Louis Helbig’s first exhibition of 2011 opens today at Exposure Gallery in Ottawa and the show,  Aerial Abstractions,  features all new work.

Aerial Abstractions runs from January 21 until March 15, with the vernissage today (Friday, Jan. 21) from 6 – 8pm.  Helbig will also do an artist talk Wednesday, Jan. 26 from 6:45 – 7:45pm

WHEN: January 21 – March 15
WHERE: Exposure Gallery (Second Floor Studio at Thyme and Again, 1255 Wellington St W, Ottawa)

Also, Beautiful Destruction: Aerial Photographs of the Alberta Tar Sands will show in Toronto in conjunction with the play Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show at Theatre Passe Muraille. The play and exhibition run February 3 – 26.

Continue reading...

Ottawa Xpress is now taking votes in their Annual Best of Ottawa Readers Poll.

Louis Helbig’s “Beautiful Destruction,” at Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery has been nominated for 2010′s Best Visual Arts Exhibit – cast your vote now!

Deadline for submitting your ballot is 11:59 p.m., Wednesday, November 3, 2010.
Winners will be announced in the November 11 issue.

Continue reading...

From July 23 – September 26, the exhibition will run in Ottawa City Hall’s Art Gallery – just steps from Parliament Hill!

The show will feature 25 images from  Beautiful Destruction – Alberta Tar Sands Aerial Photographs,  including five select images displayed as 40×60 prints.

Louis Helbig‘s aerial images teeter between documentary and abstract. The tension between their beauty and what they represent — the man-made alteration and destruction of a landscape — stimulates both thought and imagination. The Alberta Tar Sands are a place of superlatives where exaggeration of scale and proportion seems almost impossible. This exhibition is one outcome of a 2008 aerial cross-country journey the photographer and his partner Kristin Reimer embarked on in their antique aircraft, a 1946 Luscombe.

Exhibition runs July 23 to September 26.

Continue reading...