Artist Kelly Markovich developed this series of drawings from a collection of satellite images taken from online weather sites. Having collected the images over a 5-year period, Markovich, an interdisciplinary photo-based artist, recently began drawing again as a part of her creative process. In these watercolour, acrylic and graphite drawings Markovich is exploring our connections and relationship with the environment. See Aerial Abstraction in the Corridor Gallery November 4 – December 17.

Of her inspiration, Markovich states:
Framing the landscape in terms of human impact and formal patterns within nature, views from tropical and subtropical climates to the icy Arctic Circle, the alien abstraction of the aerial satellite landscapes reveals undertones of danger, destruction, and remorse.

Responding to humans’ relationships to the changing environment, Aerial Abstraction highlights my interest with networks. Satellite images from the weather channel were used as the source material and inspiration for this series of drawings, a collection process that spanned over a 5-year period. These initial drawings consist of small graphite and watercolour sketches to large scale acrylics and is an ongoing series.

Kelly Markovich is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, science, technology and nature. Her art practice investigates relationships between networks, memory, and shared collective experience. Engaging through issues of permanence, loss, presence, and absence, she draws reference from biology, anthropology and neuroscience. Markovich holds a BFA from the University of Windsor and an MFA from NSCAD University.

In spring of 2019, Markovich participated in Ayatana Artists’ Research Program, a residency designed to support research by conceptual artists interested in sound. In autumn 2020 she is excited to continue her research with a soundscape art project while taking part in the Arctic Circle Expedition, where together international artists of all disciplines, scientists and researchers collectively explore the high-Arctic Svalbard Archipelago and Arctic Ocean.

Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia office at the Halifax Seaport since 2000, the Corridor Gallery is complimented by a historical legacy of Nova Scotia culture, simple yet modern architectural elements and an array of current cultural activity in the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia office. The Corridor Gallery is located at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, a city situated on unceded Mi’kmaq territory, and is open Monday through Friday, 9:30am – 5pm.

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For further information regarding the exhibition please contact:
Carri MacKay
Programming Coordinator
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