Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Friday, 1 April 2016
TheOLD TheNEW TheMARVELOUS - LIFE OF PIE - April 1 - 30, 2016
LIFE OF PIE
1134 BANK ST, Ottawa
April 1 - 30, 2016
theOLD-theNEW-theMARVELOUS art display by HELENE LACELLE and PETER EVANCHUCK at LIFEofPIE
LACELLE
(aka NEONMATISSE ) highlights a decade of her art from theOLD folksie
art of LadiesINwaiting to theNEW collages of mapping a history of a
family-a time-a generation to theMARVELOUS REALISM of ABANDONED where
the landscape images of PETER EVANCHUCK form the basis of the scenes
that with LACELLES marvelous ingenuity, skills and art become an eerie
exploration of style they call MARVELOUS REALISM based on Magic Realism -
simply put: 'taking usual and making unusual'
The landscape REALISM images were shot by Evanchuck in the Maritimes last year before re-occuring cancer/3 surgeries slowed him down. The MARVELOUS art work was performed/imagined by LACELLE in Ottawa using modern and traditional techniques
This show uses the full restaurant with MARVEOUS REALISM on the walls in the main room of The LIFEofPIE as well as on the walls in the LOO ( not the LOUVRE but the LOO mmm? )
LACELLE and EVANCHUCK display their creative works in every way they can imagine from street walls on buildings, to alleys in Montreal, to LOO's (washroom walls), the sidewalk beside Metro, the cancer clinic at the General, to the entrance to Ottawa University, to galleries from coast to coast to coast .... avoiding pretention, nonsense, and gobblegook ...
Drop into the LIFEofPIE on 1134 BANK at Hopewell any day u can, check out the art walls , check out the LOO, and settle into a nice cup of Java and a sweet piece of Pie .. now that's LIFEatPIE
ART up for viewing at LIFEofPIE ... 01APRIL16 ( the day of fools ) from morning to evening every day to end of April16
The landscape REALISM images were shot by Evanchuck in the Maritimes last year before re-occuring cancer/3 surgeries slowed him down. The MARVELOUS art work was performed/imagined by LACELLE in Ottawa using modern and traditional techniques
This show uses the full restaurant with MARVEOUS REALISM on the walls in the main room of The LIFEofPIE as well as on the walls in the LOO ( not the LOUVRE but the LOO mmm? )
LACELLE and EVANCHUCK display their creative works in every way they can imagine from street walls on buildings, to alleys in Montreal, to LOO's (washroom walls), the sidewalk beside Metro, the cancer clinic at the General, to the entrance to Ottawa University, to galleries from coast to coast to coast .... avoiding pretention, nonsense, and gobblegook ...
Drop into the LIFEofPIE on 1134 BANK at Hopewell any day u can, check out the art walls , check out the LOO, and settle into a nice cup of Java and a sweet piece of Pie .. now that's LIFEatPIE
ART up for viewing at LIFEofPIE ... 01APRIL16 ( the day of fools ) from morning to evening every day to end of April16
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| Helene hanging her new show at LIFE OF PIE with the great help of Michelle! |
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| Michelle, Bhat Boy & Helene - Show all set up! |
Saturday, 5 March 2016
NEW EXHIBITION at THE LIFE OF PIE
DOLLS GONE WILD BLUEBERRIES
LIFE OF PIE
1134 Bank St.
March 5, 2016 : On-Going
ART IN THE LOO! NOT THE LOUVRE!
LACELLE and EVANCHUCK have
collaborated to produce a rather Marvelous Realism using Evanchuck's
photographic images of Blueberry shacks on the #7 and Lacelle's artistry
to add the marvelous to those realistic images and of course the dolls -
abandoned Dolls
from the maritimes to Ottawa, dolls found in old abandoned homes in the
Maritimes, on junk piles in Toronto and Hamilton, in Variety Village at
Niagara Falls, at the Bargain Box on Laurier and dozens of other
accidental finds of abandoned dolls.
Images were shot during recent
ice storm - one has to wait to 'get the right image the will display the
atmosphere the 'feel' - the ice storm produced the perfect feel of
emptiness, loneliness, the harshness of life surrounding the
inhabitants.
The show draws in the viewer to
help them 'feel' the strangeness of the area - of course the viewer may
form their personal thoughts on the combination of creative techniques
used to add an odd and unmistakable 'feel' to this presentation - don't
expect
the ordinary from creative people and certainly not from
Lacelle&Evanchuck
The #7 highway from Perth to
Madoc is ancient in many ways .... untouched for decades with modernity,
an olden days display of abandoned properties, junked vehicles and a
sense of loss... that sense one feels as they drive the two lane
blacktop road trippin'
thru Ontario's hinterland looking at the way things used to be and
still are.
There are no condos here, no hipsters just the stillness of that past that lingers into the present ....
Saturday, 30 January 2016
theOLDtheNEWtheMARVELOUS by HELENE LACELLE & PETER EVANCHUCK - CAFE NOSTALGICA
theOLDtheNEWtheMARVELOUS
art by HELENE
LACELLE & PETER EVANCHUCK
from
04Feb to 29th
at Café Nostalgica, 601 Cumberland on the Ottawa UNiversity campus
theOLD:
a
retrospective of the past decade and a half of LACELLE’s art work.:
tracing her various styles, forms and reincarnations. Her
experimentations in ‘new’ art makes even these ‘old’ art pieces look
contemporary.
the
NEW:
prolific
artist HELENE LACELLE has created a completely new set of collage images for showing at CAFÉ NOSTALGICA. Entitled –
theOLDtheNEWtheMARVELOUS
LACELLE’s
technique is rather unique in that she sees her ‘art ‘ on the canvas
not in her head. In her collages, using old photos loaned from a German
baroness as a central focus, she creates
and enhances them into her personal ‘art’ by mixing in various images/styles from many sources
that together form an overall effect of modernity i.e. new-ness. They are complex yet very simple, very effective.
theMARVELOUS:
continuing
her collaboration with partner PETER EVANCHUCK on MARVELOUS REALISM
CANADA, LACELLE has created new additions to the original abandoned
homes
photographs of EVANCHUCK. This portion of the exhibit is called ‘A
DOLL’s HOUSE’
One
Toronto critic referred to LACELLE as the NEON MATISSE of Canada due to
her colourful, neon-like imagery. Self taught she has been making art
all her adult life winning many awards, hanging in several galleries/art
places in Canada and the U.S. with sales
on line and around the world.
Former
professor EVANCHUCK now devotes his time to filmmaking, photography,
writing, curating. He has produced several feature films, scripts, books
as well as many docs over his ongoing career.
The
abandoned homes represented in MARVELOUS REALISM were shot last year in New Brunswick.
Friday, 1 January 2016
MARVELOUS REALISM CANADA
' A DOLL'S HOUSE '
NEW EXHIBITION
CAFE NOSTALGICA
601 Cumberlaned St. Ottawa University
Jan 4 - 31, 2016
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"
THE GREATEST BEAUTY THAT LIFE CAN PROVIDE US WITH IS CREATIVE WORK - TO
ORIGINATE AND MAKE SOMETHING FROM WITHIN OUR IMAGINATION AND SKILLS IS
BEAUTIFUL "
" IN ALMOST EVERY ABANDONED HOUSE
DOLLS WERE LEFT BEHIND,
THE FEELING WAS EERIE "
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On location MARITIMES/CANADA capturing the beauty that remains inside&out of ABANDONED HOMES
PETER EVANCHUCK & HELENE LACELLE
have
been a 'team of two' for over 30 years originating/making/independent
creative works for beauty, for fun, for documenting their life and the
life of others.
Examples of their original projects ::: bookshandmade.com publishes alternate new writers/illustrators; GoopMailArt provides free workshops/website site for international shared original works of art; movieshandmade.com has the team of EVANCHUCK & LACELLE making social documentaries, fun docs, feature films.
They started bookshandmade.com when EVANCHUCK had his first bout with thyroid cancer in 2007. As a cancer repeat survivor, recently EVANCHUCK has, with LACELLE's
assistance, got thru his third and fourth surgery, well enough to
continue their creative lives, his long term trache allows him to speak
like TOM WAITS.
They have just returned from another Maritime roadTOUR shooting UNESCO sitesfor a book/doc. - TantramarMarsh for book/doc on Sir Chas. GD Roberts - They are on the road every month ( that Evanchuck's cancer allows ) documenting Canadians and Canadian
'way of living/playing'.
click HERE FOR BOOKSHANDMADE
'way of living/playing'.
click HERE FOR BOOKSHANDMADE
They
have had numerous newspaper articles/tv interviews and won numerous
awards, citations and distinguished themselves by extensive community
work
(
Toronto Mayor's Award, Provincial and Ottawa Award as volunteer of the
Year ) mainly for their generous work/support/volunteering in Soup
Kitchens.
" Life is not so hard when ur stomach isn't growling" remarks Chef EVANCHUCK.
For 9 years they've produced Sandy Hill's ONE & ONLY art&artisan Festival in Ottawa- free food and fun for the community!
Professor EVANCHUCK
has headed up&taught in photography/film/video departments at
several Colleges and Universities for over two decades. ( YorkU, Durham,
OttawaU, Algonquin ) artist LACELLE has shown and is represented at numerousgalleries across Canada and the U.S. ( Karsh-Mason, OSA, Art Interiors, Sweet Mabel
OttawaU, Algonquin ) artist LACELLE has shown and is represented at numerousgalleries across Canada and the U.S. ( Karsh-Mason, OSA, Art Interiors, Sweet Mabel
Gallery, Labyrinth, Trinity, etc.
"
THE GREATEST BEAUTY THAT LIFE CAN PROVIDE US WITH IS CREATIVE WORK - TO
ORIGINATE AND MAKE SOMETHING FROM WITHIN OUR IMAGINATION AND SKILLS IS
BEAUTIFUL "
RECENT & ON-GOING SHOW
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| LIFE OF PIE ART IN THE LOO! - NOT THE LOUVRE! 1134 Bank St. Ottawa Nov.17, 2015 - ON-GOING |
TIMOTHY'S CAFE
234 Laurier St. East, Ottawa
Dec.1, 2015 to ON-GOING
35 George St. Ottawa
Nov.24 to Dec.20, 2015
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
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