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Year Established: 1987
SELECTED ARTISTS
Simon Andrew
Alain Attar
Walter Bachinski
Luc Bernard
Ron Bloore
Nancy Boyd
Jane Brookes
Louise Cook
Gary Cody
Jennifer Dickson
Camrose Ducote
William Duma
Ted Godwin
Joice M. Hall
Gregory Hardy
Jennifer Hornyak
Brent Laycock
Shi Le
Ysabel Le May
Robert Lemay
Kenneth Lochhead
Sylvain Louis-Seize
Patrick Meagher
Steve Mennie
David More
Doug Morton
Ivan Murphy
Linda Nardelli
Toni Onley
Steven Nederveen
David Newkirk
Kristine Paton
Don Pentz
Andre Petterson
Herbert Siebner
Jim Stokes
Harold Town
Bill Webb
Shannon Williamson
Karen Yurkovich
Diana Zasadny
 For the LOVE of ART 2/7/2013 - 2/26/2013 Featuring: Exciting New Artists and recent Works by: William Duma, Brent Laycock, Shannon Williamson, Diana Zasadny, Don Pentz, and more… |
 SIX Artists: Exploring Abstraction 3/9/2013 - 3/17/2013 Alain Attar, Nancy Boyd, Camrose Ducote, Steve Mennie, Linda Nardelli, Dori-Ann Steinberg Six Artists: Exploring Abstraction March 9-27, 2013 Opening Exhibition: Saturday, March 9, 2013 Show continues to March 27, 2013 |
 HORNYAK Solo Exhibition 4/20/2013 - 5/1/2013 Opening of the Exhibition: Satuday, April, 20, 2013 Show continues until: May 1, 2013 Preview of the Exhibition is on April 18, 2013 Artist Statement: For more than forty years, Jennifer Hornyak's paintings have been shown in the most reputable galleries and most prestigious collections, both in Europe and North America. Her way of applying paint is inimitable, and her paintings can be recognized with a blink of an eye. Her style wears the mark of a great artist, both intimate and universal. Mostly known for her abstracted still life paintings, Jennifer Hornyak draws inspiration from what surrounds her, and her paintings are revealing sophisticated colors and generous textures. |
 POOLE Solo Exhibition 5/11/2013 - 5/22/2013 ARTIST STATEMENT - “ABOUT ART” EXHIBITION, MAY 2013 EMILY DICKENSON STATED, “THE PAST IS NOT A PACKAGE ONE CAN LAY AWAY”. INDEED, THE PAST NEEDS TO BE REFRESHED FOR EACH GENERATION. CULTURAL IMAGES BRING THAT PAST INTO THE LIVING MUSEUMS OF OUR MINDS. THIS BODY OF WORK IS ABOUT MY ENCOUNTERS WITH ART AND ABOUT QUESTIONING WHY CERTAIN IMAGES STIR US MORE DEEPLY THAN OTHERS. THE SUBJECT MATTER HERE IS SELECTED UNITS OF TIME FROM THE PAST: HERE IS AN ANGEL FROM A 12TH C. CHURCH, THERE IS A FIGURE BY PICASSO, THERE IS A 17TH C. SCULPTURE, AND HERE AN AMARYLLIS PAINTED IN THE 21ST C. WHY? IT ALLOWS “EVENTS” THAT HAD SIGNIFICANCE IN THE PAST TO BE RE-EXPERIENCED AND RELATED TO US NOW. THE PRESENT IS UNCERTAIN, CONFUSING AND INFORMATION-HEAVY. THE PAST PROVIDES A CONTEXT OF EXPERIENCE AND EVEN MATURITY. I HAVE TRIED TO CREATE IN THESE PAINTINGS METAPHORS COMPILED OF NUMEROUS IMAGES THAT HAVE, AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, TAKEN MY BREATH AWAY. EACH IMAGE REPRESENTS A PEAK EXPERIENCE I HAVE HAD IN FRONT OF A POWERFUL WORK OF ART. THEY ARE ASSEMBLED IN VARIOUS STYLES AND COMBINATIONS AS A WAY OF RE-EXPERIENCING THEIR RICHNESS IN OTHER CONTEXTS. I FOUND THEY STILL HAD A RESONANCE IN MY STUDIO, THAT THEY SURVIVED AND WERE REFRESHED BY APPROPRIATION. AND, ONE WONDERS, ARE THEY DIMINISHED OR ENHANCED IN RELATION TO EACH OTHER? I AM SIMPLY TRYING TO FOCUS ATTENTION RATHER THAN TO SOLVE. THEY ARE NOT MEANT TO BE PUZZLES. FORCING A FACILE MEANING FROM ART TOO OFTEN REPLACES THE RICHNESS OF MYSTERY WITH HUMAN RATIONALITY. THESE PAINTINGS CAN PRESENT IN A NON-DISCURSIVE WAY ELEMENTS OF OUR HUMAN CONCERN (ART HERITAGE) SO THAT INTUITION MAY CONNECT INFORMATION WITH WISDOM. LESLIE POOLE 2013 |
 LOUIS-SEIZE Solo Exhibition 4/6/2013 - 4/17/2013 Lupercalia: Celebrating the Coming of Spring April 6-17, 2013 Exhibition Opening: April 6, 2013 Artist in attendance" 2-5pm Show continues to April 17, 2013 Lupercalia: Celebrating the Coming of Spring February was considered the final month of the Roman year, and on the 15th, citizens celebrated the festival of Lupercalia. Originally, this week-long party honored the god Faunus, who watched over shepherds in the hills. The festival also marked the coming of spring. Later on, it became a holiday honoring Romulus and Remus, the twins who founded Rome after being raised by a she-wolf in a cave. Eventually, Lupercalia became a multi-purpose event: it celebrated the fertility of not only the livestock but people as well. To kick off the festivities, an order of priests gathered before the Lupercale on the Palatine hill, the sacred cave in which Romulus and Remus were nursed by their wolf-mother. The priests then sacrificed a dog for purification, and a pair of young male goats for fertility. The hides of the goats were cut into strips, dipped in blood, and taken around the streets of Rome. These bits of hide were touched to both fields and women as a way of encouraging fertility in the coming year. Girls and young women would line up on their route to receive lashes from these whips. There is a theory that this tradition may have survived in the form of certain ritual Easter Monday whippings. After the priests concluded the fertility rites, young women placed their names in a jar. Men drew names in order to choose a partner for the rest of the celebrations -- not unlike later customs of entering names in a Valentine lottery. To the Romans, Lupercalia was a monumental event each year. When Mark Antony was the master of the Luperci College of Priests, he chose the festival of Lupercalia in 44 BC as the time to offer the crown to Julius Caesar. By about the fifth century, however, Rome was beginning to move towards Christianity, and Pagan rites were frowned upon. Lupercalia was seen as something only the lower classes did, and eventually the festival ceased to be celebrated. -Sylvain Louis-Seize |
 A Great Canadian Art Legend is gone: Ted Godwin 1/5/2013 - 1/11/2013 It is with great sadness that we are to announce the passing of a great Canadian artist; Edward W. (Ted) Godwin. Ted passed away quietly in the morning on January 4th, 2013 after a long battle with congestive heart failure. He was 79 years old, born in Calgary and graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (And Art) in 1955. Ted was a faculty member at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Saskatchewan from 1964 until his retirement in 1985. At this time he was a member of a group of artists known as The Regina Five. Ted was the last surviving member of the group. The other members included: Ronald Bloore, Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, and Doug Morton. The group became widely known as such because of an exhibition in 1961 at the National Gallery of Canada. The group was instrumental in bringing about change in the art world in the 1960s and put western Canada on the fore front of art at that time. Ted's work has been exhibited at galleries across Canada and the U.K., and is represented in many major public art collections, including: the Ontario Museum of Art, The Glenbow Museum, the CBC, the Canada Council Art Bank, and the National Gallery of Canada. Ted was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1974, and won the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal in 1978. He was given an Award of Honorary Doctorate from the University of Regina in 2001, and received the Order of Canada in 2004 for excellence in visual art. Just last year (2012) Ted also received the Diamond Jubilee metal. Ted was a larger than life character with amusing stories to match. He always talked about death as a transition to that "big waiting room in the sky"…we hope you have found peace, Ted, and that you are with your buddies from the Regina Five and painting up a storm. Rest well Ted. |
