The Elora Centre for the Arts received national recognition recently.
The centre’s current Minarovich Gallery exhibition by Maggie Groat and Barbara Hobot was given a major piece on art website akimbo, and listed as a “must-see” in Canadian Art’s online edition.
The exhibition was the lead-off gallery opening listing in the Must-Sees this week section for July 17 to 23, ahead of exhibits in Vancouver and Toronto – and also had the top photo featured on the listings page.
The exhibition, Untitled (the possibilities of voids and the sentience of things), opened July 19 at the arts centre, along with a group show by the Harris Artists Collective, and an opening of an installation by artist in residence Sophia Solaris.
Artist and writer Kim Neudorf wrote a lengthy review of the Groat and Hobot exhibition for akimbo.ca, known as “Canada’s online source for visual arts information.”
“Groat’s collages, prints, photographs, and collections of objects propose thinking through the associated histories of their found, salvaged, and handmade qualities as a configuration of findings-as-tools for future use,” she writes on the Akimblog.
“The objects/tools/rituals of origin are similarly left hanging in Hobot’s work, but are often grounded in works on paper in which ‘found; qualities are more essence than fragment.”
The Untitled exhibit runs until Sept. 7 at the Elora Centre for the Arts.
