Tonight it’s that time of the year again for Galerie SAW Gallery’s SKETCH which will be hosted this year at AXENÉO7 in Gatineau. As per usual, many local artists have donated work for the silent auction. Clients Barry Ace (www.barryacearts.com) and Cindy Stelmackowich ...
This beautiful exhibition partners Anishinaabe artist Michael Belmore’s (www.michaelbelmore.com) copper work (Settlement, Landing 1 & 2, Gather, and Watershed No. 1) with the paintings of A.J. Casson, one of the Group of Seven. MICHAEL BELMORE and A.J. CASSON ...
Last night I witnessed XENOS, yet another moving performance by British dancer Akram Khan. The National Arts Centre (NAC) and Akram have a special relationship and history. Akram performed his first solo work at the NAC in 2001 and has since returned to Ottawa 6 more times ...
From Thursday, September 13 – Saturday, September 15 the Aabaakwad Conference will be taking place at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Tomorrow evening Rebecca Belmore, Jolene Rickard and Wanda Nanibush open the conference as the keynote speakers. aabaakwad (it clears ...
As the Ottawa Art Gallery’s (OAG) inaugral exhibition in its new space, Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We’ll all become stories, comes to a close, as a way to convene some final conversations OAG is hosting the one day symposium this Friday, August 24 on ...
Tonight Home Lands opens at Cube Gallery a commerical gallery in Ottawa. The exhibition features the work of Rosalie Favell (www.rosaliefavell.com) from her new photographic portrait series Artists in the Landscape. These beautiful portraits are of Indigenous artists in ...
This past weekend I went to the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) for the final day of artist Catherine Richards’ “performance and interactive new media installation” Shroud / Chrysalis. If one so desired, a team of volunteers would wrap you as a shroud in a blanket of copper ...
EN DIRECT DE LA PALESTINE / LIVE IN PALESTINE is a performance exhibition and event organized by AXENÉO7 bringing together a wide-range of contemporary artists currently living and working in Palestine. The works included in the exhibition combine performative practices with ...
Another lovely vernissage at Ottawa’s Central Art Garage for Michael Belmore’s show which includes his work Rumble that was part of the Every.Now.Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto at this time last year. The work is back in Ottawa and on ...
thunder sky turbulent water WHEN: July 6 – September 7 with Vernissage July 6th 7pm – 10pm WHERE: Central Art Garage 66 B LeBreton St. North (rear garage), Ottawa From Central Art Garage: Michael Belmore (Ojibway), a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, was born in ...