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Great Beginnings Elementary / Secondary

March 20 to May 22, 2010 Main Gallery

 Every year the Art Centre hosts an exhibition comprised of works of art created by the many talented young artist attending schools in St. Thomas and Elgin County.  This exhibition allows hundreds of students the opportunity to share their talent and accomplishments with family, friends, teachers and the entire community.  The Art Centre has long realized the importance of showcasing the artwork of students.  It is an experience that many students will remember for a lifetime and others will use as a stating point in pursuing their life's ambitions.  For our community, these two student art exhibitions are energetic, welcoming, and something we can all take pride in.

 

 

Geometric Forms and Abstract Images

May 29 to July 10, 2010 Main Gallery

 Geometric Forms and Abstract Images from the permanent collection contain paintings, prints, sculptures and drawing dating from the 1950 to the present.  Representing abstract expressionism, hard-edge paintings, colourfield painting and minimalism, the exhibition celebrates the continuing vitality, excitement and meaning of a pictorial approach that was once considered revolutionary and even downright objectionable.  Indeed, it is still not unusual for people to puzzle over or even be repulsed by non-representation art, though it has been a dominate canon in mainstream Western art circles for a hundred years.

 

 

 

 

Ron Kingswood LANDSCAPES

July 17 to September 11, 2010 Main Gallery

 Ron Kingswood is a painter who has been making fine art for decades.  As a youth, Kingswood was enamored with the work of Don Eckelberry, famed illustrator for Audubon magazine.  In art school and after, Kingswood was heavily influenced by fellow Canadian, Robert Bateman.  During this era, Kingswood was painting in a tight, highly realistic fashion, and achieveing a great deal of commercial success.  However, commercial success did not leave him spiritually fulfilled.  By the mid-eighties, Kingswood felt a change was necessary; he began to pare down the detail in his work and to paint in a more expressive and impressionistic fashion.  As the detail in his paintings grew looser, the canvases grew larger.  Throughout his journey as a painter, Kingswood has never lost the essence of what he would like to achieve. This exhibition important exhibition will document his progression and journey.  

 

Miami Artists  MASSENGALE . LEVISON NOLAN  .  ABE

September 18 to October 31, 2010 Main Gallery

Three artists will address domestic inhabitable space: nostalgic, magical, real, imaginary.  The silence of space, the confines, the paranoia, is someone there?  The practical space, is it a comfortable chair?  It is an unmade bed? Is it lonely? Are you hiding in it? Is it fine…? Does it smell like garlic and curry or fake flowers? Is it tacky with nostalgia?

 

  

Mary Louise White THREADS OF THOUGHT

November 13 to January 8, 2011 Main Gallery

Artist Statement: I am passionate about the sheer beauty, visual, tacile and experiential of handmade Japanese papers known as Washi.  I also appreciate them for their gentle ecological footprint, for their beautiful history, and for the expertise, skill, time and patience required to pull by hand fine, even, transparent yet strong sheets of paper

 

  

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