English-Language Arts Network

Digital Chile_08 presents interactive traveling new media installation in process. The Canadian premiere of this traveling exhibition will be seen for the first time in Montreal. This exhibition illustrates the Chilean avant-garde with the goal of exposing the thematic richness and artistic esthetics of Chile.

The title was appropriated from James Joyce’s novel “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”. John Drew Munro is a Montreal-based painter working primarily in encaustic and oil whose work can best be described as pattern-based abstraction. He has a BFA from Concordia University (89) and has been painting for 20 years with exhibitions in Canada, the US and Europe – including Galerie McClure, Montreal, Galerie Sandra Goldie, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY; Evanston Art Center, Chicago; Grand Palais, Paris. -Tuesday to Saturday - 12 a.m to 6 p.m

Artists: Loren Williams, Randall Finnerty

Exhibition: La Volière (the aviary)
Vernissage: Saturday, March 1st, 2–5 p.m.

Loren Williams and Randall Finnerty explore bird typologies and the relationship we have with birds from a Victorian era ornithology collection to modern domestic fowl.

Both artists live and work in Montreal, and have exhibited their work nationally.

Contact Loren Williams or Randall Finnerty for more info.

Gallery Mouton Rose is proud to present a one-man show featuring the wood carvings of Valleyfield artist Rene Dandurand.

Specializing in complex scenes of Quebec rural culture, Dandurand depicts a world of country chores, antique implements and lost innocence in his painted monoblock carvings.

Gallery hours: Thursday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday noon - 5:00 p.m.

“Transitions” offers the public a view of diverse and interesting artwork made especially for this theme exhibition, by eight of the collective.
The sculptors, Luis Paniagua and Bruno Dufour, work in wood, stone, metal and clay. Both are seasoned sculptors with commissioned pieces in the Tremblant area. The painters, Margo Chick, Holly Friesen, Joanna Nash, Dominique Normand, Michel Normandeau and Ann Thibaudeau, will be exhibiting an exciting variety of subjects, in media ranging from graphite drawings, watercolour to mixed media works including printing, painting and collage techniques.

Clive Holden is a multi-disciplinary artist and author who works with moving images in three forms: fixed films and videos, performance, and installation. Utopia Suite Disco is about dancing to the beat of our hopes and fears to create movement as both figurative and literal progress towards Utopianism. A light tent is filled with projections of utopian heroes such as JFK, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and James Joyce. A dance floor is provided for the viewer to dance to a three-part disco suite by composer Oscar Van Dillen, a Rotterdam-based composer.

Renowned poet Robin Blaser will speak on his poetics at Concordia University, Thursday March 13, 7:30pm.

Robin Blaser’s five decades of continual accomplishment in the long poem, the lyric, and the essay have made him one of the most important poets in North America. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry and to hear him speak is a rare and unforgettable experience.