Alex Livingston: Paintings 1985-2005

Opening: Thursday, 10 March at 8 pm



This mid-career survey exhibition spans 20 years of work by Halifax-based painter Alex Livingston, from his early colourful expressionist imagery, through biomorphic figuration to his recent abstractions of land and water forms. Throughout his career, Livingston's work has oscillated between representation and abstraction, between the single iconic image and an overall dance of of image and gesture, and between small, intimate work and oversize canvases. In her catalogue essay, curator Susan Gibson Garvey examines his painting investigations and experiments, teasing out the many threads of his oeuvre in order to make sense of the parts as facets of a rich and consistent whole. The exhibition has received support from the NS Department of Tourism and Culture and the Canada Council for the Arts.