The Power of Colour: Jack Bishop’s Road Trip Playlist BY ELISSA BARNARD There’s a voice that keeps on calling me, down the road is where I’ll always be, oil and acrylic on canvas, 10 x 12 inches, 2020, Jack Bishop. Photo courtesy of Studio 21 Fine Art. Review|March 22, 2021 Stuck indoors due to COVID-19…
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A new international study has shown a 72 per cent slump in gallery income worldwide due to COVID-19 crisis, and Canada is not insulated from that Aron Hill, Colouring Page, 2020. Free downloadable edition for the “Inisolation” project with Herringer Kiss Gallery. by Leah Sandals If proof is needed that art dealing has changed in Canada…
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How do you review a painting exhibition you do not understand? Sara MacCulloch’s beautiful landscapes at Studio 21 should not be a mystery. The set-up is familiar: paintings line the walls of a white cube (or, as most people will see this particular show, they appear with the glow of a tablet or phone screen…
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Sydney Blum December 2, 2019 by Ray Cronin Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Studio 21 After several decades in New York, including 17 years teaching at the Parsons School of Design, Sydney Blum moved to Nova Scotia. Her recent exhibition “Icarus–Colour–Space” (her first solo show in her adopted home) featured five sculptures that seem to float, rippling, in…
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Until August 31 In what is becoming a summertime ritual, Studio 21 is exhibiting works by young artists new to the venerable gallery’s programming. As director Deborah Carver told me, she’s always trying to expand her clientele, as well as give her existing clients something new and, well, fresh, to consider. Highlight exhibitions allow her…
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In a city surrounded by ocean and forest, beauty is hard to miss in Halifax. These natural elements have been inspiring people for millennia so it’s no wonder that Halifax has such a rich artistic and cultural vibe too. This eventually became the inspiration for this article so others could enjoy some of the cultural gems in…
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We are very pleased to announce that Richard Thomas Davis’, Kindling and Mirrors has received an Honourable Mention at this year’s Figurativas competition in Barcelona Spain. Figurativas is the preeminent competition for representational painting, attracting artists from around the world. The painting will be exhibited at MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona in the Fall. Two other major…
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New works by Jack Bishop and Susan Hubley “The skin around every city looks the same. Miles of flat neon spelling well-known names.” That line from Bruce Cockburn’s song, “Silver Wheels,” is as true now as it was in 1976. We have all had the experience of driving into some North American city down a…
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Shopping carts, strip malls, side roads and parking lots make up the Halifax painter’s ‘brandscapes’ Halifax-based visual artist Jack Bishop paints Canadian landscapes…but probably not in the way you’d imagine. Gone are the shimmering lakes, unspoilt forest, winding rivers and roaming wildlife. In their place: gas stations, fast food chains, strip malls and parking lots teeming with cars. These are the…
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Exhibitions by Alex Livingston, Sydney Blum, and Curtis Botham. I was standing in an art gallery recently talking about what makes an artwork a painting or not. The answer seems obvious: if a painter paints, it’s a painting. But hold on. That conversation took place with Deborah Carver of Studio 21, and it was sparked…
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The Secord Gallery is on the second floor of a storefront on Quinpool Road. When you climb the stairs, you enter directly into the gallery space, which is broken up into several connected rooms where the works of their numerous artists are on view. Where Did the Time Go? features forty-seven of the gallery’s artists,…
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Rich, layered colours reveal a combination of music, landscape and still lives. To November 14 Studio 21, 5431 Doyle Street The colours in David Urban’s paintings are satisfyingly combative. Backgrounds of goldenrod and deep lavender house strange shapes in apricot orange, cornflower blue and turquoise—contrasting tones that Urban corrals into pleasing scenes. These backgrounds, while…
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