On Friday, October 4th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery opens its doors to celebrate its new fall exhibitions.
Our new Gallery Collection exhibition, Footprints in Time: Painting Around Georgian Bay, is guest curated by Katharine Lochnan, Senior Curator Emeritus, Art Gallery of Ontario and Artist Louise Moore. The Footprints in Time: Painting Around Georgian Bay exhibition is generously sponsored by Tamming Law. Patrick DeCoste: 13 Moons and a Canoe is guest curated by Carla Garnet, and organized by the John B. Aird Gallery.
The opening reception starts at 7:00pm with remarks beginning at 7:15pm. Complimentary refreshments will follow, through the support of Christopher and Katherine Little, and Nonie and Peter Little. This is a free event and all are welcome to join in the fun!
About the Exhibitions & Featured Artists:
Footprints in Time: Painting Around Georgian Bay
on view until January 4, 2020
Our lives are intimately related to the landscapes in which we live and call home. A microcosm within Lake Huron, Georgian Bay can be envisioned as a circle beginning and ending on Manitoulin Island, sacred to the Anishinaabek Nation. In this exhibition we will look at some of the many ways in which the Bay has been depicted across time by artists from different cultural traditions. It will include works by 32 artists, among them Blake Debassige, Roly Fenwick, John Hartman, Barbara Irvine, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Charles Meanwell, Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig and Tom Thomson.
We will invite you to accompany the artists on a journey around the Bay: beginning on Manitoulin Island, we will travel down the Bruce Peninsula to Owen Sound, head east toward Honey Harbour then north to Killarney. We will look at the many ways this distinctive landscape has inspired successive generations of artists producing a rich cultural mosaic, and how cosmology, geography, geology, and history have influenced their memories, dreams and visions. While going through the exhibition, you will be invited to consider how your time in this beautiful area, and your travels through this ancient landscape, can be seen as a metaphor for your own life journey.
Guest Curated for the Tom Thomson Art Gallery by Katharine Lochnan, Senior Curator Emeritus, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Artist Louise Moore
Footprints in Time: Painting Around Georgian Bay is accompanied by a full colour catalogue published by the Ginger Press with contributions by Katharine Lochnan, Editor, Louise Moore and Judy Thomson, with the support of Michael McLuhan Photography and Kenneth Thomson.
Available now in the Gallery Shop is a NEW 2020 Calendar featuring many images from the Footprints in Time exhibition. The calendar is supported by CIBC Private Wealth Management and Michael McLuhan Photography.
Patrick DeCoste: 13 Moons and a Canoe
Guest Curated by Carla Garnet
on view until January 4, 2020
Artist Panel Discussion: October 5, 2019 at 1:00pm DeCoste in conversation with guest speaker Bonnie Devine.
Organized by the John B. Aird Gallery and guest curated by Carla Garnet, 13 Moons and a Canoe presents an interdisciplinary art exhibition exploring the artist’s emerging Métis identity. The exhibition and the dialogue it fosters will be offered in the spirit of advancing ongoing conversations about Canadian identity, and how together we might take responsibility for our past, present, and future. 13 Moons and a Canoe was funded by Indigenous Art Project Grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
Patrick DeCoste is a Métis artist who lives and works between Toronto and Georgian Bay.
source: media release