Corbin Elliot: Upon a Star

Dance (After Matisse), Acrylic & Modelling Paste on Wood Panel, 3.5 x 6 feet.

Corbin Elliot: Upon a Star

September 13 – October 26, 2024
Opening Reception: September 13, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Artist Talk: October 19, 2:00 – 3:00pm
WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay

Presented as part of the 2024/2025 programming of North Bay’s public art gallery at the WKP Kennedy Gallery, Upon a Star, opens as Corbin Elliot’s largest solo-exhibition. Specializing in contemporary painting approaches that idealize, confront or conceptualize fated aspects of our shared reality, Elliot shares a body of work that consists of over 20 pieces that were completed over the past year after his time as Artist-in-Residence at the same exhibiting institution.

Where his canvas becomes a personal journalistic excavation, such paintings inevitably come to reflect and interpret a unified humanity. At its core, Upon a Star, honours the range of human experiences as indebted to a life of continuous growth and transformation. The artist reminds us that while tomorrow is never promised, hope and beauty will always surround us in some way. Woven together through repeated iconography and symbolism, he creates a visual language that speaks to the surreal nature of our lives and eternally liminal presence amongst the stars we reside.

Passing, Again, Acrylic & Modelling Paste on Canvas, 48 x 60 inches.

Immersive in the sense of their execution, Elliot’s works introduce novel techniques and sculptural paint application to transcend the painting’s two-dimensional plane and dismantle the boundaries between image and the viewer’s position. The result is an impactful body of work that demands to be seen in person.

The public is encouraged to join the opening reception on Friday, September 13th, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay. The event is free to attend with no registration required. An Artist Talk will also be held on Saturday, October 19th, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm at the WKP Kennedy Gallery, no registration required.

This exhibition has been displayed with privileged support from the Ontario Arts Council.

Everything You Wanted, Acrylic & Modelling Paste on Wood Panel, 20 x 24 inches.

Artist Biography:

Corbin Elliot is a painter, illustrator and muralist working and residing in North Bay, Ontario. In 2022, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from Nipissing University. After graduating, he completed an internship as assistant curator at the WKP Kennedy Gallery in 2023. Along with achieving an artist residency and upcoming solo-exhibition within the same institution, he has had various other displays of his artwork within the northern regions of Ontario such as a recently completed mural for Up Here festival in Sudbury. Elliot explores an artistic practice that is concerned with environment, identity, connection and relationality. Largely focused on forms of drawing and painting that incorporate figurative subjects, he communicates imagery that idealizes, confronts, or conceptualizes aspects of our shared reality through contemporary, innovative approaches. Through working for festivals like River & Sky and other branding experience, Elliot has also established efforts within illustration and graphic design. With an active presence on social media, the artist is consistent in engagement of his artworks, with specially filmed reveals of his paintings that showcase their process from start to finish.

Contact:
corbinelliotart.com
corbinelliotart@gmail.com
Facebook @corbinelliotart
Instagram @corbin_elliot_art

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