<![CDATA[JEANETTE BENETT LUCHESE

<![CDATA[JEANETTE BENETT LUCHESE - NEWS]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:28:04 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Two steps forward...]]>Mon, 29 May 2023 18:54:07 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/two-steps-forward

Now up at Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library and Cultural Centre. The vibrant, “Two steps forward one step back“ is on view, upstairs in the wonderfully quiet space of the Boardroom Gallery.
425 Holland St W, Bradford, ON L3Z 0J2

]]><![CDATA[... and it begins]]>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:26:40 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/-and-it-beginsAlternate Spaces:
You can catch some of my work at the Barrie City Hall ... A Way Forward! Resurfacing?
To walk on the other side of crisis small acts of resilience can lift you up through the density of hurt and despair with this exhibition I take a step forward to find my footing. Presenting work from 2013 to present ... celebrating the 'way we were' and embracing the now.

If you are out and about, drop by this unique space, work will be up until August 31, 2022.

I am excited to present a body of work that spans from 2013 to current. The past few years have been very trying and this exhibition I consider part of a healing journey forward, with a very important current piece pulling me from a state of grief — helping me to embrace the now.
July 8, 2022 to August 31, 2022 Install: Barrie City Hall, Front Floor Gallery, Barrie, Ontario.

]]><![CDATA[Exciting News - New Gallery in Innisfil, yup in a pandemic — who knew?]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:44:31 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/exciting-news-new-gallery-in-innisfil-yup-in-a-pandemic-who-knewWe have been behind the closed doors planning the upcoming exhibitions and working on how this new normal for the arts will look at be contemporary gallery, in Innisfil. So stay tuned for an updated website at www.becontemporarygallery.com ... viewing rooms, and virtual galleries if need be and and excited to present the represented artists joining the gallery.

Thank you for all the support, see you all soon. One way or another.

Enjoy the pictures from the March 1, 2020 Launch by Photographer, Andre Benneteau.

]]><![CDATA[Surviving Death, Resurrecting Memories]]>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:55:09 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/surviving-death-resurrecting-memories

“Surviving Death, Resurrecting Memories” I seem to have a need to create a body of work that is more a memorial to my late mother Ridente (Rita) Luchese, an amazing seamstress she taught me not only skills of sewing also the idea of play as making - we were often enlisted to help make little doll dresses as she worked for Regal Toys. She never cared much for knitting but did pass on embroidery, crocheting and much more. This body of print-based work brings together my debossed intaglio/monoprints {recessed relief], embellished using the skills she passed on and her own sewing supplies. Creating this body of work happily resurrected memories long thought lost and forgotten and surprisingly realized forever with me with every stitch.

Reception: Saturday, October 5, 2019
Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
Artist talk: 3 pm
@PRNT Collective 25 Hart Drive, Barrie, ON

The PRNT Collective is a private printmaking studio, the available viewing dates: Oct 5 - 12, 1 - 4 pm.
or by appointment October 5 - 31, 2019
Email for information: studio@jeanetteluchese.com

]]><![CDATA[Misfits, Monsters and the Macabre]]>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:00:18 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/misfits-monsters-and-the-macabreThe fun of exhibiting is hanging with friends in new exciting alternatives.
Hope you can join us Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 — Art lunch and Open jam.

]]><![CDATA[PRNT @ The Gibson]]>Wed, 08 May 2019 19:21:28 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/prnt-the-gibsonThe PRNT Collective
An exhibition of Big Prints,
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 28th, 2019
63 Tupper Street, W, Alliston, Ontario L9R 1E4

Excited to share these big prints in the fantastic exhibition space of The Gibson Centre. Hope you can get out to see these really big prints created using a steamroller or lawn roller as the printing press. Wonderful to be with these amazing printmakers: Timothy Laurin, Tamara Benoit, Derek Berry, Clinton Todd, Joanne Lomas, Susan Barker, Kim Brett Christina MacBean and Jeanette Luchese.

Exhibition runs from April 24th to June 9th, 2019

www.gibsoncentre.com

]]><![CDATA[Sculptures Popping Up in Innisfil]]>Wed, 08 May 2019 19:02:00 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/sculpture-popping-up-in-innisfilHere is a great article by Miriam King highlighting #ISDAY in Innisfil.

Barrie Today - April 2019 Article Here's why sculptures are popping up around Innisfil (9 photos)Local artists place their works in unexpected places, for International Sculpture Day this weekend Apr 26, 2019 11:00 AM
by: Miriam King

https://www.barrietoday.com/local-news/heres-why-sculptures-are-popping-up-around-innisfil-9-photos-1390685]]><![CDATA[Exciting Times - #ISDAY INNISFIL]]>Wed, 08 May 2019 18:42:27 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/exciting-times-isday-innisfil#ISDay Innisfil — International Sculpture Day
A global event, a worldwide annual celebration of sculpture
established by the International Sculpture Center.

So much fun to create initiatives that impact a community in positively wonderful ways.

Public art in some unlikely places celebrating #ISDAY International Sculpture Day - recognizing the power of sculpture in public spaces — alongside forming Innisfil Sculpture Group bringing artists together joining in a global event celebrating dimension in space. Initiated by Jeanette Luchese, co-curated /coordinated by Susan Baues of Innisfil ideaLAB partnering with Innisfil Sculpture Group brought this first town-wide exhibition of sculptural works installed in Innisfil’s three libraries, Innpower, and Innisfil Town Hall Council Chambers from April 23 to May 4, 2019.
Featuring local sculptors of the newly formed Innisfil Sculpture Group: Jeanette Luchese, Tim Laurin, Christina Luck, Gail Esau, Denis Bolohan and Mary Cellucci.
For more information visit: www.innisfilsculpturegroup.com
www.innisfilidealab.ca • www.sculpture.org/isday/

]]><![CDATA[Connections]]>Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:38:19 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/connections

The big push - up, up and away 2017

I have always loved participating in this exhibition, initially as a member of Zephyr Art Gallery many moons ago and as a supporter of the Orillia art scene then and now celebrating and our continued connection.

]]><![CDATA[Started the year with a Print Exchange]]>Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:12:07 GMThttps://www.jeanetteluchesestudio.com/news/started-the-year-with-a-print-exchange
Print Exchange
For Residents of Redwood Park Communities
On the theme of Welcome Home.
Organized by Christina McBean and Katie Green.

I took this opportunity to create something that commemorated my Mother who died recently. A seamstress she made the most beautiful doilies, and I decided that if anything said home to me, it was those. So I created prints using the doilies as the matrix and embellished them with embroidery. The results were so satisfying I realized I am using my art making as a mode of mourning.

Exhibition information TBA.

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