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Discover Love and Landscapes in PAMA’s new art gallery exhibitions

BRAMPTON, ON (Nov, 2024) – This season, the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) brings you treasures from the vault of its art collection. In Love and In ArtJim Reid, Gina Rorai, Peggy Taylor Reid and David UrbanDavid Blackwood: Ode to Newfoundland showcases a recent acquisition of work by one of Canada’s greatest artists.

In Love and In Art: Jim Reid, Gina Rorai, Peggy Taylor Reid, and David Urban 

Nov. 23, 2024 – April 6, 2025 

In Love and In Art is concerned with the creative developments of artists in long-term personal relationships and questions whether intimate partners have exerted thematic and stylistic influences on one another while maintaining a distinct professional practice.

Quotes from the Curator, Partners, and Contributors: 

“This exhibition questions the degree of creative and professional involvement between artist-couples. If you ever wondered about how the personal relationship may factor in the practice of artists who are also lifelong partners, In Love and In Art may be a place to start.”

– Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Art Gallery Curator, PAMA  

“I was looking for an exciting way to present work from our permanent collection, and placing the art of artists-couples side by side allowed me to consider their unique practices from a different vantage point and only in the context of an implied artistic connection between the couple.” – Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Art Gallery Curator, PAMA  

“We are excited to be showing at PAMA together for the first time. When you are so close to another artist you share a lot of ideas, while also respecting the other’s space.” – artists Jim and Peggy Reid 

“We’ve enjoyed a relationship with Peel Art Gallery for almost 40 years, and our work in the PAMA Collection dates to the 1990’s.” – artists Jim and Peggy Reid 

“My work embraces the everyday. Objects and places that interact with our daily lives. Re-imagined within my paintings they become mysterious and compelling. Referencing the tradition of landscape and still life paintings, my images engage in a timeless conversation with art and experience.” – artist Gina Rorai    

“My paintings use form and colour to create a personal poetry. I can reference the physical world and the abstract with equal curiosity and use improvisation to create new combinations that are unbidden and exciting.” – artist David Urban 

David Blackwood: Ode to Newfoundland

Nov. 23, 2024 – March 23, 2025

This dynamic exhibition brings Newfoundland’s heritage and stunning landscapes to Peel Region. Known for his dark and dramatic intaglio prints, Blackwood captures the intense life of Newfoundland’s fishing communities, from the dangers of the sea to the strength of its people.

David Blackwood is closely connected to Peel Region as he was the first Artist-in-Residence

at Erindale College, University of Toronto in Mississauga in 1969, a position he held until 1975. In 1992, the Erindale College Art Gallery was renamed the Blackwood Gallery in his honour. Blackwood marked another milestone in Brampton when, in 1971, he married his bride Anita in PAMA’s historic Courthouse. Alas, no pictures were taken to mark the civil ceremony.

Quotes from the Curator, Partners, and Contributors: 

“It has been a great honour to develop an exhibition of work by one of Canada’s most cherished artists, the late David Blackwood. A great printmaker, who has left an indelible mark on the larger Canadian art scene, his work is widely collected, and now PAMA too is home to some of Blackwood’s famous haunting prints of Newfoundland as well as his livelier watercolour paintings of the East Coast.” – Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Art Gallery Curator, PAMA

“David Blackwood is one of the most important visual artists in Canadian history. His works are in every major gallery in Canada and abroad except our own Peel Art Gallery (PAMA), a deficiency happily now corrected. I met David in the mid 1960s in his art filled garret as a final year OCA student and I as a final year ophthalmology resident, and stayed in intermittent contact in the decades since, acquiring many works along the way, which were hung in my medical practice office in Brampton to the interest and joy of everyone.  Having retired, it is a pleasure for Carol and me to donate these Blackwoods, to have greater exposure for these marvelous and important prints and watercolours.” – Donor, Dr. David Dickson

“David’s importance is as an imaginative, thoughtful artist who in his Lost Party series depicts the relatively recent history of outport Newfoundland: the toughness, the loneliness, the self-sufficiency and joy of the people, and the harshness and beauty of the land. He has captured this in a unique and brilliant manner that informs and captures our attention; the depth of his feeling for Newfoundland and its people is present in every work.”

– Donor, Dr. David Dickson

About PAMA 

PAMA is a place to explore and learn about Peel region’s diverse culture and heritage highlighting important local, Canadian, and global narratives. Art, artifact, and archival collections, exhibitions, and programs help visitors make new and fascinating connections to the surrounding community. Join us throughout the year for tours, events, workshops, and public programs for all ages. Operated by Peel Region, PAMA is located at 9 Wellington Street East in Brampton. Visit pama.peelregion.ca to learn more.  

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