OBSIDIAN is a FORM event — a curated art experience by Public Display Agency that blends design, dialogue, and discovery. This one-night showcase unites visual artists, designers, and makers in an immersive, gallery-style setting at The Urban Centre. OBSIDIAN invites guests to slow down, engage, and experience art in a new way. Admission is RSVP-based...
February 26 to March 15, 2026 - Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 5 pm Vernissage: Saturday, February 28, 2 to 4 pm For International Women's Day, Galerie Old Chelsea is proud to present a photographic and documentary exhibition by Taimi Tovar. This initiative celebrates the presence of women in the arts, whether they are painters,...
Everyone’s life is worth telling. We all have a story whose chapters address various subjects: fears, doubts, moral dilemmas, obstacles, but also encounters, friendship and love. In fairy tales, the perilous forest journey allows the main character to mature, enriched by trials and life lessons, and by the friendships forged along the way (see B....
Mary Gourlay’s work emerges from an emotional and physical immersion in the natural world, responding to the power, fragility, and temporality of landscape. Exploring remote environments by canoe, kayak, and on foot, Gourlay creates sketches, small paintings, and photographs that capture fleeting moments of encounter. These fragmentary records form the basis for larger studio works...
Sinclair A. Maloney presents: Rise – a focused selection of landscape and seascape paintings. With a professional background in photography spanning 15 years, his work is informed by a strong sense of composition and a keen observational eye. Influenced by 19th-century painters such as Corot and Courbet, and often compared to Turner for his atmospheric...
Everyone’s life is worth telling. We all have a story whose chapters address various subjects: fears, doubts, moral dilemmas, obstacles, but also encounters, friendship and love. In fairy tales, the perilous forest journey allows the main character to mature, enriched by trials and life lessons, and by the friendships forged along the way (see B....
Mary Gourlay’s work emerges from an emotional and physical immersion in the natural world, responding to the power, fragility, and temporality of landscape. Exploring remote environments by canoe, kayak, and on foot, Gourlay creates sketches, small paintings, and photographs that capture fleeting moments of encounter. These fragmentary records form the basis for larger studio works...
Sinclair A. Maloney presents: Rise – a focused selection of landscape and seascape paintings. With a professional background in photography spanning 15 years, his work is informed by a strong sense of composition and a keen observational eye. Influenced by 19th-century painters such as Corot and Courbet, and often compared to Turner for his atmospheric...
Vernissage: Saturday, February 28, 2 to 4 pm For International Women's Day, Galerie Old Chelsea is proud to present a photographic and documentary exhibition by Taimi Tovar. This initiative celebrates the presence of women in the arts, whether they are painters, musicians, architects, researchers, or cultural builders. Born out of a shared desire to highlight...
3 rounds of action 📅 March 5 @ 7:00 PM 📍 Overflow Brewing – 2477 Kaladar Ave, Ottawa 🎟️ GET TICKETS Why attend and bring a friend? ✨ Live Artistic Showdown – Witness the thrill as artists race against the clock to create stunning artworks. ✨ Interactive Voting – Be part of the action;...
Exhibition Dates: March 7 – 21 Vernissage: Saturday, March 7 from 3 – 5 pm Wall Space Gallery is proud to present Simplicity in a Turbulent World, a solo exhibition by Ottawa-based photographer Joy Kardish, in celebration of International Women’s Month. The exhibition considers the quiet, sustaining moments often overlooked in the midst of unrest....
Exhibition Dates: March 7 – 21 Vernissage: Saturday, March 7 from 3 – 5 pm, artist talk @ 3:45 pm Wall Space Gallery is excited to present Peripheral Surfaces, a solo exhibition by Montreal-based artist Iryna Merkulova, in celebration of International Women's Month. In this series, Merkulova treats the storefront window not as a transparent...
Saturday, March 7, 2026, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Jim Durrell Recreation Centre,1265 Walkley Road, Ottawa, Ontario Art Show Free Admission Free Parking & Wheelchair Access Gift certificates are available at each art show for future art purchases or rentals. No sales tax Door prizes available to be won Art by over...
Artist Joy Kardish explores the essence of stillness –the purest and most irreducible quality of the photo-image. Inspired by the enduring prints of early masters like Alfred Stieglitz, Kardish blends painstaking historic photography techniques such as cyanotype, with contemporary media to create works that seem to transcend the flow of time and cut through its...
The concept of Art and Found was created 7 years ago by Toronto artist Courtney Senior. Before she found her footing in the world of selling art, Courtney decided to find loving homes for her work by giving it away for free. She would package up her original artworks and leave them around different neighbourhoods in...
Another Cycle presents paintings and mixed-media works exploring the intersection of the human body and nature through surreal atmospheres and organic textures. Dinho Bento reflects on belonging, shelter and transformation, inviting viewers into a poetic dialogue about identity, emotional connection and the cyclical essence of existence. As a Brazilian artist based in Canada, Dinho Bento merges...
Another Cycle presents paintings and mixed-media works exploring the intersection of the human body and nature through surreal atmospheres and organic textures. Dinho Bento reflects on belonging, shelter and transformation, inviting viewers into a poetic dialogue about identity, emotional connection and the cyclical essence of existence. As a Brazilian artist based in Canada, Dinho Bento merges...
“Naturally Canada / Naturellement le Canada” is a dynamic exhibition of mixed media artwork inspired by the vast and diverse nature of Canada. The collection features works that range from abstract interpretations to detailed representational pieces. Each artwork demonstrates a visible integration of mixed media and/or mixed techniques—combining materials such as paint, collage, texture, found...
“Naturally Canada / Naturellement le Canada” is a dynamic exhibition of mixed media artwork inspired by the vast and diverse nature of Canada. The collection features works that range from abstract interpretations to detailed representational pieces. Each artwork demonstrates a visible integration of mixed media and/or mixed techniques—combining materials such as paint, collage, texture, found...
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Lenni Workman - Artist Statement My work is a Request. A request to the viewer to look and look again, don’t stop at superficial information. A request to notice how time and light transform your visual world. Experience that a still-life or a room acts as a sun-dial. A request to see the alignment of the...
March 26 to May 5, 2026 Opening: Thursday, March 26, 5:30 to 7:30 pm By looking at her role in society as a woman, wife, mother, and artist, Ada Brzeski has created a series of clay sculptures exploring womanhood, addressing the everyday realities and frustrations women face. Through these works, she hopes to foster a...
Step into a world where imagination comes to life! Watch as talented artists transform blank canvases into breathtaking masterpieces in just 20 electrifying minutes per round. Feel the energy in the air as creativity flows and the crowd cheers them on. Vote to crown the ultimate champion and take home a piece of the night...
April 4 and 5 2026 from 10am to 4pm daily. Discover the art and fine craft of local artists and artisans at 7 fascinating tour stops located in and around the charming heritage village of Pakenham Spring is just around the corner and the sap will soon be running - which means it's almost time for the...
Lenni Workman - Artist Statement My work is a Request. A request to the viewer to look and look again, don’t stop at superficial information. A request to notice how time and light transform your visual world. Experience that a still-life or a room acts as a sun-dial. A request to see the alignment of the...
Le photographe Valérian Mazataud a recréé, avec des citoyens de son quartier de Montréal-Nord, des scènes de la vie quotidienne d’autrefois. Il a fouillé des archives photographiques et des albums de famille pour ensuite, lors d’ateliers, reconstituer ces photos en imaginant un univers à la croisée des époques et des cultures. Près d’une centaine de...
Galerie Old Chelsea is thrilled to present a series of new paintings by Andrew Rucklidge, an internationally recognized artist now living in Chelsea. The exhibition captures the invisible yet deeply familiar forces that shape the earth over time as Rucklidge draws on processes such as erosion, sedimentation, metamorphism, volcanic eruptions, exposed faults, and slipping terraces....
Still*life is not a meditation on fruit bowls or porcelain vases; it proposes a dialogue between breath and silence, between the pulse of existence and the hush of its surroundings. These paintings have emerged from the experience of living surrounded by nature—a life steeped in forests, rivers, and the quiet choreography of seasons. They are...
Nicole Allen | From the ground up Kaitlin Johnson | Falling Back Into Bloom Crystal Beshara | WILD HEART Tapestries: Portraits from the Forest & Garden Exhibition Dates: April 11 - 25 Vernissage: Saturday, April 11 at 3 - 5 PM
Arteast’s first annual Fine Art Show will take place on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19, 2026 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the beautiful Pine View Golf Club, 1471 Blair Road, Ottawa. This art show celebrates the richness of our local arts community and will offer artwork of various mediums, something for the home, or a thoughtful gift...
