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TOM THOMSON ART GALLERY 519-376-1932 OWEN SOUND, CANADA
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Past Exhibitions

  • 2012
  • 2011
    • Time, Tangents & Tokens
      The intersections of nature and culture are the basis for a semiabstract interpretation of these natural (& un-natural) changes.
    • Judy Chicago
      “Setting the Table” is a collection of drawings, test plates and maquettes for the original design of the installation.
    • POW! Power of Women
      The works reflect that range of talents, skills, interests and concerns of the women who created them.
    • Student Showcase 2011
      Open to all Bruce & Grey elementary & secondary schools’ classes that participate in TTAG educational programs (School Tours or Art to Go) during the 2010-2011 academic year. Each eligible class is invited to submit up to 5 student artworks for the Gallery’s Student Showcase 2011 display in the Gallery’s Studio.
    • Convergence 2011
      From January 16 to March 20, 2011 the Tom Thomson Art Gallery presents Convergence: 48th Annual Juried Exhibition of Fine Art. All are welcome to join us for the opening reception and awards ceremony on Sunday January 16 2 – 5 pm.
    • Natalka Husar
      celebrated Canadian artist Natalka Husar takes her lifelong obsession with painting and with Ukraine, her ancestral home to a new level.
    • LauraLee K. Harris
      Dedicated to the over 580 Anishinabe women missing or murdered in Canada. Women have been traditionally responsible for the water as water keepers birthing in the orb of waters they keep, and so the essence of the work will be to honour the women and water and the places that are connected to women.
    • Vessna Perunovich
      At the Gallery, Vessna Perunovich's work is autobiographical and at the same time universal.
    • SEARCHING FOR TOM
      On tour in Kitchener at THEMUSEUM - SEARCHING FOR TOM | Tom Thomson: Man, Myth and Masterworks is an original exhibition in collaboration with the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound with Virginia Eichhorn, Director & Curator, as guest Curator.
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Nell Tenhaaf
      Tenhaaf's art investigates how human beings think about themselves.
    • Dark Matter
      An exhibition that entwines art, war and memory.
    • Sally Thurlow
      Sally Thurlow, a contemporary storyteller, mythmaker and artist, uses the boat as a visual metaphor
    • Stark Warmth
      Son of Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald, Thoreau MacDonald is best known for his understated and elegant scenes of everyday life around Ontario.
    • Vid Ingelevics
      Ingelevics' photographs show the haunting aesthetic of hunting blinds and woodpiles
    • 1908
      An off-site exhibition celebrating the state of Canadian art at the time of the construction of Meaford Hall
    • Tom Thomson
      A Canadian art icon, Tom Thomson painted some of his most enduring and energetic sketches between 1912 and the last spring of his life, in 1917.
  • 2007
    • Heavy Traffic
      Jaclyn Shoub paints the changing expanse of the urban landscape.
    • Log Jam
      This exhibition draws upon the strengths of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery's permanent collection and will feature works that document evidence of the lumber industry in the Park at that time.
    • To Love and to Cherish
      Ann MacIntosh Duff has been painting in watercolour for over 60 years. This retrospective looks at her unique wet-on-wet technique, and pays particular interest to paintings done at her summer retreat
    • Cities: John Hartman
      Opens on May 4. Join us for an artist's talk at 7 p.m. to be followed by a reception.
      John Hartman finds beauty in urban complexity
    • Julie Voyce: Paste Up
      On view in the Jennings David Young Gallery from March 30 to April 29, 2007
      Join us for the opening reception and artists talk on Friday, March 30 at 7 p.m.
    • Driven to Abstraction
      On view in the North Gallery.
      Join us for the opening reception on Friday, March 30 at 8 p.m.
    • The French Connection
      The period between 1880 and 1915, when Tom Thomson was active as a painter, has been referred to as "The French Period" in Canadian Art. Paris, France, was then the centre of influence in terms of art
    • 100 Squares
      Area artists are invited to submit art for the annual 100 Squares show and sale,
    • Heavy Traffic
      Jaclyn Shoub investigates the relationship between painting and photography.
    • Home Town
      In celebration of Owen Sound's 150 th Anniversary, this exhibition looks at how artists have portrayed the city by the bay in their work over the past century and a half.
  • 2006
    • Fragments
      The Gallery is launching another international exhibition of artists from the Grey Bruce region which goes on tour overseas this summer.
    • For Mrs. Dalloway
      This exhibition features a selection of rarely seen paintings from the Permanent Collection, particularly floral still lifes.
    • Ink in Action
      Eighty-one students from Dufferin School learn printmaking at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.
    • La Sainte Enfance
      The artist works with the child's direct gaze that she says, "engages the viewer and provides a mirror to inner life, feelings and imagination."
    • The Painted Country
      A diversity of works from the Permanent Collection with the theme of Canadian landscape art.
  • 2005
    • 18 Illuminations
      An exhibition of eighteen artists conceived around the organizing principle of light.
    • Lisa Klapstock: liminal
      Lisa Klapstock's practice explores concerns ranging from abstraction and realism to the relationship between photographic depiction and visual perception.
    • Sarah Nind: fictions
      Nind questions the paradigm of real and imagined through pictorial concepts of space/landscape.
    • The Wonderland
      This exhibition of drawings by Kate Wilson and Claudia Klucaric is entitled The Wonderland and has been curated for the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery by adjunct curator, Corinna Ghaznavi.
    • Wilderness Tips
      Wilderness Tips draws on works by Thomson and the Group of Seven from the Collection of the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery and on several loans from the Art Gallery of Ontario Collection
    • Sanctuary
      Sanctuary features sculpture, installation and drawing by Mary Anne Barkhouse and Michael Belmore.
    • Convergence
      The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery celebrates work by artists from across the region with Convergence, our 42nd annual juried exhibition.
  • 2004
    • The Limestone Barrens Project
      The Project is an international community artistic residency exchange between photo-based artists from Canada and Ireland.
    • Kevin Yates: My ex-girlfriend is a
      HELD OVER ONE MORE WEEK
      In this exhibition Kevin Yates deliberately sets up an experience of comparison in his work in which we question our reflexive sense of scale.
    • Mud Vision
      Joan O'Doherty's large-scale oil paintings suggest tragedy and disaster, hope and recovery.
    • The Changing Land
      This exhibition brings together 35 paintings by artists that dominated the first half of the 20th century in England.
    • Pulse
      This show presents a selection of paintings, sculptures and installations acquired by the Gallery in the past year.
    • Double Take
      This exhibition is a survey of recent paintings by the Owen Sound painters. The show is curatedby Mary Reid and Stuart Reid and is a collaboration between the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrieand the
  • 2003
    • Wide Borders
      An exhibition of contemporary quilts by three textile artists: Lorraine Roy,Karen Thiessen and Lynne Heller.
    • S.O.S.
      Water is a metaphor for precarious human condition in S.O.S.
    • The Lost Boys
      Michèle Karch-Ackerman: The Lost Boys commemorates lost innocence
    • Re: Collections
      The Gallery will display a selection of recent works of contemporary Canadian art from the collection.
    • Heavy Duty
      Running from January 24 to March 2, Heavy Duty is a survey of recent work by Owen-Sound-based artist Andrew Goss.
    • Convergence
      Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery's 40th Annual Juried Exhibition
  • 2002
    • Further:
      In Monica Tap's recent body of work, there is a literal layering of historical references in a contemporary conceptual framework.
    • Natalka Husar
      Natalka Husar: Blond with Dark Roots brings portrait painting into political territory
    • Return to Mowat Lodge
      Thomson and friends depict the splendours of the Canadian North in Return to Mowat Lodge
    • Swarm
      Swarm looks at how artists give new meaning to insects in contemporary art
    • Sylvia Safdie
      Montreal-based artist, Sylvia Safdie makes poetic sculptural installations that are meditations on the convergence of land, time and memory.
    • Land, Time and Memory
      Kids mark Land, Time and Memory in a display inspired by Sylvia Safdie's exhibition
    • Art is Elementary, My Dear
      An educational exhibition about the Elements of Art using works selected from the Permanent Collection
    • Kai Chan
      Kai Chan: Rainbow Lakes pulls poetry from the stuff of everyday life
    • Landmark
      Art informs ideas on the Canadian nation
    • Tom Thomson
      Treasures from the Permanent Collection on view in The Thomson Room
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