Visit the Berlin Tower ARTSPACE (ground floor, Kitchener city hall) in February

On exhibition: Arctic Grain by Ben Eby

Exhibit opening: Thursday, February 9, 6:30–8:30pm
When Ben Eby, a dedicated outdoor photographer, was invited in 2010 to attend a High Arctic photographic symposium aboard the MV clipper, Adventurer, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Some of the photos he took on that expedition form the basis of his exhibit, Arctic Grain, in the Berlin Tower ARTSPACE for the month of February.
 
The seemingly unlimited creative potential of this landscape and daily unplanned and intimate wildlife encounters inspired his  artistic energy. Eby’s exhibition is a selection of images focusing on Arctic textures or “grain”; embedded throughout the landscape.
 
“All the images convey an evocative sense of texture, whether on a large scale or on a fine intimate level,” says Eby. “These images also respect key elements of design and composition, and in many cases expose details that would otherwise perhaps be overlooked.”
 
The collection showcases Arctic landscape and wildlife, including crumbling craggy precipices; cotton-like atmosphere burned away in perpetual daylight; the tangled wooly guard coat of stampeding muskoxen; coarse mountainside patterns, gracefully sweeping back to the Arctic ocean and piercing glacial waterfalls.

http://www.kitchener.ca/en/livinginkitchener/Berlin_Tower_ARTSPACE.asp