Meghan Fish Contemporary Art + Projects will be showing its inaugural exhibition until April 23 at the art space 2053 (Gottingen Street, 877-5002).
Fish displays a variety of painting, photography and new media by artists from across the country, as well as a number of local artists. The gallery is open (Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm – 5pm) plus by appointment, or the work can be seen anytime online at meghanfish.com.
Fish—née Dorward, who has worked in Halifax’s commercial art world for the last five years (most notably as the former assistant director at Studio 21 Fine Art)—believes that art “pop-up exhibitions” like this one are a more progressive way to sell art and that maintaining a year-round gallery is not necessary, with art-buyers flocking to galleries based on word-of-mouth. She also uses Facebook and Twitter to promote this local art to international customers.
“It’s a virtual world out there now,” explains Fish. “It’s time we embrace that in the art world.”
A correction has been made to this article, on April 7 at 4pm. The Coast regrets the error in wording printed in this week’s paper edition.
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.