Opening Reception for Community Portraits 2023-2024: Wyn Geleynse

This is the third installation at TAP of this series: "Almost Cory" and "Almost Madeline" will be on display in LAB 203 from March 4 - March 29, 2025. Join us for the opening reception on March 13, 5:00-7:00PM.

About the Exhibition:

Originally conceived as a simple exercise in painting the portrait of a close friend and fellow artist, Geleynse saw a bigger project as more friends and acquaintances from his walk in life — from the person who prepares and serves his coffee, colleagues from the arts community, a shop keeper at his local stereo shop, co-workers at the Mission Store where Geleynse volunteers twice a week, the woman who cleans the building that houses his studio — various members of Geleynse’s community stepped forward to be caught in paint on his paper canvas. With forty-one portraits, a series was born from that simple exercise. 

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This series of portraits is presented one or two at a time for a month, beginning at Milos Craft Beer Emporium last September to December and now at TAP Centre for Creativity. It’s an unusual method to display an exhibit but one that almost mimics the way we encounter our friends and cohorts and acquaintances in daily life, a pleasant reminder that our communal time together is slightly fragmented.

Excerpted from the exhibition write-up by Vince Cherniak, Dec.14, 2024.