Hola!
Cube Gallery is geared up to try and top this year with our whole new season of shows starting with "Mexicana". This show will be the next best thing to taking a trip South in the cold days of January. Opening Party: Friday Jan. 5th (7:30 pm - midnight) This party will feature music by "Los Paisanos" a Mexican band based in Ottawa, and treats from the Embassy of Mexico.
"Mexicana"
Jan 5 - 28
Mexicana = a collection of distinctly Mexican items.
A group show of work related to Mexico and all things Mexican - dedicated to our Spanish American cousins. A special emphasis will be an homage to Frida Kahlo as this show will be done in partnership with the National Art Centre production of "Frida" during the same dates. Other partners are the Mexican Embassy and the University of Mexico (who will conduct a lecture during the show).
Featuring the artists:
Victor Hernandez Castillo lives and works in Mexico City. He is a master printmaker who specializes in large format etchings and linocuts. He has presented solo exhibitions in Poland and Mexico and Canada. He was awarded the Jean-Claude Bergeron Gallery Purchase Award in April of this year. Mr. Hernandez Castillo's provocative and emotional work is based in the traditions and aesthetics of grotesque art.
Tony Clark works as an artist / Instructor with seniors at The Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health Centre, and with the arts in health organisation Artswell.
Frida Kahlo has been a passion of his for a number of years. He says, "art was health to her as it is to me. The connection her work makes is nourishing, intensely personal, profoundly human and beckoning."
Gilda Pontbriand studied visual arts in Canada, Mexico and France. A Mexican/Canadian her art encompasses a spiritual dimension and her practice is a constant search for different subjects, media and techniques. In 2005 she won first prize in the competition ''Imagine Don Quixote'', she was invited by the Embassy of Spain to visit "La Mancha"in 2006.
Valerie C. Burton received the first MFA with a major in photography ever granted in Ontario. Her photographs of Indigenous festivals seen in the Cube has been exhibited twice in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg ON.
Antoni Romaszewski graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1979. Antoni’s fabulous collages go beyond the conventional cut and paste - he works his surface until it becomes "other", until they become sublime. His works have been displayed in numerous public and private galleries and can be found in important public collections in Canada and around the world.
Calendar Notes
Opening Party: Friday Jan. 5th (7:30 pm - midnight) This party will feature music by "Los Paisanos" a Mexican band based in Ottawa, and treats from the Embassy of Mexico! Artist's Talk: Sunday, Jan. 14th - 2pm
Film Night: "Tina In Mexico" by Brenda Longfellow, Thursday, Jan. 18th - 7:30pm
Kid's Art Talk: Sunday, Jan. 21st - 2pm
