An Outdoor Art Gallery of Site Specific Installations

Summer and Fall out of the City

Jeannie Thib's solo exhibition Assembled Landscapes opens at Ferneyhough Contemporary in North Bay on September 11th.

The Forest Art Project  @ The  Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve Ltd

FIELDWORK-Old Brooke Rd Bathurst Burgess Sherbrooke, ON (near Maberly)

PENELOPE STEWART @ Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York www.albrightknox.org    Opening September 24, 2010  September 24- mid December, 2010

Jeannie Thib
Assembled Landscapes:
The exhibition consists of recent screenprints on Japanese paper and includes work done during an artist residency in Namadgi National Park and at Megalo Print Studio in Canberra, Australia. Images of clouds and other details from 19th and early 20th century wood engravings are integrated with landscape elements derived from direct observation. These various fragments are pieced together, redrawn and printed to form new constructed landscapes.

Jeannie Thib
Assembled Landscapes
Ferneyhough Contemporary
September 11 - September 30, 2010
Opening Saturday, September 11, 2-4pm
157 First Ave. E., North Bay, Ontario P1B 1J7
www.ferneyhoughgallery.com
jferneyh@onlink.net
705-476-1534

The Forest Art Project @ The  Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve Ltd

During the late days of summer a special breed of artist is congregating in Ontario's Cottage Country to engage in artistic activities of a natural kind: they will transform a small part of Haliburton Forest's landscape into a Land Art experience. Under the direction of Reinhard Reitzenstein, seven artists will continue to create on site-specific wilderness art installations along forest trails just north of the Haliburton Forest Base Camp. This major initiative will be developed annually for the next thirty years, and will become known as The Forest Art Project.

This year's artists include Mary Anne Barkhouse, Gareth Lichty, Robert Wiens, Reinhard Reitzenstein. Also on site are works from, EJ Lightman, Anne O'Callaghan, Warren Quigley, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Penelope Stewart, and Gayle  Young

fieldwork’s third year (2010-11) began with two summer installations by Dan Nuttall and Flower Marie Lunn. (to mid September).  Jesse Stewart’s Aeolian Harp will open the end of September for the Autumn, and will be followed with work by Marc Walters for the Winter season.

Located in rural eastern Ontario, fieldwork invites artists to create site-specific art installations each season in a field and its surrounds, for the public to discover and explore year round.  The public has free access to the site.  Go to the website for further details about past installations and for current news/postings from fieldwork
artists. 

www.fieldworkproject.com

Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
www.albrightknox.org   
Opening September 24, 2010  September 24- mid December, 2010

Apian Screen II, 2010
Apian Screen II is the third architectural installation in the series of beeswax rooms which explores the beehive metaphor in utopian architecture. In this version over 6000 high relief beeswax tiles have been carefully placed on the walls, floor to ceiling at the Albright Knox Gallery, to create an imaginary landscape or cityscape.  The source imagery for the tiles was inspired by research into the ideas of Le Corbusier, Olmstead, Louise Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others, who were fascinated by the social model of the beehive.  The beehive began to represent a simple social democratic ideal, one that could be used as a blueprint in the creation of the model city, or utopian scheme.
Individually the tiles reflect a scale model, and when placed together a model city with circular roadways radiating outwards creating intricate routes and patterns.  This large beeswax map envelopes the room and transforms it into a sensory space. The honey smell is in the air, and the colours and tones of the wax are all compelling and you just want to touch and follow the roadways with your fingers to imaginary places.