Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), September 20, 1989, p. 14

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Page THE HERALD Septembers IM New main street gallery combines fine furniture fine art Zone convention on Sunday A smart smiling police officer stood in the entrance hall as if on ntry duty In a room beyond him chamber music was played Love ly flowers and wines and delicacies were arranged on tables The guests that had been invited to the opening of Georgetown latest and possibly most elegant art last week laughed and chatted and had what appeared to be a time The Campbell House Gallery on Main Street combines fine fur with fine art Its first exhibi lion is titled The French Connec tion and is made up of blue chip international art by artists who are either French or are residing in France The gallery is a partner ship Janice Campbell is responsi ble for the furniture and selected items like Crystal Rickevicius a painter and art entrepreneur is responsible for the art s friend the legendary George Rackus who was in his younger years a owner collector and artist of renown in Toronto one of s sources for art from the interna market George Rackus had the work of great artists like Miro Roualt and Vasarely in his gallery and now Rickevicius has these same artists represented in his gallery in Georgetown s parents came to this continent from eastern Europe after the last war He grew up in Canada but studied arr in Mm neapolis under Norman Rockwell In the late 1960s he worked in a Toronto advertising studio for few years During the 70s he was on the move travelling and pain ting in Canada the United States and Europe Eventually settled in Portugal and married He still owns propert in Portugal and spends at least part of each vear there His gallerv is geared to the serious collector and gallery goer and he hopes to find them even here in our region Nothing is or dinary at Campbell House Gallery but neither is the artwork ex hibited in am shocking or far out even- item on the walls of this gallery ha proven itself and everybody even familiar with modern art will have encountered pictures and sculptures like this before in art books and magazines What is new is the fact that can and purchase them here in Georgetow from now on favorites Several beautiful and compassionate lithographs b Roualt the French expressionist a magnificent eye catching color lithograph by a gossamer etching bj The Canadian painter who is like so man a permanent rest dent of Pans is represented with several verj fine pastels From paintings hanging in the staircase particularly a large and complicated Zoltan Selmecz bearing the title Prague In the back of the en trance hall hangs a sunbaked monopnnt b Cecil Troy a friend from long ago Twentv years in the past he was an artist with the greatest expectations but he died voting and is today remembered his artist friends In an intimate basement gallery the most impressive works are a senes of lithographs by a voung artist from Lithuania Her imager needs decoding but once have done that her lithos will reward vou She uses images of oppression and destruction spikes fences dying the all seeing eye of power to make you aware of the abuses against nature and tv that have become such a com mon feature of all systems east and west So common that we have difficulties perceiving as abuses It s a sobenng thought for instance that Chernobyl could happen any day in Pickering Legion Lines J T Hayes Branch PRO The Zone B7 fall convention will take place at Branch 136 Milton on Sundav Sept The general meeting will be held at 30 p FRIDAY NIGHT EUCHRE High lady Landry second Jean Harley most lone hands Lily Mavbanks High gent Tutty second Edward Stanford most lone hands Bert Porter Membership chairman Ray Clarke advises me that the early bird membership dnve is now in full force and will be ending Nov Have you noticed the colorful garden at the Market end of the branch I land that Nancy Yates and Shell Lawr are responsible nice touch SATURDAY AFTERNOON MEAT DRAW The spare ribs looked great this week as did the other assorted The follow ing look them home Dona Chamberlain Cliffe Glaude Colin Gibson Rita Bruce Col lins Jean Narey Denis Clarke Frank Kirk Mike Sargent The roast was won by Simon The Plymouth Group will be holding an night on Friday Oct Tickets will be available soon at per person The presidents supper will be held on Sept 28 followed by the general meeting This is the occasion members have to sample the fine food prepared by our Ladies Aux iliary and receive an update on the affairs of the branch Don t miss it ENTERTAINMENT In the lounge Saturday Sept Moonlighting Sept 30 Hazel and Ken Johrnince Bulk Food FOR ALL YOUR BAKING NEEDS Quit smoking now HOME OF FRESH FRUITS VEGETABLES AND PROUD OF IT The Lung s Countdown program attempts to educate participants a to the etiological and aspects of smoking modification and cigarette monitoring are just two of the techniques used to help people quit once and for all Sue cess rates for this program rate as high as 88 per cent GEORGETOWNS GENERAL STORE To 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