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Attention
Painting that uses only a few colours, simple forms, repetitive structures, uncomplicated premises –painting such as Adrian Gollner’s work –is painting of reduced means. With a decrease in variety of visual information, the...
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8pm
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Pioneering music/poetry ensemble, GEODE performs as part of the A B Series!
On February 16, see poet Susan McMaster perform with musicians, Alrick Huebener (bass), Jennifer Giles (keyboards), David...
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agency noun. 1. Active operation; action; power.
2. A mode of action; means; instrumentality; action personified.
Imagine the free agency of a contemporary painter in Canada.
Ensconced in his studio, John Armstrong speculates on modern...
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The necessity of work
In the autumn of 1990 in a group show at Gallery 101, Germaine Koh exhibited some compelling abstract paintings from a series called ESTABLISHING. Concerned with investigating the relation of the processes of drawing...
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Reginald Hamilton’s painting faces into the past, engaging with history, art history, and memory. Equally assertively it indexes present experience as painting of modern life. As paradoxical as this may seem, it is because of this...
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PAINTINGS: DIMITAR NESHEV AND SVETOSLAV TZEKOV
Painting is political
The communist-direct art education which Dimitar Neshev and Svetoslav (Jack) Tzekov received in Bulgaria taught them that painting is always political. Neshev and Tzekov...
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"My father immigrated to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland. He was fifteen years old when they settled in northern Alberta in a place called Clandonald. One of my earliest memories was of him coming home with an armful of birch saplings. They...
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SPIRITED is an exhibition in which women continue their struggle to represent themselves. Traditionally excluded form the official histories of art and only recently considered worth half the time of museum and gallery exhibition...
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KAREN HOEBERG: FOR THE REST FOR THE...
"In the summer of my seventh year,
a crow with a broken wing came to me.
His wing healed. And yet he would not leave me...
...leaves began to fall.. I tried to make him go.
He bit my toe. I knew...
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Montreal artist Lorraine Simms will exhibit recent oil paintings as and works on paper depicting artificial hearts and other medical protheses-devices intended for implanting into the human body- in an investigation into the notion of the...
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JAYCE SALLOUM: STUPID PLEASURES
The artifacts and residue within each photograph/object are seen as a "site" in the formation of a cultural understanding/misunderstanding. Various areas of research and production located here focus on...
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8pm
Friday, January 20, 2012
CAT KIDD has forged a reputation as one of the nation’s most surprising and inspiring voices for page and stage. Her award-winning multimedia poetic creations have toured Europe, Asia, Africa, UK, US and...
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Dick Bourgeois-Doyle lives in Ottawa and is currently the Director of Corporate Governance at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). He has been involved in a number of special projects since joining the NRC Executive Offices in...
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BUREAUCRACY
Immony Men and René Price • Curator Leanne L’Hirondelle
Panel Discussion: Immony Men, René Price and authors Dick Bourgeois-Doyle, Christian McPherson
Immony Men and René Price are two artists who are interested in the...
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Saturday, December 3, 2011 • 7pm–1am
4-240 Bank Street, Ottawa (Lisgar entrance)
Featuring: MC China Doll • DJ Jas Nasty
Dog and Pony Sound karaoke
101 FRAMES, Gallery 101’s largest annual fundraiser, is thinking “outside the frame”...
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Doors open 7:00 pm. Readings start at 7:30 pm
Cash bar
Manuel Jofré, Master of Arts y Doctor of Philosophy, has taught at Carleton University, York University and University of Toronto in Canadá, Duke University (USA) and Simón Bolívar,...
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Between Emptiness and Form: The Imaging Spaces of Yam Lau
Images of the real, produced at the speed of light, are made to play with their own reality as images.
-Trinh T. Minh-Ha, The Digital Film Event
As the quintessential raw...
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Doors open 7:30 pm. Readings start at 8 pm
Cash bar
Shirley Bear was recently named a member of the Order of Canada "for her contributions as a First Nations visual artist and cultural activist." She is a multimedia artist, writer,...
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El Dorado and Red Cultural Hispanica invite you to the launching of EL Árbol del Pan y Otros Cuentos.
DOORS OPEN AT 7 PM.
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Doors open 7:45 pm. Readings start at 8 pm
Cash bar
Zorras make poetry-music-video-weirdness fusion. With megaphones. They're known for their unique bilingual mixture of text, sound poetry, percussion, singing, electric bass, guitar and...