Lingeresque: Sean McQuay
March 4 to April 1, 2012
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 4, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Artist Talk: to be announced
In this exhibition, artist Sean McQuay proposes to gather material from a wide ranging collection of lingering thoughts and concepts, allowing them to manifest into a retrospective format. Aspects will include works produced at intervals during a series of walks where outcomes are not measured by (accepted) time so much as by distance; forming circuitous, linear and irregular patterns. Three dimensional constructions, installations and performance works will reflect the poetic sojourns and musings of McQuay. “When I find a place or situation that stimulates my senses I am reluctant to depart. I dally with the details, slowly deciphering it’s intrigue.” Sean McQuay will also be including work by some of his students from Durham College in our second floor, Stairs Project Gallery.
Sean McQuay is a regional artist with a B.A. from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, including an exchange semester at Cooper Union in New York. He teaches visual art at Durham College in Oshawa. McQuay has exhibited in solo and group shows at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, the Art Gallery of Memorial University in Newfoundland and The Station Gallery. His work is in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canada Council Art Bank and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. He has also been the recipient of grants from both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council.
Curator Maralynn Cherry