July 1 to Sept 5, 2010

Beginning Canada Day July 1, 2010 the Art Gallery of Peterborough celebrates three new summer exhibitions with a distinctive Peterborough focus.

Peer Christensen, Sunday Morning, Burlington Street, Hamilton, 2009, oil on canvas

Marilyn Goslin, Greedy’s Fish and Chips, Stow, England, 2010, oil on canvas

Vantage Points
Peer Christensen and Marilyn Goslin

This exhibition brings together two artists from the Peterborough area exploring spaces. Peer Christensen’s scenes capture the necessity and quiet of industrial landscapes, while Lakefield artist Marilyn Goslin depicts the buzz of spaces shaped by social routine in a domestic setting. Though both artists paint in the same medium, and take inspiration from similar locals, their completed pieces are dramatically different. These different styles echo the methods by which each applies affection and respect to space.

Roy Family fonds, Peterborough Museum and Archives

The Blueprints of our Past: Roy Studio Cyanotypes
Emerging Curator’s Series: Kara Rashotte-York

A display of historic photographs from the Roy Family Fonds on loan from the Peterborough Museum and Archives provides valuable snapshots of Peterborough life prior to 1912. Curator Kara Rashotte-York is a recent graduate of Fleming College’s Museum Management & Curratorship program.

From Monet to Modigliani: A Child’s Immersion in Art
Michèle Karsh-Ackerman’s Tall Oaks School of Art

Kennedy Crockower, The Goddess of Water, mixed media

Featuring a series of multi-media works by students of the Tall Oaks School of Art. Instructor and local artist Michèle Karsh-Ackerman, is widely recognized for her innovative and motivational teaching style. Movements in art history, from impressionism to modern art, inspired this diverse range of work.

Opening Reception to celebrate all 3 exhibitions is Friday July 2, 2010 from 7 to 9 pm. Exhibitions will continue to Sept 5, 2010.

Join the Art Gallery of Peterborough for an Artist Talk with Peer Christensen and Marilyn Goslin on Thursday, August 26 from 7 to 9 pm

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Ayaadagon:  Works of Art in an Anishinaabe Garden opening on the grounds of the Art Gallery of Peterborough June 16 and continuing throughout the summer, 2010.

Through three outdoor works of art by Michael Belmore, Jude Norris, and Jimson Bowler combined with traditional plants and medicine, the exhibition, Ayaadagon explores how we make a place for ourselves in the world in contemporary life.   This exploration begins with the idea of “ayaadagon,” an Anishinaabe word that means, “to be in a certain place.”  This concept is about how we come to dwell in a place with an emphasis on the relationships between humans and other humans, with the animals, the plants, and the spiritual entities that inhabit the site.  The Garden not only provides the ground upon which the art works will be located but is a space where artists and Elders come together and think about how the art works are connected to a particular landscape, to history, to traditional knowledge, and to what informs the idea of community.          
Curated by William Kingfisher.
Part of the Ode’min Giizis Festival.

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