Atrium Gallery
Owned and operated by the City of Ottawa, the Atrium Gallery features the works of local and regional artists. Artists are juried through peer assessment.
Ben Franklin Place
101 Centrepointe Drive
613-596-5783
Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m.
Atrium Gallery is also open during scheduled performances at Centrepointe Theatre. Closed on Sundays in July and August. Closed on statutory holidays.
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Exhibition |
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Artwork |
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Norman Pirollo: |
Go Figure explores wood as a vibrant, colourful form of art. A series composed of unusual, atypical woods with intense figure and chatoyance. The artist portrays a unique image or vision in each art piece. |
March 22 – April 22, 2013
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| Young At Art – Central Ottawa |
Young at Art is an exceptional opportunity for Ottawa visual artists between the ages of 12 and 19 years to reach out to their communities – and beyond – through the experience of a citywide, juried art exhibition. |
April 27 to May 21, 2013 |
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| Nepean Fine Arts League: Members’ Night and Exhibition |
Nepean Fine Arts league (NFAL) is one of Ottawa’s oldest arts groups and a founding member of the Atrium Gallery. Members’ Night and Exhibition is an annual event celebrating the accomplishments of NFAL members in a juried show of over 100 paintings, photographs and sculpture. |
May 24 to June 26, 2013 |
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Nepean Museum: Fairfields: A moment, a season, a day |
Each year, the Nepean Museum has the opportunity to put on a temporary exhibition in the Atrium Gallery. The 2013 exhibit, entitled Fairfields: a moment, a season, a day, will seek to highlight the talent of local artists and photographers using Fairfields Heritage Property as the subject. |
July 5 to July 24, 2013 |  |
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SAQA : Synthesis II |
Synthesis II, a unified and yet dynamically diverse show, is a travelling exhibit that combines the work of 16 Canadian members of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). SAQA is an international organization of artists, curators, gallery owners and collectors with over 2000 members. |
July 26 to August 21, 2013 |
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Sandra Hawkins: Arctic Return 1981-2013: Ecology of Memory |
Photo-based images and paintings resulting from visual research in the Kitikmeot, Nunavut and Ulukhaktot, Northwest Territories explore her interest in these communities. Hawkins is aesthetically concerned with the dynamics of memory and human-environmental interface. |
August 23 to September 25, 2013 |
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Denis Larouche: A.O.C.A. The Quantic Landscape |
What is "matter"? Physicists describe it using statistics and mathematics. Combining landscape and physics, two languages merge, like a text on a Chinese painting. The painting shows an environment, while physics describe the subtleties of the matter composing it. |
September 27 to October 23, 2013 |
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Michael Goodson: Consistencies |
Goodson is concerned with the paradox of human presence. The languages of representation and the affective experiences of material are explored in the context of historical portraiture's attempt to make permanent an individual identity. |
October 25 to November 27, 2013 |
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Audrey Greyeyes: Fibre Fantasia |
Fibre Fantasia by Audrey Greyeyes is a fantasy of sculptural and textured art using paper-making materials and techniques. It is a unique new look to figurative and portrait art that is fluid, deeply expressive and strong but appearing fragile. |
November 29, 2013 to January 8, 2014 |
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Ralph Nevins: Slit Scan |
These photographs are series of abstract portraits and bodyscapes. The images are created from a home built/programmed camera. This series was created with assistance from the City of Ottawa’s Arts Funding Program: Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists and the Artist Studio Program - Short Term Studio. |
January 10 to February 12, 2014
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Gabe Thirlwall: The Political Circus |
The Political Circus is a collection of finger puppets of Canadian Politicians. The collection includes over 50 different politicians, both contemporary and historic, from all three levels of government. The project also includes Rookie MP trading cards, textile portraits and political cartoons. |
February 14 to March 19, 2014 |
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