January 8 – February 26, PICTUS
Featuring artwork by Jared Betts
January 8 – February 26, 2022
Exhibition Opens Saturday, January 8, during regular gallery hours
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 22, 2:00 p.m. via Zoom
AX is proud to welcome PICTUS to the gallery. PICTUS consists of a series of mixed media and acrylic paintings by Moncton-based artist Jared Betts. The exhibition is curated by Paul Édouard Bourque, who had this to say about Jared’s work:
Jared Betts is currently engaged in exploring cutting edge expression modes in the field of contemporary painting. His use of gesture and expressionist forms has since the onset set the tone for his highly charged pictorial works. Betts aims at rethinking the very parameters of contemporary painting, and his work as such touches on many pertinent and pressing concerns around the practice of chromatic mark-making, and how these relate to artistic ideals in the 21st century.
About the Artist
Jared Betts’ paintings are included in numerous corporate and private collections in Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, China, Australia and Iceland. Jared earned a BFA from NSCAD University and has exhibited in over 200 exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris, New York, London, Iceland, Germany, Costa Rica and all across Canada. He is the recipient of sixteen grants and awards from artsnb, Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture and Heritage, and the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
Jared has taken part in several artist residencies, from the land of fire and ice in Iceland, a castle in Ireland, to spending half a year in the jungles of Costa Rica resulting in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Costa Rica. Most recently, he gave an artist talk at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, exhibited at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and completed a one month residency in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland. Jared works out of a studio in Moncton, New Brunswick.
For more information about Jared Betts visit his website, or Instagram @jaredbetts.
Image: Blue Beams, 2013 by Jared Betts. Acrylic on canvas.
Thanks to the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for their support of this exhibition.