Art Gallery of Peterborough
250 Crescent Street K9J 2G1 Peterborough, ON, Canada

The It's All About ARTISTS Online Auction is quickly approaching! Check out these spectacular works that will be available beginning October 23. Come visit us at the Gallery and see all of the artwork available in this year's auction in person. The It's All About ARTISTS Preview Exhibition is now on view at the AGP. See you at the Gallery ... Artwork in order of appearance: Megan Ward, Leanne Baird, Victoria Wallace, Louise Laroche, Paul Chester

Imagination is my guide. I follow it and lead it into a world largely built on my drawings. It may be in response to a real-time visual phenomenon found in my travels, or to the close-up intrigue of a busy table in the studio or kitchen. Inspiration takes an unimpeded excursion through a mix of overlapping memories and images. Ivan Kenneth Eyre, 1998 Today we’re looking at Woodland Terrace by Ivan Eyre from the AGP #PermanentCollection which is currently installed in the ...main gallery. Eyre’s art practice spans five decades and includes sculpture, drawing, print, and painting depicting imagined subjects with roots in our experienced world and are informed by psychology and his deep interest in the mind. 1: Ivan Eyre, Woodland Terrace, 1973, oil and acrylic on canvas, gift of Mr. John Cowan, 1988. 2: Detail of: Ivan Eyre, Woodland Terrace, 1973, oil and acrylic on canvas, gift of Mr. John Cowan, 1988. #AGPtbo #IvanEyre #ContemporaryArt

It's All About ARTISTS! presented by George Ripoll, BMO Private Wealth. This year, when you purchase art from the online auction, you're directly supporting an artist in the community while making an investment for your future! Get ready to bid on your favourites by visiting our website: https://agp.on.ca/events/all-about-artists/ or making an appointment to see the auction works in person. ... Call to book your visit today: 705 743 9179

Preview the incredible selection of artwork available in our It’s All About ARTISTS! Online Auction, presented by George Ripoll, BMO Private Wealth, now on view at the AGP! As you may know, this year, to ensure the health and well-being of our community, we have shifted our annual gala fundraiser to an online auction, supporting the artists who have so generously supported us in years past. This preview exhibition offers you a chance to see these works in person, confirm y...our favourites, bid with confidence, and support your local arts community. The It’s All About ARTISTS Preview Exhibition runs until November 7th call us to book your visit! Jane LowBeer, String Theory, 2015, monotype on paper

Check out these stunning works, available in our It's All About ARTISTS Online Auction! Stay tuned as we preview more artwork, interview artists and community partners, and launch the Online Auction on October 23rd! ... Full detail at: https://agp.on.ca/events/all-about-artists/ Artwork in order of appearance: John Climenhage, Holly Edwards, Marilyn Goslin, Eugenie Fernandes, Corina Kiefert Chester

Meet Matt Stimpson, local business owner (WeDesign), designer, and auctioneer extraordinaire! Matt is an avid local arts supporter and graciously dedicates his time year after year in support of this annual fundraising favourite. Today Matt sits down with Marilyn Goslin to chat about her painting: Hammock, Stoney Lake. Join us over the coming weeks as Matt interviews more artists and sponsors and shares the exceptional artwork on offer in this year’s auction. ... Be sure to check out our It’s All About ARTISTS Online Auction page for full details and preview the extraordinary talent of our local arts community! Full Auction preview available here: https://agp.on.ca/events/all-about-artists/ #AGPtbo #MarilynGoslin #ContemporaryArt #Fundraising #SupportArtists

For this week’s #PermanentCollection post, we’re looking at the work of Kenneth Lochhead. I like to paint. As an eclectic painter I am in love with the nature of form, and human innovation. I have learned that plastic form, with its elements of colour, light, line and space, is the essence of coherent visual expression. I suppose my painting is based primarily on the art of painting with the hope that it transcends to the art in painting. I like to think that there are no r...ules, just meaningful principles that free imaginative pursuits through painting. Kenneth Lochhead, University of Regina Archives #FunFact: This work was originally a birthday gift to fellow artist and friend, Ronald Bloore. He signed it with the following: The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Happy Birthday Ron. Love Ken & Joanne. May 29, 1975." This work is currently on view in the exhibit: Speaking Through, works from the Permanent Collection, until October 4th, 2020. Don’t miss it -- give us a call and book your visit! See you at the Gallery Kenneth Lochhead, Untitled, 1975, acrylic on paper, Gift of Ronald Bloore, 1992. #AGPtbo #KenLochhead #ReginaFive #AbstractExpressionism

Please join us in extending a heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS to local artist Victoria Mohr-Blakeney (Public Energy) and partner Jonathan Lockyer (Artspace) on the birth of their daughter, Elouise Renate Pearl Victoria is currently featured in the exhibition: locked in a way, Matthew Hayes + Victoria Mohr-Blakeney. This exhibition features the last recorded conversation between Victoria and her mother, Renate Mohr, as they speak about a creative collaboration that they are not ...able to finish before Renate’s death. locked in a way offers a brief intimate space wherein a mother’s voice and a daughter’s body connect across time, space, and even death. locked in a way closes this Sunday, October 4th. Welcome to the world Elouise!

[I]mages are entangled with thingness. They are ubiquitous, inherently reflexive, and evasive. Images are not only representations or appearances, but also objects that contain surface, substance, and memory. - Sasha Opeiko, Artist Talk, January 19, 2020 This is your last chance to see 217 by Sasha Opeiko at the AGP. The exhibition includes a series of graphite drawings and 3D printed objects based on images sourced from an article outlining the initial investigations of se...ction 217 in the 4th block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which contains a large, highly radioactive mass of melted matter, formed following the nuclear meltdown in 1986 and referred to as the Elephant’s Foot. It’s also the last week to check out our other exhibitions on the upper ramps including locked in a way by Matthew Hayes and Victoria Mohr-Blakeney and Speaking Through: works from the Permanent Collection. These three exhibitions close on Sunday, October 4th. Call to book your appointment before it’s too late! 705 743 9179 Until then, you can check out Sasha Opeiko’s full talk here: https://youtu.be/J0EYSwn6_EY See you at the Gallery 1: Sasha Opeiko, 217, Exhibition Opening, January 18, 2020. Photo courtesy of Matthew Hayes. 2: Sasha Opeiko, 217, installation view. Photo courtesy of Matthew Hayes

THANK YOU to everyone who came out and supported the 36th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour! We want to thank our visitors, our sponsors, and all the incredibly talented artists and craftmakers who make this tour so special. We can’t wait to see you next year! If you missed out on the tour this year, don't worry, we've got you covered! The Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour Selections exhibition at the AGP continues until November 8, 2020. ... Full details and how to book your visit at: agp.on.ca #thenewclassical1031fm #apsleyautumnstudiotour The Art School of Peterborough Kawartha Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Victory Art Supply ZimArt Rice Lake Gallery Watson & Lou

The Art Gallery of Peterborough is thrilled to announce the return of our annual gala auction! Like everything these days, it’s going to be a little different. This year, everything is online and It’s All About ARTISTS! More than ever, we’re putting the care of our community and the support of artists right at the center. Artists are essential to healthy communities, and that’s why, this year, we’re directing all the proceeds from the sale of artwork directly to the artists...! Stay tuned as we preview more artwork, interview artists and community partners, and launch the Online Auction on October 23rd! The Online Auction will be open for bidding beginning Oct 23rd through to Nov 7. Details, as they become available, will be posted to our website at: https://agp.on.ca/events/all-about-artists/ Artwork in order of appearance: Jenny Kastner, Peer Christensen, Lucie Lemieux-Wilson, Jane Lowbeer, Carol Forbes. #AGPtbo #Fundraising #ContemporaryArt

This week we’re featuring the work of Shaan Syed from our #PermanentCollection This recently acquired piece is on view for the first time at the AGP as part of the exhibition: Offering, works from the Permanent Collection. The shape bridges the abstract and representational, it can be read as waves or mountains thereby connecting it to landscape and that tradition within representational painting. Dragging the thick oil paint across the surface of the painting with a lar...ge brush in one direction was a way of both accentuating the surface and also negating the expectation of the painting acting as a window. I saw this action as a form of cancelling out any image or scene from happening, reiterating a modernist idea that painting is simply material added to a surface. The polyfilla swipes that became a part of these paintings were a further cancelling out. Using a material that is supposed to ‘fill in’, I was intrigued also by the meeting of the seductive oil paint and the more utilitarian and ‘dead’ material of polyfilla. The forms the swipes took were like animated gestures that reiterated the flatness of the painting surface and echoed the movements the limbs of a body can make in the manner of a semaphore giving signs or signals. The monochrome part of the paintings I saw as ‘stage legs’ - a term used in stage design to describe a fictionalized painted scene that is wheeled on and off stage as a backdrop to a scene. Shaan Syed Come check it out in person by booking your visit to the AGP! See you at the Gallery 1: Shaan Syed, Stage Right (Sky Blue Horizontal with Double Downward Swipe), 2014, oil and polyfilla on canvas. Gift of Private Collector, 2016 2: Detail of Shaan Syed, Stage Right (Sky Blue Horizontal with Double Downward Swipe), 2014, oil and polyfilla on canvas. Gift of Private Collector, 2016

For this week’s #PermanentCollection post we’re sharing the work of Sanaz Mazinani Mazinani is an Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in San Francisco and Toronto. Sanaz Mazinani’s Conference of the Birds series uses images of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street protests to propose new networks of cultural coexistence. By literally placing images of these two distinct movements next to one another, and digitally recombining them into... patterns that entwine, Mazinani explains, I have bound the people in these movements together. To me these patterned works become a symbol for the global relationships between the public. Repetition and reproducibility empowers images with the ability to construct and define history. With this work I aim to use the semiotics of pattern to reflect upon the possibilities of coexistence in a globalized world. For more, check out her website at: https://www.sanazmazinani.com/conference-of-the-birds You can see these three works in our current main gallery Exhibition: Offering: works from the Permanent Collection. These images show the work along with a detail on the right. Come check them out in person and book your visit! See you at the Gallery #AGPtbo #DigitalCollage #SanazMazinani #ContemporaryArt

Thank you all so much for participating in #AskACurator today! Here we are with the finale: Part 4 of answering your questions!