Come and enjoy Downtown Oakville tomorrow. Take a gallery tour in the afternoon and enjoy refreshments and special events at each one. On exhibit is our annual Flowers that Last show – just the thing to brighten your day! Hope you will join us from 2-4 – or anytime. Here’s just one of the beautiful works on display
Blue Flowers in Late Afternoon Shadows # 2, 2009, Acrylic on panel, 12 x 36 inches, 30 x 91 cm
The exhibition for Lila doesn’t open until March 1, but the AGM has now posted more info about some of the exciting events that they will hold during Lila’s show. We included a link in our newsletter which was e-mailed Jan. 27, but click here to read the press release.
Not receiving our newsletter?? Click here to get in the know!
As many of you know, the Super Bowl takes place on Sunday Feb. 5. We’ve got our own Super Bowl happening in the gallery window! It is Jennifer Walton’s wonderful painting depicting a group of children playing football on a snowy field.
Superbowl Sunday, Toronto, 2009, Oil on canvas, 28 x 42 inches, 71 x 107 cm
The set of Canada AM has a new look and not only have they chosen a painting by Janice Mason Steeves for the set, but they also selected 10 sculptures by our artists including David Thai, Dorothy Wilde, Marguerite Broten, Shane Norrie, Don Dickson, Barbara Anderson and Willie Anicic. We’re thrilled!
Poem Series 1084, 2010, oil and wax on canvas on panel, 36 x 48 inches, 91 x 122 cm
The biannual Kingston Prize is Canada’s only portrait competition, featuring contemporary paintings and drawings of Canadians by Canadian artists. An exhibition of the 30 finalists for this year is on view at the ROM until January 29, 2011. The competition is organized by the Kingston Arts Council, and the exhibition presented in cooperation with the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the ROM. Our own Jennifer Walton is a past finalist for the Kingston Prize. We are looking forward to new work by Jennifer very soon.
The new painting by Heather Horton, ‘Clothesline, Fogo Island’ is now here and in the window. Click here to see it online, but it is even better ‘in person’ so please come in and have a look.
The Art Gallery of Mississauga will hold a major retrospective for Lila Lewis Irving this spring. ‘Con Spirito’ opens on March 1 and continues for 2 months. Lila has told us that events are planned for each week of the exhibition and a book and video have been produced for the show. We will have copies of the book here as soon as it becomes available and will have more information on the show soon. Lila is an established abstract painter and her work is in collections all over the world. She studied with the noted abstract expressionist painter, Helen Frankenthaler. Lila’s paintings are intensely personal and emotional and show the experienced hand of a master colourist at work.
Calligraphy In Green And Brown No. 1 54 x 46 inches
Heather will be giving a talk to the Burlington Fine Art Association in January and The University of Western Kentucky has invited Heather to speak there in the spring. Pretty exciting!
We’re looking forward to a new painting by Heather which will arrive this week. Here it is:
Clothesline, Fogo Island,2011, Oil on panel, 30 x 40 inches, 76 x 102 cm
Chris Pelley investigates both language and current expression in this video of the creation and installation of art work in Budapest. Click here to view.
'Lexicon' installation at Abbozzo Gallery
Chris’ series of visual images titled Lexicon is available at the gallery
If you are in the Chicago area during the holidays, you might want to visit the Art Institute to see some of Naoko Matsubara’s prints which are included in one of their current shows
Click here for details
Spring Letter, woodblock print by Naoko Matsubara
