Donna was born in the Jilin Province of China in 1958. Looking back on her childhood, she recalls giving expression to her friend’s wishes for new shoes or toys by sketching them on paper. She went on to study art for 13 years, achieving mastery in the techniques of etching. Donna became an art educator, [...]
Click for moreIn 1999 Donna Zhang accompanied a small group to a remote region of Tibet on an environmental mission to preserve habitat for endangered species. It became a pivotal event as she was struck by the strength, dignity and openness of the indigenous Tibetan people. Touched by their character and depth of the experience, she found that she was drawn back to Tibet on two subsequent trips in 2001 and 2002. Her experience and relationship with the people of Tibet have become the inspiration for Donna’s current work. Her portraits reflect the profound beauty and resilience she sees in the faces of her subjects. As Donna says simply, “Their clothes are not clean, but their hearts are pure.”
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Click for moreOpening on June 1, at Mayberry Fine Art @Winnipeg Square, Recent Works by veteran Winnipeg artist, Don Proch located in the concourse, near the Fort Street entrance. In a career spanning 4 decades, Don Proch has exhibited extensively in Canada, the United States and Europe. The exhibition at Winnipeg Square hangs until June 29.
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The work of one of Canada’s best sculptors, Joe Fafard, is being displayed at Mayberry Fine Art Gallery in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
There was lots going on this week in Winnipeg where Joe Fafard was concerned.
Click for moreCELEBRATED ARTIST JOE FAFARD PRESIDES OVER INSTALLATION OF HIS LARGER-THAN-LIFE, OUTDOOR SCULPTURE AT MAYBERRY FINE ART
Peggy’s Unveiling Marks Beginning of Fafard Week in Winnipeg — Featuring Exhibitions of the U of M Grad’s Work at The Winnipeg Art Gallery and Mayberry Fine Art
WINNIPEG — Joe Fafard, one of Canada’s most well-regarded and highly-collected, living sculptors, [...]
In its infancy, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century, Canadian art was strongly influenced by a European sensibility and style. Serious students of art went to Paris or London to be immersed in the art styles and [...]
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An important group of early twentieth Canadian artists was largely forgotten until 1966 when the National Gallery of Canada mounted a traveling exhibition entitled The Beaver Hall Hill Group. In the 1960s, when feminism was growing in strength, the exhibit focused attention on a group of women artists who had formed [...]
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Art in Canada in the Nineteenth Century was still firmly rooted in Europe. As cities grew, artists became an integral part of the cultural and economic fabric. Artististic creativity, however, was largely directed by the requirements of wealthy and influential patrons. Artists filled the demand for decorative paintings of “Europeanesque” landscapes as well as portraiture. [...]
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In an era where visual information is mass produced every day via print and electronic media, it has become hard to imagine a time when each picture was created as a rare, one-of-a-kind image. There was a time, however, when painted and drawn images were available only to the wealthy few. With the invention of [...]
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