2018 Gallery Archive
Gesture & Geometry: the collective works of Chris Ahlers, David Brown and Laurie Skantzos.
'Gesture & Geometry: Navigating the threshold between observation and abstraction' Assembled in the Minarovich Gallery at The Elora Centre for the Arts, the work of award winning artists Chris Ahlers, David Brown and Laurie Skantzos calls your attention and requests your presence. Dawn Owen, Curator at Guelph Museums describes the show best in this excerpt from her critical essay (see attached): “‘Gesture and Geometry’ features the work of three abstract painters. They share a mode of expression and have parallel interests in materiality and process, as well as techniques. This exhibition marks the first instance in which the paintings of...
Ryan Price: Pencil Drawings Done While Listening to Heavy Metal Music
This October, the Minarovich Gallery at ECFTA is featuring the works of Guelph artist and illustrator Ryan Price. The exhibition entitled “A Series of Meaningless Pencil Drawings Done Over A Short Period of Time While Listening to Heavy Metal Music” runs through November 18th. Curator Micaela Campbell
C. Anthon: Anatomy of a Parlour
Largescale Artworks by Tattooist C. Anthon In the Harris Exchange Gallery
THIS WAY OUT: Contemporary Landscapes by James Ridyard
THIS WAY OUT: Contemporary Landscapes by James Ridyard Toronto-based artist James Ridyard uses images of Elora and its iconic surrounds as aides-mémoire to produce richly layered, atmospheric landscapes at once familiar and foreign. Curator Micaela Campbell
FINDING THE NEST: SELF-IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS
GRAZYNA ADAMSKA AND NORMAN BUSSE Finding the Nest: Self-Identity and Otherness captures the ambiguous connections between our understanding of oneself and our striving for wider forms of acceptance and recognition. The exhibition features the paintings of Grazyna Adamska and Norman Busse. Exploring the relationship between power and positionality, both artists' works show an intense commitment to the human form as vehicle for interpretation of self and other within the diversity of contemporary realities. Curator Micaela Campbell
Beverley Hawksley, Carmen Hickson, Supria Karmakar, and Tanya Zaryski: Response (and Responding)
A 4-person exhibition of exploratory work Sunday January 14th – Sunday March 4th, 2018 Minarovich Gallery at ECFTA Response (and Responding) features the work of Beverley Hawksley, Carmen Hickson, Supria Karmakar, and Tanya Zaryski. Exploring the theme of art as embodiment of mindfulness, these four artists working in a variety of mediums, challenge themselves to engage more deeply with their individual and collective creative process. Response (and Responding) addresses the space between action and reaction; the quiet reverberations moving from the creative source to the maker and from the maker to the viewer. Opens Sunday January 14th and runs through...