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Sebastien Worsnip: Rivers
RIVERS Sebastien Worsnip November 19, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, ON N0B 1S0 Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Weekends: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm The imagery of a river shifting, eroding, and transforming itself through the millennia provides the ideal muse for Sebastien Worsnip paintings. Embracing flux and transformation, for the landscape and the paintings alike, results in new discoveries. Please join the artist at the opening reception, Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:30 pm. New exhibit reflects beauty and scale of rivers Elora,...Karen Trask: Wordfield
Karen Trask: “Wordfield” August 6 – September 13, 2009 Opening Reception – Thursday August 6 at 7:30 pm Minarovich Gallery – Elora Centre for the Arts Curated by Phil Irish As you draw near Karen Trask’s evocative sculptures, you discover that they are each made from a surprising material: written text. Through the labour of spinning, weaving, and quilting, Karen Trask transforms printed pages into sculptures that explore both language and silence. Drawing from iconic texts -- Proust’s writing and the dictionary itself -- Trask sculpts a sensative relationship to language. The potential of language, to grow as if in...
Six Artists: Good Question
Six Artists: Good Questions June 18 - Aug 3, 2009 Curated by Phil Irish. Opening: Thursday June 18, 2009, 8:00 pm This show is a snapshot of where questions have taken six graduates from the University of Waterloo's Fine Arts programme. See how MFA students push their work to explore new directions and resolve questions through video, painting, installation and drawing. Featuring Miranda Urbanski, Scott Everingham, Ram Samocha, Heidi Overhill, Colin Carney and Nathalie Quagliotto. Work on Display: Colin Carney Angelus, digital video, 21 seconds (looped), 2009 Onward, digital video, 21 seconds (looped), 2009 Old Faithful, digital video, 21 seconds...
Evita Schvallbe: The Dance of Form and Emptiness
Evita Schvallbe - The Dance of Form and Emptiness April 30 - June 18, 2009 Opening Reception - Thursday April 30th at 7:30 pm Curated by Phil Irish Evita Schvallbe presents a cycle of inter-related textile works. Sculptural in their textured relief, and dazzlingly vivid in their painterly colour, these works awaken both body and spirit. Each of the pieces develops imagery of the elements -- wind, earth, fire, and water -- into a mandala structure that combines Buddhist, Christian and Hindu symbology. The work on display represents a decade of study, design, and skillful labour. Every piece is painstakingly...
Eva McCauley: Solas agus Scath
March 26 – April 26, 2009: opening reception Thursday March 26, 7:30 pm. The exhibition’s title (pronounced “Solas aguss Scah”) means “Light and Shadow” in Irish Gaelic. Work for the exhibition draws upon McCauley’s experience at the Cill Rialaig artist’s residency, County Kerry, on Ireland’s rugged southwestern coastline. In the isolated village, McCauley experienced the dislocation of being in a foreign place, coupled with an intensity of memory. McCauley’s work includes paintings and monotypes. The images explore the illusory and often deceptive qualities of memory in relation to the experience of visiting a foreign place -- fabrications culled from the...
Jung-Chul Hur: Feed
Jung-Chul Hur: Feed February 12 – March 22 : opening reception Thursday February 12, 7:30 pm. The Minarovich Gallery is thrilled to feature the incredible video installation FEED, of international artist Jung-Chul Hur. Jung-Chul Hur is an artist, designer, curator, lecturer and also a VJ, born in Masan, Korea in 1972. He did his B.F.A in Industrial Design (Major: Visual Communication Design) at the Konkuk University in Chungju, Korea, from where he went on to complete an M.A. in Visual Communication at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in the UK between 1999 and 2000. His work, which encompasses...
Brian Rideout: Hopeful Romantic
Brian Rideout new works on paper Hopeful Romantic November 6 - December 21, 2008 Artist’s Bio Brian Rideout is a graduate from Georgian College’s Fine Arts Advanced Program. His work deals with our interaction with images and the moral and social codes derived from them. He works from a place of social consciousness and self awareness. Through frankness, honesty and humour, he creates a dialogue between the viewer and the image and removes certain social barriers which hamper our ability to change and question our current cultural state. Rideout has a strong belief and understanding in the power of image,...Nick den Boer: The Dissection Collection
The Dissection Collection: Nick den Boer October 9-28, 2018David Grieve: Along the Way
David Grieve Along the Way colours and textures of Ontario July 31 to September 7 David Grieve has been painting with oils for most of his life. He was first introduced to the medium by his mother. Together, they attended a Wednesday afternoon painting group in St. George, Ontario beginning when David was just age 7. He fondly remembers his first introduction to oils, particularly the slow drying quality of the paint and the intoxicating aroma in the studio. While attending the University of Guelph, David was eager to explore a variety of media, but found it difficult to get...