Exhibition
Wavelengths: Colour | Code | Concept
Garry Neill Kennedy, Eczema from the series Six Pink Paintings, 1994. Fluorescent Liquitex paint on chipboard, 78.7 × 78.9 cm. Gift of the artist, 2010.
Wavelengths explores how artists engage with colour as both material and meaning. Drawn exclusively from the Gallery’s permanent collection, the exhibition highlights the many ways colour conveys emotional, cultural, and perceptual experience across abstraction, conceptual art, and minimalism.
The exhibition features work by Canadian artists such as Rita Letendre, Claude Tousignant, Guido Molinari, Garry Neill Kennedy, Gerald Ferguson, Nancy Stevens, and Michael Fernandes—spanning movements from the Plasticiens and Painters Eleven to NSCAD’s influential conceptual legacy. These works are placed in dialogue with international figures like Gene Davis and Robert Motherwell, reflecting the broader transnational context of postwar abstraction.
From immersive colour fields to muted compositions grounded in repetition and structure, Wavelengths reveals how colour functions beyond surface, acting as signal, rhythm, and sensorial force.
