Join us First Friday, November 1, for the Third Annual Painters Smackdown, featuring local artists painting live in the gallery spaces. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
The evenings entertainment will feature eight local artists live in action in the gallery spaces, as they duke it out to create a one of a kind canvas.
Make the gallery your first stop this Friday and come cheer on local painters. Admission to catch the action is free, but be sure to buy a ticket to win an original painting. Tickets are $10.00 each or 3 for $20.00. Students under 18 can will receive a discount on tickets - $5.00 each or 3 for $10.00 with a valid student card.
Don't miss out on the most action packed art event of the year!
Two new exhibitions opening:
This First Friday also marks the opening of two new exhibitions: The 70's - The big turnaround of the seventies, from the collection of the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, and the 70's in Ontario, from the JNAAG's Permanent Collection.
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| 'Flash' Serge Tousignant, 1968. Glazed steel and stainless steel, 138 x 92 x 90 cm. |
The 70s - The big turnaround of the seventies, from the collection of the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, showcases the profound transformation of the visual arts in Quebec which began in the 1940s, and the new paradigm was reaffirmed in the 1970s. In this decade, art was released from traditional codes and materials; anything was possible, as many artists explored new paths that resulted in formal strategies of great diversity.
For the first time, the art scene in Quebec was marching in step with major world currents, as was also the case in the rest of Canada. This decade has received scant attention from art historians; this exhibition aims to fill that gap. Drawn from the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent’s rich collection, the works represent the most notable aspects of this phase of Quebec’s cultural history.
The project has been made possible in part through a contribution from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.
The 70's In Ontario
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| Paul Fournier 'Tritarian,' 1974 acrylic and chalk on canvas 109 x 127 cm. Gift of David Black, Toronto. |
Drawing from the gallery's permanent collection, The 70s in Ontario is representative of the overarching artistic tendencies and interests of art production in Ontario in the 1970s. The 1960s marked a shift from a modernist society to a post-modernist society, where specialization and barriers between different realms of thinking and industry began to collapse and become less important.
Consequently, the 1970s was a time to refine and sort through the myriad of new materials, subjectivities, and partnerships made available to artists. Leaning toward a thematic exploration of ideas about language in art, the influence of technology and new media, and a conceptually oriented understanding of materiality, featured artists include Paul Fournier, Greg Curnoe, and Joyce Wieland.
Both exhibitions open Friday, November 1.
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