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Barry Ace (Odawa, b.1958) is a band member of the M'Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, ON. His multi-disciplinary work has been included in numerous shows in Canada since 1996, and he has had two solo exhibitions Modern Indians Standing Around at the Post (1998) at Gallery 101 in Ottawa and Super Phat Nish (2005) at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon, Manitoba. His work was also included in Emergence from the Shadows: First Peoples Photographic Perspectives (1999-2000) at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The Dress Show: La mode dans tous ses états (2003) at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. His work is included several prominent public collections in Canada, including the City of Ottawa, Canada Council Art Bank, Woodland Cultural Centre and the Royal Ontario Museum. He is also Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective/Collectif des Conservateurs Autochtone (ACC/CCA), a non-profit national arts service organization that supports, promotes and advocates on behalf of the work of Aboriginal art and cultural curators. He has an upcoming solo exhibition at Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg (2008). http://www.barryacearts.com
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Karen Bailey has worked full-time as a professional artist for twenty-five years,. Her past work has included calligraphy, heraldry, book illustration, courtroom art and portraiture. Recently she was selected by the Department of National Defense to be a military artist. Primarily, Karen Bailey paints people. She has documented servers (Are You Being Served?), hairstylists (CUT) and most recently the "Marjorie" paintings celebrating the life of Marjorie Gray. In Ottawa, Karen is represented by the Dale Smith Gallery. www.karenbailey.ca
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Judith Berry paints piles of sticks and mounds of grass. They form tunnels, buildings, and quasi-human forms that mutate, collapse, and reform in the constant shuffle between order and chaos. She has had solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Her work can be found in various collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the permanent and lending collections of the Musée du Québec and in the City of Ottawa and the City of Montreal. In Ottawa she is represented by Galerie St. Laurent plus Hill and in Montreal she is represented by Galerie Art Mûr. She can be contacted through her website: judithberry.com
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Born in Manchester England, Josh Bates has lived in Mesa, Arizona and now resides in Ottawa with his wife, two boys and two dogs. Josh grew up in Ottawa and studied fine arts at University of Ottawa but completed his studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB (where he made the Dean's List and received the Gardiner Fine Art Scholarship for the highest departmental grade point average). He has participated in group / solo exhibitions in Ottawa, Vancouver and Sackville, and his work is featured in the Canada Council Art Bank and the City of Ottawa collection, among others.
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Marion M. Bordier defines herself as a citizen of the world with cultural ties involving five languages and spreading over three continents. She studied Latin American literature at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and Visual Arts at University of Ottawa, Ontario. She recently exhibited her work in Denmark and represented Canada at FotoAmérica, the month of photography in Chile with a solo at Galeria Animal in Santiago. She has presented solos, among others at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa ; the Contemporary art Centre in Prague ; Axe Néo-7, Gatineau ; Floating Gallery, Winnipeg ; SAW Gallery, Ottawa ; Galerie AMERS, Concarneau and Galerie Artem, Quimper, both in France, and at Canada House in Beijing, China. She has been invited to exhibit at major international events such as the Fourth and Fifth Art Biennials in Cuba ; Aachen Kunstmuseum in Germany ; the Caracas Bienniale at Museum of Contemporary Art Sofia Imber, Venezuela ; Hamburg Photography Triennale , Germany ; Cuenca PaintingBiennale, Ecuador ; and the francophonic days of Prague at the Wallony-Brussels Centre in the Czech Republic. Along her artistic production, Marion M. Bordier teaches photography and art theory and works as an independent curator. She lives in Canada in the Outaouais.
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Violeta Borisonik was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and moved to Canada in 1989. She has an Architecture degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a Diploma in Visual Arts from the Ottawa School of Art. Violeta is a mixed media artist working in the subject of urban landscape. Through texture, color, volume and a variety of materials, she reproduces images of big cities. Layers of paint, rust, and cracks are just some of the details of the walls in her compositions. "Walls", she says, "are the canvas where people express themselves. Love messages, political propaganda and graffiti are the marks of society. If you decode these messages you understand the grounds of that society". Violeta has exhibited at Ottawa City Hall, Atrium Gallery, Cube and L'Imagier among others. Many of her works are in private collections.
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Gail Bourgeois has an MFA from Concordia University. Her exhibition record spans more than twenty years in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in England. Her commitment to cultural practices includes independent curating and publishing articles, reviews and essays in leading Canadian and British journals. She has been teaching for more than fifteen years and has developed and taught university lecture courses at Concordia University and the University of Ottawa. Currently she teaches drawing at the Ottawa School of Art where she coordinates the Diploma Program. Since taking her administrative position, she has initiated and is developing a unique fine and contemporary crafts certificate program to be launched in September 2007. www.gailbourgeois.ca
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Mimi Cabri
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Mimi Cabri is a ceramic artist who works with red clay and sgraffito drawings, which adds excitement to sculptures and other forms. Recent Solo exhibitions include City Nest at the Ottawa City Hall (2005) and at the Burlington Art Centre, Courtyard Exhibition (2004). Cabri's work is 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.
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Alexandre Castonguay
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Alexandre Castonguay's art practice is based in digital and photographic media. His works are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Canada Council Art Bank and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. He is visiting professor at the University of Ottawa and former artististic director of Artengine. Past exhibitions include Musée d'art contemporain (Montréal), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée d'art urbain and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.
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Carrie Colton is a contemporary portrait artist whose paintings seek to represent the physical and psychological attributes of real or imagined individuals and to convey the ever-present tension between the outer persona and the inner self. Cry Baby is a painting from her present portrait series Minor Melodramas. This series as a whole seeks to shed light on the teenage tightrope walk--a balancing act between childhood and adulthood and between concealing and revealing, Carrie currently lives and works in Ottawa. Her work, which is included in the City of Ottawa's collection, has shown in several solo and group exhibitions around Ottawa. She is currently represented by the Dale Smith Gallery. http://artengine.ca/carriecolton/
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Heidi Conrod was born in Montreal in 1970. She obtained her BSc (Biology) from the University of Ottawa. She then studied painting, drawing and printmaking at the Ottawa School of Art and the University of Ottawa (Visual Arts). Her work is inspired by everyday life, referencing the people and the landscapes around her. Heidi works primarily in encaustic, alternating layers of wax and resin. It is a process of constant push and pull resulting in rich and active surfaces that are both sensual and contemplative. She has had several solo exhibitions in Ottawa (Dale Smith Gallery, Artguise Gallery), Gatineau (La Maison de la Culture), Toronto (Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects), and upcoming in Vancouver (Trunk Gallery). Her work has also been featured in several group exhibitions and at the AFF Contemporary Art Fair in NY. Heidi currently lives and works in Ottawa. www.heidiconrod.com
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Philip Craig
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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.
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Shannon Craig
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Shannon Craig is a highly accomplished Canadian artist. Educated in both the crafts and design program at Sheridan College, and the painting and drawing program at the Ontario College of Art and Design, As well, Shannon had the benefit of growing up in a highly artistic and creative environment, and has been driven to create unique and intricate artwork for most of her life. She possesses a solid following for her work having had many solo shows at prominent galleries in Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg. Because of this her work is in many private and corporate collections across Canada and Europe, notably the British High Commissioner of Ireland. Shannon travels extensively to capture her subject matter and takes much of her inspiration from the powerful beauty and visual structure of Canadian landscapes as well as the often overlooked, subtle beauties found in urban environments. Through her use of traditional oils, she captures the visceral and emotional intensity of the landscapes she paints. Shannon presently resides and works in Ottawa.
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Chantal Dahan is a visual, video and new media artist. She was born and raised in France and now lives in Québec. She detains a Masters degree in visual and new media arts from l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Her work has been shown in Québec, Canada, Europe and South Korea. In 2004, she was awarded the Prize of Excellence New technologies by the Foundation pour les arts, les lettres et la culture de l'Outaouais. She got an Honorable Mention Award for "Le Paquebot tahitien" at L'exposition-Concours l'Art et le Papier V, cinquième biennale nationale, organized by La galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron. Prints from this series are in the collection of Cascades Groupe Papiers Fins, Dare Human Resources Corporation and Loto-Québec. She investigates the notions of memory and identity and plays on polarities such as reality and fiction... Thanks, in most part, to a grant from Canada Arts Council she is presently working on a project in photography, video and new media about rural and urban Quebec's culture and identity.
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Duncan de Kergommeaux RCA. Born in northern British Columbia in 1927, his career has spanned five decades beginning in in 1951 at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions, one (two‑person) circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. His paintings are in private, corporate and public collections with major holdings in the Carleton University Art Gallery, The London Regional Art Gallery and the McIntosh Gallery at the University of Western Ontario where he is an Emeritus professor of Visual Arts. His last major solo exhibition, Vanishing Icons, was in St.john's, Newfoundland in 2002.
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Reuel Dechene
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Reuel Dechene is a Montreal based artist with many ties to Ottawa. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada. Reuel is continuing his studies in the Intermedia/Cyberarts, Studio Arts program at Concordia University Montreal. His work can be found in the collections of Canada Council Art Bank, the City of Ottawa, and several private collections. Reuel has a solo exhibition at Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton in September 2007. In Ottawa, Reuel is represented by Dale Smith Gallery, 137 Beechwood Avenue. www.artengine.ca/xmaslite/ http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~bart/
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Tim desClouds has been working in Ottawa as a professional artist and art teacher at Canterbury programme for the arts for the past 24 years. His works can be found in numerous government, corporate, and private collections throughout Canada and the United States, and he has also completed several large public commissions in the city of Ottawa. He is represented in Ottawa by Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, www.galeriestlaurentplushill.com
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Josée Dubeau est née à Montréal, vit et travaille dans l'Outaouais. Elle détient une maîtrise de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (1994), et a réalisé plusieurs projets d'intégration des arts à l'architecture dans l'Outaouais depuis 1998. Son travail s'élabore dans le contexte de résidence et d'exposition tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger: le studio de la fondation Christoph Merian à Bâle en 1998, la Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia en 2002-03, et plus récemment, en 2004-05, le studio du Québec à Berlin à la Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Elle a reçu plusieurs bourses du Conseil des Arts du Canada et du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec depuis 1994. Sa démarche explore la typologie des espaces génériques avec leur idéal de perfection neutre et uniforme et met de l'avant la dimension structurelle de l'espace et du temps. Que l'on pense à ses installations, dessins ou objets, ils ne cessent d'aborder le vide de l'attente et ses instants de repli.
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Andrew Fay was raised and educated in Ottawa and received his training at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Having painted for many years in oil, Andrew now works in acrylic paint. The focus of his work is the human figure. His paintings can be found in private and public collections including those of the City of Ottawa and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, most notably at the Karsh-Masson Gallery, the Ottawa Art Gallery, and the Ottawa School of Art Gallery. His paintings are currently displayed at La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa.
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Marion Fischer was born in Dortmund, Germany and immigrated to Canada settling in Kingston, Ontario. She studied at Queen's University receiving her Bachelor of Nursing Science, Bachelor of Fine Art, and Bachelor of Education. Living in many regions of northern and eastern Ontario over her professional career, Marion's work experience ranges from clinical and public health nursing, to teaching science, photography and art at the secondary school level. Since leaving teaching four years ago to paint full-time, she has exhibited at the Dale Smith Gallery, by whom she is represented. The subject matter of her work has great range, but a consistent formal thread is the juxtaposition and layering of images whose relationship reveals the intended message. Marion currently lives and works in Chelsea, Quebec.
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Anna Frlan is a sculptor who works exclusively with steel. Her objective is to reveal the life and movement inherent in steel, signifying that it is a part of the natural world. Steel fragments are plasma-cut and welded, resulting in sculptures derived from patterns of growth intrinsic to nature. These large-scale works evolve with the passage of time, sometimes requiring one or two years to complete. Frlan received her BFA from the University of Ottawa, and has established her practice in Ottawa. Her most recent solo exhibition, "Submerged," was held at the City of Ottawa Art Gallery in 2005. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa. Her work is found in the corporate collections of Nortel Networks and the City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection.
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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. An award-winning graduate of the University of Ottawa, her work has been exhibited widely and is included in many corporate, public and private collections. She is active in the arts community, including service on the Board of the Ottawa Art Gallery. Barbara has been invited to have a solo exhibiton of her work at the Canadian Museum of Nature in 2008. This painting, inspired by an early morning lakeside walk is made available courtesy of the Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa.
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Lorraine Gilbert has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1980. Canada's major galleries and museums, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery have collected her photographic works. In 2003, she was honoured to be the first recipient of the Ottawa Karsh Award for Excellence in Photographic Art. She has taught in the visual arts since 1987, at Concordia, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and at the University of Ottawa.With an early background in Environmental Biology and graduate studies in Sylviculture (the culture of trees), Lorraine Gilbert's artistic practice has always been related to the natural world and the human activities which affect it. During the 1990's, Gilbert worked closely with the Laurentian artist-run center: Boreal Art/ Nature, hosting artist residencies on her land in La Minerve, Québec. Various Important Trees is an ongoing project which promotes the assertion that our planet and our civilizations could be saved from destruction by planting and nurturing trees everywhere that trees will grow. In Central Park, February 2005, Jeanne-Claude and Christo installed "the Gates" behind this particularly important tree.
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Adrian Göllner has been described as a site-specific satirist. Employing a variety of mediums and techniques in a chameleon-like adaptation to the environments in which he exhibits, Göllner freely combines Cold War imagery, graphing techniques and references to Modernism in artworks that critique the North American consumer culture. Since graduating from Queen's University in 1987 with a BFA in sculpture, Göllner has made his home in Ottawa. While continuing to exhibit nationally and internationally, he has received a number of public art commissions, including one for the new Canadian Embassy in Berlin, which was completed in 2005. Göllner maintains a website at www.adriangollner.ca.
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Visual artist and teacher, Jerry Grey has been exhibiting nationally since 1963. She was trained at the Vancouver School of Art (1960 -1963) and University of Saskatchewan's Emma Lake Artists' Workshop (1964-1966). Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1984, she has taught at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Emily Carr School of Art, University of Ottawa, Ottawa School of Art and the Avenue Road Art School in Toronto. Grey has participated in solo and invitational exhibitions and her work appears in numerous public and private collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, National Library of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Finance, Bank of Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and The Ottawa Art Gallery. Grey's 28 portraits from Rare Spirits: A Personal Tribute to Vintage Elders is now part of the Portrait Gallery of Canada collection. Her painting Lacrimosa: A Requiem for the Planet was featured in June 2006 in Water and Cities: Acting on the Vision, a conference held at Simon Fraser University in June 2006. www.artengine.ca/jerrygrey
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Bruce Garner chose to live in Ottawa over 37 years ago. He liked the size and atmosphere. As a result Ottawa is privileged to have his greatest body of large monumental sculptures that have been commissioned by developers, all levels of government, art galleries and a multitude of private homes. You will recognize his sculptures at the Ottawa Little Theatre, The A-Channel [Goddess Dagain, 400' up];four children dancing (Joy) on the Sparks St. Mall accompanied by the 13' Grizzly. TheWorld Exchange Plaza houses a magnificent installation of Moonfragements (bronze wall, railing, bullrushes) whle City Hall proudly displays OutReach, a 27' wide sculpture above its entrance.
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I, Tamaya Garner started my apprenticeship with Sculptor Bruce Garner in 1980. Learning without the distraction of producing opened me to fully understanding of how to work wax, weld, cast, fabricate, polish etc. When I was ready to sculpt, I had no unrealistic expectations in completing my concepts. To be able to take your idea from a drawing and completing it from start to finish is truly a magnificent feeling of freedom. I started to exhibit at the Womanmade Gallery in Chicago, took a break, now have started again with four group shows at the new CUBE gallery here in Ottawa.
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Colwyn Griffith (b.1971) studied photography at Dawson College in Montreal and has a BA in film studies from Carleton University. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions across Canada and abroad including: Gallery 44 Centre for Photography in Toronto, Le Mois de la Photo Montreal, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. He has received several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. His photographs have also appeared in publications such as Carte Blanche Magenta Publishing and Image and Imagination; edited by Martha Langford, McGill-Queens University Press 2005. He lives in New York City. www.colwyngriffith.com
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Eliza Griffiths
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Eliza Griffiths is a figurative painter whose work explores psycho-socio-sexual themes through a framework of invented characters. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the country, as well as in the U.S and the U.K.
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Nan Griffiths is an architect who went to the Chelsea School of Art school in London before moving to her architectural studies. Throughout her architectural career, including years as a Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, she has pursued the art of landscape: that of the human body, and that of human interventions in the natural world. She works in diverse media and has participated in a number of exhibitions and art auctions in Ottawa.
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Meaghan Haughian graduated from Canterbury High School and received a BFA from Mount Allison University, NB where she focused on printmaking and photography. Since 2004, her work has been exhibited at La Petite Mort, Pukka, Cube, the Ottawa School of Art, Karsh-Masson and with the Red Salon Artists, as well as at Purdue University, Eye Level, Struts and Galerie Sans Nom. Upcoming exhibitions include The Lois Diaries (solo show at La Petite Mort, June 2007) and group exhibits at Patrick Gordon Framing and RCA Visual. "Creating art is my way of understanding and holding onto life and the experiences that form personal history and identity. My emotion-based narratives explore with intimacy the conflicts and dualities present in life. Recurring themes include childhood, family, sexuality, loss, memory and psychological states."
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Sarah Hatton was born in Wolverhampton, England. She received an MFA from the University of Calgary and a BFA from Queen's University. She lives in Chelsea, Quebec, and is based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her paintings explore issues of childhood, in particular the mixed emotional responses that can be provoked through representations of young girls. By focusing on situations that encourage competitiveness or aggressiveness among children, she provides a starting point to critique the general shifts in society that put pressure on young children to look and behave like adults at an increasingly early age. Sarah Hatton is represented in Ottawa by Dale Smith Gallery, and by Halde Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland. www.summitstudios.ca
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Rob Hinchley is from the Ottawa area and was born in 1969. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in1993 with honors in painting and printmaking. Hinchley was informed by the "Toronto School" of painting as he worked with Graham Coughtry and Gordon Rayner. He has continued to follow a painterly, abstract approach to imagery and the Canadian landscape. Rob is a teacher at the Ottawa School of Art and Algonquin College. He now lives in Arnprior, as this area of the Ottawa Valley inspires much of his work. Rob Hinchley is represented by Galerie St-Laurent+Hill, www.galeriestlaurentplushill.com
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Jean Jewer - Born and raised in Main Brook, a small outport of Northern Newfoundland, I obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg. I have lived in the Ottawa area since 1994. Growing up on The Island has given me a great love and respect for the environment and the ever-changing drama of the land and the sea. I'm an abstract painter. The imagery in my artwork is a response to this natural world with all its beauties, diversities, and hostilities. www.jeanjewer.com
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Louis Joncas was born in Winnipeg in 1959 and currently lives in Montreal. He received his MFA in studio arts (photography) from Concordia University and a BFA in photography from the University of Ottawa. His works are held in many private, corporate and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has participated in several exhibitions most notably at the Musée de Joliette, Beaverbrook art gallery, Mackenzie art gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, St. Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax, the Ottawa Art Gallery, and more recently the Biennale de Quebec in Quebec city and the Stewart Hall Art Gallery in Montreal. He is represented by Projex-Mtl galerie in Montreal. www.projex-mtl.com
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Penelope Kokkinos is a ceramic artist, curator, writer, and instructor at the Ottawa School of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Some of her recent publications include Pot: As Movable Memory (2004), Joni Moriyama: Echo (2004), Evidence of Everyday (2003), Crafts: transient/transitional/transgressive bodies (1999). Kokkinos' career has been transitory in nature, developing her art practice in a variety of cities across Canada and abroad. Her main areas of intrigue are contemporary ceramics, interactive installation and sculpture. She has acquired an MFA from Concordia University and a BFA from the University of Ottawa. www.ncf.ca/~eg512
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Jaya Krishnan, born in Malaysia, has lived in Ottawa since 1979. He attended the Kuala Lumpur College of Art from 1974 to 1977. He is a longtime resident of the Glebe where he has done many of his most brilliant and atmospheric paintings. Viewers will recognize a favourite subject - Brown's Inlet with its weeping willows and ever changing water and skyscapes. Influenced by the Barbizon School of Painters. He captures moments of light and glowing colours. Jaya has travelled extensively and has works in numerous private collections in Malaysia, Europe, the United States, Mexico and Canada. He is represented in art galleries in Toronto, Oakville, Kleinburg, Calgary and Saint John.
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Manon Labrosse – I am a graduate of the Visual Arts program at the University of Ottawa. My career as an artist, although still young, started right here at the Ottawa Art Gallery Sales & Rental when an exhibition titled "Who's Next, Who's Next" was organized for the 2002 graduating class. Since then I've been lucky enough to be represented by Galerie St-Laurent + Hill in Ottawa and Gallery Goldie in Montreal and am now getting ready for a solo exhibition at Galerie Art Image in Gatineau. Coming from a small town up north I felt a little lost in the big city, missing the open landscapes and the long stretches of unpopulated land. As a child I would travel with my parents to Ottawa often and always watched the telephone poles and power lines go by: they always looked a little out of place, and I guess I kind of felt we had something in common. I have been working with the theme of telephone poles and power lines since 2002.
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David McKenzie has been working with clay in the Ottawa area since 1974 and in the village of Wakefield since 1990 (with his partner Maureen Marcotte). Previously having shown his work in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto it can now mostly be seen at Galerie McKenzie Marcotte in Wakefield. His work in high-fired porcelain is known for its intensely painted surfaces using a rich palette of glaze colours and textures. A whimsical sense of design and a lyrical drawing line infuse each unique piece with warmth and intimacy. www.mckenziemarcotte.ca
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Patrick John Mills was born in Saint Jerome Quebec in 1972. He started painting at age 20. He did two years of civil Engineering and finished a degree in Child Psycology at Concordia University. Mills' work is widely collected all over the world, and his paintings have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Europe and America. Presently his work is represented by Modern Artists Gallery (70 large paintings and 100 drawings) in the United Kingdom, Gora Gallery in Montreal, and he is openning his own private gallery this summer in Ottawa near Parkdale Market. Aside from being a painter, Mills writes poetry and has been published in sixteen books and has received such awards as: International Merit of Poetry (Silver Award) from the International Society of Poets Washington DC., Best Poems of the 1990's by the National Library of Congress, and Editor's Choice Award among others.
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Paula Murray lives and works from Meech Lake, Quebec and was elected to The Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 2006. For extended periods throughout her career, she sailed between Canada and South America. Inspiration is drawn from this ongoing relationship with nature, and has been propelled forward with her discovery of the Bahá'í Faith. As part of The Quebec Scene, Aspect is currently on exhibit in Ottawa City Hall, along with her suspended sculpture Nautilus. She is regularly represented at SOFA Chicago and was selected for the prestigious 54th Premio Faenza-International Ceramic Art Competition in Italy (2005). Murray's work is exhibited in Canada, the US, Germany, Italy, and England. Her website is www.paulamurray.ca
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Marie-Jeanne Musiol records the luminous imprints of biological bodies. She regularly adds specimens to her photographic collection of electromagnetized plants, constituting a first energy botany set forth in several gallery and outdoor installations (Garden of Shade, Garden of Light, Montreal Botanical Garden, 2005). Bodies of Light was installed successively at the ZKM (Germany), Conde Duque Medialab (Madrid), V2/TENT (Rotterdam), Ludwig Museum (Budapest) and La Maison Européenne de la Photo (Paris) in 2006. ARCPoetry Magazine, CV and Prefix Photo have published portfolios of her most recent work. www.musiol.ca Marie-Jeanne Musiol enregistre les empreintes lumineuses des corps biologiques. Elle enrichit constamment son herbier avec des photographies de plantes électromagnétisées et tente de constituer une première botanique énergétique présentée dans des installations en galerie et à l'extérieur (Jardin d'ombre, jardin de lumière, Jardin botanique de Montréal, 2005). Corps de lumière a été monté successivement au ZKM (Allemagne), Conde Duque Medialab (Madrid), V2/TENT ( Rotterdam), Ludwig Museum (Budapest) et à La Maison Européenne de la Photo (Paris) en 2006. ARCPoetryMagazine, CV et Prefix Photo ont publié des portfolios de ses plus récents travaux. www.musiol.ca
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Marie-France Nitski's interests are in folk art, world mythology and children's art. For many years she did research on masks and mask making for contemporary rituals and festivities in Mexico and South America; in Catalonia her research was on the Roman bestiary and in Bolivia on masks and animal figures on ancient textiles. In Bolivia, she also worked with children in "Children Village" in La Paz (paintings). Most recently, she spent some time in Uganda, working with orphaned children of Kampala on huge murals (project sponsored by Holt International). In Canada, her interest in children and their art resulted in her involvement in school murals, banner projects and art workshops. Working with strong primary colours and broad strokes, her paintings are full of human, animal and vegetable forms from mythology mixed with events of every day life. www.nitski.ca
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Ron Noganosh has worked as a zoo keeper, sign painter, scrap dealer, art professor and alligator wrestler. Born at Magnetawan Reserve, he studied art at the University of Ottawa. Although his work reflects his Ojibway heritage, it is a scathing commentary on issues such as ecology, racism, and socioeconomic hierarchies that are universal to all. His art has won critical acclaim in exhibitions at Canada's National Gallery and the Museum of Civilization, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and in national museums and galleries in Japan, Taiwan. Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Germany, Denmark, Finland and St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Sonia Tarantour Pearl (A.O.C.A.D., O.S.A., F.O.W.S., C.S.P.W.C.) is an award winning artist. She is an associate of The Ontario College of Art and Design, The Ontario Society of Artists, a Fellow of the Ottawa Watercolour Society and a member of The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her Works are held in private and corporate collections, including the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, the City of Ottawa, Saskatoon Gallery and Conservatory, Shell Canada, and Carleton University. Her interpretation of landscapes focus on experimentation, process and transition. Consistent throughout is a love of nature and drawing. Abridged biography.
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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 UK. 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, University of California, Santa Cruz, and resident at 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 U.S.A. and Canada); Carleton University Art Gallery. Select Group Exhibitions include: Some Canadian Women Artists, National Gallery of Canad; 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
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Uta Riccius
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Erin Robertson is a painter and sculptor raised in Canada and East Africa. She has maintained a studio in Ottawa, Ontario for the past 17 years where she explores a variety of materials and themes as a multidisciplinary artist and art educator. Erin is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Guelph University. Her work has been in many solo and group exhibitions and is in several public and private collections. Her current series of paintings explore environmental issues in a contemporary reflection of ideals associated with the early 19-century Romantic Movement. www.erinrobertson.com
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Graham Robinson
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Carol Rowland-Ulmann studied linoleum printmaking and etching in Ottawa and studied Intaglio, lithography and silkscreen at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York City. She has exhibited in various National and International juried print exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States. Solo shows include Atrium Gallery (2002), Gloucester Gallery (2003), Centrepointe Theatre Gallery (2004), Cumberland Gallery (2005), Ottawa City Hall Gallery (2007) and Atrium Gallery (2007). Her works can be found in the City of Ottawa Collection and Ottawa School of Art, as well as corporate and private collections in Canada, England, Sweden, New Zealand and the United States. www.woodarts.ca/carol
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Frank Shebageget (Ojibway) is from northwestern Ontario, and currently resides in Ottawa. As an installation artist, his work reflects his continued interest in the geography of the Canadian Shield and the aesthetic qualities of everyday materials. Through the use of repetition, he explores the tense relationships between production, consumption, and the economics of beauty, often by playing with the incongruity of mass production versus the handcrafted object. Shebageget graduated with his A.O.C.A. from the Ontario College of Art in 1996, and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Victoria in 2000. He has participated in the group exhibitions Making Sense of Things, McMaster Museum, Hamilton/C.N. Gorman Museum, Davis, CA (2006); Kosmos, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa (2006); Au fils de mes jours (In My Lifetime), Musee de Quebec, Quebec City (2005); Dezhan Ejan, Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC (2004); Remote Access, A Space Gallery, Toronto (2004); 3, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa (2003). Solo exhibitions include: Quantification, Tribe Artist Run Centre, Saskatoon (2003), and Home Made, Gallery 101, Ottawa (2002). His work can be found in the collections of the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Dorothy Hoover Library of the Ontario College of Art, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, as well as several private collections.
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Born in Saskatchewan, Cindy Stelmackowich moved to Ottawa to do an MA after completing a BA and BFA at the University of Saskatchewan. While completing a Ph.D. and teaching at Carleton University her artwork and academic research has focused on themes related to medical science. In its aims to engage with science?s bodies of knowledge, her work often brings together diverse medical materials and found objects, most recently through digitally combining photographic images. Cindy has exhibited across Canada in solo and group exhibitions, including a 2004 solo exhibition at the Ottawa Art Gallery, "Medical Imprints." She is represented in Ottawa by Patrick Mikhail Gallery.
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Michael Schreier, professional artist, photographer, has dedicated his considerable professional career, from 1972 to the present, to the celebration of both the public and private hero. Such exploration centres on the private ritual (found in the work, In Quiet Celebration and A Family Album), while the works In the Shadow of the Herdsman, A Masque in Our Time, and The Liberal Leadership Convention, 1984, explore the public arena. As an artist-in-residence at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, Schreier produced the exhibition, Feet of Clay, a study in the ethics of international athletics. This work is complemented by the private search for place, as witnessed in a series of photographs of private gardens and patios (1978 to 1982), and includes the documentation of abandoned Indian villages, Skedans and Tanu, as well as an exploration of Ottawa's Daly Building, A Private Sanctuary. Selected works from these explorations are represented both in public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Archives Photography Collection, the Agnes-Etherington Art Centre, Canadian Portrait Gallery, Visual Studies Workshop, (Rochester, New York), Carleton University Art Gallery, and the University of Ottawa Library Special Collections. Courtesy Patrick Mikhail Gallery.
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Carl Stewart is a weaver living and working in Ottawa. He has been a member of the Enriched Bread Artists since 1997. Recent exhibitions include relative at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Video Works and Black & White at The Gallery EBA, Ottawa. Upcoming exhibitions include fragments at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario in August and Book Works at The Gallery EBA in September. In 2008 he will present that bright and beautiful life at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI. In 2009 he will present malady at Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario.
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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.
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Jeff Thomas has been an exhibiting artist for 27 years. The focus of his photo-based practice is the illumination of the First Nations urban experience and to challenge the public's perceptions and stereotypes of First Nations people. He is also an independent curator and has developed exhibitions for the National Library and Archives of Canada, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
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Jim Thomson has been creating in clay since 1973 and has exhibited his work across Canada, in England, China, Japan, The Netherlands, Italy, as well as in Columbus ,Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and currently in Washington, D.C.. He has lectured at The Nova Scotia College 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 new students at his newly built Lolaland Clay Studio located in the Gatineau hills where he conducts workshops and teaches privately. For information on this, please go to www.jimthomson.ca
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Eric Walker was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1957. He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and where he received an ANSCAD diploma in Studio and a BFA. Walker has received numerous awards for his artwork, including in 2005 and 1999 Canada Council "a" grants and "a" awards from both the Ontario Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres de Quebec. Walker's works are widely held in public collections including Canada Council Art Bank, DFAIT, The Ottawa Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Rooms, St. John's, Carleton University Art Gallery, the Owens Art Gallery (Mount Allison University), Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Federicton, the City of Ottawa and V-Tape, Toronto. Walker has exhibited his art work widely in Canada, with international representation in group shows in Lublin, Poland (1987), Mexico City (2001), Amsterdam (2002) New York (2006) and in 2002 a solo exhibition at the Canadian Embassy Art Gallery in Tokyo. http://artengine.ca/ericwalker/
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Justin Wonnacott moved to Ottawa to begin a career in photography in 1974. Since then, his production has been constant and he has shown in many parts of Canada and abroad. Today, his work forms part of many institutional and private collections. In 2005, there were three portfolios of his work shown in Ottawa, as part of Inside Look at Karsh Masson Gallery, and two exhibitions at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, including a solo show dealing with public art titled eye candy. He is also a teacher, for many years at the Ottawa School of Art, in 2000 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and three sessions at the University of Ottawa in 2002 and 2005. As part of his work, he also writes about photography and curates exhibitions from time to time. In 2005, he was awarded the Karsh award for photography by the City of Ottawa. Last year he exhibited locally at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in the group show, The Street, He is currently adding to a body of work that builds upon the large photomontages exhibited at AxeNéo7 as part of Le sujet construit en photographie, he is continuing to work on two large portfolios , the first dealing with public artworks in the Ottawa region and the second is an extended view of Somerset street between Bank street and it's western termination. The print included in Splash is from a small project loosely based on ideas based on the still life genre. http://www.aregeebee.net/
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Alex Wyse is a well-known, well-loved Ottawa artist. His works can be found in numerous public and private collections
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