March 28, 2019 was the opening/vernissage for Governor General’s Awards in Visual & Media Arts 2019 at the National Gallery of Canada. Celebrating the careers of eight outstanding Canadian artists: Stephen Andrews, Marlene Creates, COZIC, Lee-Ann Martin, Ali Kazimi, Andrew James Paterson, Jeff Thomas, and Susan Edgerley. The exhibition runs until August 5, 2019 Check …
Black Squirrel Books hosted a pop-up thrift night market on March 23, 2019. It was unprecedented with the turn out of people who went to this. There was a debut of Black Squirrel’s new cocktail menu and DJing were Jas Nasty and Gewangi. Proceeds from the event went to Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against …
Woke up very early in the morning to attend the first Ottawa Coffee Fest at the Horticulture Building in Lansdowne Park on March 23, 2019. Let’s say when doors opened at 10am things got pretty packed for Ottawa folks to their morning coffee fix. Local and out of town vendors participated at this year’s event …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Hope some of you were lucky enough to attend the sold out annual Beau’s St. Patrick’s Party at Lansdowne’s Aberdeen Pavillion.. This year the party fell on March 16, 2019 and it is the one time you can be Irish and celebrate it. Got to check out the parade and didn’t …
Attended the opening at the National Gallery of Canada‘s for Dave Heath’s Multitude, Solitude on March 13, 2019. From the website: “Whether picking out a single face in a crowd, capturing an act of violence between siblings, or framing close-up portraits of quiet despair, Dave Heath (1931–2016) had an instinctive ability to capture the soul …
Studio Sixty Six held their opening reception for their new exhibition called Interplays. Featuring the works by Laurence Finet, Natalie Bruvels and Andrew Beck. These three artists whose work centres around the human experience and/or the human theatre. All painters, approaching their shared subject, stylistically and thematically, from entirely different perspectives. The exhibition runs until …
There was a opening at the Korean Cultural Centre Canada for Jinny Yu‘s I Like My Countries and My Countries Like Me. Details about the exhibition is on here. The exhibition runs until April 30, 2019.
AXENÉO7 held their first vernissage/exhibition of 2019. Featuring are Ottawa’s Kosisochukwu Nnebe & Guillermo Trejo. I want you to know that I am hiding something from you / since what I might be is uncontainable by Kosisochukwu Nnebe. Concerned with phenomenology, perception and the racialized body, Kosisochukwu Nnebe’s work considers how we perceive each other; …
Went to this vernissage at Galerie UQO which is collaboration with CUAG. Here is the info about Emmanuelle Léonard‘s works: In the production of her work, Emmanuelle Léonard collaborates regularly with individuals in their work environments. Here, the workplace and the worker’s function become the collaborative vector between the artist and the worker/image maker. For …
Land and Memory is the first art showing of 2019 at Studio Sixty Six. A group exhibition featuring artists by who are motivated to recreate, capture and document land and place in their artwork; inspired by actual time spent in different physical locations and by their memories of them. Works in this exhibition depict the …