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Oshawa, JUNE 29, 2010
Transient Nature: Daniel Colby, Emily Martin, Linda Heffernan Our experiences in life often feel unique to only ourselves. This seems especially true during our youths, in times of turmoil or isolation. But the truth is, we all share one very important experience – the human experience – and.... read more
Oshawa, JUNE 29, 2010
Browsing Beauty: Andrea Sunder-Plassman & Sigi Torinus Beauty. One simple word describes a powerful force in our culture and society. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but beauty is more than surface appearances. Beauty gives pleasure to the senses, but also the intellect.... read more
Oshawa –April 17 2009
A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the ‘50s The Robert McLaughlin Gallery presents the exhibition: A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the ‘50s on view form 9 May to 28 June 2009...read more
Oshawa –April 17 2009
amy loewan: Illuminating Peace The Robert McLaughlin Gallery presents the exhibition: amy loewan: Illuminating Peace on view form 18 April – 14 June 2009.
Art’s ability to make us question assumptions is at the centre of...read more
Oshawa – 13 November 2008
Nina Levitt: Relay, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Nina Levitt: Relay. The third and final exhibition in a trilogy of works about women during World War II, Nina Levitt’s Relay is an installation inspired...read more
Oshawa – 4 November 2008
Nobuo Kubota: Hokusai Revisited, This installation, Hokusai Revisited, is remarkable in the simple and elegant reconstitution of the ever-changing dynamic of the natural and manufactured worlds. The pine structural underpinning merely provides the posts for the long fir slats to support themselves on. The long curves of the slats...read more
Oshawa – 28 October 2008
Nina Levitt: Relay, History recreates the past. It researches, recalls, reiterates, narrates...all to mark the relations between then and now in pursuit of the truth. The truth of history comes...read more
Oshawa – 26 August 2008
Hysteria and the Body, In the late nineteenth century, the burgeoning fields of psychology and psychiatry paid increasing attention to hysteria, a functional disturbance of the nervous system which they deemed a “female malady”. Yet, since the 1970s...read more
Oshawa – 26 August 2008
Colleen Wolstenholme: A Divided Room, Much of Colleen Wolstenholme’s work questions the myths that frame the aesthetic experience. The most enduring aesthetic myth of our age is the notion of the personal, highly subjective encounter with form. Whether raised to the level of a moral or spiritual imperative; presented as a question...read more
Oshawa – 11 June, 2008
Meredith Bingham and Kathleen Ritter: Wide Open, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is particularly interested in the work of artists whose origins, development, and current work is essentially linked to our City and Region. This Gallery was...read more
Oshawa – 11 June, 2008
Lyndal Osborne: Ornamenta, this exhibition presents two significant works by Lyndal Osborne: Garden 2005 and Archipelago 2008. The titles of these works are words rich in meaning and associations, not to look primarily for verbal analogues…read more
Oshawa - 1 May, 2008
Oshawa Art Association: 40th Annual Juried Exhibition, this popular juried exhibition features entries from members of the Association and from residents of Durham Region…read more
Oshawa - 16 April 2008
Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images, during the winter of 1951 the internationally renowned Ottawa-based photographer Yousuf Karsh arrived in Windsor, Ontario, to capture the portraits of men employed on assembly lines, in foundries,…read more
Oshawa – 29 February 2008
Marla Hlady: Playing Piano, "Playing Piano" is an open ended investigation into the mechanics of sound. It is an open journal describing the way the artist listens, looks, thinks and explores the material world. Marla Hlady takes apart machines... read more
Oshawa – 29 February 2008
For Art’s Sake, this exhibition of student art will offer the public an opportunity to view the vast array of talent being developed within The Durham District School Board secondary schools...read more
Oshawa – 15 February 2008
Isabel McLaughlin (1903-2002): Painter, Patron, Philanthropist, following her death in 2002 at age 99, Queen's University Archives, Kingston, acquired the extensive personal papers of Isabel McLaughlin...read more
Oshawa – 14 December 2007
Razzle Dazzle: The Uses of Abstraction, abstraction slipped into Canada during the World War One clinging to the side of a ship. Walking the docks and shoreline of wartime Halifax, Arthur Lismer saw it coming...read more
Oshawa – 7 December 2007
David Blatherwick: Cheese, Worms and Holes in Everything, recent international outbreaks of disease demonstrate that, despite our digital sophistication, nature still has the upper hand...read more
Oshawa – 1 November 2007
Fragile Nature: Brent Bukowski and Kathryn Ward, Fragile Nature brings together the work of Brent Bukowski and Kathryn Ward set up in such a way as to encourage discourse on the ideas and...read more
Oshawa - 26 October 2007
Arnauld Maggs Nomenclature Catalogue Wins OAAG Award, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is please to announce the Arnauld Maggs Nomenclature catalogue as winner of the prestigious OAAG Design Award. The annual OAAG Awards are...read more
Oshawa - 11 October 2007
Mark Nisenholt: Stranger in Paradise, The work of Mark Nisenholt in this exhibition results from his facility with new technology and new techniques of digital imaging. But that facility of his obtains from his unique...read more
Oshawa - 23 May 2007
Mary Ann Barkhouse: grace, Although grace is a 2007 sculpture commissioned for The Robert McLaughlin Gallery grounds, Barkhouse conceived it as complimentary to Boreal Baroque. Italian sculptor Antonio Canova's The Three... read more
Oshawa, August 16, 2007
Robert Houle: Troubling Abstraction, Robert Houle has been a visionary since the beginning of his career as an artist, curator, and writer. It is painfully easy to be wrong about the future, yet twenty-five years ago in the catalogue for his... read more
Oshawa, August 23, 2007
Legh Mulhall Kilpin, Legh Mulhall Kilpin’s career as an artist and teacher spanned four decades at the turn of the 19th century, a period marked by revoluntionary changes in art theory and practices. Like other professionally-trained... read more
Oshawa - 18 June 2007
Viktor Tinkl: Making Things, Art for Viktor Tinkl is in the making. He refers to himself as a Thing Maker and has spoken of his artistic practice as a means to “externalize the stuff in my system, and to get it out.” He continues: “I accumulate materials... read more
Oshawa - 18 June 2007
Reading the Image, Poetics of Black Diaspora, Poetics of the Black Diaspora brings together the works of Deanna Bowen (Canada), Christopher Cozier (Trinidad, W.I.), Michael Fernandes (Canada), and Maud Sulter (Scotland) in... read more