ARTFOCUS TORONTO ONLINE ART MAGAZINE
A free publication - Editor: Pat Fleisher

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 06, 2009

These photos were created from locations in and around Toronto.  Do you recognize them?

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 06, 2009

By Pat Fleisher   Mon, Jul 20, 2009

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 13, 2009

March 6, 2009 - Toronto's 175th Birthday. City Hall celebrates Toronto l75 yrs. including Pat's Toronto grafitti photos. The cover photo is called:  "Winne at City Hall" (as in Winston Churchill) which was taken at Toronto Outdoor Artshow Exhibition held in 2004.  It was selected for the commemorative book for the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition from 1961 to 2007. Here is a closeup.

Graffiti Art Exhibit at City Hall on March 6, 2009 The photo below was taken at Cameron House in the 80's and exihibited at Edward's Books and Art on Queen Street which is now the Rivoli Cafe. The other photos were also taken along Queen Street in the 80's. Several of these photos were shown at City Hall on March 6, 2009 to celebrate Toronto's 175th Birthday.

By Pat Fleisher   Sun, Apr 12, 2009

This is a link to another earlier websiite of Pat's. The pages all work if selected from the main menu but some of links within the pages on the site do not work well.  If that happens simply close the page. You will return to here.  Click this link again which will return you to the main menu and reselect the page you wanted.  Thank you.

http://www.artfocus.com/patfleisher.com/index.html

By Pat Fleisher   Wed, Mar 11, 2009

[COVER:  Balzac's]

Dancing Girls

Gooderham Girls

Distillery Garden

By Pat Fleisher   Sun, Mar 08, 2009

[Cover] St. John New Brunswick - Tide's Out. Comments: The  duo photo  shows a bronze lifesize moose and the harbour with the tide out, taken during my exhibit of duo photos at the  St. John Art Centre May 19-July 3, 2006.

Bronte Harbour Comments: The photo was taken during my visit  to the waterfront summer 2003 to scout for outdoor artists for my annual fall indoor art show in Toronto.

Vintage Niagara Comments:  The photo was taken at an outdoor artists show in Niagara-on-the-Lake where I was scouting for artists for my annual fall show.

By Pat Fleisher   Sun, Mar 08, 2009

 [COVER PHOTO: OLA CARACAS]

Caracas Balcony	Caracas Apartments
Liberty Mall	Caracas Skyline
	Comments:  I exhibited my photos in ART CARACAS 2004  in Venezuela with Jogas Gallery and visited and exhibited in ART CARACAS Venezuela  May 5-8, 2005 .  I showed 2 Canadian art films, "Joseph Drapdell, New New Painter", and "Art Toronto 81", sponsored by Artmagazine, featuring American critic Robert Hughes as guest speaker, and showing the history of the Toronto art scene  from Yorkville to Queen Street West. The film was launched at the National Film Board on Lombard Street and  shown the next year at International art fairs in Europe attended by me.
Freedom

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 06, 2009

These photos were captured from the editor's favourite parts of New York City.  Can you recognize them?  (Hint:  Lower East Side, MOMA, Central Park)

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 06, 2009

 "CROSSING DELANCEY"
A SERIES OF LOWER EAST SIDE IMAGES
FROM HOUSTON TO DELANCEY STREETS.

The series was shown in June and July of 2008 at the EARTH MATTERS Café/Gallery, 177 Ludlow St., New York City in June and July of 2008 and now been moved to the Orensanz Foundation. For more information on the Orensanz Foundation go to: http://www.orensanz.org/

The epicenter of Pat Fleisher's exploration has been the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Norfolk Street where directors Angel and Al Orensanz suggested the East to West walkabouts that resulted in these gritty and dynamic photo impressions of the "hood".

Fleisher's long standing fascination with New York was recorded in a review of her NY photo show in Montreal in 2002, published in "Vie des Arts." And a photo of a Norfolk St. snowscape published in the Skowegan School of Art Alumni Newsletter in 2003. She was then invited to exhibit a group of East Village New York images for the opening of the FEVA gallery in the 14th St. Y in New York, May 18-June 30, 2005 and @ Arts Caracas 2005 in Caracas, Venezuela, May 5-8, 2005.

Statement by Al Orensanz Phd

" This exhibition has been slated for Earth Matters on Ludlow Street because the venue and the art on display mirror each other fabulously. This show could have well be installed at Clayton Patterson Art Gallery on Essex Street or at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Norfolk Street. But Al and Angel Orensanz and Clayton Patterson and Antonio Zito agreed that Pat Fleisher's art would pulsate perfectly at Earth Matters on Ludlow Street. For one, Ludlow Street is the epicenter of old and ultra chic New York, like no other street of today's NY.

"Ludlow Street now is like a cross of Via San Marco in Venice and Via Condotti in Rome" stated Al Orensanz during the installation of Pat Fleisher's show at Earth Matters."

"Nothing by far, is in New York right now, including Chelsea, the Hudson Piers, Harlem and Williamsburg together" continued Al Orensanz "sizzles in New York like Ludlow Street. The skyscrapers in construction and the tenements, the night life spots and the bodegas, the French cuisine and the pizza parlors.welcome to the Blaue Engel of Berlin in the 1930's and the hesitant subprime bankers and high powered internet designers of the 2008 New York. Welcome to Ludlow Street. Welcome to Earth Matters, a pioneer of the organic and the alternative. Welcome to the photos of Pat Fleisher, the seer that captures all that !"

ABC Bar [Cover] Although the title of this piece is "Crossing Delancey" being the theme of the series, the actual location is Houston Street.

Phantom Bus Flea Market

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 06, 2009

CITY KITCSCH SERIES - NEW YORK

The following is a small selection from a series of 25 colour photos taken in a walkaround the East Village of New York City in October l996. They were mostly taken in the area around Tomkins Square Park, or "Red Square," as it is known to its neighbours and inhabitants, like the late graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who is said to have been "discovered& quot; emerging from a garbage can in the park.

Although I began as a painter, I have been shooting & exhibiting colour photos in galleries & artfairs since the late '70's. Windows , reflections, mannequins and graffiti have always attracted me. I find in these images a sense of the individual light, style and energy of each city I have visited. The spontaneous natural layering of these "found images" approximates for me the way I worked in my previous "re-incarnation" as a painter (before I became a hopelessly addicted "Arte Editora").

The East Village has a fascinating history as the starting point in New York for many waves of ethnic immigrants, artists & students, who then move on, as their fortunes improve, to downtown areas of the city. (In Toronto this is comparable to the immigration movement of ethnic groups from the Kensington Market/Spadina & the Bloor/Annex area to the more affluent suburbs). But I hope that the photos speak for themselves....

	Cast Iron Door - New York, 1996
Red Stockings - New York, 1996	Trash - New York, 1996

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 06, 2009

MONDRIAN'S HOLLAND

The colour photos in this series were taken in Holland in March 1995 when I was hosted on a journalist's tour of the art scene by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the Netherlands Board of Tourism.

The subject of the trip was The Mondrian Retrospective in The Hague, that later toured to New York, but our trip included Maastrcht, Amsterdam and The Hague.

Although my main focus was to observe & write about the diverse aspects of the art scene in Holland, I took time off to try to capture with my camera, the mood of the streets and bars that reflect the contemporary culture, mixed with tradition that still prevails in Holland.

HERE ARE MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SERIES:

Delicatessen, colour photo, The Hague, Holland 1995	Mannequins, colour photo, The Hague, Holland 1995
Tulips in Florist Shop, colour photo, The Hague, Holland 1995	Painted Bikes/Train Station, colour photo, maastricht, Holland 1995

[cover] Delft Blues, colour photo, Maastricht, Holland 1995

By Pat Fleisher   Fri, Mar 06, 2009

This is an earlier website of Pat's which contains many interesting photos (some of which are featured in other places in this issue)  It also has links to the earlier pages of Artfocus Online before we switched to the magazine format.  The links do not all work - you may need to use the back arrow.

By Pat Fleisher   Tue, Jul 28, 2009