GigSpace ART Gallery – We are so pleased to offer our space to local artists on a 4 week rotation to showcase their art! If you are interested in being a featured artist please contact us info@gigspaceottawa.com
Gallery Hours:
Monday thru Thursday 3 pm to 9 pm and open during all GigSpace Concerts and Events.
May 2012 Featured Artist – Lydia Tambay
Residence and studio in Ottawa. Artist, painter and sculptor (multi media). Art restoration: stone, bone, wood, ceramic, ivory, painting, etc. Fine Art studies by correspondence school (Paris, France); University of Manitoba (Winnipeg); Art Symposium (Winnipeg); Ottawa School of Art (Ottawa); Commercial Art, Bauder College (Fort Lauderdale, Florida). Member of many art groups and associations: Ottawa Art Association (OAA), National Capital Network of Sculptors, Ottawa Mixed Media Artists (OMMA), Art Lending of Ottawa, Kanata Civic Art Gallery, Various sessions and stages with Inuit sculptor Natar Ungalaq; neon sculpture (Florida); Also various art activities including Ottawa sceneries, prints, commissioned works, art restorations, scrimshaw art. www.lydiatambay.ca
April 2012 Featured Artist – Val Roy
SOUL FOOD - Music Embraces the soul; Resonates deep in the heart; Revives the spirit. I paint to capture the energy of things that inspire me, my passions, and vitality for life, and to share this with others. Energetic paint handling helps to convey my enthusiasm for the subject and keeps my work fresh and dynamic. My desire is to capture the mood, and the feeling of the music, rather than a literal rendering of the scene. For this reason, I prefer a gestural, semi-abstract approach. I also seek a certain degree of ambiguity in my work, allowing the viewer to interact with the painting and bring their own experiences and feelings to the painting. www.valigrl.com
March 2012 Featured Artist – Brett Delmage
Asphalt Scene
Asphalt: It’s everywhere. Have you seen it?
Starting on your own driveway you can travel for thousands of kilometres to the furthest places in the continent on an almost continuous surface of asphalt. Yet we rarely give much attention to this ubiquitous material (pothole season excepted!) In his premiere exhibit about this subject, Ottawa jazz photojournalist Brett Delmage redirects his and our attention to rock (and bitumen). His photographic prints explore asphalt’s visual
qualities and its relationship with humans and nature.
January/February 2012 Featured Artist – Rose David
UNDERCOVER HUMANS – An exhibition o f contemporary portraiture by Rose David.
Since the time of earliest mankind, we have sought to change our outward appearance in order to emulate our gods, strike fear into the hearts of our enemies, attract mates and enhance our personal expression. We have costumed, masked, tattooed and painted our faces and bodies to achieve our under cover personas. Executed in a vibrant acrylic palette, this collection explores our common fascination with disguise and the human art of self adornment. http://rosecoloured.weebly.com/
November 2011 Featured Artists – Jane Keeler and Jake Morrison
Double Vision Double Photographic Print Show
“Patterns” by Jake Morrison
Patterns are all around us. Our lives have patterns. Nature makes the best patterns. Thousands of dimensions affect everything that grows, creating an almost endless variety – but a patterned variety.
The squares shown here mostly come from the ornamental gardens at the Central Experimental Farm. The mysterious swamp is from Mere Bleue.
“Colour Dreams” by Jane Keeler
Before I had glasses at age 8, all the world was soft and blurry. I loved the fine detail that lenses provided, but never lost my loyalty to the encompassing mystery of large fields of colour, especially the vivid colours of flowers, which seem to almost musically and sensually touch our imagination.
October 2011 Featured Artist – Stephanie Bak
“Flowers of the Bogs”: This is the series that I am currently working on, since the fall of 2010. It 
is based on these tiny little flow ers that you can only find in a bog called Mer bleue which is found just East of Ottawa. I find them com plet ely captivating! Their petals are unlike any other I’ve seen before in that they are sinewy. The colour of these flowers range from a pale citrus green all the way to a d eep plummy maroon. Due to the lack of nutrients in the acidic soil, these flowers have been growing ever so slowly over the past millennia! They grow in clumps to form the moss bed of this carefully preserved piece of land. I hope you enjoy my interpretation of these tiny beauties!
