprises specially chosen artists’ books, painting, drawings, photography, prints, sculpture, live-art experience packages, mini installations, encaustic works, shodow boxes, dollies, wearable art and other creative goodies. Works range from $20.00 - $150.00.
