Exhibition at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre runs from July 22 to August 13, 2022.
Opening Friday, July 22, 5 pm – 7 pm.
Sunbury Shores will be holding a group exhibition titled Maritime Colours incorporating natural pigments from July 22 through August 13.
Featuring: Renata Britez, Sara Jones, Christianna Myers, Jennifer Pazienza, Ralph Simpson, and Danika Vautour.
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An exhibition of photographs by Susan Lapides, July 22 – August 13, 2022.
Opening Friday, July 22, 5 – 7 pm at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre.
Photography by Susan Lapides
“In Back Bay, a rural fishing village in Atlantic Canada, the daily routine revolves around twenty-six foot tides and the lobster harvests synchronize the annual calendar. The two eleven-week seasons begin with a tradition of extended families gathering on the wharf in the frigid pre-dawn. Excitement, laughter and chatter fill the moments before one last prayer and repeated pleas to ‘be careful.’ Finally, a horn announces the 6 am rush to drop the traps into the depths.
It was in this setting that I began to photograph a girl and a lobster, echoing the tempo along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. I photographed seventeen local girls annually, charting their growth in a series of two to six portraits of each one. Using the bay at dusk as a common backdrop, each girl chose her own outfit and the way she held her lobster. Some girls were cautious with the crustaceans, while some were proud and still others nonchalant.
The cycles of this ancient tidal landscape and the shifting light offers a contrast to the fleeting stages of girlhood. I hope to reveal something of each girl’s character as she takes stock of a sea creature symbolizing both the familiar and the unfathomable. By creating this series, I study identity, femininity and how family, local culture and the pervasive influences of society at large manifest themselves in each girl over time.
Sea Change was inspired by the tidal landscape and the lobster harvest of the Bay of Fundy in St. George, New Brunswick, Canada. Photographing girls from this region annually, each holding a lobster – a symbol of their community – I show how each girl’s identity evolves over time and with the pervasive influences of local culture and society at large. As a response to the ‘Big Catch’ photographs of fishermen, the 65 photographs in this series underscore the importance of girls and women in this community and beyond. Sea Change captures the significant transformation from girlhood to adolescence to womanhood.” – Susan Lapides
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Come to Owens Art Gallery to see Alex Colville’s Throwing Light exhibition!
Exhibition runs from July 4, 2022 to October 23, 2022
Highlighting Colville’s interest in the relationship between things, Alex Colville: Throwing Light, takes its title from a statement made by the artist: “The painting starts to work, sometimes, when two elements appear to throw light on each other.” Echoing the quote that prompted The Colville Drawing Dice, this exhibition features prints and paintings by the artist that draw together disparate elements to illuminate connections or tensions between things.
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June 24 – July 16, 2022. Exclusive Members Only artist meet and greet: 4 pm – 5 pm
Members of Sunbury Shores are invited to a private reception for a chance to meet and talk to the artists behind the signature DASH exhibition featuring several of New Brunswick’s most recognized artists! –Become a Member here!
OPENING RECEPTION Friday, June 24, 2022
DASH is an annual exhibition of a group of distinctive artists who have a deep connection with St Andrews and the Bay of Fundy.
Werner Arnold | Alanna Baird | Ann Manuel | Ted Michener | Andy McIntosh | Cathy Ross | Tom Sparling | Elaine Wilson
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The show of the work of Suzan Carsley will run from July 4 – September 30th 2022 at Hon. Connell House in Woodstock NB.
The series was inspired from a visit to the Adney Cottage: “Although he had never been there, I felt the presence of Tappan Adney and was impelled to do a series on him and the cottage.”
The show comprises of linocuts and mixed media work and a catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
What began as a visit to Tappan Adney’s granddaughter’s cottage in the fall of 2020, has culminated in an art show of 33 works executed by Woodstock artist Suzan Carsley:
“Although Tappan Adney himself had never been to the cottage, I felt his presence from
the moment I walked in. He spoke to me through photographs and reproductions of his
paintings. Books by and about him, collections of baskets, and overall ambiance all
added to my experience. I was inspired, no, impelled to do a linocut series on the
cottage and him.”
A 42-page catalogue of all works accompanies the show and will be available for purchase along with the original linocuts and acrylics and some reproduction prints.
Joan Adney Dragon, Tappan Adney’s granddaughter, calls the series “a love song to the cottage.”
The show and sale begin July 4, 2022. Suzan will be in the gallery that day from 2:00 – 5:00 pm
About this exhibition:
Every year, the Owens Art Gallery presents the work of students graduating from the Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts. Featuring a wide range of work in a variety of media, this exhibition celebrates the artistic development of each student and considers it in relation to the collective journey of the whole class.
Participating graduates are Saarah B. Ali, Kate Brown, Rupert Hames Colville-Reeves, Emma Connors, Amy Crocker, Rose Cusack, Chase Harper, Kage Hughes, Dylan Johnson, Nora Livesey, Chloe Mantrom, Brook E. Martin, Olivia McCarthy, Evi Milanovic, Annika Sinclair, Manny Travers, and Jasmine Vautour.
Informal Vernissage, 22 April 2022 @ 7:00 pm.
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James Buxton has been teaching carving classes at the River Art Centre for many years. His students have created many beautiful works that we look forward to sharing with you.
Featured carvers include: Max Hutchison, Roseanne Hutchison, Scott O’Brien, Rudy Stocek
Saturday, April 23
2-4 pm
Introductions at 2:30 pm
Radial Symmetries revolves around the Pentaradial symmetry of a Sea Urchin shell. Pentaradial being a five sectioned symmetry found in nature that revolves around a central point. The simplest example being the Starfish and its five legs. Alanna Baird has been exploring this patterning through several different mediums and dimensions. The printmaking is often her initial exploration in surface patterns.
Thanks to funding through ArtsNB, I was able to create a body of work in lost wax cast bronze. Using some of my own ceramic work from the 1990’s as forms, I cast wax into these shapes and then altered the wax by cutting holes; exploring the symmetry as well as the strength of this new-to-me material. The bronze was cast in a foundry in Quebec, but the chasing (grinding of sprues and polishing of surface metal) and patination (colour) completed in Alanna’s studio.
The Calligraphic sculpture in plastic represents a second ArtsNB grant funded project. The initial intent was to use 3D printing to change the scale of my work. Computer design is not something I enjoy, the hands on fabrication of things is what I love. I became fascinated with a hand held 3D pen, and the clear plastic it could extrude. Light and air flowing through this new body of work, shadows cast. Although the plastic in the exhibition is too fragile to sell, I intend to work farther in this technique.
I am inspired by what I find on my daily walks on the sea floor, the inter tidal zone of the Bay of Fundy reveals it’s treasure to me. Treasure to me is not gold coins, but rather glimpses of things that catch my eye. Part historical – pipe stems, china shards, even stone weapons of a very early age, and part natural environment – resident as well as invasive species included. Often fragments, shells with their interiors exposed, sea urchin shell pieces which reveal the complexity of their “construction”.
I am a materials based artist. I enjoy exploring the material I have to work with. Mastering techniques, learning how to work with it, what it’s limits are, figuring out what I can do with it. I often work with recycled materials. Invasive species like the Lionfish have entered my view. I am currently working on a printmaking project involving the Golden Star Tunicate, an invasive species along this coastline. – Alanna Baird
Curated by Brigitte Clavette and Jennifer Stead.
The UNB Art Centre launches a new group exhibition on April 29 at 5:00 pm curated by Amy Ash, an independent curator and artist based in Saint John, New Brunswick. As we emerge from a global pandemic, the exhibit it comes in waves observes the nature of absence through the work of seven contemporary artists: Emily Critch, Chantal Khoury, Adriana Kuiper & Ryan Suter, Lou Sheppard, KC Wilcox, and Florence Yee.
it comes in waves refers to the sensation of becoming awash in the haze of emotions, memories, and associations that result from grief, loss, and other confrontations of absence.
Presented in both the East and West galleries, the works included in it comes in waves hold space for contemplation and the quiet construction of meaning, while boldly facing the uncanny sensation that something is lost or missing. From climate devastation and personal loss, to broken expectations, this group exhibition explores grief as a means of understanding what we value.
Curator Amy Ash explains, “A conversation about loss or grief is equally a conversation about what we value. This is crucial to consider not only while reflecting on the past or on the construction of our individual identities, but as means of collectively envisioning a future that we would hope to inhabit.”
it comes in waves brings together a diverse group of artists who work across media ranging from textiles, printmaking, and painting, to video, audio, and sculpture. The exhibit will be on view in person at the UNB Art Centre from April 29 – June 17, 2022, and online.
The UNB Art Centre is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The galleries are open 9 am – 4 pm weekdays and during special events. Admission is free to members of the public.
Join us at Gallery 78 on Friday, May 6, from 5-7 pm for the opening of two new exhibitions, Petals & Lace by Joanne Hunt and Susan Paterson, and Christopher Webb’s And You., with a special performance piece at 6:30 pm for Webb’s immersive exhibition.
All works will be available online starting May 3, and they will be on display until May 28.
Petals & Lace features new works by oil painters Joanne Hunt and Susan Paterson. Hunt brings softness and exquisite details to her dreamy depictions of large-scale flowers, and Paterson’s meticulous paintings portray elegant still life settings of fruit, nuts, flowers, silverware, and fabric—this powerful duo show is not to be missed!
And You. is the latest solo exhibition of new works by multidisciplinary artist Christopher Webb. Building on his award-winning art residency in Torino, Italy, Webb’s new paintings incorporate written prose and sound that examine the emotion of love.
The work, which features a 3-minute performance piece, will be brought to life with the voice of New Brunswick poet and playwright Clyde A. Wray, violinist Ali Johnson and cellist Emma Johnson at 6:30 pm on Friday, May 6. Masks are optional and encouraged.