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January Events List
October 2 2011 to January 8 2012
Vessna Perunovich neither here nor there
Vessna Perunovich has established herself as one of Canada’s most compelling and adroit artists. With a fluidity and adept facility her practice encompasses performance, video, sculpture, painting and installation. Individual yet nonetheless inter-related, these aspects combine into an ever evolving oeuvre which defies a simple categorization. Consistently Perunovich’s subject matter grapples with issues of personal intimacy and of societal constructs; her work is autobiographical and at the same time universal. She is inspired by a particular place or incident that is then translated into something that anyone, anywhere can find a connection with. Her work dwells, emotionally and philosophically, on the subject of boundaries, both physical and psychic. Her art objects do not necessarily denote meanings. They don’t , in other words, point at something and describe it. They are connotations of meanings, suggesting that they can wear the conceptual clothing necessary to expressing inexpressible feelings for things that are inexplicable. A Toronto-based visual artist, Perunovich has exhibited at numerous international biennales in Cuba, Albania, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. She has shown at prestigious public galleries in Canada, Cuba and Europe and her travelling performance project – Transitory Places – was performed at the Tate Modern Grounds in London, England, at Tower of Belem in Lisbon, Portugal, at Malacon in Havana, Cuba and at the Ponte de Academia, in Italy, as an off-site project during the 50th Venice Biennale. Premiering at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, neither here nor there is the first mid-career retrospective of Perunovich’s video work.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Vessna Perunovich neither here nor there
Vessna Perunovich has established herself as one of Canada’s most compelling and adroit artists. With a fluidity and adept facility her practice encompasses performance, video, sculpture, painting and installation. Individual yet nonetheless inter-related, these aspects combine into an ever evolving oeuvre which defies a simple categorization. Consistently Perunovich’s subject matter grapples with issues of personal intimacy and of societal constructs; her work is autobiographical and at the same time universal. She is inspired by a particular place or incident that is then translated into something that anyone, anywhere can find a connection with. Her work dwells, emotionally and philosophically, on the subject of boundaries, both physical and psychic. Her art objects do not necessarily denote meanings. They don’t , in other words, point at something and describe it. They are connotations of meanings, suggesting that they can wear the conceptual clothing necessary to expressing inexpressible feelings for things that are inexplicable. A Toronto-based visual artist, Perunovich has exhibited at numerous international biennales in Cuba, Albania, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. She has shown at prestigious public galleries in Canada, Cuba and Europe and her travelling performance project – Transitory Places – was performed at the Tate Modern Grounds in London, England, at Tower of Belem in Lisbon, Portugal, at Malacon in Havana, Cuba and at the Ponte de Academia, in Italy, as an off-site project during the 50th Venice Biennale. Premiering at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, neither here nor there is the first mid-career retrospective of Perunovich’s video work.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
October 2, 2011 to January 8, 2012
Community Curators Select IV
One of the most common responses we see in the four years since we’ve begun this project is a sense of tremendous pride that our community feels in the fact that a city our size (22,000 people) has this amazing, important and diverse collection of art works. Selected pieces range from Caven Atkins to A.Y. Jackson to John Noestheden. Often people come to the Gallery with a definite sense of what they like – or don’t like! But once in the vault they end up connecting with an artwork that they wouldn’t have expected to. The intimate forum that Community Curators provides allows for a different kind of “art education” to take place. This exhibition provides important information to the public as to how an art gallery operates and the range of concerns around building and maintaining a collection.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Community Curators Select IV
One of the most common responses we see in the four years since we’ve begun this project is a sense of tremendous pride that our community feels in the fact that a city our size (22,000 people) has this amazing, important and diverse collection of art works. Selected pieces range from Caven Atkins to A.Y. Jackson to John Noestheden. Often people come to the Gallery with a definite sense of what they like – or don’t like! But once in the vault they end up connecting with an artwork that they wouldn’t have expected to. The intimate forum that Community Curators provides allows for a different kind of “art education” to take place. This exhibition provides important information to the public as to how an art gallery operates and the range of concerns around building and maintaining a collection.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Ongoing at the Tom Thomson Gallery
Canadian Spirit The Tom Thomson Experience
CANADIAN SPIRIT: The Tom Thomson Experience will make use of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery’s important collection of objects, photos, documents and artworks by Thomson as well as additional supporting work by his contemporaries and by artists working in diverse media who have been influenced by Thomson’s work or inspired by his story. There is perhaps no other artist in Canadian history who has inspired other artists and permeated our national consciousness in the way that Thomson has. This cross-disciplinary exhibition will examine Thomson’s work, life and mythic death, and his influence, both direct and indirect, on Canadian art and culture. Had Thomson not existed, Canada would have had to have invented him. CANADIAN SPIRIT is the initial exhibition that will see our South Gallery converted into a space devoted to Thomson, his story and his legacy.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Canadian Spirit The Tom Thomson Experience
CANADIAN SPIRIT: The Tom Thomson Experience will make use of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery’s important collection of objects, photos, documents and artworks by Thomson as well as additional supporting work by his contemporaries and by artists working in diverse media who have been influenced by Thomson’s work or inspired by his story. There is perhaps no other artist in Canadian history who has inspired other artists and permeated our national consciousness in the way that Thomson has. This cross-disciplinary exhibition will examine Thomson’s work, life and mythic death, and his influence, both direct and indirect, on Canadian art and culture. Had Thomson not existed, Canada would have had to have invented him. CANADIAN SPIRIT is the initial exhibition that will see our South Gallery converted into a space devoted to Thomson, his story and his legacy.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
January 3, 2012
Festival Closes
The Festival of Northern Lights wraps up another great season. Watch for great Owen Sound festivals and events from January to May on our 2011 Winter Guide!!
Downtown Owen Sound
Festival Closes
The Festival of Northern Lights wraps up another great season. Watch for great Owen Sound festivals and events from January to May on our 2011 Winter Guide!!
Downtown Owen Sound
January 28 2012
Georgian Bay Symphony
Georgian Bay Symphony in Evolution with Stanislav Pronin, violin. Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Elizabeth Raum’s Evolution, Bruch’s Violin concerto No. 1, Haydn’s Symphony No. 7
OSCVI Auditorium
Georgian Bay Symphony
Georgian Bay Symphony in Evolution with Stanislav Pronin, violin. Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Elizabeth Raum’s Evolution, Bruch’s Violin concerto No. 1, Haydn’s Symphony No. 7
OSCVI Auditorium