Gambrels, Eves and Beams
CCHHUURRCCHH Gallery, Mahone Bay, NS | October 2023
Curated by Andrew Cairns, Hosted by Hannah Epstein
This exhibition consists of observational paintings of farm buildings and infrastructure around my family's decommissioned farm. These paintings are created in a way that pulls from the colours and graphic nature of early science fiction and horror film posters. The exhibition explores tropes of rural farm spaces found in these genres of fiction, heightening these real images to create mysterious and ominous implications of a narrative based on colour and contrast. The title of the exhibition refers to Gambrels (the type of roof found on one of these barns) Eves, a play on words meaning evening and the eaves of a building, and Beams, both the structural beams of a building and the beams of light that come from farm machinery and buildings while working at night.
