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May 7, 2010
Last night I had the pleasure of announcing to 125 people gathered at Station Gallery that we were at the epicenter of the world. “I haven’t seen this many people at the Gallery since… last week, for our Drawing for Art fundraiser!” I spoke addressing the crowd of familiar and mostly new faces. These back-to-back events bolstered massive attendance numbers at the Gallery in the span of a week. Selections from Durham College’s Fine Art & Design programme juried student show opened with the best works to come from that programme in the three years that the Gallery has hosted this event. What has now become a yearly ritual, College art instructor Sean McQuay and I partook in the The Annual Exchanging of the Vintage Ties. For the third year in a row we’ve traded neckties as a symbol of brotherhood between two sister institutions, and the way Durham College and Station Gallery are tied.
The College show caught up with the Before & After show which opened a few weeks earlier. This exhibition saw key works from the Gallery’s permanent collection displayed along with fresh, recent works from established artists Ron Eccles, Liz Parkinson, Libby Hague, Lotti Thomas, Akira Yoshikawa and Otis Tamasauskas. Related to this permanent collection show was the unveiling of Peter Kolisnyk’s reconditioned work from 1977 Ground Outline. Over a hundred people came outside to pay tribute to Peter’s legacy and his contribution to Canadian minimalism. It was a moving ceremony with Peter’s daughter and her family in attendance.
We didn’t stop there–in the Yourspace Community Gallery hung the exquisite photos of regional photographer, Bruce Livingston. Titled These Synthetic Shores, Bruce’s photo essay corresponded with the Contact Fest. His pictures of washed up debris on the Lake Ontario coast are immediate and topical as we become very conscious of our shorelines in light of the BP oil disaster currently hitting the news. Workshops and classes were chugging along in the box car print studio and in the downstairs studio. What a great night it was! What a verve! It was the intersection of past with the future, and what a present it was!
July 6, 2009
Station Gallery has recently revived its N. Novak Print Studio. This is an exciting move, since this box car studio was once a locus of printmaking experimentation and production for decades. It was after all, one of the hallmarks which set the Station apart from other public galleries. This made us unique—and it now continues to do so. The studio played host to many preeminent printmakers such as Otis Tamasauskas, Anne Meredith Barry, Don Holman, Richard Toms and many others.
Artist Todd Tremeer works on his latest print in the Nicolas Novak Print Studio at Station Gallery.
I believe that the momentum of the Print Studio will continue as we enter the mid-point of the First Phase of the print studio revival. I’m very hopeful that the studio will attract many artists and that this will be a creative hub of a printmaking renaissance in the region. Traction is what we need now that the print studio is back on track.
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