Oriane Stender, 0 Dollar | Mixed Media, dollars, thread, 9" x 5.5"
Empire Falls is a two person exhibition featuring the work of Nancy Baker and Oriane Stender at Flanders Art Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina March 4 to 28, 2010.
The cycle of history dictates that where an empire rises, eventually it shall fall. These predictions are inherently troubling, for they create a tension that inspires a sort of Chicken Little mentality – a belief that any time of trouble is the apocalyptic herald of a collapse and restructuring in hegemonic forces. While not always universally disconcerting, it is certainly an unsettling realization for those who have benefited from the general prosperity of being a resident of a nation in power. Empire Falls, featuring works by Nancy Baker and Oriane Stender, examines the frailty and fragility of the current economic climate in United States politics. READ MORE
Nancy Baker, Twin | Painting, oil on wood panel, 48" x 60"
January 9th – February 6th, 2010
Alexis Harding, Robert Linsley, Michael Murphy and Sasha Pierce
Sasha Pierce, Multicolour Purple (detail), 2009 oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches
Curated by Jan Tumlir
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YANG HONG | Mountain (Red), Oil + acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
An exhibition of new work by Yang Hong will be shown at Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia October 31 to November 21, 2009. An opening reception will take place November 5 from 6 to 8 pm.
View more of Hong’s work on his WEBSITE
Artist Joane Cardinal-Schubert passed away Thursday, September 17.
“Joane Cardinal-Schubert, who died Thursday, was a strong and passionate voice for the equality of native artists and native people, who practised what she advocated in artworks that could be searing in their condemnation of wrongs and lyrical in their invocations of native culture.
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As an advocate for contemporary native artists at a time when they were hardly collected and shown or, when they were shown, found themselves pigeonholed in exhibitions of “native art,” she was outspoken and fearless of the consequences for her own career.” READ MORE from Nancy Tousley
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The Lesson , a interactive performance installation created in 1989 by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, found objects, apples, hooks, books, ropes, whistles, mixed media , 14 x 18 ft, Articule Gallery, Montreal , PQ. She writes, "The residential period needed to be exposed in such a manner as to indicate the genocide construct. I can assure you it is not comfortable to make artwork which is about life; which represents political activism to others."
A celebration of Joane Cardinal-Schubert’s life will be held at Masters Gallery on Oct. 3 from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Cardinal-Schubert is survived by her husband Mike and sons Christopher and Justin.
You are cordially invited to join me at the vernissage of Offrandes at the Galerie du Viaduc, wednesday August 5th at 6:00 p.m. I look forward to sharing my latest work with you.
The exhibit will run from August 5th to the 15th inclusively. I hope that this message finds you well and that you are having a splendid summer so far..
sincerely,
veronika
Visit Veronika Horlik’s website HERE
Mimi paints drawings and draws paintings, and uses lots of colour on top of her paintidrawings.
You might marvel at the perfect symmetry of hundreds of hand-drawn ant paths. Be it a cow, a dog, or a woodland log, you may find these images ‘cute.’ However, beware, upon closer inspection you will realise that these are a collection of Mimi’s more sinister thought manifestations. Mimi’s clean line movements and bold colour designs are her way of confronting death, decay and the things she has seen yet attempted to suppress into the back of her mind.
GOODBYE TURDBRAINS! is the result of her mental journey.
You may be disgusted, you may be fascinated, or both… this is bloody life transformed into bloody art.
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Dualités, mixed media, Carole BaillargeonClick here to view the workAn exhibition on the interaction between the creative process and the environment.
July 11 – September 5, 2009
The title of the exhibit refers to a situation that we often deal with when it comes to new technologies. Click here to view the work, is a nod to the battle against all this technological progress by offering objects and paintings, which, apart from the context of daily life, are transformed into sculptures that are sympathetic, disruptive, threatening and, ultimately, very creative.
Exhibition features the work of Maskull Lasserre, Eva Brandl, Natalia Rizo, Carole Baillargeon
submitted by Carole Baillargeon
ELSEWHERE: RECENT PAINTINGS BY CHRISTINE CHEUNGRuns May 1- 31
Glenbow and the Asian Heritage Foundation of Southern Alberta are proud to present a selection of recent works by Christine Cheung. Born and raised in Calgary, Cheung is a graduate from the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a recipient of the 2008 Alberta Lieutenant Governor General’s Emerging Artist Award. In 2008, Cheung was awarded a production grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and travelled to Asia where she completed artist-in-residence programs at Red Gate Studios (Beijing) and Compeung (Thailand). These remarkable works from her recent trip are fresh and engaging studies that reflect a sense of place that is physical, emotional and imagined all at once.
“Early Work”
May 2nd- June 27th at Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Opening Reception, May 2nd at 8 pm. With work by Chris Cran, Christine Cheung, Eric Cameron, Harry Steen, Jeffrey Spalding, Jane McQuitty, Jennifer-Rae Forsyth, John Will, Kim Neudorf, Marcia Harris, Dave and Jenn, Mary Scott, Melanie Aikenhead, and Susan Menzies.
AT VARIANCE:MARCY ADZICH / CHRISTINE CHEUNG / BETH HOWE
Truck Gallery The transitory concept of ‘Place’ is explored in the three-person exhibition, At Variance. Using the notion of the landscape as a point of departure, Marcy Adzich, Christine Cheung, and Beth Howe explore contradictory ideas of space.
Exhibition runs from May 15 to June 18, 2009.
Opening reception is May 15 @ 8 pm
**The reception is open to members and invited guests; artists will be in attendance. The exhibition will be open to the public, and admission is free.
RootsSoilBlossom Visual Arts Exhibition
Exhibition runs from May 29th – June 7th
Chinese Cultural Centre
Opening Reception is May 29th, 5:00- 6:00 pm, free admission
www.asianheritagecalgary.ca for more information
This morning I had the pleasure of attending an artist talk at the Alberta College of Art + Design by Lethbridge artist Dagmar Dahle. As a weaver I was particularly engaged by the artist’s Weaving van Gogh series.
Using watercolour or latex paint, Dahle mixes the colours she finds in reproductions of van Gogh’s paintings and “weaves” her work in delicate lines of paint. She writes,
“In Weaving van Gogh, I drew heavily on the work of van Gogh scholars Debora Silverman and Carol Zemel, to explore the influence of weaving on the work of Vincent van Gogh. Countering popular notions of van Gogh as an isolated genius, my work, like the work of these scholars, looks at van Gogh’s life long interest in craft, labor and decoration as vehicles for elaborating socialist ideals and a pantheistic spirituality. My ‘woven’ paintings of his works reposition his work through the filter of feminism’s interrogation of the art/craft hierarchy.”
orange blue, 2008, oil on canvas, 46 x 36 cm
Sasha Pierce Commingle
Greener Pastures Contemporary Art
August 29 – September 27, 2008
Public Reception: Friday, August 29, from 7 – 10 PM
“Drawn to the inherent physicality of oil paint, Sasha Pierce weaves seemingly infinite variations of colour and pattern. In her application, done with a small plastic bag from which gradient lines of paint are squeezed from a tiny hole, Pierce covers the canvas with small meditative marks. Individual points coalesce into a fluid whole and light illuminates the texture. Pierce alludes to the body, the core, with the paintings’ vertical orientation and gentle curves. Within the rich texture are inconsistencies that convey a history, a character.”
To view more of Pierce’s fascinating work visit www.sashapierce.ca
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