Oakville Galleries is excited to highlight CBC Arts' feature on our 2024 Fall exhibition, Charles Stankievech:The Desert Turned to Glass.
"On the shore of lapping Lake Ontario, inside an old Tudor home turned into an art gallery, a meteor is about to slam into the Earth. The strange, black rock hovers in the air a few centimetres above a mound of volcanic sand deposited on the gallery floor.
Frozen at the moment just before impact, the alien object makes for a menacing and magical image. Although thousands of meteorites fall to Earth each year, the scene of this imminent crash causes the mind to wander toward the grand and existential, like the asteroid that snuffed out the dinosaurs or the space rocks that may have ferried the ingredients for life to our planet. It makes you think of beginnings and endings."
— Chris Hampton, CBC Arts
To read the full article, please visit: At a small art gallery in Oakville, Ont., a meteor is about to strike.
