JAN 16 – FEB 9, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 18th, 2pm – 4pm

RICHARD CHARTER | Vertical Human Horizontal World (mixed media)

In Vertical Human Horizontal World, musician and artist Richard Charter uses thread and ink to translate musical scores into visual artworks, creating symbolic representations of music notations. Charter’s works, without the production of any actual decibels of sound, allow the viewer to engage with and intuit their own narrative from musical scores, fulfilling an act that is entirely musical in nature whether the viewer is a trained or untrained musician or a hearing or non-hearing person. The abundance of straight layered lines and the contrast of the vertical and horizontal in Charter’s work provides reflection on both the significance of the line in musical notation and on our sense of self in relation to our landscapes. The title of the exhibition takes its inspiration from Canadian Prairie Poetry, where the poet is often struck by the image of the human as a vertical intrusion in an otherwise horizontal landscape, eternally returning to levelness.

Richard Charter is an artist and musician based in Vancouver, BC. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from Ambrose University in 2015. In 2020 he received a Master’s Degree in Music Composition from the University of Victoria. Charter’s music has been performed in venues throughout western Canada, and his visual art has been exhibited in Alberta and British Columbia.

Check out our YouTube Channel for a video of this exhibition!