{"id":628815,"date":"2026-10-13T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:42:08","slug":"good-atlas-gallery-hosting-new-exhibit-from-cell-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628815\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Atlas gallery hosting new exhibit from Cell Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Atlas in downtown North Bay has opened T.R.Y. (Tenter Recycler mes Yeux), a new multi-medium exhibition by bilingual queer artist Cell Driver that transforms discarded materials into contemporary art<\/p>\n

Good Atlas in downtown North Bay is hosting a new art exhibition entitled T.R.Y. (Tenter Recycler mes Yeux). The exhibit is a multi-medium and new media contemporary series representing the process of reformatting trash into art objects.<\/p>\n

The works are by Cell Driver, a bilingual queer new media artist from the Eastern Townships of Quebec, who recently served as the Near North Makerspace Artist in Residence at the Near North Mobile Media Lab.<\/p>\n

Over Cell Driver\u2019s 17-week residency, the artist developed pieces that would form the basis of the Good Atlas show. A release from the Near North Mobile Media Lab during Cell Driver\u2019s residency noted these new works, \u201cexplore the determination to try something new and the idea of \u2018recycling yourself\u2019 as a metaphor for renewal: transforming into a fresh form while retaining the same material composition.\u201d<\/p>\n

See:\u00a0Award winning artist returns to North Bay with new exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n

Good Atlas noted in a release, \u201cIn their debut solo exhibition with Good Atlas Gallery, Cell Driver creates artwork out of waste: scrap from downtown North Bay and its waterfront, debris from the rail corridors, dumpster contents, and builder’s offcuts sourced from Rebuilt Resources. The artist treats each object as a record of the cyclical nature of material from consumer value to waste and, possibly, back to value.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those interested in viewing the artworks are welcome to stop by the Good Atlas gallery. The gallery has posted the works on its website<\/a>, as they are also being sold online via silent auction. Bids close on October 17 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the show ends as well. To mark the exhibit\u2019s conclusion, Good Atlas is hosting a talk with the artist on Saturday, October 17, from 5 to 7 p.m., which is free to attend. Good Atlas is located at 348 Fraser Street in North Bay. It is an art supply store, and the gallery is within the space.<\/p>\n

David Briggs is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of BayToday, a publication of Village Media. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Atlas in downtown North Bay has opened T.R.Y. (Tenter Recycler mes Yeux), a new multi-medium exhibition by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-628815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}