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SUMMARY:the gallery as a studio
DESCRIPTION:Until March 11\, eight artists are effectively turning the gallery into a drawing studio. There is something new to see everyday as the artists make decisions\, change directions and make progress on their art. \nThe Closing Celebration will be held March 11\, 2023\, from 2-4 pm with as many artists present as can make it. \nArtists schedules:  Vicky Lentz and Francine Martin will be in the gallery most Wednesdays and Fridays until mid-afternoon. Nick Walsh will be here February 2nd\,  9th\, 16th and most likely the 24th. Stephen Hutchings will be here midday many days\, as will Colin Smith. Jennifer Stead is always here\, occasionally drawing but always happy to say hi. Amanda Balestreri will be here February 17 and 18. \nNick Walsh is an emerging illustrator from Fredericton\, NB. Nick loves exploring the magic hidden in the forests and his work dives deep into the mystical\, spiritual\, and cultural myths of the natural world around us. His aim is to rekindle the imagination by weaving strange stories into his surreal art pieces that remind us of our role in mother nature's cosmic wheel. \nColin Smith draws constantly\, doodles on paper\, in books\, over shopping lists and has done it since grade one. The landscape is a living\, moving entity\, a series of slow undulations\, studded with trees and potato fields. \nVicky Lentz's practice is exploratory and diverse as she move between materials\, mediums and processes. In her art ideas\, images\, materials are always reconfigured through the process of art making\, transformed during creation to be records of the creative experience. \nStephen Hutchings is working on a future exhibition  and "Fallen Tree" is a study for a large painting in the series “Theatre of Trees”. The final painting\, of which this is a to-scale drawing\, will be approximately 8’ high and 40’ across. \n\nAmanda Balestreri enjoys incorporating nature into all of  her work.  She is interested in observing how humans interact with nature and how our actions have been affecting the natural world over time.  Sometimes her work can be a serious commentary or satire on where we may be heading if we continue to disrespect nature. \nAmanda will be drawing at the gallery starting Saturday Feb 18. The 18th will be the only day to visit her as she is working through the family day weekend. Drop in tomorrow to say hi. \nWilliam Forrestall's subject is time and in his art he preserves moments by painting the shapes and textures of objects that interest him in that most basic of compositions: the still life. In his practice drawing is a means and a place to work out ideas for a future or concurrent painting. \nJennifer Stead drew the first of a series of long drawings\, called "Meander" in 2007. 100' long\, it is a landscape of the Canadian Rockies where she lived at the time. In this drawing she is working from memory and responding to all the landscapes she has cultivated and observed from many parts of the country. \nFrancine Martin is a painter from a small community in northwest New Brunswick. Known for her use of Chiaroscuro\, a technique that has a strong contrast between lights and darks. Her still lifes and landscapes have been shown all over the St-John Valley in New Brunswick in auctions\, festivals\, group and solo shows. In 2018 she had a solo show at ALMAG.
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/the-gallery-as-a-studio/
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:The Sketchbooks of Tom Forrestall
DESCRIPTION:The Tom Forrestall sketchbook collection offers a unique insight into an artist’s working life\, a visual and written diary spanning a creative lifetime. The collection now approaching 400 volumes covers over 70 years of the artist’s creative explorations and development. As a daily creative record of observation\, reflection and exploration it documents the passions and interests of an observant and creative  individual who doodles\, sketches and details the people\, animals\, ideas and places he visits\, both literally and imaginatively. Everyday few days the pages of his sketchbooks will be turned so there will be new images to see each time you drop in between now and March 11. \nTom Forrestall Bio.\nThomas DeVany Forrestall\, C.M.\, O.N.S.\, B.F.A. LL.D.\, RCA is one of Canada’s leading realist artists. He was born in Middleton Nova Scotia\, in 1936. In 1954\, Forrestall was awarded a scholarship to the Fine Arts department at Mount Allison University\, where he studied with Lawren P. Harris\, Ted Pulford and Alex Colville. Graduating in 1958 he received one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study which provided him with the opportunity to travel throughout Europe. Upon their return to Canada they moved to New Brunswick where Tom became assistant curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has been a full time artist since 1960.  His artwork has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public collection in Canada.
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/the-sketchbooks-of-tom-forrestall/
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Drawing Drop-In Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 9\, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm @ the Gallery \nDrawing Drop-In with Colin Smith \nPencils & Paper \n$5\, all materials provided – everyone welcome. \nThursday February 16\, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm @ the Gallery \nDrawing Drop-In with Nick Walsh \nBotanical Studies \n$5\, all materials provided – everyone welcome. \nSaturday February 25\, 11:00 am – noon @ the Gallery \nDrawing Drop-In with Will Forrestall \nString Perspective \n$5\, all materials provided – everyone welcome. \nSaturday March 4\, 11:00 am - noon @ the Gallery \nDrawing Drop-In with Jennifer Stead \nCharcoal & Stencils \n$5\, all materials provided - everyone welcome. \nThursday March 9th\, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm @ the Gallery \nDrawing Drop-In with Stephen Hutchings \nStephen will be instructing on how to sketch and draw with tone \n$5\, all materials provided - everyone welcome.
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/drawing-drop-in-workshops/
LOCATION:Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery\, 8 McCain Street\, Florenceville-Bristol\, New Brunswick\, E7L 3H6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Sketchbook Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Create a sketchbook with artist Meg Clark – SOLD OUT\nLearn bookbinding techniques and take home a sketchbook for drawing or painting. \nSketchbook cover size will be 6″ x 8″\, inside paper will be 5.5″ x 7″. Choice of drawing paper or\, for $10 more\, watercolour paper. The sketchbook will feature exposed binding (Coptic Stich) and Decaled edge. \nCost: $35 (drawing paper) or $45 (watercolour paper) \nSpace is limited. Call the Gallery\, 392-6769\, or email info@mccainartgallery.com to register. \nPayment secures registration. No refunds for cancellations less than 7 days before workshops. \nClass will be held at the River Art Centre\, 8746 Main Street\, Florenceville-Bristol.
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/sketchbook-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Other Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Paul Riopelle\, Works on paper\nThe exhibition Other Worlds brings together two bodies of work from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Five landscapes fill the west gallery with one work each by Canadian artists Miller Gore Brittain\, Carol Fraser\, William Goodridge Roberts\, Robin Collyer\, and John Hartman. The five landscapes – four paintings and one photograph – demonstrate the expressive potential of landscape subjects\, referencing natural cycles\, renewal and growth\, and pointing to aspects of the relationship we have with nature. Disparate in style and medium\, the five landscapes in the exhibition share an impulse to reimagine the natural world rather than mirror it.  \nA collection of works on paper by Quebec artist Jean Paul Riopelle fill the east gallery. Riopelle emerged in the 1940s as an artist interested in expressions of an inner reality and the language of abstraction. The works in the BAG collection are mostly from later in his life and some of these images may have been Inspired by the large flocks of snow geese that landed annually in the Bas St. Laurent region where he settled after returning to Quebec.  \nWhile contrasting in approach\, the landscapes and Riopelle share strong formal antecedents and all of the artists explore varying degrees of abstraction\, conceptually and figuratively. In 1952 the American critic Rosenberg called an empty canvas “an arena in which to act..what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event”\, articulating a significant break with history in ceasing to regard the surface as a support for a picture\, but to see it as a record of an action or an event. The leap Rosenberg articulated is manifested here between William Goodridge Roberts Field in Summer and Riopelle’s prints across the room. \nBorn in 1923 in Montreal\, Jean Paul Riopelle became an artist in post WWII Quebec\, and under the influence of Paul Emile Borduas\, rejected the traditional representational language of painting in favour of an internal and emotive form of expression. He and a group of seven painters calling themselves Les Automatistes\, rejected not only representation in painting\, but also the French Modern traditions of Picasso and Matisse in pursuit of a unique abstract art embracing unconscious spontaneous expression. Continuing to push the limits and conventions of their art\, Les Automatistes were vocal in their struggle against the socially repressive and authoritarian Quebec society upheld by then Premier Duplessis and the Catholic Church. Idealist social theories\, psychoanalysis\, and in particular surrealism inspired Riopelle to find in abstraction a means to liberate his art from the socially oppressive culture of the time.The first exhibition of abstract art in Canada was held by Les Automatistes in Montreal in 1946. \nStruggling in such a restrictive environment\, Les Automatistes eventually all signed the manifesto Refus Global\, written by Paul Emile Borduas\, that condemned the stranglehold over individual freedom\, called for the liberation of the individual and helped launch the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. The manifesto caused many artists great hardship and with a resistance to abstraction evident in Canada\, Riopelle soon left to live and work in Paris. \nRiopelle spent many years in Paris and Giverny\, a respected artist who developed an international career. Riopelle’s works on paper in this collection that date from the 1980s\, were created after his return to Canada. While some have strong representational references\, many do not. With no centre of interest\, no representation of the real world they layer gestures\, movement\, marks and colour\, reflecting the artist’s subconscious in unexpected juxtapositions and reveal a few of the methods Riopelle developed to liberate his imagination. He died in Quebec in 2002.  \nFive Landscapes from the Beaverbrook Collection
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/other-worlds/
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Wet Felting with Janice Bridges
DESCRIPTION:Wet Felting with Janice Bridges…. Learn wet felting techniques with Janice at RAC!\nJanice will be instructing the class on wet felting technique\,\nusing landscapes as inspiration. \n$40 \nThe gallery has a waiting list for the next class so call now! \nPlease bring an old beach or large towel to transport your work! All other materials provided. \nPayment secures registration. If you have not paid\, hurry before the spaces fill up!
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/wet-felting-with-janice-bridges-sold-out/
LOCATION:River Art Centre\, 8746 Main St.\, Florenceville-Bristol\, New Brunswick
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