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SUMMARY:Naturalis | Renata Britez
DESCRIPTION:Renata Britez is a multidisciplinary emerging Canadian artist\, originally from Brazil\, who is currently based in Fredericton\, NB. In 2020\, she completed a degree in the NBCCD Textile Design Program and first brought her work to the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery at Small Works 2018. \nNaturalis demonstrates the diversity of her practice\, her commitment to traditional techniques\, ethics and sustainability in her production of materials as well as her artistic interest in working in both two and three dimensions. Subtle stories of her journeys in both art and life are paralleled in the mythic journeys and states she evokes though her sculptures and wearable art. Mothers\, daughters\, strife\, survival\, and conquest hint at the personal journey the artist embarked upon when she moved to Canada in 2014.\nPersephone\, a stylish garment of felted silk and wool\, dyed the passionate red of Brazilwood\, presents a sculpted and embroidered garden. Presented in a wearable form thick enough to warm and protect while referencing a myth of seasonal renewal and a mother-daughter story of compromise and lives lived at a distance. \nMarked\, two wall hangings whose subtle quilting describes the topography and streets of Fredericton\, are coloured by detritus the artist collected on the ground. The works are re-presented acts of discovery\, investigation and agency while making the reality of one’s choices “leaving its mark” tangible. \nMarks and the act of mark making is evident throughout the art in the exhibition as is the colour palette\, derived as it is from the actual colours of New Brunswick. Renata’s artistic training began here\, and it appears that a key collaborator and muse has been the province of New Brunswick. Sourcing and creating natural dyes and paints for all that she creates\, Renata starts each project literally at ground level. \nArtist in Residence\nBetween June 14 and 26\, 2021 Renata has been in Florenceville-Bristol for a residency at the River Art Centre to further her project called Maritime Colours (supported by a grant from ArtsNB). For this project Renata is researching\, cataloging\, and mapping pigments from plants and minerals found in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Supported by the New Brunswick Arts Board and the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery Artist in Residence Programme\, she is working on a series of paintings using natural pigments that are foraged and processed in Carleton County.\nThis programme is supported by the Carleton North Community Foundation. \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/renata-britez/
LOCATION:New Brunswick
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Barbara Safran de Niverville
DESCRIPTION:Vanitas by the Sea / Vanitas par la merBarbara Safran de Niverville explores the vigour of growth where native plants and garden escapees mingle. Discarded domestic objects punctuate intricate vegetation that seems to hover in the dark ground. The title of the exhibition references the still life genre of painting popular during the Baroque period in western art history. Vanitas portray highly realistic\, symbolic objects such as flowers\, porcelain and silver dishes\, fruits and vegetables. Together on a tabletop\, the objects are a reminder to the viewer of the hubris of mankind and the inevitability of mortality. Barbara has reinterpreted this point of view recognizing in her work the subtle influence of the present pandemic and its parallels to the plagues in Europe during 17th and 18th centuries. She has chosen to include objects in her work that are worn with use\, but seem to possess an aura of their past significance while the shadow land they now inhabit evokes the mysterious resilience of the uncultivated growth found between a beach and a forest – abandoned land that survives in spite of humanity’s seeming indifference. \n“Using a combination of natural and synthetic materials\, my mixed-media panels represent a metaphor for the hybrid quality of the natural world.  I question our concept of wilderness and reveal the flux between Nature and Culture and the tension between growth and decline. My current work explores outcast and forgotten areas of landscape that retain traces of human use.  Essential to my process is experimentation\, through digital photography\, drawing\, and the testing of new combinations of art techniques with industrial products”. \nVanitas Vivace is a short experimental video based on the painting Vanitas Chicory\, on exhibit with this series. Elements from the painting leave the panel’s surface\, become air born and dance to an original soundtrack.  Barbara’s husband Peter de Niverville animated the film with music composed by their daughter\, Abigail de Niverville. It is available to be viewed on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/568608152/bb5d5ef7f8 \nA Prix Éloize finalist in 2018\, Barbara has exhibited landscapes across Canada in twenty-six solo shows and numerous group projects in the United States and Iceland. In 2014\, she completed her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the Art Institute of Boston.
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/barbara-de-niverville/
LOCATION:New Brunswick
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past Exhibitions
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