Much of these works have been seen before at Gallery de Boer’s exhibits. Many are classic, timeless pieces which will never be sold at these prices again.

Thank you again for your ongoing support
Ron

The Details:

Gallery de Boer – The Annex must close!
The building has been sold!
We have just 4 DAYS LEFT
You don’t want to miss this opportunity

Contact the Annex: 519 416 7916

Gallery Hours: Thursday – 9:30 – 6:00 pm, Friday – 9:30 – 7 pm,

Saturday – 9:30 – 5 pm, Sunday – 12:00 – 4 pm

SAVINGS OF 35 – 75% throughout THE ANNEX
Free Framing Gift Certificate on all purchases
A wonderful chance to add to your art collection!

Artists: Many frames left….Priced from $2.00 – $15.00

Note: Gallery de Boer, above Homeology, is not closing and will continue to provide all your art needs.

Here is a small sample of what is available in the Annex

 

in two weeks!

Now don’t worry, the main gallery is staying put. We’ll continue to have an extensive collection of original art on display as well as maintaining the full range of services you’ve come to expect from Gallery de Boer – Fine Art & Jazz.

However, since the Annex is closing, we have to do something with all the art on display.

We don’t want to move it all. Therefore, the Annex is closed on May 10, 11 and 12th to prepare for the Clear Out Sale

The Annex Re-opens

Thursday May 13that 9:30am

You don’t want to miss this opportunity

Gallery de Boer is offering many wonderful select pieces of framed and unframed works of art at greatly reduced prices.

Everything must go

Artists: We have over one hundred frames and canvases to choose from. Priced $2.00 – $15.00 … first-come-first-served

Free Framing Gift Certificates on all purchases

Everything reduced!

Sale starts at 9:30 am

Thursday May 13th

DON’T DELAY!

You could miss out on some great bargains!

Owen Sound artist Lorne Wagman produces “large-scale renditions of small-scale phenomena.”  Czechoslovakian-Canadian artist Vera Dernovsek lives in Wiarton. She paints what she sees but “gives the reality a personal twist.”

Regional artist Marieke Niemeijer currently lives in Ferndale and believes “an artist is a kind of reporter, using any or all media to convey the experiences in life that they have captured, and then reissuing that experience.” Meaford artist Valerie Nichol grew up in a house filled with music. She says, “Abstract art for me is a visual form of music.”

However diverse the styles and media used by these four artists, the exhibition is unified by a bold and exciting use of colour. As you walk through the gallery and absorb these disparate works displayed side-by-side, your senses will be assaulted by a riot of colour. The surprising harmony that results will energize and excite you.

Landscapes & Mindscapes runs October 20 – December 5, 2009. Please join us for the Grand Opening & Reception to be held on November 7^th from 4 pm to 7 pm.

“We’ve been bursting at the seams for some time,” says owner and curator Ron de Boer. “As our reputation has grown, we’ve hosted some very prestigious exhibitions, added to our native art collection and expanded our services. When the extra space became available, I felt we had to jump at it.”

The Annex is staffed by Sarah Slater, a former staff person at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery and an artist in her own right, as well as Tracy Pink-Cleverley. The Annex houses Gallery de Boer’s high-end lithographs, limited edition prints, vintage posters, photography, pottery as well as the complete Audrey Holrod collection.

In addition there will be a featured artist on a monthly rotation. The first featured artist is painter Patric Ryan. All of this has freed space in the main gallery for major exhibitions, an expanded native and aboriginal art gallery and additional services.

The framing department is busier than ever with Jean Leonard adding Master Framer Richard McNaughton. The fine art restoration department has expanded as well with Master restorer Michael Anderson bringing his daughter Beth on board.

“I really feel these changes will work to cement our reputation as one of the finest commercial galleries in Canada, even though we’re not in the big city,” says de Boer.

Gallery de Boer – Fine Art & Jazz is located, Upstairs, 970 – 2^nd Avenue East, Owen Sound. The Annex is immediately below. For more information call 519-376-7914

Robert S. Montgomery is one of 14 artists participating in the Ontario Society of Artists Summer Exhibitions 2009. Montgomery says:

At the age of 16 I saw my first Alex Colville image and literally stared transfixed for many minutes, and it took me several years before I fully understood what made his work so magical.  The tight geometric composition reminded me of Renaissance painting and the highly technical arrangements stood for the omnipresent Higher Power. The crisp focus placed emphasis on the notion that each and every object was a unique and handcrafted by that same Higher Power. The love of vast spaces seemed to make the comforts of local environments all that much more protective, given the implied threat of the unknown.

And his discordant assembly of subject matter spoke of disconnection and isolation, contradicting any comfort meted out by the intimate setting.  There are other, more subtle strategies he employs, but these were the ones I decided to use in the pursuit of my own visual language.

It took many years to finally find a “voice” that was my own-based upon my own experiences, my own psychology and my own view of the world.  Neither storytelling nor the conveyance of specific messages holds much interest for me.  I think that art is much better at raising questions than it is at providing answers.  All any artist can work towards is images with a broad perspective, that can engage a wide enough audience so as to seduce at least one other person- a person who wonders in the same way.

Art is to be shared with the community.  It is there that our commonality as well as our uniqueness can be explored and understood, and art has a special role to play in this process.  The handmade object takes us back to the dawning of our culture, our personalities and our sense of self, and by its very existence imparts meaning to our lives.

The art process allows us to separate ourselves from society’s shared obsessions while at the same time explore our participation in them.  It is an ambivalent procedure but ultimately one in which we can, in the best possible way, reveal our most graceful and repulsive moments.  Through imagery, we confront our fears, our regrets, our clinging to tragedy, our failures and frustrations all of which are leavened by brief encounters with joy and the never-ending quest for significance.

I make paintings and prints, and I enjoy both processes equally.  There is one main objective in these operations: to rethink how I affix meanings to my experiences.  By congregating objects and spaces in unexpected contexts and through denying ordinary associations with mundane events, I hope the viewer too, can revisit his/her own personal myth with the same lack of deference to singular, linear narrative. What do things mean?  What importance should we assign to any given event?  How can we be sure that our conclusions have any validity, much less merit?  As Alex Colville posed the question, “Is this what life is like?”

In 1975, she received her BA from Queen’s University where she studied Studio Art. In the 1980’s, high in the mountains of California, a fascination with the beauty of her surroundings inspired her to render her interpretations through photography. She studied a Freeman Patterson photography course at Loon Lake, New Brunswick, and colour photography with Ed Burtynsky in Toronto.

After a few years of experimentation and self-teaching, and inspired by Picasso Still Life drawings and the softness of Renoir paintings, Diana developed her own unique technique of hand colouring fibre base black and white silver gelatin prints. She has received grants from Ontario Arts Council and Hamilton Arts Council and awards from the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications (CAPIC) and Applied Arts Magazine.

Diana is one of 14 artists whose work is appearing in the Ontario Society of Artists Summer Exhibition 2009 exhibition and sale at Gallery de Boer.

Andrea Bird, AOCAD/OSA, is one of the artists whose work is part of the gallery’s Ontario Society of Artists Summer Exhibition 2009. Bird is an encaustic artist living in North Wellington County. Her work is inspired by the rural landscape.  She has exhibited her work and taught encaustic and collage for over 20 years.

This award-winning artist says:

“My chosen medium is encaustic.  This is the mixing of beeswax, oil paint and damar resin.  It is an ancient method of painting that is now enjoying great popularity.   My work tells a story, one that is different each time, but common threads runs through them all: the beauty of nature and the emotional response to life’s experiences.  When we allow ourselves to explore the depths of our creativity, there is a richly textured world that awaits us.”

“The layering of collage (often natural elements), beeswax and colour plays an important role in her work – with some layers being partially or completely obscured, adding depth, texture and interest to the surface of my paintings.”

The above photo is Bird’s painting “Blackout” which is on display at the Gallery as part of the Ontario Society of Artists Summer Exhibition 2009.

The OSA has played a key role in the establishment of some of Ontario’s most important cultural institutions: The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Ontario College of Art and Design and the National Gallery of Canada to name a few. Many members of the OSA are also key members of the prestigious Arts & Letters Club of Toronto.

Honoured to be a jury member for this important event I looked forward to see what the artists had to offer. To put it bluntly, I was blown away by the quality of the work submitted. These are truly some of the best professional artists currently working in Ontario.

I was so impressed with these artists that I submitted a request to have Gallery de Boer – Fine Art & Jazz be one of the ten galleries to participate in the Ontario Society of Artists Summer Exhibitions 2009. I was thrilled to be accepted as a partner in this important series of exhibitions.

I hand picked 14 of the artists and a total of 151 pieces for our stage of the Ontario Society of Artists Summer Exhibitions 2009. These artists cover a wide range of styles, media and subject matter. Regardless of your taste, I think you’ll agree that each of the works displayed in our main gallery is of spectacular quality.

This exhibition is currently installed and will remain until October 9th. We will be hosting a Reception on Friday September 11^th from 7:00 – 10:00 pm, when you will have an opportunity to meet all of the participating artists.

However, please don’t wait until September 11^th. I know you’ll want to hurry in to view this important and impressive exhibit and sale.

Ron de Boer

PAN y VINO #3 by Alejandro Rabazo

Blackout by Andrea Bird

Before Bed Rustle by Audra Noble

Conversation by Diana Harding Tucker

Road to Tobermory by Douglas Purdon

In the Rain by Eva Kolacz

Under the Snow by Giuseppe Pivetta

Premiere Neige Montreal by John Mlacak

Hope by Linda Finn

Rockyshore by Ona Alisauskas

The Red Barn by Peter Large

Snow Shadows by Robert Amirault

Terminus by Robert S. Montgomery

Afternoon Break by Valerie Ashton

 

Twenty-seven pieces of Canadian Aboriginal art from Gallery de Boer will be on display this weekend and will be extended till July 30. Aboriginal artists are increasingly being recognized and sought after throughout Canada and the world. We are truly lucky to have the work of such talented artists available for viewing and sale right here in Owen Sound.

The exhibit at Grey Roots best represents the Woodland artists, spearheaded by Norval Morrisseau and an incredible support cast. They include: Isaac Bignell, Blair DeBassige, James Simon, Carl Beam, Leland Bell, Josh Kakegamic, David Williams, David Morrisseau and many others.