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To October 29
The Hidden Shilling: Arthur Shilling From Private Collections
Orillia Museum of Art & History
This show will bring to the public eye an impressive body of work that has for much of its life been hidden from view – not covered up and locked away, but in private collections throughout Ontario. That in essence has kept it “hidden” from the viewing public and will provide fresh imagery for appreciative eyes to feast upon.
Arthur Shilling, of Ojibway heritage, was born April 19th, 1941, on the Rama Reserve near Orillia, Ontario, into a family of 13 children. While in his teens in Toronto he received a scholarship at the Ontario College of Art, but attended only a few classes, preferring to find his own way. That way was distinctly different from the traditional First Nations art forms. He chose instead to explore the First Nations experience in the life around him, particularly in the faces of his people. His self taught expressionist style is very distinctive, using bold, strong strokes of vibrant colour to set off the varying expressions of his subjects and unique, infrequent landscapes. His works evoke strong emotion. Arthur Shilling’s breath was his brush and colour was his spirit; through this he lives with us still. Join us in August 2011 to get to know this man better and see why he remains our region’s most influential artist in generations and continues to grow in international acclaim. |
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 To October 30
Wile Wild
Artists: Robert Hengeveld
Massie Family Sculpture Courtyard
Robert Hengeveld has built his reputation on archly witty installations that readjust the
public spaces for which they are designed. For the MacLaren sculpture courtyard, he
conceives a tatty, natural history-type display from synthetic elements including
artificial Christmas trees, fake rocks and plastic deer. This simulated scenic view,
perched upon stilt-like scaffolding, offers variously odd and unnatural outlooks from
ground level or the upper-storey windows.
Hengeveld has a MFA from the University of Victoria and diplomas from the Ontario College
of Art & Design and Georgian College. He is based in Toronto, where he is represented
by Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. |
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To October 30
18 Years, 18 Projects
Janice Laking Gallery, MacLarenArtCentre
Artists: Hariri Pontarini Architects
Curator: Sanam Samanian
This exhibition surveys eighteen projects by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the
internationally renowned Toronto-based architectural firm. Through selected working
models, sketches, final renderings and models, drawings, material samples and mock-ups,
each project is considered in light of its conceptual process of design and construction
with a focus on materials, details and craft. The MacLaren was a benchmark achievement for
this firm, for which it received the Ontario Architects Association Award of Excellence
and National Post Design Exchange Award of Merit in 2003. 18 Years, 18 Projects celebrates
the tenth anniversary of the opening of this building.
Hariri Pontarini Architects, founded in 1994 by Siamak Hariri and David Pontarini, has
earned distinction in academic, cultural and high-rise design. It has built new faculty
buildings on the campuses of the University of Toronto, York University, University of
Waterloo and University of Western Ontario; designed feature additions to the Royal
Ontario Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario; and created the award-winning Ontario Pavilion
for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Its culminating project thus far will be the
Bahá’í Temple for South America in Santiago, Chile (projected for completion in
2013). Set against the Andes mountain range, the temple harnesses the translucency of
alabaster and the transparency of glass to create an evanescent structure of light as
connecting spiritual force of the universe. |
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To October 30
Juan Ortiz-Apuy: Disruptions
Gallery 3, MacLaren Art Centre
Artist: Juan Ortiz-Apuy
Curator: Ben Portis
Juan Ortiz-Apuy is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist based in Montreal whose art
practice explores systems of knowledge. Disruptions, his first solo exhibition in a public
art gallery, features sixteen recent language and library works by the artist in a range
of media, including bronze sculpture, wood cabinetry, drawing, photography and video.The
exhibition is accompanied by an artist-designed publication with an essay by the curator.
Disruptions is one of the cornerstone exhibitions for Carnegie Days 2011, our annual
festival of art and language during which the MacLarenArtCentre celebrates its
building’s origin as a 1917 Carnegie public library.
Juan Ortiz-Apuy was born in Tilaran, Costa Rica in 1980. In the Costa Rican capital San
José, he studied at School of Architecture of Universidad Veritas. He moved to Canada in
2003. Ortiz-Apuy has a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (2008), a post-graduate
diploma from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland (2009) and a MFA from the Nova Scotia
College of Art & Design, Halifax (2011). Recent solo exhibitions include those at
Gallery PUSH, Montreal and Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax. Last year, his video work
Disruptions, from which this exhibition takes its name, was included in the 23rd Images
Festival of Media Arts, Toronto. |
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The Imperial 6
Molson Community Gallery and other spaces, MacLaren Art Centre
Artists: Michael Comeau, Steve Manale, Steve Murray, Ben Shannon, Chris Stone and Steve
Wilson
Curator: Ben Portis
Artists Michael Comeau, Steve Manale, Steve Murray, Ben Shannon, Chris Stone and Steve
Wilson comprise the Imperial 6. This cohort of artists who came of age in Barrie during
the 1990s now have successful careers as vanguard cartoonists, illustrators and animators
in Toronto. There they remain closely knit. Their collaborative in-gallery installation at
the MacLaren recalls their shared adolescent experiences in and around high school in
Barrie in the 1990s (five of the artists graduated from Barrie Central Collegiate while
Comeau graduated from St. Joseph’s). Their collaborative project looks at the current
status of comic art, both underground and mainstream. The artists are developing a public
art project using three high-profile billboard sites in Barrie on view from September 15
to October 15, 2011
A panel discussion with the six artists, an artists’ newsprint publication and a
series of artist-led talks and workshops will be presented as part of Carnegie Days 2011. |
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October 20, 2011 - 10:30 am
Artist’s Talk by Robert Hengeveld
Campus Gallery, SDVA, D Building, Georgian College
Fees: Admission free
Join us for this talk by artist Robert Hengeveld at 10:30 am, whose project Wile Wild remains on view through October 30 in the MacLaren Art Centre’s Massie Family Sculpture Courtyard. Robert Hengeveld has built his reputation on archly witty installations that readjust the public spaces for which they are designed. For the MacLaren Art Centre’s sculpture courtyard, he conceived a tatty, natural history-type display from synthetic elements including artificial Christmas trees, fake rocks and plastic deer. This simulated scenic view, perched upon stilt-like scaffolding, offers variously odd and unnatural outlooks from ground level or the upper-storey windows. Hengeveld has a MFA from the University of Victoria and diplomas from the Ontario College of Art & Design and Georgian College. He is based in Toronto, where he is represented by Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects.
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November 11, 2011 - 7:00 pm
Off The Hook: MacLaren Silent Art Auction
MacLaren Art Centre
Fees: Tickets $50
Auction Preview: November 5 through 11
A perennial favourite, the Off the Hook Art Auction, returns with more than 150 works of art by over 100 regional artists, and a wealth of great finds generously donated by local retailers. This annual fundraiser—celebrating its 21st year—offers everyone the opportunity to bid on and take home an original artwork. Evening includes hors d’oeuvres by some of Barrie’s finest chefs and cash bar. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact Sheila Delaney at 705-720-1044 ext. 226 or sheila@maclarenart.com. |
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November 26, 2011 - February 19, 2012
Joanna McEwen: Interiors of Place
Gallery 3, MacLaren Art Centre
Artist: Joanna McEwen
Curator: Ben Portis
Simcoe County painter Joanna McEwen is nearing completion of an eight-year survey of the
historic rural churches that dotted the countryside of Oro-Medonte Township. Several of
these churches closed after McEwen made evocative portraits of their grounds and
interiors. The project is simultaneously a sustained aesthetic meditation on the
inevitable passages of time and belief and the creation of an objective pictorial historic
record. McEwen’s delicate egg tempera paintings are closely observed testimonies of
sturdy but bygone social networks yielding to time and change. Interiors of Place will
include forty-five small panel paintings created between 2003 and 2011, documented in an
accompanying book published by the MacLaren with essays by Ben Portis and guest writer
Andrea Curtis.
McEwen is a practicing studio artist, educator, and historian and a graduate of
Queen’s and York Universities (BA, BFA, BEd) and Norwich University, Vermont (MFA).
Her practice entails making a record of select historical phenomena that mark place. She
currently lives in Moonstone, Ontario. |
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December 1, 2011 - February 26, 2012
Kelly Wallace: Terminal
Janice Laking Gallery, MacLaren Art Centre
Artist: Kelly Wallace
Curator: Melanie TownsendThe most immediate of all artistic activities, drawing has
traditionally been a place of process and transition, a point of departure towards the
creation of something else. For Kelly Wallace, drawing is an end in itself; a discipline
that consummately invests execution and observation into physical act and visual form. In
Terminal, Wallace’s radically systematic application of line fuses memory and
imagination into series of intricate and viscerally unstable landscapes that appear both
as studies of the world around us and projections of our opposition to it. These
unconventional graphite landscapes result from a rigid method of mark-marking that brings
to mind such rigorous, pre-mechanical skills as engraving and manual replication,
literally drawing to attention issues of authenticity, craftsmanship, originality and
virtuosity.
Wallace resides in London, Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University
of Guelph. His work has been exhibited in both Canada and the United States. Wallace is
represented by Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia and
Bill Lowe Art Gallery, Atlanta. Terminal was originally curated by Melanie Townsend for
Museum London in April 2010, supported by a catalogue with additional essays by Ben Portis
and Ihor Holubizky. Its presentation at the MacLarenArtCentre includes new and substitute
works. |
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