Photo: Gilda Furgiuele

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Director's Message

September means a new exhibition season here at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Our busy schedule of fall events starts this week-end, with an exhibition of Canadian cubist and pop art in our Firestone Gallery.

This also means our summer exhibition, Your Word Is Bond, will soon be ending. We’ve got a fun, flirty closing party planned around the show's theme of romantic correspondence. If you’re curious, you can read about it online but you’ll have to come see it for yourself In Real Life.

Starting September 11th, ART Rental and Sales will be presenting a group show of illustrations by local artists and animators, just in time for the Ottawa International Animation Festival. There's much more to come this fall, so keep an eye on our website for updates.

Sincerely,
Alexandra Badzak, Director and CEO

Freedom of Association
Dennis Tourbin and Other Artists
1 September 2012 - 6 January 2013

If you love Pop Art, pop over to the Firestone Gallery to see a Canadian take on the innovative and influential art movements of the 20th century. The exhibition groups together Canadian artists who employ Cubism and collage, with a special focus on mid-career work by Dennis Tourbin, known for his use of October Crisis headlines.
Guest Curator: Judith Parker

Come see Christos Pantieras In Real Life!
Closing Party:
7 September 2012, 8 to 10 p.m.

Christos Pantieras, Write me a Letter, 2003, envelopes dipped in candle wax procured from a local church, wicks, objects and furniture, dimensions Variable. Installation: Modern Fuel ARC , Kingston, ON. Photo: Bill Weedmark

Quit hiding behind the screen and come flirt In Real Life! This closing party is your chance to play with ideas of romantic correspondence, as they appear in our summer exhibition, Your Word is Bond. We supply pen and paper, you bring the pick-up lines. Music, food and drink will make your hearts (and pens) race. A $10 ticket includes a drink and unlimited pen and paper. Special thanks go to The Nutty Greek Bake Shop and Life of Pie, our food sponsors for this event.

NB: The last free guided tour of the exhibition takes place on September 6, at 6 p.m.

ART Rental & Sales presents
STOP MOTION
11 September - 6 October, 2012

Dave Cooper,  Testical Sky, 2011, oil on canvas

With a nod to our colleagues at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), we are happy to present a group show at ART Rental and Sales. Stop Motion features visual artwork by local animators and cartoonists, including a mural by the EN MASSE collective of artists created live at last year’s OIAF. Take a break from the festival to come see artwork by cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer Dave Cooper and others from Ottawa.

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Current exhibitions

Christos Pantieras
Your Word Is Bond
Guest Curator: Johanna Mizgala
22 June - 9 September 2012

Your Word Is Bond explores the notion of giving your word to someone, of what it means to speak tender or fervent “truths” that are sincerely meant at one time but not for all time. The exhibition considers as well the nature of memory, correspondence and other talismans of the past.

Guillermo Trejo
The revolution is called Atlantis
Curator: Ola Wlusek
23 August - 9 September 2012

Thanks to all who came out August 23rd to celebrate Guillermo Trejo's successful completion of his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Freedom of Association
Dennis Tourbin and Other Artists
Guest Curator: Judith Parker
1 September 2012 -  6 January 2013
Opening: 20 September, 6 p.m.

André Biéler (1896-1989), Female with Musical Instrument , 1967, ink and watercolour on paper, 53.3 x 35.5 cm, Firestone Collection of Canadian Art

Freedom of Association brings together Canadian artists who employ Cubism – or its offshoot collage – as a point of departure. Drawing pieces from both private and public collections including the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, the exhibition presents works from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Expeditions
Curator: Ola Wlusek
21 September 2012 -13 January 2013
Opening: 20 September 2012, 6 p.m.

Expeditions portrays six artists’ encounters with places they experienced between the Canadian coasts and explores the notion of how an individual artist’s identity is defined by the geography and climate of the landscape. Join us for the Opening of our fall exhibitions September 20, 2012 at 6 p.m.

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