January 10-March 8, 2009  

 Apple and Bowl: Welcome to Paradise is a sequential body of new paintings with a related theme. The central idea is about waking on a sunny Saturday morning to a world in which everything that ever bothered you was all just part of a bad dream.  And now you are about to go for a walk in a beautiful garden on a day that will never end....

 image: Welcome to Paradise I, 2008, oil on linen, 152 x 183 cm

 January 31-March 29, 2009  

  A series of twelve paintings with identical text. Each one is painted in the signature style of internationally renowned artists Ross Bleckner, Damien Hirst, Elsworth Kelly, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Bridget Riley, Tim Rollins and KOS, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Sean Scully and Rosemarie Trockel. Curated by Ihor Holubizky.

 image: Mr. Marden's Korean Girlfriend Goes Shopping 

Brazilian artist Paulo Whitaker brings his work to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery
                                                            

Curated by Jon Tupper
January 17-May 10, 2009  

 It Was All For The Money is a vinyl cover art show focusing on artwork created by musicians.  The exhibition features a selection of cross-genre works from the past decade, displaying styles of music ranging from simple folk to spastic post-punk.

opens January 31 
Curated by Tristan Gray and Jeff McGuigan