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- In Transit # 8
acrylic on hardboard 4"x4" 1998
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- In Transit #5
acrylic on hardboard 4"x4" 1999
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- In Transit #7
acrylic on hardboard 4"x4" 1998
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- Memory Place #1
graphite and coloured pencil on watercolour board 20"x24" 2000
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- Memory Place #5
graphite and coloured pencil on watercolour board 24""x24" 2000
artist statement
Since 1995, when a major exhibition of my work, Horizontal Paintings, was shown at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, I have continued to explore the metaphysical elements of time and space. For the project titled In Transit, I have integrated the abstract spatial narrative with realism.
To communicate subjective interest in the mysteries of life and death, vertical rectangles in the proportion of the standard door symbolize existence which is always in transit. Whether exits or entrances, barriers or openings, form is achieved by layering colours in a pointilist technique.
Accompanying this work are paintings of objects and talismans connected with particular people and events, and monochrome drawings of memory places. The echoing shape of the door connects the abstract themes with reality.
Autobiographical elements of the outer life guide the viewer to the inner tenderness and turbulence and unknowables of existence. Art is the spiritual animation of life.
selected biography
Nancy Stevens received her bachelor in Fine Arts from Mount Allison University. She has participated in group shows across Canada and her work is included in a number of public collections. In the past ten years, she has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery, and the New Brunswick Museum.
