5 - Cube - Lawton celebrates Ottawa

Jennifer Lawton's
"Ottawa"
J. Lawton's

Just in time for municipal Elections:
The nation's capital like you've never seen it.
Oct. 5 - 31
at Cube Gallery

Previews: Oct. 5, 6 & 7
Vernissage and meet the artist, Thurs. Oct. 7, 5-9 pm

Looking at Jennifer Lawton's art is like looking at Ottawa through electric 3-D glasses.
This artist has harnessed an undercurrent, a cacophony of colour and character in a series of photo-paintings depicting Ottawa's unique architecture, activities, neighbourhoods and people.

"Lawton creates with a fearless verve, an arresting vibrancy that makes the viewer do a double take and say, 'yeah, I was there. I saw that, but not like this," says Don Monet. "She scratches the surface and discovers this vein of energy and light in the simplest city-scape."

Lawton takes large scale photographs, using them as her "multi-hued canvas of refracted, reflected and warped light, onto which I apply acrylic paint," she says. "I enhance the colour to create an emotion, a spark or some pizzazz that I tease to the surface of a scene." The canvases are finished with a layer of epoxy resin.

An award-winning artist of great talent, Lawton has recently accepted a position with Lakehead University, as a teacher for the Faculty of Education - teaching art teachers how to teach art. Lawton received the this years Mayor's Choice Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

For images of this show on the web please click on this link.

Cube Gallery

1285 Wellington St. West

Ottawa, Canada

(613) 728 1750

cubegallery.ca

Hours: 10:30 - 6pm Tues-Sat.
Sundays: 11 - 5pm

Open late the First Thursday of every month!