Bob Hainstock, Peer Gallery

Bob Hainstock has worked in Atlantic Canada and Western Canada as an artist and journalist for almost four decades. A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, he is a fulltime printmaker and painter and part time art instructor at Acadia University, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, and conducts private workshops throughout the Atlantic region.

He is represented by galleries in most provinces across Canada.

Hainstock’s work frequently explores the increasing contrasts and frictions between a shrinking rural culture and swelling urban cultures, and between natural and human-made environments. His studio and home are located 600 feet above Atlantic Canada’s beautiful Annapolis Valley — giving a unique perspective to colors and textures of season and day, but also the economic and social patterns of the rural fabric spread out below.

Bob Hainstock is an award-winning author and illustrator of a best-selling book on rural architectural heritage, and an award-winning journalist for news stories, feature articles, and photography of rural life. His studio practices include a full range of painting and printmaking techniques, as well as mixed media and sculpture from natural materials. Hainstock’s rust prints have become his unique signature within the printmaking world and also provided a strong and unusual character to the highly successful, New Landscapes, series. His work is represented in various galleries in Canada and the United States, and in many corporate and public collections.

Exhibitions 2010 — Peer Gallery

Bob Hainstock & Sally Warren
Recent works on paper, monoprints, mixed media & small fired clay objects

Artists' Statements

Bob Hainstock

Hainstock's new Album Series reflects a growing awareness by the boomer generation of a future of reduced individual memory and value; seen against a constantly changing background of startling leaps in new technologies. The old family photo album serves a dual function for the artist -- acknowledgment of an inevitable failing of human tissue in data storage and retrieval systems, as well as a replacement of family tradition with digital and other computer technologies. All works in the Album Series are based on a new series of rust collagraph prints, with mixed media including collage, fibre, and pastel.

Sally Warren

Up close and very personal, my work centres on the human figure. Working with a model is a trust, intimate and immediate. The model is life, the pose is a fleeting thing. Seeing/drawing, capturing the essence of action or moment of rest without the mind interfering is the goal at the beginning. From there I play, attempting to articulate and interpret that original fleeting impression in different media while maintaining a sense of life. This collection of work explores the figure in drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

Dates: May 15 – May 30, 2010
Hours for exhibit: Daily, noon – 4:00
Opening: Saturday, May 15, 2:00 – 5:00
Artists' Talk: Sunday, May 23, 3:00

Awards & Exhibitions (selected venues)

Work Selected to Nova Scotia Art Bank - seven recent years
Canada Council grant, individual creation (1983)
Nova Scotia Arts Council grant, individual creation (1997)
Artist in Residence, St. Michael’s International Printshop
Province of Nova Scotia Art Bank, juror
Nova Scotia Arts Council, Peer Assessment
Domesticated Landscapes, solo, Arts On Atlantic Gallery, Calgary (2009) New Work, solo, Harvest Gallery, Wolfville (2009) The Landscape, Phil Secord Gallery, Halifax (2009) Domesticated Landscapes, The Stall Gallery, Saskatoon (2009)
Invited artist, 2nd Annual International Printmaking Exhibition., Beijing, Seoul, Boston, Miami, Palo Alto, (2008)
Eight Printmakers, Kansai Int. Print Exh., Kyoto, Japan (2007)
Bob Hainstock, New Work, solo, AGNS AR&R , Halifax (2006)
Ink, Paper, Art, Argyle Gallery & NSPA, Halifax (2005)
Vessels, solo, Wallspace Gallery, St. John’s, Nfld. (2003)
Passages, juried, Pier 21 Gallery, Halifax, NS (2001)
Sapporo International Biennale, juried, Sapporo, Japan (1998)
Common Ground, juried, American Print Alliance tour 13 U.S. cities (2000-1998)
Far & Wide Exhibition, juried, Visual Artists of Nova Scotia (2000)
19th International Exhibition, juried, Kanagawa, Japan (1997)
New Stuff, solo, Viewpoint Gallery, Halifax (2000)
Contemporary Printmakers, juried, Bristol, England, and Dundee, Scotland (1998)
26th & 25th Bradley International Exhibitions, juried, Peoria, Illinois (1998, 1997)
Nova Scotia Printmakers, juried, University of Virginia (1998)
Fundy, solo, St. Johns University College, Winnipeg, Man.(1997)
Scars & Textures, solo, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax (1995)
Contemporary NS Printmaking, juried, Quebec City, Quebec, & Halifax, NS (1997)
Urban Fortress, solo, University of Manitoba, School of Architecture (1998)
Collagraphs, solo, Portage Regional Art Gallery, Portage la Prairie (1997)
Alternatives, duo, ARCAC Artspace, Annapolis Royal, NS (1997)

Bob Hainstock
1688 Brow of Mountain Road
Centreville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0P 1J0
902-582-3656
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Other galleries selling Bob Hainstock's prints:

Harvest Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Art Sales & Rental - Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Phil Secord Gallery, Halifax
Art Rental & Sales - Winnipeg Art Gallery
Arts On Atlantic Gallery, Calgary
The Stall Gallery, Saskatoon