Between the Lines May 28 to June 26, 2010 Artist Talk on Friday, June 18 at 7:30 pm Portraits by Fire Between the Lines: A Cross-Section of the Canadian Canon consists of seventeen salvaged, door skin panels: fifteen black and white (29 ½ “ x 17”) and two coloured panels (48” x 48”). The portraits are done with large and small-scale pyrography, or fire drawing. One could also say they burn with wise passion. Arin Fay’s cross-section includes literary stars such as Atwood, Gallant, Munro, and Shields as well
Read More »Imprisonment For Removal May 30 to June 27, 2009 Imprisonment for Removal, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nakusp artist Betty Fahlman. The exhibition title is inspired by the text on a British Columbia Survey stake that Fahlman found during walks among tree stumps and their exposed massive root systems at the old Arrow Park town site. These documentary portraits depict how the stumps’ root systems have become more exposed with every lowering and rising of the Arrow Lakes Reservoir. Fahlman invites the viewer to see the destructive impact
Read More »Maternal Body: the Paradox of Desire December 2 to 23, 2005 The paintings that comprise The Maternal Body: The Paradox of Desire came forth from my finding a dead mother sqirrel on the road one day while out on a walk. I picked her up to move her off the road and felt such an urgency towards her that I took her home to paint her. Well I did 6 or 7 paintings of her in what is now a series of paintins based on her body. I have shown
Read More »Bridget Corkery Aug 1, to September 30, 2002 Statement of Intent for Residency With the residency at Oxygen Studio I intend to continue drawing the forms from my sketchbook on a scale that uses the large wall surfaces of the space. At the same time, developing the same images in another medium, I plan to continue painting with wax. For several years I have been painting with a cold wax formula but now with space and adequate ventilation I can work with encaustic, a hot wax method. The scale of
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