“Flattening the Curve” by Curtis Botham
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In his latest exhibition, Flattening the Curve, artist Curtis Botham shows recent charcoal and conté drawings that are part of his series exploring everyday pandemic life. Come see Flattening the Curve in the Corridor until January 28, 2022. Can’t make it to the Corridor in person? Check out the video tour of the exhibition on YouTube:…
Upon moving to rural Nova Scotia, artist Carrie Phillips Kieser found herself disconnected from the life she had created in Calgary so she began to find comfort in discovering the plants growing in her new surroundings. This ritual of recording her findings during daily walks of investigation started to act as a daily meditative, contemplative and grounding…
“Aerial Abstraction” by Kelly Markovich
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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…
“Surrender” by Michael Greer
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Michael Greer’s exhibition of figurative charcoal drawings and oil paintings explores questions like: What happens when life throws you a curveball? A life-threatening illness? The end of a relationship? The loss of a loved one? How do these life experiences meet the flesh? How do we carry our responses to such events in our bodies?…
Hallie Watson – Artist Profile
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Hallie Watson spends ten months of the year in Halifax and two months on a farm in Ontario. She makes landscapes and still life with oil pastel on paper and oil on canvas. Her practice also includes regular life drawing. showing people what they don’t see I think that my job as an artist is…
Mathew Reichertz – Artist Profile
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Originally from Montreal, Mathew Reichertz completed his BFA at Concordia University and his MFA at NSCAD University. In 2005 Reichertz was the Eastern Canadian winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition and in 2006 was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. He has had numerous exhibitions nationally and his work can be found in a…
Visual In Formation – Caitlin McGuire
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Using a limited colour palette on birch boards, emerging artist Caitlin McGuire’s vibrant new series of drawings depicts signs and messages that pedestrians encounter when traversing the city on foot. Her exhibition, Visual In Formation, is on view in the Corridor Gallery June 2 – 29, 2016. Describing the work on view, McGuire explains: I…
Faces from Away – Elizabeth Sircom
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Annapolis Valley artist Elizabeth Sircom exhibits a series of portrait drawings and terracotta busts inspired by people she met while living in France. Her exhibition, Faces from Away, is on view in the Corridor Gallery May 3 – 30, 2016. Describing the work on view, Sircom explains: I think any successful portrait is rich in…
The Treasure Project – Hallie Watson
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Artist Hallie Watson exhibits her work, which combines images and text to to present a portrait of the everyday objects in our lives.
Lynn Rotin – March Artist Profile
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Lynn Rotin started her career as a photographer for choreographers and independent theater in Toronto. After moving to Halifax in 1989 she decided to enroll at NSCAD has been a practising artist since. She has received grants from the Canada Council, and her work is collected by the Nova Scotia Art Bank. Her drawings and paintings on paper use mixed media, building on layers of mark making.
Born in Manitoba and currently living on a farm in the Cobequid Mountains, Pamela Swainson studied in the Fine Arts Program at Mount Allison in the early 70’s. She recently returned to her practice after several years on hold. Swainson is passionate about local living and sustainability, with caring for the earth is a subtext in her work.
Suzanne Gauthier was born in Lorette Manitoba and studied and taught at the University of Manitoba (BFA Honours 1969). In 1989 she relocated to Halifax to teach full time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work is based in drawing, printmaking and collage, and has recently been engaged in photographs of moving water. See her studio exhibition Acquainted with Light, October 16-31, as part of Photopolis.
M.E. Sparks – Image
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Emerging New Glasgow based painter M.E. Sparks exhibits a series of drawings derived from Google Image searching a previous work, on view in the corridor gallery from June 5 – 26.
Karen Langlois – May Artist Profile
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After a 20-year career in Early Childhood Education Karen Langlois walked through the doors of Toronto School of Art and never looked back. Three years later she left Ontario to pursue her other long-neglected dream: a house in the woods in Nova Scotia. For the past seven years she has been making art and gardening in Port Medway.
This group exhibition explores the inspiration found in traditions, routines, and rituals. Featuring artists Chris Brobeck, Lee Cripps, Anna Horsnell-Wade, Anne Launcelott, Maritza Miari, and Barbara Schmeisser.
Nancy Stevens – October Artist Profile
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Nancy Stevens left a safe and successful career to explore ideas and methods which resulted in HORIZON PAINTINGS, a solo exhibition of abstract paintings at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. After a 15-year career of teaching drawing and painting, creative and critical thinking, Stevens now lives and works in Antigonish County where her studio overlooks her vineyard, Cote St. George.
Bonnie Baker – September Artist Profile
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Bonnie Baker has always engaged in some form of cultural work. As a full time artist in Annapolis Royal, she explores the rich overlap between drawing, painting and printmaking while experimenting with the natural form.
LITTLE THINGS – Jack Wong
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Emerging artist Jack Wong presents a series of lithographs depicting everyday objects of significant personal value.
Court Rooms – Duncan Ferguson
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Court Rooms is a survey of drawings rendered while sitting in on a myriad of trials in Halifax and New York City from 2011-2013. They cover high and low profile cases from petty violence, larceny, military espionage, marital homicide, gang violence, subway attacks, etc.
Anne Macmillan has lived in Halifax since earning a BFA in Intermedia from NSCAD University in 2009. She grew up in Wolfville, Nova Scotia with motorbikes, dairy farms and apple orchards. Anne has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. She has exhibited…