Art-filled weekend on Urbanely Urban! Lauren Hall is another local artist making her way into the art world also having her first solo show at Peak Gallery in Toronto. Lauren uses building and packing material to create emblems of the Canadian landscape focusing mostly on mountains and glaciers. With her use of plastics and materials… [Read more…]
February 3, 2010
Whilst sitting in a cafe in Toronto, a dear friend of mine spotted a new exhibit on the walls. Holly Machado’s controversial pieces are up in time for the most horrifying day of the year (Valentine’s Day). This will be opening tomorrow night at 7pm at the NACO Gallery Cafe: Lansdowne and Dundas in Toronto.… [Read more…]
December 12, 2009
For the next few weeks, when you enter the back of the Rotunda at Kitchener City Hall you will encounter a fabulous installation by one of Kitchener’s brilliant emerging artists, Sarah Kernohan. At first, what astounds is the sheer size of the sheet of paper. A 30 ft length of high quality drawing paper is… [Read more…]
November 9, 2009
I had the pleasure to be at a wonderful opening of a most whimsical installation at the Cambridge Galleries called "Young Romance". The installation curated by Ivan Jurakic featured four artists who assembled a collection of pieces pertaining to romance and dating in an "self- image obsessed culture". "Young Romance" will be on exhibit till… [Read more…]
September 13, 2009
So maybe the trip wasn’t to heaven, but the art was pretty close. Some time after lunch and a wee bit of lounging around downtown, we all boarded not the free bus provided by the galleries, but instead the free-to-me (thanks Laurier One Card) iXpress bus to Galt. It is a pretty direct, no-nonsense trip… [Read more…]
April 19, 2010
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