19 Years of Christmas Spice

Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to present a look-back at 19 years of Christmas Spice, one of Toronto's original holiday-inspired group exhibitions. We've dug into the archive and are pulling out works that date back to our first Christmas Cheer in 1997. The name change in 1998 coincided with a YYZ fundraiser lipsynchorama performance at the Rivoli by a bunch of us as The Spice Girls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyiRVPccS3M

The exhibition was predicated on the idea that someone might acquire their first work of art, ever, for as little as $2.

We'll be opening this exhibition in conjunction with West Country, an exhibition of new ceramic works by Amy Bowles and new paintings by Gary Evans.

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The 20th annual Christmas Spice exhibition, with tree by Life Of A Craphead, opens Friday December 2, 7-11pm.

Here's the roster of trees past:

1997 - Christmas Cheer / Cathy Daley / Rae Johnson
1998 - Nancy Kembry
1999 - Jane Buyers / Dennis Day / Julie Voyce
2000 - Andrew Harwood
2001 - Bucky & Fluff's Craft Factory
2002 - Karen Azoulay
2003 - Trixie & Beever
2004 - Janet Morton
2005 - Dennis Day
2006 - R M Vaughan
2007 - Shannon Partridge
2008 - Churla Burla
2009 - Gretchen Sankey
2010 - Sandy Plotnikoff
2011 - Maura Doyle
2012 - C N Tower Liquidation
2013 - Amy Bowles
2014 - Sadko Hadzihasanovic
2015 - Jacqueline Treloar
2016 - Life Of A Craphead