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Christopher Knights: Drella

Drella, 2024, mixed media on birch panel, 60 x 40 inches

The Peter Dušek Gallery is pleased to feature one of Christopher Knights’ abstract paintings, Drella. Created in 2024, Drella is mixed media on birch panel, sized 60 x 40 inches.

My vision is to create images through the mystery of painting that convey the sculptural beauty of man made objects and the essence, love and magnificence of nature.

Christopher Knights is a Toronto/Creemore-based artist, he studied at Sheridan College of Applied Arts, and has been recognized with awards such as “Best Painting” and “City Archive Purchase Award” at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Knights’ paintings exhibit a profoundly emotive style and provide the viewer with a window into the mind of the artist. The thick, textured application of paint brings life to each canvas, and results in a truly immersive work of art. Knights is interested in merging a conversation between the natural world and man-made technology in a way which embraces and amalgamates both unique differences.

Each painting is its own journey, through use of a personal language in order to allow the experience of intuitive creation.  The artist stream-of-consciousness style is present in each textured brushstroke and symbolic representation of form. Knights’ process is an ebb and flow of spontaneous and precise mark-making, exploring the relationship between intention and chance. He allows each mark to communicate with the next, creating a progression of risk-taking and problem-solving moments. Any preconceived ideas of what the image should or could be are resolved, allowing the work to evolve from one mark to the next. Ultimately creating a work of love!

Gallery Representatives
Christopher-Clark Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Windsor Fine Art , New Orleans, LA, USA
Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
John Mann Gallery, St. Catherines, Canada
Canadian Fine Art, Yorkville, Toronto, Canada
Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA

MICHAEL GIBSON GALLERY RETURNS TO CREEMORE

The Michael Gibson Gallery is returning to Creemore for a Pop-Up Art Exhibition and Appraisal Event March 15 – 17 from noon to 5 p.m. Work from Peter Dušek’s new series Field Work will be part of the group show, as well as serene lake photographs by Guelph photography professor Susan Dobson, reflective figurative paintings by emerging London artist Michael Pszczonak and a selection of Peter Doig’s “Zermatt” etchings.

Michael Gibson Gallery Pop-Up Exhibition At The Peter Dušek Gallery

Last month, I spent a few days exploring the wonderful Art Toronto and met Michael Gibson of the Michael Gibson Gallery in London. We had a great conversation that flowed from art to food, music and life. As I was leaving, I mentioned that I have an art gallery in Creemore. Michael said he had been thinking of a way to hold a pop-up exhibition in Creemore. A perfect match: he has the artwork and I, the gallery.

On December 15-16, we will be hosting a two day Michael Gibson Gallery pop-up exhibition at the Peter Dušek Gallery in Creemore, Ontario. Join us for an exhibition featuring an exciting presentation of Canadian art and ski-themed etchings by Internationally renowned artist Peter Doig.

Artists exhibited include: Victor Cicansky, Greg Curnoe, Susan Day, Peter Doig, Aganetha Dyck, Gathie Falk, Roly Fenwick, Jonathan Forrest, Harold Klunder, Dorothy Knowles, Michael Smith, Michael Snow, and Diana Thorneycroft.

Kevin Walsh Photographs

A selection of photographs by Kevin Walsh will be on display at the Peter Dušek Gallery from September 8 to December 10, 2023.

Yuri Dojc Marble Women Photographs

Peter Dušek Gallery will be featuring a series of photographs by esteemed Slovak-Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc from his Marble Women series. The exhibition will be on display from September 8 to November 30, 2023.

Photographer, artist and witness, Yuri Dojc’s expansive practice encompasses many kinds of looking. His multi-lens trajectory has pivoted from an established commercial photography practice to his current gaze as an artful observer of the vestiges of history’s most vulnerable.

Yuri has been recognized globally for his award-winning photographs.

Heidi Leverty Exhibition

Peter Dušek Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of works by photographer Heidi Leverty, from August 1 to September 4, 2023. The exhibition will primarily focus on artwork from Heidi’s Recycling series: Capturing beauty in the discarded remnants of our lives, simple objects in passage from refuse to trash to recycled material.

N3XT Canada Commentary – Arts & Letters Club [Peter Dušek, Canadian Art]

The following video commentary was recorded about my piece “Cattails in Red” by Andrew Ross, the chair of the N3XT Canada National Art Competition at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto. He is really insightful, in that he speaks to many of the ideas that I intended to explore when creating the photograph. The theme of the exhibition is “Canadian Unity”.

The theme of the exhibition is “Canadian Unity”.

Time to watch: 70 seconds.

N3XT Art Competition

Cattails in Red, Lake of Bays, Ontario, Canada, 2020

I’m very excited that my piece, “Cattails in Red”, in a large 5 foot wide size, has been accepted into the national Canadian art competition, N3XT, at the historic Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. The theme this year is Canadian Unity.

“A field of cattails in red meander along a snow-covered lake. A state of balance is formed between the negative space of the lake and the positive space of the cattails. Each #cattail symbolizes an individual, and when considered as a whole, shows unity and strength that comes from people — Canadians — working together toward the same goal of fulfilled lives of balance and contentment.”

The N3XT exhibit will be held at the Arts & Letters Club from Thursday, November 19 to Friday, December 18, 2020. On Thursday, November 19, N3XT finalists and awards will be publicly announced during a virtual gala and awards presentation originating from the Arts & Letters Club. The N3XT exhibition will be hosted at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto until Friday, December 18, 2020.
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The N3XT exhibition at the Arts & Letters Club will be accessible by limited groups and by appointment only. A virtual gallery of all N3XT finalists will be hosted online.

Peter Dušek – “Reaching” – Accepted into the Government of Ontario Art Collection {Canadian Art}

Reaching, Hockley Valley, Ontario, Canada, 2016

I’m excited that my piece, “Reaching”, will be accepted into the Government of Ontario Art Collection at the Archives of Ontario.

The Government of Ontario Art Collection was the first publicly funded art collection in Canada. Dating from 1853, it currently numbers over 2,700 original works of art. Many of these works can be found in Ontario’s Legislative Buildings in Toronto and in ministries and government offices throughout the city.

“Reaching”, Hockley Valley, Ontario, Canada, 2016. Archival Pigment Print, size 26×26″. Available in limited edition, total 30, sizes 8×8, 26×26, 36×36, and 48×48. Larger sizes are beautifully printed and framed by Toronto Image Works. The smallest sizes is printed, mounted and matted by me.

“Reaching” is part of the corprorate collections of Global Furniture Group, HLS Therapeutics and more. It has been shown at Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto; the Paul Paletti Gallery, Louisville, KY; Westland Gallery, London; First Canadian Place, Toronto; and Todmorden Mills, Toronto with the Ontario Society of Artists and the Society of Canadian Artists.