Members' Exhibition Listings
Katherine Mcnenly
Light and Memory
September 1 – October 4, 2010
Opening Reception: September 5 at 2pm
Cube Gallery
1285 Wellington Ave. Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 3A8
Exhibition of oil paintings executed in the realist tradition. The exploration of memory as both a language between the artist's subject and the viewer, as well as the physical action of memory exercised by the artist when painting from life.
Eva McCauley
IN/VISIBLE
August 19 - September 9, 2010
Limerick Printmakers Studio & Gallery
4 Robert Street, Limerick, Ireland
IN/VISIBLE is an installation of ghost-like apparitions that seem to hover over and around more tangible landscape images, suggestive of the presence of people from the past. The images are hand-pulled prints (monotypes and lithography) that have been digitally captured, enlarged and printed on transparent fabric scrims with a large format Agfa Aquajet Printer
McCauley’s work deals with the fragility of the human condition, exploring the relationship between visibility and invisibility. Her work deals with memory, both the subjective and the collective. Her concern, though, is not the recreation of a specific image or moment, but the creation of something informed by the act of remembering-- an act which renders past experiences as ephemeral, and constantly in flux, resulting in works which themselves perpetually shift, their images lyrical, ghostlike, and ethereal.
Carrie Chisholm
The Lucky Country/Le Pays Chanceux
July 29 – October 22, 2010
Galarie Wilder & Davis
257 rue rachel Est, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1E5
Brief artists statement or description of the work: Inspired by a visit to the Melbourne Cup, a major annual horse race in Australia, Chisholm`s “The Lucky Country” is a satirical view of the growing materialism in society. By reinterpreting personal snap shot photographs, Carrie Chisholm explores the facets of staging illusion. Using blind contour drawing to create fluid and expressive lines, Chisholm evolves the process by applying layers of acrylic glazes, emphasizing distortion and dissolving her subject matter. Drawing from the photographic reference and without watching her drawing hand, Chisholm’s signature technique liberates the image from its static perfection. The result is a radically altered view of the subject matter in which the spirit of the original photograph is retained just enough to preserve its lure.
Blair Sharpe
On Some Faraway Beach – New Paintings
September 30 – October 24, 2010
Opening Reception: September 30 at 6pm
Fran Hill Gallery
285 Rushton Road, Toronto, ON, M6C 2X5
My long-term preoccupation is with the apparent paradoxical relationship of art and nature. In formal terms my work is intrinsically abstract, concerned with the interior logic of paint and painting—a language that flows in terms of space, colour, form, structure, material and surface. Simultaneously it reflects upon the essential energies of nature—evolution, metamorphosis and transmutation.
Teodora Pica in group exhibition:
Juried Canadian Landscape Exhibition
July 29 – September 11, 2010
Agnes Jamieson Gallery
176 Bobcaygeon Road , Minden, ON K0M 2K0
Mark Prier
The Lines
August 7 - September 18, 2010
Meet the Artist at the Opening Reception Saturday August 7 between 2 and 4 pm.
Rails End Gallery & Arts Centre
23 York Street, POB 912, Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
Mark Prier’s work takes the vernacular of survival as its starting point for abstraction, teasing form from sources as diverse as lean-tos, hunting blinds, camping shelters and farm maintenance. Prier’s multi-media work deals with themes of wilderness, mapping and survival. He has exhibited in Canada, Mexico, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Prier is a graduate of the Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto. As half of the electronica duo hellothisisalex, Prier has played the MUTEK Festival in Montreal, done commissions for CBC Radio, and taken part in the National Film Board of Canda’s Minus 40 Project. Prier lives in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Janet Stanley
Pure Potential
August 4 - August 22, 2010
Opening Reception: August 4, 1-5pm
*new* gallery
906 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1G6
In this exhibition of new paintings Stanley explores her ongoing fascination with energy. That raw life force that infuses every molecule of the ever changing world we live in. Pure Potential presents work that investigates the endless possibilities inherent when one considers the ever-changing nature of energy as the basis of everything. Like the ideas pursued, these abstract oil paintings are fluid and alive - they morph and shift with extended viewing. Artist on site Friday, Saturday and Sunday or by appointment.
Panchal Mansaram in a group show:
Colour and Form Society in the Alton Mill Gallery
July 10 - August 8, 2010
Alton Mill Gallery
1402 Queen Street, Alton
The Colour and Form Society is an Ontario-based exhibiting group of close to 100 professional artists. Membership is contingent on jury selection. Many of CFS's earliest members were European visual artists who immigrated to Canada after WWII. Since its formation in 1952, the Society has welcomed talented artists from different parts of the world. Their styles and subjects reflect their lively diversity. This summer exhibition includes the work of 22 artists in a variety of media.
Gallery hours: Wed - Sun 10-5
Carol Westcott, Dan Ryan, Laura Culic
Environmental Music
August 24 – September 24, 2010
Opening Reception: September 9, 6-8pm
John B. Aird Gallery
900 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M7A 1C2
Three artists' interpretations of the Ontario landscape. Curated by Gillian Reddyhoff.
Ewa Kujawska and Vivien Tytor in a group exhibition
Black and White
August 5 - August 29, 2010
Opening reception: August 5, 7-9 pm
Britannia Gallery
2728 Howe St, Ottawa, Ontario
For information visit www.staffordstudiosart.com/events
Teri Donovan
Half-Life
July 1 – August 14, 2010
Opening reception: July 9th 7– 11pm
Hamilton Artists Inc
161 James Street North, Hamilton, ON
The title of Teri Donovan’s exhibition, Half-life, generally refers to how long it takes for a substance to be reduced to half of its activity. Donovan uses this term as a metaphor for the long duration past influences have on any given subject. In her view, as the present becomes the past, it asserts an influence over the future via the mechanism of memory and projection.
Co-mingling wallpaper patterns and paint layers, Donovan sandwiches the past with the present to foreshadow a future embedded with bygone remnants. Old notions, styles, and behaviours, like old wallpaper, are replaced by the new, but are never really gone. In the guise of memory and desire they linger on in a spectral half-life projecting into the future where they emerge to be re-enacted, re-contextualized, and re-interpreted.
Donovan's work addresses that tenacious desire for life that guarantees the past’s role in the present and the future, and simultaneously suggests how the present secures its own place as it moves towards its inevitable fate.
Lily Yung in a group show:
Bent Out of Shape
July 9 – October 10, 2010
Reception: July 9 6-9pm party (RSVP only)
Design Exchange
234 Bay Street, Toronto ON M5K 1B2
Hours: Mon - Fri 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. Sat/Sun 12:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
BENT OUT OF SHAPE: CANADIAN DESIGN 1945 – PRESENT
Bent Out of Shape celebrates Canada’s rich industrial design history from 1945 to the present. The exhibition is devoted to showing the Design Exchange’s permanent collection through the lens of material, method, technology, identity and transformation. In doing so Bent Out of Shape will illustrate rapid political, technological, and social changes which burst forth following the war and moving toward modernity.
The public will be granted access to the Design Exchange’s permanent collection, which spans over six decades and covers more than six hundred industrial design objects and archival materials. Items on display will include furniture, housewares, textiles, electronics, and lighting. The design context and process will be shown through supporting archival documents. The exhibition will also feature outstanding contemporary achievements in industrial design from new Canadian designers. The juxtaposition between historical objects and contemporary designs will present a unique opportunity to trace trends in Canadian design, the evolution of materials and design thinking, and forthcoming practices.
Judy Gouin and Regina Williams in a group exhibition:
New Works
July 1 - September 9, 2010
Opening reception: July 1, 2- 4pm
Ferneyhough Contemporary
157 First Avenue East, North Bay, ON P1B 1J7
* Please note: the gallery will be closed July 15 - 21
Please join us for a
"Canada Day" opening reception: Thursday, July 1, 2 - 4 pm.
Featuring local market refreshments + complimentary art mags and ephemera
Philippa Hajdu
The sacred & the Profane
October 20 – October 31, 2010
Reception: Thursday October 21, 7-9pm
Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313
1313 Queen St. W., Toronto
These works are an erotic exploration of the human body using acrylic collage.
Susan Gold in a group exhibition:
Impressions of the Massasauga Provincial Park
July 16 – August 8, 2010
Opening: July 17 4 -6 pm
Stockey Centre for the Performing arts
Parry Sound, ON
The exhibition runs July 16 to August 8. The artists thank The Massasauga Provincial Park, Ontario Parks, Ontario Arts Council and the Festival of the Sound for their support. Artists Peter Bulwalda, David Dawson, Bev Easton, Jane Gray. Laurie Muirhead, and Alan Stein worked in the Park in the Fall of 2009 and this exhibition represents their perspective on this exceptional Ontario environment.
Eva McCauley
Unveiling the Invisible
August 19 – September 9, 2010
Opening Reception: August 19 at 8pm
Printmakers Gallery
4 Robert Street, Limerick, Ireland
A print installation of large suspended transparent scrims, printed with images of a series of ghost-like, ephemeral faces, that deal with the fragility of the human condition, and explore the relationship between visibility and invisibility.
Jamelie Hassan
At the Far Edge of Words
June 18 - August 22, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, June 17 8 - 10pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 19 1 - 2:30pm
Since the 1970s, Jamelie Hassan’s work has been influenced by cultural politics, social activism, and her background as a Canadian born to Arab parents. Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words is the first survey of the work of this award-winning, London, Ontario artist. The exhibition includes over two dozen paintings, drawings, photographs, multi-media installations, as well as the billboard—Because . . . there was and there wasn’t a city of Baghdad.
Throughout her career, Hassan has maintained that artists have a responsibility to address the important issues of their time. The works in this show, produced from 1971 to 2009, indicate her abiding interest in cultural history and the issues of exclusion, human rights, and justice. Because . . . there was and there wasn’t a city of Baghdad, the billboard project placed on the outside wall of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, features a photograph that Hassan took in the late 1970s during her first visit to Baghdad where she was an Arabic language student. The billboard was conceived as a response to the Gulf War in 1991. Within six months of the war, the billboard was displayed in the Canadian city centres of Windsor, London, and then later in Vancouver. The work is compelling when set against the context of politics, economics, and international conflict. Though nearly two decades has passed since the Gulf War, Hassan’s evocative combination of text and image continues to resonate.
Lynette Chubb, David W. Jones, Manju Sah, Garrie Bea Joyce and Lindsay Watson in a group exhibition:
The 15th. Annual West End Studio Tour, Ottawa
September 18-19 & September 25-26, 2010. From 10am to 5pm.
Artists Studios and commercial venues in the West end of Central Ottawa. Please refer to map found at: http://www.westendstudiotour.ca
Adrian Göllner
Shape of Luck
June 2010 - June 2011
artengine.ca
Luck is a nebulous concept. But as intangible as it may be, we have all had the sense of having been lucky at one time or another. Having once felt the rush of being lucky, one can't help but be drawn towards it. - Adrian Göllner
Almost every week, somewhere around the world, a simple collection of numbers changes everything for someone. Alongside those special chosen numbers, is another string of numbers picked, discarded and meaningless until the next lottery draw, a never ending train of discarded numerical sequences.
These numbers, the lucky and unlucky, the special ones, the birthdays, the aniversaries and the completely random, take form in Göllner's new web project. Plotted, visualized and elegantly morphed together in an endless loop of six sided shapes, they create a kind of hypnotic parade of graphic forms. You may soon find yourself pondering the meaning of their shape; the relationship from one shape to another or of a winning shape to a losing one.
Each year Artengine commissions a new work of art for the network, and hosts it on its artist-run server while highlighting on its homepage. Shape of Luck is part of this series and will be presented by Artengine until June 2011.
Shape of Luck by Adrian Göllner http://artengine.ca/shapeofluck
Produced and presented by artengine.ca
Design implementation by Michael Lechasseur
Candy McManiman and Annette Martin
Sometimes I wish I were a fish....
August 16 - September 4, 2010
Opening Reception: August 20th, 7:30pm
The Art Exhange Gallery
247 Wortley Rd. London, ON
"Sometimes I wish I were a fish...." will feature new works in multi media. Many of Martins colourful pieces feature fish and McManiman will also incoporate them into her art. ...although being an avid birdwatcher, she uses birds also. By using birds or fish in her art as iconic symbols, McManiman sends a subtle message of concerns for the earth..
Colette Gréco-Riddle
In Full View / En pleine vue
July 30 - August 25, 2010
Atrium Gallery, Ben Franklin Place
101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
This collection of works underscores the truism that art reveals the artist; there is nowhere to hide. My exhibition creates vulnerability, a sense of isolation but also opportunities for new perspectives. After all, one's work is in full view.
Carla Miedema in group exhibitions:
Cloyne Showcase 2010 , Art & Craft Sale
August 6 (10am - 5pm), August 7 (10am - 5pm) and August 8 (10am - 4pm)
North Addington Education Centre
Cloyne, ON, Highway # 41
You are invited to the annual Showcase of arts and crafts, sponsored by the North Addington Guild. Over 75 exhibitors will be displaying and selling a huge variety of Arts and Crafts, such as wood working, sewing, jewellery, paintings, soaps, quilting, just to name a few.
Food and refreshments, provided by the Mazinaw Lake Swim Committee, is also available. All profits from this venture go directly back to the swim program.All profits made by the Guild are donated to enrich the arts programs at North Addington Education Centre, Cloyne, ON.
Kawartha Fine Art Festival
September 4 (10am - 6 pm) and September 5 (10am - 5pm)
Agricultural Building
Fenelon Falls, ON
This is an exhibition & sale of fine art by over 75 artists. There will be food available and music.
Admission is free and there are door prizes.
Don Maynard
Franken Forest
8 May - 8 August, 2010
Reception and Artists’ Talks: May 8 at 7pm
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
262 University Avenue, Kingston, ON
In this new multi-media installation, a grove of fabricated trees and a skittering stop-action video projection of a forest canopy conjure up a future in which fanciful simulacra displace the natural world. Skirting allusions to genetically engineered crops and nano-built environments through use of everyday materials such as glass, nails, laminate flooring and Christmas lights, Don Maynard’s Franken Forest plumbs our uneasiness with the irreversible drift of species loss and the insufficient theatre of their replacement. Two additional works expand on this theme. Building on his astonishing 2007 sculpture/event Tidal Mass, this exhibition demonstrates Maynard’s use of light and perceptual ambiguity to stoke the emotional force and conceptual immanence of his art.
A Kingston-based artist whose work has garnered wide critical affirmation, Don Maynard has exhibited painting and sculpture across Canada and the United States since 1990. Don Maynard: Franken Forest is curated by Jan Allen and Linda Jansma, and developed in collaboration with The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. A publication is planned for release in August 2010.
Jim Riley
Water’s Edge (Exchange)
September 16 - November 14, 2010
Art Gallery of Sudbury
21 John St. Sudbury, ON 705-674-3271
With Water's Edge, Riley begins to explore a new approach to "video paintings". He uses a painted wall and cut out painted wooden shapes juxtaposed to a portal of video imagery. The painted wall interacts with the video imagery, and creates colours that are not in the source location or the actual video. The video becomes a more painterly medium and a tool to challenge our perceptions about our reality. Images were used from Sudbury and Burlington as the documentary beginning in creating this video installation.
Works in this exhibition were created after exchange visits between artists in Sudbury and artists in the Burlington area. Other artists in this exhibition are: Mercedes Cueto-Sudbury, Nick Dubecki-Sudbury, Fausta Facciponte-Mississauga, Linda Finn-Elliot Lake, V. Jane Gordon-Hamilton, Sonja Hidas-Missisauga, Marlene Kawalez-Milton, Ron Langin-Sudbury, Jamie Ruddy-Sudbury, Grazna Ziolkowski-Hamilton