Category: Art Shows
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#19 It’s Square Foot Show Time again!
The Square Foot show, one of Toronto’s favorite art shows is back for its 10th year! This is a traditional August happening now. Hundreds of small paintings, all 12 in x 12 in, are packed in together for a total sensory overload!! People line up on Ossington Street to get into the AWOL Gallery and…
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# 17 2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
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#16 Project: Art 2011 & the blog … one year later
The end of the Fall session at Project: Art ends in the “little” exhibition. “Little” meaning all canvases are either 12 x 12 inches or 24 x 24 inches. There is always an energy associated with this show because most people during the summer had been away traveling to new places and then returned armed…
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#14 New Shared Exhibition
Art Square Gallery across from the AGO The new show, Musical Muse, went up today!
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# 13, Addendum to # 12
The Square Foot Show opened to the public on Saturday night, the 6th of August in Toronto! As I suggested in my previous post, the predicted crowds did live up to their own reputation, testified in these great pictures taken by the wonderful and prolific East End Artist, Allan O’Marra. There were 500 artists participating…
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#12 Square Foot Show
If you are any kind of active painter, you are aware that August in Toronto has become synonymous with the Square Foot Show at the AWOL gallery! The experience is a bit like a foodie eating at a hot-spot, new restaurant recently given a rave review by Joanne Kates where the tables are inches apart,…
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# 11 The First Journeys Show 2004
In a previous post I described how I met Liz Russ and started being involved with showing my work in Gallery 888. This post will continue the story of how the “Journeys” Shows evolved. The idea was germinated at the cabin in Algonquin Park. Those of us who originally had the faith and imagination to…
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#6 Art @ the “Christmas Gift Show”
Deck the Halls of Gallery 888 in 2003!!! The Christmas show is truly fun! You usually get invited to participate in this show if you had been a client in the gallery during the year (and, you hadn’t been too difficult as in, “prima donna”). This is the chance to show your work to another…
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#5 Resin has its reason!
Women strolling in the Rain One of my more recent paintings was inspired by this 1934 photograph from an anonymous photographer. I was intrigued to capture these two women walking arm in arm in the rain wearing their tailored coats and fashionable shoes. Rendering a black and white photograph on to a canvas with unlimited…
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#4 The First Show – Part II
The Party!! The Show is hung!! Everything is ready for opening night! Now the fun begins! … I’m extremely happy with the presentation of the paintings. About 70 personal invitations have been sent out along with local advertisements, and at the Joy Bistro every customer has been given a show card with his bill!
she paints; she is a painter 