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UPCOMING EXHIBIT

Untamed Onakawana

June 6th to June 20th, 2024
Opening night reception: Thursday June 62024, 630-830pm
Location: Arta Gallery, 14 Distillery Lane, Toronto, ON M5A 3C4

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Untamed Things

On the shores of Algonquin Park’s Canoe Lake is a memorial to renowned Canadian plein air painter Tom Thomson that reads, in part, “He lived humbly but passionately with the wild. It made him brother to all untamed things….”

The art of plein air painting is as worthy of celebration today as it was for Tom Thomson and Canada’s Group of Seven artists in the early 20th century. More than a hundred years later, a new group of Ontario artists—James Aitken, Peter Adams, Mark Berens, Jonathan Houghton, Paul Nabuurs, Andrew Peycha, Peter Taylor, Bryan Wall, Rob Saley and renowned photographer Gary Mcguffin —continue to pay poetic tribute to the ever-changing natural landscape as witnessed in real time via plein air.

Back in the studio, each of these plein air sketches is developed onto a large canvas—novels, by comparison, to tell the story once again, the artist having had the opportunity to ruminate upon it, to develop it more critically, and to bring the profound sense of the open air even more powerfully to the canvas.

This new group of artists has its sights set on the Ontario landscapes that have long captured the artistic imagination—its pine trees and provincial parks, rocks and rivers, lichen and uncommonly large bodies of fresh water—as well as landscapes the world has yet to see through plein air. The bonds they have built observing of this unique and spiritual part of Canada, celebrating it and one another, run deep.

Together, this group is called Untamed Things.

PAST EXHIBITS

Solemn Land: Exploring Algoma’s Montreal River

Last October, guided by modern day explorer and conservation photographer Gary McGuffin, seven artists visited several of the Group’s original painting sites along the river. Their goal was to capture the same vistas as the Group of Seven, using their same method: plein air sketches, poetic tributes to the landscape as witnessed in nature, in real time.

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