ARTspace 2022 Exhibitions
A Small Good Thing
Michaela Lucio
February 16 - March 26, 2022
Reception: Spring Mini Art Crawl March 25th, 2022 6-9 PM
ARTspace
Fleeting moments and ghostly memories, all fade away without mindful attention. 'A Small Good Thing' dives into an imagined history dreamed from photographs out-of family albums, predominantly from the childhood of the artist's mother. Considering the digital revolution's impact on families and the fragility of memory, this exhibition looks to slow down and explore the complicated tenderness of family life. Like a wisp of air, charged with emotion, it is all about the small good things.
Prism of Perception
Tracy Root
March 30 - May 14, 2022
Reception: April 1st, 2022 @ 7 - 9 PM
Tracy Root's new exhibition Prism of Perception presents work accomplished during the isolation of the recent pandemic lockdowns. It's not surprising then, that her paintings are often very personal, delving into feelings of longing, loss, and acceptance while pursuing a deep spiritual connection with the natural world.
Creating a visual language all her own, Root's highly developed painting style perceives the world as a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns, compositional movement, and colour. Interior and exterior worlds collide in these inviting canvases filled with memory and imagination.
An established member of the London art scene for many years, these paintings represent the first group of work completed as a new member of the Chatham-Kent community.
Elementoj
Sam Gunsar
May 18 - July 16, 2022
Reception: May 20, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
In this new body of work titled "Elementoj," a reference is made to Esperanto, a manufactured language created with the hopes of establishing a single universal way to communicate. Translated into English as "elements," Gunsar pursues this nearly forgotten idea as a touchstone and a way to illustrate the cultural search for core beliefs in a world often swept up in an overabundance of information.
“Writing You From…”
Danielle Coleman and ART Monsters
June 30 - July 30, 2022
PUBLIC Window Gallery at ARTspace
“Writing you from…” is a PUBLIC window exhibition exploring nostalgia, optimism, and excitement of travel. As the pandemic has limited and impacted our ability to travel to new places, we often reflect on previous trips. We reflect on the places we have seen, the people we have met, and the stories we have created. Isolation has left folks of all ages making a wish list for destinations we wish to visit as we return to a new normal. Where to next? What’s there to see? What’s there to do!?
Works exhibited are created by Art Monster classes taught by art educator Danielle Coleman. Art Monsters capture memories, travel experiences, and hopes of future voyages through mixed media works.
In The Shadow of Man Ray
The Underground Film Collective: Michael M. Garland Jr., ashley earthchild, and Scott Taylor
July 27 - October 8, 2022
The Underground Film Collective is a collaboration of three local photographers. Emerging from the isolation and trauma of the pandemic years, these artists find common ground in the legacy of Dada and Surrealism with a special nod to photographer Man Ray. The images they produce are both strange and familiar, suggesting the peculiar sensation of displacement so many feel.
Love is Love: Celebrate Pride 2022
Mike Ondrovcik and Crystal Couture
August 3 - Sept 10, 2022
PUBLIC Window Gallery at ARTspace
Love is Love: Celebrate Pride 2022 display has a small flock of 6 Flamingos (who doesn’t love flamingoes) all decked out in their pride colours and paraphernalia parading and celebrating in the window with a graffiti style backdrop of riots pride colours, with illustrations of celebration as well a protest posters.
We must all remember that while Pride celebrations can be fun, we all have to be aware that Pride started as Protest and still is a Protest.
Blood Ties
Mike Ondrovcik and Laurie Langford
October 12, 2022 – November 26, 2022
Opening Reception: October 14, 2022 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Then came COVID. Neither artist could go anywhere. It was frustrating. No searching. No road trips to shores or thrift stores. No adding to the art stash. Where, then, to focus?
Langford + Ondrovcik decided to take advantage of the months in COVID isolation and begin the tedious work of researching their roots. They would collect stories about a topic close to their hearts: Family. COVID magnified their need for connection. Who did they miss seeing? What family members should they get to know better? Who might they risk losing to the killer virus?
Blood Ties is about personal memory and family memory. It is about picking up pieces and fragments of truth and trying to understand the whole. It is about stories told and untold.
For the Love of Crows
Mike Ondrovcik and Laurie Langford
October 5, 2022 – November 26, 2022
Opening Reception: October 14, 2022 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
PUBLIC Window Gallery at ARTspace
Local artists and makers Laurie Langford and Mike Ondrovick’s installation “For the Love of Crows” includes bird sculpture set against a mural-sized photograph of a murder of crows in flight by local photographer Scott Taylor. Take in the sight of these mysterious winged creatures being and doing what crows do best; flocking, getting up to tricks and communicating with each other in their own strange and cacophonous language.
Echo of Crows: Chris Snedden
Echo of Crows
Artist: Chris Snedden
Exhibition Dates: October 5, 2022 – November 26, 2022
Opening reception: October 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Regional ceramicist Chris Snedden creates beautiful ceramic art with images of crows, and as in life, the crows are usually found in pairs, to bring the user joy.
Open Hands: A Visual Essay
Crystal Benallick
November 30, 2022 – January 14, 2023
Opening Reception: December 2, 2022 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Unexpected answers and opportunities come our way when we step forward with our palms up. What if you allowed yourself to be vulnerable and released the tension in your hands? The simple act of flipping a clenched fist over and showing the sky the underside of your wrist while allowing your fingers to loosen can change an outcome. This is the posture of both releasing and receiving.
Gift of Art: 2022 Holiday Exhibition and ARTsale
ARTspace Artists
November 30, 2022 – January 14, 2023
Opening Reception: December 2, 2022 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Celebrate another year of remarkable art-making in CK! The Gift of Art will feature hand-made work from some of CK’s most talented artists and artisans, including painting, pottery, wood-turning, and printmaking so don’t miss this opportunity to check off the art lover from your holiday shopping list.