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Beyond Words
A travelling exhibition of hand made "books" - Beyond Words, is the work of nineteen celebrated regional artists: Jim Boyd, Linda Brine, Darren Byers, Brigitte Clavette, George Fry, Toby Graser, Fred Harrison, Susan Vida Judah, Suzanne Hill, Kathy Hooper, Sue Hooper, Elma McKay, Andrea Meeson, Brian Meeson, Alison Murphy, John Murphy, Peter Powning, Karen Shackleton, Peter Thomas, which will travel to Fredericton, Moncton and Halifax over the next few months.
The exhibition Beyond words is a challenge to conventionality. Verbal language has powerful links to our conscious and subconscious selves, and as such may function as a means of manipulation and constraint, imposed on us by others, or springing from ourselves as a means of self-justification. Too often words inhibit the primal response, the genuine impulses we experience before we crush our feelings into constructed language. Thom Gunn refers to “the dark before of truth”. Love, instinctive kindness, deep fears are not created because we articulate them, but rather arise in a current of emotional honesty. All the works in this exhibit explore the concept of ‘book’ from that deep current which exists within us and which defies the constraints of ‘word’.
Our deepest and truest response is not linguistic, it is sentient, direct; it is, ultimately, wordless.
Pip Murphy
Beaverbrook Art Gallery Opening
Invisible worlds, Fredericton, April 17th
Kathy is part of a group show with Toby Graser and Suzanne Hill entitled "Invisible worlds" which will open at the Beaverbrook Gallery, Fredericton on the 17th April 2010 Terry Graff the curator of the show writes of Kathy's work... "In the three distinct groups of recent work presented here - "Landscapes Restored," "Icon Series," and "Iconic Beings" - the artist evokes recognition that our ordinary human existence is encompassed by a previously unacknowledged plane of being where the unseen is the ground of the seen. She states, "We don't 'see' what is really there." Her focus is not on representing the external landscape but on bringing to the surface hidden structures and forgotten images buried deep within the self that have not been erased, only covered up."
Hooper Studios Gallery Opening, Milagros
Saturday, May 15th
On May Sat 15th between 2pm and 5pm Sue and Kathy will have an opening of thier show "Milagros" which explores the beauty, fun and colours of the Yucatan, where they have spent time this year. Please join us on Saturday, for a bit of a Mexican Fiesta! The show runs until June 10th.
The Gallery opens for the season May 15th. Regular Gallery hours will be Thursday and Friday 2pm to 5pm and Saturday 12pm to 4pm. Also we are open by chance or appointment. 506-650-3333
Invisible Worlds - Toby Graser, Suzanne Hill, Kathy Hooper
April 18, 2010 - June 13, 2010
Kings County Studio Tour 2010
June 12 & 13
Fredericton Edventures Creativity weekend
July 24 & 25
9am - 12pm & 1pm - 4pm
Exploring Creativity through Drawing & Painting
Everyone is Creative! with Sue Hooper
Uncover your creativity! Take time to play and have fun. If you've always wanted to take up art, this is your chance. You will explore through the process of "seeing". Look at things, see them, and become excited by ordinary, everyday items. Draw from these images and make colourful, expressive paintings.
Offered By: Fredericton Tourism
Location: NBCCD
Workshop Fee: $140 + HST
Materials Fee: $15
For further info : www.edventures.ca
Hooper Studios Gallery Opening: Toby Graser
Small works
Saturday, September 11th, 2 - 5. Show runs until September 30th
Lorenzo Art Series Opening
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
with Sue Hooper, Sunday, September 19th
2 - 4
Hooper Studios Gallery Opening: Jim Boyd
New works in stone & wood
Sunday, October 3rd, 2 - 5. Show runs until October 30th.
Hooper Studios Gallery Gifts show Opening
November 7th, 2 - 5. Show runs until November 28th.
