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Preview Show
March 4 - March 8, 2025 in the Main Gallery
Opening Reception on March 4, 5PM-8PM
The London Artist Studio Tour Preview Show runs from March 4th-8th. It is a showcase and early look at the work of 39 local artists who will be participating in the 2025 London Artist Studio Tour this April.
It represents what you will see if you come out for this year’s Studio Tour.
Over our 30 years of opening London studios to the public, hundreds of local artists have presented a wide variety of work in all media. This year’s artists will display drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery, collage and textile art.
Approaches range from traditional to experimental. Media encompass oil, watercolour, acrylic, found object assemblage, metal, wood, wool, paper, clay, encaustic, silk and more. Some artists are veterans of the Tour. Some are new to the Tour and to London.
We strive to keep the tour fresh and exciting. This year’s show at Tap Center for Creativity is a showcase of the dynamic work that London artists are making.
"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.
"Marcy" by Brian Lambert
SONGS FOR THE CHAMELEON: BRIAN LAMBERT
February 5 - March 8, 2025 in LAB 203
Opening Reception February 13th 5:00PM-7:00PM
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About the Exhibition
Songs for the Chameleon is a project consisting of an illustrated novel and a series of musical compositions, each with an accompanying video. The music/video part is nearing completion, with an expected release date sometime in the fall of 2025.
The novel, however, came to an abrupt standstill when, after several years of rapt involvement in the development of the story and characters, the author awoke to the fact of an alarming neglect of other of life’s annoying necessities. Like relationships. The lawn. Extant hydro bills. On and on.
These few drawings represent some of the effort made to illustrate the characters and ideas meant to be engendered in the writing. In the story our protagonist, a dreamer, encounters a crow. The crow, at first annoyingly present in her dreams, becomes the teacher/philosopher that helps her to wake to the depth of her consciousness. To realize how dream and waking awareness are intertwined. And that by engaging our lives with this heightened awareness the quieting of our worst fears can be perceived as within our grasp…
Heavy shit.
About the Artist
Brian Lambert is an art hack who has convinced himself (and others) that he can work competently in multiple disciplines.
Still, his efforts have included a career in the business as an exhibiting artist, illustrator, photographer, writer, musician/composer, gallery administrator, curator and, not insignificantly, a big-time art handler.
For more information about the artist and his projects visit https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/brian-lambert.html