Juxtapose
The Ottawa Art Gallery's Annual Art Auction
Thursday 9 June 2005 at 6 pm

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Josh Bates

 


 

Jean-Marie Bélanger website email

Jean-Marie Bélanger is originally from Boucherville (QC) - south shore of Montreal. He established himself in Ottawa in 1988 where he completed a Bachelor in Theology at St.Paul University (1992), and then in Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa (1998).

The last few years Jean-Marie has been working with the pear as a symbol of male sexuality. This representation is in contrast with the traditional interpretation of the pear as a symbol of the feminine form. The symbolic association of the pear personifies the male figure in his paintings and drawings. As a natural progression for this subject, Jean-Marie is now expressing this subject in sculptural media.

 

Miguel Berlanga

 



Images: (l) Ottawa General Hospital (1850) and (r) Operating Room, Ottawa General Hospital (1950).
 

Mimi Cabri e-mail

Ceramic artist currently using red clay to make sculptural forms and represented in the following: Art Bank of Canada, City of Ottawa Art Collection, Burlington Art Centre, Claridge (Bronfman) Art Collection, and the Museum of Civilization Collection. Winner of the City of Ottawa Heritage Champagne Bath Art Renovation.



Love true, two panels.
7" x 6" each (framed), mixed on paper, 2005. Suggested Value - $500.00
 

David Cation website

David Cation is an artist known for his figurative paintings and drawings that speak of the complexity of the human condition. Since 1986, his work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across Canada, United States and Europe. In September 2004, David was honoured with a retrospective of his portraits at Safehouse Art Space in Belfast. He lives with his two children Alanna and Brooks.



Patrick Cocklin
Tennis Balls or Just-A-Position, oil and wax on canvas board, 16” x 20” 

 

Patrick Cocklin website e-mail

Patrick Cocklin has painted in oil on canvas for the past twenty-five years. His body of work is an exploration of the human figure as a conceit to document contemporary society. Since graduating from Sheridan College, he has travelled extensively on six continents, informing his craft. He has had numerous solo and juried group shows, most notably at the Ufundi, SAW and Karsh-Masson galleries.

 

Jordan Craig

 

 

Philip Craig

Philip Lorne Craig was born in Ottawa. He began his art studies in 1965 by enrolling in the creative arts program at Fisher Park High School in Ottawa and after graduation, to Sheridan College in Oakville as a graphic design student. In 1971, he returned to Ottawa to work for the CBC as a TV graphic set designer. In 1975, he held the position of art director for CBC in St-John's, Newfoundland. Throughout his design career, he continued to paint and experiment with the acrylic medium. By 1985 demand for his work had become so great. He decided to return to Ottawa and pursue a career as a full time artist. Philip's work is represented in a large selection of corporate and private collections throughout Canada, the US and Europe. Today, Philip Craig resides in Ottawa with his wife Diane and their three children.


 

Mary Curry

I produced etchings for 20 years, and gave up working with acids and solvents and oil-based inks after studying woodblock printing for a year in Kyoto, Japan. I also studied oriental brush painting and calligraphy and continue to do so.

My woodcuts are created in the traditional Japanese manner, carved in basswood or other woods for texture. They are printed in small editions using water-based inks on hand-made Japanese paper. I like to incorporate the grain of the wood as part of the image, and work from the Japanese aesthetic of the greatest effect from the least means.

I have had work shown in juried exhibitions in Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston, Brantford and Aylmer and have work in collections in Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Berkeley, California and Portland, Oregon.

Mary's studio is located at 5 Edward Ave., Gatineau (Aylmer), Quebec.

 

Reuel Dechene website

It's about light. Being and experiencing light. In my work, I rely heavily on the aesthetic of cinema marquees and neon glitz. For Carnal - low rider kitsch I created 14 new sculptures from found hubcaps. Each hubcap is interlaced with as many as 250 xmas lights, running in a variety of fade-out and flash sequences. The effect is hypnotic. Like mandalas, these pieces focus your concentration - relaxing and stimulating simultaneously.


Tim desClouds
"Life in a Small Appliance" Fish Story - Dream TV, mixed media, 38" w x 14.75" h x 6.5" d, value $900

 

Tim desClouds

 

Courtesy Galerie St-Laurent + Hill Art Contemporain


Dale Dunning
Wintergrass, digital print on archival paper, 390 x 640, value: $300



 

Dale Dunning

I've been a sculptor for the past thirty years working mainly in metal. Examples of my work are available on my blog at daledunning.typepad.com . For the past five years I have been exploring digital photography. I had been working on this image when I got the request for the jux·ta·pose show and thought it would fit.


Lea Dunning
A Moment by the Water, oil on canvas and plexiglass
17.75" x 30"; $1,500

 

Lea Dunning website email

Lea has a degree in Religion and English from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has studied under Eric Fischl and Chan Ky Yut and has been painting professionally since 1977. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Canada and has work in many private and public collections in Canada and Europe. Lea is represented in Ottawa by Calligrammes Gallery (www.calligrammes.com).

 

Pat Durr website email

For over 30 years Pat Durr has been dedicated to the creation of visual art work in a variety of media ranging from drawing, painting and installation to video and the web. Over the last ten years she has also been working part time in the United States exploring aspects of contemporary printmaking. The collagraphs she creates there, both very large and small, explore transformation. They carry pieces of human history and document discarded bits of contemporary life. In the juxtaposition of their imagery, they raise questions about our consumer society, the environment, and our social concerns.

Her works are found in public and private collections throughout Canada, the United States, and in Israel, and England. Additional works and information can be viewed at Pat's web site, www.artengine.ca/pdurr. Pat Durr is represented by Galerie St. Laurent + Hill.

 

Andrew Fay

Andrew Fay's work centres on the human image. His figures and their surroundings can evoke a range of sensation, from violence to tenderness. His subject matter is drawn from childhood recollections, art history, and daily observations. Andrew's paintings can be found in the City of Ottawa's Art Collection and private collections in Canada and the U.S.

 

Anna Frlan website

Anna Frlan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa, and has been working as a professional artist for six years. Her medium is steel, which she transforms from industrial matter to organic forms. The theme of her work is nature, and her sculptures are derived from patterns of growth inherent in nature. Her work also explores humanity's relationship to the natural world. She creates relief sculptural works, which represent the destruction, but also the preservation of nature. Anna's work is found in corporate collections and is represented by the DeLeon White Gallery in Toronto.



Barbara Gamble
Ptatanthera Leucophaea 1, Classifying Loss Series, oil, wax, on aluminum, in steel, 37” x 12”, 2005, value: $950

 

Barbara Gamble website e-mail

Barbara Gamble's interpretive landscape paintings range from the vistas of fields, forests and waters, to the diminutive leaves of a plant. She creates her paintings through layering coloured waxes onto canvas, wood or metal surfaces. Her work expresses vulnerability, strength and beauty. An award-winning graduate of the University of Ottawa, Barbara has exhibited in Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto and New York. She is active in the arts community, including service on the Board of the Ottawa Art Gallery. Her work is included in the collections of The City of Ottawa, Air Canada, The Business Development Bank, Nortel, The Fairmont Hotels, and The Corel Centre. Her most recent Commission will hang in the lobby of the Canadian Medical Protective Association. This work is courtesy of the Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa.

 

Juan Geuer

 



Lorraine Gilbert
Doing the Dishes from the series: Icelandic Walks, Lambda print on Duraflex, 9.5" x 7.75" in a 16" x 20" frame, value: $1,500

 

Lorraine Gilbert

Lorraine Gilbert has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1979. Her photographic works have been collected by Canada's major galleries and museums, including the National Gallery of Canada. Her most recent solo exhibition was in January 2005 at the Nelson Gallery of the University of California at Davis. Last year, she showed her new work at the Galerie des grands bains douches, in Marseilles, France, in a three-person exhibit with Marie-Jeanne Musiol and Chantal Dahan.

During the 1990s, Gilbert worked closely with the Laurentian artist-run centre: Boreal Art/Nature. While hosting artist residencies on her land in La Minerve, QC, she also had the opportunity to participate in one of Boreal's 'nomadic' projects in Iceland with nine other Canadian and Icelandic artists. The series: Icelandic Walks, 2002, resulted from this collective expedition to the interior Icelandic highlands, a place where trees are a rarity and what is most alive is in the earth, beneath your feet.

Lorraine Gilbert has taught as an invited professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and as a part-time professor at Concordia and The University of Ottawa, since 1987.


Jerry Grey
Preliminary Studies for Dualities series, oil on canvas, 6" x 8", value: $750 (2)

 

Jerry Grey

 

 

Eliza Griffiths

Eliza Griffiths was born in London, England in 1965 and immigrated to Canada in 1973. She received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, and completed coursework towards a Masters Degree in Art History and Theory at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her artistic practice is based in figurative painting that navigates a psycho-socio-sexual terrain through a framework of invented characters. Griffiths' work has been exhibited throughout Canada, as well as in the US, and Europe and can be found in numerous public and private collections. Griffiths has written about art for several publications, and is an Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing at Concordia University.

 



Adrienne Herron
Maples

 

Adrienne Herron website email

Adrienne Herron is a photographic artist living in Chelsea, Quebec. Her aesthetic frame of reference is interpreting the natural world that surrounds her. Her current body of work titled "Transient Forest" is the culmination of years of photographing trees to express their fragile, delicate and threatened nature. She uses the camera as her paintbrush by moving it at the instant the shutter is released to create her own personal impression of her subjects.

Adrienne graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, in 2001. She also studied photography at Carleton University, Algonguin College and Maine Photographic Workshops. She taught photography locally for 10 years and at a summer art school in Giverny, France, for three years.

Adrienne exhibits in solo and group shows. Her work is held in private and corporate collections and it has been published in a number of journals, brochures, newsletters and web sites.


Peter Hoffer
Edge, 35.5" x 12"
, value $2,200

 

Peter Hoffer

Peter Hoffer was born in Brantford, Ontario in 1956. He has a MFA from Concordia University in Montréal, degrees from the University of Guelph, Ontario, and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. He has lived and worked in Toronto, New York City, and Montreal where he now resides. This year, Peter Hoffer will be holding four solo exhibitions in both public and private galleries in Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Budapest.

Courtesy Galerie St-Laurent + Hill Art Contemporain

 


Danny Hussey
3 with Stroller, Oil, tar and plaster on plywood, 2004, value: $600

 

Danny Hussey

Born 1965 in Middleton, NS Danny Hussey received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1990. Hussey has had studio space in Ottawa since 1997.

Since 1990 Danny Hussey has produced paintings that have been influenced by science texts, illustrations, and theory. His current work has focussed on interpreting scientific notion with the use of common images. Images are selected from a close at hand universe, that is a microcosm of the real thing. Images are not intended, necessarily, as subject matter, more so as tools, to ultimately reveal the subject. Working in a cellular fashion, each painting is made up of a number of panels, each with its own identity and individual purpose, yet when combined with other cells forms a unique whole.

Viewers of Hussey’s work add credence to the notion that everything is interconnected, on some level, by immediately trying to associate individual mage cells in these multi celled paintings. This participation on the part of the viewer is purely an instinctive and sometimes subconscious act. Conversely, this is a conscious and calculated effort on the part of Hussey.

Hussey’s work can be found in public and private collections throughout North America, and is represented by galleries in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Calgary. In 2002 Hussey was one of 15 painters in Canada short-listed in the RBC New Canadian Painting Competition. His work will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Calgary this summer.

 


Louis Joncas
Untitled (from the Detritus series), Chromogenic-Print, 16" x 20", 2001, value $800

 

 

Louis Joncas

For more than ten years, Louis Joncas’ work has been concerned with still lifes, vanitas, and detritus. Joncas has exhibited his work mostly in eastern Canada, but also in Louisiana and France, and he is represented in institutional and private collections. Born in Winnipeg in 1959, Joncas received a BFA from the University of Ottawa (1994) and an MFA from Concordia University (2004). He currently lives and works in Montreal, and is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (Montreal).



 



David W. Jones
The Symphony, etching, 8 1/2" x 20", value: $300


 

David W. Jones website e-mail

"David W. 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." -National Arts Centre, November 1999

Over the past 25 years, David Jones has exhibited across Canada, Japan and the United States. In 1981, Jones was Canada's War Artist depicting activities on board a destroyer on the Pacific Ocean. In 1985, a major art exhibition commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Navy toured North America and Jones' works were displayed alongside works by Arthur Lismer, Alex Colville and William Ogilvy.

Through his involvement with Canadian Artists' Representation (CARFAC Ontario), Jones has been active in defending the rights of visual artists on both social and economic levels since the early 1980s. Currently, he sits on Board of Directors of CARFAC Ontario and is also the Ottawa Chair.



Lois Kapitaniuk
Bottle with Two Cups, 16" x 12", $450

 

Lois Kapitaniuk website e-mail

Born in Wainwright, Alberta, Canada 1964. Lois is a Canadian painter and printer whose original artworks reflect her excitement and energy for life. She is inspired by the vast array of colour and textures she finds in her daily living. Translating these elements into the form of paint on canvas with each brush stroke. The first is placed on the canvas, or paper and every stroke that is to follow is a reaction to the last. Painting from still life provides Lois with a script and every finished piece of fine art is a record of the interaction that took place between artist and work.

Exploring colour and its power is a major driving force behind Lois' work. Every person reacts to colour differently yet consistently viewers of Lois' work are overwhelmed and entranced by her colour choices. Guiding colour around a canvas with a freedom and ease that only comes from years of study and practice are for Lois and collectors of her work life affirming.


 

Claude Latour e-mail

 

David McKenzie e-mail

 

Hans J. Mettler e-mail

Hans J. Mettler est né en Suisse et habite depuis 1994 à Ottawa. Jusqu'à maintenant, les événements de la vie l'ont amené des études scientifiques vers le journalisme pour enfin aboutir au domaine des arts (Baccalauréat en arts visuels en 1997).

Dans sa pratique artistique, hjm tisse des liens entre l'art et les sciences, plus particulièrement la "nouvelle économie", l'écologie et l'architecture et ceci selon une approche originale, ironique et parfois ludique. La photographie est à la base de son expression artistique. À l'aide d'outils numériques, l'artiste crée des photocollages en juxtaposant ou en fusionnant surtout des structures architecturales avec des textures de plantes ou des scènes urbaines.



Paula Murray
Gathering Energy, Salt Fired Porcelain, 16w x 15d x 15h cm, value $450
 

Paula Murray

Paula Murray's work is collected and exhibited internationally. She was recently selected for inclusion in a prestigious international biennale in Faenza, Italy.




 

Ron Noganosh e-mail

Ron Noganosh's sculptural assemblages integrate aspects of his Ojibway heritage with contemporary civilization's garbage to create scathingly ironic comments on ecology, racism and socio-economic hierarchies. His goal is to encourage viewers to think, to cry, to laugh and to try to make a change. His work has been exhibited at the National Gallery and the Museum of Civilization in Canada, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Ethnological Museum of Russia, and the Museo Nacional de Mexico.

His solo retrospective It Takes Time toured Canada for two years. Last summer his work was exhibited at the Musée National de Québec. The publications, It Takes Time, by Lucy Lippard and Tom Hill and Double Jeu, by Jean-Philipe Uzel and Joyceline Lupien feature his work.


Cynthia O'Brien
Fresh Fruit, value $640

 

Cynthia O'Brien e-mail

Cynthia O'Brien has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, with a year exchange at the University of Colorado in Bolder, Colorado, USA.  Most recently, she worked in Medicine Hat, Alberta at the Medlata Artist in Residence Program, under the mentorship of Laurie Rolland. Cynthia now lives in Ottawa, Ontario where she is an active member of the arts community, teaching at the Ottawa School of Art and working in her home studio. Showing her work locally  in the Ottawa region  Cynthia has been collected by  the City of Ottawa and the Canada Council Art Bank.

 



Mary Pfaff
Hidden Valley N.Z., acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24", 2005, value: $1,100

 

Mary Pfaff e-mail

Mary Pfaff's colour-filled, evocative abstract paintings celebrate nature and the seasons of human life and experience. The mysterious transitory beauty and power of nature is a continual reference. Her paintings consist of lyrical representations of archways, columns, gardens and water. These interior landscapes speak of a feeling of place. They offer an invitation to visit and have an extraordinary ability to change the mood, the light and the time of day.

This painter's solo exhibitions have been acclaimed for their energy, depth of meaning and passionate explorations of life’s transitions. Her most recent work stem from visits to New Zealand's North Island.
Pfaff earned her Fine Arts honours degree from the University of Ottawa, magma cum laude, in 1990. Since then she has been a active member of the Ottawa arts community as an exhibiting artist, respected teacher and founder/arts director of Artswell, a non-profit organization promoting the arts and health for individuals and communities.

Pfaff’s paintings have been displayed in individual and group exhibitions in Canada and the United Sates and are represented in private collections nationally and internationally.



Michèle Provost
see figure 1 (diptych), embroidery on canvas (wood frames), 40 x 33 cm + 22 x 22 cm, 2005

 

Michèle Provost e-mail

Born in Montreal, Michèle Provost is now a long time resident of the Ottawa area. In 74 words or less, her artwork, which is part of several public and private collections, amounts to nothing more than a shameless appropriation of whatever surrounds her, simply reorganised in a blatantly subjective, albeit visually intriguing way, with the sole purpose of reaching and communicating with other likeminded humans. To her great astonishment, it seems to be working.

Michèle is represented by Dale Smith Gallery.


Leslie Reid
Cantley: Boy, Tire and Raft, oil on canvas, 14"x w 12", 2003, value $1,800
 

Leslie Reid, RCA e-mail

Leslie Reid is Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, where she has also served as Chair. She was educated in Canada and the U.K. Her practice is primarily in painting, as well as in photography and drawing, and examines the representation of motherhood in the visual arts, both in painting and in text. She has received several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Department of External Affairs, and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. She has been artist-in-residence at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and resident at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Selected Solo Exhibitions include: Canada House, London; Centre culturel canadien, Paris; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; Ottawa Art Gallery (touring in the U.S.A. and Canada); Carleton University Art Gallery.

Select Group Exhibitions include: Some Canadian Women Artists, National Gallery of Canada; Tendances actuelles, Centre culturel canadien, Paris; 10e Biennale de Paris; Fertile Ground, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston and Oakville Galleries.

Leslie is represented by Galerie St-Laurent + Hill Art Contemporain, 333 Cumberland Street, Ottawa.


Phil Rose
Sphere/Rectangle Interchange, Hand-processed 16mm film, 5w florescent light fixture, plexiglass, 4 3/8" x 7 3/8" x 2 3/8", 2005, value: $450

 

Phil Rose

Continuing Phil Rose's exploration of the visual potential of 16mm film, in its stilled form, Sphere/Rectangle Interchange juxtaposes, and sets up a dialogue between, the dynamic movement of various abstract spherical objects in soft-focus and the mechanical order of rectangular frames which both contain them and define the field of the projected image.

Courtesy of Dale Smith Gallery.

 



Eliane Saheurs
Courants de la nature X (detail), mixed media, 5.5" x 28"

 

Eliane Saheurs website e-mail

Eliane Saheurs was born in Switzerland and studied painting and printmaking at the Ottawa School of Art and privately with well known artists in different countries. She exhibits throughout the region, in Montreal and Vancouver and has won numerous awards. She also is currently working at Gallery Varasmus Fine Art in Ottawa.

Her works are held in private and corporate collections, including Telesat Canada, City of Gloucester, Alcan Montreal, Ottawa Hospital, Canadian Medical Protective Ass., Brascan, Emergo Canada and more.

Eliane paints land forms, respecting the forces which created them millions of years ago and their evolution in today's environment.



Cindy Stelmackovich
Suspending the Laws of Medical Practice, 3 vintage test tubes, dissecting pins, water, cut-up dictionary definitions, value: $600 (3)

 

Cindy Stelmackowich e-mail

Cindy Stelmackowich works with themes related to medical science, specifically, how medical science "writes" the body, both visually and textually. Using materials such as medical textbooks and dictionaries, laboratory equipment and scientific instruments, she intervenes upon existing languages of scientific knowledge. Cindy has received a number of grants from the Canada Council and recently exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery's exhibition "Medical Imprints" in 2004.



Norman Takeuchi
Meeting Place, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 36", 2005, value: $1,000

 

Norman Takeuchi e-mail

After graduating from the Vancouver School of Art in 1962 with a painting scholarship, Norman Takeuchi moved to London, England to concentrate on painting and exhibiting. A year later he came to Ottawa and worked as a designer on Expo 67 while continuing to paint and show his work. A Canada Council grant in 1967 took him back to London for another year to further his art after which he returned to Ottawa to work as a designer, first for Expo 70, then for the Canadian Museum of Nature. In 1996 he left his design career to become a full-time artist and has since participated in many solo and group exhibitions. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Canada Council; Carleton University Art Gallery; Confederation Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; The Ottawa Art Gallery; Mitel Corporation; a number of commercial galleries; and in private collections in Canada and abroad.



Jeffrey Thomas
The Delegate - 0ttawa, C-print 11" x 14", 2005, value $950

 

Jeffrey Thomas

Jeff Thomas is an Iroquois/Onondaga curator, photographer and cultural analyst now living in Ottawa who has works in major collections in Canada, the United States and Europe; including the National Gallery's Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne. Jeff's most recent solo shows were Jeff Thomas: A Study of Indian-ness, Scouting for Indians in New York City and Geronimo was Here in Buffalo. He has also been in many group shows, including Images of the American Indian at the Birchfield Penney Art Center and Crossing Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life at the Museum of Civilization. In 1998, he was awarded the Canada Council's prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Award in Photography

His specialty is the exploration of historical cultural resources to bring voices, stories and perspectives into the present. In his curatorial projects, such as Emergence From the Shadow: First Peoples' Photographic Perspective at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Aboriginal Portraits at the National Archives of Canada, Jeff has mined the archival vaults of non Native visual and written records to recover lost elements of Aboriginal history. Jeff's personal photographic practice is concerned with showing the perspective of an urban Iroquoian person.



Jim Thomson
Sandal and Sock, The Etiquette of Presentation and Perception, ceramic, 31" w x 33" h, value $1,200

 

Jim Thomson website


Jim Thomson has exhibited his work across Canada, in England, China, Japan, The Netherlands, Italy, as well as New York City. He has lectured at The Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Ontario College of Art, Concordia University, Sheridan College of Art & Design, Queen's University, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, The National Gallery of Canada, and The Burlington Arts Centre. Currently, Jim welcomes students and visitors at his newly built Lolaland Clay Studio located in the Gatineau Hills where he conducts workshops and teaches privately.

 



Amy Thompson
Sisters (3 of 3), Mixed Media
8.5" x 10.5", value $250

 

Amy Thompson website

Amy Thompson is an Ottawa-based mixed media artist and graphic designer. She studied Fine Art at York University and the Ontario College of Art and Design and in Florence, Italy through OCAD. She became a member of Ottawa’s Enriched Bread Artists in July 2002. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and will be shown in Paris in 2005. Exhibitions include Up to no good, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, 2004; Better Late than Never, Wurm Gallery, Ottawa, 2002; Have a Good Time, Luft Gallery, Toronto, 2002; Pleasure, Gallery 1313, Toronto, 2002; Shirts & Skins, 64 Steps Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2001; I'll show you mine if you show me yours, Katherine Mulherin Art Projects, Toronto, 2000.



Eric Walker
Quebec City from the "Ocean Limited" at Levis, $750

 

Eric Walker website e-mail

Painter and video artist Eric Walker was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1957. He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design between 1976 and 1983 where he was greatly influenced by the modernism of such visiting artists as Canada's Patterson Ewen and Americans Robert Frank and June Leaf.

Walker began exhibiting in 1982 with a graduation show at the Anna Leonowen's Gallery (NSCAD), Halifax and has continued to work and exhibit primarily in the university/regional art gallery/artist run scene for two decades.

Walker has received numerous awards and grants for his artwork, including in 1999 a Canada Council "a" grant and "a" awards from both the Ontario Arts Council (2001 and 2003) and the Conseil des arts et des lettres de Quebec (1991).

Walker's works are widely held in public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, The Ottawa Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Carleton University Art Gallery, the Owens Art Gallery (Mount Allison University), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax), the City of Ottawa and V-Tape (video), Toronto.

Walker has exhibited his artwork widely in Canada, with international representation in group shows in Lublin, Poland (1987), Mexico City (2001), Amsterdam (2001) and in 2002 a solo exhibition at the Canadian Embassy Art Gallery in Tokyo. The Ottawa Art Gallery is currently touring Walker's "Railway Lands" works with an exhibition scheduled at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in the Fall. Walker lives in Ottawa.



Karen Whyte
Common Cattail

 

Karen Whyte website e-mail

Karen Whyte's paintings have been exhibited in solo and group shows regionally. She was born in Halifax, N.S. in 1943 and received a BFA (studio) from the University of Ottawa.

Karen's charcoal drawings and her oil paintings on canvas express and interpret her experience of wilderness. She paints in layers of colour and her subject matter is primarily wetlands and shorelines, water/land edges that she is drawn to again and again.

Karen canoes frequently in Algonquin Park and on other Canadian rivers and lakes and her attraction to the natural world is reflected in her work. Her paintings are of specific sites that she has visited and remembers. Through her art Karen expresses and gives form to her experience of wilderness and her enchantment with the natural world.



Justin Wonnacott
the immanence of the sea
,
archival inkjet print, 16" x 20", 2005, value $750
 

Justin Wonnacott website e-mail

Justin Wonnacott moved from Belleville, Ontario to Ottawa in 1974. He is an artist and teacher who also writes and curates exhibitions from time to time. He has an extensive exhibition history of more than 30 years and his art is represented in many institutional and private collections. The work for this year's auction is titled "the immanence of the sea". A larger version of the thumbnail can be seen here. Justin Wonnacott is represented in Ottawa by Toxic Gallery.

 

 

Alex Wyse

Alex Wyse is a well-known, well-loved Ottawa artist. His works can be found in numerous public and private collections