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Event in Room: Library Gallery
OPENING RECEPTION:
Everyone welcome - Light refreshments - Free admission
Land and Sky / Duane Nickerson
March 1-29, ARTSPLACE Library Gallery
Nickerson’s work in his current exhibition entitled Land and Sky is rooted in the tradition of landscape painting, a long and varied practice that extends to the dawn of human civilization and is featured prominently in the art making activity of many Canadian artists. The uninhabited and untrammeled landscape is a key facet of Canadian identity, and it is becoming a prominent symbol for the global environmental movement. Our growing awareness that the human species faces hard limits to its growth and consumption makes Nickerson’s detailed paintings of tree trunks, roots and leaves poignant reminders of the fragility of life. The delicacy and care of the artist’s technique underscore his reverence for the myriad forms and structures that exist in the forest.
Duane Nickerson is an award-winning, internationally recognized Canadian artist lives and works in rural Nova Scotia. Born in 1965 into a family of nine children in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Nickerson began painting in oils at 12 years of age. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 1991 and the same year was awarded the Governor Generals Gold Medal Award for Graduate Study.
Nickerson has travelled extensively, including a 7 year sojourn in Borneo. His paintings reside in public and private collections in Australia, Brunei, Canada, France, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, the UK and the United States. Oil painting is his primary focus, although he uses drawing and watercolour media to explore composition and gather ideas. His work has spanned a full range of subject matter from figure painting to still life to landscape. Throughout his career, Nickerson has engaged with in-depth exploration of surface and form, and his compositions often defy the conventions associated with traditional oil painting. He often refers to his painting process as: “gleaning meaning from the visual topography of my surroundings.”
His work is known for rigorous attention to technique, the use of archival quality artist materials and thematic concerns involving time and transcendence.
duanenickerson.com
admin@arcac.ca
902.532.7069
Event in Room: Library Gallery
OPENING RECEPTION:
Everyone welcome - Light refreshments - Free admission
Land and Sky / Duane Nickerson
March 1-29, ARTSPLACE Library Gallery
Nickerson’s work in his current exhibition entitled Land and Sky is rooted in the tradition of landscape painting, a long and varied practice that extends to the dawn of human civilization and is featured prominently in the art making activity of many Canadian artists. The uninhabited and untrammeled landscape is a key facet of Canadian identity, and it is becoming a prominent symbol for the global environmental movement. Our growing awareness that the human species faces hard limits to its growth and consumption makes Nickerson’s detailed paintings of tree trunks, roots and leaves poignant reminders of the fragility of life. The delicacy and care of the artist’s technique underscore his reverence for the myriad forms and structures that exist in the forest.
Duane Nickerson is an award-winning, internationally recognized Canadian artist lives and works in rural Nova Scotia. Born in 1965 into a family of nine children in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Nickerson began painting in oils at 12 years of age. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 1991 and the same year was awarded the Governor Generals Gold Medal Award for Graduate Study.
Nickerson has travelled extensively, including a 7 year sojourn in Borneo. His paintings reside in public and private collections in Australia, Brunei, Canada, France, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, the UK and the United States. Oil painting is his primary focus, although he uses drawing and watercolour media to explore composition and gather ideas. His work has spanned a full range of subject matter from figure painting to still life to landscape. Throughout his career, Nickerson has engaged with in-depth exploration of surface and form, and his compositions often defy the conventions associated with traditional oil painting. He often refers to his painting process as: “gleaning meaning from the visual topography of my surroundings.”
His work is known for rigorous attention to technique, the use of archival quality artist materials and thematic concerns involving time and transcendence.
duanenickerson.com
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