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STC | Art Exhibitions at NAC | Tony Calzetta
In-person
Painting Self-guided Visual artsDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Niagara Artists Centre (NAC)
354 St. Paul Street, Niagara Artists Centre (NAC)
St. Catharines, ON
Directions: Pre-registration will be required for activities. For Exhibitions - Gallery Hours are Thursday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
Access
Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.
Offered in English.
About
In-Person Exhibit Viewing
Visual Arts – Gallery
Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul Street
Open Hours: Thursday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
For more information on offerings please visit: https://nac.org/
Note: Content may not be suitable for all ages.
Showroom Gallery
Painting and Other Fantasies
Tony Calzetta
My work is about drawing, I work in line and colour. My images are composed of shapes and forms constantly evolving from a highly personal visual vocabulary which started with subconscious doodling and automatic drawing and later using more conscious visual influences.
A lot of my work can be described as “abstract funnies” or “surreal cartoons” which fit somewhere between high art and popular culture. My interest is with image as image and I believe in letting the viewer interpret and create their own narrative.
John Metcalf has described my work in this manner, “It is the contradictions between romantic and classical, between sophistication and magic, between the spontaneous and the formal, that give Calzetta’s work its unique tension. Tony Calzetta combines impressive formal skills, strong drawing and bright colours with childlike images to create energy-filled paintings that are simultaneously playful and elegant.”
Most recently I have returned to my roots in abstraction with large scale canvases. PAINTING AND OTHER FANTASIES uses the visual elements that have evolved over the years with my intuitive sense of colour.
For More Information please visit: https://nac.org/whats-happening/
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Organizer
Niagara Artists Centre
Niagara Artists Centre is a not-for-profit, charitably registered, member-driven collective formed by and dedicated to serving the working artists and community of Niagara.
Founded in 1969 as a collective of working artists, NAC is one of the oldest artist-run organizations in Canada.
NAC believes that the arts and critical dialogue on the arts are integral to a healthy community.
About the Artist
Tony Calzetta
Over the last 44 years, since receiving his B.F.A. from the University of Windsor and his M.F.A. from York University in Toronto, Tony Calzetta has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He works mainly on canvas and paper and also sometimes in sculpture and printmaking.
He has published three major livres d’artiste; “Acts of Kindness and of Love” in collaboration with writer John Metcalf, and the more recent “How God Talks in His Sleep and Other Fabulous Fictions” and “Peculiar Practices” both with writer Leon Rooke.
Tony Calzetta was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.) in 2004. In addition to commissioned works he is represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In 2011, his paintings were exhibited as part of the Padiglione Italia at the 54th International Venice Biennale.
He now lives in Welland, Ontario with artist Gabrielle de Montmollin who is the other half of their art collaboration known as ART IS HELL.
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Niagara Artists Centre
Niagara Artists Centre St. Catharines, ONNiagara Artists Centre is a not-for-profit, charitably registered, member-driven collective formed by and dedicated to serving the working artists and community of Niagara. Founded in 1969 as a collective of working artists, NAC is one of...