Coming up: Acadia Art Gallery Annual Exhibition

Saturday, September 17 – October 22, 2022

I have three plein air paintings included in the upcoming Acadia Art Gallery Annual Exhibition. You may be familiar with them from this site and my main site www.MaryAnn.ca but it’s the first time these paintings have been on public display. The paintings are available for sale through the gallery during the exhibit period.

The above photo is a mock up for illustration purposes only. The paintings may appear larger than in real life. :)

Acadia Gallery’s annual show resumes after the 2020 Covid-19 interruption. Under ordinary conditions, the show is held in January but the gallery is bumping it up to September this year, which is kind of nice, if you ask me.

Opening reception: Saturday, September 17th at 7 pm

Exhibit runs: Saturday, September 17 through Saturday, October 22, 2022

Location: 10 Highland Avenue
Beveridge Arts Centre, Wolfville, NS
(corner of Highland and Main Streets, enter through the main doors closest to Main Street

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and it’s there on the right, just a few steps in.)

From the gallery’s website:

Opened in 1978, the Acadia University Art Gallery offers a year-round exhibition programme of contemporary and historical work. The exhibitions and outreach programming of the Acadia University Art Gallery promote visual literacy and enhance the intellectual and cultural experience of the University and wider community.

Exhibitions are presented from internal and external curatorial projects, submissions from artists and exhibitions from other cultural institutions including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the National Gallery of Canada, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and international organizations.

I participated in this show in the past am excited to be part of it again. When I dropped off my pieces there were over a hundred pieces of work lining the perimeter of the gallery, waiting to be installed.

There was something else there too.

Some art lessons don’t contain words.

It’s been a while since I visited the gallery, (even by pandemic standards) and it brought back memories from a show Alex Colville had while he was Chancellor from 1981 to 1991. In this particular exhibit, he had a large drawing, deconstructing his iconic painting of the horse and train. It’s a lesson in perspective that demonstrated how he carved the horse out of lines that composed a large box around the horse and how he connected the horse back to the train. When I walked into the gallery to drop my paintings off this past weekend, somehow, that exhibit still stood there in my mind’s eye.

Magic.

1. Some maps refer to Main Street as the Glooscap Trail.