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SUMMARY:Rocks\, Streams\, and Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Rocks\, Streams\, and Dreams is a multifaceted exhibition celebrating the beauty of nature and our connection to the environment. \nRunning from March 9 to May 4\, this show highlights the work of local artists and emerging talents\, offering a rich and diverse perspective on landscapes\, waterways\, and natural forms. \nOur member artists\, Diana Scott\, Sharyn Seibert\, Suzanne Wakefield\, Nancy Farrell\, and Patti Collins will all be hanging a variety of pieces inspired by Ontario’s beautiful landscapes. \nThis special collection features intricate botanical drawings by Mary Anne Young\, stunning photography by AJ Longstreet\, and compelling pieces from emerging artist Pat Flood. \nThe exhibition also includes works from Centennial High School students\, who studied photographs of the Yorklands site—a historic space at the heart of conservation efforts by Yorklands Green Hub—and transformed them into unique artistic interpretations under the guidance of teachers Karin Silverstone and Erin Mulcahey. \nIn celebration of Earth Day\, the exhibition highlights the significance of preserving and appreciating our natural spaces through art.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/rocks-streams-and-dreams/
LOCATION:Artworks Gallery Guelph\, 404 York Road\, Guelph\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Visual Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250312
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SUMMARY:Brilliant Encounters
DESCRIPTION:Artworks Gallery Guelph is collaborating with The Bookshelf in downtown Guelph to display our Brilliant Encounters exhibit! \nWe hang a new themed show every two months. From now on\, our shows will spend two months at our 404 York location\, before moving to The Bookshelf for another two months. This gives Guelph art lovers more opportunities to see the work of our talented local artists! \n“Artworks Gallery Guelph at The Bookshelf” is located on the upper floor of The Bookshelf. \nIt will be open for viewing 30 minutes before and after each film screening\, and by appointment. Contact press.artworksgalleryguelph@gmail.com to book an appointment. \nBrilliant Encounters will be hosted there from March 9 – May 4.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/brilliant-encounters/
LOCATION:The Bookshelf\, 41 Quebec Street\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H2T1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250420
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SUMMARY:Over-saturated
DESCRIPTION:New works from Paige Bromby at 3rd Floor Gallery. \nSee the exhibition from March 17-April 19.\nGallery Hours: Monday – Friday\, 3pm – 5pm & Saturday\, 12pm – 5pm \nPaige Bromby is an emerging artist and community facilitator based in Fergus Ontario\, on the traditional lands of the Petun\, Anishinaabeg\, Haudenosaunee\, Attiwonderonk\, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Working primarily in painting and drawing\, Bromby explores her relationship to the land in a digital age. \nBromby creates paintings that explore the recording\, translation and filtering of the landscape through both artist and technology. Working from her own photographs Bromby breaks down her images through digital manipulations and layered composition\, she pursues a translation with each individual brush stroke. Initially maintaining a strong connection to the screen\, eventually the image is abandoned and she begins relying on reveries and instinct to find the landscape in a middle ground between artist and technology.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/over-saturated/
LOCATION:Wyndham Art Supplies\, 125 Wyndham St N\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H4E9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250327T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250413T173000
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SUMMARY:Paper Stories
DESCRIPTION:March 26 – April 13\, 2025\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, March 29\, 2 – 5 pm\nDemonstrations: Sunday\, April 6\, 1 – 3 pm\nArtist Talks: Sunday\, April 13\, 2 pm \nPAPER STORIES joins together three contemporary artists—Dominique Prévost\, Susan Ruptash and Heejung Shin—who share a mutual respect and love of paper. Although each artist expresses this in different ways\, they share common themes of repetition\, rhythm and poetry. Through a restrained palette\, the works will celebrate the importance of light\, and invite viewers to pay attention to details of texture\, colour and movement. \nAll three artists work in a variety of traditional Japanese heritage washi and Korean Hanji paper– both renowned for their exquisite texture and fibres\, embedded in a deep history of careful craft. \nFor more information click here. \nAddress: 30 Abell St\, Toronto\, ON M6J 0A9
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/paper-stories/
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Visual Art,Workshops
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SUMMARY:The Weight of Stains\, The Wait of Time | Stephanie Fortin
DESCRIPTION:At the heart of Stephanie Fortin’s practice is an ethical inquiry: is it necessary—or responsible—to aestheticize waste in the context of global exploitation and climate change? Engaging with forms and sites at the fringes of development—from the trees of urban forests to the industrial ruins of salvage yards—she examines how their surfaces reveal the entanglement of human activity and ecological systems. During the summer of 2024\, Fortin developed her approach in situ at a wrecking yard\, “recovering” rusted car hoods through a distinctive transfer process. Working with discarded vehicles\, she placed reclaimed silk over the corroded metal\, applying acetic acid. As the reaction unfolded overnight\, rust—acting as both residue and pigment—was lifted onto the textile. \nAiming beyond documentation\, Fortin’s materials engage with time\, climate\, and intervention\, exposing the socio-political histories embedded within them. The resulting images bear traces of decay and transformation\, making visible the residues of extraction and consumption. Throughout her work\, materiality\, pigment\, and process converge to confront the affective potential of such material encounters\, drawing attention to the subconscious and visceral responses they evoke. In doing so\, she challenges viewers to reconsider how spaces and objects deemed obsolete continue to shape both the present and future. \nClick here for more info.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/the-weight-of-stains-the-wait-of-time-stephanie-fortin/
LOCATION:Art Gallery of Guelph\, 358 Gordon St\, Guelph\, ON\, N1G 1Y1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:I am a Handyman | Hal Fortin
DESCRIPTION:What utility can we find in vestiges of the past? This question shapes Hal Fortin’s interdisciplinary practice and its distinct sculptural language\, punctuated by humour\, dream logic\, and the rhythms of domestic labour. Working with second-hand materials that are both inherited and found\, Fortin moves fluidly between repurposing originals into sculptures and reproducing them through printmaking. Responding to surfaces marked by time and absence—stained\, mended\, cleaned\, sanded\, shedding\, scraped\, pierced\, and peeling—the exhibition repositions objects as sites where histories accumulate\, revealing both care and neglect. \nAn assemblage of unstable forms\, the would-be furnishings and tools that comprise I am a Handyman are as strange as they are familiar. While they relate to the body at the domestic scale\, they unsettle expectations of function\, deflating under the pressure of usefulness. In the process\, Fortin’s work considers our shared fate with objects and invites viewers to reflect on their relationships with everyday materials. \nClick here for more info.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/i-am-a-handyman-hal-fortin/
LOCATION:Art Gallery of Guelph\, 358 Gordon St\, Guelph\, ON\, N1G 1Y1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250421T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250521T170000
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SUMMARY:Wallflower Paintings by Corine van Hoeve
DESCRIPTION:Based in Dundas\, Ontario\, Corine began actively drawing and painting in mid-career after taking courses at the Dundas Valley School of Art (DVSA). Having previously obtained degrees from the University of Guelph\, Western University\, and University of Toronto\, she has\, at different times\, worked in finance and education as well as project management. When not out painting or sketching from life or en plein air\, Corine works from her studio at the Cotton Factory in Hamilton\, Ontario. \nInstagram: @cvanhoeve\nWebsite: cvanhoeve.ca\nEmail: cvanhoeve@gmail.com \nWhile artwork is made to be viewed and commented upon\, a ‘wallflower’ is\, by definition\, the opposite. It describes an individual who\, though present at parties and gatherings\, actively avoids direct connection with others. My paintings embody this duality: encouraging people to look while at the same time not necessarily returning the gaze. On another level\, they are studies in observation\, perhaps a little like a wallflower might carefully scrutinize who’s the life of the party from the corner of the room. I analyze value\, colour and form in terms of scale and composition\, seeking to create some kind of balance and harmony to ease the discomfort of being seen. \nApril 21 – May 21\, 2025 \nArtist Reception: May 3rd\, 2-4pm \n3rd Floor Gallery Wyndham Art Supplies 125 Wyndham St N\, Guelph ON \nGallery Hours: M-F 3-5pm\, Sat 12-5 \nFor more info click here. 
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/wallflower-paintings-by-corine-van-hoeve/
LOCATION:Wyndham Art Supplies\, 125 Wyndham St N\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H4E9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Visual Art
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