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February

February 20, 2012

• Event Digest Vol. 8 No. 08

January

January 16, 2012

• Event Digest Vol. 8 No. 03

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February 20, 2012

OAAG EVENT DIGEST: Vol. 8 No. 08

1. Toronto Gallery 1313 February 22 New Exhibitions

2. Kitchener Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery February 23 Walk the Talk

3.Toronto Mercer Union February 23 Jennifer Murphy

4. Toronto Stephen Bulger Gallery February 25 Éliane Excoffier

5. Stouffville The Latcham Gallery February 25 Daniel Colby: Pyrite Princes

6. Mississauga Art Gallery of Mississauga to February 25 Visual Arts Mississauga 34th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts

7. Whitby Station Gallery February 26 Family Art Day – African Landscapes

8. Kleinberg McMichael Canadian Art Collection February 26 Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky

9. Barrie MacLaren Art Centre to February 26 Kelly Wallace: Terminal

10. Toronto Harbourfront Centre February 28 World Stage 2012: Entity

11. Orillia Orillia Museum of Art and History February 29 International Women’s Day Art Show

12. Toronto Gallery 44 March 2 New Exhibitions

13. Toronto MOCCA March 3 Silent Auction and Reception

14. Toronto AGO March 3 IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011

15. Toronto Neilson Park Creative Centre to March 4 Etobicoke Art Group’s Member’s Choice Exhibition

16.Durham Durham Art Gallery to March 11 Current Exhibitions

17. Grimsby Grimsby Public Art Gallery March 12 Classes and Workshops

18. Hamilton Art Gallery of Hamilton March 12 March Break-

19. Waterloo The Clay & Glass to April 8 Ann Roberts: With Both Fear and Intrepid Enthusiasm

20. Guelph Macdonald Stewart Art Centre on now The Art of Thomas Nisbet, Master Cabinetmaker

21. Sault Ste Marie Arts Council of Sault Ste Marie and District ongoing & upcoming Exhibitions & Events

22. Oshawa The Robert McLaughlin Gallery ongoing & upcoming Exhibitions & Events

23. Owen Sound Tom Thomson Art Gallery ongoing & upcoming Exhibitions & Events

24. Burlington Burlington Art Centre ongoing & upcoming Exhibitions & Events

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1. GALLERY 1313 New Exhibitions

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New Exhibitions

Gallery 1313 1313 Queen St. West

www.g1313.org

416-536-6778

Gallery Hours Wed.- Sun. 1-6pm

STORM CHASER

Gallery 1313 is pleased to host an exhibition of artist Ian Sheldon’s paintings and glass works Feb. 22- March 4 .

Come meet the artist at the reception Feb.23, 7pm.-10pm. By Invitation – Please contact the Gallery – director@g1313.org

Media can contact Karen McCarthy – Publicist to Ian Sheldon karenmccarthy08@gmail.com

For Gallery or media information please contact Phil Anderson 416-525-7688

Acclaimed Edmonton Artist Captures Power and Beauty of Turbulent Prairie Skies in New Book

Storm Chaser presents 83 of Ian Sheldon’s vibrant, highly dramatic storm paintings. His work provides a direct experience of the vast space of both land and sky on the Canadian prairies. Sheldon’s stylized representation of the energetic turbulence of the storms that often sweep the prairies adds a new dimension to the artistic dialogue about the raw nature of our nation.

Sheldon is a storm junkie, obsessively monitoring Environment Canada’s online radar, which he crosschecks with satellite information to figure out when and where major storm fronts might form. When a big front develops, Sheldon grabs his camera and races to the scene in his car. The photographs he takes form the inspiration for his paintings.

Sheldon’s storm paintings, in their complexity of colour, texture, light and shadow, serve as the centrepiece to Storm Chaser, but by combining them with his own captivating writing and selected excerpts from other exceptional writers and poets, Ian offers us a layered book that is a paean to the joy and beauty of living on the prairie.

Opening the book will lead you to enter a portal to a land and a journey—Ian Sheldon’s world of wind, grass, sky and spirit.

STORM CHASER Canadian Prairie Skyscapes

Media Contact for the book – Tom Lore 1-800-875-7108 x289

tlore@lonepinepublishing.com

About the Author/ Artist

Ian Sheldon was born on the Canadian prairies and raised in other lands, including South Africa, Singapore and England. In returning to his birthplace, he applies that global influence to his landscapes and defines a new dimension in prairie art. Ian’s diverse works have been shown in San Francisco, New York, across Canada and in England. He is best known for his bold and iconic prairie skyscapes, works that have earned him the moniker “Storm Chaser

Microcosm Works by Michelle Montague

Cell Gallery, Feb 22-March 4, 2012

Reception Feb. 23 7pm

Microcosm:

Also called microcosmos, takes its origin from the Middle English word of microcosme or Medieval Latin mi-crocosmus, from Greek mi-kròs kósmos, meaning ‘little world’. Especially:

1. the human race or human nature seen as an epitome of the world or the universe

2. a community or other unity that is an epitome of a larger unity

"Microcosm" Merriam-Webster.com., Merriam-Webster, 2012

Thurs., Feb 2 2012

Michelle Montague uses the visual queues of story-telling to explore the idea of Nature as an active participant of a micro-universe. With overlapping gestured lines, the artist intuitively creates a world immersed in fantasy. In this series of drawings and paintings, images of strange creature inhabitants try to balance a delicate relationship with their “mother” – Nature. The work depicts a series of events, where the creatures find themselves in a world where the forces of “mother” are ever so present; they are physically “caught” in the process. Much like ourselves, the creatures are both loved and scorned by their well-being “mother” as they get jostled about like goldfish in a tiny bowl of water. Through this body of work the artist attempts to further her understanding of Nature, the life energy and its ever lasting process of rejuvenation.

Window Box Gallery :Babylon

Installation by Ozana Gherman

Babylon, the hanging gardens, the lost world wonder, captured in Gallery 1313’s Window Box Gallery and placed on display. The Window Box Gallery frames a glimpse of the hanging garden, isolated from the rest capturing as if pieces were taken out of context and put on display. The knotted pods hang to the viewers content as a re-creation of parts of the garden to evoke feeling to remember and imagine what it would have felt like to experience this world wonder. Babylon uses textile manipulation through crochet and knotting techniques to form the primal feeling of nature in texture and form.

Ozana Gherman is a textile artist and architectural designer focusing on inter-species relations and three- dimensional textiles through weaving and sculptural techniques and cultural and historical references.

website: http://cargocollective.com/ozanagherman

contact: ozana.gherman@gmail.com

Gallery Hours Wed.- Sun. 1-6pm

Phil Anderson Executive Director Gallery 1313 1313 Queen St. West Toronto , On M6K 1L8

416-536-6778

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2. KITCHENER-WATERLOO ART GALLERY Walk the Talk

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Walk the Talk @ KW|AG

Discover the world of contemporary art by taking part in a guided tour of the Gallery’s current exhibitions, Let’s Glow and Another Victory Over the Sun, as well as selected work from KW|AG’s permanent collection. You’ll learn some interesting facts about the works and the artists who created them. During the walk-through, feel free to ask questions or just listen.

The next Walk the Talk is Thursday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (located in the Centre In The Square)

101 Queen Street North, Kitchener ON Canada

N2H 6P7

519-579-5860

www.kwag.on.ca

Connecting people and ideas through art

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3. MERCER UNION Jennifer Murphy

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IN STUDIO: JENNIFER MURPHY

Thursday 23 February, 7PM

Free to Sustaining Members on RSVP to york@mercerunion.org

Refreshments will be served

Join in this exclusive opportunity for Mercer Union Sustaining Members to meet over drinks with artist Jennifer Murphy.

Murphy is a Toronto-based artist. Working mainly in collage, she uses different materials ranging from cut and sewn images from books to garbage bags, velvet, silk and gold leaf. She has shown nationally and internationally, including the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Mercer Union, Toronto; White Columns, New York; and Art Forum, Berlin. She was on the long list in Ontario for the Sobey Art Award in 2006. She is represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto.

Space is extremely limited. Select tickets may be available to non-Sustaining Members for $25. For membership inquiries, contact York Lethbridge, Director of Operations & Development by email at york@mercerunion.org or by calling 416.536.1519

SPIKED TEA 2012

Saturday 17 March, 2PM

Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto

Tickets $75 / Members $65

Call to confirm 416.536.1519

Following the success of Spiked Tea 2011, Mercer Union once again hosts the time-honoured ritual of high tea... with a contemporary twist! Engage in lively conversation with prominent Toronto artists as they host tables they have designed specially for the occasion. Enjoy our elegantly eclectic portfolio of teas with special cocktail accompaniments and assorted delicacies - a menu of scrumptious finger sandwiches and freshly baked pastries by local culinary creatives awaits! Bring your closest friends for some artful hobnobbing and fun-filled table hopping.

Participating artists include Basil AlZeri, Robyn Cumming, Brette Gabel, Sarah Jane Gorlitz + Wojtek OlejnikMaggie Groat, Stuart Keeler, Jean-Paul Kelly, Nina Leo, Heather Nicol, Bojana Stancic + Alex Wolfson, and more...

Sponsor tables are also available. Please contact York Lethbridge, Director of Operations & Development, at york@mercerunion.org for more information.

Image: Robyn Cumming, Many Shades of Pink (2007)

Mercer Union acknowledges the support of its members and patrons, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.

Mercer Union

1286 Bloor Street West

Toronto ON M6H 1N9 Canada

www.mercerunion.org

info@mercerunion.org

416.536.1519

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4. STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY Éliane Excoffier

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Stephen Bulger Gallery

1026 Queen Street West

Toronto, Ontario

M6J 1H6

416-504-0575

fax: 504-8929

www.bulgergallery.com

Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm

ÉLIANE EXCOFFIER

Series 1996-2011

Exhibition Dates: February 25 – March 24, 2012

Reception for the Artist: Saturday, February 25, 2-5pm

The gallery is pleased to present our second solo exhibition of photographs by Éliane Excoffier, which will feature an overview of her work to date. The exhibition will coincide with the launch of her new catalogue Éliane Excoffier: bilan 1996–2008, copublished by the Musée régional de Rimouski, Galerie Simon Blais and Stephen Bulger Gallery, and featuring an essay by Bernard Lamarche.

Over the course of her photographic career, Excoffier has focused on exploring the dark and physical links that bind the history of photography and its techniques with the representation of the female body. In her first series, Rituels (1996), Excoffier’s depiction of the body considers the model against which women judge themselves. Often anorexic in form, the moving and ghostly figures blend with their environment as a means of making their disappearance visible.

Excoffier’s second series, Dualité (1997), affirms her interest in the history of photography and how it informs interpretations of the female body. Reminiscent of Muybridge’s female figure studies in motion, Dualité was also created in reaction to Lexique de beauté by Claudette de Sèves in 1935, which imparted the rules that women should abide by to maintain their beauty. Excoffier superimposes negatives to create a dual image that illustrates the struggle between women’s personal aspirations and society’s expectations. In 1999, Excoffier continued her investigation into the rules of beauty in Petit lexique de beauté. In this series, her female subjects perform similar gestures to those in Dualité, but through the process of overprinting and the effect of blurring, Excoffier undermines the appeal of traditional beauty.

Obscures (2004), is influenced by historical erotic photographs and also marks the beginning of Excoffier’s experimentation with historical techniques. Using a pinhole camera, Excoffier creates dramatic and crude images of the female body that imply an element of mystery; a fleeting and accidental moment captured for the voyeur’s gaze. In Obscures (série no. 2), she continues this exploration with a larger format Kodak Camera from 1914 and both film and paper negatives. The film negatives allow a more defined image, while the paper negatives have a richer tonality of imprecise details. Both invite the voyeur’s gaze without satisfying it.

The exhibition will also include work from her most recent series, Chambres (et autres histoires photographiques) (2011), which gives pride of place to objects and challenges Excoffier by working outside of a studio setting for the first time. All small in size, the works, like those preceding it, evoke narratives tinged with an implicit mystery. Excoffier (b. St. Jérôme, Québec, 1971) lives and works in Montréal. She graduated with a degree in Visual Arts and Art History from the University of Montréal in 1996. Her work can be found in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal; Banque Nationale, Montréal; Loto-Québec, Montréal; Giverny Capital, Montréal; Fondation MontMartFund, Paris; Prêts d'oeuvres d'art du Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec; amongst others.

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5. THE LATCHAM GALLERY Daniel Colby: Pyrite Princes

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The Latcham Gallery presents

Daniel Colby: Pyrite Princes

February 25 – April 7, 2012

Opening Reception:

Saturday, February 25 , 1 - 3 pm. Artist present. Everyone is welcome.

Montreal/Uxbridge artist Daniel Colby explores the ephemeral nature of young men coming of age in a new suite of paintings he will open at the Latcham Gallery in Stouffville ON. The subjects in Colby’s paintings embody a mixture of awkward vulnerability and confident bravado that generate an ambiguity in regard to who they are, what they have done and what they want.

Painting in a cameo format Colby pays homage to the royal portrait, the antique photo card and the reliquary. His fictional characters are infused with the haze of youth, hormones and angst and are at the same time elevated to hero status complete with laurel wreaths in these powerfully rendered portraits. The liminal period when a boy is transformed into a man, rife with unbridled optimism and intense anxiety is the vein Colby taps as his subject. His interest in the dichotomies of past/present, achievement/loss, and sensitivity/aggression inform the works in this exhibition with a both/and sensibility that seductively draws us in and then throws us slightly off center as we struggle to find the essence of what is motivating his characters.

Daniel Colby’s work has been included in solo and group shows in Halifax (Anna Leonowens Gallery), Toronto (Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Resistor Gallery), Los Angeles (Harvey Levine Gallery), and London, Ontario (Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery). He received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Halifax at NASCAD University. He has also been included in various local juried exhibitions and from 2005-2009 was awarded Best in Show five times.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.

The Latcham Gallery is a public art gallery dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art. The Gallery is located on the Main Street in Stouffville, 45 minutes north-east of Toronto, Ontario.

For more information please contact:

Curator | The Latcham Gallery

6240 Main Street Stouffville ON L4A 7Z4

Tel. 905 640 8954

info@latchamgallery.ca | www.latchamgallery.ca

Gallery hours: Tues - Sat 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Visit the artist’s website at:

http://www.danielcolby.com/

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6. ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Visual Arts Mississauga 34th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts

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Art Gallery of Mississauga

300 City Centre Drive

Mississauga, ON

L5B 3C1

905-896-5088

M,T,W,F 10 am - 5 pm, Thurs 10 am - 8 pm, Sat & Sun Noon - 4 pm

Free Admission

www.artgalleryofmississauga.com

JANUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 25

Visual Arts Mississauga 34th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts

Jurors: Catherine Beaudette, Art Green and April Hickox

Featuring emerging and established artists from the region, the VAM juried art show is one of the region’s most anticipated art events. Over 200 artists entered, only 69 were selected to be in the exhibit.

View www.artgalleryofmississauga.com for more details.

EVENTS

POSTPONED | Pecha Kucha Mississauga

20 images x 20 seconds each. Subject ranges from art to family vacations to Hello Kitty collections. Celebrate culture and community with the Art Gallery of Mississauga!

Postponed to Thursday, May 24th, 7 pm

March 1| 6 pm | Opening Reception – Lila Lewis Irving: Con Spirito | A Retrospective

Spontaneity is the root of creation for Mississauga abstract expressionist artist Lila Lewis Irving. Featuring paintings from her fifty-year career, this exhibition portrays Irving’s passion for life.

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7. STATION GALLERY Family Art Day – African Landscapes

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PROGRAMS

FAMILY ART DAY: AFRICAN LANDSCAPES

Sun February 26

All ages

1:00pm - 3:00pm

2:00pm - 4:00pm

$15 member/$20 non-member

Celebrate Black History month as you dream of the warm plains of Africa. Create your own African Landscape. Fun, live children’s performance at 2 pm.

EXHIBITIONS

Meryl McMaster

February 18 – April 8, 2012

Opening Reception: February 18 @ 1pm

Artist’s Walk & Talk: February 18 @ 1:30pm

Curator’s Walk & Talk: March 15 @ 7pm

This show journeys to a space between worlds. Meryl McMaster is a photographer who draws on more than one cultural repertoire. She self-identifies as a bi-cultural artist who borrows from both her First Nations and European ancestry. Her images and sculptures generously contribute to conversations surrounding hybrid identities.

McMaster is an early-career artist to watch. Her works summon a profound spirit. A spirit of exchange and affinity inhabits the heart of this project.

EVENTS

Drawing for Art

April 26, 2012

7pm - 10pm

In-Gallery Preview: April 13 - 26, 2012

Private Function - Ticket holders only

This annual favourite puts original artwork into the hands of SG patrons and members.

Works donated by professional artists are available for viewing on-line starting April 1st. They will also be on display in the gallery starting April 13th for two-weeks preceding the event.

Ticket holders take home their selection at our Drawing for Art fundraiser on Thursday April 26th. Each $200 ticket includes two admissions, food & beverages and one original artwork selection.

Tickets are available after February 2012 - don’t miss out - purchase your tickets soon!

HOURS OF OPERATION

Monday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Tuesday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Wednesday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Thursday 10:00 – 9:00pm

Friday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Saturday 12:00 – 4:00pm

Sunday 12:00 – 4:00pm

Admission to Station Gallery is free, come in for 10 minutes – or stay and explore!

Invest in Station Gallery. Keep arts alive.

Jessica Vreugdenhil

Marketing Coordinator, Station Gallery

905.668.4185 x 7611

www.whitbystationgallery.com

Connect on Facebook and Twitter.

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8. MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky

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MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION

The McMichael Tree Project

Until April 22, 2012

This winter and spring, the McMichael celebrates the artistic, cultural, and natural aspects of the tree with two breathtaking exhibitions, a variety of programs, and special installations. As part of this project, the McMichael presents the exhibition, The Tree: Form and Substance, which provides an exciting opportunity for us to connect the gallery’s interior spaces with our newly invigorated outdoor spaces and forested andscape, for the very first time. In conjunction with our own exhibition, the gallery also presents The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery; an exhibition that considers the tree as a subject in art from the early twentieth century to the present. The tree has been used as a symbol for all of nature and its overwhelming beauty; it is a powerful signifier of Canada’s national identity as well as the individual’s struggle against the wilderness; and currently, it even serves as a reminder of our precarious ecological position. For information on The McMichael Tree Project and the two exhibitions, The Tree: Form and Substance and The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, please see Exhibitions information on www.mcmichael.com.

Sunday, February 26 at 11:30 a.m.

Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky

Part of Art Chats. The iconic Emily Carr painting, Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky,1935, sets the tone for a discussion surrounding the tree and its enduring role in society. The tree will be examined as a point of departure for artists who have always attached meaning to this significant feature in our landscape. With ecological issues at the forefront of the daily news, the present generation has a role to play with the tree as its subject matter, also. Space is limited to 17 people. Please register at the Admissions Desk.

Ongoing Exhibitions:

Pluralities/Polarities 1950s–1990s: Selections from the McMichael

Collection

Legends: Norval Morrisseau and Anishinabek "Woodland School" Artists

Inuit Traditions

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg, Ontario, L0J 1C0

905.893.1121

www.mcmichael.com

Gallery Hours

Open daily 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Gallery Admission

Adult $15; Senior/Student (with ID) $12; Family $30; Children under 5 free

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9. MACLAREN ART CENTRE Kelly Wallace: Terminal

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MACLARENARTCENTRE

Winter 2012 Exhibitions

Kelly Wallace: Terminal

December 1 through February 26

Curator: Ben Portis

Janice Laking Gallery

Drawing has traditionally been a place of process and transition, a point of departure towards the creation of something else. For Kelly Wallace, drawing is an end in itself; a discipline that consummately invests execution and observation into physical act and visual form. Terminal presents bravura graphite drawings dating from 2004 to 2011 by this important new artist from London, Ontario. Wallace’s art fuses memory and imagination into intricate and viscerally unstable landscapes that appear both as studies of the world and projections of our opposition to it. His works call attention to issues of authenticity, craftsmanship, originality and virtuosity.

Terminal is a revised and updated version of the exhibition originally presented at Museum London in 2010.

Alex Colville: Book of Hours, Labours of the Months

January 11 through May 31

Curator: Jennifer Withrow

Joan Lehman Gallery

During medieval times, pictorial calendars defined and evoked the tasks and pleasures ushered in by each month. One’s very existence was tied to the cycle of the seasons. For illiterate, agrarian societies, the recognizable depictions in such illuminated “books of hours” served to instruct and comfort those lives dependent on annual patterns.

The internationally renowned Nova Scotia painter Alex Colville was fascinated by this ancient art form, yet felt himself alien to its presumption of a common lexicon of images. In 1974, he made twelve paintings of the months, each with a personal meaning. Some, such as a school bus for September, are readily understood. Others are more moody and ambiguous.

While these paintings were dispersed amongst collectors, Colville’s intention was that the images should be gathered in an album. This was accomplished in 1979. In the spirit of the books that inspired it, one of his edition of Book of Hours, Labours of the Months has been placed on view for quiet contemplation and enjoyment.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The MacLarenArtCentre is the regional public art gallery serving the residents of Barrie, the County of Simcoe and the surrounding area. The Gallery has a permanent collection of 26,600 works of art held in trust for the public and presents a year-round programme of world-class exhibitions, public art projects, education activities and special events. The MacLaren is housed in an award-winning building in downtown Barrie. This architectural landmark combines a renovated 1917 Carnegie library with a contemporary addition designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects. The complex includes multiple galleries, an education centre, a sculpture courtyard, café, gift shop and framing department. The building is wheelchair accessible. There is ample public parking nearby.

Gallery Location: The MacLarenArtCentre is located at 37 Mulcaster Street, Barrie, Ontario, 90 km north of Toronto. From highway 400 north, exit at Dunlop Street East, continue on Dunlop Street through to Mulcaster Street, and turn left. We are one block north of Dunlop Street, on the south-east corner of Collier and Mulcaster.

Gallery Hours: The MacLarenArtCentre is open Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The MacLarenArtCentre is closed statutory holidays.

Gallery Tours: Guided tours of the Gallery for groups and schools are available by appointment. A free public tour of the winter exhibitions is scheduled for March 25 at 1:00 pm

Gallery Admission: Suggested general admission $5 for Family Sunday Workshops. Materials are provided. Space is limited, so arrive early! Admission: $5 per child/Family Membership holders free.

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10. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE World Stage 2012: Entity

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World Stage 2012: Entity

Startling spectacle from acclaimed choreographer Wayne McGregor

Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage 2012 continues with the contemporary dance performance Entity, from England’s Wayne McGregor | Random Dance. Entity premieres at the Fleck Dance Theatre February 28 and continues March 1-3, 2012.

Entity is a staggering blend of bodies, technology and film that places McGregor at the cutting edge of contemporary culture. Featuring music by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins, Entity offers a revolutionary vision for dance audiences from one of the world’s most celebrated choreographers. Sparse, hypnotic and atmospheric, this stunning performance fuses dance with technology to create a vision with needle-point precision. In creating this work, McGregor worked with 12 neuroscientists from around the world to examine the nature of kinesthetic intelligence.

“A great sexy beast of a piece-it's like being licked by a panther's juicy, rasping tongue while you're revising maths.”-The Sunday Times (London)

“If any artist has defined the decade – it’s Wayne McGregor.” – The Times

“The result…is extraordinary: every part of the dancers’ bodies is articulated and then taken in unexpected directions.” – Telegraph

“Wayne McGregor’s choreography operates within a perfect tension.” – The Guardian

Wayne McGregor is a multi-award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He has set a new bar for international contemporary dance, paring choreographic style with new technology, music and innovative set design. McGregor will create a dance for 2,000 people to perform in London’s Trafalgar Square as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

He is the founder and Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, resident company of Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, for which he has made over 30 works. McGregor is also currently Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet. In January 2011, McGregor received a honourary knighthood. He has choreographed for film and television including Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire.

Random Dance was founded in 1992 and became the instrument upon which McGregor evolved his drastically fast and articulate choreographic style. The company is renowned for its radical approach to new technology – incorporating animation, digital film, 3D architecture, electronic sound and virtual dancers into the live choreography.

Performance details:

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012: 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 1, 2012: 8 p.m.

Friday, March 2, 2012: 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 3, 2012: 8 p.m.

* NOTE: There is NO performance scheduled for Wednesday, February 29.

Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West

Tickets: $45, $36 (seniors), $15 (CultureBreak) available at Harbourfront Centre’s Box Office. Call 416-973-4000, email tickets@harbourfrontcentre.com or visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage

March 1 performance will be followed by a talkshow, featuring all members of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, hosted in association with Dance Current Magazine.

Antoine Vereecken of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance will lead the following labwork: An Exploration of Creative Methods on March 2, 2012: 1:30pm-3pm at YorkUniversity, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto and March 3, 2012: 1:30pm-3pm at Lower Ossington Theatre, 100 Ossington Avenue, Toronto.

For more information, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage2012/industry.cfm

*MEDIA NOTE: Media materials are available at World Stage 2012’s media site: www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage2012/media.cfm

For complete event details and full schedule, the public may visit harbourfrontcentre.com or call the Information Hotline at 416-973-4000. Harbourfront Centre is located at 235 Queens Quay West, in the heart of downtown Toronto’s waterfront.

Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage 2012 gratefully acknowledges the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Westin HarbourCastle, the official host hotel of World Stage.

ABOUT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE

Harbourfront Centre is an innovative, non-profit cultural organization which provides internationally renowned programming in the arts, culture, education and recreation, all within a collection of distinctive venues on a 10-acre site it operates in the heart of Toronto’s downtown waterfront.

Media contact:

Amanda Lee | 416-973-4381 | alee@harbourfrontcentre.com
www. harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage2012/media.cfm

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11. ORILLIA MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY International Women’s Day Art Show

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Lost Histories: Gypsies of 1909 – Only 1 week left to see this insightful and beautiful combination of art and history!

International Women’s Day Art Show - The Orillia Museum of Art and History is pleased to host, for a second year, The International Women's Day Art Show. The exhibit has become a major event in the area, since its inception in 1997 at Tiffin's Creative Centre. Despite several venue changes over the years, the show continues to offer excellent, inspiring art. This year's theme: "DIVERSITY" is reflected in a vibrant, dynamic range of work and media from over seventy-five women artists.

The International Women's Day Art Show continues to be an inclusive opportunity for women artists to showcase their work. The unique tradition of having the artists write a few words to accompany their piece further enhances the viewing experience. A highlight of the show for the participating artists is The Artist's Forum in which artists come together to share their artwork in a fun and supportive environment.

The 16th annual show offers a unique, colourful and stimulating celebration of women's creative expression.

The show runs from Feb 29 to April 7th, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, March 3rd from 1-4pm.

Ladies’ Night at OMAH – Get your tickets ($15.00/person in advance) to our Ladies’ Night! Featuring the International Women’s Day Art Show; come and celebrate with local businesses, complimentary wine and Hors D’oeuvres, door prizes and more! See our website for schedule and further details. www.orilliamuseum.org

The Orillia Museum of Art and History

30 Peter St. S

Orillia, ON

L3V 5A9

(705) 326-2159

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12. GALLERY 44 New Exhibitions

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Constructing Space

Laura St. Pierre and Immony Men

Fri March 2 - Sat March 31, 2012

Opening reception: Friday March 2, 6-9pm | Remarks at 7:30 pm

www.gallery44.org/constructingspace

Constructing Space is an exhibition at Gallery 44, which pairs the work of two artists whose approaches to contemporary photography reflect the growing interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art.

Immony Men’s project Taking Care of Business is a photo-based performance/installation. Men’s installation sees him set-up office in the gallery printing image sections on post-it notes and mounting them to the walls creating an encompassing life-size image. Visit the artist during his office hours, or set-up a lunch date with him.

Laura St. Pierre’s Urban Vernacular series consists of large-scale photographs that document the sculptural installations she makes in the urban environment. Items that we normally discard after a few hours or days are resurrected in a new form—as trash architecture in trashed spaces. Look for St. Pierre's site-specific installation in the loading dock next to Gallery 44.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Immony Men is a recent graduate of the MFA Visual Arts program at University of Windsor. He has completed his BFA at Concordia, majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies within Studio Arts. He is a Canadian visual artist currently based in Toronto. Men has exhibited in artist-run-centres across Canada, and has worked with Broken City Lab research group in Windsor. His focus is on installation and working between the lines of fact and fiction. Labor intensity is a strong element in his installation art practice. He is currently developing an artist apartment residency program titled Change in Plans.

Laura St. Pierre is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. Her installations, sculptures, public works and photography have been exhibited throughout Canada, garnering critical attention in national and international publications. St.Pierre earned undergraduate degrees at UBC and The U of A, and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University in Montreal. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and scholarships as well as major arts grants from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council. She currently lives, works and teaches in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Vitrines Exhibition:

From Above

Maria Raponi

Fri March 2 - Sat March 31, 2012

Opening reception: Friday March 2, 6-9pm

www.gallery44.org/mariaraponi

Maria Raponi’s project From Above displays a composite image of the ceilings of the three floors above Gallery 44. Multiple views are reduced to a singular perspective, condensing time and space the way a lens condenses light.

Maria Raponi is a Toronto-based artist who works across many platforms including film, photography, digital media, installation and sculpture. She is a graduate of the combined MFA program between the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, in addition to the BFA program at the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University. Her works have been exhibited in North America, Europe and Asia, and she has worked on site-specific projects presented in Toronto, Montreal and Dortmund (Germany).

Gallery 44 is open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 5 pm

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing artform. Founded in 1979 to establish a supportive environment for the development of photography, Gallery 44’s mandate is to provide a context for reflection and dialogue on contemporary photography and its related practices. Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, award-winning education programs, and affordable production facilities for artists. Through its programs, Gallery 44 is engaged in changing conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

401 Richmond St. W, Suite 120

Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8

www.gallery44.org

p.416.979.3941

f. 416.979.1695

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13. MOCCA Silent Auction and Reception

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SILENT AUCTION

Exhibition & Fundraiser

Silent Auction and Reception: March 3rd, 2012. 7 – 12pm. 1265 Bloor Street W.

Exhibition Preview: February 28th – March 3rd 2012. 11 – 6pm. 1265 Bloor Street W.

In partnership with the main Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (mMOCCA), the Art History Graduate Students’ Association at York University (AHGSA), is pleased to present a silent auction fundraiser featuring the work of Abbas Akhavan, Annie Onyi Cheung, Miles Collyer, David Court, Xan Hawes, Stephen Fisher, Lauren Hall, Laurie Kang, Caroline Larsen, Julieta María, Anders Oinonen, Suzy Oliveira, Ryan Park, Kerri Reid, Luke Siemens, Miles Stemp, Josh Thorpe, VSVSVS & Jessica Vallentin.

The Exhibition Preview showcases the work created by the aforementioned artists in a series of micro-residencies at the MOCCA's temporary location at 1265 Bloor Street W. The exhibition preview is on from February 28th to March 3rd, from 11 – 6 pm daily. The Silent Auction and Reception will take place on Saturday March 3rd, from 7 -12pm at the same location.

Funds raised at this event will be directed to support AHGSA's 11th annual symposium: New Growth, Dialogues on the Tree, taking place on March 31st 2012, developed in collaboration with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, on the occasion of the exhibition “The McMichael Tree Project”. The symposium intends to center the tree as a site for cultural inquiry from an interdisciplinary perspective. It aims to explore topics such as: the tree, landscape, and ideology; ecopoetics and the tree as metaphor; and the tree within nationalist and postnationalist narratives, among others.

For media and other inquiries, please contact Maria Coates at mcoates@yorku.ca

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14. AGO IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011

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AGO Celebrates IAIN BAXTER& with Interactive Features and Special Events

For 50 years, Canadian artist IAIN BAXTER& has been radically redefining the role of the artist, integrating photography, installation, sculpture, painting, drawing and performative aspects into his work. An upcoming exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011, invites visitors to become collaborators by engaging with the artist and his work. Special events that highlight the interactive nature of the artist’s brand will complement and activate the exhibition, which is on view from March 3 to Aug. 12, 2012.

Co-curated by David Moos, former curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the AGO and Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011 brings the evolution of BAXTER&’s career to life for visitors. The exhibition travels directly to Toronto from Chicago, where it was recently on view at the MCA and was named a critic’s pick by Artforum International.

“BAXTER&’s thinking resonates today because his willingness to experiment remains undiminished,” Moos said. “It is here, between originality and the familiar, that one finds BAXTER&, raising our awareness that art is an experiment—an embrace one must experience.”

A believer in collaboration, the recurring symbol in BAXTER&’s work is the ampersand, and he often refers to himself as “the &man.” The artist, whose surname is pronounced “Baxter-and” has worked under various monikers throughout his career, most famously N.E. Thing Co., a corporate-style organization he served as co-president of with his then-wife Ingrid Baxter. In 2005 BAXTER& legally added an “&” to his name, reflecting his collaborative approach to art and his fundamental belief that art requires a strong connection with the viewer. “Life,” says BAXTER&, “seems to be about ands. After we leave this life and this planet, only an & remains.”

Recognizing that communication goes both ways, the exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to interact and engage with BAXTER& and his work. Eighteen custom-designed QR codes populate the exhibition, letting smartphone users watch, share and comment on videos, audio and behind-the-scenes content in the Wi-Fi enabled Gallery. At the heart of the exhibition lies an ampersand-shaped interaction station where, through Twitter, visitors can share their answers to thought-provoking questions from the artist, including topics of environmentalism which figure heavily in his work.

Featuring some 100 photographic, sculptural and vacuum-formed works, including Inflated Blue Sky and Zero Emissions, the exhibition takes visitors on an often witty tour through some of the most important themes of contemporary art: the connection between art, business and everyday life; environmental issues; and the rise of photography as a vibrant and relevant art form.

Events and highlights for IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011 include:

AGO MEMBERS’ PREVIEW

Wednesday, Feb. 29, 10 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

AGO members enjoy free admission to IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011 and are invited to attend a special members-only preview of the exhibition. Visit ago.net for more information.

CATALOGUE AND BOOK LAUNCH

Wednesday, Feb. 29, 6 p.m.

Featuring more than 200 reproductions, the exhibition catalogue IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958-2011 includes essays by David Moos, Michael Darling, Dennis W. Durham, Christophe Domino, and Lucy R. Lippard, as well as original interviews with IAIN BAXTER& and Ingrid Baxter by Alexander Alberro. Edited by David Moos and co-published by Goose Lane Editions, the soft-cover, 224 page volume is available for $45 at shopAGO. To celebrate this publication, BAXTER& will be on hand to sign copies of the catalogue at the public book launch.

MEET THE ARTIST: IAIN BAXTER&

How I Became the &Man

Wednesday, April 4, 7 – 8:30 p.m.

Jackman Hall at the AGO

Members $17| Public $20 |Students $12

Follow IAIN BAXTER& on his journey from zoologist to conceptual artist. The &man will share his insights on the ecology of life and art &…. Visit www.ago.net for more information.

EARTH DAY WEBINAR WITH IAIN BAXTER&

Tuesday, March 27, 7 – 8:30 p.m.

FREE

In this live, online event educators can join in a conversation with BAXTER& on the topic of Earth Day. The artist will discuss his work and its relationship to the environment, the notion of working together in a participatory environment, and his art making process. He will also share his thoughts on Earth Day and how educators and students can get involved, and engage educators with four participatory questions from the exhibition.

Organized by the AGO, IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011 is generously supported by Leslie Gales & Keith Ray, Rosamond Ivey, the Steven & Michael Latner families and Philip B. Lind & Ellen Roland.

The AGO acknowledges the generous support of its Signature Partners:

American Express, Signature Partner of the Conservation Program; and Aeroplan, Signature Partner of the Photography Collection Program.

Contemporary programming at the AGO is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

A special preview of the exhibition will be held for members of the media. The artist will be in attendance and available for interviews. For more information please use media contacts below.

ABOUT THE AGO

With a permanent collection of more than 80,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is among the most distinguished art museums in North America. In 2008, with a stunning new design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the AGO opened its doors to the public amid international acclaim. Architectural highlights include Galleria Italia, a gleaming showcase made of wood and glass running the length of an entire city block along the Gallery’s façade; and the feature staircase, spiraling up through the roof of Walker Court and into the new contemporary galleries above. From the extensive Group of Seven collection to the dramatic African art gallery; from the cutting-edge works in the contemporary tower to Peter Paul Rubens’ masterpiece The Massacre of The Innocents, a highlight of the celebrated Thomson Collection, there is truly something for everyone at the AGO.

The Art Gallery of Ontario is funded in part by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture. Additional operating support is received from the City of Toronto, the Canada Council for the Arts and generous contributions from AGO members, donors and private-sector partners.

For details, images and more information, please contact:

Meagan Campbell, 416-979-6660 ext. 372, meagan_campbell@ago.net

Andrea-Jo Wilson, 416-979-6660 ext. 403, andrea-jo_wilson@ago.net

Caitlin Coull, 416-979-6660 ext. 364, caitlin_coull@ago.net

Art Gallery of Ontario

Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario

317 Dundas St. West, Toronto, Ontario

Canada M5T 1G4

Toll free: 1.877.225.4246

Local: 416.979.6648

www.ago.net

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15. NEILSON PARK CREATIVE CENTRE Etobicoke Art Group’s Member’s Choice Exhibition

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Neilson Park Creative Centre

56 Neilson Drive

Toronto, Ontario M9C 1V7

T: 416.622.5294

F: 416.622.0892

www.neilsonparkcreativecentre.com

Spring Course registration begins February 28. www.neilsonparkcreativecentre.com/programs/

CURRENT SHOWS:

ETOBICOKE ART GROUP’S MEMBERS’ CHOICE EXHIBITION

FEBRUARY 13 – MARCH 4

This annual show features recent works in a variety of media by members of the Group. Main Gallery

ETOBICOKE ART GROUP WEDNESDAY GROUP PRESENTS "THE JUNCTION AREA BACK LANEWAYS" PLUS OTHER RECENT WORKS

FEBRUARY 13 – MARCH 4

Etobicoke Art Group’s notorious Wednesday Group returns with a new and exciting body of work. Each piece is a unique and individual take on the same photograph of a back laneway in The Junction. Hall Gallery

UPCOMING SHOWS:

ETOBICOKE HANDWEAVERS & SPINNERS: GOT ATTITUDE

MARCH 5 - 18

Don’t miss out on the newest offering from members of the Etobicoke Handweavers & Spinners Guild. Hall Gallery

PARADIGMS

MARCH 5 - 18

Join us for the long-awaited collection of works of all media from NPCC’s stable of bright instructors. Not to be missed! Main Gallery

NORMA KOYIONIS: INTUITION

MARCH 19 - 25

A retrospective of oil, acrylic and watercolour works created over the last 15 years. A one-woman show. Main & Hall Galleries Reception: March 25; 1 – 3:30 pm

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16. DURHAM ART GALLERY Current Exhibitions

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DURHAM ART GALLERY

Exhibitions on display until March 11, 2012

INSIDEout

Morgan Kamocki Allaby, Emily Andrus, Jessica Bigda, Gordon Bond, Joshua Carey, Annie Fraser, Fiona Freemark, Mary MacLeod, Lisa Perlman and Sofia Stanidis

In keeping with our annual outreach to art universities and colleges, we start 2012 with an exhibition of graduating students from the School of the Arts at McMaster University in Hamilton. Curated by painter/printmaker and faculty member Judy Major-Girardin, “INSIDEout can be seen as a metaphor for the learning process inherent in these explorations and is meant to reference the way artists scrutinize information or turn it inside out in order to reveal alternative ways of looking or knowing.”

The new generation artists presented in INSIDEout address the themes of interiority and exteriority via a broad variety of media, subject matter and technique. Sculpture, painting, printmaking and collage serve to elucidate the artists’ ideas about the body, home, landscape, myth, memory, text, and metamorphosis.

Letting the Paint Dance

Joanne Anderson

Anderson is a self-taught, local artist for whom the term “comfort zone” has no meaning. Her paintings range from strongly narrative and darkly humorous figure work to exuberant, vivid botanicals, electric streetscapes and urban scenes, and highly textured abstractions. This varied subject matter is echoed in her eclectic use of materials, which include acrylic, watercolour, latex and spray paint, drywall compound, grout, and found objects.

For Anderson, each artwork is a fresh adventure, born out of her restless energy, expressive emotionality, and unaffected approach to subject and style. One more word can be used to encapsulate her work, and that one is “fun”!

Gallery Hours:

Wednesday to Friday, 10 to 5, Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 plus Thursday evenings 7 to 8

Durham Art Gallery

251 George Street East

Durham ON N0G 1R0

Phone (519) 369-3692

info@durhamart.on.ca

www.durhamart.on.ca

http://www.facebook.com/Durham.Art.Gallery

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17. GRIMSBY PUBLIC ART GALLERY Classes and Workshops

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Upcoming Classes and workshops at the GPAG:

MARCH BREAK

March 12th -16th, 2012

Single Class:

members $18/ non-members $22

Whole Week:

members $80/ non-members $96

Mini Maker Mornings

For ages 5-8 years

9:30am-12:00pm

Children will learn important skills and work with a variety of materials while exploring a new theme each day! Exciting projects will challenge and entertain students.

Avid Artist Afternoons

For ages 8-12 years

1:30pm-4:00pm

Students will learn techniques such as drawing, painting, sculpture & mixed media, while being taught about art & artists. Each day will cover new ideas, artists and skills.

Monday: Drum-Making

Tuesday: Book-Making & Collage

Wednesday: Clay Crazy

Thursday: Puppet-Making

Friday: Puppets in Action!

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

Art Tots

With Brigitte Huard

From ages 3+ years with a parent

Thursdays April 5 – April 26, 2012

(4 sessions) from 10:00am – 10:30am

Learn new art techniques and craft ideas that parents and young children can do together. Child friendly materials and a hands–on approach will allow junior artists to express themselves in a fun & safe way.

$27 members / $32 non–members

Arts Club Junior

With Katia Perez-Turgeon

From ages 5 - 8 years

Saturdays May 5 – June 9, 2012

(6 sessions) from 10:00am – 12:00pm

Students will learn the basics of fundamental art practices and media while creating exciting works of art.

$80 members / $96 non–members

Art Club

With Katia Perez-Turgeon

From ages 8 – 12 years

Saturdays May 5 – June 9, 2012

(6 sessions) from 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Students will further develop existing skills and improve creative thinking as they experiment with a variety of media and techniques in the creation of challenging projects.

$80 members / $96 non–members

ADULT CLASSES

Creative Mosaic Design

With Tibor Nyilasi

Fridays March 2, 9, 23, April 13, 20 & May 4, 2012 (6 sessions)

From 9:30am– 12:00pm

A most permanent and creative beauty will be designed with opaque glass and natural stones in this 6-session course. Learn to work with the “freed” colours of neglected stones under the guidance of an established artist with international experience. An additional $15 dollar fee paid to the instructor on the first day will cover materials. Come with a love for art and beauty.

www.tiborart.ca

$75 members / $85 non–members

Material Study Workshop

With Jefferson Campbell-Cooper

Saturday March 10, 2012 (1 session)

From 1:00pm- 5:00pm

We will start with a gallery tour of This Land is Our Land, focusing on the artist’s choice of materials. Students will also look at artworks of non-traditional artist materials use in art history as well as contemporary examples. Using recycled materials and limited resources we will construct both 2D dimensional and 3D art works. This “thinking outside the box” workshop will encourage students to experiment with alternative art materials and production. Some materials will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring their own recycling from home.

$30 members / $40 non–members

Life Drawing

No instructor

Wednesdays April 4, 18 & May 2, 16, 2012, 2012 (4 sessions)

From 6:30pm– 9:30pm

This Open Studio format allows each artist to determine their own needs ~ quick studies to extended poses. There is no instructor and each participant chooses their own media. No materials are provided by the gallery.

$50 members / $60 non–members

Book-Binding Workshop

With Louisa Kratka

Sunday May 6, 2012 (1 session)

From 10:00am– 5:00pm

In this one-day workshop, learn the basics of bookbinding by constructing two small hardcover journals by hand ~ from the folding of paper, sewing of signatures, pasting and covering of boards to the final pressing. One exposed spine and one flat-back casebound journal will be made. An additional $25 dollar fee paid to the instructor on the first day will cover a large portion of the materials. A materials list for the remainder will be provided upon registration.

$55 members / $65 non–members

Encaustic Workshop

With Jan Yates

Wednesday May 7, 2012 (1 session)

From 5:00pm– 8:00pm

Ancient and intriguing, this method of painting originated in Greece, where it was used for the earliest easel and mural painting. A heady combination of colour, melting wax and heat, encaustic mixes dry and oil pigments in hot beeswax. Artist & educator Jan Yates has been working with this luscious medium for over 15 years and will share techniques including image transfer, photo collage, colour, glazing, layering, drawing, mono type and cold wax techniques. Classes are enjoyable for those with no previous art-making experience as well as returning artists who want to further explore this alluring and tactile medium.

An additional $20 dollar fee paid to the instructor on the first day will cover a large portion of the materials. A materials list for the remainder will be provided upon registration.

www.janyates.com

$30 members / $40 non–members

*All gallery programs are subject to minimum and maximum registration. Payment is required 7 days after the date of registration to ensure a spot. Classes are subject to change. Cancellations require 7 days notice to receive a full refund. The gallery is not responsible for missed classes, and does not pro-rate classes without prior arrangements.

KIDS BIRTHDAY PARTIES

The Grimsby Public Art Gallery is pleased to offer this opportunity to members with a family membership. Birthday Parties can be booked for groups of up to 15 children. You provide the cake, decorations and refreshments, we provide an artist to instruct the children in a craft or art project. We are happy to customize the activity to fit a theme if you have one in mind! Parties are 3 hours, with the art class lasting approximately 1 hour to 1.5 hours. The remaining time can be used for refreshments, games, gifts and cake. Parties must be organized during regular gallery hours and around Studio availability so we may not be able to accommodate your preferred time. It is a good idea to book your party early. Fees for a 3 hour party are $175. A $50 security deposit is required on all room rentals. Media available: Painting, drawing, collage and/ or printmaking.

Grimsby Public Art Gallery

18 Carnegie Lane, Grimsby, ON. L3M 1Y1

905-945-3246

gpag@town.grimsby.on.ca

www.town.grimsby.on.ca/ArtGallery/Main

Blog: http://grimsbypublicartgallery.blogspot.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TheGPAG

Facebook: Grimsby Public Art Gallery

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18. ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON March Break

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Art Gallery of Hamilton’s

MARCH BREAK MANIA!

Monday, March 12 to Friday, March 16, 2012

The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s March Break Mania!, Monday, March 12 to Friday, March 16, is an engaging weeklong Art Camp programme. In this popular annual camp, children discover art forms through the centuries by participating in hands-on art-making with artist-educators and Gallery exploration.

In three camps for Juniors (ages 5 to 7 years), Intermediate (ages 8 to 9 years) and Seniors (ages 10 years and older), exhibitions currently on view at the AGH – including William Kurelek’s The Messenger, Mark Lewis’s compelling film works and Kristin Bjornerud’s whimsical watercolours -- are a starting point, helping children to develop observation and insight into the works of Canadian and international artists. This programme is available in both morning and afternoon sessions. Participants may sign up for one day or for the entire week, with the further option of signing up for half- or full-days.

For children ages 3 to 6, accompanied by a caregiver, the AGH offers a special programme for the youngest of artists. In Masterpiece ME!, available in a 9:30 am to 11:30 am morning session only, children and their caregivers explore new art materials and techniques and learn child-friendly activities and recipes for home projects. Participants may sign up for one day or the entire week.

For AGH Members, half-day attendance is $16 per day; full day is $30. An entire week of half-day sessions is $75; full day for the entire week is $150.

For Non Members, half-day attendance is $20: full day is $36. An entire week of half-day is $90; full day for the entire week is $175. After camp care is available from 4:00 to 5:30 pm for $5 per day.

The AGH’s March Break Mania is generously supported by Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life.

Pre-registration is required. Please reserve by calling 905-527-6610, ext. 272 or by email at education@artgalleryofhamilton.com. The AGH March Break Mania! registration form is available on the Gallery’s website at www.artgalleryofhamilton.com.

For further information on the AGH’s March Break Mania!, please contact:

Laurie Kilgour-Walsh, Educator

[T] 905-527-6610, ext. 272 [E] laurie@artgalleryofhamilton.com

For information on the Art Gallery of Hamilton, its exhibitions and programming, please contact:

Steve Denyes, Manager, Communications

[T] 905-527-6610, ext. 255 [E] steve@artgalleryofhamilton.com

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19. THE CLAY & GLASS Ann Roberts: With Both Fear and Intrepid Enthusiasm

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Ann Roberts: With Both Fear and Intrepid Enthusiasm

January 29 2012 to April 8, 2012

The Clay & Glass presents a 50-year retrospective by Waterloo Region ceramic artist and sculptor, Ann Roberts. The exhibition will survey various stages of the artist’s career beginning from her early functional work to her highly engaging sculptures influenced by mythology and feminine form. The exhibition will demonstrate her tremendous versatility, technical brilliance, and creative inventiveness, which make her one of the most exciting artists still working today.

Complementing Ann Roberts’ 50-year retrospective exhibition as a ceramist and sculptor, The Art of Mentoring: A Legacy celebrates the artist’s legacy as a teacher and mentor through the works of Patrick Cull, Michelle Mendlowitz, Mary Catherine Newcomb, and Catherine Paleczny.

For more information about our exhibitions and events, visit www.theclayandglass.ca or call 519-746-1882. The Gallery is located at 25 Caroline Street North in Waterloo. It is open Tuesday to Friday, from 11 am to 6 pm, Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm, and Sundays 1 to 5 pm. Admission to the Gallery is free.

www.theclayandglass.ca

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20. MACDONALD STEWART ART CENTRE The Art of Thomas Nisbet, Master Cabinetmaker

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The Art of Thomas Nisbet, Master Cabinetmaker

Thomas Nisbet (1777-1850) is considered one of Canada's greatest identified cabinetmakers. This exhibition features twenty-two examples of formal furniture either made by or attributed to Nisbet in Saint John, New Brunswick between 1814 and circa 1830.

Thomas Nisbet deserves to be recognized as one of Canada’s most accomplished cabinetmakers. He was born in Dunse, Berwickshire, Scotland where he apprenticed in cabinetmaking. Nisbet immigrated to New Brunswick in 1812 and, by 1814, he became a ‘freeman’ in Saint John enabling him to conduct business as a cabinetmaker. He established a successful business as a cabinetmaker and upholsterer, an importer of fine household goods from Britain, and as a lumber merchant. He also became a leading citizen in civic and business life in the city.

Throughout his career, Nisbet supplied the wealthy citizens of Saint John and environs with a broad range of furnishings, executed in the fashion of the day. Nisbet’s earliest known works reflect the styles of Thomas Sheraton (1751–1806), but the majority of the output of his workshop followed the styles of the British Regency and later the French Empire.

Without exception, Nisbet’s work is exemplified by superior workmanship, a sophisticated understanding of balance and proportion, and the use of the finest materials. He imported mahogany logs from the West Indies and used this wood extensively, both in solid form and, more importantly, as a source for the finely-figured veneers that sets his work apart from his peers. Domestic hardwoods, including birch, figured birch, maple, and figured maple, were also used to great effect.

Canadian cabinetmakers of the period rarely marked or labeled their pieces, so identification is always difficult. Nisbet did label some of his production. A number of Nisbet’s labeled works are included in this exhibition, providing an opportunity to compare related works in style and form and to attribute these to the known hand of the master cabinetmaker Thomas Nisbet.

Jointly organized by

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Guelph)

Maus Park Antiques (Paris)

King’s Landing Historical Settlement (New Brunswick)

Presented with the support of

University of Guelph

McMaster University (Hamilton)

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

A: 358 Gordon Street, Guelph (ON), N1G 1Y1

T: 519-837-0010 | F: 519-767-2661 | W: www.msac.ca

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21. ARTS COUNCIL OF SAULT STE MARIE AND DISTRICT Exhibitions & Events

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EXHIBITIONS

Alberta House, 217 Ferris St., Sault Ste. Marie, MI, will feature watercolours by Katie Ebers from March 1 to 31, 2012, in the Olive Craig Gallery. Photographs by Dale and Sue Johnson will be featured in the Mini Gallery. For more information, email saac@saultarts.org, visit www.saultarts.org, or call 906-635-1312.

Algoma Moon Fine Art & Design Outdoor Art Gallery – Open House every Saturday rain or shine from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 523 Dean Lake Road (between Iron Bridge & Blind River). Call Lou Lacroix at 705-843-0884.

Among Trees Art Studio, artwork by Lucie M. Gagnon, Goulais River. Naturally inspired original and reproduction artworks. Call 705-649-4163.

Art Gallery of Algoma will feature The Faraway Nearby, curated by Rosalie Favell, from March 1 to April 29, 2012, in the Main Gallery. Learning from the Land by John Keast (fundraiser for the Gallery) in the Project Room from March 1 to April 29, 2012. Art from Sault College will run from March 1 to April 29, 2012 in the Education Gallery. For more information, visit www.artgalleryofalgoma.com or call 705-949-9067.

The Artist’s Alcove featuring the works of Doris Anne Ray is now open at the Frontier Village, 1340 Great Northern Road Monday and Wednesday from 1:00p.m. to 6:00p.m. and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9:00a.m. to 6:00p.m.

Bluebird Lane Stained Glass features gifts, supplies, and classes Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Sat. from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Sun. from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Also open by appointment. Bluebird Lane is located north of Bruce Mines on Centre Line Road. Contact 705-736-1082 for details.

Café Natura, 75 Elgin St., presents the works of a different local artist each month. Stop by for a cup of fair-trade organic java, tea, home baked muffins or Korean-inspired lunches. The photographic work of Jean Paul will be on display for the month of March. Open Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. For more information, contact 705-942-6186 or www.cafenatura.ca

Chippewa County Historical Society Office, 115 Ashmun St. Sault Ste. Marie, MI, is open Monday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and by appointment. Gift shop and displays are accessible during office hours and by appointment. Enter from back door off Portage Avenue parking lot. For more information, call 906-635-7082.

Country Collectables, 185 Mountainview Dr. featuring hand crafted items for home and gift giving. Call Gerlinde at 705-779-1071.

The Elgin Integral Health Centre features paintings by artists Linda Wilson Szabo, Ken Bradford, Zoltan Szabo, Eric Murray, Stained Glass by Dorothy and Skip Bailey and Pottery by Sheila Harris and Erika Ropke. Call 705-256-6239.

Ellen Van Laar Work Exhibits: Ellen has paintings and prints for sale and exhibition at Algoma Conservatory of Music, Tamarack Art Gallery – Batchawana Bay, Voyageur Loft – Batchawana Bay, Lake Superior Provincial Park, Wawa Tourism Centre, Pukaskwa National Park, Alberta House – Sault Ste. Marie, MI, Agawa Indian Crafts – Pancake Bay, and Area scenery at Arts Council Office Hallway 369 Queen St. E. Other locations displaying Ellen’s works include Jade Wellness, Lake Superior Provincial Park, Great Lakes Research Center, and Dr. Christiane Husemann (broker, Royal LePage, Northern Advantage) is renting Ellen Van Laar paintings for various locations.

Contact 705-882-1247 if you are interested in painting, rental program or retreats or if you’d like more information about Ellen’s work. Visit http://algomarhymer.blogspot.com/ for poems, http://algomasuperiorartist.blogspot.com/ for artwork, and http://mitchthedragon.blogspot.com for her dragon column. For more information contact Ellen at evanlaar@sympatico.ca

Employment Connection 421 Bay St. 4th Floor is featuring photographic works of Nana Boetenz. Contact 705-575-5516.

Enigami Studio – 287 River St., Thessalon – Now open by appointment, featuring award-winning equine, wildlife, and nature imagery by artist Heather D. Mitchell. Contact the artist at hmitchell12@hotmail.com to book your viewing. Commissions, originals, note cards, and more. Lessons available. Visit our newly updates online galleries at www.enigamistudio.com or “like” us on Facebook.

Gary Manzo, son of Ward 6 Councillor Frank Manzo, has a large work hanging at the Civic Centre entitled Dare Something Worthy. The piece was “given to the citizens of our city, hoping to inspire others to be creative”.

Glassworks, 308 Queen St. E., has gifts, décor, and so much more. They are open Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. They offer afternoon and evening classes and workshops in stained glass, mosaics, fusing, bead making, and jewellery design. For more information, call 705-949-9527.

Great Lakes Forestry Centre, 1219 Queen St. E., presents Woven Expressions by the Algoma Weavers’ Guild in the lobby.

Lake Superior State University Library Gallery, 650 W. Easterday Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, MI, exhibits the works of local and student artists in its on-campus location, which is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. For more information, call 906-635-2665.

Roses Art Gallery, 348 Bruce St., features original paintings by over 30 local area artists. We have acrylics, watercolours, oils, oil monoprints, pen & ink, mixed media and pastels. Local area photographs are available in 8x10 or in larger sizes that are framed or printed and stretched on canvas. We have a LARGE selection of handmade pottery, wood bowls, carvings and jewellery. On-site custom framing is currently 20% off retail price.

The Sault Ste. Marie Museum presents Arresting Images, which will until March 24, 2012. This exhibit features mug shots from the Ontario Provincial Police Museum, taken between 1896 and 1908. For more information, contact Kim at 705-759-7278.

Specially Fashioned By Gail, 50 Florwin Dr., features a large variety of hand-sewn gifts. Gail offers an excellent selection of reversible bib aprons, BBQ, vest-style and full- body baby bibs. As well as a wide assortment of baby quilts, blankets, knitting and crocheting. Home of the original “Pet Paw” towels and unique pet items. Call Gail at 705-949-1503. Fax 705-949-6592, gmac2@shaw.ca

Stone’s Office Plus, 529 Queen St. E. features acrylics on canvas by Lawrence Rivers for the month of February and Heather Sinnott’s art for the Month of March. Contact 705-254-6407 or www.stonesofficesupply.ca

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ON NOW:

> COMMUNITY CURATES

23 SEPTEMBER – 11 MARCH

This project brought the RMG’s collection into the homes of the community, and it also raised questions into how we perceive artwork online versus in person. Curated by the RMG’s online social network over ten weeks of voting, the exhibition is made up of works on paper from the RMG’s permanent collection.

> BETTY GOODWIN: DARKNESS AND MEMORY

14 JANUARY – 4 MARCH

Closing reception Sunday 4 March, 1pm

Organized and circulated by the Museé d’art contemporain de Montréal, this exhibition, from their permanent collection, serves to tell the story of one of the leading figures of contemporary Canadian art.

> MICAH LEXIER & KELLY MARK: HEAD-TO-HEAD

21 JANUARY – 18 MARCH

Opening celebration at First Fridays, 3 February, 7pm

The works in this exhibition illustrate the differences in approach as much as the similarities of these two artists, who share a sensibility but have differences in style.

> RMG FRIDAYS

2 March 7pm

Live music | Art | Friday night |

ALTERNATIVE VOICES with STEREO MOON and 1977 celebrating the launch of Durham’s New Alternative Voice: OSHAWHAT MAGAZINE

FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION:

THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: HARDWIRED FOR NARRATIVE

The newly renovated permanent collection gallery features this new exhibition that looks at our means of storytelling through images. Hardwired for Narrative incorporates works with specific “stories” that the artist was deliberate in trying to convey; but there are also works which are only made complete when the audience brings their personal history to the viewing, making interpretation an integral part of the act of seeing.

OSHAWA CREEK PROJECT: THEN AND NOW

7 January – 26 April, 2012

Opening reception Tuesday 7 February 11:30 am

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, in partnership with the Oshawa Senior Citizens’ Camera Club, is proud to present the Oshawa Creek Project: Then and Now. Using historical images from the Thomas Bouckley Collection as a starting point, members of the Oshawa Seniors’ Camera Club have photographed the Oshawa Creek as it appears today.

THE ROBERT McLAUGHLIN GALLERY

72 Queen Street, Civic Centre

Oshawa, OntarioL1H 3Z3

T: +19055763000

F: 905.576.9774

www.rmg.on.ca

communications@rmg.on.ca

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23. TOM THOMSON ART GALLERY Exhibitions & Events

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This week at the TOM: Stop in at the ROXY today to bid on artwork in the S#XHIBITION, join our Family Fun Day Make Art Session or sign up for our March Break Art Classes and be sure to get your REEL Festival passes. Lupercalia kicks off early with a group exhibition here at the TOM!

NEWS

Scholarships

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery is pleased to announce that it has established a new scholarship. The Tom Thomson Art Gallery Scholarship will include $200.00, as well as a selection of books, awarded to a graduating or senior student with a demonstrated interest in visual arts. Preference will be given to those students who have either volunteered at the TOM or who have worked there as part of the co-op programme. Preference will also be given to a student who is planning to continue in post-secondary studies, majoring in either Fine Arts or Art History.

The scholarships will be available to one student at each of the following schools: West Hill Secondary School, Owen Sound Collegiate & Vocational Institute, St. Mary’s High School, and to one student from the First Nations Community. Please contact the Gallery for more details.

CLASSES

Make Art this Sunday February 19

As part of Family Day Weekend and paying tribute to all the local musicians in Lupercalia this month’s Make Art activity is home-made instruments! Join us for this free fun family activity in the Gallery studio between 1 and 3 pm. Make Art happens the 3rd Sunday of the month at the TOM. Everyone is always welcome.

Art à la carte – March Break at the TOM

For the young at art, something different every day at the Gallery during March Break, March 13-16. Sessions run 9 am to 12 noon and cost $30, $25 for members, for each morning. Bring a snack and dress for mess. Pre-registration required.

Tuesday

What’s a Zoetrope?

It’s two-two- toys in one! Make a spinning top that makes your animation come to life!

Wednesday

Cool’n’Creepy Crawlers

Create cool creatures that creep and climb!

Thursday

Stationery Stained-Glass

Create beautiful “stained-glass” out of papers and plastic to reflect and glow in the light.

Friday

Elastic-Band Racers

We will build, decorate and race our own miniature cars to “wind-up” the week.

ON VIEW

Barbara Todd: Teaching a Stone to Talk

Until March 25 2012

Barbara Todd has taken stones collected from her family cottage in Southampton and fragments of conversation and woven them into a bold, beautifully graphic series of quilts, drawings and installation.

Convergence: 49th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Until March 25 2012

Convergence features work by artists from across the province.

Lupercalia Festival at the TOM

February 13 - February 18

A group exhibition in the atrium, Gallery Shop and lower lobby features the work of Jessica Donovan (furniture and design), Daniel Ehrenworth (photography), Cleo Dyer and Joel Richardson (topical street art).

On Saturday February 18 from 5:00 till 10:30pm, the TOM plays host to an eclectic sonic lineup which includes As Is, the psychedelic sounds of Learning, hellothisisalex’s bizarre electropop and the experimentations of Nick Storring. A full WEEKEND PASS is just $30. Check the website for more details:

Continuing…

Canadian Spirit: The Tom Thomson Experience

Canadian Spirit makes use of the TOM’s important collection of objects, photos, documents and artworks by Thomson. A special feature of this exhibition includes works by his siblings who were also accomplished artists. On view will be selected works by George Thomson, Fraser Thomson, Henry Thomson and Margaret Tweedale (nee Thomson).

Portraits of TOM

Until March 25, 2012

Gallery Shop Special Project

In the great tradition of portraits of artists by fellow artists, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery Shop is pleased to present an exhibition and sale of Portraits of Tom. Artists are generously donating 50% of sales to the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to support regional artists and the TOM!

Reel Festival Celebrates 10 Years

You are invited to stop into the Gallery studio from now until the end of February to see our display of the 50 theatrical release posters from our past festivals.

MOVIES

Owen Sound’s Reel Festival

With just over a week to go, Owen Sound’s 10th Annual Reel Festival weekend passes are going fast. Get yours now at the Gallery! Our film selection has been finalized, and we have a great line-up!

LE HAVRE

TAKE SHELTER

MONSIUER LAZHAR

CLOUDBURST

CAFE DE FLORE

STARBUCK

Final film schedule and individual tickets will be available on February 21. For full film details check out the Reel Festival page on our website. In celebration of our 10th Anniversary, drop into the Gallery Studio to see a display of the 50 films that we have featured at the Reel Festival.

The Tom Thomson Gallery – From Idea to Reality

with Judy Thomson

Tuesday February 14 at 3 pm

Join us for an enlightening look at the Gallery’s early years with long-time Gallery member Judy Thomson. Tickets are $10 - available at the Gallery and at The Ginger Press-and include luscious Valentine desserts. Presented by the Canadian Federation of University Women Owen Sound. For those wishing to explore the Gallery as it is today, David Huff, Manager of Public Programs, will be on hand in Canadian Spirit exhibition to discuss questions, before Judy’s talk, or after until closing at 5 pm.

Upcoming…

BUS TRIPS

New York: Judy Chicago’s THE DINNER PARTY

Many seats have already been reserved! Join us for an adventure to the Big Apple in April to see Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party at The Brooklyn Museum of Art.

NEW! Pick-up Stop in Guelph, ON

Book your seats now, as the TOM has just added a passenger pick-up for those who can meet the bus in Guelph.

Just a few Things to see and do in NYC

Missed it at Stratford? Catch “Jesus Christ Superstar” on Broadway – check out the Exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, The Frick Collection, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Visit our website to register, and to view all these links and important information on “Travelling to the USA”.

Gallery Tour to Algonquin Park September 2012

Join the Gallery for a unique travel experience as we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Tom’s first trip to Algonquin Park, where he found much inspiration in the last five years of his life. Travelling by deluxe motor coach we will stop at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, visit the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, then spend a whole day in Algonquin Park visiting their Visitor Centre, Canoe Lake and Ragged Falls, all while the autumn colours are at their peak. We return via Hunstville to view some of the over 40 murals dedicated to Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, before culminating our Thomson excursion with a tour of Canadian Spirit: The Tom Thomson Experience here at the TOM. Visit our website for full trip details, pricing and how to register.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS from regional artists Deadline: Friday, February 27

A Gallery Shop Special Project

Scenic City will investigate the state of current urbanity and invites artists to submit digital photographs that explore urban themes and the human condition. Submitted images may be shot on any digital image recording device and have been manipulated with an in-camera filter, cell phone apps or any other quick filter software (Instagram, Hipstamatic and more).

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery Shop is organizing an exhibition and sale of these which will take place from April 1-June 3. For complete submission guidelines, go to http://www.tomthomson.org/page.php?page=104

IN THE COMMUNITY

Family FUN Day at Cobble Beach

Monday February 20 from 11am

Looking for family fun on Family Day? Cobble Beach have organized indoor and outdoor activities for the whole family, including an art session hosted by the TOM as part of our TAGG-You're-It art in the community series from 11am - 2pm. Visit their website for full details:

http://cobblebeachgolflinks.com/cobble-beach-friends.html

A TALE OF TWO STEEPLES: Art Show and Silent Auction

March 20 – March 24, 2012 in the Studio

A TALE of TWO STEEPLES features work by 18 artists who created pieces out of the old spire at St. George’s church which will be available for exhibition and silent auction at the TOM. A reception on March 24, from 7-9 pm marks the final bidding opportunity and the closing of the show.

Participating artists include: Greta Bannan, Doris Fraser, Sandra Noble Goss, Bob Hastings, Joan Hawksbridge, Stephen Hogbin, Tom Jenks, Ann Keeling, Andree Levie-Warrilow, Jim Hong Louie, Judy Lowry, Marieke A. Niemeijer, Jan Niemeijer, George McLean, Cynthia Porter, Karen Rosalie, Allen Smutylo, Paul Smutylo

Art Banner Exhibition Invitation to Artists and Patrons

Submission deadline: Wednesday February 29, 2012

Attention all Owen Sound area artists and lovers of art! The Owen Sound Art Banner Exhibition for 2012 invites your submissions and your support.

Click on the link below for submission forms and also to sponosor a banner.

Billy Bishop Home and Museum

Requesting Art work created by soldiers during WWI or WWII and posters for the new exhibit The Art of War

How was WWI and WWII illustrated or portrayed by the government, media and the soldiers themselves during this time?

The new exhibit called The Art of War opens Saturday, June 2nd, 2012. This exhibit looks at the illustrations, posters, artwork and creative works that were inspired by or created for the First and Second World Wars.

Billy Bishop Home and Museum is requesting any posters, paintings, artwork made from military items, poetry or songs that were created by soldiers from the First and Second War. The museum is also looking for any artwork or items (stamps, collectables) that were created due to the wars

Please call Mindy Gill, Curator of Collections, at the Billy Bishop Home and Museum 519 371 0031.

The Reel Paddling Festival

March 24, from 7pm at the Roxy

Not to be confused with the Reel Film Festival, this festival, hosted by Suntrail Source for Adventure, screens the best paddling films of the year. Call Suntrail or the Roxy to book tickets or visit http://reelpaddlingfilmfestival.com/

Leanne Wright

Marketing and Development Assistant

519-376-1932 x 231

lwright@tomthomson.org

Tom Thomson Art Gallery

840 First Avenue West

Owen Sound, ON Canada n4k 4k4

www.tomthomson.org

STAY CONNECTED WITH THE TOM

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Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington www.thebac.ca

All receptions and tour and talk sessions are free of charge. Unless otherwise noted, professional development seminars are free of charge but registration is required by calling 905-632-7796, ext. 307.

Exhibitions

Walls of Memories: Khalid Thamer to February 19

Geometrics to April 22

Selections from the BAC Permanent Collection of Contemporary Canadian Ceramics

Permanent Collection Corridor

Curator: Jonathan Smith

The first pattern decorations found on ceramics were geometric, an indication of a desire to establish an ordered and predictable world. That desire has never left us, and artists still create work that is ordered on the idea of geometrical form and/or decoration. This exhibition examines the various degrees of order artists chase, from the tight control of Roseline Delisle’s clean-cut and striped container to Kayo O’Young’s deliberately distorted pristine forms.

Reception: February 26, 2-4 pm; Curator’s talk: March 25, 1:30 pm

Verge - New Generation Mentor Group

February 18 - March 25

Kathy Marlene Bailey (Oakville), Sarah Collard (Waterdown), Andrea Eby (Grimsby), Kim Lee Kho (Brampton), Ellen Lalonde (Oakville), Magdalena Lesniak (Stoney Creek), Iriz Paabo (Elmwood), Quan Steele (Etobicoke), Josh Tiessen (Stoney Creek)

Curator: George Wale

Mentor Judy Major-Girardin

Lee-Chin Family Gallery

A twelve-month mentor program for emerging artists working in a wide variety of media, culminating in this exhibition. Reception: February 26, 2-4 pm; Artists’ Talk: March 6, 5-6 pm

Burlington Guild of Sculptors and Woodcarvers - Woodcarvers Group

February 25 - March 25

Juror: Victor Paroyan, Wildfowl Artist

Reception: February 26, 2-4 pm

Professional Development

Grant Information Workshop

March 5, 6:30 pm. Free. Call 905-632-7796, ext. 307, to register.

An overview of grant applications and strategies for artists presented by a representative from the Ontario Arts Council.

Packing and Shipping of Cultural Property

April 11 and 12, 2012

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

At the Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON L7S 1A9 Canada

An introduction to safe and cost effective techniques and materials for packing your artworks for shipping. Presented by Canadian Conservation Institute and Burlington Art Centre. Paul Marcon, CCI will lead the workshop. This module provides an awareness of important issues to consider when crating fragile works of art. It begins with a practical overview of shipping hazards and the susceptibility of artwork to these hazards. Packaging concepts and theory are taught with presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on activities. Participants have an opportunity to apply their knowledge by designing a protective package for several highly fragile test items and conducting drop tests on their designs. Test results provide examples of packaging principles in action and ways that damage can take place. Participants are encouraged to bring objects for discussion and to share their questions, concerns, or experiences in packaging and exhibitions.

Paul Marcon graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1983 with a B.A.Sc in Mechanical Engineering. He is a registered member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, and works with the Conservation Research Division of CCI. His area of specialization is preventive conservation with emphasis on physical forces and their effects on buildings and collections. He carries out research into the susceptibility of art objects to forces and environmental factors at CCI and in collaboration with National and International partners. His activities include the provision of advice, design solutions and information to Canadian and international museum clients, and the presentation of training seminars on preventive conservation, art in transit, and protective packaging at national and international venues.

For more information: waleg@thebac.on.ca. FEE - $250 per person. Call 905-632-7796, ext. 307, to register or send by post to CCI Workshop Registration, Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON L7S 1A9. For more information, e-mail waleg@thebac.on.ca

Event - Fine Art and Craft Festival - June 9 and 10. Applications from artists and artisans interested in participating in this juried sale now being accepted. Go to thebac.ca/festival for event and application details.

Guild Displays and Events

Fireside Lounge: Burlington Fine Arts Association Members: February 1–28: Ann Kelly Walsh, Spirit of the Rock: Newfoundland; February 29 – March 27: Sharane Gilbert

March 14: Burlington Fine Art Association Art Appreciation, 1 pm, Fine Art Studio – Self-Portrait: Snow Hill, a one-hour documentary on American realist Andrew Wyeth, concluding with images from the Brandywine River Museum.

Burlington Sculptors and Woodcarvers Guild Display Case: Clay or Stone

Latow Annual Seminar: April 14 - Speaker: Award-winning photographer Nevada Wier.www.latow.com or e-mail seminar@latow.com for more information

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OAAG EVENT DIGEST: Vol. 8 No. 03

1. Toronto Mercer Union January 17 Artists' Talk & Screening

2. Queenston RiverBrink Art Museum January 17 Open During the 2012 Niagara Ice Wine Festival

3. Hamilton McMaster Museum of Art January 17 Artist's Talk by Ramona Ramlochand

4. Mississauga Blackwood Gallery January 18 SERIPOP (Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau)

5. St Catharines Rodman Hall Art Centre January 19 New Exhibitions

6. London McIntosh Gallery January 19 Suzy Lake: Poetic Politics

7. Belleville John M. Parrott Art Gallery January 19 The Drawing Room

8. Durham Durham Art Gallery January 21 Current Exhibitions

9. Toronto Gallery 44 January 21 Marc Audette and Yannig Willmann

10. Toronto Textile Museum of Canada to January 22 GRAFT: Linking Textiles, Art and Science

11. Toronto Neilson Park Creative Centre to January 22 The Big Chill

12. Barrie MacLaren Art Centre to February 20 Joanna McEwen: Interiors of Place

13. Cambridge Cambridge Galleries to February 26 Current Exhibitions

14. Brantford Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant to March 4 The Promise of Painting

15. Orillia Orillia Museum of Art and History on now Lost Histories: Gypsies of 1909 by JoEllen Brydon

16. Kleinburg McMichael Canadian Art Collection on now Current Exhibitions

17. Kingston Agnes Etherington Art Centre on now Bernard Clark: Tattoo Portraits

18. Grimsby Grimsby Public Art Gallery winter 2012 Winter Courses & Workshops

19. Whitby Station Gallery ongoing & upcoming Exhibitions & Events

20. Toronto Harbourfront Centre ongoing & upcoming WorldStage

21. Burlington Burlington Art Centre ongoing & upcoming Exhibitions & Events

22. London Museum London ongoing & upcoming Exhibitions & Events

23. Toronto AGO upcoming Exhibitions & Events

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1. MERCER UNION Artists' Talk & Screening

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TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS AT MERCER UNION KICK OFF WITH AN OFFSITE EVENT AT THE AGO!

Artists' Talk & Screening

Tuesday 17 January, 7PM

Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario

317 Dundas Street West (use McCaul St. entrance)

Pierre Leguillon (Paris) and Annie MacDonell (Toronto) will discuss their upcoming exhibitions at Mercer Union. The conversation will be preceded by a special presentation Nostalgia by Hollis Frampton on original 16mm format!

Opening Reception for the Exhibitions

Friday 20 January, 7PM

Mercer Union

1286 Bloor Street West

Join us in celebrating the opening of the Winter 2012 exhibitions!

Annie MacDonell: Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition)

The title of the show is not wholly unique. It borrows from the title of a 1981 Rosalind Krauss text, which questions the avant garde’s attachment to notions of authenticity and its denial of its own foundation in processes of repetition. The terms of the production and reception of art have shifted since the writing of that text, through both the foregrounding of appropriation as a critical art practice and the rise of sampling at all levels of cultural production. Appropriation and repetition have become central to the way art and ideas circulate, and yet the cult of originality as described by Krauss still overwhelmingly defines our valuation of the contemporary in art. Through a series of doublings and transpositions, the exhibition investigates the potential of repetition as a model for generating meaning. Photographs, film, reflection, projection, the space of the studio and the space of the gallery are superimposed one upon the other in a proliferation of analogues that take for subject their own state of interconnection.

Pierre Leguillon features Diane Arbus: a printed retrospective, 1960-1971

This exhibition organized by French artist Pierre Leguillon brings together all the images commissioned to the New York photographer by the Anglo-Saxon press in the 1960s. Leguillon’s exhibition will present the original pages of the magazines, which correspond to the first appearance of these photographs in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Nova, and The Sunday Times Magazine. While some of these photographs have become icons of contemporary America, others are yet to be discovered. The variety of subjects dealt with offers a wide perspective on Diane Arbus’s talent, ranging from anonymous subjects to celebrity portraits of Norman Mailer, Jorge Luis Borges, Mia Farrow, Marcello Mastroianni, Coretta Scott King, children’s fashion, to several photographic essays in which the images are credited or commented by the photographer herself (“The Vertical Journey,” “The Full Circle,” “Auguries of Innocence”). The unprecedented connections realized in Pierre Leguillon’s display underline the currency of photography in contemporary art.

Mercer Union acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. Pierre Leguillon features Diane Arbus: A Printed Retrospective, 1960–1971 has been generously supported by the Consulate General of France in Toronto.

Mercer Union

1286 Bloor Street West

Toronto ON M6H 1N9 Canada

www.mercerunion.org

info@mercerunion.org

416.536.1519

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2. RIVERBRINK ART MUSEUM Open During the 2012 Niagara Ice Wine Festival

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RiverBrink Art Museum

Open During the 2012 Niagara Ice Wine Festival

RiverBrinkArt Museum is celebrating the Niagara Ice Wine Festival by opening its doors to the general public from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday, January 17 through Sunday January 22 and from Tuesday, January 24 to Friday, January 27. This is the first time in recent history that the museum has been open to the general public on a “drop in” basis during the wintertime.

Seven themed exhibitions drawn from the RiverBrink Permanent Collection will be on display during the Icewine Festival: Winter at RiverBrink seasonal paintings and prints, including a selection of unique etchings created by Nicholas Hornyansky; The Group of Seven and Friend, sketches and paintings created by members of the Group of Seven and Canadian contemporaries Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; Portraits from the Collection, curated by Debra Antoncic, a selection of portraits both anonymous and named portraits of individuals in all stages of life; France in Art, curated by Gary Esser, a selection of art works by 19th-century French artists, and artists working in France during this pivotal period. Canadian History in Portraits, portraits of notable men who helped shape the early history of British North America; Niagara Falls and Queenston, historic art works depicting Niagara Falls and the surrounding area; Suzor-Coté at RiverBrink, a selection of bronze sculptures by the 20th-century Québec artist depicting the challenging pioneer life of people from rural Quebec.

“The Ice Wine Festival is a well established and popular series of winter events attended by both the local and tourist communities,” notes Debra Antoncic, Interim Curator. “Opening the museum to the general public during the festival adds another cultural layer to the festivities.”

The IcewineVillage in Niagara-on-the-Lake takes place on Saturday January 21 and Sunday, January 22 and is expected to draw 5,000 people. RiverBrinkArt Museum will be open from 10 am to 4 pm on both of those days.

RiverBrink Art Museum is located at 116 Queenston Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake (on the Niagara Parkway halfway between Niagara Falls and “OldTown” Niagara-on-the-Lake). Regular admission: Adults $5.00, Seniors and Students $4.00, under 12 free. For more information, please contact RiverBrinkArt Museum by phone at 905-262-4510 or by email at info@riverbrink.org.

Media Contact: Brian Kremen, Director of Marketing & Development

RiverBrink Art Museum

Email: bkremen@riverbrink.org

Ph. 905 262 4510

Fax. 905 262 4477

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3. MCMASTER MUSEUM OF ART Artist's Talk by Ramona Ramlochand

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Artist's Talk

by Ramona Ramlochand

TUesday January 17 at 12:30 pm

Join us for this free talk by Montreal-based artist Ramona Ramlochand, presented as a complement to her exhibition Unfallen which is on view at the McMaster Museum of Art until January 28.

PERCEPTIONS OF PROMISE:

Biotechnology, Society and Art

February 9 - March 31, 2012

Curated by Lianne McTavish

Panel Discussion and Reception: February 9 from 6 - 8 pm (details follow)

Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, Society and Art is an interdisciplinary and collaborative project that brings together a group of internationally recognized artists and social commentators (e.g. philosophers, sociologists, legal scholars, scientists) in order to produce a body of original art work and accompanying essays exploring the complex legal, ethical and social issues associated with advancements made in life science technologies with a particular focus on stem cell research.

Perceptions of Promise includes work by contemporary artists: Derek Michael Besant, Sean Caulfield / Royden Mills in collaboration, Bernd Hildebrandt/ Liz Ingram in collaboration, Shona MacDonald, Marilene Oliver, Daniela Schlüter, Clint Wilson

Stem Cell Culture: Biomedical Research, Popular Culture and Art

Panel Discussion

February 9 from 6 - 8 pm

Moderator:

Sean Caulfield – Artist, Professor, University of Alberta

Panelists:

Derek Besant – Artist

Roger Jacobs – Professor & Associate Chair (Undergraduate), Developmental Biology, Genetics & Molecular Biology, McMaster University

Patangi Rangachari – Professor Emeritus, Health Sciences, McMaster University

Daniela Schlüter – Artist

Greg Staats: liminal disturbance

Until January 28, 2012

Greg Staats is a photographer and video artist whose work combines language, mnemonics and the natural world.

McMaster Museum of Art

Alvin A. Lee Building, McMaster University

1280 Main St. W.

Hamilton ON L8S 4L6

(905) 525-9140 x23081 www.mcmaster.ca/museum

Hours:

Tue/Wed/Fri 11 am - 5pm

Thu 11 am - 7 pm

Sat 12 - 5pm

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Landscapes events reproducted

SERIPOP (Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau)

January 18 - March 4, 2012

Curated by Christof Migone

Opening Reception

Wednesday January 18, 5 - 9pm

A FREE shuttle bus departs from OCADU (100 McCaul St.) at 6:30pm, returns for 9pm.

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Speech is an edifice built out of blocks of space. Words do not exist;

there are only movements in space and their parts—points and areas.

- Velimir Khlebnikov

The power of time is always accompanied by the event which destroys it.

- Georges Didi-Huberman

The Blackwood Gallery is proud to present Seripop's first major solo exhibition, titled: Landscapes events reproducted. In this exhibition Seripop will be shaping posters into immersive ephemeral spaces; transforming the galleries into ur-urban landscapes; layering proto-messages of agrammatical gibberish; manifesting a distaste for Le Corbusier's sterile modernism; playing with possibilities until monomania sets in; covering the white cube and the black box with repetitive patterns of noise print; tracing the viewers' erosive steps; sculpting with soft materials; inking flows and fluxes; structuring an erratic conversation; reconstructing constructivism with a punk ethos; referencing the streets of a dystopian Montreal; devising DIY architecture as a place where the local is everywhere; composing palimpsestic texts to read time into space; postering in three dimensions; mapping askew; savoring pleonastic tendencies; mining the sinuous; pupullating forms; screening the cinematic into stilled installations; occupying every inch of space like space gluttons; contreting amorphous abstraction; relishing in operose excess; whelming over and over; differentiating between background and foreground no longer; festering the synaptic firings until they splatter the walls floors and ceilings; disturbing and deranging 2d into 3d; synchronizing symmetries while causing head tilts; and injecting structure with improvisatory tears and rips.

ARTIST STATEMENT

We collaborate to create immersive screenprinted paper installations. Our work is based on our previous research on posters as topographical markers and their relation with their physical and human environment. We try to playfully relate to these notions through a formal game with the poster where the concepts of space, human intervention within the urban milieu, and material durability are put back in question. Through color, we suggest new volumes or dramatize existing depths; by using paper, we create impressions of massiveness through the paradoxical use of a delicate material; by using the typographic elements introduced by the poster, we give or substract meaning to the whole installation. The works we create are not limited to a formal exploration within the medium. They carry multiple streams of thought that are simultaneously exposed within the work at different degrees of readability for the viewer. This amalgamation of ideas is inevitable because of the collaborative work situation we are in. In fact, we usually leave these ideas uncensored, and even highlight them through a strongly graphic rendering, a heritage from our design antecedents. Therefore we let literary quotes, reflexions about the aesthetics of failure, satyrical introspections, municipal politics and iconic art giants rub elbows with each other, while supporting freely the main subject that is interpreted in the work. Our installation work is the result of an eight years-long field research in graphic design through postermaking. The observations we made of this poster work within the city environment made us requalify it as a series of public interventions rather than static objects. This thought process was the genesis of our installation work and justifies our involvement with the poster as an environmental medium.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum have worked together since 2000 and started the Seripop project in 2002. They have exhibited and given talks in Canada and abroad, notably at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen, Scotland, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria and University of North Texas in Denton. They were recently part of the Quebec Triennial 2011 at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal. Their work is represented in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Lum and Desranleau also belong to Avant-Rock trio AIDS Wolf. More info on their site: seripop.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Artist Talk at Sheridan College

Thursday January 19, 12:30 to 1:30pm

Annie Smith Arts Centre Mezzanine

Sheridan College

1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville

This talk is FREE and open to the public.

Click here and go to the Contact Us link for directions.

FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour

Sunday February 26, 12 to 5pm

Tour starts at noon at 80 Spadina Ave with the Koffler Gallery Off-Site exhibition, and then departs for Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Doris McCarthy Gallery. To make a reservation, contact the Blackwood Gallery at 905-828-3789 or blackwoodgallery@utoronto.ca by Friday February 24th.

The Blackwood Talks: Seripop roundtable

Friday March 2, 1 to 3pm

Location: Blackwood Gallery (Kaneff Center)

With Tammer El-Sheikh, Ron Loranger, Christof Migone and Lisa Neighbour

This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here for more information.

ARTBus Tour

Sunday March 4, 11:30am to 5pm

The bus departs from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St. W, Toronto) at 11:30am for the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Blackwood Gallery and Burlington Art Centre. To make a reservation, please contact Jaclyn Qua-Hiansen (AGM) at 905 896 5088 or email jaclyn.qua-hiansen@mississauga.ca by Friday March 2nd

Generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Student Housing and Residence Life at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

The artists would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Harvey Lev.

Blackwood Gallery

University of Toronto Mississauga

3359 Mississauga Rd. N.

Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6

www.blackwoodgallery.ca

blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca

905.828.3789

Gallery Hours

Monday to Friday: 12 – 5pm

Wednesday until 9pm

Saturday & Sunday: 12 – 3pm

Closed Civic Holidays

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5. RODMAN HALL ART CENTRE New Exhibitions

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Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University

Rodman Hall kicks off 2012 with four exhibitions

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 8 – 10 pm

Artist Talk with Kent Monkman: Thursday, January 19, 7 pm

Artist Talk with Brendan Tang: Friday, January 20, 12 noon

Kent Monkman | The Four Continents: Miss America

January 20 – March 11, 2012

Curated by Marcie Bronson, exhibition concept by Shirley Madill

In his work, Kent Monkman often appropriates the aesthetic of "New World" landscape painting, recreating the picturesque and sublime landscapes of North American colonialism through the playful insertion of dramatic scenes of sex and violence between European and First Nations peoples to challenge the accuracy of their representation. This exhibition premieres Miss America, the first work of Monkman's series The Four Continents. Inspired by Giambattista Tiepolo's mid-eighteenth century frescoes of the same subject, this new body of work reflects the "painted voyage" from the Renaissance to Romanticism, a visual journey in which Europeans projected their views of the world onto other continents. In Monkman's version, the anachronous New World alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle embodies the displacement and flux that more accurately characterizes the complex and fluid histories of our global reality. This major new work is accompanied by a series of preparatory studies and an atelier installation that reveal the artist's process.

Brendan Tang | Gained in Translation

January 20 – April 29, 2012

Curated by Marcie Bronson

Merging historical and contemporary forms, Brendan Tang's ceramic and mixed media sculptures play subtle visual tricks on the viewer, evoking a host of dichotomies and probing questions about culture past and present. Inspired by anime and manga, Tang grafts brightly coloured robotic prosthetics onto an array of seemingly antique Chinese vessels in his ongoing Manga Ormolu series. Exposed wires, inputs and outputs, ventilation grates, speakers, sensors, and braces perfectly fitted around the organic, sinuous forms of the porcelains propel them into the future, forging new forms and functions. Juxtaposing the fragility and preciousness of the slow and careful tradition of hand-painted and sculpted ceramics with durable, disposable, mass-produced synthetics of the current day, Tang's sculptures reflect the evolving Western experience of the Orient and playfully consider the perpetual redrawing of national, cultural, and ethnic boundaries that accompanies accelerated globalization in contemporary society.

Marinko Jareb | Stoop Loggy Log's Underground Rave: Vinyl Toys, Vinyl Records and Remixes

January 20 – September 2, 2012

Curated by Marcie Bronson

Best known for his work as DJ MACHINE, St. Catharines-based artist Marinko Jareb's multidisciplinary practice was born out of producing thematic underground music events incorporating light, sound, video, and images. Informed by the aesthetics of graffiti and toy culture, his work is often quickly executed and characterized by reductive and highly energetic forms which are often layered and combined to create a sense of excess and joyous sensory overload. Playing with language, altering found texts and images, Jareb's work is marked by a sense of cultural collision, in part inspired by his experience growing up as a Croatian-Canadian. Taking over the gallery's project space, Jareb constructs a miniature dance party beneath the forest floor, animated by sound and video mixes and inhabited by a variety of collectible artist toys, including some of his own design.

David Rokeby | Plot Against Time #2 (Flurry)

January 20 – March 11, 2012

Since 1982, Canadian artist David Rokeby has focused on interactive works that engage the human body or involve artificial perception systems. The second in a series of works that explore patterns of movement over time, Plot Against Time #2 (Flurry), tracks individual snowflakes whirling in the complex turbulence created by the rigorous and minimal forms of Mies van der Rohe's Toronto Dominion Centre skyscrapers and an Al McWilliams sculpture in the middle of the complex. From a vantage point within the sculpture, the camera captures falling snow against these stark structures. Processed to separate the snowflakes from the background, the video footage is then reworked to draw out and highlight the complex paths the individual flakes follow.

Plot Against Time #2 (Flurry) was purchased in 2010 with the generous assistance of the Hansen Family Fund.

Rodman Hall Art Centre / Brock University

109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 1M3

TEL 905.684.2925

FAX 905.682.4733

www.brocku.ca/rodman-hall

Follow uss on Twitter: RodmanHall

Gallery Hours

Tuesday to Friday: 11 am to 5 pm

Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm

Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm

Closed Monday and statutory holidays.

Admission is free.

Contact: Danny Custodio, 905.688.5550 ext. 5802, dcustodio@brocku.ca

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6. MCINTOSH GALLERY Suzy Lake: Poetic Politics

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Pioneer of feminist performance art exhibits at McIntosh Gallery

A leading figure of Canadian art whose work influenced a generation of international women artists is the subject of a new exhibition at McIntosh Gallery. Suzy Lake arrives at Western on January 19th for the public opening reception of the exhibition Poetic Politics.

Reflecting the social and political upheaval of the sixties and seventies, the American-born artist has achieved international acclaim for her large-scale photographs and related performances created over the past 40 years. Born in Detroit, Lake moved to Montreal in 1968 where she became active in the conceptualist art scene and was a co-founder of the artist-run gallery Véhicule Art Inc.

Combining photography, performance, film and video Lake investigates individual identity as a social construct. Using costumes, make-up and props, she assumes varied identities in her self-portraits. By revealing the artifice of her adopted personas, she dramatizes the self-transformation involved in posing for the camera. Occasionally she would present herself as a specific political figure, such as Patty Hearst. But the major political dimension of her work is its suggestion that femininity is a construct, one that may be socially-imposed, but that is also potentially liberating. In this regard, Lake prefigures her contemporary cultural theorist Camille Paglia (also born in 1947) and fellow Detroit native Madonna.

Lake is now regarded as a pioneer among women artists of the 1970s who influenced a generation of post-modern artists who, like Lake, adapted and adopted multiple histories and identities in their art practices. Roberta Smith of the New York Times notes that Lake’s work “parallels and may precede that of Cindy Sherman.”[i] At a time when abstract painting, typically done by men, was the dominate art form, Lake was one of a group of artists to adopt performance, video and photography in order to explore the politics of gender, the body and identity. Along with Cindy Sherman and fellow performance/ photography artists Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneeman, Lake forged a new world in activist, feminist art.[ii]

In recognition of her seminal role, Lake’s work was included in two major 2007 touring exhibitions about feminism and contemporary art: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution 1965 – 1980, organized by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, Suzy Lake 1972-1978. Lake, who has taught visual art at the University of Guelph since 1988, continues to make work about the body, focusing on notions of beauty in the context of a youth-oriented, consumer culture.

Lake’s photo-based and performative explorations of the body and beauty offer a powerful and nuanced investigation into the experience and expression of women’s identities within the context of contemporary political, social and media environments. By performing for her own camera, she politically and aesthetically engages with herself as both subject and object. Lake thus exposes the fraught relations between image and identity that preoccupy much of contemporary art practices.

The University of Toronto Art Centre and the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival organized Suzy Lake: Political Poetics. The accompanying catalogue includes essays by Carla Garnet, Matthew Brower and cultural theorist Dot Tuer. It is available at McIntosh Gallery for $30.

The public is invited to meet Suzy Lake at the exhibition opening reception at 7:30 P.M. on Thursday January 19th. On Friday January 20th Lake will meet with Department of Visual Arts graduate students to discuss their work and will give a public tour of the McIntosh show at 12:30 P.M. The exhibition continues until February 18th. For more information, contact: Catherine Elliot Shaw at: celliots@uwo.ca.

McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario

1151 Richmond Street

London, ON N6A 3K7

(519) 661-2111 ext. 84602

jpatten2@uwo.ca

www.mcintoshgallery.ca

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7. JOHN M. PARROTT ART GALLERY The Drawing Room

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John M. Parrott Art Gallery

254 Pinnacle Street, Belleville, Ontario K8N 3B1

613-968-6731 x 2240

gallery@bellevillelibrary.com

Calling all Artists!

Join us at the John M. Parrott Art Gallery on Thursday, January 19th from 6 -7:30 as we launch a new program: “The Drawing Room”.

This new initiative will be an open studio concept, focusing on still life and the human form, and artists at all levels of expertise are invited to join us. The Drawing Room will be held on the third Thursday of each month and admission is free.

Please bring your drawing supplies, an easel or donkey and a sense of creative adventure!

For further information, please call 613-968-6731 x 2240 or e-mail gallery@bellevillelibrary.com

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8. DURHAM ART GALLERY Current Exhibitions

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January 21 to March 11, 2012

INSIDEout: Morgan Kamocki Allaby, Emily Andrus, Jessica Bigda, Gordon Bond, Joshua Carey, Annie Fraser, Fiona Freemark, Mary MacLeod, Lisa Perlman and Sofia Stanidis

The new generation artists presented in INSIDEout address the themes of interiority and exteriority via a broad variety of media, subject matter, and technique. Sculpture, painting, printmaking and collage serve to elucidate the artists’ ideas about the body, home, landscape, myth, memory, text, and metamorphosis.

Joanne Anderson: Letting the Paint Dance

For Anderson, each artwork is a fresh adventure, born out of her restless energy, expressive emotionality, and unaffected approach to subject and style. There is one other word that encapsulates her work: “fun”.

Opening reception for both shows is Saturday, January 21 from 2 to 4

Gallery Hours:

Wednesday to Friday, 10 to 5, Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 plus Thursday evenings 7 to 8

Durham Art Gallery

251 George Street East

Durham ON N0G 1R0

Phone (519) 369-3692

info@durhamart.on.ca

www.durhamart.on.ca

www.facebook.com/Durham.Art.Gallery

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9. GALLERY 44 Marc Audette and Yannig Willmann

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Art Class 010

Photography and installation by Marc Audette

January 13- February 11, 2012

Opening reception: Friday January 13, 6-9pm | Artist talk: Saturday January 21, 2pm

Marc Audette’s photographic series, Art Class 010, emerges from a long-term engagement with both teaching and questioning forms of cultural indoctrination. Known for uncanny, almost cinematic photographs and installations, Audette is deeply invested in challenging what he calls “the dogma of the image.” For Art Class 010, he mines the great pedagogical themes of painting and drawing, filling his images with references to still life, life drawing, perspective, foreshortening, chiaroscuro, and drapery studies. Consisting mainly of a series of peculiar tableaux vivants composed and photographed in the university classroom where he teaches, this evolving body of work reminds us that the most effective and affective lessons of our lives may be learned anywhere, simply by valuing the abilities of our own minds and allowing them to engage freely with the world around us. – Emily Falvey, catalogue essay writer

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marc Audette studied fine art at the University of Québec in Hull and earned a Masters in Visual Arts from York University. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Gallery 44, Toronto, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie and Digital & Video Art Fair (DiVA), New York. He is a founding member of L’Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones (AGAVF), a national arts service organization that represents visual arts groups active in Francophone communities outside the Province of Quebec. In addition to having taught in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University’s Keele campus, Audette teaches in the Multidisciplinary Studies Department at the Glendon campus, and has been curator of the Glendon Gallery since 2001.

The Third Reflection

New photography by Yannig Willmann

Yannig Willmann’s digital photographic installation links the exhibition spaces of Gallery 44’s vitrines and the Pierre-Léon Gallery, at the Alliance Française de Toronto. Yannig Willmann's images are mirrors within the gallery; they reflect works that are absent. What we take from the experience is as much the work exhibited as the fantasy of this work. These photographs, question the duality of our role as both spectator and witness in an exhibit. We are invited to gauge with our own eyes the "aesthetic credibility" of an exhibit whose only reality is virtual or photo-based.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Yannig Willmann was born in Brittany, France in 1977. After film studies at the Paris Institut International de l’Image et du Son and visual art studies at the Rennes Beaux Arts and the California College of Arts in Oakland, California, Willmann spent 2003-2006 at the Studio National des Arts contemporains du Fresnoy. He had his first solo exhibition at the Ilan Engel Gallery in 2011.

Gallery 44 is open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 5 pm

conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.

For more information please contact:

Alice Dixon, Gallery 44

Exhibition Coordinator

(416) 979-3941

alice@gallery44.org

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10. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA GRAFT: Linking Textiles, Art and Science

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ON NOW

Veiled: Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu & Tazeen Qayyum

To February 12, 2012

Curated by Sarah Quinton

Veiled examines the act of veiling the body not only as a material and physical gesture, but also as an emotional and personal process. Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum use the idea of a veil as a poetic device for the investigation of public vs. private space, protection and intimacy. This exhibition focuses on three contemporary artists whose work includes video, performance, sculpture and installation, building on the Textile Museum's investigations of the flow of contemporary expression in a globalized context.

GRAFT: Linking Textiles, Art and Science

To Jan 22, 2012

GRAFT is an exhibition of printed textiles by OCAD University students created in response to the 50th anniversary of the discovery of stem cells by Canadian researchers, Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch. Inspired by this landmark research, the array of creative interpretations featured in the exhibition explore the intersection of art and science as part of the project initiated by Toronto’s Ontario Science Centre and developed in collaboration with the Stem Cell Network and students from OCAD University.

Organized by the Ontario Science Centre and presented by the Textile Museum of Canada.

Textile Museum of Canada

55 Centre Avenue

Toronto ON M5G 2H5

416-599-5321

info@textilemuseum.ca

www.textilemuseum.ca

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11. NEILSON PARK CREATIVE CENTRE The Big Chill

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Neilson Park Creative Centre

56 Neilson Drive

Toronto, Ontario M9C 1V7

T: 416.622.5294

F: 416.622.0892

www.neilsonparkcreativecentre.com

CURRENT SHOW:

THE BIG CHILL: NEILSON PARK CREATIVE CENTRE’S ARTISTS’ CHOICE WINTER EXHIBITION.

UNTIL JANUARY 22

Don’t miss NPCC’s annual, winter exhibit of recent paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media art, photography, sculpture, calligraphy and fibre art. Main & Hall Galleries

UPCOMING SHOWS:

ETOBICOKE ART GROUP “HALL SHOW”: Inspired by Place

JANUARY 23 – FEBRUARY 12

This year, EAG’s annual Hall Show will be taking place in both the Main and Hall Galleries. Join us for recent and dynamic works that are “inspired by place”. Main & Hall Galleries

ETOBICOKE ART GROUP’S MEMBER’S CHOICE EXHIBITION

FEBRUARY 13 – MARCH 4

This annual show features recent works in a variety of media by members of the Group. Main Gallery

ETOBICOKE ART GROUP WEDNESDAY GROUP: Artists’ Choice

FEBRUARY 13 – MARCH 4

Etobicoke Art Group’s notorious Wednesday Group returns with a new and exciting body of original works in various media. Hall Gallery

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12. MACLAREN ART CENTRE Joanna McEwen: Interiors of Place

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MACLARENARTCENTRE

Winter 2012 Exhibitions

Joanna McEwen: Interiors of Place

November 26 through February 20

Curator: Ben Portis

Gallery 3 and the Carnegie Room

Interiors of Place assembles fifty-two egg-tempera panels created from 2003 to 2011 by Simcoe County artist Joanna McEwen. They portray details found within numerous small rural churches that dot historic Oro Medonte Township, of which McEwen has been a longtime resident. Her intimate, chromatic paintings capture glints of spiritual residue but more so the fragile, yet tenacious community bonds carrying over from the nineteenth century. McEwen’s project is simultaneously an aesthetic meditation on the inevitable passages of time and belief and the creation of an objective historical record.

Curator Ben Portis will lead a gallery tour of Interiors of Place on Thursday, February 9 at 12:30 pm. In early 2012, the MacLaren will publish a book to include actual-size reproductions of the complete series of paintings, with accompanying essays by the artist, curator Ben Portis and guest writer Andrea Curtis.

Kelly Wallace: Terminal

December 1 through February 26

Curator: Ben Portis

Janice Laking Gallery

Curator Ben Portis will lead a tour of Terminal on Thursday, January 19 at 12:30 pm. Artist Kelly Wallace will lead a gallery tour of his exhibition on Sunday, February 12 at 1:00 pm. Terminal is a revised and updated version of the exhibition originally presented at Museum London in 2010.

Alex Colville: Book of Hours, Labours of the Months

January 11 through May 31

Curator: Jennifer Withrow

Joan Lehman Gallery

GENERAL INFORMATION

Gallery Hours: The MacLarenArtCentre is open Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The MacLarenArtCentre is closed statutory holidays.

Gallery Tours: Guided tours of the Gallery for groups and schools are available by appointment. Free public tours of the winter exhibitions are scheduled for January 19 at 12:30 pm, February 9 at 12:30 pm and February 12 at 1:00 pm

Gallery Admission: Suggested general admission $5 for Family Sunday Workshops. Materials are provided. Space is limited, so arrive early! Admission: $5 per child/Family Membership holders free.

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13. CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES Current Exhibitions

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SUSAN DOBSON: TRANSMISSION

Curated by Iga Janik

January 14 – February 26, 2012

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, January 14 at 2:30 pm

An exhibition of new video work by photographer Susan Dobson premiers at Cambridge Galleries. Simulcast, a 25 minute video piece consists of a single-frame image captured through the windshield of a moving vehicle on paved and unpaved roads late at night. Illuminated only by the headlights of the car and occasional passing vehicles, it is a monotonous video trip through ordinary landscape. A carefully edited version of the original 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast plays in the background with the addition of a digital GPS system providing periodic directions to an anonymous driver.

Dobson contrasts the use of digital and analogue technologies to create a relationship between new and old. The veracity of information in any medium is highlighted and questioned, while the dramatic combination of video and sound used in Simulcast creates a strong sense of anxiety and suspense.

This exhibition is accompanied by a publication, Susan Dobson: Shifting Tenses co-published by Cambridge Galleries and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

ARTIST BIO:

Susan Dobson was born in New Brunswick, grew up in Germany, and now lives with her partner and two children in Guelph, Ontario. Her photographs and installations have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, as well as in the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, China, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. She has been a featured artist in photography festivals such as CONTACT (Toronto, Canada), Fotoseptiembre (Mexico City), Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal, Canada), Bitume/Bitumen (Brussels), and FotoNoviembre (Spain). She was a contributing artist to the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and her work was presented on billboards in Vancouver as part of the exhibition Endlessly Traversed Landscapes. Her work is in the collections of museums and corporate collections, such as the Centennial Gallery, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Portland Museum, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada.

Dobson's photographs have been published in periodicals and newspapers such as CV Photo, Photo Metro, The Globe and Mail, and Border Crossings and have been featured in Carte Blanche, a compendium of Canadian photography, and Massive Change by Bruce Mau. She has lectured on photography at institutions such as the University of Waterloo, the University of Barcelona, and the National Arts Centre in Mexico City. Dobson is the recipient of two Gold National Magazine awards, and numerous awards and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, including the K.M. Hunter award for visual arts. Most recently, she received a major grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her project The Pictured Past and the Future Perfect: Shifting Tenses in Contemporary Photography. Dobson is Associate Professor in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph. More information about her work is available at www.susandobson.com.

Admission is free, everyone is welcome.

CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES QUEEN'S SQUARE

1 North Square

Cambridge, ON N1S 2K6

Tel: 519.621.0460

GALLERY HOURS:

Monday to Thursday 9:30 am - 8:30 pm

Friday & Saturday 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

Sunday 1 - 5 pm

ICE CAVE

Josh Cleminson + Monte Burman

Curated by Iga Janik

January 11 – February 26, 2012

OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, January 11 at 6:30 PM

This sculptural installation created for the gallery space imitates an ice cave environment through its use of material and light. Transformed entirely the gallery space becomes a murky and dramatic space making it an architectural installation at the same time.

Ice Cave consists of building large iceberg/ice-cave-esque monuments out of transparent packing tape with lights glowing and pulsing from the inside and a low droning soundtrack in the background all of which is surrounded a low-lying fog. The viewer is lured in by the beauty of the forms but also, with help from the soundtrack, cautious that something is about to happen; like a built up level of suspense created by the fear of the unknown.

In their collaborative practice Cleminson and Burman take aesthetically obsolete materials, of which packing materials are imperative functionally yet disregarded aesthetically, and find aesthetic purposes for them. In this instance packing tape has a similar visual quality to ice; like ice, it acts as both structure and surface simultaneously.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES:

Josh Cleminson obtained his B.A.H at the University of Guelph in 2009. Currently working out of Guelph, his work touches on the humour, simplicity, and absurdity found in his daily life. He enjoys making the audience second guess what it is they are seeing, either through the use of either spectacle, or minimal means. He has recently shown at Ed Video Media Art Centre in Guelph, ON, Hall Walls Contemporary Art Centre in Buffalo, New York, and Centro des Artes Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain. His work was included in TheSHOW.11, Cambridge Galleries in the summer 2011.

Monte Burman lives and works in Hamilton, ON and his studio practice includes painting and sculpture. There is no evolving interest in either his paintings or sculpture; narrative, pictorial illusion and material sensibility are explored in pictures and assembled objects and then promptly abandoned for something unfamiliar again. When viewed together, his paintings and sculpture exhibit only a kind of wonder for things. Monte is a recent graduate of the University of Guelph's Studio Art program. He has recently shown in group exhibitions at OCAD, Toronto, Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, Guelph, Studio 21, Halifax, and Hall Walls Contemporary Art Centre in Buffalo, New York.

Admission is free, everyone is welcome.

CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES PRESTON

435 King Street East

Cambridge, Ontario N3H 3N1

T 519.653.3632

www.cambridgegalleries.ca

GALLERY HOURS:

Monday to Thursday: 12 noon - 8:30 pm,

Friday & Saturday: 12 noon - 5:30 pm, Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm

MEDIA CONTACT:

K. Jennifer Bedford

Online Design and Marketing Specialist

jbedford@cambridgegalleries.ca

519.621.0460 ext. 119

www.cambridgegalleries.ca

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14. GLENHYRST ART GALLERY OF BRANT The Promise of Painting

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GLENHYRST ART GALLERY OF BRANT – THE PROMISE OF PAINTING

The Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant presents:

The Promise of Painting

January 7 – March 4, 2012

Exhibition Reception: Sunday, January 15, 1 – 4 p.m.

Original concept and curation by Kathryn Hogg

Coordinated and guest curated by Bryce Kanbara

Featuring works by Cristina Zanella, Ian McLean, Robert Achtemichuk and Jack Jackowetz.

These artists work within the promise of painting to uncover and contribute their individual passionate attachments to this form of visual expression.

Robert Achtemichuk (Kitchener) works with gouache on silk or washi (Japanese paper). His interest is in the quiet contemplation of the small changes that occur due to time of day, weather, season and the inspirations and revelations from that kind of study. Misty, watery, sensual small paintings are titled the date they were painted. Sultry, earthy colours of raw umber and grays, and washed out blues and reds direct the viewer through a quiet passing of time.

Cristina Zanella (Port Dover ) is interested in the play of light and dark and its effect on the intensity of colour. She treats her subject matter, whether it is dead birds or subtle still life forms, with an eye to balancing broken space with colour, light and line. Her paintings are both vibrant and moody with a linear graceful approach to her marks.

Ian McLean (Bright’s Grove ) uses colour to lure his viewer with his unusual environments and combination of elements. His imagery harks on a 1950’s feel but his colour palette is later; part pop art/ part post impressionistic. Residential environments hold an elusive chronology with his use of symbolic objects expressed through textured painted surfaces.

Jack Jackowetz (Brantford) manipulates his photography with computer software. His subject is our built heritage with a focus on architectural renderings. He calls his process post-impressionism photography.

Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant

20 Ava Road, Brantford, ON N3T 5G9

Telephone: (519) 756-5932

Fax: (519) 756-5910

Web: www.glenhyrst.ca (map to gallery available)

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday & Sunday, 12 – 5 p.m.

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15. ORILLIA MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Lost Histories: Gypsies of 1909 by JoEllen Brydon

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OMAH is proud to present our new exhibit Lost Histories: Gypsies of 1909 by JoEllen Brydon. In 1909, the staid citizens of Peterborough were fascinated, delighted and frightened by the approach of a large group of Roma travelers who had made their way with horse and wagon, eventually encamping in Peterborough, Ontario. Brydon brings the story to life in a large scale exhibit.

For more information, please contact us at:

The Orillia Museum of Art and History

30 Peter St. S

Orillia, ON

L3V 5A9

(705) 326-2159

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16. MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Current Exhibitions

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MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION

Legends: Norval Morrisseau and Anishinabek "Woodland School" Artists

Ongoing

First Nations artist Norval Morrisseau is celebrated for establishing a style of art that became known as the Woodland School. Morrisseau’s decision to produce his art on canvas and paper marked a shift to European-influenced traditions. His painted compositions are characterized by an intuitive use of bright, pure colour shapes contained within black form lines; a deliberate attempt to communicate his beliefs with the viewer using colour. At the same time, other First Nations artists were similarly motivated in their desire to communicate the values of their culture, and subsequent generations of artists continue to do so through the creation of unique and significant art forms.

Inuit Traditions

Ongoing

Kenojuak Ashevak, Joe Talirunili, Kiakshuk, and other Inuit artists have focused their art not only in interpreting their cultural experiences, but also the personal day-to-day challenges of living in the North. This selection of graphic and sculptural works reveal aspects of the material culture related to traditional forms of transportation on the water and the spiritual relationship that the Inuit maintain; the stories and legends that are told about the sea and its mythological inhabitants offer moral tales and reflect the values of the Inuit people.

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg, Ontario, L0J 1C0

905.893.1121

www.mcmichael.com

Gallery Hours

Open daily 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Gallery Admission

Adult $15; Senior/Student (with ID) $12; Family $30; Children under 5 free

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17. AGNES ETHERINGTON ART CENTRE Bernard Clark: Tattoo Portraits

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Bernard Clark: Tattoo Portraits

14 January – 15 April 2012

Associated Events:

Opening Reception with Artist talks: Saturday 14 January, 7-9 pm, Atrium

Tattoo Art Dialogue: Bernard Clark and Corey Ferguson, Sunday 11 March, 2 pm

Celebrate the opening of Bernard Clark: Tattoo Portraits and the concurrent exhibition Discontinued Colours by joining Kingston artists Dave Gordon and Bernard Clark for artist talks tomorrow evening at 7 pm.

Drawing on Bernard Clark's success as a documentary photographer of ink culture, this exhibition features composite portraits of tattooed figures in landscape and architectural settings. In the eighteen works featured in this exhibition, Clark has digitally inserted his extraordinary subjects into environments that highlight the stridency of their self-definition through markings. These transpositions, often to rustic or abandoned environments – many of which are in his home town of Kingston – are more than a form of retrieval on Clark's part. The uneasy disjunction of figure and ground emphasizes the insularity of his portrait subjects, enveloped as they are in the declarative gesture of their dramatic tattoos.

At a time when tattooing is a surging global phenomena, Clark's sensitive and at times playful displacements highlight the contemporary role of the body as a refuge of stable identity and personal expression.

In tandem with his award-winning work as a commercial photographer, Bernard Clark has cultivated an art practice focussing on social subcultures. Over the past decade, he has travelled widely in an exceptional project documenting skin art. His work has been featured in magazines such as Skin & Ink, in online galleries, and in his 2002 book with Bob Baxter, Tattoo Road Trip: Two Weeks in Samoa.

This exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated publication with an essay by Jan Allen, available at the Art Centre's Gallery Shop and through ABC Art Books.

Queen's University | Kingston ON | K7L 3N6

T: 613.533.2190 | F: 613.533.6765 | www.aeac.ca

Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council through the City of Kingston Arts Fund and the Celebrate Agnes Fund, Queen’s University.

Introduction to Drawing

Thursdays 6 – 9 pm, 19 January to 15 March

Instructor: Kingston artist Dave Gordon

Kingston artist Dave Gordon leads an eight-week course on drawing. Students will use a variety of materials and techniques to develop skills in handling line, tone, shape, texture and composition. Personal creativity is encouraged and the class will explore experimental techniques in one or more of the sessions. Students can also view contemporary drawings in our upcoming exhibition Intimate Theatre.

An experienced artist and teacher, Dave Gordon has taught courses in drawing and watercolour at the Art Centre and has several paintings on view in our exhibition

Discontinued Colours.

Fee: Students and G.A. members $125 (HST included); non-G.A. members $150 (HST included). To register call 613.533.2190 and pay with VISA or Mastercard. Cash or debit payments may be done in person at Reception. A materials list is supplied with registration. Please note: no class Thursday 23 February.

Queen's University | Kingston ON | K7L 3N6

T: 613.533.2190 | F: 613.533.6765 | www.aeac.ca

Supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council through the City of Kingston Arts Fund, and the Iva Speers Fund for Art Education.

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18. GRIMSBY PUBLIC ART GALLERY Winter Courses & Workshops

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Upcoming Winter Courses & Workshops

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

Arts Club Junior

With Katia Perez-Turgeon

From ages 5 - 8 years

Saturdays January 28 – March 3, 2012 (6 sessions) from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon

Students will learn the basics of fundamental art practices and media while creating exciting works of art.

$80 members / $96 non–members

Art Club

With Katia Perez-Turgeon

From ages 8 – 12 years

Saturdays January 28 – March 3, 2012 (6 sessions) from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Students will further develop existing skills and improve creative thinking as they experiment with a variety of media and techniques in the creation of challenging projects.

$80 members / $96 non–members

Art Tots

With Brigitte Huard

From ages 3+ years with a parent

Fridays January 20 – February 10, 2012 (4 sessions) from 10:00 – 10:30 am

$27 members / $32 non–members

Fantasy Drawing

With Brigitte Huard

From ages 12+ years

Sundays February 5– March 11, 2012 (6 sessions) from 1 – 3pm

For young artists who are serious about drawing and would like to improve their skills this course provides technical lessons that will help you draw creatures and characters from classic mythology to pop culture with your own unique style.

$80 members / $96 non–members

ART CONTEST

Heritage Art Competition Workshop

With Andrea Eby

From ages 5-8 years

Sunday January 29, 2012 (1 session) from 1:30-3:30 pm

Once Upon A Time... in 1812

The 8th Annual Grimsby Heritage Art Contest is coming up! The theme this year is The War Of 1812 here in Grimsby. This art class will start with a simple history lesson through story telling geared to 5 - 8 year olds. What happened here 200 years ago? Students will use their imaginations to illustrate a story told by the instructor about a time they may know little about but is a very important part of our country's and more specifically, Grimsby's history. The works created during class will be photographed and reproduced to illustrate the story (with parents' permission). Every student will receive one free copy of the book for themselves. Extra copies will be available (price to be determined).

Learning about art and history.

Grimsby 1812 - Create works that are submission ready for the Heritage Art Contest

$15 members / $20 non–members

ADULT CLASSES

Colour Theory for Beginners

With Brigitte Huard

Fridays January 20– February 10, 2012 (4 sessions) from 6:30 - 8:30 pm

For beginners who would like to explore the physical properties of colour through paint, this course will cover a spectrum of basic colour mixing techniques and tricks of the trade. Watercolour and acrylic are welcome, no oils please. Students will mix paint to explore hue, value, intensity and temperature. The workshop will cover colour relativity and optical color mixing. Utilize the colour wheel to maximize the visual impact of your paintings by selecting the perfect colour scheme to suit your compositions. A materials list will be provided.www.brigittehuard.com

$55 members / $65 non–members

KIDS BITHDAY PARTIES

We are happy to customize the activity to fit a theme if you have one in mind!

Parties are 3 hours, with the art class lasting approximately 1 hour to 1.5 hours. The remaining time can be used for refreshments, games, gifts and cake. Parties must be organized during regular gallery hours and around Studio availability so we may not be able to accommodate your preferred time. It is a good idea to book your party early.

Fees for a 3 hour party are $175. A $50 security deposit is required on all room rentals.

Media available: Painting, drawing, collage and/ or printmaking.

Remember ~ The Grimsby Public Art Gallery offers a wide range of programming for students at both the Elementary and Secondary School levels, including exhibition tours, and virtual exhibitions that bring the art to the classroom! Our Education Guide is available at the gallery for further information. Make sure your child’s teacher is aware of this great opportunity to enrich their students’ art education!

**All gallery programs are subject to minimum and maximum registration. Payment is required 7 days after the date of registration to ensure a spot. Classes are subject to change. Cancellations require 7 days notice to receive a full refund. The gallery is not responsible for missed classes, and does not pro-rate classes without prior arrangements.

Grimsby Public Art Gallery

18 Carnegie Lane, Grimsby, ON. L3M 1Y1

905-945-3246

gpag@town.grimsby.on.ca

www.town.grimsby.on.ca/ArtGallery/Main

Blog: http://grimsbypublicartgallery.blogspot.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TheGPAG

Facebook: Grimsby Public Art Gallery

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19. STATION GALLERY Exhibitions & Events

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PROGRAMS

FAMILY ART EVENT - SHADOW PUPPETS @ Brooklin Community Centre

Sunday March 4, 2012

1:30pm - 3:00pm

FREE (pre-registration required)

Brooklin Community Centre

Create unforgettable memories with this fun family workshop. Learn the ancient art of shadow play by creating your own shadow puppet creatures. All materials provided.

In celebration of Station Gallery’s programs moving to the Brooklin Community Centre this Family Art Event is FREE for participants, pre-registration required.

With generous support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an Agency of the Government of Ontario.

MOTHER DAUGHTER CRAFTERNOONS I

Sat January 21

Ages 6 and up

1:00pm-4:00pm

$15 per family member

Spend quality creative time together working on crafty projects. Today’s project will be making a Dim Sum tray to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

EXHIBITIONS

Joscelyn Gardner: Bleeding & Breeding

January 14 – February 12, 2012

Opening Reception: January 14 @ 1pm

Artist’s Walk & Talk: January 14 @ 1:30pm

Curator’s Walk & Talk: January 19 @ 7pm

The announcement was glorious. Joscelyn Gardner was awarded the Grand Prize at the International Contemporary Printmaking Biennial in Quebec! Six months have passed and Station Gallery is delighted to host a solo exhibition by this Caribbean/Canadian multimedia artist to kick-off the 2012 season.

This compelling exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the print and site-specific dimensions of Gardner’s production. The artist explores her Creole roots via Caribbean routes.

Meryl McMaster

February 18 – April 8, 2012

Opening Reception: February 18 @ 1pm

Artist’s Walk & Talk: February 18 @ 1:30pm

Curator’s Walk & Talk: March 15 @ 7pm

McMaster is an early-career artist to watch. Her works summon a profound spirit. A spirit of exchange and affinity inhabits the heart of this project.

EVENTS

Drawing for Art

April 26, 2012

7pm - 10pm

In-Gallery Preview: April 13 - 26, 2012

Private Function - Ticket holders only

This annual favourite puts original artwork into the hands of SG patrons and members.

Works donated by professional artists are available for viewing on-line starting April 1st. They will also be on display in the gallery starting April 13th for two-weeks preceding the event.

Ticket holders take home their selection at our Drawing for Art fundraiser on Thursday April 26th. Each $200 ticket includes two admissions, food & beverages and one original artwork selection.

Tickets are available after February 2012 - don’t miss out - purchase your tickets

HOURS OF OPERATION

Monday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Tuesday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Wednesday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Thursday 10:00 – 9:00pm

Friday 10:00 – 4:30pm

Saturday 12:00 – 4:00pm

Sunday 12:00 – 4:00pm

Admission to Station Gallery is free, come in for 10 minutes – or stay and explore!

Click here if you “Like” the art exhibitions, arts education & special events at Station Gallery!

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Jessica Vreugdenhil

Marketing Coordinator, Station Gallery

905.668.4185 x7611

www.whitbystationgallery.com

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20. HARBOUFRONT CENTRE World Stage

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The World is About to Begin:

Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage 2012 season kicks off in February

Harbourfront Centre’s acclaimed international performance series, World Stage, returns for another season of provocative and cutting-edge international and Canadian contemporary performance.

Eight hand-picked productions from the U.S., the U.K., France, Brazil and Canada will augment decades of progressive world-class performance found only at World Stage, as part of Harbourfront Centre’s commitment to presenting works at the forefront of contemporary artistic practice across disciplines.

“World Stage is an amazing portal into the current state of international theatre. It provides a visionary perspective which is risky, urgent and provocative.”

- Filmmaker and previous World Stage artist Atom Egoyan

Two of this season’s productions are Harbourfront Centre commissions, created under the Fresh Ground new works programme which, through an invitational process and national call for submissions, awards grants to creators of multi-disciplinary works. The season opens with Everything Under the Moon, a shadow play re-imagined for audiences of all ages, combining music and visuals to tell the story of the incredible journey of two small winged creatures. The season closes with the return of Dance Marathon, a 2007 Fresh Ground new works commission that has since traveled the world to rave reviews for its immersive theatre experience that hearkens back to the dance competitions of the Depression era. In between, World Stage features thought-provoking productions featuring some of the biggest stars and hottest up-and-comers in performing arts, from Young Jean Lee (The Shipment), who has been called one of the artists that will help shape the next 25 years of American theatre, to Wayne McGregor (Entity), who has long been one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers. Each production will feature at least one talkshow, allowing audiences to engage with performers. World Stage dance performance talkshows are co-presented by The Dance Current.

World Stage ticket packages are available for a limited time. Flex Passes, available until January 15, 2012, offer savings and flexibility: Purchase four tickets, to any World Stage shows, for only $110, a savings of nearly $20 per ticket. Thematic packages for multiple productions are available until Feb. 18, 2012 and offer savings of nearly 40 per cent. Students, seniors, groups, arts professionals and NextSteps ticket buyers also qualify for discounts. Service charges apply. Visit harbourfrontcentre.com or call the box office at 416-973-4000 for terms and details.

More information on each production is below, and media materials are available at World Stage 2012’s media site: harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage2012/media

World Stage 2012 Season

Everything Under the Moon Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows (Canada)

Presented in association with The PowerPlantContemporaryArtGallery

Feb. 18-23 (Enwave Theatre)

World premiere. Celebrated multimedia and visual artist Shary Boyle and renowned musician Christine Fellows have been collaborating since 2005 on works that combine Boyle’s live drawings and projections set to Fellows’ original compositions. Everything Under the Moon follows two small, winged creatures as they set out on an urgent quest to save themselves in a production equal parts musical theatre and visual spectacle. The show, created for all ages, was commissioned by Harbourfront Centre’s Fresh Ground new works commissioning programme.

Entity Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (England)

Feb. 28 & March 1-3 (Fleck Dance Theatre)

Wayne McGregor is a multi award-winning British choreographer known for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across disciplines. An imagining of post-human beauty through a soundscape created by Coldplay, Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins and award-winning composer Joby Talbot (The Divine Comedy), Entity is a staggering blend of bodies, technology and film that places McGregor at the cutting edge of contemporary culture.

The Wooster Group’s Version of Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré The Wooster Group (U.S.)

March 28-31 (Fleck Dance Theatre)

Canadian premiere. Since 1975, New York’s The Wooster Group has defined experimental and challenging theatre, dance and media. Last featured at World Stage in the 80s with LSD (…Just the High Points), the company returns with their remaking of one of Williams' last plays. In the New Orleans boarding house where he stayed as a young man during the Depression, the writer, as narrator, remembers his artistic and sexual awakening among the house’s inhabitants – archetypal Williams characters, longing for release and haunted by thwarted dreams.

Ajax & Little Iliad Evan Webber and Frank Cox-O’Connell (Canada)

April 4-8 (Enwave Theatre) NOTE: Limited capacity of 28 people per performance.

World premiere. Little Iliad is a multimedia work about an attempted adaptation of a Sophoclean war story by a writer and a friend that is soon to be deployed to Afghanistan. Ajax, which premiers here, expands on the theme, presenting a series of letters addressed to the doomed classical hero. Designed for a small audience, the work questions not only the roles of observers and performers, but also the responsibilities of civilian and military actors and the surprising relationship between producers of art and producers of violence.

Paris 1994/Gallery The Dietrich Group (Canada)

April 25-28 (Enwave Theatre)

Three-time Dora Award-nominees The Dietrich Group challenge perceptions of the interplay of mediums in live performance. Choreographer D.A. Hoskins creates visual art through the medium of dance, and his 2011 production, The Land of Fuck, was named a runner-up in NOW magazine’s roundup of the year’s best dance shows. Paris 1994/Gallery, which begins with a heightened moment between lovers, explores longing, desire, memory and our reconstructions of the past.

Agwa/Correria Compagnie Käfig (France/Brazil)

May 2-5 (Fleck Dance Theatre)

Artistic director Mourad Merzouki and Compagnie Käfig, last featured at World Stage 2004, create hip hop with a complete range of emotional expression. This double bill, suitable for children ages six and up, is the meeting of Compagnie Käfig’s hip hop with urban dance from Brazil. Agwa explores the power of water: its supply, consumption and contamination – and its beauty, mystery, sensuality and unpredictability. Correria is athletic and acrobatic – a stylized endurance piece about the rush of running and the pleasure of speed.

The Shipment Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (U.S.)

May 9-12 (Enwave Theatre)

Canadian premiere. With its fearsome and fearless exploration of the African-American experience, The Shipment established the Korean-American playwright/director Young Jean Lee as a voice to be heeded in contemporary theatre. “Ms. Lee sets you thinking about how we unconsciously process experience — at the theater, or in life — through the filter of racial perspective, and how hard it can be to see the world truly in something other than black and white." — Charles Isherwood, New York Times

Dance Marathon bluemouth inc. (Canada)

May 18-19 (Enwave Theatre)

Exclusive World Stage engagement. Toronto's Dora Award-winning theatre collective bluemouth inc. premiered this interactive performance during World Stage’s 08/09 season, and captivated audiences around the world thereafter. Audiences discover what level of experience they are committed to having in this immersive theatre event inspired by the physically grueling Depression-era contests, with a nod to today’s reality TV and cult of celebrity.

“ ***** Tremendous fun. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket for this original, life-affirming show.” — The Telegraph

ABOUT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE

Media contact:

Amanda Lee | 416-973-4381 | alee@harbourfrontcentre.com | www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage2012/media.cfm

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Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington

Walls of Memories: Khalid Thamer

January 14 - February 19

Curator: George Wale

Perry Gallery

As a youth in Iraq, Thamer watched the walls of old houses and read them as accumulations of love and war and revolt and revolution. That experience is the foundation of his current body of work. "I set up the surface of the painting like a wall, and then I draw symbols and pictures out of my dreams and emotions … Then I leave some of the secrets on the surface of the painting." Khalid Thamer

Reception and Artist Talk: January 29, 2 pm

Gino Lorcini: Significant Forms

to January 29, 2012

Gino Lorcini, Greensville

Curator: George Wale

The Burlington Art Centre is honoured to present this survey of the sculptural practice of senior artist Gino Lorcini. The exhibition features maquettes, full-sized, three-dimensional works, and wall pieces from the 1960s to his most recent artworks in aluminum. The works are invested with care, knowledge and feeling - and they reward the viewer with insight, emotion and satisfaction. These are all gifts from Gino, a talented, considerate and accomplished master.

Black + White = Gray to January 22

Drawn primarily from the Permanent Collection with additional work by a selection of invited artists including Kayo O’Young (Kleinburg, On), Diane Nasr (Kleinburg, On), Jane Hill (Dundas, On), Sadashi Inuzuka (Vancouver, BC) and others, this exhibition is one in a continuing series which examines the relationship of ceramics and technology through the development of glaze technology. The search for expressive colour in ceramics has driven the development of glazes and clay bodies, ranging from carbon trap shino glazes to the translucency of porcelain.

Guild Displays and Events

Fireside Lounge: BFAA - In Pursuit of My Passion - Selected Watercolour Works; Ulla Lenzen Butt, January 3rd to January 31, www.ullalenzenbutt.com

Events:

Art in Progress Lecture Series: February 5 at 2 pm: Art Collections and Collectors - Investment vs. Pleasure. Local collector Louise Cooke with Jonathan Smith, Curator of the BAC Permanent Collection of Contemporary Canadian Ceramics. Admission - $15. Call 905-632-7796, ext. 307 to register.

Art Auction - Friday, February 10, 8 pm; Art Auction Free Preview:

February 8 and 9, noon to 9 pm; February 10: noon to 5 pm; Art Auction Cocktail Reception: February 10, 6 pm to 7:45 pm. Tickets: Auction General Admission: BAC Members $35, Public $40. Cocktail Reception and Art Auction Admission: $75

Upcoming Professional Development:

Health and Safety Workshop for Artists

January 22, 1:30 pm

A discussion and assessment of health and safety issues in the arts. Led by George Wale, Director of Programs. Free. Call 905-632-7796, ext 307, to register.

Packing and Shipping of Cultural Property

April 11 and 12, 2012

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

At the Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON L7S 1A9 Canada

FEE: $200 per person, early registration received on or before January 31, 2012. $250 per person after January 31, 2012. Call 905-632-7796 ext. 307 to register. Or send by post to CCI Workshop Registration, Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON L7S 1A9 Canada

Paul Marcon graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1983 with a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. He is a registered member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, and works with the Conservation Research Division of CCI. His area of specialization is preventive conservation with emphasis on physical forces and their effects on buildings and collections. He carries out research into the susceptibility of art objects to forces and environmental factors at CCI and in collaboration with National and International partners. His activities include the provision of advice, design solutions and information to Canadian and international museum clients, and the presentation of training seminars on preventive conservation, art in transit, and protective packaging at national and international venues.

For more information: waleg@thebac.on.ca

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22. MUSEUM LONDON Exhibitions & Events

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Museum London is open:

Tuesday to Sunday 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm

Thursday until 9:00 pm

Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan

Saturday, January 14 to Sunday, April 8

Admission by donation

The fear of bombs falling from the sky and landmines exploding from the earth is revealed in this exhibition of traditional rugs from Afghanistan. Are the war rugs pro or anti-war? Whose side are they on? The meaning of a particular rug is unclear when its history is hidden and its makers unknown. Organized and circulated by the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto.

Weave fun and learning into a PA Day

Friday, January 20

Cost: $45, members $40

Inspired by the exhibition of Afghan rugs, this full-day program will introduce children to the basics of hand-spinning, dyeing and hand-weaving while making a creation of their own. Call 519-661-0333 to register.

New family film series begins

Sunday, January 22, 3:00 pm

Cost: Free

Here's a new opportunity to enjoy quality cinema with your kids in our in-house theatre during the cold winter months.

The first film in the series is My Neighbour Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, 1988, 86 min, G.

Presented in partnership with UWO’s Department of Film Studies.

Winter exhibitions reception

Friday, January 27, 8:00 pm

Cost: Free

Join us for the official opening of our winter exhibitions: Larry Towell: Danger and Aftermath; Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan and Front by Front. Enjoy refreshments, hors d'oeuvres, and enlightening conversation with London’s cultural community.

Panel Discussion: Approaching Afghanistan

Sunday, January 29, 1:00 pm

Cost: Free

As Canadian Forces withdraw from war-torn Afghanistan, meet four speakers who will weigh in on that country's impending issues. Led by individuals whose experience and research give insight into the Afghan people and culture, this is a must-attend event for those concerned about foreign policy and global affairs.

Pianist Robert Bruce plays live to 1920s silent film

February 2, 7:30 pm

Cost: $10 advance, $12 at the door

Musician and composer Robert Bruce is back to perform live music to the Buster Keaton silent film The General (1926, 107 min, comedy romance). Bruce's live music performance offers the spontaneity of a live concert against the backdrop of 1920s cinema. This is a great opportunity to experience how silent film was originally presented. Buy advance tickets online or by calling 519-661-0333.

Get your tickets to London's hottest film festival

February 9 to 12

The very best in Canadian film is arriving in London this February. Here is your chance to watch eleven great films, meet guest directors, and celebrate Canadian film at the Opening Night Gala and Closing Night Party. There will also be a free Saturday-morning master class by Triana Productions for filmmakers. Follow news and updates on Facebook.

421 Ridout Street North

London ON N6A 5H4

www.museumlondon.ca

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AGO Shines Spotlight on Contemporary Art in 2012

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) kicks off 2012 with five diverse exhibitions of contemporary art, celebrating the work of artists both established and emerging, local and international.

Taking over various spaces within the Gallery, several separate installations beginning this month and continuing into the spring will offer something for every contemporary art lover. Each exhibition offers an immersive experience, prompting viewers to reconsider their notions of time, space, and identity, or, in some cases, asking them to participate in the work directly.

Yael Bartana: ...And Europe Will Be Stunned

Israeli filmmaker and artist Yael Bartana is a rising, and to some controversial, star in the international art scene, and soon AGO visitors will have a chance to get up close and personal with her work.

After winning the Artes Mundi prize for “work that stimulates thinking about the human condition” in 2010, Bartana presented her latest project at the 2011 Venice Biennale — the first non-Polish artist to represent Poland at the major international art exhibition....And Europe Will Be Stunned, her film trilogy made between 2007 and 2011, will be on view for the first time in Canada in the AGO’s Lind Gallery from Jan. 25 to April 1, 2012.

“Interweaving past and present, reality and fiction, the conceptual and the emotional, and drawing on propaganda films of the 1930s and ’40s, as well as the visual language of advertising, Bartana’s films boldly traverse a landscape scarred by the histories of competing nationalisms and militarisms,” said Elizabeth Smith, AGO executive director of Curatorial Affairs and curator of the exhibition.

Featuring architecture and scenography by Oren Sagiv, ...And Europe Will Be Stunned raises questions about ideas of homeland and a sense of belonging. In the films — Mary Koszmary (Nightmares), Mur i Wie?a (Wall and Tower) and Zamach (Assassination) — Bartana tests reactions to the unexpected return of the “long-unseen neighbour,” telling a story of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland. The trilogy also challenges the viewer’s readiness to accept the other and the complexities of cultural integration in a culturally and politically unstable world.

...And Europe Will Be Stunned is accompanied by one of the artist’s earlier video works, Trembling Time (2001), from the AGO’s collection. Bartana will be present for a public Meet the Artist program on Jan. 26 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Jackman Hall at the AGO.

IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011

IAIN BAXTER& has made a career out of breaking rules and keeping viewers on their toes, and the AGO is inviting visitors to experience his intriguing body of work in 2012.

The Gallery will present a major exhibition of more than 100 works by the preeminent Canadian artist from March 3 to Aug. 12, 2012. Including work produced both under his name and through the N.E. Thing Co., IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958–2011 offers the most comprehensive survey of BAXTER&’s career to date, comprising pioneering works of appropriation art, gallery-transforming installations, environmental art, and conceptually based photography. The exhibition affords a unique opportunity to recognize the artist’s defining contribution to Canadian contemporary art.

Co-curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and David Moos, former curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the AGO, the exhibition travels directly to Toronto from Chicago, where it is currently on view at MCA.

Watch this Space: Contemporary Art from the AGO’s Collection

Marking the return of the AGO's contemporary collection to the galleries for which it was intended, Watch this Space is an installation that re-imagines the collection and invites visitors to consider how the universal concept of space has inspired artists.

Compelling works in a variety of media by both Canadian and international artists explore issues and ideas related to space — be it physical locations, psychological realms or the places that exist somewhere between the real and the imagined. “In recasting our contemporary collection, this installation will introduce some visitors to the featured works for the first time and prompt others to see them in a whole new light,” said AGO acting curator of Canadian art and Watch this Space curator Michelle Jacques. The installation includes both new acquisitions and more than 40 longtime collection favourites, including Gerhard Richter’s Scheune/Barn No. 549/1 and Ellsworth Kelly’s Blue White.

Through these works and others, the installation explores how artists employ colour, shape, line and image to create spaces, both psychological and physical, and asks whether we can make clear distinctions between the realms of inner and outer space or if the majority of our reality exists somewhere in between. Watch this Space runs from Feb. 11 through summer 2012.

Celebrating Toronto Artists

The AGO extends contemporary programming into its community gallery spaces early this year with two exhibitions from Toronto artists that call on visitors to participate in the work and raise questions about the implications of collaboration and participation in a community.

Team Macho: Axis Mundi

Axis Mundi, a playful and interactive installation by local art heroes Team Macho, will transform the AGO’s Weston Family Learning Centre Community Gallery into a fully functioning art studio on Jan. 23., inviting visitors to occupy the space alongside the artists

The installation, which will include a series of studio structures, draws on themes brought forth in writer Northrop Frye’s Words with Power, along with ideas related to the history of artists working in collaboration, referencing the practices of General Idea and the Group of Seven, among others. Axis Mundi examines the manner in which these artists collaborated and supported one another, while developing structures that were both physical and personal to propel their individual practices. Team Macho comprises members Nicholas Aoki, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Christopher Buchan and Lauchie Reid, who share a studio in Toronto, creating work in a wide variety of media, with a focus on illustration. They have shown their work with solo shows at Narwhal in Toronto and the Optica Centre for the Arts in Montreal, and internationally in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit and Amsterdam. Axis Mundi, organized by Ann Marie Pena, continues into April 2012.

NOW: A Collaborative Project by Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette

This do-it-yourself (or “DIY”) agency kicks off the Toronto Now series in 2012, challenging visitors to use the AGO’s fully accessible Young Gallery as a forum for pressing Toronto issues.

Pushing the idea of Toronto Now to its limits, Toronto artists Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette appropriate the AGO logo and the NOW name in a creative space that encourages mindful action on local issues. The project, curated by Michelle Jacques and on display from Jan. 21 to April 1, reflects the artists’ interest in the tension between the rush and impatience of the average Torontonian’s current lifestyle and the benefit of slowing down and being mindful of environmental, political and cultural subjects. Running concurrently with NOW is the Martindale and Paquette’s Gift Shop Gift Shop, a store within a store featuring artworks for sale by local Toronto-based artists, designers and illustrators.

Toronto Now is a series of contemporary art projects that puts the focus on Toronto artists and displays their work in the free, street-facing Young Gallery. Artists previously featured in the series include Dean Baldwin, Will Munro, Allyson Mitchell, John Sasaki, Libby Hague, John Dickson and Paul Butler.

The Toronto Now series is generously supported by The Contemporary Circle.

All exhibitions are organized by the AGO. Contemporary programming at the AGO is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The AGO acknowledges the generous support of its Signature Partners:

American Express, Signature Partner of the Conservation Program; and Aeroplan, Signature Partner of the Photography Collection Program.

For more information on exhibitions and special programming, please visit www.ago.net.

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AGO Collaborates with International Partners to Bring Major Kahlo/Rivera Exhibition to Toronto in Fall 2012

Art Gallery of Ontario to display 75 of the artists’ key works

“Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did.”

- DIEGO RIVERA

“His capacity for work breaks clocks and calendars.”

- FRIDA KAHLO

This fall, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will present a major survey of masterworks by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two renowned and prolific early 20th-century painters whose work continues to resonate with viewers around the world.

Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting features 75 works by the artists, drawn primarily from the collection of Mexico’s Museo Dolores Olmedo. These works highlight Rivera and Kahlo’s lives together and apart, their politics and relationship to society and how their passionate views and activism influenced their work. The exhibition will be at the AGO from Oct. 20, 2012 through Jan. 20, 2013.

Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting is presented in collaboration with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, which will display the exhibition in February 2013. This relationship signals a continuation of the AGO’s commitment to working with the world’s most esteemed art institutions, following partnerships with New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Musée National Picasso, Paris.

“I am delighted to join forces on this project with the High, a museum for which I have the utmost respect,” says Matthew Teitelbaum, AGO Director and CEO. “Collaborations such as these strengthen the international community of art institutions and allow us to continue bringing the world’s most renowned art to our visitors and members.”

“Frida & Diego marks the first time important work by two influential Mexican artists will be shown in the Southeast,” said Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Director of the High Museum of Art. “By working with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the High Museum of Art continues its commitment to collaborative partnerships that bring great works of art from around the world to Atlanta.”

Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting positions the artists’ work in the political and artistic contexts of their time. Kahlo, whose paintings were described by French poet and writer André Breton as “a ribbon around a bomb,” was called a Surrealist by some, but she resisted the label and claimed she painted her reality, not her dreams. The selected works allude to both artists’ support for the Communist movement, as well as the concept of Mexicanidad, an identification with Mexico’s indigenous roots.

“The opportunity to bring the works of these iconic painters to Toronto is truly extraordinary,” says Elizabeth Smith, the AGO’s Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs. “The exhibition highlights Kahlo and Rivera’s development as artists and gives visitors a glimpse into their private lives, which were famously as tumultuous as they were inspired.”

Notable works by Kahlo include:

•Hospital Henry Ford (Henry Ford Hospital); 1932, oil on metal;

•Autorretrato con monos (Self Portrait with Monkeys); 1943, oil on canvas;

•La columna rota (The Broken Column); 1944, oil on masonite;

•El abrazo de amor de el universo, la tierra (México), Diego, yo y el Señor Xólotl (The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Señor Xólotl); 1949, oil on masonite.

Notable works by Rivera include:

•Autorretrato (Self Portrait); 1930, lithograph;

•La canoa enflorada (The Flowered Canoe); 1931, oil on canvas;

•Vendedora de alcatraces (Calla Lily Vendor); 1943, oil on masonite;

• El joven de la estilográfica (Portrait of Best Maugard); 1914, oil on canvas.

The Museo Dolores Olmedo houses the world’s largest assemblage of work by Kahlo, including many considered to be among her masterpieces, such as The Broken Column, Henry Ford Hospital and Self Portrait with Small Monkey. The museum’s collection also features numerous works by Rivera that helped establish the Mexican School of Painting, as well as his portraits, both of which are represented in Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting.

The exhibition also features works from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art, which comprises the largest private holding of 20th-century Mexican art, spanning works from the 1910s to the 1990s. Friends of Rivera and Kahlo, the Gelmans amassed a significant number of their works, including Kahlo’s inventive self-portraits and Rivera’s portrait of Natasha Gelman from 1943.

AGO members will enjoy free admission to Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting and will be invited to an exclusive advance preview in the days leading up to the exhibition’s public opening. More information on AGO membership can be found at www.ago.net/general-membership.

This exhibition is co-organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) and the Museo Dolores Olmedo (Mexico City) in association with The Vergel Foundation, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art and Galería Arvil.

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, arrives at the AGO this May

Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting will closely follow the AGO’s highly anticipated presentation of Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. Featuring 147 highlights from the Musée’s unparalleled collection, it features paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, covering virtually every phase of the modern master’s unceasingly radical and diverse career, including works from his Blue, Rose and Cubist periods. Following Abstract Expressionist New York and Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, continues AGO members’ and visitors’ journey through some of the most thrilling and significant moments and masterpieces of 20th-century art. This blockbuster will be on view at the AGO, the only Canadian stop on its international tour, from May 1 through Aug. 26, 2012.

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, is generously supported by Lead Sponsor BMO Financial Group.

Additional support is provided by Air Canada, Official Airline for the exhibition.

ABOUT THE AGO

With a permanent collection of more than 80,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is among the most distinguished art museums in North America. In 2008, complete with a stunning new design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the AGO opened its doors to the public amid international acclaim. Architectural highlights include Galleria Italia, a gleaming showcase made of wood and glass running the length of an entire city block, along the Gallery’s facade; and the feature staircase, spiralling up through the roof of Walker Court and into the new contemporary galleries above. From the extensive Group of Seven collection to the dramatic African art gallery and from the cutting-edge works in the contemporary tower to Peter Paul Rubens’ masterpiece The Massacre of The Innocents, a highlight of the celebrated Thomson Collection, there is truly something for everyone at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

For images and more information, please contact:

Meagan Campbell, 416-979-6660 ext. 372, meagan_campbell@ago.net

Caitlin Coull, 416-979-6660 ext. 364, caitlin_coull@ago.net

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