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Michael Goodson −TOPOS OPS OPUS
August 7 to October 28, 2025
Vernissage: Friday, August 8, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
TOPOS OPS OPUS is an exhibition that explores the face as terrain, inspired by the Greek notions of topos (place), ops (face) and opus (work). Our faces are landscapes experiencing monumental shifts and erosions, the swirls and eddies of forces from within and without. How we appear is always shifting. Are we more recognizably ourselves in childhood photos or in those of old age?
Michael Goodson is a visual artist based in Ottawa. In 2011, he received his Master of Fine Arts with distinction from City & Guilds of London Art School in the United Kingdom. His work was juried into the 2023 Kingston Prize, a biennial national portrait exhibition, where it won the People’s Choice Award. He has received two Canada Council grants over the past three years.
Image: Michael Goodson, Headland2, 2025, graphite on masonite board, 183 x 122 cm, courtesy of the artist
Ottawa-Gatineau Printmakers Connective - Migration Stories
May 22 to August 5, 2025
Vernissage: Thursday, May 22, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Six artists present their “stories” of migration, reflecting the vast instinctual or altered journeys of animals and plants, and forced human expulsion or immigration to places of hope and opportunity. The intertwining of these diverse migration stories reveals the growing complexity and urgency of species in motion.
The Migration artists are members of the Ottawa-Gatineau Printmakers Connective. Drawn together by the theme in 2023, they have been exploring the political, economic, and ecological aspects of migration through the creation of two and three dimensional print-based art in a variety of printmaking techniques and materials.
Image: Patricia Slighte, Bijou, 2023, monotype, 50 x 38 cm, courtesy of the artist
