LaLande + Doyle exhibition space

The LaLande + Doyle exhibition space in the lower lobby area at Shenkman Arts Centre features touring (mostly national, but some international) exhibitions of an artistic nature, embassies promoting artists with origins in their countries, festivals, special events and other short-term exhibitions.
four images that each depict something different: the first is a night sky landscape, the second is pattern of coloured squares, the third shows a couple standing against a dark sky and the last shows abstracted florals

Don Monet, Kelly Rendek, Luminita Serbanescu and Sarah Wayne - Limen

April 14 to June 28, 2026

An exhibition of artwork presented by four artists from the City of Ottawa Artist Studio Program. This group of artists, within their separate practices, are all working at a place where edges meet. “Liminal” refers to the border between one thing and another. In carpentry the limen refers to the threshold of the door. In art it can refer to anywhere an edge is found – Between states of colour, of media, of plasticity or even intentionality.

Biographies

Don Monet focuses on a post-modern landscape. His work explores the liminal space between photography and acrylic paint; he creates sequences of fractured photos which are then unified through traditional landscape techniques.

Kelly Rendek focuses on the liminal space between memory and place, incorporating abstraction and colour theory. Over the last several years, the shape of the quadrilateral has emerged as a constant theme in her work, and as a basis for abstracting elements of landscape.

Luminita Serbanescu creates paintings that seem to occupy the liminal space found between waking and a dream. A dream of universe, a dream of flying. She describes her style as “luminism” In Romanian, her name Luminita means “little light”.

Sarah Wayne paints in the liminal space between abstraction and realism. Her focus for this show is dream-like abstracted botanicals and landscapes in mixed media.

Artwork details (clockwise from left): Luminita Serbanescu, Dance me to the end of time, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 61cm; Sarah Wayne, Botanica I, 2026, mixed media, 20 x 27.5 cm; Kelly Rendek, Topophilia #1, 2024, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 41 x 51 cm; Don Monet, Moonrise: Barrett Chute, 2025, acrylic on birch panel, 61 x 61 cm; courtesy of the artists.

example of artwork on display

IN‑BETWEEN

January 26 to March 6, 2026
Public Reception: February 5, 2026, 6:30 to 8:30 pm

IN-BETWEEN is a story of spaces that linger, places that exist not on maps, but in the quiet territory between one life and another. The paintings grow from that space. Ottawa’s familiar silhouettes rise from the hillsides like fragile memories, softly dissolving into the winter air. Here, nothing is fixed, the earth shifts in ink, the homes blur into suggestions, and the sky holds the silence of unspoken belonging. Living between two countries means carrying two versions of yourself, one rooted in memory, one learning to bloom again. The landscapes reflect that duality if hills shaped by shadows and light, a place where past and present overlap like transparent washes of paint. IN-BETWEEN is not just a location. It is a way of seeing, a way of being held gently by two worlds at once.

About the artist: Iya Carson is a Russian-born Canadian artist and founder of Ottawa Valley Art Studio, offering in-person and virtual art courses for all skill levels. With formal training in Fine Art and Architecture from the Ural State Academy (Russia), she brings a multidisciplinary approach to her practice.

Image: Iya Carson, Sparks Street, Between The Footsteps, 2025, watercolour, 40 cm x 40 cm, courtesy of the artist.

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