DEFINITELY
SUPERIOR ART GALLERY
est. 1988
22ND
ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW
50+
ARTISTS
July 16 to Aug 14, 2010

We’re having a Birthday P.arty!...and everyone is invited, we encourage all members to submit and help celebrate Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s 22nd anniversary year. The Annual Members Exhibition offers the opportunity for both emerging and established artists to share exhibition space. The lack of restriction is designed to encourage eclectic and experimental works in response. Presentation of the work facilitates those artists whose art investigates social, political, and critical issues of importance. We encourage all members to submit and help celebrate! A selection of work from the members show will also be exhibited at Lot 66 in the lounge from August 20 to October 31. There will be a Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art/musical performances with Solomon + Rory Bohler. Come out and enjoy summer refreshments a plenty.
Gallery 1
Opening Reception: Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 7pm
COMMENT/CRITIQUE
ELIZABETH
BUSET
new works - regional - large scale painting
July 16 to Aug 14, 2010

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern Ontario, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Elizabeth Buset [HBFA Lakehead University], in her first post-graduate solo exhibition comprising of exciting new contemporary large-scale painting works. In this exhibition titled: Comment/Critique, Buset, through juxtaposition, recontextualizes mundane objects, creating an alternative lexicon in which to articulate contemporary issues. Buset is a well recognized artist in the region for her visual works and with high technical skill and cultural commentary, she engages viewers visually and intellectually. There will be a Gala Opening Reception and a ferocity of art/musical performances with Solomon + Rory Bohler. Come out and enjoy summer refreshments a plenty.
Gallery 2
Opening Reception: Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 7pm
CONFEDERATION
COLLEGE FILM GRADUATE SCREENINGS
COMPILATION
- CONFLIX FILMS
July 16 to Aug 14, 2010

Definitely
Superior offers an alternative venue for the Film students outside the
institution of the College system. This is an ongoing partnership with
Confederation College to prepare students for an innovative and creative
workforce. Over the duration of the show there will be selected screenings
of graduate films - Conflix Films. The fusion of art exhibitions is
successful in cross pollinating
Gallery 3
Opening Reception: Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 7pm
DIE ACTIVE YOUTH ART COLLECTIVE
JOIN THIS SUMMER - ZINE PRODUCTION / MUSIC / STREET PROJECTS / WORKSHOPS
May to August, 2010
Join
a collective of new artists working to create a unique and contemporary
publication that is distributed nationally as well as in the region.
Including; an art and creative writing zine, a CD of local bands, buttons and
much more, forming a multi-media arts package for release in September
2010. Join by emailing loradefsup@hotmail.com
You look us up on Facebook - just search ‘die active
zine’ or ‘definitely superior art
gallery’. Send us an e-mail or join the facebook group, we
will send you a summer schedule of events and workshops. Submit your art
work, music, photography, writing.
Come
check out last years zine publication at the gallery and see what 160+ young
artists are up to!
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DIE ACTIVE YOUTH ART COLLECTIVE: Y-ART SALE

posted: July 7, 2010