November 5 – December 17, 2014

Emerging Halifax based artist Kyle Martell exhibits a series of print-media works investigating the passive observer, on view in the corridor gallery November 5 – December 17. Reflecting on a fixed social landscape, Martell describes the work:

Looking through a window and peering up at the sky, or down at a person running, or a car driving by. It’s all fine, everything is fine. Bright colours, signs and actions, all the things that make up a day. The feeling is of distance, of being a passive observer of the world, not doing anything that could affect change. Two cars collide again, for the second time in a month… Looking around nothing has changed, the table is as it was, the shelf has not moved, it’s all fine. Beyond the window might as well not exist. But that’s much to pessimistic for this one.

Kyle Martell is a recent graduate of NSCAD university. His Main focuses at school were in printmaking and intermedia. Currently his work has been focused around making books, zines and digital images. His practice has been developing in order to be more suited for a mobile workspace, one that does not necessarily have the space for large sculpture or drawings. His hope for the future is to find a decent job which allows him to keep making art.

See more of Martell’s work online.

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 exhibition 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
vans@visualarts.ns.ca