Diasporic Transmission – An Exploration in Color Group Art
Exhibition - August 1 - September 30, 2014
Friday August 1 - Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014
FARah Gallery, 325 Richmond Rd, Ottawa
Diasporic Transmission – An Exploration in Color Group Art Exhibition.
This exhibition explores artists from the African and Caribbean Diaspora, as well as aspires to engage viewers through the artists' thematic use of colours. These artists hail from the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Sudan and Trinidad. Featured artist, the internationally renowned St.Lucian Luigi St.Omer (Son of Honourable Sir Dunstan St.Omer) showcases two of his collections at this exhibition. Alongside these two collections are the works of professional artists: Kenneth Abendana Spencer, Richard Hall, Hamid Ayoub, Tamara Natalie Madden, Elpedio Robinson, Amarkine Amarteifio, Shastri Maharaj and Yvon Villarceau. These works collectively challenge the viewer to engage in the artist's portrayal of their homeland and to share in the reflection of their journey. The following artist works will be showcased: St. Lucia: Luigi St. Omer (Featured Artist) Jamaica: Richard Hall, Rani Carson, Kenneth Abendana Spencer, Elpedio Robinson, Tamara Natalie Madden, Howard McDonald, Bill Corrodus, Zara Zhu, Headley Thompson; Dominican Republic: David Vasquez; Haiti: Wilder St. Louis, Fredo, Yvon Villaceau; Sudan: Hamid Ayoub; Ghana: Armakine Amarteifio, David Anorpansuo; Guyana: Farouk Ali; Trinidad: Shastri Maharaj. More info at https://www.facebook.com/DiasporicArt
FARah Gallery, 325 Richmond Rd, Ottawa
Diasporic Transmission – An Exploration in Color Group Art Exhibition.
This exhibition explores artists from the African and Caribbean Diaspora, as well as aspires to engage viewers through the artists' thematic use of colours. These artists hail from the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Sudan and Trinidad. Featured artist, the internationally renowned St.Lucian Luigi St.Omer (Son of Honourable Sir Dunstan St.Omer) showcases two of his collections at this exhibition. Alongside these two collections are the works of professional artists: Kenneth Abendana Spencer, Richard Hall, Hamid Ayoub, Tamara Natalie Madden, Elpedio Robinson, Amarkine Amarteifio, Shastri Maharaj and Yvon Villarceau. These works collectively challenge the viewer to engage in the artist's portrayal of their homeland and to share in the reflection of their journey. The following artist works will be showcased: St. Lucia: Luigi St. Omer (Featured Artist) Jamaica: Richard Hall, Rani Carson, Kenneth Abendana Spencer, Elpedio Robinson, Tamara Natalie Madden, Howard McDonald, Bill Corrodus, Zara Zhu, Headley Thompson; Dominican Republic: David Vasquez; Haiti: Wilder St. Louis, Fredo, Yvon Villaceau; Sudan: Hamid Ayoub; Ghana: Armakine Amarteifio, David Anorpansuo; Guyana: Farouk Ali; Trinidad: Shastri Maharaj. More info at https://www.facebook.com/DiasporicArt
Introducing.....Prea Zwarych
Toronto native Prea Zwarych expresses passion, freedom, and creativity through painting. She creates a wide range of works including portraits, abstracts, landscapes, and spiritual or inspirational paintings. Many pieces feature a variety of different materials to produce unique textures.
Prea creates personalized paintings specifically to suite your tastes, be it a piece to match the colours in your home or a portrait of yourself or a loved one, you will be amazed! You can order a copy of her paintings and personalize the size and colours as you wish; you can request an entirely new picture; or you can visit her studio to purchase one of the 60+ paintings in her inventory. Prices range from $50-$1000, average is $100-$400.
Contact info: preazart@gmail.com 613-806-0854 www.preazart.wix.com/paintings
Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/PreaZArt Instagram: PREAZART Twitter: @PreaZArt
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Prea creates personalized paintings specifically to suite your tastes, be it a piece to match the colours in your home or a portrait of yourself or a loved one, you will be amazed! You can order a copy of her paintings and personalize the size and colours as you wish; you can request an entirely new picture; or you can visit her studio to purchase one of the 60+ paintings in her inventory. Prices range from $50-$1000, average is $100-$400.
Contact info: preazart@gmail.com 613-806-0854 www.preazart.wix.com/paintings
Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/PreaZArt Instagram: PREAZART Twitter: @PreaZArt
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Paintings by Prea Z Art Studios at OH SO GOOD, in Ottawa's Byward Market
See paintings by Prea Z Art Studios at OH SO GOOD, Byward Market, Ottawa, rotating every 2 months starting Aug. 1, 2013
Extravagant Art to Inspire your Space
*Houses *Luxury condos *Lofts
Tel.: 613-806-0854
Web Gallery: http://www.preazart.wix.com/paintings
Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prea-Z-Art-and-Passion-Expressed-Fan-Page/135194066499067
Extravagant Art to Inspire your Space
*Houses *Luxury condos *Lofts
Tel.: 613-806-0854
Web Gallery: http://www.preazart.wix.com/paintings
Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prea-Z-Art-and-Passion-Expressed-Fan-Page/135194066499067
Introducing...Chiko Chazunguza
Photo taken by Sarah Onyango on Feb. 1, 2013, at Ottawa's Fritzi Gallery.
Chikonzero (Chiko) Chazunguza is a Zimbabwean visual artist and provocateur, whose multimedia artworks raise searching questions about the postcolonial condition and about the unstable role and nature of art in its postcolonial context.
In 1987, Chiko won a scholarship to study at the Institute of Pictorial
Arts in Sofia Bulgaria, where he earned his MFA and was trained in the classical modes of printmaking, drawing and painting, later turning to memories of indigenous Zimbabwean art as a source of inspiration for experiment.
Returning home in 1994, Chiko deliberately set out to re-connect with local modes of fabrication and visuality, exploring their areas of aesthetic overlap with Western traditions to produce new visual forms and new kinds of
visual knowledge. Techniques in shrine construction, ritual behavioral codes governing the safety of forest hunters, skills in parsing the oblique signs and messages of the ancestors, and the intricate conventions of rural ornamentation are amongst those elements of indigenous aesthetic life with which Chiko has reshaped ideas about parameters of art.
Investigating indigenous knowledge systems and probing forgotten (pre)colonial histories for clues that might illumine our way forward in a complex world, Chiko’s works exist as models for individual thought and action
that are sensitive to the needs of the collective. Amongst his most compelling works are those that reinstate for the viewer a sense of ritual order and of life’s deeper mysteries, alongside proffering incisive, yet subtle social
analysis.
Chiko was born and raised in the suburb of Highfield, in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited in solo shows in Zimbabwe, Canada, and the U.S.A. Chiko's compelling artistic practice explores the changing nature of cultural production in an increasingly hybridized postcolonial world. With a concern for formal values (colour, line, composition) and social issues such as power, history, and globalization, the artist's dense, multi-layered paintings are inspired by the colours and energy of Southern Africa's visual arts and music, and influenced by the region's socio-political realities.
Artist website: http://chikochazunguza.ca/
UPCOMING & CURRENT SHOWS
Chikonzero (Chiko) Chazunguza is a Zimbabwean visual artist and provocateur, whose multimedia artworks raise searching questions about the postcolonial condition and about the unstable role and nature of art in its postcolonial context.
In 1987, Chiko won a scholarship to study at the Institute of Pictorial
Arts in Sofia Bulgaria, where he earned his MFA and was trained in the classical modes of printmaking, drawing and painting, later turning to memories of indigenous Zimbabwean art as a source of inspiration for experiment.
Returning home in 1994, Chiko deliberately set out to re-connect with local modes of fabrication and visuality, exploring their areas of aesthetic overlap with Western traditions to produce new visual forms and new kinds of
visual knowledge. Techniques in shrine construction, ritual behavioral codes governing the safety of forest hunters, skills in parsing the oblique signs and messages of the ancestors, and the intricate conventions of rural ornamentation are amongst those elements of indigenous aesthetic life with which Chiko has reshaped ideas about parameters of art.
Investigating indigenous knowledge systems and probing forgotten (pre)colonial histories for clues that might illumine our way forward in a complex world, Chiko’s works exist as models for individual thought and action
that are sensitive to the needs of the collective. Amongst his most compelling works are those that reinstate for the viewer a sense of ritual order and of life’s deeper mysteries, alongside proffering incisive, yet subtle social
analysis.
Chiko was born and raised in the suburb of Highfield, in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited in solo shows in Zimbabwe, Canada, and the U.S.A. Chiko's compelling artistic practice explores the changing nature of cultural production in an increasingly hybridized postcolonial world. With a concern for formal values (colour, line, composition) and social issues such as power, history, and globalization, the artist's dense, multi-layered paintings are inspired by the colours and energy of Southern Africa's visual arts and music, and influenced by the region's socio-political realities.
Artist website: http://chikochazunguza.ca/
UPCOMING & CURRENT SHOWS
Introducing....Allan André
The American painter Paul Jackson Pollock once said "Every true painter paints what he is", and for Canadian-born Haitian artist Allan André (1987, Ottawa, Canada) this statement rings especially true. Believing that we all leave a mark in history by amusing, inspiring and challenging our own spheres of influence in a way that will ripple through future generations, he states, “After having lived in Canada and studied graphic design in the U.S. and meeting many different people, I’ve learned that the arts are a human necessity. It's the fuel that drives us in all other facets of life. Whether you sing, dance, cook, we all leave our signature on the canvas we call the human experience. I do this through painting, drawing, sculpture and media installation. but we all have something to offer to the world."
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Introducing....Hamid Ayoub
About Hamid Ayoub:
Born in Sudan in 1967, and presently living in Ottawa, Hamid Ayoub has a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Sudan University of Sciences and Technology, with a specialization in Textile Design.Every-day sights and situations shape the work of the artist. Hamid Ayoub depicts the emotions of human spirit through colour and movement. Different mediums are used to render the entire spectrum of life experiences. Hamid's work has been exhibited in many venues in Sudan, Niger, France, Holland, England, the United States and Canada.
More info about the artist & contact details at www.hamidayoub.com
Photos taken by Sarah Onyango at Hamid Ayoub's April 2010 exhibit at Heartwood Gallery, Ottawa
UPCOMING & CURRENT SHOWS
Born in Sudan in 1967, and presently living in Ottawa, Hamid Ayoub has a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Sudan University of Sciences and Technology, with a specialization in Textile Design.Every-day sights and situations shape the work of the artist. Hamid Ayoub depicts the emotions of human spirit through colour and movement. Different mediums are used to render the entire spectrum of life experiences. Hamid's work has been exhibited in many venues in Sudan, Niger, France, Holland, England, the United States and Canada.
More info about the artist & contact details at www.hamidayoub.com
Photos taken by Sarah Onyango at Hamid Ayoub's April 2010 exhibit at Heartwood Gallery, Ottawa
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