Masthead - Galleries
Current Exhibitions
July 20 – 31, 2010
Opening Reception Monday July 19th at 5:30pm

Anna Leonowens Gallery1891 Granville Street
Gallery 1 Billboards + Glass Walls
Laura Newman
Artist in Residence


Laura Newman’s abstract paintings address the representation of space and often take particular places as points of departure in order to explore visual issues. Inspired by looking at a building site, this exhibition investigates modernist architecture, color field painting, billboards, glass doors, skies and highways. Hard-edged geometrical shapes combine with gestural marks to evoke a stream of consciousness urban skyline.

Laura Newman is a painter who lives in Brooklyn, New York.  She is an assistant professor at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, where she teaches painting and drawing.

In recent years she has presented solo exhibitions of her work at Randolph-Macon College; Bellwether Gallery (reviewed in Artforum magazine, summer 2002), and Tenri Gallery.  An article on her paintings by Judith Linhares appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Bomb magazine. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the New Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum, among other places.

Newman has received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.  She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at Cooper Union, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. The artist acknowledges support from Vassar College.

Artist’s Presentation: Wednesday 21 July at 12:00 noon

July 27 – 31, 2010
Opening Reception Monday July 26th at 5:30pm

Anna Leonowens Gallery1891 Granville Street
Gallery 2
not-me / Doodles
Kelly Markovich & Alistair Rance
MFA exhibitor & Alumni exhibitor

Kelly Markovich states about her photographic project:
not-me is a term used to describe the transitional object.  In human childhood development, a transitional object is usually a physical object, which takes the place of the mother-child bond.  These things often serve a soothing function for young children and are normal and significant developmental phenomena.  An interest in objects and the relationships we share with them has led me to expand on the ideas surrounding the first transition, more specifically, the separation from the mother and the advent of the self/other reality.

Alistar Rance writes about his paintings:
These paintings, or large-scale Doodles, are comprised of two main elements; one element being the repetitive use of the rectangular form and the other element being the navigating of an aesthetic experience through the process of creating a composition on canvas. These doodles are about building a composition using varying scales of a single form – the rectangle - and the process that is involved in creating them. I interconnect the rectangles, joining one to the next, creating a chain of events. It is the in the chain of events that the image has its essence, the chain of events that build on each other, react to one another, with no negation of previous actions, continuing on through the formal space of the canvas. These paintings represent a process that has resulted in an image of a seemingly haphazard pattern of a chain that has been struggling to find its course though an unsure journey: essentially a doodle.

Gallery 3Infinitas
Kiano Zamani
undergraduate exhibitor

Kiano states, “With sacred geometry paintings, I wish to bring the viewers closer to themselves. I am also presenting video and poetry work that examines social justice and human conditioning.”


July 21 – August 8, 2010                                         
Closing Reception Tuesday August 3, 5:30 - 7pm

Port Loggia Gallery
1107 Marginal Rd.

Main GalleryNew Work
Lauren Schaffer

Artist in Residence

Visiting Artist Lauren Schaffer states:
My recent work, Translating the World for Isabella (2009-) consists of images that are ruminations on the formation of consciousness, extrapolated from concepts of early cognitive development.  The work explores how images emerge and how they become ‘fully realized’.   They could be seen as literal or imaginative permutations of the development of pictorial meaning.

The concern for liminal understanding demonstrated in this image series will also play out in new audio-based work for the LOGGIA this summer.  The starting point of this piece is a recording of a piano coming through the walls of a practice room in a Toronto public library.  The sound of the piano is on the edge of audibility and its discernment in this semi-public space becomes a focal point.  In the show there will be an ancillary installation to this altered field recording that reformulates the conditions for this recorded moment.   As with the images, this new work explores how public space and subjectivity can be eroded or constructed by the amplification of details.

Lauren Schaffer studied at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and completed an MFA at Concordia University. She has exhibited across Canada and has participated in numerous Artist in Residence programs and publication projects.  The artist acknowledges the support of Ryan Blanchard.

Artist’s Presentation: Wednesday 4 August at 12:00 noon






Laura Newman 

Gallery 1
Billboards + Glass Walls
Laura Newman
Artist in Residence


 Kelly Markovich

Gallery 2
not-me
Kelly Markovich


 Alistair Rance
 
Gallery 2
Doodles
Alistair Rance



 Kiano Zamani

Gallery 3
Infinitas
Kiano zamani
 
 
 Lauren Schaffer
 
Port Loggia Gallery
Lauren Schaffer
Artist-in-Residence