exhibitions + displays
Exhibitions + Displays
With 3 galleries spread across 2 floors along with the Market Place artist market the LAC presents changing calendar of diverse exhibitions.
Distinguished for offering a wide range of local programming, the LAC is committed to facilitating access and stimulating the appreciation and understanding for visual arts and relevant cultural topics.
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Bright Spots
The Leamington Arts Centre, in support of the Windsor Endowment for the Arts, the uptown Leamington BIA, the Municipality of Leamington and Speedprint is proud to present “Bright Spots”, a public art project that creates “Bright Spots” in Leamington.
The vision is to bring artwork from within the gallery walls to the sidewalks and parks of Leamington for all to view, experience and take notice of more of our town’s “Bright Spots”.
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Mural Mosaic
The Leamington Arts Centre (LAC) in partnership with the Mayor Youth Advisory Committee (MYAC) is proud to present the Mural Mosaic community Arts Project.
The finished Mural Mosaic consists of 272 individual tiles of unique images, each one painted by a community arts participant and based on the artists tiles from the original Tree of Life Mosaic.
All of the individually numbered tiles have been joined together to create one larger image, the Tree of Life.
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“S.H.E. is Healing” 2024, a four-year community art project resulting in 13 spirit portraits. All nations of women working to heal, themselves, families, communities, through the pandemic and
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“S.H.E. is Healing” 2024, a four-year community art project resulting in 13 spirit portraits. All nations of women working to heal, themselves, families, communities, through the pandemic and through infinity.
The project sought to create a community of compassion acknowledging everyone’s ability to heal from past trauma. Suellen was inspired by the earth’s ability to heal during the pandemic. Many of these women turned to earthly wisdom during the pandemic to calm their fears, including the artist. The art project was part of Suellen’s own healing. She looked to First Nation people to learn from their ability to heal with respect and admiration. Suellen was invited on two-year healing journey around the medicine wheel through the Grandmother apprenticeship with Grandmother Isabelle Meawasige, Conni Ma’iingan and other Grandmothers and Elders from March 2020-2022. This opportunity expanded Suellen’s quest which started in 1979 to learn more. This aspiration to learn started with meeting Ben Pouget in 1979. A First Nation friend who opened her eyes and heart, this awakened a life quest to heal and learn from First Nation people. Half of the subjects in “S.H.E. is Healing” are First Nation women.
“S.H.E. is Healing” processes entailed active listening to questions asked to create a visual representation of spirit. Encouraging the women to tell their story. The subject’s displayed enthusiasm to share their spiritual side. The artist doesn’t speak for these women but listens carefully to their offerings shared. These trust offerings were the seeds that grew each portrait.
“S.H.E. is healing” portraits are colorful acrylics on canvas framed in cedar. Suellen’s artwork since 2009 is pursuing the elusive connection between energy of Spirit, Humanity and Earth. Suellen a Grandmother since 2017 has been motivated to generate a community of compassion for the future of her grandchildren and the future of all children.
June 4 – July 26
Reception: Friday, June 7, 6-8pm
Join Suellen at the LAC on July 20 from 1-4pm for a drumming and book signing event.
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June 4, 2024 11:00 am – July 26, 2024 5:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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The Leamington En Plein Air Painting Competition is an incredible opportunity for all artists to present their En Plein Air paintings at the LAC for a chance to win cash
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The Leamington En Plein Air Painting Competition is an incredible opportunity for all artists to present their En Plein Air paintings at the LAC for a chance to win cash prizes.
The exhibition’s focus is to showcase the beauty within the Leamington and Point Pelee district, and celebrate the joy and impressionism in full view when painting in the open air .
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June 18, 2024 11:00 am – July 14, 2024 5:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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Images of the Past: Photographs & Quilts to Mark Leamington’s 150th Anniversary: Leamington & Mersea Historic Society July 2 – July 26 Reception: Fri. July 12, 6-8pm (in conjunction with the Mill
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Images of the Past: Photographs & Quilts to Mark Leamington’s 150th Anniversary: Leamington & Mersea Historic Society
July 2 – July 26
Reception: Fri. July 12, 6-8pm (in conjunction with the Mill St. Market)
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July 2, 2024 11:00 am – July 28, 2024 5:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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The Control Group are four Windsor artists who had the distinct pleasure of access to the grimy and deliciously untethered environs of the Lebel building in the 1980s
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The Control Group are four Windsor artists who had the distinct pleasure of access to the grimy and deliciously untethered environs of the Lebel building in the 1980s and have joined forces to explore and share with each other experiences and discoveries from the past 35 years.
We came of age at the threshold of the last days of punk and the end of the industrial revolution. The decay, rage and diaspora were as much an influence on our development as young artists as were the abstract expressionists, the Dadaists, conceptualists, performative and environmental work, the list goes on. There was so much for us to consume and reconfigure into our own sense of rationality. What we have carried forward is a distinct view of the world, an internalized turmoil of freedom vs. rebellion — a profound dichotomy from which to leap into the unknown.
What we most markedly share is the use of the figure. The existential vessel, the human archetype enduring the pain, and suffering experienced by all, but grappling with contemporary issues of feminism, equity, restitution, justice, heresy, consumer culture, political corruption and social upheaval.
We have consistently been on the precipice of something. Being open to and trusting our perceptions. Moving forward in a world that has so much to internalize and make sense of, we embody the myth, pathos, eros, we are the Control Group. We offer you our subjective observations and findings.
July 16 – Sept. 7
Reception Aug. 9, 6-8pm
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July 16, 2024 10:00 am – September 7, 2024 5:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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Some time ago I visited the Boston Museum of Art and was subsequently influenced by a work of art that the French painter, Paul Gaugin (1848-1903) had created.
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Some time ago I visited the Boston Museum of Art and was subsequently influenced by a work of art that the French painter, Paul Gaugin (1848-1903) had created. He titled it, “D’ou Venouns Nous ~ Que Sommes Nous ~ Ous Allons Nous”. The English translation being, “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”
This was written between 1897-1898 by the artist and incorporated into the composition of vivid reds, yellows and earth tones. The fact that someone more than 100 years ago would think and do such a thing made it very contemporary and provocative to me. His summation of ideas is what interests me and I consider this a parallel to my work.
My exhibition is called ‘Guarding the Nest’.
It consists of a soft sculptural assemblage of cut up clothing materials in the form of a nest, with three ostrich eggs displayed in the middle.
I’ve created 15-20 works of pastel drawings on canvas, some including small acrylic aspects in the works. These are colour field based works with a small bird motif incorporated to align with the bird’s nest assemblage. The bird motif itself I have used many times throughout my career.
The image of my bird comes from one particular past experience as a young boy of 8 years old. I was walking on a hot summer day and noticed a bird laying on the sidewalk. I stopped to ponder what may have happened to this bird, how did it end up on this particular block, in this particular position. An innocence was lost as I realized that this bird was dead. This was a profound moment for me, a connection that has been with me ever since. I saw the bird as a part of nature, and we as people are all a part of nature, connected with everything around us.
Being a single male provider, a nurturer out of necessity for my three daughters, I have found that it is important to render a gentler and more compassionate side to the understanding of what parenting entails. The different layers of colours used in the colour fields, hopefully, will provide an emotional impact, reflecting different time elements, the layers in parenting, the time passing in our lives as moments, days, weeks, years, and decades. It is a continuing aspect of what it is to live, experience, protect, nurture and share.
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July 30, 2024 10:00 am – September 21, 2024 5:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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MIXED is an exhibition that seeks to explore the creative expression of mixed media art and the use of non-traditional media. Mixed media is a term used to describe artworks composed
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MIXED is an exhibition that seeks to explore the creative expression of mixed media art and the use of non-traditional media.
Mixed media is a term used to describe artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials. MIXED asks artists to submit work that has been created using more than one form of a traditional medium.
Exhibition Opens: Tue July 30, 2024
Reception: Fri Aug 9, 6-8pm (in conjunction with the Mill St. Market 5-10pm)
Exhibition Closes: Sat Sep 21, 2024
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July 30, 2024 11:00 am – September 21, 2024 5:00 pm(GMT+00:00)