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Art Camp Amar
234 Ventress Rd.
Brighton, Ontario, Canada
905-355-2478
Art Camp Amar was designed and built by Georgia Amar to maximize the aesthetic pleasure of viewing the spectacular sunsets and sunrises over Lake Ontario.
About Georgia Amar
Among Georgia's notable accomplishments is the development of a special glass laminated technique characteristic of her beautiful glass works seen in many public places in Canada and the USA. Georgia has taught as a certified teacher in Toronto.
Conceptualist art, minimalist art, post-modern art: these forbidding terms characterize works of art which generally fail to engage, involve and interest the viewer. These works are part of a closed circuit between artist and artwork. The work of Georgia Amar is entirely different. Embodying the artist's philosophical insights and aesthetic vision, Georgia Amar's work in a wide range of media always succeeds in involving the spectator. Her thought provokes the viewer's thought; her emotions, typically cool and understated, entice the emotional response of the viewer. Georgia Amar's art transforms the witness into collaborator in a series of novel and arresting insights and restructuring.
Colour in Georgia Amar's work is never static. Any given colour imperceptibly moves through a range of hues and intensities revealing a master hand at colour gradation. Perspectives suddenly shift causing the viewer to reassess awareness of self in space. Popular but not populist, the multi-media work of Georgia Amar transforms a wall or space into a privileged place of contemplation, a place of withdrawal from the surrounding world so that the viewer, focusing on an inner calm, may emerge from the experience of concentration newly energized.
Graphics, canvas, fabric, mural, paint, glass: surfaces for the celebration of Georgia Amar's creativity.
To read more about Georgia and her work visit the Habitat Gallery
About Jack Pappalardo, Executive Director
Jack is a practicing attorney with the Denver law firm of Otten, Johnson. He has shared Georgia's vision and has been helping her achieve her dream of an art camp since the two met in 1988. Jack is originally from Long Island, N.Y., and is a big hockey fan. He now resides in Denver, Colorado, and Ontario, Canada. Jack served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Quiznos Canada in 2002 and 2003, and he is currently the President of the Art District on Santa Fe in Denver, Colorado. Jack and Georgia married in 1991 and continue to be very happy together.