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The gallery is closed for the month of August as we are preparing another great season! Come visit us in September with the Russell T. Gordon exhibit curated by Maurice Forget with an accompanying catalogue!
Invited Curator: Maurice Forget
Vernissage: September 9 at 6 pm
Exhibition: September 10 to October 2
Table ronde with curator and artist: September 16 at 7 pm
The McClure Gallery shares this retrospective exhibition of the works of Russell T. Gordon with the Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire. The evolution and remarkable transitions in the works of the artist from the mid-1970s to the present offer an opportunity to explore the ongoing shifts in the physicality of the work. Patterns, marks, touches echo from one series to another across time and hint at ongoing themes in Gordon’s démarche.
Vernissage: October 7 at 6 pm
Exhibition: October 8 to 30
Artist’s Talk: October 14 at 7 pm
Painter Rick Leong is inspired by and fascinated with the strong correlation between Chinese and Canadian painting, specifically within the landscape tradition. The vocabulary of Leong’s paintings is a conversation between East and West. This exhibition, The Wilderness, consists of a poetic interpretation of the ways in which we view ourselves in our environment.
Vernissage: Thurs., November 4 at 6 pm
Exhibition: November 5 to 27
Artist’s Talk: November 11, at 7 pm
Barbara Palca Dickstein presents a series of pastel and charcoal drawings on paper which focus exclusively on the live model, executed over a number of years. Dickstein explores the rich and unspoken pact between artist and model that has fascinated artists for centuries. Her very personal mark-making, sense of line and colour transform the portraits into compelling, always slightly enigmatic statements about the human condition that resonate with a sense of glimpsed beauty and psychological depth.
Vernissage: December 2 at 6 pm
Exhibition: December 3 to 22
The large format works of Richard Deschênes incorporate both drawing and painting. The artist’s technique of superimposing transparent velum sheets one on top of the other and tracing his images, results in an ambiguous but compelling tension between movement and stillness, effacement and presence of the represented images. The actual process of creating is a key element of the artist’s démarche.
Vernissage: January 6 at 6 pm
Exhibition: January 7 to 29
In this exhibition, Andréanne Fornier employs video animation to trace the transformation of her drawings as they morph from human to animal form in lyric and often dream-like sequencing. Fournier’s visual metamorphoses voyage through a wide range of emotional territory moving from the humourous to the tragic as the various limbs stretch or curve across the screen in animated, often agitated form. The works become a tangled knot of organic forms that push and pull into strange sentient beings.
Vernissage: February 3 at 6 pm
Exhibition: February 4 to 26
Artist’s Talk: : February 10 at 7 pm
The title, taken from a Chinese maxim, refers to the shared inspiration of the artists in this exhibition – the landscape. The works of Dixon, Ronc and Worsnip meet at multiple points and borrow from the same basic structure despite their very personal approaches to landscape. The exhibition seeks to simultaneously distinguish each artist’s approach while provoking a visual conversation that adds to the reading of their work.
Vernissage: March 3 at 6 pm
Exhibition: March 4 to 26
Artist’s Talk: March 10 at 7 pm
Fiona Annis is fascinated by cycles of life and death, the slippery edge between reality and fiction, as well as the use of landscape as a space of transition, impermanence. In this body of photographic images, Annis considers the last artworks of artists who chose their own death as a meditation on final acts and their sites of articulation.
Vernissage: : March 31 at 6 pm
Exhibition: April 1 to 21
Students registered in the School of Art’s winter session are invited to exhibit their work in our Annual Student Exhibition. The exhibition, which includes hundreds of works in a wide variety of media, gives students the experience of seeing their work in the context of a professional gallery. It also provides an opportunity for students and public to see the great diversity of creative activity that takes place at the Centre.
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