Poet Sketch Series: Art Bar

Alex Boyd @The Art Bar @Black Swan Tavern 22 OCT 2013, 11" x 8.5", graphite, charcoal, conte on 130lb paper.
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Poet Sketch Series: Art Bar

Roger Greenwald @The Art Bar @Black Swan Tavern 22 OCT 2013, 11" x 8.5", graphite, charcoal, conte on 130lb paper.

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Gallery Photos - '5 By 5' Art Show in the Art Bar @The Gladstone Hotel

Here is a slideshow of the pics I've uploaded so far. I'll be adding to this album shortly, but wanted to get it up as time is slipping away.



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Figure Sculpture, Week 4 (4 photos)

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Week 4, still pretty rough draft of figure. She's maybe 16" high, sculpted with Klean Klay.

This Saturday Afternoon! -Invitation to Gallery Opening of '5 By 5' in the Art Bar at The Gladstone Hotel

Hello Lovelies,

You are invited to our Gallery Opening this Saturday afternoon, October 19th, from 1-5pm in the Art Bar at the Gladstone Hotel. Nik Beat will be playing music, and there will be poetry readings (I'll be performing at 4pm). It'll be an even more glorious afternoon with your presence.

'Five artists, five visions. Jacques Albert, Brenda Clews, Jennifer Hosein, Anna Karoliina Koskinen and Greg Nordoff are largely figurative artists whose works explore facets of the strangeness of living in a world that can be inscribed in paint. Their paintings criss-cross realism and surrealism, poetry and myth, theory and what can be evoked of the depths of emotional crisis as it is expressed through the intensity of personal aesthetics.'

Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6
(416) 531-4635

For your enjoyment, a couple of 'off the cuff' short poses that mimic or riff those in my paintings. And I think it would be fun if others wished to pose for similar photos ::smiling::
Hope to see you there!

fondly,

Brenda

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Installing Our '5 By 5' Art Show @ the Art Bar @ The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto

Greg Nordoff's, Jennifer Hosein's, Brenda Clews's paintings (from left to right) installing

My paintings installed

Greg Nordoff installing his paintings, and Jennifer Hosein's painting awaiting installation

Jacques Albert's paintings awaiting installation

Jacques Albert's and Anna-KaroliinaKoskinen's paintings installed

All done! View of Art Bar at The Gladstone Hotel from Queen Street West in Toronto

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Packed and Ready to Go!

Can't believe I'm done! Ready for installation at The Gladstone Hotel tomorrow! All my paintings are stacked, a coat of varnish now dry, corners stapled on for travelling; I put up a price list page at my website and emailed the info to Jacques, who's curating the show. The dog is walked. My walls look bereft and empty of their colourful paintings. As I get these paintings ready for transporting tomorrow, I wonder which ones will come home after, and which ones won't. Art sales in Toronto have not been good overall this year. It's been a tough year for Galleries. Yet I linger over my paintings with love and care. It'll be a terrific show! I can't wait to see everyone else's work! More pics will be coming.

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