Event Listings » April 2010 » Visual Arts
RBC Painting Competition National Exhibition Tour. October 22, 2008 — November 2, 2010
| Description | An eight-city exhibition tour showcasing the work of the 15 semi-finalists of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition stops in London. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the competition aims to raise the awareness of emerging Canadian visual artists. Governor General Michaëlle Jean announced Jeremy Hof from Vancouver as the national winner and Amanda Reeves from Oakville and Will Murray from Montreal as the honourable mentioned. An unprecedented $145,000 in prize money was awarded for this year, including $25,000 to the winner, $15,000 to each of the honourable mentioned and $7,500 to the remaining semi-finalists. |
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| Category | Visual Arts |
| Location | Museum London |
| Website | http://www.museumlondon.ca |
Water Mark & Drowning Ophelia. January 17, 2010 — April 4, 2010
| Description | On View January 17 - April 4, 2010 Water Mark prints by GERARD BRENDER À BRANDIS BRIAN HOLDEN LUCINDA JONES Drowning Ophelia new media, video, photography, painting, and sculptural works by JANET BELLOTTO JOHN DICKSON JANIETA EYRE SUE LLOYD PAULETTE PHILLIPS MÉLANIE ROCAN SHARON SWITZER Gallery Stratford presents the openings of WATER MARK and DROWNING OPHELIA, each a group exhibition comprised of works by artists who examine the role of water from varying perspectives. The images in these exhibitions blur the lines between scientific realism and romantic contextualization, illuminating the expansive interrelationships that exist in both historical and contemporary landscapes. WATER MARK is composed of works by three artists who explore the Grand River and the surrounding organic environments, exploring the appearance of water in the natural world and its contemporary representation in an array of print making techniques and styles. Gerard Brender à Brandis’ work Water: the Great Giver and the Great Taker-Away, presented here derives from a series of images of the Grand River. Brian Holden’s series Water in the Wilderness: Northwestern Ontario comes from his fascination not only with landscape, which is a prominent component in many of his images, but also from the structures and forms found in the many varieties of organic life. In Experiencing Water, Lucinda Jones’ approach to evoking underwater scenes viewed during aquatic passage recalls Islamic Art, where repeated patterns and forms constitute an infinite pattern that extends beyond the visible material world. DROWNING OPHELIA poses several questions such as: How do artists tell stories in their work? How does contemporary art reflect and reveal narrative traditions? How does the art of today record and describe the world around us? And must ‘the real’ be fictionalized in order to be thought? This group show delves into the timely and timeless allegory of Ophelia’s loss of judgment and her subsequent watery demise in an exhibition of new media, video, photography, painting, and sculptural works by these contemporary artists, provoking an exploration and analysis of the influence of water in our time, as well as the possibilities and potentialities found throughout literature and art. |
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| Category | Visual Arts |
| Location | Gallery Stratford |
| Website | http://www.gallerystratford.on.ca |
| Contact | Andrea Jennings |
McIntosh Gallery Exhibition – Our relationship to the Natural Environment.. March 4, 2010 — April 24, 2010
| Description | Genetic modification, climate change, land rights, technologies of war and related concerns are discussed every day in the media. They are also the subject of much contemporary art. The twelve artists in this exhibition—Barbara Astman, Carl Beam, Ron Benner, Susan Dobson, Murray Favro, Elle Flanders, Wyn Geleynse, Frances Leeming, Gwen MacGregor, Dennis Oppenheim, Heidi Schaefer and Jamasie Teevee—address these issues and the broader relationship of nature and human nature to culture and technology. For more information contact: James Patten at: jpatten2@uwo.ca; (519) 661-2111 ext. 84602 |
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| Category | Visual Arts |
| Location | McIntosh Gallery at The University of Western Ontario |
| Website | http://www.mcintoshgallery.ca |
| Contact | James Patten |
Inside Out. March 18, 2010 — April 30, 2010
| Description | Come INSIDE where it's warm from OUT where it's cold and enjoy the current show at Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Museum London. 'INSIDE OUT' treats us to views of "Blue Skaters" (Christopher Griffin), "Water Woods" (Lesley Fitzpatrick),"Lake O'Hara"(Antje Laidler) and "Fishing Boats"(David Peacock). Catherine Morrisey's"Painting The View From Blackfriars" contrasts with Leszek Wyczolkowski's "Nocturne". Al McGrath takes us down an "Irish Street" while Phyllis Alter shows us an interior and Hannah Ruminski suggests some "Furniture". "Tide's Out"for Jane Ogborne, while Rory O'Kelly views "Southampton" and Eric Ladelpha is "Waiting With A Bag". Additional scenes, both INSIDE and OUT, are intriguing, while tulips and other flowers suggest the Spring we're eagerly awaiting. This show at ARSG bridges that gap between the gloom of winter and the hoped - for warmth of Spring. Come INSIDE and see it! |
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| Category | Visual Arts |
| Location | Art Rental and Sales Gallery |
| Website | http://www.arsg.museumlondon.ca |
| Contact | 519-661-0333 |
Ontario Society of Artists Anniversary Exhibition & Permanent Collection Exhibition. April 11, 2010 — June 6, 2010
| Description | BEING IN TIME Past to Present: Ontario Society of Artists Anniversary Exhibition Group Exhibition, Gallery 1 & 2 Carla Garnet, Guest Curator Curated by Carla Garnet, BEING IN TIME, on view at Gallery Stratford April 11th through to June 6th 2010, celebrates the 138th anniversary of the Ontario Society of Artists by taking up as its very theme the existence in Canada of the OSA, a uniquely durable artists society, that remains contemporary over time. Literally brimming with images of figure and ground in a variety of media this 138th Annual OSA Members Exhibition celebrates the OSA’s constant work to provide opportunities for its membership, to work, exhibit, document, educate and reflect on the natural and man-made beauty found in this province and beyond by featuring contemporary abstracts and representations of nature and culture by 61 member artists, which are complimented by the inclusion of exemplary oil and pencil studies by past society members such as: A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer and Doris McCarthy. Artists: Ona Alisauskas, Robert Amirault, Valerie Ashton, Nadia Bechirian-Tiseo, Peter Barelkowski, Andrea Bird, Lillian Michiko Blakey, Kelly Borgers, George Boyer, Carmel Brennan, Bruno Capolongo, Ray Cattell, Rita Choy-Ng, Susan Clark, Lynda Cunningham, Pat Dumas-Hudecki, Nancy De Boni, Elizabeth Elliott, Carole Edwards, Jean Eng, Pat Fairhead, Mary Ellen Farrow, Judith Finch, Maya Foltyn, Heather Grindley, Cathy Groulx, Diana Harding-Tucker, Janet Hendershot, Robin Hesse, Kate Hyde, Tara Imerson, Shahla Jamal, Laurin Jeffrey, Linda Kemp, Lila Lewis Irving, Mary Anne Ludlam, Sheila Roberts MacDonald, James MacDougall, Janice Mason Steeves, Vallery Mokrytzki, Robert Montgomery, Ryan Moon Song, Mary Ng, Audra Noble, Mary Anne Pavey, Germinio Politi, Helena Pravda, George Raab, Alejandro Rabazo, Janet Read, Doreen Renner, Asher Sadeh, John Schweitzer, Christina Sealy, Gerald Sevier, Dragan Sekaric Shex, Johanna Skelly, Alice Teichert, Gerd Untermann, Wynn Walters, and Yetvart Garbis Yaghdjian STONE, PAPER, INK PRINTS FROM THE 70’s, 80’s and 90’s Permanent Collection Exhibition Gallery 3 Les Levine, J.C. Heywood, Otis Tamasauskas, and Harold Klunder. Carla Garnet, Guest Curator Viewed as an installation this selection of fifteen prints playfully reveals the double potential of images to operate both as abstract signs and as representational pictures encoded with history by showcasing Levine, Heywood, Tamasauskas and Klunder’s engagement with early 20th century collage strategies, colour, technique and the possibilities of pressing ink on paper. |
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| Category | Visual Arts |
| Location | Gallery Stratford |
| Website | http://www.gallerystratford.on.ca |