TORONTO.- The fifth installment of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s ongoing Toronto Now series will feature an exhibition by local artist Laurel Woodcock. On view from December 4, 2010 to January 30, 2011 in the AGO’s free, street-front Young Gallery, Toronto Now: Laurel Woodcock features four works, all of which are being exhibited for the first time. The exhibition incorporates the vocabulary of commercial signage—in response to what Woodcock calls the “storefront features” of the Young Gallery—to visually interpret turns of phrase, cinematic tropes, and abbreviations, often with an effect that results in obscured clarity or context. “Laurel Woodcock is an artist whose references come from popular culture, whose modes of production come from daily life, and whose inspiration comes from the legacy of conceptual art,” says Michelle Jacques, AGO associate curator of contemporary art. “Given