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Pictograph Newsletter for Jan. 19,2009
January 15, 2009
Our current exhibit "A Stranger in Paradise" comes to our community gallery with the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council. This same exhibit has been on tour at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa Ontario and The Thunder Bay Art Gallery. Quotations below are taken from the exhibitions catalogue available at The Pictograph Art Gallery. To read the complete comments of these curators on the artist and this body of work, feel free to take a leisurely reveiw of this material when you visit. The catalogue offers yet another descriptive dimension to the exhibit, enhancing the history of each print.
"The work of Mark Nisenholt in this exhibition results from his facility with new technology and new techniques of digital imaging. But that facility of his obtains from his unique exerience as a spectator and his ability to make his observed reality come to expressive life in drawing and printmaking. For him the objective world is the beginning of a considerable sorting of both intellectual and affective responses to what is grasped by observation. The discipline of drawing provides him with an unusual capacity for simultaneious recording and iterpretation of what his eye sees. The measured and cumulative process of printmaking have afforded him the means of fuller interpretation and expression as it lends itself to both the addition and subtraction of layers bring the right formal complexity to the requirements of meaning. Nisenholt has been able to synthesize the older technologies of drawing and printmaking with computer-driven digital imaging resulting in a distinctive artistic method"
David Aurandt - Executive Director - The Robert McLaughlin Gallery - Oshawa Ontario
" As this touring exhibition slowly precipitates inside our partnered institutions, as I interviewed this artist, scouted his website, and viewed originals, I have found myself increasingly intrigued as to how Mark Nisenholt's work speaks to us rather than as it represents him as a creative entity. I have assumed that as a contemporary artist, he works for his own fulfillment as well as for that of the receiving viewers."
Glenn Allison - Curator - Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Nienholt works in various mediums including painting, prints, drawing, computer art and mixed media. His work has been shown in Toronto, New York, Winnipeg, Duluth, and now in Atikokan.
"A Stranger in Paradise" on now until Jan. 31, at The Pictograph Art Gallery. We are located on the lower level of The Voyageur Mall, open Tues. - Sat. from 12: - 3:00 p.m.
Thank you for stopping in to see our Gallery and Gift Shop.
We hope you enjoyed your visit and will return.
The Pictograph Gallery - Atikokan Ontario - 1-807-597-4344
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