September 2 - 26
AMBIGUOUS
Dwight Seigner - Pontypool
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A selection of recent non-objective paintings in acrylic. As a Formalist, the artist enjoys working with vibrant colour, unexpected surfaces, and compositions that reference the picture plane.
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 3rd, 7-8:30 pm
Artist’s Biography
Dwight is currently a teacher with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. He worked as a Programme Designer and Gallery Educator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection when it re-opened in 1984. Prior to that, he taught for a period at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. Retirement after one more year means that he will have the opportunity to devote more time to painting and music, and possibly, travel.
Dwight works mainly in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking. He prefers to use acrylic and watercolour and likes to stretch the media to discover new effects and surfaces. Lately, he has been able to make some outdoor installations and hopes to develop more pieces that deal with wind and light.
His work is in some public and private collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank.
Artist’s Statement
Art is about ideas and my ideas currently involve issues around the act of art-making and the process itself. Images and representations are statements about the way we perceive, interpret, and understand reality. The work I have been doing for the last ten years references many and varied painting styles and relates to the reading that takes me into historical and mythical concepts that have captured my interest and imagination in one way or another. The broad concepts here are bound up with the basic tools of art making where “transparency” in paint also means “Transparency” as a way of understanding the nature of perception and thought.