Giving members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia an opportunity to create an exhibition of their work.

LITTLE THINGS

Jack Wong

June 5 – 27, 2013.

Emerging artist Jack Wong presents a series of lithographs depicting everyday objects of significant personal value. Inviting viewers to acknowledge the small things, Wong says about the exhibition:

Certain objects carry with them stories that bear gravitas to their owner alone: the rest of the world need not weep that one’s favorite denim jacket is shrunken in the dryer, his jeans become threadbare, his shoes broken with wear. Yet works of art are born of honesty, and if an artist happens to lament a calamity of great insignificance, then that also happens to be his art. With this series, Jack Wong seeks to bring that honesty to light, exhibiting an individual care for his subjects that invites viewers to similarly “sweat the little things” in their own lives.

Jack Wong hails from Vancouver, BC and completed studies in civil engineering before turning to the practice of art, drawn by its potential to excavate the unsaid from everyday life. He currently studies drawing, painting, and printmaking at NSCAD University. His work has been published in the Periodical Project, Free Coffee, and Crit Newspaper.

Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) 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 and is open Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.

For further information regarding the Corridor Gallery or this exhibition, please contact:

Becky Welter-Nolan
Programming Coordinator
Visual Arts Nova Scotia
1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS B3H 4P7
902.423.4694 1.866.225.8267 f: 902.422.0881
communicate@visualarts.ns.ca