Kings County artist to be featured in art exhibition

The upcoming exhibition at the Acadia University Art Gallery, Emptying Landscapes: An Altered Place, features Kings County artist Bob Hainstock.

Curator Laurie Dalton says Hainstock explores shifting landscapes that have been subjected to human, environmental and other alterations.

She says when first observing Hainstock’s art, a viewer may be struck by his aesthetic treatment of the landscape or the mark inherent in his print-making process.

According to Dalton, landscape is important socially in terms of our associations, history and culture values connected to the land.

Images of abandoned villages, decaying barns, scorched earth, she says, speak simultaneously to the wreckage of human interventions and the aesthetic found in decay.

Hainstock has worked in Atlantic and Western Canada as an artist for more than 30 years. He is a full-time printmaker, painter, and arts instructor. Bob teaches at Acadia University and in many private workshops. His work is represented in galleries throughout Canada and the U.S. He is primarily concerned with landscape fictions and the potentials of texture and colour. He explores the contrasts and frictions between rural and urban cultures, and between natural and manmade environments. His studio techniques include a full range of painting, mixed media, collagraphs, woodblock, etchings, mono prints and experimental processes involving rust oxidation and handmade papers from Fundy seaweed.

The exhibition opens at 7 p.m. on Oct. 6 and Hainstock will be in attendance. It will run until Dec. 1.

The Acadia University Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. It remains open on Wednesdays until 7 p.m. Tours are available.