Gallery / Exhibit
admin@arcac.ca
902.532.7069
Event in Room: Mym Gallery
OPENING RECEPTION
Everyone welcome - Light refreshments - Free admission
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL / TED LINE
Exhibition continues February 15 - March 29
DESCRIPTION:
A series of small drawings and paintings. Intimacy and closeness to materials are the key messages.
Ted Lind is a painter based in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia. Lind's art work is continually evolving, but its constant is colour. He is influenced by a 35-year career in art museums, and his work is held in public and private collections in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
- www.tedlind.com -
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My formative years as an adult artist were inspired by my family and work as a museum educator. My wife introduced me to dance as an art form and she taught me so much about patterns and movement. I also have three daughters who danced and they performed from early childhood into adulthood. As we followed their artistic progress, I learned more about the intricacies of dance and the complex designs of the theatre, attending scores of professional performances whenever we could. Light, colour, texture, layering, geometry - all these artistic elements play roles in my work as a painter and I credit these interests to the ongoing experiences I have had with dance and theatre.
I also have to consider the influence of an unlimited number of art works that I have viewed, studied and interpreted, having worked as a museum educator for 35 years. Through my work at four art museums in the United States I was able to see original art from around the world and across time. I have been particularly attracted to modern and contemporary art, being informed by almost a hundred years of abstract painting.
I look for artistic solutions that communicate a certain aggressive energy, through an expressive handling of paint. My art has become a wonderful place where I can teeter between irrational "visioning" and practical "constructing". I often find myself daydreaming about shapes, colours, lines, textures, people, situations, and events that I find in the world around me. I use these 'dreamy' observations as starting points and carry through with these perceptions to morph into compositions that convey my own inner world.
My art excites and challenges me, with the possibilities seeming endless. I hope the creations will be compelling to viewers as well, drawing them through the portal of the artworks and into the twists and turns of my imagination. I also intend that viewers of my work can appreciate the value of close looking and its implications for critical thinking in a world where we all need to pay attention.
This exhibit, “Small is Beautiful”, features acrylic paintings and works on paper that have been created in the past two years. Life in Nova Scotia enables me to focus on abstract, non-objective work. The energy in the implied “infinity” (water, land, open sky) around me leads me to generate an abundant range of images - geometric, natural, textural, and full of colour. Recently I have become inspired by working on a small scale - there is an intimacy with the elements that is especially meaningful. I want the viewers of my work to get close and see the complex layering and arrangement of shapes that I thrive on in this environment that allows me to freely see. I hope people will feel the abundant joy that I get through the creation of art that is personal and, I think, universal.
Bio:
I am a practicing artist and an active board member of the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council. I retired in 2013 after 40 years working as an art educator and curator. Most of my career was spent in art museums and I have a special fondness for my time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Albany Institute of History & Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Newark Museum. I majored in visual arts at Albion College (Michigan) and earned my Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rochester Institute of Technology (New York). I was also a Max Beckmann Fellow in Advanced Painting Studies at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. I spent time apprenticed to a silversmith in Tlaquepaque, Mexico. I greatly enjoy viewing art with other people, both young and old, and believe that art can help us all find perspective in a complex world. I live in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia with my wife, Judy, and we both enjoy closely following the arts careers of our three grown daughters.
admin@arcac.ca
902.532.7069
Event in Room: Mym Gallery
OPENING RECEPTION
Everyone welcome - Light refreshments - Free admission
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL / TED LINE
Exhibition continues February 15 - March 29
DESCRIPTION:
A series of small drawings and paintings. Intimacy and closeness to materials are the key messages.
Ted Lind is a painter based in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia. Lind's art work is continually evolving, but its constant is colour. He is influenced by a 35-year career in art museums, and his work is held in public and private collections in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
- www.tedlind.com -
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My formative years as an adult artist were inspired by my family and work as a museum educator. My wife introduced me to dance as an art form and she taught me so much about patterns and movement. I also have three daughters who danced and they performed from early childhood into adulthood. As we followed their artistic progress, I learned more about the intricacies of dance and the complex designs of the theatre, attending scores of professional performances whenever we could. Light, colour, texture, layering, geometry - all these artistic elements play roles in my work as a painter and I credit these interests to the ongoing experiences I have had with dance and theatre.
I also have to consider the influence of an unlimited number of art works that I have viewed, studied and interpreted, having worked as a museum educator for 35 years. Through my work at four art museums in the United States I was able to see original art from around the world and across time. I have been particularly attracted to modern and contemporary art, being informed by almost a hundred years of abstract painting.
I look for artistic solutions that communicate a certain aggressive energy, through an expressive handling of paint. My art has become a wonderful place where I can teeter between irrational "visioning" and practical "constructing". I often find myself daydreaming about shapes, colours, lines, textures, people, situations, and events that I find in the world around me. I use these 'dreamy' observations as starting points and carry through with these perceptions to morph into compositions that convey my own inner world.
My art excites and challenges me, with the possibilities seeming endless. I hope the creations will be compelling to viewers as well, drawing them through the portal of the artworks and into the twists and turns of my imagination. I also intend that viewers of my work can appreciate the value of close looking and its implications for critical thinking in a world where we all need to pay attention.
This exhibit, “Small is Beautiful”, features acrylic paintings and works on paper that have been created in the past two years. Life in Nova Scotia enables me to focus on abstract, non-objective work. The energy in the implied “infinity” (water, land, open sky) around me leads me to generate an abundant range of images - geometric, natural, textural, and full of colour. Recently I have become inspired by working on a small scale - there is an intimacy with the elements that is especially meaningful. I want the viewers of my work to get close and see the complex layering and arrangement of shapes that I thrive on in this environment that allows me to freely see. I hope people will feel the abundant joy that I get through the creation of art that is personal and, I think, universal.
Bio:
I am a practicing artist and an active board member of the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council. I retired in 2013 after 40 years working as an art educator and curator. Most of my career was spent in art museums and I have a special fondness for my time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Albany Institute of History & Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Newark Museum. I majored in visual arts at Albion College (Michigan) and earned my Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rochester Institute of Technology (New York). I was also a Max Beckmann Fellow in Advanced Painting Studies at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. I spent time apprenticed to a silversmith in Tlaquepaque, Mexico. I greatly enjoy viewing art with other people, both young and old, and believe that art can help us all find perspective in a complex world. I live in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia with my wife, Judy, and we both enjoy closely following the arts careers of our three grown daughters.
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
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