Events

1. Blake Prize Exhibition

September 16 to October 15, 2011

NAS Gallery, Darlinghurst, Australia

The Blake Prize, established in 1951 is an open art prize that challenges artists to explore the religious and spiritual in art. Paul Roorda is one of the finalists whose work is being shown in this exhibition.

2. Pharmakon

September 22 to 25, 2011

Critical Media Lab, Kitchener, Ontario

Pharmakon: that which can both cure and kill. The pharmacological work in this group exhibition, explores the concepts of irony, indeterminacy, and opposition by combining radically divergent elements in the same physical space.

3. Take Notice

June 1 to 30, 2011

Convenience Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Hundreds of works on paper, previously posted on Toronto utility posts and left to weather before being retrieved and installed in the gallery.

4. Les Page

May 11 to July 5, 2011

Gesù – Centre de Créativité, Montreal, Quebec

Encaustic work including "Genesis and Apocalypse" and "Judges" will be shown within the sanctuary gallery of this historic Montreal church.

5. Slate Requiem

February 26 to March 27, 2011

Yorkminster Park Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 27, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Using gold leaf, ashes, and blood on slate tiles from the leaking roof of an historic church, Paul Roorda creates art that echoes the enduring reverence of sacred icons while examining the erosion of traditional beliefs.

6. Take Notice

January 28 to April 3, 2011

Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery

Hundreds of works on paper, previously posted on downtown utility posts and left to weather before being retrieved and installed in the gallery. Opening Reception: Thursday, January 27, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Artist Talk: Friday, January 28, 12:30 p.m.

7. Communion of the Faint: Confessions and Complications

February 6 to March 22, 2010

Redeemer University Art Gallery, Ancaster, Ontario

New work will be exhibited with related work from recent series. Opening reception: Saturday, February 5, 7:30 pm.

8. New Publication: 'God is Dead' and I Don't Feel So Good Myself: Theological Engagements With the New Atheism

Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010

A chapter of this book is dedicated to the images and artist statement for works from Paul Roorda's exhibition "The Skeptic's Gospel". Cover art by Paul Roorda.

9. Bravo! TV - Monday, May 11, 2009, 8:30 a.m.

Paul Roorda was featured on The Artist's Life, a television show profiling the work of Canadian artists. Each episode is a glimpse into the vision guiding the artistic process as expressed through the thoughts, words, and daily experience of the artist. This episode of the Artist's Life first aired on BRAVO! on May 8, 2005.