May 5 to 26
John M. Parrott Art Gallery
Opening Reception
Thursday, May 5, 2011, 6 to 7:30 pm
John M. Parrott Art Gallery
Belleville Public Library (3rd Floor)
254 Pinnacle Street, Belleville, ON
For the Expressions 2011 Information Sheet, click here.
Laurie Near - ACOUSTIC-SATORI #50, acrylic and greasestick on wood, 48x48 (Laurie was one of the award winners at Expressions 2010)
James Campbell
Education:
Graduated June, 1980, S.S.F. College, Diploma in Administration for the Creative Arts.
Graduated June, 1983, Bachelor's Degree in Art and Art History, University of Toronto.
January 2008 to May 2009, completed course work for MA, Art History, University of Buffalo; thesis underway.
Professional:
October 1984 to December 1986, Education Co-ordinator, Art Gallery of Peterborough.
January 1987 to June 1989, Director/Curator, Kennedy Gallery, North Bay Arts Centre.
June 1989 to May 2003, Curator, The S. E. Weir Collection, Queenston.
June 2003 to December 2009, Independent Curatorial work and teaching.
Researched and catalogued the Niagara Parks Commission art collection.
Taught for Brock University Continuing Education program.
February 2010 to present, Executive Director, The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville.
Olexander Wlasenko
Olexander Wlasenko has based his studio practice in Oshawa, Ontario after earning a Master of Fine Art at The University of Western Ontario in 2000. Prior to this, he graduated with distinction from the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in 1994, going on to complete a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Guelph. In his final year at OCA, Wlasenko was awarded the Eric Freifield Award. In 2001, he won top prize at the national juried drawing exhibition organized at the John B. Aird Gallery. The artist was awarded Canada Council for the Arts Creation / Production Grants in 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2010 also regularly receiving grants from the Ontario Arts Council since 2001. In 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 the artist won Best Drawing Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. A solo exhibition of his drawings premiered at Barrie, Ontario's MacLaren Art Centre in fall, 2007. Wlasenko has exhibited extensively in Toronto and London, ON, nationally in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Dawson City, Yukon, and internationally in Florence, Italy and Kyiv, Ukraine.
After completing his graduate studies in the fall of 2000, Wlasenko worked as Assistant Curator at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Oshawa, Ontario. There he organized over twenty photography exhibitions featuring vintage prints which document the historical development of his hometown of Oshawa. Wlasenko has organized four biennial exhibitions of early-career artists at the RMG. In the spring of 2007, he curated a solo exhibition of artist Vera Jacyk entitled, Chysto, Chysto, Chysto. Wlasenko's most recent curatorial projects include Broken Promises: Soviet Photography in the Age of Stalin, unveiled the MacLaren Art Centre's recent Sovfoto acquisition in Barrie, Ontario. Olexander currently holds the position of Curator at Station Gallery in Whitby, Ontario since early 2008.
