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Cross Cut at Museum Lennox & Addington, Napanee

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The exhibition Cross Cut, Folk Songs of Early Ontario, featuring a series of linocuts created by Rob Niezen can be viewed at the Museum of Lennox & Addington from February 3 until May 25, 2024. There will be an opening reception on  February 20, 2024, starting at 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM). You can find the museum at 97 Thomas Street East, Napanee, Ontario.
Rob Niezen thanks the Ontario Arts Council and the Province of Ontario for their support.

Temiskaming Art Gallery hosts Cross Cut

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After Minden and Lindsay the Cross Cut exhibition is moving up north to the Temiskaming Art Gallery. Special to the area is the visual interpretation of The Cobalt Song:

You may talk about your cities and all the towns that you know,
With trolley cars and pavements hard and theatres where you go.
You can have your little auto and carriages so fine,
But it’s hob-nail boots and a flannel shirt in Cobalt town for mine.

The exhibition opens on Sunday, September 24 and runs until November 3, 2023. Artist talks and presentations on Saturday, October 14 from 1 to 4 PM. You’ll find the gallery at 325 Farr Drive, Haileybury, Ontario

Kawartha Art Gallery in Lindsay hosts Cross Cut exhibition

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Cross Cut is a series of linocuts reflecting on traditional songs from Ontario with a contemporary perspective. Rob Niezen has selected 23 songs and placed the original narrative in a contemporary context by ‘crosscutting’. Crosscutting is a technique borrowed from film editing used to illustrate a narrative action that happens in several places at the same time, or in one place at different times. The exhibition aims to connect our recent history and today’s society, and the issues we face as citizens of Ontario and Canada, and invites viewers to reflect on what’s happening with them and around them. Has life improved, or is progress only on a materialistic level? Folk songs make global issues accessible to everyone, as they are created and sung by real people telling real human stories.
Rob Niezen gratefully acknowledges the support from the Ontario Arts Council.

Opening reception on Saturday July 15, 2023, from 2:00 to 4:00pm at Kawartha Art Gallery, with the artist talk at 2:30 pm.
The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
190 Kent Street West, Second Floor, Lindsay ON K9V 2Y6

Cross Cut exhibition at Agnes Jamieson Gallery in Minden

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The second Cross Cut exhibition at Agnes Jamieson Gallery runs from May 4 to July 1, 2023.

Started, in 2019 and continued into 2022, Cross Cut is a series of twenty four linocuts that are a contemporary response to traditional songs (circa 1800-1940) collected by CBC’s Edith Fowke in rural Ontario during the 1950s and ’60s. The underlying themes of these songs are of a timeless nature, as they deal with human existence: love, deception, politics, war, immigration, work, leisure, murder, death, etc. The linocuts use both the traditional method of carving the material, and more recent and experimental ways of mark making, including laser engraving and etching. The work invites viewers to reflect on society in the past and today; superficially things have changed, but the human conditions now are not that different from 150 years ago.

Check it out at 176 Bobcaygeon Rd, Minden, ON.

 

45th Annual Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair

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Celebrate the art of the hand-made books, printmaking, bookbinding, paper making and marbling and other artisans  during the 45th Annual Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery. Rob Niezen will be participating in person for the first tiem with his Cross Cut and Heads&Tales prints. Over forty exhibitors display their work, provide live demonstrations in traditional book arts practices, and share their expertise on Saturday, April 29, 2013 from  9 am to 5 pm.

Grimsby Public Art Gallery
18 Carnegie Lane
Grimsby

Artspace hosts 7th Annual Book and Zine Fest

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Artspace hosts a celebration of regional press, zine, and comic arts. Check out the work of comics artists and graphic novelists, letterpress printers, printmakers, and other makers of books and paper arts. I’ll be there with a selection of my linocuts from the Cross Cut series, Heads & Tales series, as well as the Cross Cut songbook and CD, and the children’s book Ameliya Disappears.

Artspace
Friday, March 3, 6-9pm during First Friday PTBO
Saturday, March 4, 10 am-4 pm
3-378 Aylmer Street North
Peterborough, ON

First Annual Artspace Holiday Market and Fundraiser

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Rob will be present at Artspace’s Holiday Market with a table selling his Cross Cut linocut prints and Heads&Tales pieces on First Friday Peterborough and the following Saturday.
December 2, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
December 3, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Artspace
3-378 Aylmer Street North
Peterborough, ON

Artspace Book + Zine Fest 2022

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ArtSpace 6th annual Book and Zine Fest, a celebration of regional press, zine, and comic arts runs from Monday, March 7, 2022 7:00 am to Sunday, March 13, 2022 5:00 pm. Rob Niezen is participating with a digital vendor booth, featuring three of his projects. Artspace hosts a number of activities as part of this Zine Fest. Check them out here.

Fire and Ice receives Honorary Mention

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At the Art Gallery of Bancroft’s 37th Annual Juried Exhibition, jurors Laura Culic and Marc Gagnon, awarded Fire and Ice an honorary mention in the Still Life category. This 24 x 24″ oil painting shows the last light shining through a glass of white wine and two water glasses with lots of ice; through the window we see a downtown Tucson, AZ street with a yellow umbrella and woman on her phone: a moment of reflection. The painting was created as part of Rob Niezen’s Celebration series. The exhibition of close to a hundred artworks at the Art Gallery of Bancroft runs through December to the end of January 2020.

Shows in Fall 2019

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This fall is turning out to a busy and exciting time, with a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Bancroft titled Nocturnal Reflections, opening November 1st, and participation in a number of other shows.

Also opening November 1 is Squared, a 50/50 fundraiser for the Art School of Peterborough. Six of my Celebration pieces, ranging from 6×6” to 24×24” are on the walls looking for new homes and supporting the art education programmes for this not for profit organization.

November 7 will see the opening of PRINT 2019 at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto, for which one of my Heads & Tales linocut-mixed media prints was accepted. This is a promising exhibition for fans of printmaking.

Five of my oil paintings are part of A Holiday Art Market at the Colborne Street Gallery in Fenelon Falls. This show runs from Thursday, November 7, 2019 until Sunday, January 5, 2020, with a reception on Thursday, November 21.

On November 23 and 24 I’ll be participating in the Jamaican Self-Help Artisan Show and Sale in Peterbrough with linocuts and my Heads & Tales works, as well as doing demonstrations. Funds raised during this show will support education and community development programmes in Jamaica, and in the inner-city of Kingston in particular.

And lastly, my most recent Nocturnes can be found at Studio22 Open Gallery in Kingston and at Meta4 in Peterborough.

Rob Niezen Artist