Ron Lambert exhibition Feb 27 & 28 at Visual Arts Mississauga

Visual Arts Mississauga is presenting a two day exhibition of Ronald Malcolm Lambert Saturday and Sunday Feb. 26 - 27 2016. Lambert was born in Oshawa and is one of Canada’s original abstract artist. He was a student of Alexandra Luke (Painters 11) when he was eight as well as studying with A.Y. Jackson (Group of Seven) as a teenager. He also studied with Modernist master Hans Hofmann. The exhibit covers Lambert's time with Hofmann when he was 19 juxtaposed with his current work created at the age of 88, a span of 69 years. Lambert will be on hand both days for an artists’ talk.

Janet Read's atmospheric abstractions at the Navillus Gallery Mar 5 -26

It is as if one can still the stream long enough to see the beauty in the transparency of the light passing though, this is the joy in Janet Read's paintings. 

Read's exhibition "Atmospheric Abstractions" runs Mar. 5 to 26, 2016, at Navillus Gallery in Toronto. The works of the Markham, ON.-based painter are soft-focused views of misty landscapes, vaseline-smeared lens-like sky and sea, cloud and waters. 

That is if one was to look directly into them and search for the physical, the tangible atmosphere. They have heritage from JW Turner and Monet but they are devoid of the human hand; neither Turner's ships nor Monet's curated gardens are evident. Read shows only the wild at large, devoid of separation, devoid of line. 

But these wild works are also metaphors for the abstract of modern living with its mass of media, its fluidity of messaging containing no hard truths just the fuzziness of uncertainty. The information is liquid. There are no walls, just wave after wave awash. 

Read seems to be saying, this new now world without borders, in all its layering transparency is warm, welcoming, wondrous and wholly our own. Read perceives a plausibility of a pattern at the centre of our techo-age. She perceives a beauty, she presents a soft truth; in this flood there is familiarity.

Charlotte Hale Gallery celebrates Tom Waits for everyone!

Tom Waits Is A Wild Wild Man is the title of a loosely curated exhibit based on the Vaudevillian Poet of the Underworld. Its on now at the Charlotte Hale & Assoc. Gallery in Mirvish Village in Toronto. Hale has gathered up a fine collection of sculpture, photographs, lithographs and paintings by several artists, many of whom we consider to be part of the SlowCity community including Francis Muscat, Lynne McIlvride, Olex Wlasenko and Viktor Tinkl. Work by Steve Stober and and the wonderful Claude Miceli are also on display. The show runs until Feb. 28.

The opening reception on Thursday Feb 18 featured music by Rory Taillon and Dan Brooks. The music continues with members of the Hairy Holler on Friday Feb 27.

Celebrate Black History Month with Cultural Expressions in Ajax Feb 20

Share the "love" with a book from Blue Heron in Uxbridge

Writers love bookstores and bookstores love writers and writers write about love and name their books after love and if you buy a book from Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge, any book with the word "love" in the title, between Feb. 1 and Feb. 14, 2016, the good folks at Blue Heron will donate a book to Syrian refugees arriving in their community. Lovely.