Gala Evening and Opening Sale:
Thursday Nov 21 at 6 pm
Exhibition:
November 19 to 23, 2013
Join us and help support the Visual Arts Centre! We’re filling our McClure Gallery with hundreds of Square Foot paintings and artworks created by the Centre’s dynamic community of artists, students, teachers, staff and friends.
Whether as participating artist or supportive friend, we hope you’ll join us in this fun and celebratory event. The exhibition represents a rare opportunity to view and purchase affordable art in a wide variety of styles and media – all in a square format.
A $25 ticket to the Gala Evening entitles you to first dibs on the art plus wine and hors d’oeuvres.Tickets are available in the office or you can call 514-488-9558 or e-mail info@old.visualartscenter.local.ca.
Please come and support us. As Canada’s largest bilingual independent art school and as a non-profit cultural space, our fundraising exhibitions are an important means of ensuring our financial well-being and our ability to continue to offer accessible and excellent programmes and services to the public.
Lorraine Pritchard Cadence
Vernissage: Thursday November 28 at 6 pm
Exhibition: November 29 to December 21, 2013
We are honoured to feature Lorraine Pritchard’s exhibition Cadence in our McClure Gallery. The exhibition brings together approximately twenty works that range from quiet tapestry-like grounds of subtle grey to celebratory fields of pink, blue and green.
Pattern, rhythm, interconnection – “we live in fields of movement and rhythmic pattern” – and the idea of “unity in diversity” are underlying themes that feed Pritchard’s visual investigations. Indeed, her paintings are as much contemplative acts as artworks. They hang like meditative scrolls; the rows of variegated marks become visual testament to a labour of love, a mantra repeated and repeated towards the attainment of an altered consciousness, a renewed perception. Moreover, Pritchard’s works reveal themselves – much like music – over time. We scan and re-scan the black or coloured gestures, gathered in their sequential leanings and relational energies, as they unfold their melodies in evocative, resonant combinations. These are paintings of deep integrity and intent that beckon us again and again.
Lorraine Pritchard was born in the Canadian Prairies of Manitoba. The work has been influenced by the patterning and spatial relationships of the vast plains. As a visual artist her work includes drawings, paintings and constructed assemblages. The underlying motivation of the artist is a search for a visual language that expresses the interrelationship of spiritual and physical reality. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, France, Belgium, United States and Japan (Canadian Embassy in Tokyo). She currently lives and works in her studio in Montreal and is represented by Beaux-arts des Amériques.