OGPC members Valerie Bridgeman and Tina Petrovicz are participating in a a group exhibit which challenged participants to create artworks from recycled materials. The show includes functional and decorative pieces, all of which underscore the imagination and creative spirit of our members.
“Reclaimed”
Vernissage July 26 6-8PM
Stone School Gallery, Portage-du-Fort, Quebec
Runs until Aug 18th
AFIELD: Exhibition by Deidre Hierlihy |AUX CHAMPS: Exposition de Deidre Hierlihy
July 18 to August 11, 2019 | 18 juillet au 11 août 2019 La Fab Arts Centre, 212 Old Chelsea Road, Chelsea Vernissage : Thursday, July 18 4-8pm | Jeudi 18 juillet, 16 h – 20 h
In her exhibition “Afield”, printmaker Deidre Hierlihy presents landscapes from two different places: the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa and Northern Ireland. The prints of the Central Experimental Farm were created over a period of 2 years. The prints of Ireland were created during a four-month Artsland artist-in-residency in 2019.
Dans son exposition “Aux Champs” la graveuse Deidre Hierlihy présente des paysages inspirés de deux lieux différents : la Ferme expérimentale centrale à Ottawa et l’Irlande du Nord. Les gravures de la Ferme expérimentale centrale ont été créées sur une période de deux ans. Pour leur part, les gravures d’Irlande ont été exécutées au cours d’une résidence d’artiste de quatre mois en 2019, dans le cadre du programme Artsland.
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).
This weekend June 8 & 9 Susan Hodgson is participating in The New Art Festival from 10AM to 5 PM in the Glebe Central Park 19 Clemow Ave
See her new print series at Booth 102
A group of OGPC members undertook a gallery crawl the evening of May 2nd. We began at City Hall, an opening with works by three young artists in the City Hall Art Gallery — Gabriela Avila-Yiptong, Rachel Gray and Lea Hamilton – “I Came Back and Things Were Different,” after which we went next door to the Karsh-Masson Gallery for L. Koltun’s fascinating “Death of the Monarch” show. It’s always good to see the quality of work at the City Hall Galleries, and these shows were excellent.
Many of us have never been across Elgin Street to the Âjagemô art space gallery and the offices of the Canada Council for the Arts, 150 Elgin St. (nor to the 7th floor rooftop viewpoint, which unfortunately was closed on May 2nd). The current exhibition is a simple but ingenious installation built of a series of subway car doors taken from the “old” Montreal subway (ahh the memories….good times, good times) by Michel de Broin. The offices of the Council, on the second floor, had several works of art in the foyer. The Council gallery is perhaps one of the best kept secrets in artistic Ottawa, but the work on display there is remarkable in quality, certainly on the level of the best international art. It is really worth the effort of a visit (free parking at City Hall after 6PM; the gallery seems to be open at least until 8PM). On our way out, we stopped in to the Korean Cultural Centre, in the same building, to quickly examine a small exhibit of artworks by Canadian Koreans which is a fundraiser for student bursaries.
From there it was off to Cube Gallery for what seems to be the last exhibit in the current space. Sadly for us the building is up for sale. Everyone involved with the visual arts in Ottawa owes Don Monet best wishes and thanks for the many years of service to the community. We wish him best of luck on his future endeavours. We look forward to more gallery crawls in the coming months.
The OGPC and SNAP (The Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers) partnered for an exchange between our two great cities. We are excited to showcase the prints from the printmakers of SNAP and OGPC at the Minto Place Vitrines, starting March 20th running until May 15th. The prints featured centre on the theme of language, whether visual, bodily. or the artist’s personal language. The 13 selected artists from SNAP are: Amanda McKenzie, Megan Stein, Daniel Evans, Emileinne Gervais, James Boychuck-Hunter, Mitchell Chalifoux, Justine Jenkins, Luke Johnson, Max Keen, Cate Kuzil, Joanne Madeley, Phoebe Todd-Parish, and Mark Henderson. The 13 Artists of Ottawa are: Aileen Leo, Charmaine Swain, Katie Argyle, Laurence Finet, Mark Glassford, Deidre Heirlihy, Mary Lowden, Murray Dineen, Roger Sutcliffe, Shirley Yik, Susan Cartwright, Valerie Bridgeman and Villia Jefremovas.
Want to know more about the artists? You can click on the link to see the bios and artist statements for SNAP printmakers and OGPC printmakers.
A big thanks the Ottawa School of Art for lending us these showcases. A special Thank you to Cathy Brake of the Ottawa School of Art for hanging the Lyon St. entrance so beautifully. The prints will be seen by a large number of people in these locations, since this is a central building for the federal government. Print artistry is alive and well in Canada. Go see them at Minto Place.
A solo exhibition “Faces and Flowers” of printmaking using cyanotype and screen printing processes in the Lee Matasi Gallery at the Ottawa School of Art Byward Campus. Running from March 27 to April 10, 2019. The reception is Thursday April 4, 2019 from 5 to 8 pm (coordinating with the reception of the Main Gallery at the OSA).
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
By Ottawa-Gatineau Printmakers
Once again, we hosted the International Chinese Zodiac Print Exchange in Ottawa. This was the year of the dragon. Dragon prints from around the world were up for exchange. We had a fun evening celebrating this tradition, eyeing which prints we really wanted to get! Here are some photos from the night. Thank-you Rob Hinchley, for facilitating the process.
OSA Gallery: 35 George Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
The exhibit will be on display until May 20th.
