Shows in 2019-2020
December 4, 2019 – January 25, 2020: 37th Annual Invitational Juried Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, December 6 at 7:30 pm
Sponsor: Boyer GMC Bancroft
Closed February
March 4 – March 28, Michael Nathaniel Green – The Invisible Offering: sculpture
Opening reception Friday, March 6 at 7:30pm
Co-Sponsors: Dr. Melissa Fransky, and Drs. J. Rawal and J. Guthrie
April 1 - 25, Shannon Taylor – Remembered, Imagined: mixed media
Deferred to 2021 due to virus pandemic
Co-Sponsors: Micheline Leveque and Gertrud Sorensen
April 29 – May 30, Underneath: Juried Theme Show
deferred to 2021 due to virus pandemic
Sponsor: Camp Ponacka
June 3 – 27, Melinda Shank-Miles - Fragile: paintings
deferred to 2021 due to virus pandemic
Sponsor: Owl Ridge Acres
NEW June 18 – August 29, Allan O’Marra – Recent Figurative Works: paintings
No Opening reception due to precautionary measures
Co-Sponsors: Jean & Glenda Menard, and Hugh & Ingrid Monteith
August 5 – 29, Connie van Rijn – In the Shadows: paintings
Deferred until 2021
Co-Sponsors: Pam Gibb-Carsley and Susan Latremoille
September 3 – 26, David Smith - Lost and Found Project: paintings
No Opening reception due to precautionary measures
Co Sponsors: Ernst Grell & Leilah Ward, and Tom & Mary Robinson
September 30 – October 31: Francis Livingston – Winter Lights and Winter Ice: photography
No Opening reception due to precautionary measures
Co Sponsors: Barbara FitzPatrick, and Ingrid & Hugh Monteith
November 4 – 28, John Climenhage – disLocations: painting
No Opening reception due to precautionary measures
Sponsor: Pat Cooke in Memory of Paul D. Cooke
December 2, 2020 – January 29, 2021, 38th Invitational Juried Exhibition
No Opening reception due to precautionary measures
Sponsor: Boyer Chevrolet Buick GMC Bancroft
Past Show
John Climenhage - November 2020 Exhibition
John Climenhage – disLocations: an exhibition of paintings
November 4 – 28, 2020
There will be no Opening Reception due to COVD19
Sponsor: Pat Cooke in Memory of Paul D. Cooke
The Art Gallery of Bancroft presents the art of Peterborough artist John Climenhage, in an exhibition focusing on that most Canadian of spectacles: the dynamic motion of ice hockey
About the Artist
John Climenhage lives and paints in Peterborough, Ontario. His work has exhibited widely at public and private galleries across Ontario and is held in public and private collections around the world in countries as varied as Australia, Cuba, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, and United States. Climenhage has taught art at Loyalist College, Prince of Wales Public School, and the Art Gallery of Peterborough.
About the Exhibition- "disLocations"
For over 20 years I have been considering the implications of quantum physics and modern philosophies as applied to painting and it’s 60,000 year old tradition, and within these explorations the subject/object of hockey has been a recurring theme for me. Ultimately, a painting is on it’s own. An experience.
I offer the following notes for extra consideration, though they are in no way meant to justify the works. The paintings are to be enjoyed as they appear. And hockey is just a game.
“Space does not represent any property of things in themselves, nor does it represent them in their relation to one another. That is to say, space does not represent any determination that attaches to the objects themselves, and which remains even when abstraction has been made of all the subjective conditions of intuition.” - E. Kant
“We must abandon our faith in perfect simultaneity: the assumption that two events can be said to happen at the same time. Multiple observers experience their own present moments.” - A. Einstien
These paintings are an exploration of the invention of geometry we constantly participate in. No absolute position, or singular vantage point, is possible, according to quantum mechanics, as the observer is part of both the observed and observing universe.
By unsettling/dislocating the vantage point of traditional perspective (Euclidian geometry), and introducing simultaneous multiple view points and “arcs of observation”, the ideas and experiences of space(s) are questioned and re-oriented towards a more inclusive and cohesive/coherent entry point for Being.
When we watch a hockey game, we participate mimetically. We attempt to BE the play/players. We become the game we are creating. We anticipate/intuit/predict/deduce/win/lose along with the actual players.
These paintings take coincident account of simultaneities both through synchronous time (the relations between co-existing elements), and diachronous time (an evolution of visual fragments through historical time).
