Opening: Scott Michael Ackerman's "Sharp Teeth"

Opening reception for "Sharp Teeth." Scott Michael Ackerman, Kingston born and bred, has tapped into the narrative of folk law, fairy tale and the history of figurative painting in his new body of work Sharp Teeth presented by Hawk and Hive. Inhabited by a cast of wild beasts and peculiar characters, the paintings seem to hover somewhere between child-like enchantment and a shadowy place of suggested violence and the uncanny. For Ackerman, they express the travails of everyday life, interwoven with a dream-like imaginary world. He is exploring themes of “companionship, loneliness and a sense of wonder”.