EXPRESSIONS 2012 School Art Exhibition

May 12 – June 10, 2012

Opening Reception/Family Arts Day: Sunday May 27, 11:00 – 4:00pm

We invite the public to view artwork entries from Brantford and Brant County elementary and secondary schools in the school exhibition, “Expressions 2012.”

STROLLING PLAYER with Richard Sheridan Willis

Theatre comes to Glenhyrst on March 30th, 2012 at 7:30pm in the Main Gallery

Strolling Player, Richard Sheridan Willis, presents a kaleidoscope of classical and modern drama, framed by the memory of his small boy self at his father’s seaside Channel Island theatre, watching a play, entranced… and knowing his future. In cooperation with THEATREtc, Willis brings his considerable experience to Glenhyrst, offering readings and part of his one-man show to an intimate audience in the Gallery. The member/student fee is $15, and the non-member/general public fee is $20.

For serious students, there is also a workshop available for a limited number of attendees at 10:00am on Saturday March 31 in the Main Gallery. The workshop is $15 for members/students, and $25 for non-members/the general public. A package price of $40 for both the afternoon workshop and evening performance is available.

Tickets are on sale at Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant.

Richard Sheridan Willis is known for roles in Flashpoint, Nikita, Law and Order and many films, as well as a huge number of Shakespearean roles on stages in Britain, Canada and the United States.

Join us on Sunday April 8, from 1:00pm – 4:00pm, for an Easter Egg Hunt in the Main Gallery and egg decorating in the Youth Gallery Space.

Easter Weekend Hours of Operation:

Friday April 6: CLOSED

Saturday April 7: 12 – 5pm

Sunday April 8: 12 – 5pm

We would like to extend a special thank you to our sponsors, for their generous contributions to the Glenhyrst Easter Egg Hunt:

Boston Design Manufacturing Ltd.

Harold & Goetz TIM-BR Mart

Savory Electric Ltd.

Uniqpol Sausauge Factory

Tickets are $20.00 each and can be purchased at Glenhyrst (cash or checks only), or you can buy them online at www.theguitarsocietyofbrantford.com.

For 15 years of The Taste of Glenhyrst

the annual major fundraiser of The Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant

The Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant is calling for proposals from artists to create the most creative artists’ chairs

Fifteen chairs will be selected by jurors from the proposals to be commissioned to create their proposed chairs and the artists will be paid $500.00 for the chair, the exhibition right and the right to reproduce images for marketing.

The winning chairs will be displayed in public from May 20, 2012 until June 20, 2012 at selected sites in Brantford, Ontario.  On the night of the Taste of Glenhyrst all the chairs will be auctioned to the public and all proceeds will go to the Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant.  For information about the gallery please go to www.glenhyrstartgallery.ca

Submission Deadline: Received by March 31^st, 2012

Notification of Jury Decision: April 10, 2012

Selected Work to be delivered by: May 14, 2012

Work will be displayed in public: May 20 until June 20, 2012

Taste of Glenhyrst: June 21, 2012

The Jury:

REPRESENTATIVE OF RBC, the lead sponsor of Taste of Glenhyrst.

BRENT McINTOSH, M.F.A. has over 30 years of experience as an artist and is represented internationally by J. Cacciola in New York City, Galeri Couture in Stockholm, Nicholas Metivier in Toronto and Galerie de Bellefeuille in Montreal.

ALIKI MIKULICH, is a mixed media artist and arts educator who has exhibited extensively in the Brantford region and who is currently the program manager for the Brantford Arts Block.

MARCIA LEA, M.F.A. is the Executive Director and Curator of the Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant.

Submission Requirements:

Submissions must be emailed: programs@glenhyrstartgallery.ca

Subject should read: 15 Chairs.
Description of Proposed Chair: May be a written description or a sketch of one chair.
Examples of Past Work: Email ten examples of artwork.  They do not need to be chairs.
Images: Should be in jpg format compatible with PC and MAC.
Image size should be: 72 dpi, RGB, and 1024 x 768 pixels.
Biographical Information: C.V. with contact information.
Transportation to the gallery: Is the responsibility of the artist.

Requirements:
The chair must be functional;
Any materials may be used if they are safe to the public;
The chair may be handcrafted or purchased and then significantly remodelled by the artist;
Please note that tickets must be purchased to attend the Taste of Glenhyrst

For further information please call or email the gallery: 519-756-5932

PechaKucha is happening at Glenhyrst on Thursday February 23 at 7:30pm. Engage in the creative process of seven artists as they present their works and techniques in seven minutes each. The presenters include: Cristina Zanella, Robert Achtemichuk, Ian McLean, Jack Jackowetz, Dave Hind, Aliki Mikulich and Shelley Niro. This is a free event and light refreshments will be served.

The Golden Teapot Tea Room

High and Low Tea Sittings available by reservation 

The Giftshop space has been transformed into an elegant tea room. The Golden Teapot offers high and low tea sittings throughout the year, on weekday and weekend afternoons, at 12:00 and 3:00pm.

The Golden Teapot offers over twenty different tea varieties from around the world, including loose-leaf, organics and a selection of packaged teas, served in a beautiful gold dimbula tea press, as well as an assortment of coffees for your enjoyment. 

Having tea is the perfect way to meet with family, colleagues and friends, to celebrate special occasions or enjoy the calming benefits of an enchanting cup of tea.

Sittings are by reservation only. Please contact Linda at 519-753-3797 for availability and to reserve your table.

Check out the Golden Teapot Flier and share with your friends!

High Tea ~ $ 24.98 per person (+ tax)

High tea consists of a three-tier platter adorned with freshly baked scones with Devonshire cream and preserves, delectable home baked sweets, tasty finger sandwiches from local Brantford businesses, fresh seasonal fruit and vegetable crudites. 

Low Tea ~ $14.98 per person (+ tax)

Low tea consists of a two-tier platter adorned with freshly baked scones with Devonshire cream and preserves, delectable home baked sweets and tasty finger sandwiches in lesser quantities than the high tea option.

Theatre Brantford presents:

The Great Wacky Far Out Adventure Show

        by Alfred Rushton

        directed by Kristen Wilson

Dates:  Saturday & Sunday August 20th & 21st

                  Saturday & Sunday August 27th & 28th

 Times: 12:00pm & 2:00pm

Admission: $5 at the door

Location: Lower Gardens

Prepare to be mobile and move about the grounds

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ICHTHYS Theatre Productions presents:

Date: Sunday, August 14^th

Time: 3:00pm

Admission: $5/person  &  $10/family

Location: Upper Gardens (bring a blanket)

Come along with rival reporters Deb Jabber and Sonny Glamour as they track down the mystery woman who fled the Prince’s Desperation Ball, leaving a shoe behind. They interview the Prince, the Fairy Godmother, the Shoemaker, and the Mice to find Cinderella. It’s fun for the whole family. Please join us!

Produced by Special Arrangement: DRAMATIC PUBLISHING CO. of Woodstock, Ill.

January 7 – March 4, 2012

Three artists work within the promise of painting to uncover and contribute their individual passionate attachments to this form of visual expression. The viewer will experience levels of emotion and relationships to the media of painting and to the artists who manifest these works.

Robert Achtemichuk works with gouache on silk or washi (Japanese paper). Achtemichuk’s studio looks out into an ordinary Ontario back yard in Kitchener. His interest is in the quiet contemplation of the small changes that occur due to time of day, weather, season and the inspirations and revelations from that kind of study. Misty, watery, sensual small paintings are titled the date they were painted.  Sultry, earthy colours of raw umber and grays, and washed out blues and reds direct the viewer through a quiet passing of time. There’s innocence in his work from a delicate touch that exposes poetic vibrating atmospheric simplicity. In today’s fierce world this may be considered otherworldly.

Robert Achtemichuk received his BFA from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. He apprenticed in colour etching techniques in France and studied master classes at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Mexico City.  He has exhibited his work and taught courses across Canada. He has been the Executive Director at Open Studio, Waterloo Regional Art Council, and the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery. This work is accompanied by a catalogue written by Liz Wylie, Curator of the Kelowna Art Gallery and Gary Michael Dault.   Robert Achtemichuk acknowledges and appreciates support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.

Cristina Zanella is interested in the play of light and dark and its effect on the intensity of colour. She treats her subject matter, whether it is dead birds or subtle still life forms, with an eye to balancing broken space with colour, light and line. Her paintings are both vibrant and moody with a linear graceful approach to her marks.

Port Dover based Cristina Zanella has exhibited throughout Southern Ontario. She received a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Ian McLean uses colour to lure his viewer with his unusual environments and combination of elements. His imagery harks on a 1950’s feel but his colour palette is later; part pop art/ part post impressionistic. Residential environments hold an elusive chronology with his use of symbolic objects expressed through textured painted surfaces. Both McLean and Zanella use black as accents in their work and often include lime green, cadmium yellows, oranges and turquoise. McLean’s objects are infused with a landscape of these brilliant colours applied with creamy seductive brush strokes of oil paint on canvas.

McLean resides in the Sarnia area in Brights’s Grove and received a B.Ed. from the University of Western Ontario, and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. He has had solo and group exhibitions in Ontario and he is represented by Gallery Moos, Toronto.

In the Community Gallery Space, Jack Jackowetz’s photography is manipulated with computer software. His subject is our built heritage with a focus on architectural renderings. He calls his process post impressionism photography. “I start with an original photograph then I use software to ‘paint’ or enhance the image.” Jack has shown his work throughout the region and is represented by galleries in New York, Waterloo, and Paris ON.

Narrative Transformations: a series of four exhibitions

March 10 –May 6, 2012

Reception: Sunday March 18, 1 – 4 p.m

Jane Hook, Once Upon an I Con

Jane Hook’s sculptures transform idols from childhood and popular culture, re-telling their stories in order to reveal their powerful influence upon societal and gender roles, yet at the same time they remind us that we have the power to influence these icons ourselves.  With uncanniness that recalls the immense sculptures of Ron Mueck, these small and intimate creations challenge the viewer to consider the distance between idealism and reality.

Fausta Facciponte, Sleepy Eyes

The photography of Fausta Facciponte puts us in the presence larger-than-life images of antique dolls that appear to stare at us, blurring the divide between the viewer and the viewed, and raising complex questions about both their narratives and our own.

The artwork of Fausta Facciponte is exhibited courtesy of the Stephen Bulger Gallery

Elizabeth Barrett Milner, Nature in Line

The paintings of Elizabeth Barrett Milner juxtapose diverse symbolic images of the flora, fauna and landmarks of Norfolk County in a way that combines past and present, childhood and adulthood, near and far, and even humour and ominous reality.

The Community Gallery: Kim Di Francesco

Local Brantford artist Kim DiFrancesco paints canine companions in a manner influenced by the history of painting from Renaissance painting to the stylized paintings of Jean Paul Lemieux.  With eyes depicted in the manner of a mirror by Van Eyck, the dogs are in the position to compel the viewer to return their gaze.  At the same time her use of composition and colour seek to pull the viewer repeatedly into the negative space that surrounds the dog.

Jean Maddison’s body of work, ‘Exploring Eden’, is presented as altered digital imagery on large sheets of vinyl in light boxes with a series of silk screen prints. Using the Darwinian theory of evolution as an inspiration for her imagery she observes, magnifies, and distorts biological variations and evolving life forms.
“My work looks at the attempts by science to change the genetic heritage of the natural world.. we are on the verge of producing hybrid forms which could not exist in nature, opening up the possibility of new hybrid humans.”
Jean Maddison is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph in the computer graphics department. She received a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art, London, U.K. Maddison has been exhibiting for twenty years in group and juried exhibitions in Europe and the United States as well as solo exhibitions in Canada. Her work is in over 35 public collections including the Art Bank of Canada, Art Gallery of Victoria, B.C, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London England.

Alejandro Arauz, is also interested in the concept of hybrid forms. Arauz has coined the phrase ‘Cantino’ to refer to his Canadian/ Latino culture and perspective as the product of migration. His interest in bi-cultural experience extends beyond his immediate family to what he calls the ‘fresh’ Diaspora. He questions how personalities are changed and redefined when one is transplanted to another culture. Using family photographs, mixed media, print-making, and performance Arauz explores identity through this hybrid art making process. In two video productions called ‘River Duality’ he makes the poignant comparison between the Rio Grande and the Grand River. He also integrates lithography, computer technology and drawing to continue the time honoured practice of print making. Alejandro Arauz has an MA in Fine Arts from Louisiana State University and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Windsor. Arauz has exhibited in group and juried shows in the U.S. and Canada since 2005. Arauz was born in Managua, Nicaragua and now lives in Brantford, ON.

Community Gallery Space
Aliki Mikulich has been producing art work that reflects her interest in materials. Using Plexiglas boxes in her installation ‘Housing Project’ she creates a layered landscape of urban sprawl marking the identity of a city. Aliki Mikulich is a Brantford artist and has shown her work regionally, winning an Award of Merit and People’s Choice award at the Art Gallery of Mississauga Juried Exhibition in 2005. She has a BA from the University of Toronto in Art and Art History.

This exhibition is made possible through the support of the City of Brantford, the members of Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant and through the Ontario Arts Council.  

TRANSFORMATION, is an ambiguous condition
March 12 – May 15, 2011

The thread running through this exhibition is that of coming to terms with our lives whether it’s with the big emotions in life, and our socially repressive ways of handling these emotions, or the everyday mundane moments when we are trapped between the comedy and drama of life.

Corinne Duchesne Tether, 10 x 4’, mixed media on Mylar	Stepehn Mazza Unnatural Selection for the Workplace #4 and #6 17.5 x 5.5 x 3 & 16.5 x 5 x 3 in. ceramic, acrylic
	Fleur-Ange Lamothe All the King’s Men / Notre pain quotidian mixed media (Installation image)

Corinne Duchesne
Ten foot mixed-media drawings on Mylar possess commanding images of animals and humans in disruptive environments. Duchesne combines her reclaimed sketches, layering, glazing, and beautifully drawn figurative work. Duchesne works with the smooth surface of the Mylar to make it glossy, slick and visceral. She manipulates it further with collaged elements, and a variety of dry and wet mediums. The studies that are installed near each of the larger works give the viewer insight into her working process. She makes note of associations and colours that she may use, rethink, and rework in the finished piece. Duchesne is a master of moving the viewer’s eye throughout the work, leaving just the right amount of clear Mylar to contrast with the darks and gesso lights while striking a balance of surprising colour contrasts. Her layering doesn’t stop – there’s so much to look at and react to in Duchesne’s work.

Born in Quebec and residing in Burlington, Corinne Duchesne graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has studied in Florence, Italy and has been exhibiting her work for twenty-five years including the United States, Korea and Europe. She is a recent recipient of the OAC Visual Artist Mid-Career Grant.

Stephen Mazza
Stephen Mazza’s hybrid human/ rabbit sculptures are technically charming, combining tactility with integrated anatomy. Through his ceramic sculptures, Mazza takes us into the world of our mythological, fanciful heredity. We respond to his works with humour in these quiet disarming hybrid forms and with reserve as he touches on the dark side of the mundane, insufferable moments of life. Mazza brings us a body of work spanning four years that transform into a combination of figures with a narrative and installation dialogue.

Stephen Mazza has a BA in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and graduated from Sheridan College. He has been exhibiting for the past ten years in group exhibitions. Solo exhibitions include the Cambridge Gallery and Transit Gallery, Hamilton. He resides in Hamilton, ON

Community Gallery Space
Fleur-Ange Lamothe
Through a series of mixed media works, Brant County artist Fleur-Ange Lamothe investigates the transformation of life in Smooth Rock Falls. Born and raised in this Northern Ontario town, her family worked at the town’s pulp and paper mill for four generations. Lamothe’s work responds to the impact of the demolition of the industry. Fleur-Ange Lamothe’s work has been shown regionally and most recently in Havana Cuba in 2009 as part of a Canada-Cuba collective.

This exhibition is made possible through the support of the City of Brantford and the members of Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant. Fleur-Ange Lamothe thanks The Ontario Arts Council and Shannon Boakes, financial advisor for TD Waterhouse, Paris for their support.

PERMANENT COLLECTION EXHIBITION

June 25 – August 21, 2011

A selection of work from Glenhyrst Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection focuses on landscape from the 1850’s to current day interpretations.

Anne Meredith Barry                                                      

Robert Reginald Whale  

Included in the summer exhibition are new acquisitions by Dundas artist Catherine Gibbon. Gibbon is an advocate for responsible environmental practices and through the medium of lithography, The Tire Fire Suite is documentation of the 1990 Hagersville fire that burned for 17 days and took  600 firefighters working day and night to extinguish. Her Benediction triptych gives an enlarged perspective; a work from a series of chalk pastels with accents of purple, bright oranges and ochre that reflect a beautiful frightening landscape. With Gibbon’s sensitivity to the pastel medium, she presents us with a history of our local environment by both exposing the impact of man-made disasters while praising man’s and nature’s efforts to contain our folly.

Gallery two contains the recent acquisitions of Anne Meredith Barry who was a painter and printmaker, born in Toronto, and who relocated to Newfoundland in 1986. The move changed her work and like Newfoundland artist David Blackwood, was also inspired by the rugged, rocky landscape.

Gallery 3 includes oil paint landscapes and seascapes by Robert Reginald Whale and his descendents.  R. R. Whale (1805-1887) was known as one of the first professional artists to work in the Grand River area. These works are a delight for the viewer for their Romantic approach to landscape and also to contemporary painters who can scrutinize the painterly quality of work by artists of this era who mixed their own pigments and used feathered brush strokes. David Milne and Brantford artist Ethelwyn Carlyle approach the Canadian landscape with water based paints and flowing impressionistic free lines to convey fleeting atmospheric imagery. A booklet accompanies the show that gives an added dimension to the history of these artists and their works.

In the Community Gallery Space, Daniel Hill’s mixed media paintings are a conversion of imagery originally stimulated from aboriginal symbolism. His new body of work has popping colour, grafitti scratches, and acrylic ink paint applied with squeegee bottles. The result is an inventive energized expression of man and nature. Hill studied at the Haliburton School of the Arts and has been the artist in residence at the Brantford Artsblock. Hill originally from Six Nations, has relocated to Hamilton.

Daniel Hill

This exhibition is made possible through the support of the City of Brantford, the members of Glenhyrst Art Gallery and through the Ontario Arts Council.

 

Robin Laws Field: Surfaces

Arlene Laskey thinks of herself as a cartographer who maps energies in space. Laskey has diverse areas of interests in literature, science and sociology that influence her art.  Interstices refer to small or narrow openings that could relate to mapping physical space or to the space of time between events.Arlene Laskey is a Brantford artist who has been exhibiting in the region and has studied with Harold Klunder and Tom Dean amongst many others. She has an extensive background in arts education including Arts Curriculum Coordinator for the Brant County Board of Education, and the Arts Education Officer for the Province of Ontario.