On Wednesday evening, August 31st, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., the Inverness County Centre for the Arts is proud to present the opening of ___L_I_N_E___, an exhibition curated by artist and Cape Breton summer resident Robin Hill exploring the structural underpinnings of line in visual art and creative writing. The work in the exhibition explores the use of line in many dimensions, such as its use as an organizing principle, a technique, a concept, a phenomenon, a residue, a situation, a notation, an accumulation, a trajectory, a map, or a political or geographic threshold among others, in multiple disciplines such as the written word, painting, sculpture, drawing photography, video and combinations thereof. The opening reception is a great opportunity to meet the artists and discuss their work.
The artists’ works span the languages of abstraction and representation and embodies as its motivation both the imagined and the real.
The material and conceptual strategies include fishing lines, outlines, on lines, in lines, across lines, linings, hard lines, soft lines, invisible lines, deadlines, line ups, clotheslines, crossing lines, drawing the line, line by line, lines of verse, tracing the line, second line.
Visual Artists: Caroline Cox, Alex Livingston, Robyn Love, Barb Hunt, Sadie Bills, Elizabeth Whalley, Katie Kehoe, Robin Hill, Paul Ballard, Ann Richardson, Heather Nichol, Tony MacKinnon, Irena Schön and Brooklyn Stewart.
Creative Writers: Anne Lévesque, Susan Paddon, Sarah Faber, Rebecca Silver Slayter, Leslie Schwerin, Kjeld Haraldsen (a.k.a. Richard Harvor), Oana Avasilichioaei, and Iris Cushing.
Everyone is welcome. Free admission. Refreshments and cash bar.