Members' Exhibition Listings
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
Dominique Leroy Prince
El Teide. Abstract paintings
July 13 – August 1, 2010
Opening Reception: July 15, 7-9 pm
Hang Man Gallery
756 Queen Street East, Toronto, On M4M 1H4
The fascinating sight of the volcano, Teide, on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, is certainly in an environment where the feeling of abstraction raises in oneself. As far as the eye can see, everything is the outcome of catastrophes which happened millions of years ago. The awesome silence, the incapacity of measuring time, raises in oneself a kind of terror, a fortitude, a feeling of supernatural power, but also of a formidable beauty, an incorruptible majesty. this combination of present and past is, for me, impossible to represent through the figurative. It is at the foot of the Teide that I found a desire for making abstract works. Since then, I have found new subjects to work with.
Carol Westcott in a group exhibition:
Society of Canadian Artists
July 7 – July 18, 2010
Opening Reception: 10 July, 12-2pm
Papermill Gallery
Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Road, Toronto
42nd annual open juried national exhibition.
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.
Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour
Reflections
July 7 – August 4, 2010
Opening Reception: July 8 at 12pm
Roberts Gallery
641 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1Z9
The Awarding of the First Doris McCarthy Award for Best Work in Show, Celebration of Doris’100th and Celebrating the 85th Anniversary of the Society. We are honoured to share this centenary milestone with our oldest member who was elected in 1952.
This year’s jurors include Marc Gagnon, former president of the society, Peter Marsh, current president of the society and Paul Wildridge, President of Roberts Gallery.
On November 11, 1925, Franklin Carmichael, A.J. Casson, and Fred Bridgen formed the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. The CSPWC recognizes, encourages, and nurtures excellence of work in the medium of watercolour.
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.
Tim Roscoe
Still Life Study
July 4 – July 31, 2010
Kodiak Gallery in the Distillery district
55 Mill Street, Building 47, Toronto ON
All of these images were produced on film, with a large format view camera and printed by hand in a traditional wet darkroom. In an effort to establish that artistic vision is not dependent on technology, this show concentrates on still life, to see if the familiar, even the mundane, can still be inspiring and relevant.
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
Panchal Mansaram
Where The Streets Have No Name (Group show)
May 12 – June 11, 2010
Indigo Blue Gallery
33 Neil Road,Singapore 088820
Twenty artists of Indian origin were invited to participate in this exhibition, I am one of them. Curated by Dr Alka Pande. The opening was on 12 May 2010, 6.30-8.30pm. Indian High Commissioner to Singapore Dr T.C.A. Raghvan was guest of honour. This exhibition will travel to Hong Kong and London. Streets Have No Name is an art project curated by Dr Alka Pande and conceptualized by the Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT), an NGO based in India that provides support for street and working children in the inner cities of Delhi and Mumbai.
Featuring 20 internationally acclaimed artists along with the children of the SBT, this exhibition explores the concept of the ‘street’ through their creative efforts. Each child/children have paired with an artist to produce a diptych, either as a painting or photograph. The first panel will reflect the artist’s impression of the street, while the second panel will represent the child’s perception of his/her world along with the artist. These diptyches will be displayed and sold through exhibitions in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Delhi.
The Exhibition opens officially in Delhi on the 29th and 30th April at India Habitat centre and will travel to Indigo Blue Art, Singapore from 13 May – 11 June.
For more details visit http://www.salaambaalaktrust.com
100% of the proceeds will go to the SBT. Guest of Honour for the night will be H.E Dr T. C. A. Raghavan, Indian High Commissioner to Singapore
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..
Tom Dietrich
Past Perfect....Future Tense
May 31 - July 4,2010
Reception: June 1 at 5pm
Red Brick Cafe
8 Douglas Street, Guelph, ON
Solo Show. Tom Dietrich exhibits his new work of atmospheric landscapes, including several new sculptural paintings at the Red Brick Cafe. The work explores the contrasting constructed realities, merging sublime expressions of light and colour with structural overtones of a constructed environment. Blurred realities in oil on canvas mingle with sculptural components in steel, wood and Plexiglas, merging the nostalgic view of the past with the stern reality of humanity’s need to grow.
Colette Gréco-Riddle
Subject to Change / Sujet à changement
June 10 - June 27, 2010
Jean-Claude Bergeron
150 St Patrick Street, Ottawa, Ontario
My art captures a fleeting impression, perspective, texture in a vortex of change. It focuses attention on abstract building blocks such as circular forms, geometric patterns and a range of primal colours to blended earthy tones. Viewed through my personal experiential lens the world can have the expanse of a translucent landscape or the reductionist simplicity of a single form embedded in a vivid background. The mood is cool and detached. This collection of paintings and mixed media works are transient portrayals which confirm the reality that it is all subject to change...
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:
Burlington Fine Art & Craft Festival
June 12 (10am - 6 pm) and June 13 (11am - 5 pm), 2010
Art Centre grounds at Brock Park
1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON
About 100 artists will be exhibiting their art & crafts in the Burlington Art Centre and on the Art Centre grounds at Brock Park, 1333 Lakeshore Rd., Burlington, ON. There will be musical entertainment, food, and artisans working on a variety of art & crafts.
Cobourg Lions’ Art Show & Sale
July 1 - July 3 (10 am - 6 pm) and July 4 (10 am - 5 pm), 2010
Victoria Waterfront Park
Cobourg, Ontario
There will be 100 artists exhibiting their wonderful work at the Victoria Waterfront Park, Cobourg, Ontario. As well there will be entertainment and the Rotary Club Craft Festival. Admission Free.
Cloyne Open Studio Tour and Sale
July 16 -July 18 (10am - 5pm), 2010
The Studio Tour will take place on Little Pond Road off Highway 41 at 1074 Little Pond Road, Cloyne, ON.
You are invited to visit the studio/gallery of Carla Miedema , and see her impressive new paintings, pen & ink drawings, and other art works. This is a great opportunity for visitors to see the artist’ studio and artist at work. Enjoy the beautiful countryside on your drive to her studio.
Nature artist, Carla Miedema, enjoys painting, in acrylic & mixed media on canvas, the rugged landscape and wild flowers around her home in Cloyne. Her intricate drawings of children, homes, and wildflowers are depicted on handmade papers and various other papers. Admission is free.
Bon Echo Art Exhibition & Sale
July 23 (11am - 5pm ), July 24 (10am - 5pm) and July 25 (10am - 4pm)
Bon Echo Provincial Park
Hwy. # 41, Cloyne, ON
The exhibition theme: Original Art Of “Canadian Nature, Wildlife Or Countryside”
The Friends of Bon Echo Provincial Park invite you to the annual Bon Echo Art Exhibition and Sale. This is a juried art exhibition and sale, which takes place in a central location in beautiful Bon Echo Provincial Park. About 50 artists will have their work on display and for sale. Make a day of it and enjoy art & demonstrations, BBQ, snake show, and music. All profits made by the Friends of Bon Echo Park go back into preserving the natural and cultural heritage of the Park.
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.
James B. Fowler
Cross Section
May 20 - August 3,2010
Opening Reception: May 20, 9.30 -11.30pm
Gladstone Café
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
MADE presents Cross Section by James B. Fowler as one of a curated series of textile exhibits at the GLADSTONE HOTEL as part of the Hotel's art and design incubator program.
Canadian artist and textile designer James B. Fowler makes "stuff". Cross Section gathers and shapes the rarified bits and debris of his commercial "production" line. Culled over time these remnants form the more visceral collection of large scale textile works that is Cross Section.
Fowler collects "used wool sweaters. I wash them to create felt. (the process is actually called fulling, as I am working from spun knitted yarn as opposed to raw fleece.) I cut the sweaters apart after felting. From these pieces I cut my production work; mittens scarves, pillows and blankets, things that function. The leftovers are saved, cut into whatever size square tiles I can to utilize the most of the debris. These are gathered over time until I start to see something..."
To painterly effect, his felted tiles are sometimes employed as pixels to create imagery. Sometimes they are a closer look at something, not so much shapes as colour fields carrying a specific emotion or state through the small squares of wool and their connectedness, one to another.
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.
Tammy Ratcliff
Soft Celebration
May 1 - June 19
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 6 at 7pm
The artist will be present at the public reception
Cambridge Galleries Preston
435 King Street East, Cambridge, ON N3H 3N1
Soft celebration is a quiet observance and appreciation of all the small stages and events in life that when patched together, add up to who and where we are now. Utilizing a chine-collé process, the artist has created smaller, etchings, reliefs and monotype prints on washi — fine handmade Japanese papers. The images have been reworked numerous times before being assembled into larger compositions. Sometimes it seems like too much, is the artist’s largest composition to date — a 10 ½ metre long scroll that sweeps horizontally across the length of the gallery. It allows the eye to wander the interwoven lines and symbols of cartography and plant-based imagery that evoke a continuous journey of growth, exploration and culmination.
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
The IRIS Group
IRIS in the Adirondacks
June 17 - July 11, 2010
Opening Reception: June 17 at 4pm
BluSeed Studios
24 Cedar Street, Saranac Lake, New York 12983
The IRIS Group of Durham Region, Ontario, Canada is exhibiting new work as well as objects and images from their ongoing cumulative project that involves writing, mixed media and photography. Exhibiting members are Laura Hair, Holly McClellan, Janice Prebble, Margaret Rodgers and Sally Thurlow.
Margot Cormier Splane
Art For The Thoughtful Mind; Exploring the World from an Artists Perspective
June 2 - June 26, 2010
Opening Reception: June 5 at 1:30 pm
The Lindsay Gallery
190 Kent St. West, 2nd Floor, Lindsay, ON, K9V 2Y6
These Acrylic Paintings, and Hand Pulled Serigraphs contain highly realistic depictions of animals and occasionally people, yet they are unlike anything you would ever see. The inspiration evolves out of a variety of different sources, the starting point could be a humorous anecdote, an exploration of the artist’s deep concern for the environment, or an exploration of art from the past going back as far as cave paintings. The artist refers to her style as “Reality With a Twist”.
Sarah Carvalho in group exhibition:
Brampton Square Foot Show
June 1 - July 7, 2010
Reception: June 5 at 1pm
Beaux-Arts
70 Main Street North, Brampton ON L6V 1N7
For sale one square foot acrylic work of the Natural Ontario landscape.
Information at :
www.beaux-artsbrampton.com
http://guelpharts.ca/100acrestudio/