Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Current Exhibition

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Founded in 1957, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre ranks as Canada’s premier university art gallery. The Art Centre is committed to the flow of ideas, research and service to its public. It presents a rigorous program of some 15 exhibitions annually, and a broad spectrum of public symposia, lectures, workshops and artists talks. With its eight exhibition galleries, historic Etherington House, studio for public programs, Gallery Shop and Art Rental and Sales facilities, the Art Centre is a focus for the cultural life of Kingston and the region.

Kingston, Ontario

Canada

Address:
Agnes Etherington Art Centre University Avenue at Bader Lane Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Telephone: 613.
K7L 3N6
Phone: 613.533.2190
Fax: 613.533.6765
Website: http://www.aeac.ca

Artists Represented

Numbering over 14,000 works, the Art Centre's colleciton is remarkable for its breadth and quality, ranging from Canadian historical art and Old Master prints and drawings, to important holdings of West African sculpture and contemporary art. Its Bader Collection of 17th century Dutch painting is considered among the finest of its kind in North America.

Sample Art Work (3)

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Current Exhibitions

On view

Art for Community:
The Art Collection Society of Kingston
Historical Feature Gallery
19 April – 10 August

Propitious Moments
Selections from the Heritage Quilt Collection
Fraser Elliott Gallery
19 April - 10 August

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture
The Davies Foundation, Contemporary Feature, and Frances K. Smith Galleries
to 8 June

Art Makes Art: the Creative Process Revealed in Italian Drawings
Frances K. Smith Gallery
22 June – 23 September

Edward Burtynsky: Material World
Samuel J. Zacks and Contemporary Feature Galleries
28 June to 19 October

Kathleen Sellars: New Robiotics Research
Davies Foundation Gallery
28 June to 19 October

Beyond the Silhouette: Fashion and the Women of Historic Kingston
Historical Feature, R. Fraser Elliott and
Samuel J. Zacks Galleries
To 6 April 2008

BFA Select
Atrium
19 March to 30 March

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture
The Davies Foundation, Contemporary Feature, and Frances K. Smith Galleries
8 March to 8 June

Dramatic Turns. Narratives of Change in European Painting
Bader Gallery
14 January to... [ Read all ]

Forthcoming Exhibitions

Previous Exhibitions

Kingston Views
The Penal Presence

Conversation Pieces
Etherington House

2006/2007

Roll Out

Revelations: European Old Masters in Kingston Collections

Karin Davie: Underworlds

Persistent Forms: British Drawings and Prints 1900-1950

Between the Lines: Selected French Prints and their Stories

Contemporary Landscape Painting: see you tomorrow
Eleanor Bond, Jay Isaac, Douglas Kirton, Nick Ostoff and Brent Roe

Black Suites
Graham Coughtry, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Robert Van Der Peer

Mister Man
Rebecca Belmore, Joe Fafard, General Idea, Victor Tolgesy, Alex Wyse

Antoine Plamondon 1804-1895: Milestones of an Artistic Journey

Crowd Conscious

The Art of Mali

Kingston Picks

Vimy and After: Drawings by Walter Seymour Allward

BFA on View ‘05

Subject to Rule

Isabelle Hayeur: Verge (Agnes Etherington Art Centre)

Isabelle Hayeur: Verge (Prefix Photo ICA venue)

Splash! Watercolours by William Ronald

Looking Back: Some Artists Who Have Worked in Kingston

The Dancer Transformed: Masks of West Africa

Impressions / North

Impressions / South

Wrought Emotion... [ Read all ]

Location And Getting There

Agnes Etherington Art Centre
University Avenue at Bader Lane
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
Telephone: 613.533.2190
Fax: 613.533.6765
www.aeac.ca
aeac@post.queensu.ca

Contact-Directors/Staff

Director: Janet M. Brooke Curators: Jan Allen, Dorothy Farr and David de WittPublic Programs Officer: Pat SullivanPreparator: Nigel BarnettAdministration: Barry Fagan, Matthew Hills

Opening Times

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:00am-4:30pm Thursday: 10:00am-9:00pm Saturday-Sunday: 1:00pm-5:00pm Holiday Mondays (May- Sept): 1:00pm-5:00pm