2008 Square Foot Winners:

$300 Viewers’ Choice Award- Shinya Kumazawa
$150 Tern Art Award- Bogdan Luca
$100 Honorable Mention- Lilian Chan
$100 Honorable Mention- Stan Kryzanowski
VAO membership awards:
Julian Sweet
Robert Quance
Jack Wilcan
Veronique Classen
Patti Kain
Anthony Jenkins

AWOL Gallery Presents the Original 6th Annual SQUARE FOOT Show
Toronto’s most anticipated summer group exhibition!
Location: 100A Ossington Ave. 2nd floor (an off site venue just steps from the Gallery)
Exhibition dates: August 16th 12pm -September 7th, 2008

Reception: Saturday, August 16th, 7 pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday to Saturday 12 to 6pm, Sunday 1 to 5pm or by appointment

Square Foot 2008 Youtube footage: (click on the links below)
Preparation Footage
Gala Night Footage
Reception Night Footage

Square Foot press links:
700 square feet of unique art
One Foot, Two Foot, Three Foot, Square Foot



AWOL Gallery presents Square Foot 2008, a dynamic annual art exhibition, which showcases the work of hundreds of local and international artists. The Square Foot show has become one of the foremost community art events in Toronto. With each artist creating work in a 12x12 inch format, the show is hung in a grid forming an installation of overwhelming proportions. Each year the Square Foot Exhibition has grown in scale and reached a larger audience. This year’s exhibition will be held at a larger off site venue. Located at 100a Ossington, just steps from AWOL Gallery. This 2,500 square foot room will be transformed into AWOL’s largest square foot show to date, showcasing over 700 artists from Canada, United States, United kingdom, and Japan.

Square Foot brings together artists from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and career levels and offers their work at $200 per piece. It provides the established artist a distinctive group show opportunity and is also a venue for emerging artists to have their work discovered by galleries and collectors alike.

This year AWOL will be hosting a ticketed gala preview on Friday August 15 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Tickets are 20.00 and proceeds from ticket sales will go to Arts For Children Toronto, http://www.artsforchildren.org/ AFC's core mission is to provide accessible, artistic opportunities for children and youth from underserved communities, enabling them to discover their own capabilities through quality, hands-on programming. The Exhibition will open at 12pm Saturday 16 and the public opening will follow that evening.

The AWOL Gallery Square Foot Show has spawned numerous imitation shows in Toronto and throughout North America. However it has been AWOL’S commitment to a non-juried, affordable, international community exhibition that has continually kept the show unique, fun, and versatile.
Who are these guys? AWOL Gallery and Studios is a pioneer of the Queen West Gallery District. The seven-artist collective has produced hundreds of exhibitions, as well as nine grand annual group shows of varying formats since it’s inception in 1999. The Ossington Avenue location houses the gallery and fourteen studio spaces.

For more information, visuals, or a preview appointment please contact:
Paul Turner at awol@awolgallery.com or 416.535.5637