Recent Shows/Events
May 16, 2013: 100 Hundred Prints, Open Studio's Annual Fundraising Gala
Palais Royale, Toronto
May 4 - June 16, 2013: Boundless and Borderless
A portfolio exchange between Open Studio, Canada and Sydney Printmakers, Australia
Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
Further details at:
www.whitbystationgallery.com
See Upcoming Shows for additional exhibition locations
Loree Ovens, Journey, 2013, screenprint on BFK, edition of 50, 15 inches x 11 inches
May 3 - 31, 2013: Material Muse: Japanese Paper Inspiring Print
curated by Sigrid Blohm, Japanese Paper Place
Mon-Fri 10am - 5pm. Reception: Friday, May 24, 6 - 8 pm, Japanese Paper Place Gallery, Toronto
Also exhibited in March 2103 at SAFI Studios Exhibits, Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Conference, Milwaukee, WI
Loree Ovens, City Plan #13, 2013, etching, drypoint, screen, collagraph, konnnyaku & machine stitching on Washi, variable edition of 3, 10.25 inches x 16 inches
October 26-29, 2012: Art Toronto 2012
Open Studio Booth, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto
Further details at:
www.arttoronto.ca
June 7, 2012: Japanese Paper Place 30th Anniversary
Open House and Pop-up Studios, 2:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Further details at:
www.washisummit.com
Loree Ovens, Pocket Journals, 2012, mixed media on various papers, 2.75 x 4.75 x 1 inches
February 2 - June 9, 2012: Urban Nature, Open Studio Group Show
Malton Airport Gallery, at the Toronto Pearson International Airport
For more information, visit the Toronto Pearson Changing Exhibits at Terminal 1 webpage
Loree Ovens, Uprooted, 2012, hand-tinted collagraph, 35 x 23 inches
May 17, 2012: 100 Hundred Prints, Open Studio's Annual Fundraising Gala
Palais Royale, Toronto
February 2012: Launch of Ensemble Polaris, Uncharted Waters CD
Created CD artwork
For more information: www.ensemblepolaris.com
January 26 - 29, 2012: Open Studio at Interior Design Show 2012
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
September 15 - October 22, 2011: Temporal Passage: Loree Ovens Solo Show at Open Studio
George Gilmour Members' Gallery, Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Temporal Passage explores the concept of time as a fluctuating geography.
Depicting a journey in search of greater awareness, Temporal Passage serves as a pictorial notebook
through abstract landscapes. This body of work primarily focuses on intaglio techniques
on Japanese paper, however in her own practice, Ovens works in a variety of media.
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Loree Ovens, Tapa (detail of work in progress), 2011, intaglio & acrylic on Japanese paper, 24" x 28"
June 2 - 26, 2011: Loree Ovens and Tawny Maclachlan Capon at David Kaye Gallery
New mixed media work,
David Kaye Gallery, Toronto
Meet the Artists: June 4, 2011, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
February 23 - March 3, 2011: Textile Museum of Canada 2011 BMO Financial Shadow Box Event
Artists' Reception, which will be held on Wednesday February 23, from 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Silent Auction & Cocktail Reception will be held on Thursday, March 3, 6:30 pm, Tickets $35
January 27 - 30, 2011: Open Studio Print Sales Program at the Interior Design Show 2011
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
North Exhibit Level 300, Studio North, Booth SN-16
Interior Design Show 2011
Exhibiting Artists
Sally Ayre, Mary Baranowski-Lowden,Susan Cunningham, Isabelle Hémard,Geneviève Jodouin, Lorna Livey,
Liz Menard, Wendy Morosoff Smith, Suzanne Nacha, Emma Nishimura, Loree Ovens, Endi Poskovic, Tammy Ratcliff,
Irina Schestakowich, Catherine Stewart, Celeste Toogood, Laurie Zinkand-Selles
Loree Ovens, Migration Pattern #1 (detail), 2011, 12 x 24 inches
December 2, 2010: Opening Night Fundraiser Open Studio Artist Proof Sale & Open House, Toronto
Sale continues to Saturday, December 18, 2010
October 14 - November 14, 2010
Lost City Archives: etchings & encaustics, David Kaye Gallery, Toronto
Some works from this show are still available for sale at David Kaye Gallery.
Artist Statement
Tension and vibrations are formed between lines
and objects producing surface energy, where everything is temporal.
Architecture forms a sense of language that is deeply embedded
into our experience of place and collective memory.
Spaces, both real and imagined, create memory maps
that link the experiences of our lives together.
Lost City Archives represents a quiet solitude of a fantastical place.
The work combines intricate linear graphics that form an overall calming
sense of order and balance. It is a culmination of trips not yet taken
in search of roots and connections. It resides in the imagination,
caught in glimpses out of the corner of the eye.
For many years this place has been revealing itself to me in fleeting moments.
I have an unexplained familiarity and passion towards cultures and places
that are not part of my genetic make up. In hopes of gathering more pieces
of the puzzle, Lost City Archives is an exploratory journey of these moments.