Margaret Rodgers | Canada | 905 436 8465 | mrodgers@rogers.com
OshawaSpaceInvaders 2013: Contemporary Art in Temporary Spaces
The IRIS Group is pleased to be part of
OshawaSpaceInvaders: Contemporary Art in Temporary Spaces
A Festival celebrating Visual Art in Downtown Oshawa
http://www.oshawaspaceinvaders.com
IRIS will be at 16 King Street East Oshawa
Exhibition preview Friday September 13, 6 - 9 pm
The streets of Downtown Oshawa will come alive with visual art from September 13 through 28th, 2013. Celebrating the lively visual art scene in downtown Oshawa, approximately 100 artists from seven groups will present exhibitions of artwork in vacant commercial spaces. Each group of artists represents a unique relationship to Oshawa and the Durham Region. Entitled OshawaSpaceInvaders, this exhibition
is supported by the Downtown Oshawa Board of Management (BIA) and numerous individuals and businesses in Downtown Oshawa.
Sept. 13th – 28th, Wed.–Sat. 12:00 – 6:00pm
OshawaSpaceInvaders, Durham Region’s largest free contemporary art festival is a full scale art attack as numerous art groups and approximately 100 artists take over empty spaces in Oshawa’s Downtown. All activities Simcoe Street and East to Mary Street.
Sept. 20th OshawaSpaceInvaders ARTCRAWL
The full invasion takes place Friday, Sept. 20th with 10 bands on 2 stages starting at 5:00, opening comments and Main Stage at 7:00. Space Vendors beside the Regent and UOIT on the Victoria St. Mall. Tour the many galleries and meet Silver Elvis!
Oshawa’s upstarts VIVA MARS land on the main stage at 7:00 and two-time Juno Award winning blues artist Jack de Keyzer at 10:00. The Main stage is off Celina Street one block east of Simcoe
at King and the second stage is on the Victoria St. Mall beside the Regent Theatre.
Adults and children are encouraged to dress the part.
OSI will is taking place during Culture Days (September 27-29) and Oshawa Doors Open (September 28).
The groups involved include
Durham Artfest Group
The Iris Group
Broken Arts
The Vault
Durham College Fine Art
O’Neill Collegiate Alumni Artists
Dwyer Catholic High School Alumni Artists
The inspiration for OshawaSpaceInvaders is the very successful Durham Artfest, a similar event in 1992-95. This new
event, expanded to seven artists’ groups reflects the maturing and diversification of the Downtown Oshawa art scene and art in the Durham
Region.
For further information
contact Gary Greenwood 905 725-9199, Steven Frank 905 926-1171 or Angela Mittoni 905 576-7606
Gary.greenwood@sympatico.ca sjfrank23@yahoo.ca angela.dobia@rogers.com
oshawaspaceinvaders@gmail.com
OshawaSpaceInvaders: Contemporary Art in Temporary Spaces
A Festival celebrating Visual Art in Downtown Oshawa
http://www.oshawaspaceinvaders.com
IRIS will be at 16 King Street East Oshawa
Exhibition preview Friday September 13, 6 - 9 pm
The streets of Downtown Oshawa will come alive with visual art from September 13 through 28th, 2013. Celebrating the lively visual art scene in downtown Oshawa, approximately 100 artists from seven groups will present exhibitions of artwork in vacant commercial spaces. Each group of artists represents a unique relationship to Oshawa and the Durham Region. Entitled OshawaSpaceInvaders, this exhibition
is supported by the Downtown Oshawa Board of Management (BIA) and numerous individuals and businesses in Downtown Oshawa.
Sept. 13th – 28th, Wed.–Sat. 12:00 – 6:00pm
OshawaSpaceInvaders, Durham Region’s largest free contemporary art festival is a full scale art attack as numerous art groups and approximately 100 artists take over empty spaces in Oshawa’s Downtown. All activities Simcoe Street and East to Mary Street.
Sept. 20th OshawaSpaceInvaders ARTCRAWL
The full invasion takes place Friday, Sept. 20th with 10 bands on 2 stages starting at 5:00, opening comments and Main Stage at 7:00. Space Vendors beside the Regent and UOIT on the Victoria St. Mall. Tour the many galleries and meet Silver Elvis!
Oshawa’s upstarts VIVA MARS land on the main stage at 7:00 and two-time Juno Award winning blues artist Jack de Keyzer at 10:00. The Main stage is off Celina Street one block east of Simcoe
at King and the second stage is on the Victoria St. Mall beside the Regent Theatre.
Adults and children are encouraged to dress the part.
OSI will is taking place during Culture Days (September 27-29) and Oshawa Doors Open (September 28).
The groups involved include
Durham Artfest Group
The Iris Group
Broken Arts
The Vault
Durham College Fine Art
O’Neill Collegiate Alumni Artists
Dwyer Catholic High School Alumni Artists
The inspiration for OshawaSpaceInvaders is the very successful Durham Artfest, a similar event in 1992-95. This new
event, expanded to seven artists’ groups reflects the maturing and diversification of the Downtown Oshawa art scene and art in the Durham
Region.
For further information
contact Gary Greenwood 905 725-9199, Steven Frank 905 926-1171 or Angela Mittoni 905 576-7606
Gary.greenwood@sympatico.ca sjfrank23@yahoo.ca angela.dobia@rogers.com
oshawaspaceinvaders@gmail.com
The Tree Museum: Easy Come, Easy Go
Click to SEE the CATALOGUE OF SOUVENIRS
2013 image: Jean-Michel Komarnicki
Art Gallery of Peterborough
Sept 7 to Oct 27, 2013
The Tree Museum: Easy Come, Easy Go
Guest curated by: EJ Lightman
Featured artists: Rebecca Armstrong, Jocelyne Belcourt Salem,
Michel Boucher, Maralynn Cherry, John Dickson, Deeter Hastenteufel with
Peter Gugeler, Roger Henriques, Francis LeBouthillier, E.J. Lightman, Dyan
Marie, Anne O'Callaghan, Heather Phillips, Ed Pien, Reinhard Reitzenstein,
Margaret Rodgers, Lyla Rye, Meghan Scott, Jordy Steinberg, Penelope
Stewart, Orest Tataryn, Jeannie Thib, Francesca Vivenza, Tim Whiten, Gayle
Young, Badanna Zack and Johannes Zits
Easy Come, Easy Go is a ‘suitcase project’ conceived of by the curator with some of the featured artists while working on the last Tree Museum residency project. Following these initial discussions, residency artists were invited to reanimate old salvaged suitcases thereby recuperating the old vessels, and thus breathing another kind of life otherwise discarded forms.
Lightman clarifies her position by writing, “The project addresses the issues of “coming and going”; inner reflection; and relics of pilgrimage, both in the objective and subjective realms. Given the frequently nomadic aspect of modern life, the suitcase provides a rich symbol for movement, change, necessity, and ownership. At the same time, there is a sense that the suitcase holds a history; it may be viewed as an “historical” object, an artefact, something of use but no longer current . . . Entire stories exist between the hinge and clasp of a suitcase.”
Viewers may wonder about the stories these old suitcases hold? What enigmas they might contain? Featured artists mine the suitcase metaphor for its potential to open up discussions around the temporal and/or the transience of treed landscape. Likewise the luggage allegory is explored as a link between the private and public and/or singular/plural.
Singularity is introduced through each artist’s individual intervention plurality is addressed by the suitcase format taken by all twenty-five stuffed works. Similiarly the suitcase is recognized as a framing device that may cue spectators to think about the tension between its form and
its content and how these two notions could possibly be resolved (or extended) to illuminate a variety of scenarios including general longing for escape.
Lightman muses, “Just as the body may be described as a container for the spirit, the suitcase can be understood as a vessel for a
physical collection of sacred and mundane objects, all of which inevitably lose their original function, just like the Tree Museum which while remaining opening for viewing can no longer afford to support future residencies or put another way are transient in the greater scheme of things.”
AGP Curator, Carla Garnet
Special event for Tree Museum exhibit
Friday, September 27, 6:30 to 7:30 pm, Free
Unpack the Art
panel: Maralyn Cherry, E.J. Lightman, Anne O’Callaghan
Sept 7 to Oct 27, 2013
The Tree Museum: Easy Come, Easy Go
Guest curated by: EJ Lightman
Featured artists: Rebecca Armstrong, Jocelyne Belcourt Salem,
Michel Boucher, Maralynn Cherry, John Dickson, Deeter Hastenteufel with
Peter Gugeler, Roger Henriques, Francis LeBouthillier, E.J. Lightman, Dyan
Marie, Anne O'Callaghan, Heather Phillips, Ed Pien, Reinhard Reitzenstein,
Margaret Rodgers, Lyla Rye, Meghan Scott, Jordy Steinberg, Penelope
Stewart, Orest Tataryn, Jeannie Thib, Francesca Vivenza, Tim Whiten, Gayle
Young, Badanna Zack and Johannes Zits
Easy Come, Easy Go is a ‘suitcase project’ conceived of by the curator with some of the featured artists while working on the last Tree Museum residency project. Following these initial discussions, residency artists were invited to reanimate old salvaged suitcases thereby recuperating the old vessels, and thus breathing another kind of life otherwise discarded forms.
Lightman clarifies her position by writing, “The project addresses the issues of “coming and going”; inner reflection; and relics of pilgrimage, both in the objective and subjective realms. Given the frequently nomadic aspect of modern life, the suitcase provides a rich symbol for movement, change, necessity, and ownership. At the same time, there is a sense that the suitcase holds a history; it may be viewed as an “historical” object, an artefact, something of use but no longer current . . . Entire stories exist between the hinge and clasp of a suitcase.”
Viewers may wonder about the stories these old suitcases hold? What enigmas they might contain? Featured artists mine the suitcase metaphor for its potential to open up discussions around the temporal and/or the transience of treed landscape. Likewise the luggage allegory is explored as a link between the private and public and/or singular/plural.
Singularity is introduced through each artist’s individual intervention plurality is addressed by the suitcase format taken by all twenty-five stuffed works. Similiarly the suitcase is recognized as a framing device that may cue spectators to think about the tension between its form and
its content and how these two notions could possibly be resolved (or extended) to illuminate a variety of scenarios including general longing for escape.
Lightman muses, “Just as the body may be described as a container for the spirit, the suitcase can be understood as a vessel for a
physical collection of sacred and mundane objects, all of which inevitably lose their original function, just like the Tree Museum which while remaining opening for viewing can no longer afford to support future residencies or put another way are transient in the greater scheme of things.”
AGP Curator, Carla Garnet
Special event for Tree Museum exhibit
Friday, September 27, 6:30 to 7:30 pm, Free
Unpack the Art
panel: Maralyn Cherry, E.J. Lightman, Anne O’Callaghan
In Tune
BluSeed Studios
24 Cedar Street, Saranac Lake, NY 12983
Five artists’ documentation of an old piano- left outside in front of BluSeed over a period of years- manifested back to life via photo, painting, assemblage and print. Featured Artists: Eleanor Sweeney, Margaret Rodgers, John LaFalce, Tom Lascell and Larry Poole
Opening Reception March 8th, 5-7pm
Exhibition Runs 3/2-3/31
Ph: (518) 891-3799 || art@bluseedstudios.org
Carol Marie Vossler – Artistic Director
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 1-5pm and Saturday- Sunday, noon-5pm, or by appointment
24 Cedar Street, Saranac Lake, NY 12983
Five artists’ documentation of an old piano- left outside in front of BluSeed over a period of years- manifested back to life via photo, painting, assemblage and print. Featured Artists: Eleanor Sweeney, Margaret Rodgers, John LaFalce, Tom Lascell and Larry Poole
Opening Reception March 8th, 5-7pm
Exhibition Runs 3/2-3/31
Ph: (518) 891-3799 || art@bluseedstudios.org
Carol Marie Vossler – Artistic Director
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 1-5pm and Saturday- Sunday, noon-5pm, or by appointment
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I would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
