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June 18 - 24, RHIFF 2007 Festival Info
ACA Gallery, art can change the world is the proud sponsor of RHIFF 2007 for Best of the FEST Award, Best SOUND Award, Best EDITING Award, Best VENUE Award
ACA Gallery supports media that makes a difference and we are proud to be one of the 2007 sponsors to encourage the best in filmmaking. We believe that visual media can make and change attitudes on how we interact with each other and globally. Congratulations to the award winners.
June 18-23, 2007
ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF) Toronto June 18-23, 2007
www.reelheart.com
June 18-23, 2007
Carol Mark, Director ACA Gallery invited as keynote speaker for Regional Social Forum on June 22, 2007 on Art & Social Activism.The Regional Social Forum (RSF) is an outgrowth of the World Social Forum movement (WSF). This, our third year, will feature an associated, concurrent art and media exhibition. As is the case with the Regional Social Forum, the RSF New Art and Media Festival will be open to all artists and art lovers who subscribe to our basic anti-neo-liberal principles. There is no cost to attend this event.
The WSF came into being to answer concerns that the World Economic Forum, open only to politicians and heads of corporations and similar people, denies the average person a voice in such matters. The WSF was conceived to be an open meeting space at which anyone may speak out against the advancing globalization that threatens our lives and livelihoods. The Regional Social Forum ~ Canada's Social Forum ~ follows this model. We have an exciting line-up of workshops, round table discussions and key-note speakers. This is considered to be one of Ontario's premier social-activist events!
The 2007 RSF takes place June 21 – 24, 2007 at Spenser Lodge, the London area headquarters of Boy Scouts of Canada. Please note, we are not associated with BSC, but are merely tenants on the site.
For additional information, visit our website at www.rsflondon.ca
June 1-16, 2007
Woman of the World
Portraits by Brian Hawkins celebrating different women at different times from different parts of the world.
June 20- 30, 2007
Reception Thursday June 21, 2007 6- 9 pmAn electic collection of new emerging work.
HABITATS - Artists draw inspiration from the things that surround them, whether it is conscious or not, this has historically and in contemporary practice been true. Habitats is a show in which these surroundings are explored and viewed through different perspectives. This exploration shows how the habitat has a major role in the artists life
Encaustic by Rafal Zawistowski
May - June - July - August - September- Archives
CONTACT 2007
Sublime Realism
May 2-19, 2007
B. Vandiak
Reception Thurs May 3, 2007 6-9 pm
Sublime Realism is a fusion of our individual and collective expressions of how we see ourselves in reintepretating the world. Realism evolves into the sublime of surrealist dreams juxtaposed with natural beauty and global connectedness morphing into altered human forms and urban structures. Memory lives on in a reconstructed form.
The Sublime- Bohdan Vandiak, Benjamin Pezzillo, Michael Sillers
The Realism- Simeon Posen, Michael Jenkins, Cory Pattinson, Andrew Sagutch, Maria Nunes, Erika GonzalesMay 1st 2007
Alan McKee is represented by ACA Gallery
MONTHLY
ReelHeart Monthly Film Series
Join us for our Monthly Film Series presented by ACA Gallery in association
with ReelHeART International
Film Festival . PWYC at ACA Gallery door. Space is limited, so call ahead
to reserve --> 416-703-2217.
Thursday April 26,2007 - 7:00PM Sharp!
PWYC at the door ($5 Suggested, Students, Seniors $3)
THIS MONTH’S THEME ... “APRIL FOOLS”
Pee Shy - The Tall Tale Heart - Please Kill Mr. Kinski - Photomateurs - Son
The monthly selections are curated from past winners and audience favorites from the growing RHIFF catalogue. The monthly film series is a PWYC event, to benefit "KidsReadAfghanistan". Read more about it at http://femaid.org/shirin.html
For fans of "Return to Florence" which played at the ReelHeART
Monthly Film Series at ACA Gallery, Nick Brandestini's documentary about
the "Charles H. Cecil Studios" is now officially available
on DVD.
To purchase, go to http://www.returntoflorence.com and
be sure to check out the "news" link, and click on "media" to
watch the trailer. The DVD is also available on www.amazon.com.
March
21- 31, 2007
The Kamilaroi Dreamtime
Award Winning
Aboriginal Artist Kelly Roach in attendance
ACA Gallery in cooperation with the Australian Consulate General Reception
Thurs March 22, 2007 6-9 pm
OPENING NIGHT WITH CONSUL GENERAL SALLY-ANNE WATT
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Reception
Thurs March 22, 2007 6-9 pm in association with the Australian Consulate
Solo show Award winning Australian aboriginal artist, Kelly Roach.
Via a trip to Vancouver and Pakistan for an International World Peace Project.
“The Kamilaroi Dreamtime is the beginning that never ends.
It was during the dreamtime that the creatures made men & women, Who where
mysterious & supernatural begins.They have the ability to change into animals,
fauna & other creatures. While others change into supernatural forces such
as the wind, rain, thunder & lightning.”
From this background Kelly has developed a style all of her own with a mix
of the traditional with the modern contempory styles.
An international artist with work at Marrickville Addison Rd Gallery, Oz Gallery
Pitt St Sydney, Parliament House Sydney, Purple Frog Gallery Mollymook, & Moree
Regional Gallery.
April
4- 28, 2007
The Announcement
Reception Thursday April 5, 2007 6-9 pm
‘The Announcement’ is the first solo exhibition of Julie Glick’s figurative paintings.
The show’s title “The Announcement” is also the title of one of the pivotal paintings within the exhibition; a portrait of a young woman.
“The inspiration for this work came from a woman who, to my eye, encompassed both purity and seductiveness. She is my Madonna/ Mary Magdalene and I present her in a way that suggests both characteristics. Her hair creates an almost halo effect at the crown but at the tips, coils into untamed serpentine curls. The circular shapes that are repeated in the background and foreground are inspired by the Madonna’s throne pattern in the painting “The Annunciation” by Fra Angelico c.1428-32. In my painting this pattern infers the model’s fate (background) and her calling (foreground). It is her subjugation and her redemption. The woman’s heart necklace suggests love possibly carnal, romantic or spiritual. The dichotomy of being both primal and elevated is an element of the human condition I find compelling.”
There are three fundamental components to this work. Firstly, the painting is a realistic depiction of a person. Secondly, abstract or surreal elements have been integrated into the work and thirdly, this mixture creates a metaphor for some aspect of the human condition. These three components in whole or in part, are strategic to all of the paintings in the exhibition.
These paintings speak to spiritual experience as well as carnal. For Glick, the two are linked. “With a nod at times to both religious and mythological icons, I present a series of paintings that reflect my journey toward understanding human need and potential.”
Adam 2005 oil, 36" x 72"
