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EXHIBITION
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Kate Domina - The Day They Blew Away In her newest series of oil paintings, Kate Domina's unique whimsical style and child-like subjects find a narrative to call home, as Illustrations for a children's book titled "The Day They Blew Away".
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Marija Barac Jandric - The Shape of Memory
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Neil Young - Showing June 2 - 26 More info to come |
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Ila Kellerman - Showing July 1 - 31 More info to come |
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Laurie De Camillis - Winter Landscapes
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Anne-Laure Djaballah - New Spaces Showing Dec 2009 - Jan 2010 With thread, wool, wood, wire and paint, Anne-Laure continues to explore the line between 2D and 3D; how we understand the picture plane as either flat or illusionistic, and its relationship to the surrounding space. Her process is one of layering, uncovering, simplifying, culling, and fragmenting visual elements, discovering patterns and connections, and reframing them in a new context, in the hopes that by being attentive to the apparently trivial, new possibilities can be envisioned - miracles can be found in the mundane. |
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Matt Tarini - In Transit Showing - Nov 4 - 28 Reception - Saturday Nov 7th 1-4pm
Matt is a realist painter and his In Transit work unerringly depicts the technological seclusion of modern urban life. His large-scale narrative paintings explore the urban condition — particularly our increasing disconnect with nature, and the erosion of community and beauty in the modern world. These issues inspire him to transcribe our contemporary society onto canvas in a clear-sighted and thought-provoking way. |
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Ben Darrah - Lost & Found Showing - Nov 4 - 28 In Lost & Found Darrah uses orphaned imagery of flora and fauna (and the tools we use to engage with our environment) in combination with painted abstract grounds to suggest narratives about identity, environment and sense of place. Darrah has always been concerned with the interplay of colour and mark-making, but he is particularly focusing in Lost & Found on subtle, and not-so-subtle, colour combinations that are both evocative and beautiful. |
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Meredith Bingham -The Earnest Circle Showing - Oct 1 - 24 The Earnest Circle is an exhibition of paintings about the inherent human desire for creation and invention, passion and feeling, deconstruction and renewal. The circle encompasses all these things; it is earnest in it's pursuit of perfection. |
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Stewart Jones - Places and Spaces Showing - Sept 3 - 26 Places and Spaces is an exhibition of recent work, Jones continue to paint his surroundings. " I only paint places that I’ve been and taken something from. I could paint a space for years and still be fascinated with it, in its place and how its surroundings really shape its being. I am interested, continually, in what happens in shadows and how the cityscapes cut the sky, creating geometric shapes, which become a focal point to my work, compositionally." |
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Little Works Showing - July 2 - 25 In July Gallery at 129 Ossington will exhibit Little Works. Each gallery artist will exhibit a collection of small pieces celebrating their creative, diverse and dynamic expression in these aesthetic gems. |
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Kate Domina - All my Friends are Imaginary Showing - June 3 - 27 All my Friends are Imaginary is a celebration of innocence and curiosity. Kate Domina incorporates classical representational painting with surreal and whimsical narratives. Her latest series is a psychoanalytical exploration of adolescence. She believes there is no better vehicle to understanding human imagination and curiosity than through the face and demeanour of the young. Link to recent interview: http://thingsofdesire.ca/2009/05/28/all-my-friends-are-imaginary/#more-1758 |
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Neil Young - Nature and the City Abstracts Showing - June 3 - 27 Nature and the City Abstracts is an exhibition of mixed media works by Neil Young. In this series, Neil is exploring harmonious and conflicting relationships found in the organic and manmade world.
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Mirana Zuger - Clockwork Orange Showing - May 9 - 30 Reception - Saturday, May 9 1-4pm For the past few years, Mirana Zuger has been infusing her paintings with markings and gestures nascent from memory and personal experiences. More recently, she has interrupted her abstract compositions with drawing and text pulled from her childhood drawings. The exhibition, Clockwork Orange, sets up the viewer for a stage of events past and present, articulating the thoughts and experiences of the artist. |
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Marija Barac Jandric - Landscape Conversations Showing - May 9 - 30 Reception - Saturday, May 9 1-4pm Marija Barac Jandric investigates how a painted image of a landscape can act as a metaphor for an individual existence. She looks to nature for answers about the world and our place in it. Light, atmosphere and space are important elements in Marija’s paintings, lending symbolism, and an emotional undercurrent to the work. She uses layers of juicy thick paint creating a tactile, almost sculptural surface, with a strong sense of colour and movement. |
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Rob Croxford – Wisdom from A-Z Showing - April 1 - 25 Reception - Thursday, April 2 7-10pm Wisdom from A-Z is an exhibition of new work by Rob Croxford. This exhibition is an exercise in whimsy. Each of brightly coloured – vintage themed canvases represents a letter of the alphabet. For example, the “B” canvas depicts a Bowling Ball and a quote from George Ball. The “C” canvas depicts a Croc Shoe and a quote from CoCo Chanel! |
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Stephen Noble - Urban Nocturnes Showing - April 1 - 25 Reception - Thursday, April 2 7-10pm Urban Nocturnes is an exhibition of new oil paintings by Toronto artist Stephen Noble. They focus on urban nightscapes -- a new subject for Noble, whose past work mainly featured rural landscapes. Unlike the calm and solitude of this earlier work, we now feel the spirit and bustle of the city. Noble captures this by painting “plein air” studies, which become the source for the finished piece. |
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Amanda White - Flora and Fauna
In this new series of ink drawings, animal and plant forms are stacked, tangled, and swarm together into piles of nature. The images themselves are influenced stylistically by the tradition of botanical and zoological illustrations, but here the subjects are fictional tales of flora and fauna. These odd creatures are presented as something between strange specimens and narratives of childhood nostalgia, an entire world for the viewer to encounter and explore. |
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Laurie De Camillis – Winter’s End
Laurie De Camillis continues to explore Ontario landscapes in this series titled Winter’s End. The Light and Subtlety of colour over the fields and fences is striking but it is ultimately the barns that compel her.
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Mirana Zuger - Feb 4 - 28 2009 For February Gallery at 129 Ossington will exhibit abstract paintings by Montreal artist Mirana Zuger. Zuger's paintings celebrate live people and events. Communication plays a major role in her work. Repeated marks, gestures and shapes bounce from one canvas to the other, erupting in dialogue. There is a sense of urgency, immediacy, conflict and chaos. In other works, the response seems simple and playful. |
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Keith Wood - Feb 4 - 28 2009 Light is a key element of Keith Wood’s abstract encaustic paintings. Taking advantage of the attributes of the medium he works in transparent layers. Unlike oil or acrylic, the added pigment is suspended in the molten wax as opposed to being emulsified.
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Winter's Chill - Group Show - Dec 3 – 20 2008 This December Gallery at 129 Ossington presents "Winter’s Chill" a group show embracing winter’s arrival and exhibiting a collection of Toronto’s most exciting water, land and cityscape painters. Artists include: Rob Croxford, Laurie De Camillis, Stewart Jones, Stephen Noble, Peter Rotter and Joe Sampson.
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Anne-Laure Djaballah - Nov 6 - 29 2008 Tangling and Untangling is an exhibition of new works by Montreal artist Anne-Laure Djaballah. They evoke several metaphors for us: following the line of a story, hanging by a thread, connecting the dots, tying up loose ends. Anne-Laure continues to explore lines—whether drawn or painted, made of wire or thread, tangled or sorted out, or formed into a grid. They create rich visual contrasts as they interact with the solid square ness of the boxes and panels used in her work. |
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Lisa Robbins - Nov 6 – 29 2008 Curios Specimens A Collection of the Hybridized Cognipods Lisa Robbins continues to explore the relationship between, new and old, weak and strong in the context of growth and the inevitable movement of time in this new body of work. All objects are hand built from colored porcelain and tactile materials. They are treated as a visual catalogue of findings from field explorations into the recesses of the collective mind. Combining modern, primitive, organic and manmade, they are meant to entice, repulse and confound likely to stimulate primal notions about the origins of life and the act of emergence and evolution. |
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Meredith Bingham - Oct 1 - 25 2008 In October Meredith Bingham will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings. Her paintings are energetic and bold, and come from the intuitive, the irrational and the accidental in the creation of a work of art. The idea of building up and breaking down colour and form until it becomes recognizable and feels complete.
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Ila Kellermann - Oct 1 - 25 Our continued involvement and stewardship in our environment is celebrated in Petroglyph. Ila Kellermann's recent works examine and interpret this important artistic tradition and their importance as directional markers.
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Stewart Jones / Sidelines of the City - Sept 3 - 27 Stewart Jones uses passionate strokes of oil paint to capture seldom noticed cityscapes of downtown Toronto. His paintings are composed of skewed angles and perspectives of alleys, buildings, power poles and wires. His views are slightly altered, as natural light and deep shadows transform the setting into an expressive personal representation of our city. It is as though on an everyday stroll to the corner store Jones happened to glance upward at the mundane, and then transfer this personal view on canvas creating something commonplace yet utterly captivating. |
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Mae Leong / Green: Two Sides Lie Within - Sept 3 - 27 Green: Two Sides Lie Within is an exhibition of new works by Mae Leong. This green series reflects Leong’s sensibility and thoughts of nature. The juxtaposition of heavy, solid textures and the dream-like ecstatic imageries suggests the co-existence of two extremes in nature, the symbiosis results in harmony and calmness.
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Keith Wood / July 3 – 26 2008 For July Gallery at 129 Ossington is pleased to have a solo exhibition by abstract encaustic painter Keith Wood from Winnipeg. Light is a key element of Wood’s work. Taking advantage of the attributes of the medium he works in transparent layers. Unlike oil or acrylic, the added pigment is suspended in the molten wax as opposed to being emulsified. The refraction of light through the layers of wax creates the appearance of light coming from within the work.
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The Ones Here Now / June 18 - 28 2008 The Ones Here Now is an exhibition of new works by Ben Walmsley. These portraits and figures are of neighborhood children. Walmsley depicts the children as creatures of light and colour, ephemeral moments expressed in painterly terms. They are lent substance and permanence through the nature of representation.
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World Washi Summit - Group show / June 7-15 2008 In June Gallery at 129 Ossington will participate in the World Washi Summit. This will be an exhibition of works by gallery artists all on Japanese washi paper. For more information about the summit: http://www.worldwashisummit.com/
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Laurie De Camillis - Wolfe Island Barns / May 1 - 31 2008
Laurie De Camillis uses strokes of colour to capture the flat and windy farm lands of Wolfe Island. The light and subtlety of colour over the fields and fences is striking but it is ultimately the barns that compel her. They are neatly tucked into the landscape as though they grew up out of the ground. They represent our symbiotic relationship with the earth. De Camillis’s paintings inspire reflection, her agricultural landscapes are full of life; bright, colourful and loaded with texture yet most of these structures are vacant. Not a sentimental reflection but a record of the stewardship about to change. |
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Rob Croxford - tranSiTORY /May 1 - 31 2008 tranSiTORY is an exhibition of new works by Rob Croxford. Rob’s satirical paintings capture the energy of the city, while conveying the challenges of urban living. These paintings focus on how we navigate the city streets in our daily routine. It is these mundane and brief moments in transit that best illustrate the stories of urban life. |
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Mirana Zuger - Purple Surf / April 2 - 26 2008
After returning from a 4-month artist residency in Europe, Mirana Zuger returns to Toronto with a new body of work. These pictures celebrate live people and events. Communication plays a major role in her work. Repeated marks, gestures and shapes bounce from one canvas to the other, erupting in dialogue. There is a sense of urgency, immediacy, conflict and chaos. In other works, the response seems simple and playful. Mirana Zuger - interview with CBC radio March 3rd Mirana Zuger recently did a fantastic interview with CBC radio, which aired (March 3rd). please check it out at www.cbc.ca/ottawamorning/art.html |
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Diverse Abstractions / March 1-22 2008 In March Gallery at 129 Ossington will host Jennart International Inc. to exhibit Diverse Abstractions. Explore your senses and enjoy the journey of abstracted color through the eyes of Canadian abstract artists, Dana Boettger and Lila Lewis Irving. |
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Disruptive Pattern / Ben Darrah / Feb 1 - 23 2008 Disruptive Pattern is an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Kingston-based artist, Ben Darrah, that explore issues of camouflage, false fronts and constructed narratives. The large acrylic on canvas works concentrate mainly on Darrah's preoccupation with the construct of the Canadian Identity which is represented by images of vast forests, pristine lakes and white capped mountains. The drawings are stripped down, intimate meditations on representation and obsessive mark-making. |
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Flags Lori-Ann Bellissimo Feb 1 - 23 2008
Lori-Ann Bellissimo’s paintings are the result of a method that pitches colour against depth. Her paintings take shape through a gradual process of using acrylic and mixed media trapped under individual layers of optically clear water-based resin; a final layer of resin seals the surface. This technique explores the paradox of spatial depth on a flat surface as the apparent shifting of colour and form within the painting gauges perspective. |
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Red Mae Leong Jan 5 - 26 2008
Red is a reflection of Mae Leong's reconnection with her Chinese heritage. A fascination with the minimal composition of Zen painting paired with an exploration of Chinese myth through prints and writings laid the foundation for this series of paintings. |
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Where The Grass Is Greener Rob Croxford Jan 5 - 26 2008
Rob Croxford’s paintings always have a political agenda. His newest series has evolved from the realization that our world is changing – and not for the better. Where The Grass Is Greener is an exhibition of landscape work focusing on environmental and urban issues
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