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We are delighted to announce Alex Sutcliffe’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery, Katabasis, opening with a public reception on Thursday, November 20, from 6-8 pm. The exhibition will be on view through January 11, 2026.

 

The history of Western art has been unfolding as a series of reappraisals: artists revisiting, rethinking, and attempting to outdo — if not occasionally obliterate — the work of their predecessors. Similarly, the Nova Scotia-based painter Alex Sutcliffe’s ever-expanding quest to reinvent painting in the digital age has led him to engage with such titans of European art as Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Guercino, Joshua Reynolds, and others. The exhibition’s title, Katabasis, drawn from the ancient Greek term for a descent into the underworld, suggests both a physical and a historical journey: an immersion into the substance of paint, a dive into the past, and a return carrying new knowledge.

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