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Ron Martin’s Recent Paintings is an exhibition of paintings from 1987-1988. These provide the opportunity to measure the artist’s development against the survey of his paintings from 1971-1981 exhibited concurrently at the National Gallery...
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One of Michael Smith’s premises as a painter is that there cannot be an explanation with words for his work. A description and interpretation of painting, by the written or spoken word, is some kind of translation but not an equation....
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Pictures of People investigates current creative directions in representations of people as practiced by photographers Jack Burman, Doreen Dotto, Barrie Jones, and Jake Peters. This group show, selected by Ottawa photographer Tony Fouhse,...
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There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You presents Nigro’s new photo-works involving large-format back-lit transparency studies of the human figure. These pictures are accompanied by sound tracks. The installations are intended to...
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Recent photoworks by Hull artist Nicole Doucet involving mediated images and texts. The artist is working with the notion of television as a “databank” of reality –television as a kind of history of our times. The mediated images permit an...
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Another Picture I is the first of two exhibitions at Gallery 101 in the autumn of 1990 featuring paintings and works by Ottawa-area artists. Produced in apparently different modes of abstract art, the work of Germaine Koh, Laralouise...
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Another Picture II is the second of two exhibitions examining the practices of Ottawa-are painters. Each of these Ottawa-area artists produces paintings that investigate space, and perceptual distress in different ways. The use of powerful...
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Gallery 101 is the site of an altered environment featuring new work by Montreal artist Sylvia Safdie. Glimot is a seires of sculptures of fabric forms, stones, drawing, light and darknesses.
Through drawing and sculpture, Safdie has...
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Québec City artist Karen Pick will transform the gallery space into a series of rooms, which correspond to typical notions of domestic space. The “apartment” contains household items which are specially created, altered, depicted and...
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“I am interested in how family snapshots were photographed in a particular way (between 1954 and 1972) and how these photographs usually represented family life and children’s games. The black and white photos of that era remind us of...
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Swimming to the Surface is the first Canadian exhibition by Irish artist Andrew Kearney. Concerned with the problem of memory, the physical fact of the human body, and the role of cultural environments in shaping behaviour, Kearney’s...
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Ottawa artist Carl Stewart has created a three-part installation called TRUST. The first section of the piece is an 8-mm film that was shot in September of 1994. It features 12 local men posing in various states of undress that refer to...
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“The theme of this project is automatic co-ordination, or the sort of repetition of a movement or of an image that is employed regularly in such actions as turning on a light switch; actions which have become almost reflexes; movements...
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“My works borrows the formal structure of “testing” from the arena of science. I am especially interested in psychological tests, the kinds that objectively try and measure subjective information. They seem most analogous to discourses on...
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Ali Käemh’s Biography is a project developed over the course of his residency at Gallery 101. The project makes use of photography, as well as time lapsed projections and video to build on the artist previous concerns with the problems of...
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I believe it is possible to draw attention to the visual complexity of given situations, even those of seemingly empty rooms. In so doing I hope to change the architectural balance of the space – even upset expectations – but in a way...
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“The work and its title, refer to Diderot’s Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient. Dideort writes to his lover, Sophie Vaillant, “J’écris sans voir…”, having returned late, he writes in the dark, the first time he has...
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This new project by Cheryl Sourkes investigates two myths concerning the origin of human life: the scientific myth (the genetic code) and the cultural myth (the Genesis account). Sourkes sees these themes as inextricably linked- her work...
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Big Charlie Says There’s Something in the Eyes is a new exhibition by Ottawa artist Michael Wall. The exhibition is composed of 66 photographic images of the eyes of people, who at some time in their lives have had problems with their use...
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How should we represent the unthinkable? How to bring the past horrors of the Holocaust into our comfortable present without reducing the victims to a lurid spectacle? These are among the challenges faced by Pam Skelton as she works to re-...