Artist Bio: Jack MacAulay

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“So what am I doing with the classic view cameras?…Well, I like to reduce the subject materials to their simplest form. Also, I like to expand how we see abstraction in photographs.”

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“More to the point, I take pictures with 4″x5″ and 8″x10″ view cameras, lots and lots of pictures. By the current paradigm, I make quite small b/w prints from 4″x5″ and 8″x10″; contact prints up to 11″x14″ enlargements. I believe that small prints have a lot of aesthetic presence, rather than the histrionic presence of large prints.”

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“I’ve lived in Kitchener since 1965, and shortly fell in love with the lush southern Ontario landscape. My photographs are taken in all seasons, but I have a special interest in winter photography. My teachers and mentors Howard Bond, Stuart Nudelman, and Norman Rothschild have given me a lot of coaching, for which I am very grateful. Although photography is a medium based on technology, the important part of my background are the people.The arts community in Waterloo Region is a growing and vital one. My fellow photographers are not my competition; I see us as all being in this together. “

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Website: http://jackmacaulay.ca/

3rd Annual Cherry Festival

A community announcement from Debbie Chapman about the 3rd annual Cherry Festival (click here for the Google map):

The Cherry Festival will be held in Cherry Park on July 10th. Last year was a great success and we anticipate an even larger crowd this year (approx. 3,000). At the festival we have such things as live music, miniature horses, a bouncy thingy, lots of vendors, food and lots of cherries and cherry baked goods. We are looking for local artists to set up booths to paint, draw, sew or sculpture and/or sell their work.
I would appreciate it if you could please send this ‘call for artists’ to the members of your group. I would be happy to answer any questions you might have.
It is a lot of fun and a great way to get to know new people in the area.

Send us an email at info@centralartwalk.com if you want to take part, or get more information about this year’s Cherry Festival.

Portrait of the Artist: D. H. McKee

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D. H. McKee is a multi-skilled artist who works with painting, mixed media, journaling, digital photography, music, and video. He has a range of experience in various media, but painting is his first and foremost output; painting is a way of expressing ideas and emotions which cannot be formed through words or sound.
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His education has helped him integrate film and video aesthetics into his artwork: video stylistic themes work their way into the paintings, and one can discern letterboxing, test patterns, scrambled pay-television signals and over-saturated colours in the works. It is in this manner that he explores different mediums and surface techniques.
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Paintings are created quickly, passionately. They are assembled adjacent to thought and emotion, and are influenced by music, noise, television, and computers. The highly decorative images are richly textured and overflowing with colour. They are a combination of cubist and surrealist influences on non-representational abstract forms — essentially the interpretation of different external stimuli. The image dictates its final form, resulting in a surprising, unpredictable finished product.
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He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. You can visit his Website here, and purchase online prints and framed photographic prints here. His Behance network page is here.