Intimate Worlds: Enriched Bread Artists 18th Annual Open Studio

Enriched Bread Artists 18th Annual Open Studio Enriched Bread Artists (EBA) is collective of diverse Ottawa artists. EBA takes its name from the fact that the cooperatively run studios are located in a former bread factory. EBA studios originally formed in 1992 by graduates of the University Of Ottawa. The member artists have changed over time in an ongoing artistic ferment. EBA is an art studio and an artistic laboratory. Today EBA is the largest artist run studio co-op in the Ottawa region and one of only a handful of such organizations in Canada. For the Ottawa community, EBA artists present an annual open studio each October. Opening Night Vernissage and Party: Thursday October 21st, 2010 from 6-9 PM 951 Gladstone Ave. Ottawa Ontario K1Y 3E5 Admission to all EBA events is free The exhibition continues: (First Weekend) Friday October 22nd 6-9 PM Saturday October 23rd 11-5 PM Sunday October 24th 11-5 PM (Second Weekend) Friday October 29th 6-9 PM Saturday October 30th 11-5 PM Sunday October 31st 11-5 PM Artists participating in the 18th Annual Open Studio Are: Sarah Anderson, Suzanne Bell, Colette Gréco-Riddle, Jean Halstead, Danny Hussey, Marika Jemma, Rachel Kalpana-James, Gayle Kells, Natasha Mazurka, Juliana McDonald, Andrew Morrow, Christos Pantieras, Mana Rouholamini, Daniel Sharp, Frank Shebageget, Svetlana Swinimer, Amy Thompson, Tavi Weisz, Joyce Westrop. For more information visit www.enrichedbreadartists.com Exhibition Statement Intimate Worlds I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. I come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, "My God, did I do that?".  Philip Guston Artists tend to work and excel in environments of organized clutter bordering on chaos. We are professional makers, and amateur hoarders, while cleaning obtains only hobby status. The worlds we call our studios resemble worn handbags or wallets. We can reach inside without looking and pull out exactly what we need. This suits us fine, however, once in a while we have to turn that bag upside down and expose the contents to see what has accumulated. We toss out the three month old receipt for groceries, for obvious reasons. Conversely, without explanation, we keep the brightly colored button that has fallen from some unidentified garment. For the past 18 years when October arrives, the artists that work at the Enriched Bread Artists studios turn their intimate worlds upside down to see what may have accumulated. Keenly aware that company will soon be coming, this ritual prepares the spaces for public consumption. What our visitors see, just past the gleaming gallery spaces, when they enter the working confines of the building is a choreographed moment of pause, a moment of renewal. Artists pausing just long enough to greet and entertain their guests then steadily returning to their intimate worlds.

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