neonmatisse: April 2016

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The Guild Room & Gallery at allsaints - 10 Blackburn Ave - Sandy Hill

Leanne Moussa (left) the driving force behind The Guild Room and development of the All Saints Church Project, Claire Macdonald (top right) gallery curator, Fizza (botton right) barista extraordinaire!

(top left) The magnificient All Saints Church at the corner of Laurier & Chapel, (top right - bottom left) sunny beautiful The Guild Room Cafe & Gallery (artist Sharon Katz artwork on display until the end of April) open every day/night from & 7am - 9pm - (bottom right) majestic Bates Hall

The Guild Room, 10 Blackburn

The café at All Saints Ottawa has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last

couple of months, and is now the sunny setting for an espresso machine and a daily

menu of soup, salad and smoothies (all made in the neighbourhood), as well as

assorted fruit and baked goods. The cappuccino, charmingly presented in vintage

cups, is a bargain at $3.50, and there’s decaf if you need it. The Guild Room is

open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, so anyone who’s working or going to activities

in the building can count on a pick-me-up when they need it.

Friday, April 1, 2016

theOLD theNEW theMARVELOUS - LIFE OF PIE - 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