:- STITCH, PAINT, SCULPT

Stitch, Paint, Sculpt: Three Artists, Three Media 

opens May 20 and runs until July 20

Laurie Swim Gallery
138 Lincoln Street, Lunenburg

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Opening reception

Sunday, May 20, 2018 from 2:00-5:00PM 

Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. 

 

Hangama Amiri, painter, and Chippie Kennedy, sculptor, join fabric artist Laurie Swim in the show Stitch, Paint, Sculpt: Three Artists, Three Media. Gallery director Larry Goldstein says, "With these three fine artists, the gallery will craft itself into a place of vibrant and diverse creativity."

 

Goldstein says the May 20 show opening from 2:00pm-5:00pm is designed to "enlighten the curious, inspire the imagination, and lift the spirit."

 

Laurie Swim’s textile art explores the concepts of home, community, and story. Most recently, she completed The Hope and Survival Memorial Quilt, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion in a community-based textile project comprised of many textural elements. The project has been purchased and will be donated to the province of Nova Scotia in 2027.

 

About Hangama and Chippie, Laurie Swim says, “Thirteen years after opening, sharing our gallery space in this way is refreshing and exciting.”

 

Hangama Amiri’s vivid paintings explore “childhood memory, cross-cultural dialogue, and Afghan feminism.” She has been a featured artist at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto and received the Portia White Protégé Award in 2013. Hangama will be attending Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut this fall to complete her MFA in Painting and Printmaking. Hangama is looking forward to this compelling collaboration and says, “Larry mounted my first professional solo show in 2013. Coming back is like coming home.”

 

Chippie Kennedy’s evocative sculptures are “driven by her fascination with the presentation of the human form.” She is a recipient of the 2017 Canadian Portrait Society’s Best Portrait Award. "Her realist works blend warm sensuousness with unromanticized truth," according to the news release, "arousing a sense of fascination in the viewer. About her work lending balance to the trio of styles, Chippie says, “I’m truly looking forward to seeing our contrasting artwork come together in one space.”

 

Opening reception
Sunday, May 20, 2018 from 2-5PM. 

Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. 

 

About Laurie Swim Gallery: Laurie Swim Gallery is a fine art gallery established in 2005 in Lunenburg, NS. Laurie specializes in quilt and textile art and received the prestigious Portia White Prize in 2013. She has produced numerous works of community-based art and her personal art focuses on life in her community. She has also published 3 books on the art of quilting and a children’s story of historical fiction titled, Hope and Survival: A Story of the Halifax Explosion.

 

www.LaurieSwim.com