exhibitions - 2010

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	Exhibiting Members December 1, 2010 - January 13, 2011 ARTspace is proud to announce its annual Exhibiting Members Show just in time for the holiday season! The exhibition features paintings, pottery and sculpture in all price ranges for some of those larger gift items all the way down to smaller stocking stuffers! ARTspace is a gallery featuring artwork by Chatham-Kent artists. The exhibition starts from December 1st to January 5th and admission is always free... [more info]
	ARTspace Presents its Second Satellite Installation at the Ridge House Museum December 1 - December 23, 2010 ARTspace presents its second satellite installation located at the Ridge House Museum. The exhibition runs from December 1st to December 23, 2010. ARTspace presented artists with the challenge of creating three-dimensional, self-supporting sculptural artworks. This outreach arts initiative is a project funded by the Community Futures Development Corporation of Chatham-Kent... [more info]
	Clare Kilpatrick: Strange Things November 3 - November 27, 2010 Window: Clare Kilpatrick Strange Things is a selection of fibre works created by local artist Clare Kilpatrick. Each of the works is an exploration of techniques including appliqué, quilting, collage, and assemblage. Varying degrees of dimension are created throughout her work by integrating found objects, wood block printing, and layering a multitude of fibres. Layers of materials and meaning characterize Clare’s work, reflecting the complexity and conflicts of life and experience... [more info]
	Becky Fixter Vagners: A Storied Life September 29 - October 30, 2010 Window: Becky Fixter Vagners A Capacity For Goodness A Storied Life is an exhibition of paintings by local artist Becky Fixter Vagners. The series of works materialized as a response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti and serves as the inspiration to explore the fundamentals of human strength, integrity, and emotion. Becky explores these fundamentals through her connection to nature – represented by the abstracted shapes of trees... [more info]
	Eric Shaw: Journey Into Sublime September 1 - 25, 2010 Window: Eric Shaw Portraits Eric Shaw is a Chatham-Kent artist who has placed his focus on creating portraits that capture the nobility and dignity of the subject. Shaw has taken inspiration from his extensive overseas traveling and lifelong fascination with costume to compile a collection of human studies... [more info]
	Children's Treatment Centre: Mosaic Art September 1 - 25, 2010 Window: Eric Shaw Portraits The artwork, which includes watercolour and acrylic paintings, pottery, fabric and paper collage, and printmaking, was produced during a series of summer art camps held at the Centre and overseen by local professional artist Tracy Bultje... [more info]
	Chatham Camera Club: Flash75* August 4 - 28, 2010 Window: Barbara Jane Jack, Fran Lucid, Lindsay Beaubien, Andrea Vuletin, Ania Czerwieniec The club photographers create work that offers an array of personal reflections on nostalgia and one’s sense of place. Whether critical, intimate, or introspective these artists delve into their interpretations of their hometown. The result is an interesting mix of photography that takes the viewer from Wallaceburg to Blenheim and everywhere in between. .. [more info]
	On the Edge: a juried community arts initiative July 7 - July 31, 2010 Window: Irene McCreadie Untitled and Vanessa Cornell The Edge of the Landscape The initiative asked local artists to depict what it means to them to be “on the edge.” As a result ARTspace has been receiving a wide range of responses in various media – sculpture, installation, photography, and painting. .. [more info]
	Karen Dysarz: Tapestries of a Colourful Life June 9 - July 3, 2010 Window: Matthew Brackett BOOM! SMACK! CLASH! BANG! The Ultimate Spectacular Amazing Window Display Karen learned the tradition of rug hooking from her mother and felt it was a “strong expression of art in a decidedly feminist sense.” Keeping with tradition Karen uses reclaimed wool textiles and washes, cuts, dyes, and strips the fiber herself. .. [more info]
	Hank Bos: SEAland life on the edges May 5 - June 5, 2010 Window: Hank Bos and Andrea Vuletin Vessel This series of paintings explores Bos’ reaction to the rocky shorelines and sandy beaches of the Canadian Eastern seaboard.. [more info]
	Leonard Jubenville: Up to Now March 31, 2010 - May 1, 2010 Window: Leonard Jubenville: Red, Yellow, and Blue This exhibition explores Jubenville's facination with light and its effect on form, and the process of interpreting light through paint. [more info]
	ARTspace presents an art exhibition at the Wallaceburg & District Museum March 15, 2010 - April 16, 2010 This Wallaceburg exhibition includes a wide range of media and features Wallaceburg artists: Theresa Altiman, Beverly Fish, Mike Blazek, Hank Bos, Jon-Erik Kroon, Irene MacCreadie, and Hugo Ramos, as well as ARTspace exhibiting members: Lindsay Beaubien, Karen Bourassa, Becky Fixter Vagners, Clare Kilpatrick, and Peter Moffat. [more info]
	Mike Blazek: New Morning March 3, 2010 - March 27, 2010 Window: Mike Blazek: Photo Landscapes The 16 photographic prints in this series center on the idea of re-evaluating the way we view the simple and seemingly ordinary things that surround us. These familiar forms take on a new perspective when they are experienced through their texture, form, color and in some cases, movement. [more info]
	Beverly Fish: The Secret Life of Crows February 3, 2010 - February 27, 2010 Window: Guest Artist The Secret Life of Crows explores the imaginary world of crows which we humans do not see. As loyal and clannish creatures, these crows go about their daily lives and exhibit unique personalities. Viewed from a distance as dark and ugly, these birds have a flair for bright colours and shiny things. Legend has it that only sympathetic humans can catch a glimpse of the "real" crow behind the feathers. [more info]
	Exhibiting Members January 7, 2010 - January 30, 2010 Window: Kelly Ridley: cocooning A reconnection with ‘traditional’ crafts provides a sense of contact with what we perceive to be a simpler, safer time. Making beauty in a world that can seem ugly or frightening provides a sense of resistance to the incursions of technology, even as we embrace and incorporate the conveniences that technology provides. In cocooning, these themes are literalized. [more info]
	Process = Product November 18, 2009 - January 2, 2010 Window: Holiday Hang Ups and Merry Messages Process = Product is an exhibition which examines the ceramic surface. The four artists showcasing their work have one thing in common; their decoration process is carried out at the leather-hard or damp stage of making. [more info]

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