Current and Upcoming ARTspace 2025 Exhibitions
I Wander to Wonder Lorie Thibault
January 8 - March 15, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday January 31, 2025
6:00 - 7:00 pm
While wandering one can see so much, but by wondering one can see so much more!
Lorie Thibault’s I Wander to Wonder uses black ink drawing to explore the dream world that often exists beneath the reality of nature’s surface, reflecting on the stories that may be the foundation that holds it in place. Wander and wonder with Lorie across the world to discover the clues that help unfold the passage of the past to the present and discover line by line a wonderous world!
Collected Works: A Sense of Place Hortense Gordon
Thames Art Gallery Permanent Collection on View
January 8 - March 15, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday January 31, 2025
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Hortense Gordon (1887 - 1961) showed great talent early, exhibiting with the Ontario Society of Artists while still in her teens. In 1916 she began work at the Hamilton Technical School as an assistant to John Gordon whom she married in 1920. She continued teaching at the HTS until 1951, the last twenty years as head of the Art Department, succeeding her husband. In the 1930’s she began experimenting with abstract painting, becoming one of the first abstract artists in Hamilton and probably in Canada. She was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and Painters Eleven. Julius LeBow, a local art gallery owner said of Hortense Gordon. “Totally involved with all aspects of art in Hamilton, she profoundly affected everyone who came into contact with her.” She was a trail blazer of the popularization of modern art in Canada.
The Thames Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection is a documentation of the Municipality of Chatham-Kent’s art history from the late 1800’s to the present and contains over 700 works.