Venice Has the Blues / Polaroids by Alana Pierini

WWG is pleased to announce our next upcoming exhibition, Venice Has the Blues / Polaroids by Alana Pierini, to run Friday, March 28 to Saturday, May 10, 2025 at the gallery space. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 9 pm on Friday, March 28, during the first Downtown Gallery Hop of 2025. Drop by to experience the exhibition as you Hop from stop to stop!

Lousy Canadian March weather getting you down? Ok, we can’t actually take you to Italy, BUT what we can offer is a fantastic, innovative exhibition featuring chandelier-type sculptures constructed using aluminum and Polaroid photographs taken in Venice. The artwork brings attention to overwhelming environmental challenges that must be overcome, in the city of Venice and globally, and is accompanied by motion activated original music.

Alana Pierini is an Iroquois Falls based visual artist, curator, songwriter, and Polaroid junkie whose work includes painting, sculpture, photography, found objects, language, and video. THE VENICE POLAROIDS, a coffee table book, is available on amazon.ca, and more of Alana’s work is available on her YouTube channel.

The Spectrum of Hypergeometric Distribution

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Follow the teal and B&W lines that the Point of No Return Collective has installed from the White Water Gallery door, and as you turn the corner, you will find that the orderly institutional guides start to jump, twist, and break as they wind toward the main wall of the gallery.
After blasting through video art works by soJin Chun and Ulysses Castellanos, those lines spill onto the gallery floor, where you can trace the remains of our institutionalized society, to a large video and sound installation that journeys beyond the edges of our universe…. where you will encounter no deeper meaning.  What matters, then, is the meaning we each make.
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You’ve only got until Saturday October 24th to see what you might make of this impressive installation work, so we hope to see you sometime over the next couple of weeks!