NU welcomes artist Erin Schwab

Nipissing’s Fine and Performing Arts department is hosting an artist talk by Erin Schwab this Thursday, February 27, at 1 p.m. in Monastery Hall (M101).

Schwab is an Alberta based artist who uses drawing as a way of understanding the intangible. Her charcoal drawings meticulously capture details of the natural world like the knurled notches of bark or ripples in fungus. Through her exploration of light and shadow, tension and release, growth and decay, she finds the quiet relationships of things - natural forms in the act of exchange, a poetic juxtaposition of death and life simultaneously pursuing their own agenda quite apart from us.

Schwab received her BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Alberta. She is currently Head of the Visual Art and Design program at Keyano College in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

This talk is generously supported by Line Gallery. Schwab's exhibition Migrating Colony: Flood will open at Line Gallery on Friday, February 28, from 7 to 9 p.m., and will run until March 29.