Spring 2014 - Art Works Art School

Volume 4, Issue 2
Special points
of interest:
Baby Point
Summerfest
Summer
Registration
Inside this
issue:
1
Message
Where have all
the flowers
gone?
Mike Goodge
Exhibition
2
Family Days
3
Feature
4
Students
Feature
5
Teachers:
Marija Barac,
Mike Goodge,
Lauren
McKinley
Renzetti
Community
News:
6
Baby Point
Heritage
Foundation
Summerfest
7
Invitation
Summer 2014
Registration
art Works art School
DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
Where have all the Flowers
Gone?
Feature Teachers
Director’s
Spring Newsletter 2014
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The short answer to
that question is they
haven’t arrived yet; but
fear not, we are more
than happy to offer you
a proper primavera
celebration of nature’s
glorious and colourful
creations! If your own
crocuses and daffodils
are still struggling to
wake up and greet you
after one of the most
brutal winters in recorded history, who
can blame them?
While spring is not
quite in the air yet, you
can happily find it
waiting for you at Art
Works Art Gallery.
Thankfully, we have
some beautiful and
brilliant flower power
coming your way that
will more than make
up for the dreary grayness of winter’s wake.
Artist and Art Works
instructor Mike
Goodge treats us to his
very first solo show at
Art Works Art Gallery,
timely titled Floral
Danica Loncar,
Director/Curator
Paintings. Mike’s
paintings are a refreshing and unique synchronization of something in between, or
rather beyond, Art
Nouveau and Pop Art.
Growing up in both
Britain and the United
States, Goodge’s work
borrows from and
builds on numerous
practitioners as diverse
as British Arts and
Crafts icon William
Morris to the American pop art master Roy
Lichtenstein. The result of this magical
marriage is an intriguing and unique hybrid
of pure design and
playful modernism.
As exhibition curator,
I had the pleasure and
privilege of collaborating with Mike on this
show which is scheduled to run May 8 to
June 5, 2014, with an
opening reception the
evening of Thursday,
May 8th from 6-8 pm.
We are very excited to
be installing the exhibition soon, sure to be
a sublime spring feast
for the eyes and certain
to brighten spirits!
Hope to see you all
there, happy spring!
Art Works Art Gallery
is located at 238 Jane
Street in the Baby
Point Gates community located south of
Annette and Jane
Streets between Bloor
West Village and The
Junction. For more
information on Mike
Goodge and his exhibition Floral Paintings,
please refer to our
Upcoming Events on
page 2 of this Newsletter.
Danica Loncar is the
director, curator and
founder of Art Works
Art School and Gallery
art Works art School
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Upcoming Events
Mike Goodge Exhibition Floral Paintings runs from Thursday May 8 to June 5, 2014, at Art Works Art
Gallery at 238 Jane Street, Toronto. The opening reception is Thursday May 8th from 6 to 8 pm.
About Mike Goodge:
Mike Goodge was born in Northampton at
Massachusetts to a British father and an
American mother and moved to Devon
southwest of England when he was three
years old. Mike completed High School at
King's School (founded by King Henry
VIII) in 1988. That same year, he moved
across the pond to study art in Florida.
Mike earned an A.A. degree at the Palm
Beach Community College, then moving to
Orlando to study film and art, receiving his
B.A. in Motion Picture Technology in 1996
from the University of Central Florida. Mike and his partner Nadia married in
1999, and moved to Toronto in 2006. He
finally became a Canadian citizen on St.
Valentine's Day 2012, which speaks to his
love of both Canadian life partner Nadia
and Canada his adopted home. Mike currently teaches at Art Works Art School
and has also taught art classes and workshops at various schools and community
centers for the City of Orlando and Toronto
for more than twelve years. His paintings
have been exhibited in the Orlando Museum of Art and several galleries in Palm
Beach County and in Toronto. To view his
current paintings and movies visit his website, www.mikegoodge.com. His art is influenced by British Art Nouveau and
American Pop Art, as well as traditional
and contemporary animation, film, and life
experiences.
Volume
4, Issue 2
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Family Days
Join us on Sunday May 4th from 2-4 pm for our next Family Day:
Create your own lavish bouquet of hand-made painted paper flowers and create drawings based on the beautiful work
of painter Mary Cassatt. Family Sundays at Art Works offer an opportunity for families to make art together; new
themes each month so children and adults can make exciting and creative fine art and craft activities.
Recent Family Days with Jennifer Falvy included
the following:
On Sunday February 9th there was a fantastic
turnout at Art Works with participants creating
their own pop-up valentine cards in our
Make
Your
Heart Go
Boom
workshop:
And our March 9th Family Day was a March Break Kick-off giving families a chance to design and make their own
board games to use over March Break. Enjoy this Snap Link and the following pictures: http://snapd.at/eeyxn9
FEATURE STUDENTS
Recap February and April:
Highlights and images from Sandra Otto’s
exhibition at Art Works Art Gallery in
February 2014, Sandra Otto, Recent Paintings,
Snap link: http://snapd.at/eey88d
Highlights and images from our Annual April Spring
Salon 2014 exhibition of adult student work and
their teachers David Allen, Mary Ambrose, Muhammad Irfan Aziz, Olga Battaglia, Catherine Bullen,
Wendy Brown, Robert Fishman, Paulette Goddard,
Peter Kreutzner, Dorrie McNeil, Glenda Madott,
Lauren McKinley Renzetti, Jane Mikas, Barbara
(Basia) Miszkiel, Sandra Otto, Heather Pegg, Tonia
Price, Lynda Shannon, Madeleine Young, Karen
Wilson, Clare Wittmann, Laurel Woodrow
FEATURE TEACHERS
Marija Barac solo exhibition
at
Canadian Fine Arts,
congratulations on your
spring show!
Mike Goodge, solo exhibition
at Art Works Art Gallery,
congratulations on your
spring show!
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FEATURE TEACHER
Lauren McKinley Renzetti: Congratulations on your new curatorial position!
This is the first of a series of art shows in the newly renovated and created Neighbourhood Gallery.
All are welcome to attend. The two art shows will be in two locations on the premises.
Gallery North- deLIGHTful:
Photographs of Nature by Jeff
Baker, close up views of nature
from Unicamp of
Ontario
John Saunders, Airbrush painting
April 6- May 25, 2014
Reception April 6 from 12-1:30pm
View on Sunday Services 10:30-12
Or by appointment contact
nuuc@bellnet.ca
Mon, Wed or Fri from 9-3pm
Jeff Baker, Photograph
Gallery South -Delight in
Light by John Saunders, air
brush paintings of the
ephemeral
Curator of Neighbourhood
Gallery Lauren McKinley
Renzetti will also be in
attendance
Gallery Specific Questions and Submissions:
To Curator Lauren McKinley Renzetti
mckinleyrenzetti@gmail.com
Neighbourhood Gallery
in Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation
79 Hiawatha Avenue M4L 2X7
www.nuuc.ca
416-686-6809
nuuc@bellnet.ca
Mandate of Neighbourhood Gallery: Sharing Art for the Beautification of Our World. This is a safe
place to offer your works for sale, to have a meaningful dialogue with others about how you want
to make the world a better place through your art. As long as the work meets the criteria we will
endeavor to include it as part of a group or solo show. This Gallery practices inclusiveness, and
welcomes all artists of all ages, all races, all economic background, all sexual orientation and all
religion who desire to make and show their art. The Curator endeavors to make the art shows connect with the messages in the Services for the months they are being shown.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Baby Point Heritage Foundation Presents:
The Baby Point Club is located at 71 Baby Point Road, Toronto. Baby Point Road begins at the intersection of
Annette and Jane Street, past the historic stone gates and parkette that identify the area.
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Baby Point Gates Business
Improvement invites you to our
Summerfest.
Save the date: Saturday, June 14,
2014!
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