Searching the Landscape: Andy MacLean
November 6, 2020 - November 27, 2020
“Landscape is a well-established genre in the tradition of painting. While working with the landscape may preclude the modernist preoccupation of searching for an innovative or clever subject, it allows the artist to develop with references and responses to a rich inheritance and to make progress based on earlier conventions. What presents itself is a deep consideration of technique. For a painter, great art is produced by a balanced examination of materials and subject; something painted well is not simply an accurate physical description of a specific place, but a means to convey insights or observations given through the application of the medium.”
“There is a candor in limiting one's subject matter to their immediate surroundings. Painting thus becomes a simple marriage of the circumstance of place and the artist's materials. As a representational painter, I feel a kind of satisfaction with the appearance of nature, but the work must also be a manifestation of the medium, something that could not function in any other discipline.”
– Andy MacLean
Andy MacLean is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2000). He teaches in the Art Department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
A Sense of Place: Regina Marzlin
September 11, 2020 - October 7, 2020
Regina Marzlin has been working with textiles for 16 years. After starting out as a traditional quilter she quickly discovered art quilts as her preferred form of artistic expression. In her work she combines different fabrics, altering them through processes of dyeing, painting, printing, photo transfer, hand and machine stitching to push the boundaries of the medium. In addition to actively exhibiting, she teaches and regularly lectures on the subject of textile arts.
Familiar Ground: Adele McFarlane Wile & Adam Tragakis
April 1, 2020 - April 25, 2020
“In these paintings I have limited my self to only using images that I have taken from my home and yard.The small abstractions on paper are investigations into different colours and textures found just outside my door. In the figurative pieces I use my children as subjects to explore narratives about the beginnings of life, growth, sibling relationships, and early connections with the natural world.”
– Adele McFarlane Wile
“At the root of these paintings is the process of creation and destruction. I am exploring the balance of opposites, and how they can reveal something unexpected. In the process of painting the portraits, I realized they were becoming self reflective in the sense that I was painting my own emotional responses to them; I began painting the familiar.”
– Adam Tragakis