St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre Wimbush Gallery

Geometric Forms and Abstract Images: Selections from the Permanent Collection

May 29 to July 10, 2010

Geometric Forms and Abstract Images from the Permanent Collection contain paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings dating from the 1950s to the present, representing abstract expressionism, hard-edge painting, 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-representational art, though it has been a dominate canon in mainstream Western art circles for a hundred years.

RON KINGSWOOD LANDSCAPES

July 16 to September 11, 2010

The St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre is please to present the works of Ron Kingswood, “LANDSCAPES”. Over the past decade, a search for a

deeper response to the landscape has led Ron away from pictorial works, to a more metaphorical and emblematic objective. He finds

discussion or pronouncement of these new canvasses hugely difficult, and perhaps even more so, unimportant. Also to characterize these

works in a contextual style is unessential, for the pursuit of the sublime is wordless.

Join us on Friday, July 16 at 7:00 pm for the Opening Reception with guest speaker, Sandra Ainsley.

The exhibition runs until September 11, 2010