What about drawing?

With the expansion of methods and materials, including new technologies used as art mediums, how do you feel about good old fashioned drawing?

Drawing continues to be accessable to everyone. The popularity of zines and d.i.y. culture seems to have contributed to a resurgance of interest in drawing. Can we credit the Royal Art Lodge for renewing interest in drawing?













Artist at Work, Art Gallery of Mississauga
The public are invited to view artist,
Aleks Bartosik create a drawing on the Gallery wall:
Thursday, September 21 beginning at 12:30 pm.
Friday, September 22 from around 2-3pm
Saturday, September 24 from around 1-3pm
Sunday, September 24 from around 1-3pm
Tuesday, September 26 from around 1-3pm
This work will be part of the exhibition Dancing to the Invisible Piper: Canadian Contemporary Figurative Art on view until October 29.

The figure in art

When you think of figurative art, what images come to mind?
Is it anything like this?




To find out what some contemporary Canadian Artists are doing with the human figure visit the Art Gallery of Mississauga between September 14 and October 29, 2006.

To hear more about this topic come to the opening reception on Thursday, September 14 at 6pm. Curator, Robert Freeman will give a free talk at 7:30pm.

(Image of work by Richard Stipl, from Dancing to the Invisible Piper: Canadian Contemporary Figurative Art at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, September 14-October 29, 2006)

Where in the 905 is art?

Hello, are you out there? Please send word!
Where in the 905 (area code for suburbia, regions west of Toronto) have you found art, especially visual art? What's happening here, in the suburb which seems to be defined by it's location west of Toronto?

Is there an art community in Mississauga?
Hoping to hear from you...
Sincerely, The 905er

Which do you consider legitimate art forms?

Is what this guy doing art? Is spray paint on public walls art?










What do you think of the term graffitti art? What is urban art?


(Red Wall Project, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Sculpture Court)







Is there a heirarchy of mediums?

Is a paint on canvas equal to spray paint on wall?

(Image by Tony Scherman from Dancing to the Invisible Piper, Art Gallery of Mississauga, September 14 to October 29, 2006)

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