The Alex Dufresne Gallery is opening a new exhibit on Saturday, Jan. 10 entitled \u201cDriven to Abstraction,\u201d featuring works by members of the North Bay Art Association.<\/p>\n
The opening event is open to all and runs 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Artists will be in attendance and light refreshments will be served. Admission is by donation.<\/p>\n
In a release, gallery curator Natasha Wiatr noted, \u201cDriven to Abstraction brings together a lively mix of styles, from bold shapes and energetic colour fields to layered mixed-media works. The exhibition highlights how these artists push beyond realism to explore mood, movement, memory, and pure visual play.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese pieces show just how many directions abstraction can take\u2014sometimes lyrical, sometimes chaotic, sometimes quietly contemplative, but always rooted in curiosity. Abstract art often asks us to respond first with our senses rather than with words,\u201d Wiatr continued.<\/p>\n
The exhibition will remain on view at the gallery until Feb. 21. The gallery is located at 107 Lansdowne Street, in Callander. It\u2019s in the same building as the Callander museum.<\/p>\n
David Briggs is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of BayToday, a publication of Village Media. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alex Dufresne Gallery is opening a new exhibit on Saturday, Jan. 10 entitled \u201cDriven to Abstraction,\u201d featuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-399494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}