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Exhibitions at Artword Gallery, 2005-2006

Exhibitions took place at Artword Gallery, 75 Portland Street, Toronto ON M5V 2M9
Curator: Judith Sandiford
January 2005 to February 2006 is the final season of exhibitions
at Artword Gallery in the 75 Portland location.


Holly Briesmaster: Ink Drawings
January 15 to February 13, 2005
Accompanies the book launch January 16 in Artword Theatre by Hidden Brook Press of Pomona Summer by Allan Briesmaster, with artwork by Holly Briesmaster, and The Second Language of Birds by Donna Langevin.
Judith Sandiford
: Dark Star
January-February 2005
A selection of large-scale paintings by Judith Sandiford depicting cosmological events, to accompany Artword Theatre's production of The Full Nelson by Donald Carr.
Shirley Cheechoo, Blake Debassige, Leland Bell, Roy Thomas
: Paintings
April 20 to May 8, 2005
Paintings by three of the artists involved the theatre production in Artword Theatre Your Dream Was Mine: Shirley Cheechoo, Blake Debassige, and Leland Bell, as well as work by the late Roy Thomas. Illustrated: Blake Debassige's Woodpecker
The Artword Collection
May to July, 2005
Paintings, drawings and prints in the Artword Collection
Barbara Caruso: 10 Paintings + 10 Drawings: 1989 and 1995-97
September 21 - October 22, 2005
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 21, 4-7 pm
Caruso writes, "I am showing these works together because of the continuity I see in them. In 1989, I could not foresee the works of 1995-97. My paintings are about colour, its interaction and interdependence. The ten paintings in this exhibition show colour-shapes on a coloured canvas ground. In them, I explore primary and complementary colour relationships with irregular shapes on the canvas ground which itself becomes a colour-shape."
The Artword Collection
November 2005 to February 2006
Paintings, drawings and prints in the Artword Collection
Betty Mirembe: Paintings
November 11 to December 3, 2005
In the North Gallery, acrylic on canvas paintings by Betty Mirembe, a Toronto-based artist from Uganda. The works depict her memories of her childhood in Uganda. On view during the run of Artword Theatre and the AfriCan Theatre Ensemble's production of Market of Tales in the Artword Alternative Theatre.
Final exhibit in Artword Gallery before the closure February 20, 2006:
Part of the gallery is decorated to evoke the gambling spas of the 1840s, to accompany the production of The Gambler, a new play by Ronald Weihs, based on the novel by Dostoevsky.
Also on display: ink drawings by Judith Sandiford from the Fluctuations series, and works from the Artword Collection.