In Conversation: Artist Dimitri Levanoff and Curator David Liss
- Talks & More
Sunday November 2 | 2 - 3 PM
Join Koffler Arts in welcoming artist Dimitri Levanoff and curator David Liss for a one-on-one conversation about Dimitri’s portrait series and how the two worked collaboratively to create the exhibition BEING THERE: Portraits from the Toronto Art Community.
Dimitri and David will welcome questions from the audience.
Dimitri Levanoff has worked as a photographer, editor, and printmaker for a number of prominent Canadian artists. Phil Bergerson, Geoffrey James, Arnaud Maggs, Greg Staats were the teachers who influenced his practice the most, though this list includes many more contemporary Canadian photographers. Today, Dimitri runs Imagefoundry, the boutique printmaking studio he founded in 1998. He helps Canadian artists, from emerging to famous, bring their ideas to life, while also pursuing personal projects like BEING THERE: Portraits from the Toronto Art Community.
David Liss is an independent curator, writer and artist currently living in Toronto. From 2000 to 2020 he was Director, Curator and Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. From 1995 to 2000 he was Director and Curator of the Gallery of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal. During the early 1990s he contributed art and music reviews to the Montreal Gazette, Vice, Canadian Art, and other publications. Since the late 1980s he has organized, curated, written texts and essays, published books and developed interdisciplinary programs for numerous exhibitions and projects in Toronto, Montreal, and venues across Canada and internationally.
