The Art House
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The Art House contains many artworks that have been collected over the past 25 years. Some have been acquired through the director's involvement with art galleries. Some are recent acquisitions. Others have been acquired through recent involvement with early, mid and later career artists.
All of the artworks featured on the Collection and Artists pages are for sale. Many of the artworks are remarkably affordable. Some are created by young artists and others are by older and even deceased artists. There are a variety of media, sizes, styles, and artistic concerns represented. All of the artworks are original and all of the artists in the collection are and have been assiduously committed to their creative endeavours and expression.
We encourage you to browse through the collection and other related pages and contact us with any questions.
Joel
All of the artworks featured on the Collection and Artists pages are for sale. Many of the artworks are remarkably affordable. Some are created by young artists and others are by older and even deceased artists. There are a variety of media, sizes, styles, and artistic concerns represented. All of the artworks are original and all of the artists in the collection are and have been assiduously committed to their creative endeavours and expression.
We encourage you to browse through the collection and other related pages and contact us with any questions.
Joel
Featured artworks:
Ya'ara Eshet
Sacrifice
ink on paper
9" x 11", 34cm x 27cm
Ya'ara Eshet
My Potion
acrylic on paper
34cm x 27cm
WHAT TO INCLUDE... Feb, 2012, Toronto
John MacGregor talks about 2 works in progress. Inclusion and exclusion is part of the process and often revealing of what is behind the art.
Chuck Scott
In his own words
The photos from this series have been informed by my forty years of image making as a filmmaker and photographer. I started shooting these “Pattern Photographs” when I was 12 years old, and over the years I have obsessively collected images in conjunction with my film making and television production. In the past few years I realized that it was time to recognize these images as independent reflections of my way of looking through the use of photography
Stairway, 2010
80cm x 60cm
Archival print on plexiglass
edition of 5
Steve Mazza
2009
ceramic with acrylic paint
size approx: figure 24" high, with birds up to 40"
68.5 cm x 101.6 cm
Man with Birds is one of a number of mid sized figurative sculptures that Mazza created in the mid 2000's.
Following on his "rabbit people" from a few years prior they continue the laconic presentation of the "everyman"
as represented by the businessman/worker. Dressed in a serviceable, clean, yet unremarkable suit Mazza's figure stands exposed and through the plaintive act of throwing up his hands releases the birds; the internal flight of his soul.
I had commented to Mazza, upon first seeing the sculpture, that the birds suggested a psychological reading. He denied any such suggestion preferring instead that the sculpture should speak for itself.
Ya'ara Eshet
Sacrifice
ink on paper
9" x 11", 34cm x 27cm
Ya'ara Eshet
My Potion
acrylic on paper
34cm x 27cm
WHAT TO INCLUDE... Feb, 2012, Toronto
John MacGregor talks about 2 works in progress. Inclusion and exclusion is part of the process and often revealing of what is behind the art.
Chuck Scott
In his own wordsThe photos from this series have been informed by my forty years of image making as a filmmaker and photographer. I started shooting these “Pattern Photographs” when I was 12 years old, and over the years I have obsessively collected images in conjunction with my film making and television production. In the past few years I realized that it was time to recognize these images as independent reflections of my way of looking through the use of photography
Stairway, 2010
80cm x 60cm
Archival print on plexiglass
edition of 5
Steve Mazza
2009
ceramic with acrylic paint
size approx: figure 24" high, with birds up to 40"
68.5 cm x 101.6 cm
Man with Birds is one of a number of mid sized figurative sculptures that Mazza created in the mid 2000's.
Following on his "rabbit people" from a few years prior they continue the laconic presentation of the "everyman"
as represented by the businessman/worker. Dressed in a serviceable, clean, yet unremarkable suit Mazza's figure stands exposed and through the plaintive act of throwing up his hands releases the birds; the internal flight of his soul.
I had commented to Mazza, upon first seeing the sculpture, that the birds suggested a psychological reading. He denied any such suggestion preferring instead that the sculpture should speak for itself.
William Ronald
Ghana, 1973
36" x 36", oil on canvas
Ghana was created by Ronald mixing oil paints and loading individual caulking guns with the mixed paint. He would then pull the trigger on the caulking guns and squeeze the paint onto to canvas. Many of the thickest parts of the paint have taken over 25 years to fully dry. This painting followed many that were created by squeezing oil paint directly from the paint tube. The use of the caulking gun allowed Ronald to custom mix his colours. This painting was created in Ronald's Mowat Ave studio, Toronto.
Judy Singer
Haddon, 2011
Acrylic on canvas 42" x 61"
"It takes years of work and great effort to understand and be fluent in a medium and this holds true for both the creator and the observer. By making the effort to learn the visual language, by not just looking at the narrative of the art work, as if it were a chapter of a book, but rather looking beyond, to all the visual relationships of the work, only then will authentic “seeing” happen. This is where the true content of the work lies: in the visual elements, and the resolution of tensions created when those elements interact with each other."
Judy Singer
Singer's canvases are invariably lyrical to use a well worn phrase. Her recent work exhibits an ease and familiarity with both her medium and her message. Honed over more than 30 years of work and study Singer has arrived at a harmonious balance between her inner vision and her outward ability.
John MacGregor
Eternity 9, 2011
30" x 30" acrylic on birch wood panel
John Macgregor's career began in earnest in 1969. He has worked in numerous media including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing and has had exhibitions in Canada, the United States as well as Europe. His art is to be found on all of the major public art galleries in Canada.
Eternity 9 derives from a large sculpture that Macgregor created in 1984 currently in the permanent collection of the Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery. As the image suggests Time is both accessible and remote, circular and dynamic.
