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Gallery hosts ‘international’ exhibit
Friday August 15 2008
 
It’s a family affair at Georgetown artist Barbara Ariss-Stroh-Wasser’s latest exhibition, Crossing Borders, Imagination Unlimited, in the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Gallery this month.
Ariss’s son Derek Obadiah Ariss, visiting from his homebase in Australia, will be a guest artist. Derek, now a businessman, is a part-time artist, with his paintings in Australian galleries, commissioned by architects in condo buildings, used in backgrounds on Aussie TV shows and featured in an international magazine. When his mother’s original guest artist was forced to back out of the August exhibit, Derek stepped in and will bring several canvasses from Australia to show.
Ariss will also include in the exhibit works of art from her younger son, Obadiah Ramsey Ariss, now working with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and a few done by her late husband.
The title for the show, Crossing Borders, Imagination Unlimited, was chosen because, says Ariss, “Life offers us daily challenges to which we respond. This action and reaction is life. If we want to move forward, we look within ourselves and search for new answers, that sometimes require crossing borders when we reach out for new solutions. The only limit to our imagination and actions has to be our social conscience to avoid destruction, and if destruction has happened outside of our power, we have to create hope and happiness.”
Ariss says as a result she creates not only conventional pieces, but also unconventional pieces that are meant to evoke questions and discussions in people of all ages and walks of life.
Ariss-Stroh-Wasser will donate to charity a portion of her proceeds from this exhibit, which continues until Sept. 1.
During the previous season Ariss’s work was exhibited in group shows in Brampton, in juried art shows in Toronto and Halton Hills and last month, in a solo art show at CJ’s in Oakville. Presently her work can be seen at Beaux Arts in Brampton Galleries Inc. in Milton, at The Williams Mill in Glen Williams, in the upper level at the Main Street Inn in Georgetown, and at the AWOL Gallery in Toronto. She also exhibits in Erin, Elora, Collingwood, Minden, three locations in Brampton, and seven locations in Oakville, not to mention her work is also displayed in several galleries and exhibited in model homes/condominiums in Cairns, Australia.