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Familiar Objects
November 20, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Gallery On Queen is pleased to present “Familiar Objects,” an exhibition featuring works by Janice Wright Cheney and Maja Padrov.
Opening November 20th at 5:00 PM, the show will be displayed at the Gallery. We are committed to the safety of our patrons and community during the ongoing pandemic, and all COVID-19 safety measures with be in effect, including mandatory masks indoors.
Janice Wright Cheney’s textile-based sculptures and installations explore the human-nature relationship. They consider the fragility of the present state, examine the loss of wilderness, and imagine ecological life in the future. Her works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Wright Cheney has been elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and is a recipient of the Strathbutler Award for Excellence in the Arts, as well as the New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in Visual Arts.
Janice Wright Cheney graduated from Mount Allison University with a B.F.A. in 1983, and completed an M.Ed. in Critical Studies at the University of New Brunswick in 2003. Wright Cheney lives Fredericton, N.B., where she teaches in the Foundation Visual Arts Program at the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design.
Maja Padrov moved to New Brunswick in 1997 from Novi Sad, Serbia, and graduated from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design with diploma in Studio Ceramics. She has been working with clay professionally for the last 20 years as a studio artist, and has worked as a part time instructor at NBCCD. She attended and taught numerous workshops in Canada, United States and Europe, and participated in ceramic residencies in Canada, Hungary, Serbia and France.
Maja’s work is made by using functional pottery techiques, and is inspired by everyday objects used in home and studio work. They are simplified to basic geometric shapes, assembled in a row of interconnected parts and finished with surface that resembles stone and metal. She is interested in interplay of historical associations, familiar forms, possible functions, and surfaces that references different materials and explores how this affects our perception of everyday objects translated into clay.