Out and About: Etobicoke Civic Centre, Art Gallery of Mississauga

Saturday, we visited two area galleries. First off was the Willowdale Group of Artists' Juried Exhibition at the Etobicoke Civic Centre Gallery. Over 70 pieces were on display, with an interesting cross-section.

The next exhibit looks intriguing as well, an exhibit of batiks by youth from the Jamestown and Jane and Finch neighbourhoods.

(The listing of shows on the gallery's site ended in June last year. For more information on the gallery, apparently the phone number is 416-394-8390.)

Next up was the Art Gallery of Mississauga's Visual Arts Mississauga Juried Art Show. We were delighted to discover Visual Arts Brampton member and Don Mills resident Mary Chorniuk was accepted in the show. Her oil landscape "Carmino de Santiago, Galicia, Spain" is at the entrance to the largest room of the gallery. Wendy Vervoovt, Cathy Griggs, and Steve Volpe took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively in the show. Honourable mentions go to Margaret Squire, Susan Dawn, and Z. Q. Lon.

An extra treat at the Mississauga City Hall was an exhibit of Japanese dolls, presented by The Japan Foundation. Their quite well-designed, and apparently the Bradley Museum and Mississauga Library Central Branch have other artifacts on display.

Mary Chorniuk to display at Unionville gallery

Visual Arts Brampton member and Toronto resident Mary Chorniuk (her portfolio site) will soon be having an exhibit in York Region, at the Kathleen Gormley McKay Art Centre.

"A pilgrim's journal of people and places" runs from July 30 to August 3, Wednesdays through Sundays at 197 Main Street in Unionville. The opening is Thursday, July 31, from 2 to 7 pm.

The gallery is overseen by the F. H. Varley Art Gallery, as it was once the Group of Seven member's home.

Whodunit? Mary Chorniuk, that's who.

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Member Mary Chorniuk was one of the artists participating at the Whodunit? OCAS Mystery Art Sale. As their website says "It’s an exhibition and sale of pieces of original art by well-known and celebrity artists, faculty, alumni and students."

Gaining in popularity year after year, the Whodunit? OCAD Mystery Art Sale offers hundreds of original works donated by Canadian artists and creative celebrities. Every piece measures 5½ x 7½ inches and each piece is $75. The mystery -- who created the art -- is solved only after the piece is bought and turned over to reveal the artist's name on the back.

Margaret Atwood, Bruce Cockburn, Tony Urquhart, Mary Pratt and Christopher Pratt were all celebrity contributors to the show.