Art Metropole

07 Jun. 2025

Tom Dean: Roundtable Discussions

Time

2:00-7:00

Offsite Location

Top Top Projects

Let us know you’re coming! (registration form)

Tom Dean: GOOD-BYE is an exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery that brings together a rarely seen body of conceptual and sculptural work produced between 1969-1974, when Dean was living in Montreal. Documenting the artist’s extensive and active engagement with the local alternative art scene and broader cultural milieu, GOOD-BYE invites viewers to reevaluate and reflect on the enduring significance of Dean’s work, and this cultural history, in today’s context.

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Art Metropole, and the plumb are pleased to convene roundtable discussions around two essential nodes of Dean’s early practice: artist’s press and publications and artist-run spaces. Bringing together an illustrious panel of speakers, the discussions will shed light on the historical context of these movements and activities and reflect on the threads of resonance that are visible, at work, and needed in this present moment.

Roundtable A: Press
2PM
Co-presented by Art Metropole and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Featuring: Vincent Bonin, Robert Fones, Peggy Gale, and Luis Jacob

Roundtable B: Space
3:30 PM
Co-presented by the plumb and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Featuring: Anthony Cooper, Suzy Lake, Nell Tenhaaf, and Adam Welch

The roundtable discussions will take place from 2:00-5:00 PM at Top Top Projects (165 Geary Ave, Toronto, ON M6H 2B8) and will be followed by a reception with refreshments from 5:00-7:00 PM.

Image

Tom Dean, GOOD-BYE, blue and gold sequins on canvas, 1970. Photograph of work hanging from Dean’s studio on Saint Laurent Boulevard, Montreal by Gabor Szilasi.

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