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2011 EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
January 6 - January 29, 2011
Road Works
by Diana Hillman
Opening reception and panel discussion on The Purpose of Art Today Saturday January 8 at 1pm
Hillman studied in Montreal at the Museum of Fine Arts School and in England at the City and Guilds of London School of Art and Design. Her interpretation of Canadian landscape is most accurate for today as it is taken from the car window, capturing a moody, dreary and evocative imagery of highways. These representations are views seen through what photographer Annie Liebowitz has called “the ready-made picture frame of the car window”. While Hillman often paints more traditional landscapes, and other subjects, she is very interested in the impact that the automobile has had on our surroundings. She often finds an eerie beauty in these roadscapes.
January 8, 2011 at 1pm
The Purpose of Art Today – panel discussion
Agnes Jamieson Gallery
In an attempt to create dialogue between artists and viewers this panel discussion reviews a questionnaire sent to residents in the Haliburton County asking: what is the purpose of visual art today? The panel will consist of a selection of artists and ‘non-artists’.
February 3 – March 26, 2011
Ice Huts
by Richard Johnson
Opening Sat Feb 5 at 1pm
This exhibition consists of a series of photographs capturing ice huts in Ontario. Johnson’s visual style is simple yet intentional; isolating these structures against overcast gray, snowy backgrounds. This allows the viewer to compare both functional and aesthetic similarities and differences as manifested in variations of colour, design, emblematic detail, accessory, relative proximity to one another and the implies sub-cultural significance to their creators. It is also just simply funny to see to what degree people go to with their huts in decorating and embellishing. Dr. Jamieson was also intrigued by this unique culture. A painting she did of ice huts will also be included in the exhibition.
They Sketch…They Paint!
Youth Art Exhibition
Opening Reception Saturday February 5, 2011 at 1pm
For three consecutive months youth of Haliburton county worked with artist Rose Pearson and curator Laurie Carmount to create a body of artwork capturing their boundless imaginations. Introduced to acrylic painting methods and aspects of mixed media the youth worked out their thoughts and learned to incorporate their imagination. Each then wrote their intent into an artist’s statement and created invitations to the exhibit. An inspiring and engaging showing of what our youth are about – and not necessarily always hockey when they shoot…they score.
March 31 – May 14, 2011
Museum Series
by Adam Matak
Opening Reception Friday April 1 at 3pm ARTIST TALK at 4pm
A graduate of University of Windsor School of Visual Arts, Matak has studied and concentrated
on emphasizing people’s attitude towards masterworks in galleries and museums, when viewing them. Matak’s exhibition involves life-size cutouts of people mimicking people viewing artwork as well as artwork that conveys people reacting to artwork. A brilliant and witty examination of human nature captured in a cartoon style with bold colour and heavy black outline.
Matak's work tends to be culturally omnivorous, integrating what some people feel is low art (comics, graffiti art and stencilling) with some high art forms (modernist colour field painting, and images of historic and contemporary art). Matak will further explain his intentions at an artist talk during the opening reception.
May 19 – June 25, 2011
FOUNDLINGS
by Michele Karch Ackerman
Opening Reception Thursday May 19 at 2pm
Known for her stunning exhibition “Lost Boys” about soldiers of WWI and “Springtime Story of a Little Flower School for Girl Saints” about the Dionne Quintuplets, Michele now tells the story, stitch by stitch, of the her family history. In 1929, at seventeen years of age, her grandmother became pregnant and was sent to an institution in Montreal called Misericordia – a home for unwed mothers run by an order of Catholic nuns. There are few details. She was given a new name. She wore a black veil over her face. She had to look down when walking in the halls. Her initials were cut out of her handkerchiefs. This exhibition honours the secret lives of unwed mothers who fled to institutions like Misericordia across Canada from the 1920's to the 1960's. One hundred sleepers, from a vintage 1950s pattern from the curtains that hung in the living rooms of these girls' homes, will be the central work of the installation. For the opening reception, Michele encourages viewers to participate in a tea selecting from a hundred vintage tea cups, while contemplating the massive wall of garments and the depth of despair these innocent girls experienced. You may know of someone in your own family who went through this and it would be an honour to hear of this as well.
June 29– August 27, 2011
The Teapot Inquiry
Rose Pearson
Funded by the Ontario Arts Council
Opening Reception Thursday June 30 at 4pm
Have you given any thought as to how the inanimate plays upon the animate in life? Marshal McLuhan spoke of objects as being extensions of ourselves. Everything humans make, every object that resides around us, is part of us. We have no choice but to create a relationship with them, and in this manner, we humanize them.
This can be seen in our literature. Everyone knows ‘the dish ran away with the spoon’.
Today, however, some race through daily existence with little regard to inanimate objects, knowing in the back of their minds that the impact can no longer go unnoticed. Is in-animation threatening our existence? Is the residue potentially fatal?
Others embrace objects to the point of hoarding them, much to the fascination of those who watch reality T.V.
The Teapot Inquiry exhibition focuses on the creative process with the interaction of an inanimate object, noting when an intimate relationship occurs. Artist Rose Pearson’s work is rooted in the study of still life, the creation of calendars and the feminine and maternal worlds. In this exhibition Pearson expands upon images that have been in her artistic repertoire and upon watching a relationship grow, through connective creative process, with the introduction of a particular object.
Over a period of one year Pearson studied, daily photographed, sketched and wrote about her day-to-day experience with her chosen object, a child’s silver teapot. She fully documented the results of this experience in 30”x40” paintings, completed at the end of each month, as well as in some large 3’x4’single-day paintings.
The final paintings are acrylic and oils and mixed media collages. The 30”x40” paintings are complex compositions with multiple images, taken from the photos and journaling, placed sequentially or in layers. Within these works, bridges are made between the inanimate and animate. A dialogue is formed from the personal world to the impersonal. The intensity of these paintings force the viewer to focus on the appointed object while absorbing the information placed around it. Closer examination brings about the information that reads like a story, acquainting the viewer with the day-to-day experiences and seeing the connections between each.
The paintings are the conclusions of Pearson’s day-to-day experience involving 365 photos, journaling and sketching. A series of hand-bound scrapbooks, broken down by months, compiled with the day-to-day documentation are available for thumbing through. Select from an assortment of chairs, from soft, fat and cushy to dainty and refined to sit in while interacting with inanimate objects.
Pearson will speak further about her thoughts and intentions in the exhibition at the opening reception.
September 1 - October 29, 2011
Dear André
Curator’s Talk Saturday September 17 at 1pm
A selection of original lettere hand written by Andre Lapine have been reprodeuced for visitors to sit and read. The letters are profound and endearing, giving a personal glimpse into Lapine’s life. Some letters have original sketches in them. Two of the paintings exhibiting are from these sketches. A portion of the Lapine collection will be on display. The curator’s talk will discuss in depth the personality of Lapine. It will delve into how, in the past, letter writing was so personal and important, and how today, our twittering, facebooking and texting falls far short. Not only is there no record but the language is harsh and condensed. What will the long-term effects of this kind of human interaction be?
September 1 - October 29, 2011
Jay McCarten in Haliburton Highlands - Artist in Residence
Opening reception Friday September 9 at 4pm
Jay studied in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art. “Presently I find myself drawn to nature and the emotions created when I am within a forest. Out of a perceptively indiscriminate collision of form, a long established and powerful system of order pervades. It is bigger than our human experience.” McCarten is the first artist to accept the Agnes Jamieson Gallery’s invitation to be our Artist in Residence. In the spring, McCarten set up a studio in a cottage, generously donated by one of our members, to work on a series of sketches and paintings, compiling his impressions of Haliburton Highlands. The results are this exhibition. It is hoped the artist in residence program will continue the Agnes Jamieson Gallery’s goal to support and foster artists working in Canadian landscape, and in the creation of more works to join those prestigious ones done in the past. Join us for the opening reception and hear further what McCarten thinks of the Highlands.
November 3 – December 17, 2011
Members’ Show
Closing reception December 17 with Christmas Cheer for the Volunteers
For those who enjoy doing artwork, and are a member of the gallery (or would like to be a member) this is your opportunity to be part of a non-juried art show. The deadline for artwork to be entered is October 28. LInks to the entry forms and rules can be found on this page in the side column. This is a great way to see a variety of artwork, by people you may not even know do art, as well as to vote for your favourite in the People’s Choice Award. Join us for the closing reception, where the People's Choice winner will be announced, and enjoy some Holiday Cheer as well. It’s a fun time to enjoy your gallery and maybe do some Christmas shopping in our gift shop. Mark it on your calendar today!
November 3 – December 17, 2011
Creative Challenge
Creative thinking is needed more than ever today as complicated challenges arise daily in our society. Artists may be a resource as 'think' tanks' to help resolve difficult problems as they can creatively think 'outside the box'. The Creative Challenge to those who participate in the Members' Show is to take an every day item and present it in a completely different way. The items that have been chosen are: paper clip, wood screw, dinner fork, elastic, nail clipper or light bulb. Members can use one item or all, literally or interpretively. Have fun with your imagination!
(Indicate on entry form which item you are using)
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