Creating the Collection
August 28 - November 22
Level 4
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This exhibition highlights a selection of recent additions to The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery Division's Collection, most of which have
been generous gifts from artists and collectors to the people of this
province. There have also been some purchases, made possible through
matching funds from The Canada Council for the Arts. All are valued
acquisitions, as The Rooms moves forward in building its collections.
Cities: John Hartman
September 25 - December 6
Level 3
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John Hartman has painted cities both large and small; his imagined aerial perspectives look down on the contours of the urban space where towers, cranes, and docks meet the open blue of an ocean, lake or river. As one of Canada's leading contemporary painters, Hartman is known for his large-scale expressionistic landscape paintings animated with the imagery of local historic events and personal narratives. Born in Midland, Ontario, John Hartman studied Fine Art at McMaster University and has exhibited in Canada, Great Britain, Denmark, and Germany. This exhibition is curated by Stuart Reid.
This exhibition is organized and circulated by the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario; the presenting sponsor is Scotiabank Group.

Image: John Hartman, The Southside Hills, St. John's, 2004, Oil on Linen, 48 X 54 Inches, Nicolas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
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Unrequited Death: Helen Gregory
December 4
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Opening Reception,
Friday, December 4, 7:30 pm
Curatorial Lecture,
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 7 pm
Death, decay, beauty, and sensuality; the work of Helen Gregory ponders the boundaries of transience and permanence, nature and culture. The artist's ongoing investigation of the act of collecting by focusing on organic forms such as skulls, bones, desiccated birds and dead flowers has resulted in a body of work that is simultaneously dramatic, haunting, macabre, beautiful and ostentatious. This exhibition is curated by Lisa Moore.

Credit: Helen
Gregory, Lament II, Acrylic on canvas, 2006.
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The Inner Rooms: The Peoples’ Collection
December 11 – Ongoing
Level 4 |
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The Inner Rooms
presents significant artworks from The Rooms’
permanent collection, offering visitors of all
ages encounters with art and self-directed
learning about it. These works are elemental to
the continuing stories of our collections and
the visual arts in this province. This
exhibition will be enriched with information
about artists, art contexts and techniques
available through hands-on activities and new
technologies.
Included are artists such
as Anne Meredith Barry, Peter Bell, David
Blackwood, Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, Helen
Parsons Shepherd, Reginald Shepherd, Gerald
Squires and Don Wright.

Image: Anne Meredith Barry, Whale Song #10,
Herding Capelin, 1989, Mixed media on canvas,
183 cm x 122 cm, The Rooms Provincial
Art Gallery, Collection of Memorial University
of Newfoundland, Acc # 89.15
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Ice Flows
and Sound Retreats, Jan Kabatoff
December
18 – March 21, 2010
Level 3 |
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Water and ice have been
recurring themes in the work of Canadian artist
Jan Kabatoff. Most recently, the world’s
glaciers have been her source of fascination,
reflecting deep concerns with change,
transformation and the interconnectedness of the
natural world.
Since 2005, Kabatoff journeyed to
seven different
glaciers from Alberta to Mongolia to the
southernmost reaches of South America, charting
their ephemeral nature as global warming
accelerates their melting. Ice Flows and
Sound Retreats is
a multi-media installation combining painting,
mould impressions, hand-dyed textiles,
photography and sound recordings of glacial
‘voices’; an experience linking science and
human wonder with a shared, growing concern.
This exhibition is curated by Bruce
Johnson.

Image: Perito Moreno Glacier (2009),
digital photomerge, Jan Kabatoff
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Dark
Horse, Greg Bennett
December 18 – March 21, 2010
Level 3 |
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In this new body of work, St. John’s artist Greg
Bennett explores the imagery and symbolic value
of horses. Bennett’s paintings -full of doubled
and mirrored images, overlapping planes and
repeating motifs- offer surfaces where the
material and the dreamlike meet.
Greg Bennett
is the latest artist-in-residence participating
in The Rooms’ Space-Based program. This
initiative supports emerging and mid-career
artists in the creation of new work within our
on-site studio.
This exhibition is
curated by Bruce Johnson.

Image:
Moly Eyed Dream,
oil on canvas, Greg Bennett |