Sylvia Tait: Allegories. Fascinated by music and time notations, Sylvia Tait creates unique, moody abstract compositions that are a delight for the senses. Tait's paintings have been exhibited since the 1950's, and are represented in corporate and public collections in Europe, North and South America, and Hong Kong.
Eszter Burghardt: The Wooly Sagas. Eszter Burhgardt is a BC-based artist originally from Budapest, Hungary. Burghardt's method includes immersing herself into any location she travels to, paying close attention to the effects of light, colour, sound and emotion. This method helps her develop wonderfully inspired painted stories about land, sea and sky.

Eamon Mac Mahon: Landlocked. Since 2004, Eamon Mac Mahon has ventured on extended journeys via bush plane deep into the northern Canadian back country, producing stunning aerial photographs depicting the captivating wilderness between lonely settlements. Mac Mahon shows that the north is not an endless expanse of homogenous forest, lakes and tundra, but a breathtaking variety of complex landscapes. Mac Mahon's work has appeared in several publications, and has been exhibited internationally.

David Bolduc: Days and Nights in the Forest.

Visit Lynne McIlvride Evans at The Artist Project, Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place, Toronto.

Front Gallery – Days of the Eclipse – Gary Beydler, Kristan Horton, Marie Jager, Euan Macdonald, Will Rogan, Elizabeth Zvonar. A group exhibition that explores the formal and conceptual possibilities of the eclipse: cancellation, conflation, switch, erasure.

Back Gallery – 50 Light Fixtures from Home Depot – Christian Giroux and Daniel Young. A 35mm film loop cycles through static shots of a white-cube room illuminated by the varying glow of 50 distinct light fixtures, displayed one by one. The image is projected at life-size, suggesting a lived architectural dimension. The project derives from the artists' interest in the production of space, of lighting fixtures, and the beauty of projected light filtered through celluloid.

Christian Giroux and Daniel Young have been making art together since 2002. They produce sculpture, public art and film installations. Their work has been shown at Scope Miami Beach (2004), Ace Art Inc (Winnipeg, 2004), The Power Plant (Toronto, 2006), the EXiS festival (Seoul, 2009) and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2009). Following its premiere at Mercer Union, their film installation 50 Light Fixtures from Home Depot will be exhibited in Forum Expanded at the Berlinale (Berlin, 2010) and Beyond / in Western New York (Hallwalls, Buffalo, 2010). They are represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto. Currently, they are artists in residence at the York University Digital Sculpture Lab.

Edith Dakovic: An In-Depth Look at the Surface.

Benoit Aquin: Chinese Dust Bowl.
In Chinese Dust Bowl, Benoit Aquin documents one of the largest conversions of productive land into sand anywhere in the world. Today, deserts cover 18% of China and of those, 78% are natural, while 22% were caused by ecologically damaging human activities such as the over-exploitation of arable land, over-grazing and increasingly, deep drilling for water. China's situation is quickly becoming the world's most massive and rapid conversion of arable land into barren sand dunes. The resulting dust is picked up by the wind and transported, in the form of giant sandstorms, all over China and into Japan, Korea and even North America. In an effort to reverse the situation, the Chinese government has initiated the largest environmental restoration initiative the world has ever seen and has begun a mass exodus of "environmental refugees," displaced by the advancing dust.
Aquin's photographs explore the impact of this great environmental disaster on the Chinese people and landscape. Sepia and subdued in colour, the images depict a landscape that is normally vibrant and colourful. He finds beauty in the destruction of the land, while also raising awareness about the environmental state of our world.

Doris McCarthy: Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Prints.

Selections from the Art Brut & Outsider Art Collection – art by Barry Woo, Peter Smith, Joan La Mantia, Martin Owen, Glen James, Kristine Erglis, Gilles Arseneault, and Gabe Anderson.

New work by painter Shi Le, and metalsmith / jewellery artist Erin Dolman.

"...Scenes of pastoral beauty formed around immediate surroundings in South Ontario" continue to inspire painter Shi Le in his latest body of work. Le states that "... landscape for me is a recreation of the moment in memory that captures my emotion in response to the truthfulness of nature. From the creek series to the inner woods and grass lands, the personal response and understanding to my surrounding are central. Through a palette knife-stroke and flat brush-stroke, I hope to reactivate on the canvas the fascination that the landscape of Ontario has drawn on me."
Shi Le is a professional artist and an art educator. Le received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. Over the last twenty-five years, Shi Le has taught painting at various post-secondary institutions including Lakehead University and Queen's University, Ontario, and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China.
Le's paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in many private and public collections all over the world, including Bank of Montreal, the Canadian Embassy to the USA, BMG Music Canada, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
The artists lives and works in Ontario, Canada and Chongquing, China.

Stories and dreams of yesteryear unravel in each of Erin Dolman's evocative, reliquary-like jewellery pieces. An "avid gardener, bird watcher and amateur naturalist...", Dolman's interests influence her jewellery, creating pieces that "speak" to its owner and other viewers in different ways. Dolman often creates each piece using both traditional materials, such as silver and gold, and non-traditional materials such as bones, vintage photos, seeds, insect wings, and other natural and man-made objects she finds in her daily life. Inside her jewellery pieces, "'protected by their layers of metal and acrylic, these fragile, delicate objects become fragments of a story, preserved like specimens under glass."
Over the past 16 years Erin has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in both Canada and internationally. In 2004 a craft scholarship enabled her to attend the prestigious Haystack Mountain School of Crafts for a 3-week course with jeweller Marcia MacDonald. Erin has also been the recipient of a number of grants and awards including the Rosen Group's Niche Award in 2002, one of five inaugural BC Creative Achievement Awards in 2005, and 1st place in the brooch category for Lapidary Journals' annual Jewellery Arts Awards in 2006.

Workshop for Adults – Introduction to Oil Painting with Steve Lavigne. Beginner-level workshop. $35 + GST. includes materials.

Artist talk in conjunction with Ladies Sasquatch by Allyson Mitchell.

Family workshop with artist Howie Tsui, in the context of the group exhibition, Exploded View.

The Next Step: Drawing and Painting Workshops. These two classes will focus on improving your drawing skills and on strengthening your painting technique. Bring in a work that you have already started or start something new. Led by local artist Wendy O'Brien. $85 Gallery members; $90 non-members. All materials supplied.

Beaux-Arts Brampton's 3rd Annual Open Juried Show. Dates of exhibition: March 30 - April 24, 2010 in both Main Gallery and Art Cove Gallery.
All two- and three-dimensional works are eligible, except photography, video and digital imaging. Maximum width, including framing, is 42 inches.
Entry form and information available on our website: www.beaux-artsbrampton.com.
Deadline for submissions: March 6, 2010.
Awards presentation reception on Thur 1 April, 6-9pm.
Jurors and cash prizes TBA on our website.
Email: beauxart1@bellnet.ca
Tel: 905 454 5677 or 1 866 339 7779.