September 26 – October 27, 2024

MEET THE ARTISTS | Opening Reception Saturday, September 28th, 2pm – 4pm

In the Main Gallery

DAVID MARTINELLO | Conversing Gestures (mixed media)

Featuring abstract wood sculptures and prints combined with gestural markings, this exhibition by David Martinello in the Main Gallery highlights the beauty of wood, its intrinsic characteristics, and its role as a connective node to the environment. The contemplation of wood as an artistic material, and the engagement with the unique and whimsical aspects of its character, allows us to naturally develop an increased appreciation for the world around us and for what it provides. Wood is a material with its own spirit and its own embedded gestures, which inform the impact that it has and inspire Martinello to develop a variety of different techniques as a way to celebrate and muse with its many different lyrical attributes. These expressive qualities and different attributes give this material the ability to enhance our relationships to the environment and the resources that it provides, giving it the potential to change the intent with which people relate to their surroundings.

David Martinello is an artist from Mill Bay, Vancouver Island, who works with a variety of different techniques and mediums. He has exhibited his artwork in group and solo exhibitions on Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland, and in Ontario, and he also owns and operates a custom furniture business on Vancouver Island. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, and from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. Working with a multi-disciplinary approach along with conventional manipulations of wood Martinello discerns insights into the essence of the material. He explores its intrinsic properties, highlighting aspects of the medium that are often taken for granted or overlooked.

Check out our YouTube channel for a video of this exhibition. 

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