On November 27, 2008, a two-person show called Snow opens, with gallery artists, Don Russell and Amir Shingray. Each has previously had solo shows at the gallery, Russell's Elements of Memory (Fall 2006) and Shingray's Khartoum (Winter 2007).
Russell came to Guelph from a Newfoundland childhood that included camping in snow drifts as high as himself while Shingray came to Toronto from eastern Sudan where snow was almost beyond imagination. Each has studied the (surprisingly modest) place of snowscapes in Canadian painting. For Snow, each has produced work that will forge new paths in connecting art, winter, and what it means to be Canadian.
Russell's work for the show will be an entirely new series of black and white encaustic painting on paper, while Shingray, also with a markedly new series, works in acrylic and ink on canvas.
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