Whitby Free Press, 3 May 1989, p. 9

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McLaughli*n Gallery: Hugh Mackenzie prints on display The prints of Hugh Mackenzie, painter and teacher, are featured ini an exhibition thatbegain April at thé Robert MTaghi Gallery, Oshawa,, and continues until May 21. He is 4bobe Y two subjects: the' nude and the cityscape. For him, these central themes are fot incompatible sometimes he combines them. Ir, both, he struggles to discover the perfect marriage of the universe and the particular, the idéal and the real, abstraction and figuration. The exhibition consiste of a group of Mackenzie's etchings, an important part of this painter's work and one which bas helped hlm cut through to the essence of what he is trying to say. The C resuits of making etchings lias meant for Mackenzie a toughened lmagery, sharper sense of shape, and more plastic design. Mackenzie was born ini Toronto ini 1928. He studied at the Ontario College of Art from j 1947-50 and at Mt.. Allison County Town Singers wili perorin Mayl15 The 80-voice County Town Singers will present their 23rd' annual 'S pring Concert' on SaIturdaY, May13, 815 p.m., at Eastdale CVI, Oshawa. Under musical director Jim Ashley, the concert, 'Ya Gotta Have Heart,' will feature Broad- wiay medleys, jazz and Ashley's choral arrangement of selections jfrom "TMe Phantom of the Opera.? Tickets are $8 each, $6 for seniors and children under 12. Tickets ae available at Middle- ton' Stationeéry in Whitby, Saywell's Book Store in Oshawa, or at the door. A portion of the proceeds from the show will bee donated to the Ueart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Bash planned for Junel17 By Tamara KL Downes Whîtby'teens are in for a spectacular levent to start off the summer holidays this year. JAG Disk Jockey Services will be holding an «end-of-the-year bash" at Iroquois Park Mrena on Junel17. DJ's Andrew Hunt and Gra- ham Northam are still in the process of obtaining permission to use indoor fireworks from Pyro Techniques. The video dance has already been publicized at high school dances and flyers will be distri- buted about three weeks prior to the eet Tickets are expected to cost about $7 and can be purchased by calling Hunt of JAG Disk cJockey Services at 430-1897. Univers*inii New Brunswick; he also livedand worked in France in 1950-51. Hie worked as an aircraft illustrator from 1955-59, and since 1960 he lias ta1ght art. He hs nmerus oloandgroup exhibitions in Ontariu, Montre, and British Columbia; he showed every other year from 1963-79 at the Jerrold Morris Gallery in Toroto, and has shown regularly at the Bau-Xi Gallery since 1980. In 1968 he was commissioned to prnt the stte portrait of Lester B.Pearson for the House of commonL ,,,"'Wt,7----STPIT TH-GRE

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