Sheri Bakes: The Special Places Initiative.
Sheri Bakes' moody abstracted landscapes are full of rich colours that blend and swirl into an emotional scene. A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Sheri works in a style that captures the formal aspects of light and distance, and reflects the West Coast landscape. In this series, Bakes' paintings shed light on the places and moments in life that often go unnoticed, yet in trying times are ultimately revealed to be the most special.

Anthony Redpath. Vancouver photographer Anthony Redpath produces meticulously staged photographs, often in a highly ambitious large scale. This melancholic series explores contemporary coastal life and consequences of industrial expansion. These melancholic photographs are a must-see in person as their dramatic scale and crisp sharpness allows the viewer to feel like they are part of the scene.

Marija Barac Jandric: The Shape of Money – oil paintings. Jandric's work comes from observing the natural world. In this new series, she examines the relationship between memory and images of nature.

23rd Images Festival. Toronto, Canada.

Portraits and Figurative Works – Paintings by Bogdan Luca & Stefan Berg | Printmaking by Colin Rogers & George Walker.

Synesthesia. Graduating students from the B.F.A. program at York University, featuring twelve diverse works of art selected from the graduating class.

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.

Free Saturday afternoon screenings at Camera – 3pm.
Camera is located at 1028 Queen Street West, Toronto.
Environmental Surroundings Film Series –
Mar 6: An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim (USA: 2006), 100min.
Mar 13: Who Killed the Electric Car? Dir. Chris Paine (USA: 2006), 92min.
Mar 20: Blue Gold: World Water Wars, Dir. Sam Bozzo (USA: 2008), 90min.
Mar 27: Manufactured Landscapes, Dir. Jennifer Baichwal (Canada: 2006), 80min.
Apr 3: The End of the Line, Dir. Rupert Murray (UK: 2009), 85min.
Apr 10: Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, Dir. Peter Mettler (Canada: 2009), 43min.

Please note: Film schedule may be subject to change. Please contact the gallery at 416 504 0575 to confirm. www.bulgergallery.blogspot.com. www.camerabar.ca.

Monica Tap: Here and also elsewhere – new paintings.

Waiting – by Anda Kubis. Strategizing colour as a prime agent, Kubis engages the viewer with billowing form and incidental moments of realism as "waiting" figures make choices. The colour of creative thought must compete with multitasking. Is there a gain?

Gallery Gevik presents a special exhibition of new works by Sandra Hawkins.

Landscapes – Group show of gallery artists: Canadian seascapes, landscapes, and cityscapes. Paul Chester, Graham Fowler, Christian Deberdt, Peter Gough, William Kurelek, Jeff Willmore, and historical artists.

Spring Group Show – gallery and guest artists' work.

Andrew Bell: Moterwerks 8: Entropika. Moterwerks is an evolving multi-media arts project that was created in 1994. Based on an alternative version of history, Moterwerks recounts the saga of the "Aeronaut", a reluctant hero caught in a world of militant corporate conspiracies and warring tribal factions. As primary visuals, the Moterwerks "Artwerks" are presented as historical icons – mural relics from an alternate time. A fusion of propaganda imagery and mass media advertising, the result is reminiscent of both science fiction and antiquated past.

Biomorphism and Abstract Vision, Mixed – featuring new paintings by Vitali Zelinski.

Aurora Cultural Centre presents ... Albert Chiarandini: York Region Vistas. Chiarandini paintings generously on loan from the Georgina Arts Centre & Gallery. "Landscapes allow me to explore the profound beauty of nature, echoes of light and the smell of the countryside."

Carved by Hand – projects by the Aurora Seniors Centre Woodworking Club.

Celebrations 2010: The Young at Art – an exhibition of art by local school children.

Manon De Pauw: Intrigues. Curated by Louise Déry. Organized by Galerie de l'UQAM.
Manon De Pauw: Intrigues is a mid-career survey featuring a range of artworks that the artist has completed since 2001. Featuring photograms, photographs, performative setups, single-channel videos, and multi-channel video installations, the artist uses time-based media to investigate the use of light and shadow to manipulate images in ways that are as varied as they are poetic. Her manipulation of materials, colours, and gestures using various surfaces of inscription from paper, to tables, screens and light boxes suggests a form of visual experimentation akin to writing with images.
Organized by Galerie l'UQAM – Université du Québec à Montréal – the exhibition will travel to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta; Cambridge Galleries (2010); Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbroooke, Sherbrooke, Québec (2011); Langage Plus, Alma, Québec; and Canada et Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France (2011).

Sin-Ying Ho: ONE WORLD / MANY PEOPLES. Describing the path of encounters between cultures that collide, Ho is influenced by contemporary post-colonial theory. She examines 21st-century politics, technology, and economic globalization, resulting in the merging of people from many nationalities and cultures.

Dundas Valley School of Art – 40th Anniversary Art Auction. A live and silent auction consisting of over 1500 original works of art from established and new artists. Oils, pastels, watercolours, sculpture, pottery, jewellery.
Free previews – Thur Apr 8 & Fri Apr 9: 9am-9pm; Sat Apr 10: 9am-5pm. Silent auction bids accepted during these hours.
Admission is $25 in advance or $30 at the door.

The French Suites and Narnia by mixed media artist Liz Davidson, and an exhibition of new jewellery by Aggie Beynon, RCA.

The French Suites are inspired by Liz Davidson's travels through Paris, France where she encountered repaired walls of buildings with marks that reveal a "...history and language...". Davidson's mixed media work explores and asks "what is their story, this ancient graffiti, this visual passage of time?" Narnia marks Davidson's first time presenting photographs – "...bare, unadorned and unphotoshopped and unlayered", capturing otherworldly images from nature.

The latest exhibition of jewellery by metalsmith, Aggie Beynon, showcases her continued desire to create tension in her – "...a gentle tug to the eye that begs a second or third look." Beynon's process-driven work includes use of her signature powdered metal process and / or combining various precious materials and enameling to create rich surfaces and technically complex structures.

Muse Me: Summa 2010 – annual exhibition of art work by graduating students from McMaster University's School of the Arts Studio Art Program.

WOODSTOCK COLLECTS... 2010. Guest curated by Maya Dynna. This exhibition offers Woodstock and area an opportunity to view the fine treasures from private collections within the community and works seldom seen from the Woodstock Art Gallery's Permanent Collection. Woodstock Collects... was a project initially developed by the Friends of the Woodstock Art Gallery and revisited in 2010 at the community's request. Ms. Dynna and Woodstock Art Gallery staff would like to thank all of the collectors who have loaned works in this exhibition.

"Emily Carr (1871-1945), Graveyard Entrance, Campbell River, 1912" – mini-talk by Sheila Chappell.

Burning of the Tree – Artist Lawrence Molloy sets alight his meticulously contructed bonsai trees, made of match heads – at NGB Studios (12 Cataraqui Street, Kingston). In connection with Molloy's performance / installation at Union Gallery, Test-bed for Trees.

Workshop for Adults – Watercolour Portraiture with Kate Carder-Thompson.