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 · Canadian Homage ·

July 1st – August 2nd, 2009

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A group show of "one-offs." Each artist has created an original work that is an homage to a CANADIAN artist who has been an important influence on them. "Something done or given in acknowledgment or consideration of the worth of another." This show gives permission to "rip off" another artist's style in the form of an honour to them. To do a piece after them. The name of the artist being honoured is hidden under the label so patrons can guess at each piece. This should be fun. Look at this impressive list of 35 Artists–this will answer the question, “Who do they love?”.

Opening Reception Meet the Artists Reception:

(Guess their choices!) Including live music and refreshments,

Sunday Afternoon, July 5th, 2pm - 5 pm  

Closing Reception :

Meet the artists and have a coffee on us while perusing this electrifying collection of Canadian art by local artists.

Sunday Afternoon, August 2nd, 2pm - 4 pm  

Alfred G. Villeneuve

Anne Alcorn

Andrew O’Malley

Amélia Ah You

Anne Scanlan

Beth Levin

Bryce Bell

Colette Beardall

Debra Rohac

Denise Racine

D.H. Monet

Doug Cosbie

Garrie Bea Joyce

Gordon Wallace

Helen Stone

Hugues Dufour

Ian Nunn,

Iris Kiewiet

Jennifer Gibbs

Jennifer Kershaw

Katherine McNenly

K.M. Haycock

Katrin Smith

Kerri Weller

K Y Hanewich

Lina Yachnin

Linda Denis

Marc Andre Brzustowski

Marian Wihak

Marie Josée Moreau

MaryAnn Camps

Marysol Foucault

Mary Nunn

Meghan Myres

M (Peggy) Hughes

Monika Seidenbusch

Peter Purdy

Reid McLachlan

Sylvia Klein

Vivien Tytor

 · Nocturne ·

May 20th - June 28th, 2009

Themed Group Show

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When the first telescope was turned to the night sky 400 years ago in 1609, Galileo Galilei recorded his observations in the form of drawings. He drew the craters of the moon, the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and sunspots. His records reflect a combination of artistic interpretation and scientific observation. Fascination with the night sky continues to this day, with representations of objects in the sky becoming increasing clear with the use of cameras, filters, and radio waves. Artists have painted the night sky or nocturnes for centuries. The Starry Night (1889) by late 19th century painter Vincent van Gogh is one of the most recognized paintings in the world. Tommy Thomson’s paintings of night skies were so accurate you can tell the exact year, place and date they were made. "Nocturne" an art show dedicated to the beauty, the majesty, of the night sky.

Andrew & Deborah O’Malley

Amy Schissel

Fred Sebastian

Gary Bowes

Hanna Back

Jessica Sarrazin

John Felice Ceprano

Marc Brzustowski

Mark Seabrook

Sam Vainola

Stephanie Martel

D.H. Monet

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Celebrate the official year of astronomy by attending FREE sidewalk star parties and lectures at Cube throughout the month of June. We have arranged to have Hamilton Ave. and some streetlights closed off for these evenings.

This show is a registered U.N.

International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009) event.

Mark your calendars! :

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Friday, May 22, 7:30 pm until late

Meet the artists at our opening Night Gala – and Sidewalk Star Party:

Fine Art, Refreshments, Music and Telescopes!

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June 4, Thursday eve. 7:30 pm
“The Dark Side of Light”
Free Lecture by Robert Dick

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June 11, Thursday eve. 7:30 pm

Free Cube Sidewalk Star Party!
Music, refreshments, projected video and art . Come view the moon the stars and the planets in small and large telescopes - all on the sidewalk and street just outside the gallery.

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Check out the YouTube posting, "Building Nocturne"

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 · Water ·

Themed Group Show

April 8th - May 17th, 2009

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water ~ noun: a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H2O.

From the earliest times water has been an eternal motif in art. Water is one of the basic elements of the universe and possesses life-giving power. It was due to this element that all life on Earth emerged. Artists often employ themes connected with water to reflect a state of mind, a mood. The surface of water can depict calm and underwater a dream world beneath the waves. All of the artists in this show bring a different perspective to this magical substance. What does water mean to you?

Barbara Babinski
Brian Tremblay
Cynthia O'Brien
Denis Larouche
Gordon Wallace
Ingo Hessel
Janet Moore
Jennifer Noxon
Jesse Stewart
Norman Takeuchi
Victoria Wonnacott

Join us for an evening of art and discussion with Ottawa Riverkeeper, Meredith Brown. Meredith will give a brief presentation on the significance of our Ottawa River, current issues affecting its health and future, and what you can do to help. Networking and cocktails to follow. Doors open at 7pm. Ottawa Riverkeeper is a citizen-based action group that brings people together to protect and promote the ecological health and diversity of the Ottawa River and its tributaries. Expert and independent, our organization advocates for responsible decision-making, public education, participation, access to information, and compliance with protective regulations, for the benefit of our river and our communities. Link to more Information: Ottawa Riverkeeper at Cube

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 ·The Canadian Portrait ·

March 5th - April 5th, 2009

Themed Group Show

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While we wait for Ottawa to create a proper Portrait Gallery, Cube Gallery has decided to celebrate this often overlooked genre with a show honouring the history, the impact, the importance of the portrait. From the subtly magnificent to the shockingly modern – these Canadian portraits will not fail to move you. Portrait art has always been a vanguard in the art world. Is the art of the portrait dead? Tell that to these ten Canadian artists!

Michal Tkachenko (U.K.)
Michael Goodson
Marysol Foucault
Kristy Gordon
Katherine McNenly
Karole Marois
Felicity Don (Vancouver)
Svetlana Swinimer
Sam Vainola
Terry Rooney
Pamela Cockcroft

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 ·  Hanna Back & Jean Jewer   (Recent Work)  ·

February1st -  March 1st, 2009

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 · Life work of Gerald Trottier ·

October 22 - November 23, 2008

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Cube is honoured to hold the first commercial showing of Gerald Trottier’s work since the 1980's.

“The life work of Gerald Trottier, one of the nation’s important artists, could be considered as a journey over many landscapes: the body, the soul, the human condition, revelations of nature’s own landscape. His passionate quest for knowledge and life’s meaning is exhibited in the many mediums of which he was a prolific and powerful master: drawing, water and oil painting, print-making, sculpting.” - Nan Griffiths, 2007

Canadian painter, muralist, sculptor and liturgical artist, Gerald Trottier created works imbued with spirituality and humanity. Trottier’s realistic style, with its vivid colours, has its roots in the Flemish, Surrealist and Expressionist schools. He participated in his first exhibition in 1944 and by 1950 was showing his work at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and later went on to exhibit in international biennials in Salzburg, Mexico City and São Paulo.

Trottier’s work has been exhibited in both one-man shows and public collections, across Canada and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He was a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists. Trottier held the post of Artist in Residence at the University of Western Ontario, worked as Design Director for CBC TV in Ottawa and Vancouver and retired in 1980 to work exclusively on painting and commissions at his home on Calumet Island, Quebec.

Opening Reception (Meet the Family) Sunday, October 26 – 2:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m.

Carleton University Art Gallery’s recently launched catalogue, A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Life and Art of Gerald Trottier, will be on sale at the opening reception. This catalogue is Carleton University Art Gallery’s most ambitious exhibition catalogue to date. The hardcover catalogue, 114 pages in length and fully illustrated, surveys Trottier’s wide-ranging oeuvre.

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 · Russell Yuristy/Anne Alcorn ·

September 24 - October 19, 2008

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Anne Alcorn "Recent Work" 

Born in Digby Nova Scotia, Anne works in acrylics, painting landscapes and forests from her vivid imagination. When creating these works she often explores and incorporates the orderliness of the mathematic upon the randomness of nature. Her work is held in private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe. She exhibits at Mainworks Studios, the Canvas Gallery in Toronto as well as at Cube Gallery in Ottawa. Meet the artist, Sunday Sept. 28, 2-5pmtings. It's the hardest thing I know to do, paint from nature, and I don't see any end to it."

Russell Yuristy

 "A few years ago I drew flowers and plants in our garden as a way to sharpen my eye. And by looking closer and closer, I discovered how to see a world which I am still exploring and learning about, both when I look and when I make paintings. It's the hardest thing I know to do, paint from nature, and I don't see any end to it."
Russell Yuristy (Ottawa, 2008)

Russell was born on 23 March 1936 in a farmhouse built by his great-grandfather near Goodeve, Saskatchewan. His sculptures, prints,paintings and works in pen, pencil, pastels and watercolour, have been widely collected and exhibited throughout Canada and the United States. His work can be found at the National Gallery among many other collections, national and corporate. He has been written about and filmed extensively. His sculptures can be seen in public places, for example, Switch Hitter, an aluminum sculpture at Ottawa's Baseball stadium. Russell currently teaches Woodcut Printing at the Ottawa
School of Art.

Meet the artists, Sunday Sept. 28, 2-5pm

An exclusive catalogue will be available for this show

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 · Futurists ·

August 17 - September 14, 2008

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Pronunciation: (fyOO'chur-ist), —n.
1. (sometimes cap.) a follower of futurism, esp. an artist or writer.
2. Also,fu"tur•ol'o•gist.a person whose occupation or specialty is the forecasting of future events, conditions, or developments.

"Futurists"
Art that is visionary, thought provoking, on the very edge of the cutting edge.

Marc Andre Brzustowski
Marc Andre Brzustowski’s expressive oil paintings demonstrate an interest in representation and its counterpoint abstraction. Brzustowski has studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) and has shown his work in Toronto galleries, as well as in Ottawa, Montreal, and Amsterdam. He uses aggressive brushstrokes to simplify the forms and applies colour to create dimension in his paintings.

Andrew King
Andrew King has always had a love of design and cartooning. Over the years he has worked in design and animation studios in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, and has created designs for both live action and video game productions. In 2003 he began to experiment with oil painting and his works have become incredibly popular with Ottawa collectors. His work ranges from contemporary landscapes to cartoon-style images. He has clients around world: Belgium, Australia, New York City, and an embassy in Bangladesh.

Marcia Lea
Marcia Lea’s highly realistic watercolours demonstrate her impressive technical ability at capturing the interaction between light and shadow and the patterns formed by colour. She has an interest in architectural spaces where light is a key factor in creating depth and atmosphere in the painting. Lea began her artistic education at York University’s Fine Arts Program and continued on to the University of Ottawa for her BA in Studio Art. Since then her work has been shown in Switzerland, Toronto, Ottawa, and Hong Kong, and appeared in Time Magazine (USA).

Alison Smith-Welsh
Alison Smith-Welsh’s disturbingly whimsical sculptures are not only futuristic but also reminiscent of the Dada movement of the early 20th century. She creates her assemblages by reusing and reinventing uses for discarded materials. Smith-Welsh is an Ottawa artist and has shown her work for many years at local galleries such as the Cube Gallery, Gallery 101, Galerie Montcalm, and the Ottawa School of Art.

Marc Dubois
Marc Dubois is an emerging artist from Gatineau, Quebec whose oil paintings on canvas and subject matter include reinventions of the urban landscape. Dubois is a self-taught artist, inspired by the work of Velasquez, Nerdrum, Chardin, and Morandi. The over-riding theme that dominates his work is the inter-relationship between extremes, such as passion and reason, abstraction and representation. He has shown his work locally in Ottawa and runs workshops at the Ottawa School of Gallery.

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 · Homage ·

June, 2008

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"Homage" is a group show that asks 60 artist to create an homage to an important influence on their art. Homage: "Something done or given in acknowledgment or consideration of the worth of another”. This show gives artists “permission” to "rip off" another artist's style in the form of an honour or critique of them. The name of the artist that is being "forged" will be hidden on each label so that patrons will be able to guess who is being acknowledged in each piece. This show will be an interesting window on the influences of some of the top artists in the Ottawa art scene.

This exhibit is a real lesson in both art history and contemporary artists relationship to that history. For example, half of the artists in “Homage” chose to pay an honour to a Canadian artist. In times past it would have been European or American. Canadian art has been having a tangible impact on the work of modern artists. As far as most popular artists: there are 3 Gustav Klimts, 2 Betty Goodwins, 2 Patterson Ewens, 2 Mark Rothcos, 2 Emily Carrs, 2 David Hockneys and 2 Jackson Pollocks in the show. Approaches to doing an homage were wildly different as well; some doing a straight on copy of a famous work others bending tradition to their own style. If you have not seen it yet – come out and see who were chosen as the best by some of Ottawa’s best.

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Paula Zoubek
Vaz Zastera
Russell Yuristy
Mary Wong
Joyce Westrop
Jeff Watson
Gordon Wallace
Alfred Villeneuve
France-Marie Trepanier
Tiffany Teske
Clive Tesar
Norman Takeuchi
Joanne St. Lewis
Alison Smith-Welsh
Mark Seabrook
Esther Schvan
Anne Scanlan
Terry Sametz
Dan Rivaud
Jody Richardson
Terry Rempel-Mroz
John Redmond
Peter Purdy
Andrew O'Malley
Janet Moore
Don Monet
Bina Mirza
Katherine McNenly

Alex McMahon
Reid McLachlan

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 · Black & White ·

May 7th - June 1st, 2008

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Featuring the artists:

Amy Schissel
Garrie Bea Joyce
Janet Moore
Jeff Watson
Jennifer Amenta
Mark Seabrook
Michelle Wilson
Mike Taylor
Raymond Roy
Norman Takeuchi
Mark Schacter

Opening Party: (Black & White dress)   Friday May 9th at 7:30 pm till late

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 · Routes to Freedom ·

March 7 - March 22, 2008

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Reflections on the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. A Group Show featuring eight Contemporary Canadian Artists from the African Diaspora:

Rosslyn Berot-Burns,
Martine Chartrand,
Opal Dunbar-Adams,
Bushra Junaid,
Hawa Kaba ,
Izzeldinn Kojour,
Annie Lalande, and
Shaun Motsi

An art exhibit featuring African-Canadian artists as part of the Routes to Freedom Conference being held at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law, (March 14th to 16th). The transatlantic slave trade attacked the cultural integrity of African peoples. The Exhibit will show how these communities have thrived and continue to contribute to the cultural fabric of Canada and the global community. The Honorable Roy McMurtry, former Chief Justice of Ontario, has agreed to serve as the Honorary Patron of the Exhibit. More details can be found at the conference website:
 

www.abolition1807-2007.uottawa.ca

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 · Les Chemins de la liberté ·

du 7 au 22 mars, 2008

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Réflexions à l’occasion du bicentenaire de l’abolition de l’esclavage. Une exposition collective mettant en vedette huit artistes canadiens contemporains de la diaspora africaine :

Rosslyn Berot-Burns,
Martine Chartrand,
Opal Dunbar-Adams,
Bushra Junaid,
Hawa Kaba ,
Izzeldinn Kojour,
Annie Lalande, and
Shaun Motsi

La Galerie CUBE sera le site d’une exposition d’œuvres diasporiques d’artistes africains et afro-canadiens dans le cadre du symposium « Les chemins vers la liberté » organisé par la Faculté de droit de l’Université d’Ottawa du 14 au 16 mars 2008. Le commerce transatlantique des esclaves a joué au détriment de l’intégrité culturelle des peuples africains. Cette exposition démontre le développement de ces collectivités et comment celles-ci ont contribué et contribuent de nos jours encore à la richesse culturelle canadienne et mondiale. L’honorable Roy McMurtry, ancien juge en chef de l’Ontario, a accepté d’être le patron d’honneur de cette exposition. Veuillez consulter le site www.abolition1807-2007.uottawa.ca pour de plus amples renseignements sur ce symposium.

www.abolition1807-2007.uottawa.ca

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 · Great Big Smalls III ·

November 29 ~ December 23, 2007

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Cube Gallery is pleased to announce that its annual Christmas show is returning and has a full line–up of over 60 talented Ottawa area artists with something for everyone and at all price levels. All works are original, small and suitable for Christmas, Chanukah or any other holiday tradition you celebrate.

Erin Robertson

Reid McLachlan

Rebecca Mason

Andrew King

Bruce Garner

Mark Lowes

Mary Wong

Tamaya Garner

Marysol Foucault

Mike Steinhauer

Gavin Murphy

Anne Barkley

D.H. Monet

Andrea Stokes

Barbara Barkley

Cedric Colond

Chris Pomeroy

Clare Brennan

Cynthia O'Brien

Denis Larouche

Paula Zoubek

Renate Hulley

Rod Borghese

Anne Scanlan

Shaun Motsi

Janet Moore

Aili Kurtis

Ali Fowler

Beth Levin

Bhat Boy

Keith Bell

Iris Kiewiet

Lynn Owen

Jean Jewer

Jennifer Gibbs

Kathy Haycock

Lindsay Watson

Stuart Kinmond

Patti Normand

Terry Sametz

Tiffany Teske

Christine Mockett

Catherine Gutsche

Alison Smith-Welsh

Violeta Borisonik

Johanna Stevenson

Karen Goetzinger

Marcel Guldemond

Alfred Villeneuve

Gilda Pontbriand

Stephanie Wellman

FabricaWakuWaku

Carmella Karijo Rother

Shabnam Dastoornejad

Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst

This is a great opportunity to invest in your own cultural community - kick start a new art collection…and give something unique and lasting for Christmas. This year give the gift of art to your loved ones. Well worth a visit.

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 November 2 ~ November 25,  2007

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If art is a vessel for emotion, then the color red is one of its most evocative hues. A show based simply on the colour "red". Red is the new "green". Seventeen of Ontario's best artists - paint the gallery "Red" this November.

Featuring the artists: Alison Smith-Welsh; Aili Kurtis; Tiffany Teske; M Peggy Hughes; Norman Takeuchi; Gavin Murphy; Marc Raymond; Jennifer Lawton; Anne Alcorn; Jean Jewer; Janet Moore; Claude Dupuis; Lorena Ziraldo; Julie Cosgrove; Keith Burnett; Dan Rivaud; and Clare Brennan
(Note: Date on card is incorrect)

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Cube Gallery
Wednesday November 7th– Preview ($20);

November 8, 9, 10 (Gala) November 15th, 16th &  17th

Doors open 7:30 pm - Curtain 8:00 pm

Tickets $29 each;

Catered Gala on November 10th $45.00

Tickets available at Cube Gallery and at Artscourt Theatre.

Call 728-1750 for information.

Kurt Schwitters was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and the first to make poetry of the fact that a culture reveals itself in what it throws away. The collages and assemblages for which he is best known were made of everything from old tram-tickets to a pair of Goethe's stockings. The name of the artistic movement which he founded was snipped out of a discarded brochure of the German "KomMERZbank". Schwitters' literary creations are the collected fragments of sound and language which others ignored or suppressed--sneezes, stutterings, meaningless syllables--made into poetry. Peter Froehlich's one-man-show is a collage of these MERZ poems and the anecdotes and legends generated by this remarkable artist.

 October 2007

 "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." William Shakespeare

 A group show about the environment and issues around the notion of being "Green". A show of fine art that is a reaction to or consideration of environmental issues that we are all confronted with. Climate change, environmental degradation, renewable resources and alternate sources of energy all come under the purview of these artists.

Featuring the artists: Russell Yuristy; Adrienne Herron; Violeta Borisonik; Patti Normand; Kathy Haycock; Maurice Haycock; Martine Gilbert; Mary Wong; Greg Ludlow; Anna Edels; Larry Williams; Diane White; Andrew Hind; Richard Weintrager & Kim Elmslie, Jerome Maggiore

Opening party with music and refreshments: Fri. October 5th- 7:30pm

"Pablito and Friends" (Wear Green!)

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September 20th - 30th,   2007

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 September 5th - September 16th,  2007

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Don Monet

Three great artists will be showing new works at Cube Gallery - Sept. 5 - 16. Reid McLachlan and Peggy Hughes will be sharing the main space. At the same time there will be a showing of new works (2007) by Gallery owner Don Monet in the Salon Gallery. He will be appearing as a part of this years West End Studio Tour. Monet is well known for his photo collage and acrylic landscapes of cottage life North of Ottawa (Killaloe & North Bay). There will be a small reception for invited clients to preview Don's show on Wednesday eve. 5 ~ 8pm

Reid McLachlan
Chelsea artist Reid McLachlan, known for his exploration of the dark recesses of the heart and the vagaries of fate, starts to look beyond the human condition to the troubled relationships between humans and the world they inhabit and fleetingly rule. He investigates these relationships seeking glimpses of lucidity, understanding and hope in the self-centered, material-obsessed, consumer society that surrounds him. Reid is a well known local artist, having exhibited in many Outaouais galleries over the last 20 years. Recently he has had large solo shows at Ottawa’s Karsh-Masson Gallery, Gatineau’s, Galerie Montcalm, La Petite Mort and Galerie d’art de l’Alliance Française and has a solo exhibition of new paintings opening in November at Art Image in Gatineau.
Meet the artist on Sunday September 9th, 2 ~ 5 pm

M. Peggy Hughes
She explores the abstract, finding shapes emerging from the layers and textures of her paint. At times, they may remind the viewer of a soft dream coming in and out of consciousness and at other times, figures, architectural details and imaginary landscapes into which the viewer may wander are almost sculpted into the scratched surface. A prize winning artist, Peggy's work has been shown in various venues around Ottawa. She is a member of the Kanata Artists Studio Tour and is an active member of the Kanata Civic Art Gallery, Ottawa Mixed Media Artists (OMMA) and Art Lending of Ottawa.
Meet the artist on Saturday September 8th, 2 ~ 5 pm

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 August 21st - September 2nd,  2007

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You may not realize this but you are in Bruce Garner's world -- of sculpture.Ever walk down the Sparks Street Mall and wonder who made the big bronze dancers linking hands in a circle and that big grizzly bear near Elgin? They were both made by Bruce. His work has beautified the collections of corporations, governments, private collectors throughout the globe. The Goddess figure flying on top of the AChannel in Byward Market is his -- as is the magnificent bronze meditation wall at the World Exchange Plaza.

Long a fixture in the Ottawa art community - Cube is honoured to present this show of Garner's recent work - entitled "Summation". For this show Bruce has created over 25 new sculptures. A type of "summation" of his 35 year carreer. As well, a selection of his earlier large abstract paintings will be on display.

 

For a great interview and profile about Bruce and the concepts behind
this show - please click on the logo below - Issue 8 of Guerilla Magazine:

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"Thirty-five years on, Garner is a pillar of public art in our region.His outdoor works dot the landscape, combining immense physicality with organic texture and delicate grace."

Tony Martins (2007)
Guerilla Magazine
www.getguerilla.ca

Come and meet Bruce Garner at a free reception (live music and refreshments) on Sunday August 26th 2007 from 2 - 5pm

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 August 1st - 19th,  2007

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Victoria Wonnacott

 "Coming to the Surface"

Montreal artist Victoria Wonnacott is fluent in a wide variety of traditional artistic techniques. One can revel in her artistry; composition, colour, and her fine attention to detail.

However, we cannot deny the personal side of Wonnacott’s subject matter; a swimmer, an athlete, a bather, a lover a friend. Wonnacott is an artist with a driving and progressive focus for the organization and expression of life’s activity. She subtly explores the nature of challenge, family, love; the outer nether relationships one cannot quite bring oneself to encounter; submersion, hidden personal narratives, identity. There is an ominous quality to Wonnacott’s work that haunts us. Who is this? Why do I recognize this? We quietly possess and identify with these works of art.

Her most recent works at Cube Gallery are explorative not only in technique but in subject. An iconographic male image; a solitary figure depicted in another plane of representation. The materials and their manipulation cannot belie the brooding presence of an ultimate emergence - thus the title of this series "Coming to the Surface". Wonnacott’s progression as a mature artist continues. Abstraction and realism are executed with effortlessness, there is a reconciliation of technique and content, the story grows; each moment is as precious as the last.

Wonnacott has shown her work in many prominent galleries including: the Cube, SAW, and Gallery 101 in Ottawa; Galerie d’art David Astrof, Galerie Lacerte et Palardy, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Galerie V and Casa Obscura inMontréal; Leo Kamen and the Manning Gallery in Toronto; McIntosh Gallery in London; and the Acanthus Gallery in Portland.

Her works are held in the Public Collections of The Canada Council Art Bank, La ville de Montréal, la Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur , and Société des Loteries du Québec (Loto-Québec)

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Antoni Romaszewski

 "Coming to the Surface"

Paradox is the main element of his artistic creation. He says that, "In the process of creating a new piece, I witness its slow alienation. It becomes more and more foreign, to the point that when I look at my works in the gallery I have trouble even identifying with them." Some of his works carry phrases or words scribbled on the borders, such as "crumbled will" or "the discreet charm of inquisition". These notes he makes while working allows him to continue thoughts when returning to works the next day or even many days later. They represent moods and places or situations thought of while working and are an integral part of each piece. Some of these scribbling eventually become the titles for works.

Antoni Romaszewski has shown his work in many prominent galleries including: the Montcalm Gallery and the Maison de la Culture in Gatineau; Karsh Masson, Jean-Claude Bergeron, Cube and Calligrammes in Ottawa; the Humboldt and Gallery 46 in Germany; and galleries in Wales and North Carolina. His works are held in the Public Collections of Loto Quebec, Canada Council Art Bank, City of Ottawa, Kinderhaus Art Centre (Germany), Jauch&Hubener (Germany), and the Art Court (Wales). In June 2007, Antoni Romaszewski was featured in Espace art moderne et contemporain at the 8th Festival international Montreal en Arts, in Montreal, Quebec.

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“The intellectual coolness in much of Romaszewski’s work does not supersede the passion.” “Voyage au bout de Millénaire”

-Greg Graham-

Ottawa Citizen

1999

-Alan King-

Ottawa Citizen

1995

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Check out the last month's  Wonnacott & Romaszewski exhibit on:

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 May 30th - June 17th, 2007

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Morton Baslaw
Lev Berenshteyn
Shirley Birnboim
Batya Cavens
Claire Cohen
Tami Galili Ellis
David Galbraith
Teena Tarantour Goldberg
Sylvia Klein
Sheryl Luxenburg
David Makow
Stephanie Moore
Sharon Pozner
Daniel Rivaud
Pyotr Schwartzmann
Lois Siegel
Fortunée Shugar
Shayna Tate
Lina Yachninn

· Forever Yours, Marie-Lou ·

Theatre at Cube !

 June 14th, 15th & 16th, 2007

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Ottawa Chamber Theatre Company and Cube Gallery in association with caterer Alicia Manfredi present: A repeat performance of Michel Tremblay’s Forever Yours, Marie-Lou the original great Canadian play by the granddaddy of Canadian Theatre. Featuring Manon Dumas, Donnie Laflamme, Sarah Conn, and Brittany Meyer. Designed by Don Monet, Directed by Lisa Zanyk

June 14, 15, 16 at Cube Gallery

Tickets: $39.00

Doors open at 7:30 for pre-show refreshment

Curtain at 8:00 pm. Catered reception following the play.
Tickets (while they last) at Cube Gallery, 728-1750

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 May 30th - June 17th, 2007

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After 135 years Ottawa will finally be host to a showing of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). Long overdue - Cube is once again breaking new ground in the art scene of Ottawa. The first ever exhibition by OSA members from the Ottawa region will be held at The Cube Gallery in June of 2007. This historically important event is not to be missed.

Founded in 1872,the Ontario Society of Artists is the oldest art society in Upper Canada, run by and for professional artists. Over its long history, the OSA has counted most of Ontario's well known artists, including the Group of Seven, as its members. It has been instrumental in the formation of The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Ontario College of Art and Design, The Canadian Society of Graphic Artists, the Ontario Association of Architects, the Sculpture Association of Canada, the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists. Many of its original members were the first acquisitions of the National Gallery of Canada.

Beat the crush! You can catch a sneak peek starting this

Wednesday at 11 a.m. (normal hours)
You are invited to meet the artists at a reception with jazz music & refreshments (free) this Sunday afternoon: June 3rd at 2 p.m.

Derek Aylen

Steve Elliot

Winona Elliot-Schep
Mary Ellen Farrow

Kristy Gordon

Christopher Griffin

Pamela Ludlam

John Mlacak

Blair T. Paul

Sonia Tarantour Pearl

Kim Woodman

 May 4th - 27th, 2007

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"This series of paintings allows me to focus on the human form in motion or at rest, and the play of dramatic lighting on these forms. In particular I explore the dialogue between a work of art and the viewer. "

   Ron Whate

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This show of more than 60 paintings is entirely made up of paintings of people looking at paintings. A show for art lovers looking at art lovers who are looking at art. It covers three main shows that Ron Whate has lovingly documented. The Phoenix, the Blink and the Cube's "Vanishsage" vernissages. Ron has two careers, he is an archaeologist and a fine artist. In the archaeological world he is considered an expert in the French East India company and the China trade. (Lecturing at the National Gallery this fall on Chinese Export Porcelain in Canada.) In the art world he has accomplished several large scale murals and helped in the restoration of one of America's finest castles. He is largely self-taught with the exception of a year's informal study with Carmen Cereceda, a pupil and friend of both Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. (She lived with the two of them for a while.) As he has worked towards this show, influence of that early training came forward with Rivera-like aspects to some of the pieces.

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The Phoenix Vernissage, Cube Gallery  February 3rd, 2006

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The Blink exhibition Crichton Community Centre, Ottawa March 2006

In late 2005, I joined Blink, an artists' co-operative here in Ottawa. I participated in one show with this group. This exhibition was held in the Crichton Community Centre in March of 2006. From this experience comes some paintings based on people viewing two works that I exhibited. I am intrigued by the different lighting conditions of this series due to it being daytime when I took the photos and the irony of people looking at paintings of people looking at paintings. "

The "Vanishsage" for the Blink co-op, the Cube Gallery, Ottawa June 2006

"In the summer months, the Blink group exhibits at the Header House in Majors Hill Park, Ottawa. The night of their opening vernissage, May 2006, someone broke in and stole all the art off of the walls, including labels. To help defray some of the costs of this terrible loss, Don Monet of Cube gallery generously organized what he called, a "Vanishsage". Several Blink members and myself had taken a large number of photos of the stolen works and these images were projected into a large gold frame on the gallery's back wall. The rest of the gallery was entirely empty. The dark atmosphere of this particular vernissage was in stark contrast to most such events where spotlights or daylight flood places with light of various kinds. The mood was sober for the most part too and filled with poignancy. It was a special, if sad, vernissage."

Previews for media and clients: Wednesday May 2nd & Thursday May 3rd 11am - 5 pm 

Vernissage: Friday May 4th, 7:30 pm

Piano stylings by John Gillies - food by Alicia Manfredi

Meet the Artists Reception: Sunday, May 6th, 2 p.m.    

Kids Art Talk: Sunday, May 13th, 2 p.m.  

Please check out the newest pod cast from the cube

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 April 5th - 22nd, 2007

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love n. = a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person

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Love – arguably the most complex of human emotions.
This show delves into the many sides, interpretations and definitions of something that runs like a tide through all our lives.

Gerald Trottier’s work expresses love for the female form but also love of family.

Garrie Bea Joyce constructs passionate abstracts that are an emotional landscape waiting to be explored, while

Peggy Hughes offers a chaotic vision of a theme that is so open to individual interpretation.

Anne Tessier's small, mixed-media pieces explore love in the modern age through icons of love.

Esther Schvan exposes the emotion she perceives between her parents and her lover.

Nan Griffith’s delicate watercolours of nudes celebrate human vulnerability and

Christine Drake offers images of love through the isolated object. Sexual passion takes form for

Anna Luczack through that great, historical lover of women, Casanova.

The sculptures of Janet K. MacKay and Mitchell Webster explore interpersonal relationships through sensual forms.

The "Love" Show explores and proffers what this select group of artists think of, when they think of Love. 

April's show is about a subject dear to all of our hearts "love". Featuring some masters of the Canadian art world as well as some emerging talents - This show will provide fodder to consider the subject from different perspectives. Once again we are honoured to have some important works by the late Gerald Trottier, an artist who has been called "one of Canada's best painters". This is a rare chance to add a giant of Canadian art to your collection. We are also lucky to have the work by an important artist from New York, Christine Drake - for a young artist she has an extremely mature palette - her composition, touching and honest. Nan Griffiths joins us for this show as well - a towering figure on the local arts scene at the Ottawa Art Gallery and other Ottawa arts institutions), for this show she offers us some exquisite nudes, effortless and sensual, her work celebrates the grace and beauty of the human figure. Peggy Hughes is an important and emerging Ottawa artist. Her abstract works employ a gorgeous palette and her compositions are simultaneously playful and deadly serious. Esther Schvan is a well established figure in the Canadian art world. As a teacher, jurist and artist her work has been instrumental to the growth of our visual art scene for many years. Her paintings in this show explore intimate relationships in her bold and familiar style. Anne Tessier assemblages in this show examine the many types of love that humans are capable of. With the demands of her work at the National Gallery and her studio practice I believe she does not sleep. Anna Luczak is a senior artist who has provided us with some erotic examples of love and its passionate side. Garrie Bea-Joyce is an emerging artist who reminds us that love is an abstraction that provokes us to feel like we are flying above the ground. These artists will be rounded out by the husband and wife team of sculptors from Gatineau Janet MacKay and Mitchell Webster. Their work is at once hard as bronze and stone - yet as soft as a lover's kiss.

Gerald Trottier
Garrie Bea Joyce
Nan Griffiths
Peggy Hughes
Anna Luczak
Anne Wanda Tessier
Christine Drake
Esther Schvan
Janet K MacKay (sculpture)
Mitchell Webster (sculpture)

Previews: Wednesday April 4th, & Thursday April 5th, 11am - 6 pm      (R.S.V.P. for clients on my list)

Meet the Artists Reception: Sunday, April 8th, 2 p.m.    

We would be honoured if you and a loved one or two could attend a great evening of Music, Food and Art at the opening party: Thursday April 5, 7:30 pm Marie-Josee Houle (once described as Edith Piaf with an accordion) will be playing. Vicky Singmin will be catering with incredible food. I suggest you do not miss this vernissage. This free event has been generously sponsored by Munroe-Lake Real Estate - It promises to be a real firecracker!

 March 2nd - 25th, 2007

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Cube is proud to host a group show of artists from the dynamic Blink Gallery Collective. Blink supports professional contemporary artists from the Ottawa region. As a non-profit collective, Blink contributes in a vital way to the local community and economy through sales, educational seminars and workshops. These cultural activities are aimed at the development of understanding and appreciation of contemporary Canadian art practices.

Lynda Cronin
Tami Galili-Ellis
Katsumi Idogawa
Jean Jewer
Karina Kraenzle
Cynthia O' Brien
Erin Robertson
Jeff Stellick
Patrick John Mills

Previews: Thursday March 1st & Friday March 2nd, 2007 from 11 am- 6 pm

Meet the Artists Vernissage: Friday March 2nd, 2007 ~  7:30 pm    

Kids Art Talk:  Sunday  March 11th, 2007  2 pm

 February 2nd - 25th, 2007

Canadiana = a collection of distinctly Canadian items or works.

A group show about our vast country - its history and place in the world. What the heck is Canadian anyway, First Nations, Immigrant, French and English or Colonial? Not a show of kitsch or nicknacks - but thoughtful contemporary art work of what it means to be Canadian, whatever that might be.

Featured Artists:

Andrea Stokes

Andrea uses graphic prints combined with painterly textures to create paintings
which are abstracted from a specific place, and reduced in squares - or frames -
to isolate imagery as though it has been frozen in the blink of an eye.
 

Rebecca Mason

A native of Chelsea Quebec, Mason works on large sheets of Japanese paper,
and takes inspiration from her natural surroundings with trees, canoes and mountains as the central themes, and she records them in a very free, expressive manner. The results are somewhat like writing a poem on the page

Eliane Saheurs

Paint earth's forms with respect for the forces which created them many years ago, and their evolution in our environment today. Imprints of life itself are exposed, but they will in time be erased or submerged.

Anne Alcorn

Born in Digby Nova Scotia, she works in acrylics and paints landscapes and forest from her imagination, often exploring and incorporating the orderliness of mathematic and the randomness of nature.

Jan Mills

Through found-object sculpture, mixed media paintings and collage, Jan strives to take the fragmented, fleeting moments and images of life, and create new, contemplative and reflective experiences with his works viewers.

Mike Steinhauer

Uses well-known subject and moves away from the recognizable image to focus on detail that for him reveal the composition and the core. He uses Parliament Hill as his subject that because it is meant to be the place, successfully or not, where each and every Canadian is represented. ll of the photos in this series were all taken within the Parliamentary Precinct shot during the past 12 months.

Susan Szenes

Uses assemblages that echo notions of residual space that include an
exploration of elements of destruction and how these remnants of the past
remain discernible within the shadows of expansion. Szenes invests a deeply
rooted personal narrative in a body of work that invites the viewer to roam
to the netherworld of exurbs and commuter spaces.

Alfred G. Villeneuve

A native of the Madawaska Valley, Alfred is unique in his approach to art.He uses an original language in paint that he has devised, called 'Algonkin Mosaic' (a reflection of his Algonkin and Kashub roots in the 'Valley').His main subject of desire is painting in Algonquin Provincial Park and capturing the many moods from Spring rains through Winter snows

Artist's Reception: Sunday, February 4th - 2 pm

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday February 11th - 2 pm

 January 5th - 28th, 2007

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Mexicana = a collection of distinctly Mexican items.

A group show of work related to Mexico and all things Mexican - dedicated to our Spanish American cousins and mutual neighbours to the bull elephant next door. A special emphasis will be an homage to Frida Kahlo as this show will be done in partnership with the National Art Centre production of "Frida" during the same dates. Other partners are the Mexican Embassy and the University of Mexico.

Featured Artists:

Victor Hernandez Castillo

Victor Hernandez Castillo lives and works in Mexico City. He is a master printmaker who specializes in large format etchings and linocuts. He has presented solo exhibitions in Poland and Mexico and Canada. He was awarded the Jean-Claude Bergeron Gallery Purchase Award in April of this year. Mr. Hernandez Castillo's provocative and emotional work is based in the traditions and aesthetics of grotesque art.

Tony Clark

Tony Clark works as an artist / Instructor with seniors at The Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health Centre, and with the arts in health organization Artswell. Frida Kahlo has been a passion of his for a number of years. He says, "art was health to her as it is to me. The connection her work makes is nourishing, intensely personal, profoundly human and beckoning."

Gilda Pontbriand

Gilda Pontbriand studied visual arts in Canada, Mexico and France. Her art encompasses a spiritual dimension and her practice is a constant search for different subjects, media and techniques. In 2005 she won first prize in the competition ''Imagine Don Quixote'', she was invited by the Embassy of Spain to visit "La Mancha" in 2006.

Valerie C. Burton

Valerie C. Burton received the first MFA with a major in photography ever granted in Ontario. Her photographs of Indigenous festivals seen in the Cube has been exhibited twice in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg ON.

Antoni Romaszewski

Antoni Romaszewski graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1979. Antoni’s fabulous collages go beyond the conventional cut and paste - he works his surface until it becomes "other", until they become sublime. His works have been displayed in numerous public and private galleries and can be found in important public collections in Canada and around the world.

Opening Party: Friday January 5th (7:30 pm - midnight)

This party will feature music by "Los Paisanos" a Mexican band based in Ottawa, and treats by the Embassy of Mexico!

Artist's Talk: Sunday, January 14th - 2 pm

Film Night: "Tina In Mexico" by Brenda Longfellow

Thursday, January 18th - 7:30pm

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday January 21st - 2 pm

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· Great Big Smalls # 2 ·

November 30th - December 23rd, 2006

Alanna Baird

Crystal Beshara

Rod Borghese

Clare Brennan

David Brynaert

John Ceprano

Tyler Cope

Pam Connolly

Lynda Cronin

Elena Deroche

Renée DesChamps

Peter Dolan

Tami Galili Ellis

Paul Elter

Alison Fowler

Bruce Garner

Tamaya Garner

Jennifer Gibbs

Marcel Guldemond

Meaghan Haughian

Adrienne Herron

Megan Hinton

Jean Jewer

David W. Jones

Garrie Bea Joyce

Andrew King

Jim Kohan

Karina Kraenzle

Aili Kurtis

Denis Larouche

Christine Leger

Beth Levin

Marjory Loveys

Juliana MacDonald

Rie Mandala

Becky Mason

Reid McLachlan

D.H. Monet

Janet Moore

Marie Josée Moreau

Jennifer Mousseau

Debra Muzychka

Patti Normand

Mary Nunn

Cynthia O'Brien

Lynn Owen Pasha

Blair Paul

Chris Pomeroy

Daniel Rivaud

Carmella Karijo Rother

Erin Robertson

Rosy Somerville

Andrea Stokes

Norman Takeuchi

Anne Wanda Tessier

Tiffany Teske

Sharon VanStarkenburg

Gordon Wallace

Lindsay Watson

Joyce Westrop

Stephanie Wellman

Mary Wong

Patricia Woolaver

Bruce Wozny

Paula Zoubek

Ian Nunn
Aili Kurtis
Beth Levin
Don Monet
Dan Sharp
Mike Sides
Jean Jewer
Vivien Tytor
Ingo Hessel

Marc Walter
Vaz Zastera

Kim Hayden
Anne Alcorn

Bruce Garner

Stas Jesonka
Alison Fowler
Paula Zoubek
John Ceprano

Jennifer Gibbs

Megan Hinton
Patti Normand
Andrea Stokes
Joyce Westrop
Erin Robertson
Tami Galili Ellis
Cynthia O'Brien
Tamaya Garner
Elaine Whittaker
Juliana McDonald
Karen Rasmussen
David van Sertima
Marcel Guldemond
Meaghan Haughian
E.M. Riemer Sartory
Anne Wanda Tessier
Antoni Romaszewski
Sharon VanStarkenburg

Opening birthday bash with the great big sound of the jazz combo

 "Verona Katz" - Friday, November 3rd, 7:30 pm till late!

Preview and sneak peek: November 1st to November 3rd, 11 am - 6 pm

Meet the artist Reception : Sunday, November 5th, 2006 - 2 p.m.    

Kid's Art Talk: : Sunday, November 12th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

 October 25 - 29th, 2006

A group of local artists, known as the RED SALON ARTISTS, will occupy the Cube for several power packed days. Red Salon Artists collective www.redsalonartists.com includes:

Sherry Tompalski

Marcia Lea

Crystal Beshara

Sharon Vanstarkenburg

France-Marie Trepanier

Tiffany Teske

Meaghan Haughian
 

Meet the Artists Vernissage: Thursday October 26th, 2006 7 pm - 11 pm    

Artists Talk:  Saturday, October 28th,2006  2 pm - 3 pm

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·  " Cube3 "  ·

October 13th, 27th & November 17th, 2006

 "Art Cubed" is a new cultural concept being held at Cube starting in October. See Fine Art, See Live Dance, Hear Music at three great evenings out at Cube Gallery. 3 exhibits, 3 bands, 3 dancers

1) "Lumber" + Megan Jerome and Mike Essoudry + Julie Anne Ryan Performance night Friday Oct. 13th: (9 - 10:30 pm with an intermission)

2) "Red Salon" + Mystery Band + Mary Catherine Jack

Performance night Friday Oct. 27th: (9 - 10:30 pm with an intermission)

3) "Quadratic" + Radar (Rory Magill, Linsey Wellman, Jennifer Giles) + Shara Weaver

Performance Fri. Nov. 17th: (9-10:30pm with an intermission)

Advance Tickets
$15 each night for the series or $20 at the door
Advance Tickets available at Cube Gallery & the Ottawa Folklore Centre

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PARKER & BALL ALBEE, PINTER

November 9, 10, 11, 2006 7:30 p.m.

Chamber Theatre Company, Dish Catering & Cube Gallery
present an evening of theatre in an atmosphere of

contemporary art & fine food.

PARKER & BALL ALBEE, PINTER

EDWARD ALBEE        Counting the Ways - The Sandbox
HAROLD PINTER       Night
DOROTHY PARKER   Here We Are
ALAN BALL                The M Word

Featuring:

Brian Stewart

Mark Munteen

Hannah Fraser

and special guest artists,  Mary Ellis* & John Koensgen*

* Appears courtesy of CAEA
Directed and produced by Don Laflamme & Lisa Zanyk

· "Lum·ber" ·

This is a group show about trees. "Lumber" features some of Canada’s most prominent artists and their interpretations of a subject so vital to our lives, particularly if you live in the Nation’s Capital.

Featured Artists:

Russell Yuristy

 is an artist and sculptor was born in Goodeve, Saskatchewan, in 1936. Yuristy has work hanging in the National Gallery of Canada, with many other sculptural commissions in galleries and public spaces across the country.

David Jones

In 1999 Ottawa’s National Arts Centre said that artist David Jones "has established himself as one of Canada’s foremost landscape painters. The beauty, splendor and unique vastness of our landscape, coast to coast, are captured in his canvases."

Blair Paul

is an Almonte artist. He has said that "artistic creation is an act of hope... an act which tells us that something is worth living for... that there is "hope".

Charles Spratt

works out of Manotick. He says, "As you look at my work, it is important to me that you understand that these paintings are part of an artistic journey that has been going on for nearly thirty years. They are the result of years of painting on location, study and practice, and the experience of more than 25 solo exhibitions.

Caril Chasens

is a sculptor living and working in Northern British Columbia. She says, "It is possible for a modern person to feel a deep connection to nature. Below that, one is likely to feel a gulf, a sense that the connection is just pretend. And of course, below that the connection is absolute, we are part of it. I don't know how sad a story this is. It is too soon to be sure."

Aili Kurtis

works from a beautiful studio on Pike Lake...where she conducts her practice of searching for "the abstract within the real. She takes great pleasure in constructing an object as a convincing representational illusion, while simultaneously generating the abstraction that colour, dot and pattern can bring.

Raymond Roy

is an Ottawa photographer who is interested in the surreal and transitory nature of trees. He uses a process of infra red lensing to create portraits of trees in the experimental farm that are both beautiful and slightly menacing.

Norman Takeuchi

is an Ottawa artist has paintings and pastels that have been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada and in England. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Canada Council, the Carleton University Art Gallery, the Ottawa Art Gallery, and Mitel Corporation. Norman Takeuchi was born in Vancouver in 1937.

Tamaya Garner

is a Plantagenet sculptor with a passion for the environment and trees in particular. She studied under internationally renowned sculptor Bruce Garner. She has been seen at numerous group shows including WOMANmade Gallery in Chicago and the Ottawa Jazz Festival.

Come to the cube and experience for yourself how these great artists will intrigue you with their take on the subject of the almighty tree.

Family friendly Artist's Reception : Sunday, October 1st, 2006 - 2 p.m.    

Kid's Art Talk: : Sunday, October 15th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

· Recent Work ·

Don Monet

Featuring photo collage and paintings from this years painting trips to Round Lake (near Killaloo, Ont.) and Trout Lake (near North Bay, Ont.), Don Monet has somehow managed to make art this year in spite of all the time his new Gallery has taken up. Come and view some unusual takes on the cottage and environs in Northern Ontario. This solo show will be held in a shared space with a sample of work by the WEST studio tour artists.

Don Monet's recent work from Round Lake (Algonquin Park), and Trout Lake (Northern Ontario), capture a subtle take on natural landscape and leisure. Using a cool and somber colour palette and various nocturnal scenes, he captures the serenity found within our great Canadian landscapes. The use of birch veneer rather than traditional canvas gives power to his interpretation of natural forms and highlights a deep appreciation for his surroundings. Also in this series is the innovative use of photo-collage where he playfully imagines what exists beyond the picture frame. Don Monet captures his real life experience, through images of his two daughters, and utilizes an impressionistic style that conjures an air of the internal experience of the North Country.

Simone Rojas-Pick,
Carleton University, 2006

Vernissage:  Friday September 8th, 2006     (7 p.m. - late)

September 7th - 17th , 2006

westendstudiotour.ca

Held this year on the weekends of September 9th - 10th and 16th - 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., WEST is a pleasant walking tour of studios and artist's homes located in the West end of Ottawa.

WEST is a free tour organized annually by the artists themselves. This juried tour has evolved into a group of 16 artists who invite the public into their homes, businesses and studios. New artists on this year's tour are Clare Brennan, Garrie Bea Joyce, and Manju Sah. "We wish to meet our neighbours and art lovers from around the region and chat about our work, in our own environment. "It is a rare opportunity for art lovers to see the places that art is actually made -- they might be surprised to discover the creativity happening in their own backyards", said Don Monet one of the organizers and founders of the tour.

The show will run for two consecutive weekends:

September 9th - 10th and 16th - 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A good starting point for your tour is the Cube Gallery at 7 Hamilton Avenue North near the Parkdale Market. There you will see a sample of art work by all of the Studio Tour members. Pick up a map, have a coffee, and plan the rest of your tour from here! Maps of the tour are also available at other businesses throughout the west end, art stores and libraries across Ottawa. While you are out enjoying the studio tour may we suggest you consider buying an original piece of art. Why? Art is an investment that you keep on your wall while it increases in value. It also pays dividends every single day - every time you look at it, as it creates atmosphere and style in your home. Original art work represents an investment in a working artist, it helps our culture thrive, and art becomes a lasting legacy for your family. What stock or R.S.P. can compete with that?

The Artists in this year's tour are:

Derek Aylen

Heather Ballantyne

Clare Brennan

Lynette Chubb

Garrie Bea Joyce

David W. Jones

Karen Loofs

Don Monet

Lynn Owen

Lorraine Peirce

Manju Sah

Barb Sohn

Edwina Sutherland

Gordon Wallace

Jeff Wiebe

Paula Mitas Zoubek

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See you here!

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The preview days are Wednesday & Thursday and Friday from 10 am - 6 pm
Invited guests (that’s you!) are welcome to the vernissage/opening party on Friday Aug. 4th, 7pm til midnight. Featuring the National tour launch of Ottawa’s Jazz legends the Megan Jerome Trio. There is a beautiful full sized grand piano in the house (courtesy of Alan Whatmough) and it promises to be a really good party... May I suggest you try and delay the cottage trip just for this Friday, it is a guaranteed cool summer event!

Jennifer Amenta creates monochromatic urban landscape paintings of street scenes in Toronto, New York and Ottawa; the commercial space in each scene is subverted with pen & ink illustrations. Instead of the ad commanding a reaction from those who see it, the previously commercial space interacts with the scene that is unfolding in front of it.

Violeta Borisonik was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Using mixed-media collage she explores the urban landscape of the big cities. "Walls", she says, "are the canvas where people express themselves. Love messages, political propaganda and graffiti are the marks of society.

Marc Dubois is a painter in pursuit of balance between reason and passion. His "Factories" series of oil paintings attempt to bend the utilitarian, rational structures of factories into a object of art infused with passion. "Emotional Landscapes" takes this exploration one step further as he collapses the factories into the distance creating a larger space in the foreground to display the emotional content.

Jean Jewer creates abstract paintings that emerge like a performance of nature itself… with the picking, scraping and slashing of marks on the surfaces. The urban landscape that influences the art in this show is not a record of what she has seen but the "act" of remembering, in all its visceral sensibility.

Reid McLachlan conjures up haunting oil canvases that are dramatic musings about narrative and place in this world. They are theatrically charged encounters about the cerebral act of finding your own place (in reality or in your head) and the many dichotomies between urban and rural living.

Abi lyon wicke is a truly gifted ‘maker of things’. As evidence of her strong belief that beauty need not be sacrificed in the quest for practical objects, her clay creations of small urban dwellings in this show are a compelling combination of function & beauty.

Opening Party: Friday August 4th (7 pm - midnight)

Invited guests (that’s you!) Not to be missed! Featuring the wonderful jazz legends, the Megan Jerome Trio

Family friendly Reception: Sunday August 6th, from 2 - 4pm

Meet the Artist's Talk: Sunday August 13th (2:00  pm)

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday August 20th - 2pm

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Maryse Maynard’s sculptural work in ‘diapason’ witnesses years of expressing herself through one compelling subject……. music. Partnered with a fluteplayer she has been influenced by a wide range of musical styles. In this exhibition, she brings together many different visual forms that speak of this influence.

Rebecca Mason happened upon natural Japanese paper with watercolour as a material she could use in spite of her environmental sensitivities. In an expressive manner, Mason takes inspiration from her natural surroundings with trees, water and wetlands as the central themes. The translation of water and pigment onto paper has the rhythm and spirit of jazz improvisation.

Mary Nunn is an internationally recognized artist whose paintings have been exhibited in Canada, the US and Europe and is listed in the Canadian Who's Who. Her watercolour and gouache paintings in this show evoke her passion for street musicians.

Jennifer Lawton says that music and the visual arts have much in common. Both offer a powerful means to express rhythm and emotion. Her current body of work represents a search for validation of her sensuality and femininity. The rhythmical contours of her paintings reflect an emotional reaction to music and its effect on her psyche.

Antoni Romaszewski uses paradox as the main element of his creations. In the process of creating a new piece, he is witness to its slow alienation. As he builds up a piece his goal is to have his own work becomes more and more foreign to him. Ending up as a something completely separate from the artist.

Opening Party: Friday July 14th (7 pm - midnight)

Invited guests (that’s you!) Not to be missed! Featuring the wonderful jazz piano of Ottawa’s own Brian Brown.!

Family friendly Reception: Sunday July 16, from 2- 4pm

Artist's Talk: Sunday June 25th (2:00  pm)

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday July 30th - 2pm

Meet the artists  preview/artists talk: Wednesday July 12 @ 2 p.m.

Also set your calendars for:

 "Food of Love" Saturday, July 29th 7:30pm - 10:30pm at Cube Gallery

A benefit for the Parkdale Food Bank.

Presented by Latour Productions and Cube Gallery, with special thanks to Al Whatnough Pianos This special evening will feature the music of Patrick Hunt, Clear, Jim & Tonic,and Claude Latour Jazz Piano Improvisations.

Tickets $20

Students $10

(Available at Cube gallery & at Moralas 734 Bank Street).Canned food donations welcomed.

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A stunning group show with work that celebrates found objects in subject matter or actuality. Pop culture, commodities, junk, assemblage. Found objects have gained increasing importance in art over the course of the twentieth century, with many art movements finding new freedoms of expression which had been stifled by the more stringent definitions of art previously used.

Alanna Baird

Paul Elter

Gordon Wallace

Clare Brennan

Alison Smith-Welsh

Tiffany Teske and Angela Marklew

Julian Haber

fabricawakuwaku ~ Pamela Lawler and Adrienne Gibb

Bruce Garner

Alanna Baird combines seemingly worthless tin cans into shiny armoured fish. This metamorphosis results in a re-evaluation of the material. While there is shape and beauty; there is also a reminder of environmental impact and loss.

Paul Elter courts Dada sensibilities, flirting with the insignificant and continually questioning consumer society, his approach reinvents the classical landscape.

Gordon Wallace creates indoor/outdoor metal constructions are sculptures that refer to symbols and signs based on everyday ephemera.

Clare Brennan has a toy makers sensibility, using stressed wood, bottlecaps, bolts and found bits he modifies and adapts until he discovers a figure that emerges magically from the detritus.

Alison Smith-Welsh loves the refuse of yesterdays consumer society. So it is not surprising that she has used this refuse as her pallette for expressing a somewhat twisted vision of fashion, consumerism, sexuality and violence, all rivetted together.

Tiffany Teske and Angela Marklew are photographers that document places and objects forgotten and left to rot. Using a labour intensive collage, colour and transfer process, their work focuses on lost and discarded narratives about time and decay.

Julian Haber wanders the streets of Montreal with his camera. His goal is to find torn street posters, weather beaten walls and other bits of broken used up modern urban culture.

fabricawakuwaku is made up of artists Pamela Lawler and Adrienne Gibb together they create small creatures from the discarded fabric of everyday life. Foundling ... a found thing, cut off as it is from the credentials of genealogy is a hybrid thing, simultaneously lost and found.

Bruce Garner is a sculptor with an international reputation – his series The Crushing has many connotations and implications as he crushes cans and plastics into solid shapes with the middle parts or inserts imposed using cast or welded bronze.

Opening Party: Friday June 16th (7 pm - midnight) Not to be missed! This party will feature the "found" music spins of DJ/artist Andrew O'Malley!

Reception: Sunday June 18th (2-4 pm)

Artist's Talk: Sunday June 25th (2:00  pm)

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday July 2nd - 2 p.m.

Silvia Alfaro

Manuel Baez

Rod Borghese

James Chapman

Katie Chau

Elaine Decoursey

Peter Dolan

Yves Gosselin

Caohan Hang

Jason Grant-Henley

Dipna Horra

Sandra Iskandar

Stuart Kinmond

Chris Leggett

Herb Otto

Honorata Pienkowska-Roseman

Arturo Samper-Salazar

Vernissage and 'Meet the Artists' Reception: Saturday May 13th, 2006 at noon - 1:30 pm.

www.mayworksottawa.ca

Karen Baily

Line Dezainde

Patrick dos Santos

Farouk Kaspaules

Meghan Myres

Sheryl Peters

Eric Schallenberg

Tanya Sprowl

Paula Mitas Zoubek

Daniel Sharp

Marc Adornato

Barbara Brown

Alison Smith-Welsh

Jennifer Gibbs

Gordon Wallace

Reid McLachlan

Eric O' Malley

Deborah Margo

Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge

D. H. Monet

MichPle Provost

c.j. fleury

Clive Tesar

Reception:  Sunday, April 30th form  2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

featuring the music of Jerry Golland

On April 6th, 2006 "Stasis" will open – a stunning group show exploring the theme of art about balance. In the medical world stasis is a time of crisis- things stop moving. In art it can be a moment of resolution. featuring seven of Ottawa's most dynamic abstract artists both emerging and established in a bid to establish stasis in their work. Come and see what all the balance is about!

   I extend a special invitation to come out to the opening party – Friday April 7th at 7pm - midnight – It ought to be a hoot as we will be featuring a great local jazz fusion band the Megan Jerome Trio – Their music is unpredictable and a little "off balance" a perfect fit for the theme of the show! Come early on Thursday to preview the art then come to the party to do some schmoozing and people watching!

From April 6th - 29th 2006,  the gallery will be open

every day from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

except Mondays

Dan Sharp

Opening party: Friday April 7th,2006 - from 7 p.m. - midnight)

Preview: Thursday April 6th, 2006  from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Reception: Sunday April 9th, 2006, from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Artist's Talk: Sunday April 16th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday April 23rd, 2006 - 2 p.m.

• March •

"Efflorescence" – a stunning group show exploring the theme of classic still life- florals. Can there be a new definition of floral- sweet or sinister?
Vernissage: "High Tea": Sunday, March 26TH 2.pm

Artists featured in "Efflorescence" are: Nicholas Abusow, Pam Connolly, Jennifer Gibbs, Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, Jennifer Lawton, Beth Levin, Mary Nunn, Hilda Oomen, and Paula Zoubek.

      Nicholas Abusow is the only male artist in this show - blind in one eye and over eighty years old he has only recently rediscover a love for painting, especially flowers. But these florals are anything but "still" life they genuinely move with an essence and subtlety that embody an active and vibrant life.

      Pam Connolly is a Chelsea artist who has created some stunning collage pieces for this show. She considers these works a mallter of balance, they are as beautiful as they are improbable and precarious.

     Jennifer Gibbs mixed-media abstracts incorporate floral motifs from fabric, wallpaper, and other sources. These works are layered and texural and her own homage to the world of flowers and the rich history of the artists depicting them.

      Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst's work is driven by her fascination with the mysterious process of becoming. Life is tenuous. Its form and quality are always open to shift and change. In her work, she struggles to untangle and follow a pathway of transformations.

      Jennifer Lawton of Coldwater Ontario is riding a wave of success in her art carreer with recent shows selling out before she opens her door. Her large canvas have become more and more saturated with colour, her backgrounds used to complement the flowers, rather than being merely a problem of negative space to fill in.

       Beth Levin's paper creations explore the process of transforming plant fibre to finished paper, a technique unchanged for thousands of years. She is interested in questioning the conventional concept that paper is fragile and two-dimensional, her intent to expand the boundaries of how people understand and relate to paper. Using annually renewable fibres such as abaca, cotton, flax and hemp, her oeuvre reflects the forms and textures of the earth.

      Mary Nunn's work has become a combination of exploration and intuition,  after 25 years of painting and teaching art. Her vibrant florals bring to mind the first hint of colour in blossoms that arrive in spring after a long winter.

      Hilda Oomen thinks of her oil paintings as collage. She follows in the long tradition of floral & still life painting that sees flowers as personal metaphors for the artists who paint them. In her work, the flower is a personal metaphor for the self, an exploration and awareness of identity, purpose and passion.

       Paula Zoubek's large acrylic "Tussie Mussies" are an object that In Victorian times became a real craze. Tussie Mussies were 'talking bouquets' or 'word poesys' a circular nosegay whose fragrant herbs and flowers carrry a message in the Language of flowers... a message of love ,condolence, or good luck.

From March 21st ~ April 2nd, the gallery will be open every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.  (except Mondays)

Paula Zoubek

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i·con·o·clast n. = One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions

Opening party: Friday March 3rd,2006 -  (7 p.m. - midnight)

Preview: Thursday March 2nd, 2006 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Reception: Sunday March 5th, 2006, (2 - 5 p.m.)

Artist's Talk: Sunday March 12th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday March 19th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

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• February •

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cam.pes.tral adj. = Of, relating to, or growing in uncultivated

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Our exciting season continues at the Cube Gallery, Ottawa. On February 2nd, a new show, "Campestral" will open – a stunning group show exploring the theme of the vast Canadian landscape. It will be a contemporary look at a subject that is often considered derivative. One of the artists featured in this show is Toronto painter John Abrams - who's large scale triptych "Canadian Trilogy" is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. We also feature Becky Mason, the talented daughter of the late Canadian painter/canoeist/film maker Bill Mason.

10 Artists featured in "Campestral" are:
John Abrams, Jennifer Amenta, David W. Jones, Andrew King, Aili Kurtis, Dennis Larouche, Juliana McDonald, Becky Mason, Chris Pomeroy,

and Erin Roberston

From February 2nd to 26th,2005

The gallery will be open every day (except Monday) from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Preview: Thursday February 2nd, 2006 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Opening Party: Friday February 3rd, 2006 (7 p.m. - midnight)

Reception: Sunday February 5th, 2006, (2 - 5 p.m.)

Artist's Talk: Sunday February 12th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

Kid's Art Talk: Sunday February 19th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

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January 5th, 29th, 2005. The gallery will be open every day

(except Monday) from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Preview: Thurs. January 5th, 2006 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Opening Party: Friday January 6th, 2006 (7 p.m. - midnight);

Reception: Sunday January 8th, 2006, (2 - 5 p.m.);

Artist's Talk: Sunday January 15th, 2006 - 2 p.m.

Kid's Art Talk: January 22nd, 2006 - 2 p.m.

"Although many people have understood familial relationships in terms of "blood," many anthropologists have argued that the notion of "blood" must be understood metaphorically, and in that in many societies family is understood through other concepts rather than "blood.""

Wikipedia - December 2005

As curator Don Monet says, "These are gifts suitable for

NOT consulting your sweetheart about."

Artists featured in the giant show are all locally based professionals:

Marc Adornato,

Heather Ballantyne

Clare Brennan

Cynthia O'Brien

Barbara Brown

John Ceprano

Jana Charron

Juliana McDonald

Hugh Scott-Douglas
Christopher Lea Dunning Marc Eliany

Ruby Ewen

Dave Fels

Ali Fowler
Bruce Garne,

Tamaya Garne

Jennifer Gibbs

Marcel Guldemond

Sandra Hawkins

 Kim Hayden

Megan Hinton

Danny Hussey

Jean Jewer

David W. Jones
Gayle Kells

Andrew King

Jim Kohan

Karina Kraenzle

Reid McLachlan

Gerry Lavery

Becky Mason

D.H. Monet

 Patti Normand

Daniela Oey

Lynn Owen

Erin Robertson

Su Rogers

Eliane Saheurs

Dan Sharp

Hedda Sidla

Alison Smith-Welsh

Andrea Stokes,

Tiffany Teske

Barry Strasbourg-Thompson

Vivien Tytor

Gordon Wallace

Jeff Wiebe

Patricia Woolaver