OGPC will hold a group show exhibit titled Making an Impression at the BlueBird Coffee café for the month of August 2019. The show includes: Cheryl Ann Billiard, Louise Butler, Susan MW Cartwright, Mark Glassford, John Graham, Denise Lachance, Louise Lépine, Rosemary Lindal, Shaylah Marsh, Debra James Percival, Rod Restivo, Madeleine Rousseau, Beth Shepherd, Katherine Stauble, Francine Walker and Shirley Yik. Various printmaking techniques will be deployed to make an impression.
Location: BlueBird Coffee, 261 Dalhousie St Ottawa (in the Byward market area) Show dates: 1-31 August, 2019 Please join in on Sunday August 11 from 1-3PM to meet the artists, and bring a friend along!
at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre is now up. And what a beautiful space it is too!
Entitled “Stone to Plastic: A 200 Year Journey,” the exhibition now available to the print artist. Alongside the traditional techniques of stone lithography, the exhibit shows certain new lithographic trends. These include waterless and polyester plate lithography, as well as the technique of mokolito – the Japanese practice of plywood lithography. The exhibition includes both representational and abstract works, as well as works combining both lithography and other printmaking techniques. The exhibition is up from June 5th to September 6th.
To celebrate the re-opening of the gallery, there will be a get-together on Friday June 28, from 7PM- 8:30PM at the Gallery. Please bring a small snack (two or three portions) to share, e.g., cheese, fruits, veggies, chips or baked goods. OGPC will supply drinks and plates. Thank you!
We are very pleased with the new exhibition gallery, which increases the space available for prints considerably, and which is painted in a colour designed to complement the artworks. To Penelope Kokkinos and Lisa Zanyk: thank you for all your hard work in putting this new space together!
Pictures are by Roger Sutcliffe. The following artists are participants: Freida Hjartarson, Beth Shepherd, Katherine Stauble, Murray Dineen, Susan Cartwright, Rod Restivo, Charmaine Swain, Deidre Hierlihy, and Roger Sutcliffe (curator/organizer).
Part of the New Gallery for OGPC prints at the Nepean Creative Arts CentreThe third wall of the New Gallery
SNAP (the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists, in Edmonton) and OGPC have undertaken a print exchange. Thirteen print artists in each city have each prepared an edition of 13 prints for exchange with print artists in the sister city. Under the coordination of Murray Dineen in Ottawa and Amanda McKenzie in Edmonton, the prints were collected and sent to the respective cities. They have now arrived, and are being shown or will be shown in the near future.
In Edmonton, the the prints are being shown currently in the gallery windows of the Society for Northern Alberta Print Artists from February 15 to March 19, 2019. And they will be shown at the University of Alberta, in the gallery at Rutherford Library, from August 1-23, 2019. Amanda is working on another venue in Edmonton.
In Ottawa, the prints will be shown from March 20 to May 15, at the Minto Gallery Windows of the Ottawa School of Art (in the Minto Suites/Government of Canada office complex, 187 Lyon St.), in Ottawa. (Murray is still working on another display area, and suggestions would be more than welcome.) For more information, please see the OGPC Newsletter or the OGPC Facebook site. Murray Dineen
