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Happy Friday! Today we are highlighting a print which is housed in the AGP’s permanent collection, made by internationally recognized Canadian artist Jack Bush.

Jack Bush started his career painting representational landscapes, heavily inspired by the works of the Group of Seven. Later in his career, Bush moved away from landscape painting, into avant-garde abstraction after he was diagnosed with anxiety and was encouraged by a doctor to experiment with self-expression. He used abstraction in his artistic practice to express feelings and mood which influenced the Toronto art scene in the 1960s and 1970s and bought him international recognition.

Bush is associated with the Colour Field movement, which can be described as works placing less emphasis on gesture and brush strokes, containing large fields of flat, solid colour.

Jack Bush’s "Untitled" print was made as part of the Toronto 20 Portfolio, made in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the University of Toronto Press in 1965. This silk screen print contains three large sections of vibrant colour stacked on top of each other. The design is simple, and its shapes contain soft, subdued edges. The combination of the colours used and the subtle tapered edges of the top and bottom commands the viewer`s attention to the centre of the work.

What feelings does it evoke for you?

Image: Jack Bush, Untitled, 1965, From the Toronto 20 Portfolio, silkscreen print on paper, ed/ 73/100. Collection of the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Purchased with the assistance of the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture through a Wintario Grant, 1983.

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Drop in for a visit and warm up in our galleries! ❄️

While you`re here, check out Dr. Roberta Bondar`s solo exhibition "Patterns & Parallels." This exhibition of photography explores the lives of migratory birds as they navigate habitat loss and a climate change.

We`re open Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, and admission is free!

For more information about the exhibition, visit: agp.on.ca/exhibition/patterns-and-parallels or check out the link in our profile.

Photo by Zach Ward, @wedesignptbo

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🚨 Reminder: one more day to apply to participate in the 2025 Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour!

The studio tour offers artists working in a range of styles and media the chance to open up their working spaces to the public, share their artistic practice, connect with potential supporters and the community, while also promoting their work.

Deadline to apply: February 19, 2025

For more information and to apply, visit kast.agp.on.ca/apply/ or check out the link in our profile.

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The Art Gallery of Peterborough will be CLOSED today due to inclement weather. We regret cancelling Snofest Family Sunday, and yes, it is ironic to be cancelling due to too much snow! We will reopen Wednesday, February 19th, at 11am. We wish you well and stay safe!

Roses are red ❤️
Violets are blue 💙
Here is a flower
From Andy Warhol to you!

Happy Valentines Day from the Art Gallery of Peterborough!

📷 Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1974, screen-print with hand-colouring on paper, ed. /500. Collection of the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Gift of Stephanie McLeod, 1992.

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We are currently accepting artist applications to the 2025 Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour!

The studio tour offers artists working in a range of styles and media the chance to open up their working spaces to the public, share their artistic practice, connect with potential supporters and the community, while also promoting their work.

Deadline to apply: February 19, 2025

For more information and to apply, visit kast.agp.on.ca/apply/ or check out the link in our profile.

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Don’t miss this incredible exhibition of photography that explores the lives of migratory birds as they navigate habitat loss and climate change.

Visit Dr. Roberta Bondar`s "Patterns & Parallels" at the Art Gallery of Peterborough until March 16, 2025. We`re open Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm.

For more information about the exhibition, visit: agp.on.ca/exhibition/patterns-and-parallels or check out the link in our profile.

Photo by Zach Ward, We Design Group.

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Join us this weekend for Family Sunday! 🩷
 
Explore our current exhibitions and then join us in the Art Gallery of Peterborough studio for a seasonally themed art activity. Our Family Sunday activities are fun for all ages.
 
This month we’re making Little Valentine Friends! 💕
 
Drop in to the gallery between 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm on Sunday, February 2.
 
Please note: Our Family Sundays are very popular and studio space is limited. There may be wait times for the art-making activities.
 
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Happy Friday! For today’s collection spotlight we asked AGP Curator Fynn Leitch to reflect on Peter Barron’s, "Alewife and Crow Feather," from the AGP Permanent Collection:

Earlier this week we shared a video featuring Peterborough-based artist Peter Barron talking about the importance of cultural institutions as places of community building, healing, and resilience.

Barron is a painter and a printmaker who has been living and making work in Peterborough since 1975. This is a piece by Peter: a study in oil of a fish carcass and a feather. We’ve got a few pieces by Barron in our collection but this is the one that hangs most prominently in my memory.

The past is a thing we can recall through interactions with its evidence – photographs, written accounts, ephemera – but it’s also something conjured through the accidental echoes of our involuntarily indexed sensuous experiences. How often has a scent, a flavour, or a sound tripped you into a recollection? This painting is, for me, a conjurer of imagination. Barron, I think, has told me that he painted this (and others like it) in his studio, studying the stuff around him, translating their colours and reflections. Lots of fish – again – I think that’s what I heard. It is evidence of Barron’s being and looking; of his time well spent.

The time an artist spends in their studio – just making – is art; is important; is valuable. Bruce Nauman declared this with Bouncing Two Balls Between the Floor and Ceiling with Changing Rhythms (1967-8), Kelly Mark with In & Out (1997 – ongoing until 2032).

Where are the places that bring you calm?

Where do you go to process the world around you?

Where do you like to just be?

Image: @peterbarron73, Alewife and Crow Feather, 1993, oil on board. Collection of the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Gift of McWilliams Moving and Storage, 1993