Frolic
 
Stephen Altena
 
March 4 - March 31
Opening reception Saturday March 4, 1-4pm
 
 
In his new work Altena redeploys elements and motifs from pattern and decoration, wallpaper and textile samples to create a landscape for our own revelry.  
 
Employing paintings and drawings, new and old, reconstructed and recycled, he creates a dappled forest glade ripe for a frolic.  Layered fragments of paintings and coloured pencil drawings are suspended with ribbon and twine to evoke an atmosphere of delight and wistfulness.  Sentiment and nostalgia, memory and dreams, pleasure and enchantment, decadence and innocence, commingle to blossom into a safe space for your tender feelings.  
 
 Stephen Altena is co-founder of Hundred Dollar Gallery/The Hamilton Art Gallery with Andrew McPhail, and is one of the founding members of the Hamilton artist run collective, The Assembly Gallery. He is a graduate of the Independent Study Program at Dundas Valley School Of Art. He lives and works in downtown Hamilton. 



www.stephenaltena.com/