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Our gallery is free admission and showcases the talents of many local and emerging artists throughout the year.
Somethin’ Ain’t Right
March 26 - April 5, 2025 in the Main Gallery
Opening Reception on March 29, 7PM-9PM
Somethin’ Ain’t Right is the 53rd graduating class exhibition of the Fanshawe Fine Art Advanced Diploma program. In their third and final year, students produce an independent body of work; this exhibition features selected artworks from the final term of study for each of these twenty diverse students about to embark on their professional careers. The eclectic works span a broad range of media, processes, concepts, and subjects. Created against a backdrop of political turmoil, social unrest, environmental crises, economic disparity, and technological disruptions, each student strives to find their unique voice. The works in this exhibition reflect on these pressing issues, either highlighting the pervasive sense of unease or celebrating the beauty and respite that can still be found around us.
Professors: Marla Botterill, Philip Gurrey, Mike Pszczonak
Artists in the exhibition:
Erika Aarsteinsen, Nadia Ahmed, Dayanna Alarcon Recinos, Emma Barnes, Mackenzie Beirnes-Daniels, Nolan Burridge, Natasha Dufresne. Ryleigh Gaudreau, Jason Gillis, Heather Hachey, Nicole Hill, Cecil Klassen, Greg Krupa, Kate Miazga, Mncedisi Clinton, Ncube, Natalie Pieterman, Sadie Pollock, Amelia Quenneville, Kassidy Toner-Tait, Camille Vanstone
Exhibition runs March 26 – April 5, 2025
Opening reception Saturday March 29, 7 – 9 pm, remarks at 7:30
Graduation Speaker: Adi Berardini, Director, Forest City Gallery
"Almost Cory" by Wyn Gelenyse
Community Portraits 2023-2024 Madeline and Cory: Wyn Gelenyse
March 4 - March 29, 2025 in LAB 203
Opening Reception on March 13, 5PM-7PM
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About the Exhibition
Originally conceived as a simple exercise in painting the portrait of a close friend and fellow artist, Geleynse saw a bigger project as more friends and acquaintances from his walk in life — from the person who prepares and serves his coffee, colleagues from the arts community, a shop keeper at his local stereo shop, co-workers at the Mission Store where Geleynse volunteers twice a week, the woman who cleans the building that houses his studio — various members of Geleynse’s community stepped forward to be caught in paint on his paper canvas. With forty-one portraits, a series was born from that simple exercise.
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This series of portraits is presented one or two at a time for a month, beginning at Milos Craft Beer Emporium last September to December and now at TAP Centre for Creativity. It’s an unusual method to display an exhibit but one that almost mimics the way we encounter our friends and cohorts and acquaintances in daily life, a pleasant reminder that our communal time together is slightly fragmented.
Excerpted from the exhibition write-up by Vince Cherniak, Dec.14, 2024.
In Flux: Jessica Kliza
March 13 - April 12, 2025 in LAB 203
Opening Reception on March 13, 5PM-7PM
Jessica Kliza is a trained photographer and studio resident artist at TAP Centre for Creativity. In “In Flux” she sources photographs from newspapers and magazines and uses them to create representational drawings and paintings that explore the power and beauty of the human body in motion.
“Photography has the unique power to capture subjects mid-motion. These dramatic forms are made all the more enthralling by their brevity. Through repetition, I have expanded these fleeting images into something much more tangible, anchoring them in the here and now and calling into question the uniqueness of a moment. I selected these subjects because of the emotions each evokes in me, both as an artist and as an athlete. I have used colour and technique as a way to convey these responses."
—Jessica Kliza, TAP Studio 2D