Phil Irish, Jane Adeney, Robin Hesse: Fire, Water and Air.
A three-person show explores the turning points in people's lives in relation to their physical environment through maps, the power of transformation and our celestial connections. Drawing, mixed media, fired clay.

Art Rental & Sales. Cottage Rental Gallery. Gift Shop.

(See also Calls for Artists for info on submitting work to Forces of Nature: 2010 Biannual Juried Exhibition – click here).

EXHIBITIONS –

Sin-Ying Ho – Courtyard Installation.
Sin-Ying Ho explores issues surrounding culture and identity in this site-specific installation. Ho decorates forms ranging from a life-sized ceramic lamp post to traditional Chinese vessel forms with symbols ranging from traditional blue and white ware to computer language to explore the clash of cultures, modernity and tradition.

Waterloo Potters – A Survey. Members of the Waterloo Potters Guild. Collection Corridor. Curators: Ann Roberts and Jonathan Smith.
Regional ceramic guilds are the backbone of the clay movement in Canada. Older members mentor the younger ones, who in turn pass this knowledge on to others. Using work from past and present members of the guild, this exhibition explores the elements that have distinguished the direction the guild has taken over the years.

Alight: Chris Bacon Selected Works. AIC Gallery. Curator: George Wale.
Meticulously rendered, luminous in subtle tone, imbued with great love, respect and knowledge of his subject matter, the avian paintings of Burlington's Chris Bacon have won worldwide recognition and acclaim. His sensitive vision encourages us to see, in these birds, beauty and mystery ... in all of life ... in ourselves.

GUILD EXHIBITIONS – F. R. Perry Gallery –

Burlington Hooking Craft Guild Annual Juried Exhibition.

Celebrations: Burlington Potters' Guild Juried Members' Exhibition.

FIRESIDE LOUNGE – Latow Photographers Guild –

Barbara Kater and Larry Feldman.

Frank Myers and Tom Stephens.

Kirk Johnston.

EVENTS –

Curators' Tour and Talk – Ann Roberts and Jonathan Smith on Waterloo Potters – A Survey.

Receptions for Alight: Chris Bacon, Waterloo Potters, and Hooking Craft Guild exhibitions.

Artist's tour & talk with Chris Bacon.

Closing reception for Burlington Potters Guild Juried Exhibition.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT –

Grant Information Workshop. An information session regarding Canada Council for the Arts grants for individuals, with a special emphasis on contemporary fine craft programs. Much of the information is suitable for both fine crafts and visual arts professionals. Presented by José Niaison, Program Officer / Agent de programme, Visual Arts Section / Service des arts visuels, Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada. Free. Call 905 632 7796 x307 to reserve your seat.

Exhibitions –

Fibreworks 2010. Jurors: Catherine Heard & David H. Kaye. The 12th edition of this popular biennial juried exhibition is open to fibre artists from across Canada. The exhibition honours the community's rich textile manufacturing history and the gallery purchases new works for its permanent collection of contemporary Canadian fibre art.
Multi-exhibition reception on Sep 11 for FABRICation, FibreWorks 2010, as well as KNIT camBRIDGE – a project organized by Sue Sturdy, 2010 Artist-in-Residence, Cambridge Centre for the Arts.

Events & Programs –

Wilfrid Laurier Concert Series 2010.
Free. Everyone welcome.
Wed 18 Aug, 7pm: Vivian Luong – solo performance of classical injected with a twist of jazz – a perfect combination of sounds for a warm August evening. This is the third concert in the Wilfrid Laurier Concert Series. The series began in 2009 to foster young regional musicians to foster their performance experience. Past musicians in the series include: David McEvoy, Duncan Macauly and Faeron Pileggi.
Wed 22 Sep, 7pm: Rebecca Leung, Canadian pianist. Canadian pianist, Rebecca Leung, recently graduated with Merit standing from the Master of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, under the tutelage of Russian pedagogue Tanya Sarkissova. Ms. Leung has also maintained an active teaching studio for over ten years, with students earning distinctive achievements in their examinations and various music festivals. Rebecca looks forward to upcoming solo and chamber engagements this year, and has been invited to give a recital in France to commemorate the 200th birthday anniversary of Frédéric Chopin.

Upcoming Day Trip. The Warrior Emperor and China's Terra Cotta Army at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Please call Margaret at the Gallery for more information at 519 621 0460 x127.

Cineseries: Canadian & International Cinema. Cambridge Galleries is a member of the Toronto International Film Festival and organizes screenings of Canadian, foreign and independent films. All screenings begin at 7:30pm (unless otherwise noted) at Galaxy Cinemas, Cambridge Centre, 355 Hespeler Road. Admission: $11 / $8 members of Cambridge Galleries. Subscribe and save with a Cineseries pass card.
See our Cineseries brochure for full film information or visit www.cambridgegalleries.ca.
Mark your calendar for our screening dates – Sep 30, Oct 14 & 28, 2010.

Fall Studio Art Programs – for youth, teens and adults. We offer courses for all ages at our four Cambridge Libraries and Galleries locations and the Design at Riverside Printmaking Studio. To view our full studio course listings please visit: www.cambridgegalleries.ca.

Exhibitions –

FABRICation: Studio Production Textiles for Interiors.
Multi-exhibition reception on Sep 11 – FABRICation, FibreWorks 2010, as well as KNIT camBRIDGE – a project organized by Sue Sturdy, 2010 Artist-in-Residence, Cambridge Centre for the Arts.
FABRICation features products and contract installations by 12 renowned Canadian textile designer-entrepreneurs whose work bridges the worlds of art and commercial fabrication. "Studio Production" refers to work that incorporates manufacturing processes and technologies, but are produced in limited quantities rather than mass produced.
Designers/studios: Bev Hisey, FELT Studio, Lily Yung, Joy N. Walker, Virginia Johnson, Arounna Khounnoraj, SERI+, MOTIF Textile, Institute of Everyday Life, ArchiTextiles Lab, Armstrong Fox Textiles, Laura Friedland Design.

Master Works 2010 – a juried exhibition that showcases an exceptional thesis project or projects by recent Masters of Architecture graduates of the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture.

12 X 12 – Riverside Print Group.
Participating artists: Amanda Chesney, Heather Franklin, Kari Mullin, Darryl Nunn, Betty Praught, Bill Praught, David Scott, Donna Stewart.

Exhibitions & Events –

(And) We All Fall Down: Cautionary Tales – Miklos Legrady & Kasia Piech. Guest curated by Laura Arseneau. This exhibition pairs two artists: photographer Miklos Legrady (Toronto) and ceramic sculptor Kasia Piech (Hamilton) who train the spotlight on the dualities of evil and innocence. There is trouble in the world for their protagonists: "Evil Ducky", the rubber duck as trickster, who Legrady snaps in enlarged Cibachrome glory, out and about and up to no good – "Look out! He's lurking in the kitchen sink among the teacups!"
His photographs wall is in a decisively different sort of playground – one peopled by ceramic sculptor Kasia Piech's wicked little girls, pretty in pink yet standing on kindergarten chairs, wielding hand-guns, sights trained at each others.
Welcome to the playground called (And) We All Fall Down: Cautionary Tales. As the title suggests, each present a version of cautionary tales, flipping the morality card on us just when we think we've read it right. Playground bullies and child warriors are ever-present, lurking behind the big-box aisles and Saturday morning T.V. jingles. (And) We All Fall Down unlocks the lid to expose what lies beneath in each and every one of our private toy chests.
"Husha, husha, we all fall down."

(See also Art Schools & Courses for info on Grimsby Public Art Gallery's classes & workshops – click here).

Exhibitions –

House Beautiful. This exhibition examines new aestheticism in contemporary practice through the work of Canadian artists Mary Anne Barkhouse, Drew Simpson, and Cole Swanson, among others. As an exploration of contemporary society and its decadences, the exhibition engages the visual, emotional, and kinaesthetic experience of art through sculpture, installation, and painting. Inspired by Oscar Wilde's concept of “the house beautiful,” this exhibition brings together works by artists who support and subvert visual decadence through the representation of domestic interiors and the furniture that occupies those spaces. Curated by Dawn Owen.

Building a Legacy, Curating a Collection. This exhibition features the work of contemporary Canadian artists who have contributed to and continue to define art in Guelph, including current and former faculty and graduates of the School of Fine Art and Music, as well as artists who have had significant influence in the shaping of our exceptional art community. This exhibition reveals the legacy of art in Guelph through the MSAC's commitment to building a contemporary collection that includes major works by Guelph artists, including: Jordan Broadworth, Greg Denton, Susan Dobson, FASTWÜRMS, John Kissick, Suzy Lake, Jean Maddison, Eileen MacArthur, Stu Oxley, Margaret Priest, Arthur Renwick, Tony Scherman, Ron Shuebrook, and David Urban, among others. Curated by Judith Nasby.

Beyond the Frame. This annual fundraising exhibition and art auction features works by established and emerging artists from Guelph and the surrounding region, including: Jane Buyers, John Kissick, Barry McCarthy, Scott Pattinson, Cheryl Ruddock, and Ehryn Torrell, among others. The live auction party takes place on Sat 13 Nov 2010 (Tickets: $60).

Sculpture Park. Open daily from dawn to dusk. Featuring 35 permanently sited outdoor sculptures, including, Short Life, Long Branch by Michael Davey.

MAIN GALLERY (curated by Marlaise Dawson) –

Here and There – works by Barry Hodgson.
"Hodgson finds the bones of a landscape, marries this with its energy and gives us a painting we want to look at over and over again."

Paintings by Catherine Gibbon.

STUDIO GALLERY (curated by Barry Hodgson) –

Dream of Fields – large oils by David Laing Dawson.
"Dawson, inspired more by Mark Rothko than Tom Thomson, offers us the serenity, the blissful perfection of an Ontario field touching the sky, on fourteen large canvases into which we would like to stroll."

Recent Works by Gallery Artists.

Representing: Scott Abbott, Wesley W. Bates, Andrea Blanar, Ronald Boaks, Paul Cvetich, David Laing Dawson, Michael Dobson, Patricia Gagic, Catherine Gibbon, Barry Hodgson, Trevor Hodgson, Jody Joseph, Heather Keenan, Karen G. Kulyk, Duane Nickerson, Tibor Nyilasi, Marla Panko, Janice Peshke, Elena Roginsky, Chelo Sebastian, Toby Snajdman, Holly Sneath, and the Estate of Conrad Furey.

Also available: Lustreware by Scott Barnim.

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt.
São Paulo-based artist / theoretical architect Alexander Pilis presents his 2004 video-work The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt as the “centrepiece” for a site-responsive installation. He will be working with Senior Curator Ihor Holubizky to develop and articulate a dialogue between the explicit and implicit visual texts in his video-work, and works from the Museum's European historical, modern, and contemporary collection.

Artist's talk by Alexander Pilis, in connection with his video work, The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt.

There Is No Limit to the Line.
This exhibition, including works from the McMaster collection by 20th-century European and Canadian artists, explores a range of strategic approaches to mark-making.

Shelagh Keeley.
Curated by Linda Jansma and Carol Podedworny. At a very early point in the debates that challenged and, ultimately, changed the global art world, Shelagh Keeley was investigating issues such as access, representation and diversity. This retrospective exhibition also includes recent work and was produced in collaboration with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.

Artist's talk by Shelagh Keeley.

Matthew Varey: The Glory of Consciousness – New Paintings.

Andrew McPhail & Stephen Altena – two-person painting show.

Gallery artists: Michael Allgoewer, Robert Creighton, Michael Davidson, John W. Ford, Don Jean-Louis, Laurie Kilgour-Walsh, Fiona Kinsella, Harold Klunder, Steve Mazza, Andrew McPhail, Martin Pearce, Leslie Sorochan, Matthew Varey, Pearl Van Geest.

Gallery services: custom picture framing and frame restoration.

Mary Catherine Newcomb: Product of Eden 2010 – In a temporary garden outside the Gallery, the artist nurtures squash plants shaped into curious baby-like creatures.

sciencefictionsciencefair: Denton Fredrickson, Robyn Moody, Brian McKenna – Working with homemade electronics, the artists expose methodologies of science popularized when they were growing up.
Ernest Daetwyler: Reality in Reverse [barn raising] – With an inverted, reclaimed barn at its centre, the work explores the relationship between collective traditions and societal uncertainty.
A Boundless Moment – Like the Robert Frost poem, this exhibition of works from KW|AG's permanent collection captures the idea of a simple minute in time.

Curator's talk with Corinna Ghaznavi.

Curator's talk with Tarin Hughes.

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(See Art Schools & Courses for info on KW|AG's Summer Art Program for children – click here).

Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, featuring Antje Laidler – Recent Drawings.

Annual Christmas Exhibition – Gallery Artists.

Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, featuring Antje Laidler – Recent Drawings.

Painters Eleven – exhibition of selected works by members ot the Painters Eleven. Also, signed copies of Iris Nowell's new book, Painters Eleven – Wild Ones of Canadian Art, is available at a discount through our gallery.

Allen Smutylo: Nomad Memoirs – new oils and works on paper.

Member of ADAC (Art Dealers Association of Canada).

FASTWÜRMS – Unicorn Tip.
To Jan 2011 in Niche Project Space.
To Apr 1, 2011 in Rodman Hall's garden.
In 1979 Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse created FASTWÜRMS, a union of two Ontario-based multidisciplinary artists who question nature, the environment and issues of power. Known for melding high and popular cultures, bent identity politics and social exchange, FASTWÜRMS transforms the grounds of Rodman Hall and the Niche Project Space into realms of commonplace magick that draw attention to the everyday fantastic.
FASTWÜRMS has exhibited and created public commissions and installations, performance, video and film projects across Canada, in the United States, Europe, Korea and Japan.

Duncan MacDonald – Little Revolutions.
Working in video, sculpture, performance and installation, St. Catharines-based artist Duncan MacDonald creates work that is fundamentally about sound. Combining new and obsolete technologies, MacDonald investigates the relationship of the visual to the aural, overturning the classical hierarchy of the senses and challenging conventions of perception. Through labour-intensive processes at once poetic and absurd, MacDonald draws on his experience as artist, professor, and father to explore the sonic stuff of everyday life, engaging in revolutions both formal and conceptual, in an attempt to gently tweak the world around him.

BGL – SOLOS.
Known for creating self-referential in situ installations that take over architecture and encompass a gallery's context, the artist collective BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière) will participate in a residency (Sep 13-29) and exhibition (Oct 1-Nov 20) project at Rodman Hall Art Centre. Living and working in and out of the gallery and the City of St. Catharines for a three-week period, BGL will engage with the physical space and grounds of Rodman Hall.
BGL's work speaks directly to contemporary culture and the nostalgia of memory. Their work is social process, not solely presentation, and the result is a public-spirited art built through experience in which a network of social relations results. By inserting themselves in the space, the public becomes part of their process. To a great extent the contemporary stage they work on includes mass media and their language of signs and symbols penetrates to include the stage of the public mind. Their thinking refers to what extends beyond them and includes participation from the environment in which they work. They raise issues about the role artists play in our culture. These roles are neither exclusively aesthetic nor political in practice, but rather seemingly opposite poles encompassed by a working relationship that is social in nature. BGL will not only work from location but also form the nature of their engagement with the congested, cacophonous intersections of personal interests, collective values, social issues, political events and cultural patterns that mark out civic life. Theirs is a process in which research, dialogue and experimentation take part and the final result is situated between reality and fiction.

Group Show. – features selected works by Hagop Khoubesserian, Howard Day, Sean Yelland, Beverley Hawksley, Kate Grigg, Barker Fairley, Leonard Brooks, Lawrence Nickle, Michael Clay, E. B. Cox, Michael Kiriakis, Andrew Olscher, Shao-Pin Chu, Tony Leung, Patrycia Zwierzynska, Pamela Lauz, plus numerous historical prints. For more info call or email Tom Goldspink at tom.goldspink@tagartgallery.ca.

We are inviting established and emerging artists to our gallery. Submit samples of available work in any medium by email or hard copy images by mail. Please include a brief bio and a list of the titles, medium and sizes of your work.
For more information contact Tom Goldspink at 905 682 5072 or email tom.goldspink@tagartgallery.ca.

Exhibitions –

Natural History. Group exhibition in Galleries 1 & 2 – an exhibition of contemporary art works that examine our relationships to the captivity inherent in the display of wild animals and indigenous people in relation to the history of collecting, world fairs, museums and zoos, from the colonial past to the present. The artists focus on the representation of animals and the connection to empire, identity and evolution that is evident from 17th-century painting to early 20th-century natural history displays.

Perth Huron Exhibition. Group exhibition in Gallery 3, from an open call to artists in two counties. This exhibition promotes the work of regional artists working in all media. The exhibition has supported the presentation of local work for nearly 30 years.

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (CCGG) is a premier exhibition space for contemporary silica artwork, including ceramic, glass and enamel work. The Gallery also offers workshops, children's art programs, adult classes, tours, lectures, facility rentals, as well as a gift shop showcasing Canadian artists from all over the country.

CASTING & SLUMPING & BLOWING... OH MY!

Bruce Taylor: LUCID DREAMING – Inspired by his chidren's toys and computer games, Taylor's latest series of large-scale ceramic sculptures uses the crucible as a metaphor for self-definition and realization on personal, community, and societal levels. These works also reference the impersonal ideal of contemporary industrial efficiency while looking back to Victorian-era machinery that was built to last yet was ornamented with such details as lion's feet.
Alfred Engerer: AN "ALFRED" EXPERIENCE – showcases different processes of casting glass. A portion of Alfred Engerer's glass studio will be installed in the Gallery where visitors will explore various processes of glass-making, including blowing, casting, slumping and more. This exhibition explores what kinds of moulds are used, the various options available, and how a variety of artists who are using unique approaches to create work. Engerer's own work, some of his moulds, and technical examples showing the creation process from start to finish are complemented by photos and videos. These illustrate Engerer and other artists in action with hot glass. The intrepid artist's passion for glass is infectious.
Joni Moriyama: MEERKATS – Through her cast ceramic works, Joni Moriyama has captured a potent moment in a clan of meerkats, one of the most cooperative societies in the animal kingdom. These highly socialized beings are staring and intently focused on something they have just heard or seen. What they are sensing is beyond our awareness.
Joni Moriyama was also juror fo the Waterloo Potters' Workshop – EARTHBORN 2010 at CCGG Jun 13-Aug 22.

GLASS FACTOR: Luminaries in the Canadian Art Glass Scene. Curated by Christian Bernard Singer.
This exhibition brings together some of the best and most interesting artists from the contemporary Canadian glass scene. With approximately 100 works on view, the exhibition will feature over 15 artists including: Brad Copping, Laura Donefer, Susan Edgerley, Alfred Engerer, Catherine Hibbits, David James, Michèle Lapointe, Lou Lynn, Francis Muscat, Susan Rankin, Donald Robertson, John Paul Robinson, Tyler Rock, Karl Shantz, Orest Tataryn, Ione Thorkelsson, and more.

Gift Shop. Exquisite Canadian works in clay, glass and enamel

Harbinger Gallery is pleased to present...

Gallery Artists.

Bruce Cochrane: Continuity – ceramics and Jody Joseph: Luminoso – paintings.
Continuity is an exhibition of ceramic work by artist Bruce Cochrane, R.C.A. Cochrane is interested in making engaging, functional work. Cochrane is also interested in making work that references a connection to ceramic history while making it fit within a contemporary context. The artist states, “Ancient Chinese bronze and clay vessels have inspired a more formal and ceremonial attitude in my recent work. In addition, architectural form and detail suggest ideas leading to a sense of monumentality, structure and interior space within the ceramic scale.”
Jody Joseph creates paintings that unfold and shimmer in her latest show, Luminoso. Joseph's latest body of work, created from vistas in the Umbrian landscape in Italy, shows the artist sharing the “real.” The artist writes, “...more detail doesn't make it more real...the opposite isn't necessarily true...for the landscape painter, “real” begins with a connection to the motif – the site.” With each brush stroke to delineate space and objects within the space, Joseph demonstrates a connection to her motif and the likes of Corot, Cézanne, and Morandi.

Josée Desjardins: A jeweller's travel memorabilia – jewellery.

Don Russell – Painting.

Member of ADAC (Art Dealers Association of Canada).

Visual Elements... Woodstock Art Gallery 52nd Annual Juried Exhibition.
This popular exhibition continues the longstanding tradition of offering annually the best artwork created by Gallery members, Oxford County and regional artists. The public in invited to celebrate this popular annual tradition! Come see the works, meet the artists and cast your ballot for the People's Choice Award.
2010 jurors: Ms. Catherine Elliot Shaw, curator of The McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario and Mr. Patrick Mahon, Professor and Chair, Visual Arts Department, University of Western Ontario will adjudicate the exhibition.

Quest... Pat Deadman, Pat Gibson and Pat Armstrong.
This group exhibition features separate bodies of work created by three Woodstock artists. The underlying focus is to offer viewers an opportunity to explore the creative processes of these artists through a visual and written dialogue that echo the continued investigation of ongoing themes in their works, and how this affects the modes of artistic expression to which they are drawn.

Florence Carlyle Gallery. This permanent gallery features the rotating works of Post-Impressionist Florence Carlyle, supplemented by family artifacts and photographs.

Open Air Painting and Fundraiser at Jesse Ashbridge House (1444 Queen Street East in Beach area of Toronto).
Several of the famous landscape painters in the Group of Seven were founding members of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). You have a unique opportunity to see current members of the OSA paint outdoors, on location, in the beautiful gardens of the Jesse Ashbridge House in Toronto. All paintings are for sale at $75. each. Proceeds go to the pARTners Project.
Through the pARTners Project, the OSA and the Woodstock Art Gallery aim to establish an ongoing mentorship program where members of the OSA will work with some of Ontario's top graduates of fine arts programs in universities and colleges, as they begin their art careers.