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 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
Opening reception Friday, April 3 at 7:30pm
Co-Sponsors: TBA and TBA
April 29 – May 30, Underneath: Juried Theme Show
Opening reception Friday, May 1 at 7:30pm
Sponsor: Camp Ponacka
June 3 – 27, Melinda Shank-Miles - Fragile: paintings
Opening reception Friday, June 5 at 7:30pm
Sponsor: Owl Ridge Acres
July 1 – August 1, Allan O’Marra – Recent Figurative Works: paintings
Opening reception Friday, July 3 at 7:30pm
Co-Sponsors: Jean & Glenda Menard, and Hugh & Ingrid Monteith
August 5 – 29, Connie van Rijn – In the Shadows: paintings
Opening reception Friday, August 7 at 7:30pm
Co-Sponsors: Pam Gibb-Carsley and Susan Latremoille
September 3 – 26, David Smith - The Lost and Found Project: paintings
Opening reception Friday, September 4 at 7:30pm
Also: Studio Tour sampler in the Gallery Shop
Co Sponsors: Ernst Grell & Leilah Ward, and Tom & Mary Robinson
September 30 – October 31: Francis Livingston – Winter Lights and Winter Ice: photography
Opening reception Friday, October 2 at 7:30pm
Co Sponsors: Barbara FitzPatrick and TBA
November 4 – 28, John Climenhage – disLocations: painting
Opening Reception Friday, November 6 at 7:30pm
Sponsor: Pat Cooke in Memory of Paul D. Cooke
December 2, 2020 – January 29, 2021, 38th Invitational Juried Show
Opening reception Friday, Dec. 4 at 7:30pm
Sponsor: Boyer GMC Bancroft
Past Show
Rob Niezen Nov 2019 Exhibition
Rob Niezen – "Nocturnal Reflections", painting
November 1 – 30, 2019
Opening Reception Friday, November 1 at 7:30pm
Sponsor: Pat Cooke in Memory of Paul D. Cooke
In the Artists Words
"As a young boy it was comics that inspired me to draw, and art has been my passion ever since. In my observations of daily life, I explore the effects of light and reflections on contrast and colour harmony. With an eye for randomness I view the ordinary from extraordinary angles or at extraordinary moments. In my still-life and (urban) landscape oil paintings, I seek the drama, the exaggerated and the surprising in objects and places, offering viewers an alternative view of reality.
"Over the past eight years, I have created a series of paintings that pay a testament to the vibrancy of the city at night: traffic lights, shop windows and neon signs are reflected and enhanced on rainy streets; a departure from ‘traditional’ landscape painting and from the landscape one sees around Bancroft. Gleaming reflections exaggerate the contrasts between deep darks and artificial lights. It is the same world as during the day, but stripped of its blandness. Colours explode, revealing the vitality of the urban surroundings and a society that is always on the go."
"Comfort Zone"
"Neon Delight"
