art exhibitions and events

Light Space & Time – Online Art Gallery presents a Juried Competition, in which 2D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for the theme “Liquid” for inclusion into the October 2010 online group exhibition.
Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field.

A group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery during the month of October. Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. In addition, 2 artists will recognized with Honorable Mention awards. The theme for September is “Liquid”. The submission process for artists ends September 29, 2010.

All winners will be selected, announced and featured on the Light Space & Time website on October 1, 2010 and remain online in the gallery through October 30, 2010. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist’s websites.

By Light Space & Time Art Gallery on 2010 08 20

The Socratic Method in Shape and Color

Paintings of “Yari Ostovany”

September 2- September 21, 2010
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Thursday September 2, 2010, 6:00-9:00 pm

The Latin poet Horace famously stated that the purpose of poetry is to produce “delectare et prodesse,” to delight and enlighten the reader or listener. Yari Ostovany’s work can be seen as a pictorial translation of that dictum. While his paintings are instantaneously and effortlessly compelling, they do not yield themselves fully at first view. Their “meaning” is not accessible on the surface. They make their demands on the viewer. Demands of a philosophical as well as aesthetic order. Both intellectual and emotional demands of a high order.

Yari Ostovany is truly an international persona. He was born in Tehran and now lives and creates in a terrain encompassing his Persian roots and his Western present. He is conversant in Persian, English, and German and he paints in an international language with a vocabulary deriving from as far back as ancient Persia up to Picasso and beyond. Yari’s paintings are informed by a structural logic internal to the given developing work, not imposed from without or preconceived. His creative process might well be called the Socratic method in shape and color. Yari is thus both the inseminator and midwife of his creative impulses.

Besides his obvious attachment to visual art, Yari has a profound passion for music. This passion is palpable in his work. His paintings are alive with musicality. At a certain level, the viewer must not only look at his paintings but listen to them as well; they are of a choral and choreographic nature.

The paintings of Yari Ostovany present and represent an existential effort of great personal intensity. They are a challenge to the viewer as they were to the painter. Yet if the viewer is willing to enter into an open and honest dialogue with his work, it will divulge, as Yari puts it himself, “imprints left on the soul.”

Some of Ostovany’s paintings were in gestation for over 10 years before the artist gave them the final imprimatur, the finishing touch. But an authentic painting is never really finished as long as a solitary and attentive viewer extracts delight and enlightenment from it.

– Dr. Grant Leneaux

http://www.QueenGallery.ca

By Queen Gallery on 2010 08 19

Iranian Artist from Paris to Toronto
Painting Exhibition Along with Video Art by “Parya Vatankhah”

August 19- August 31, 2010
Tuesday – Wednesday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Thursday August 19, 2010, 6:00-9:00 pm

Queen Gallery proudly celebrates their one-year anniversary with a fine art painting show. This will be our fourteenth, and last, solo exhibition of our first year in operation, which has been a tremendous success. Please join us as we recognize our achievement and present to you a fantastic artist whose practice was formed in the East and has been influenced by the West, forming art that stimulates the eye and the mind. A definite must-see!

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By Queen Gallery on 2010 07 30

GOT ART? DONATE ART! SUPPORT ART!

CALL FOR ENTRIES:

Artists are invited to DONATE UNFRAMED 4” x 6” work (any medium) for The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare annual fundraiser to be held on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at The University Settlement 184 Eldridge Street, NYC.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM “GOT ART?” will benefit The Creative Center’s Artist-in-Residence hospital program and free-of-charge art workshops for people living with and beyond cancer and other chronic illnesses.

Work should be UNFRAMED and SIGNED ON THE BACK ONLY with contact information. Please include name and e-mail. Send all work to:

THE CREATIVE CENTER: Arts in Healthcare
273 Bowery, NY, NY 10002

DEADLINE: No Later than SEPTEMBER 22, 2010!!!

Questions? E-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

By taviraport on 2010 07 26

The 50/50 Show at Queen Gallery

First Annual Juried Art Exhibition

August 1st-August 8th, 2010
Tuesday to Friday 11 am–6 pm
Saturday 1-5 pm

Opening reception:
Sunday August 1st, 2010, 2-6 pm

Closing reception:
Sunday August 8th, 2010, 2-6 pm

One price, One size and One week only.  We have oodles of artists using various mediums, various styles, but working within the same dimensions. Please join us as we celebrate our first year anniversary with our first annual juried group exhibition.  From emerging to established, local to international, this show exudes talent and is a true celebration of art and artists.

Good News!
Aboveground Art Supplies and DeSerres are now sponsoring the awards for the 50/50 show.

Artists participating in the exhibition will have the opportunity to win one of two prizes generously provided by Aboveground Art Supplies ‘The People’s Choice Award’, and ‘Best in Show’.  And an ‘Honorable Mention’ award from DeSerres.  Get ready to cast your vote!

http://www.QueenGallery.ca

By Queen Gallery on 2010 07 21

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