Visit the East Coast without leaving home with ‘Ode to Newfoundland’ on now at PAMA in Brampton

You can get an authentic East Coast experience or explore love’s impact on art with a pair of new exhibits on now in Brampton.

The Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives has kicked off its winter season of programming and added two new exhibits showcasing the personal and romantic relationships between artists, and a tribute to the last province to join Canadian federation.

In Love and In Art

Featuring the work of Jim Reid, Gina Rorai, Peggy Taylor Reid, and David Urban, In Love and Art looks at artists in long-term personal relationships.

The exhibit looks at “whether intimate partners have exerted thematic and stylistic influences” on each other’s work “while maintaining a distinct professional practice.”

PAMA Art Gallery Curator Sharona Adamowicz-Clements says In Love and Art “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,” Adamowicz-Clements said in a release.

Jim and Peggy Reid said they’re excited to be showing their works 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,” they said.

Ode to Newfoundland

This exhibition brings you Newfoundland’s heritage and landscapes without having to leave Peel Region.

Featuring the work of David Blackwood – known for his dark and dramatic intaglio prints – Ode to Newfoundland “captures the intense life of Newfoundland’s fishing communities, from the dangers of the sea to the strength of its people.”

Adamowicz-Clements said it has been “a great honour to develop an exhibition of work by one of Canada’s most cherished artists.”

“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,” she said of the late Canadian artist.

“The works consist of the famed dark and moody intaglio prints of the seafaring communities of Newfoundland’s yesteryear with which Blackwood was closely familiar, including the Lost Party series that recounts the tragic story of seal hunters trapped in ice, as well as watercolour landscape paintings of the artist’s beloved province,” PAMA says of the exhibit.

Both In Love and Art and Ode to Newfoundland are on now until April 6 and March 23.

Along with the new exhibitions, PAMA is also still running Stories From Home – a collection of personal stories, video, images and objects, showcasing connections between the Peel of the past, today and the future.

For a full list of programming available at PAMA this summer you can visit www.pama.peelregion.ca or visit PAMA at 9 Wellington St. East in Brampton.