ARTISTS

Robert Christie - Colour and Construction

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:56:27 GMT

Saskatoon based painter Robert Christie talks about his exhibition "Colour and Construction". The exhibition ran May 11 - 30, 2013 at The GALLERY / art placement inc., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,

MARIANNE GERLINGER: "New Works," To May 21, 2013, Jarvis Hall Fine Arts, Calgary

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Longtime painter Marianne Gerlinger has exhibited throughout Alberta and as far away as Slovenia. Before living in Calgary, she lived in Florida. When lining up her latest paintings, she noticed that they seemed to suggest passageways.

MARIE LANNOO: "In the Dirt with Eyes on the Stars," May 11 to June 29, 2013, Newzones, Calgary

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

“I never knew,” says Marie Lannoo, a Saskatoon-based painter, “that the simple act of folding would open things up for me.” Lannoo is referring to the new material her immensely colourful work is painted on.

CREATION AND DESTRUCTION: Calgary Artist Bill Rodgers Explores the Ancient Art of the Palimpsest

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Calgary artist Bill Rodgers did something unusual in 1992. He went back to works he had made between 1978 and 1989 and began to scrape down and paint over them.

WALLY DION, Darrell Bell Gallery — $3,000 to $20,000, Saskatoon

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Saskatoon artist Wally Dion admires artists who communicate the big picture about the impact of human technologies – people like Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky and American digital-media artist Aaron Koblin.

JASON CARTER, Bearclaw Gallery — $300 to $5,000, Edmonton

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

“There are no rules when it comes to birds.” Jason Carter is speaking about his carvings, but the statement seems to epitomize this Alberta artist’s general stance towards life.

BRADLEY HARMS, Winsor Gallery — $3,500 to $9,000, Vancouver

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

What does it mean to be a painter in an era when machines can make things better than humans? Vancouver-based Bradley Harms explores that question with acrylic paintings that evoke digital images yet bear a human imprint.

BLU SMITH, Webster Galleries — $3,000 to $7,000, Calgary

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

When gallery owner John Webster sifts through abstract paintings, he knows what he’s looking for: An artist with heart. “It’s very easy to knock out an abstract work,” he says. “But it’s very difficult to paint a good abstract painting.”

PETER MCFARLANE, Pegasus Gallery of Canadian Art — $1,000 to $10,000, Salt Spring Island, B.C.

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

“Old objects are laden in their own history, and you can manipulate the object to change that history,” says McFarlane.

Val Nelson - Bilder Pictures April 2013

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:15:00 GMT

Vancouver painter Val Nelson makes final preparations for her May 2013 exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto, "Bilder/Pictures". In the video, she is planning out the hanging for the show, and talks about some of the linkages between the paintngs.

BACK ROOM: Hannah Maynard (1834 – 1918)

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Photography in British Columbia has a long history that dates back to the 1800s, when Hannah Maynard, a determined and independent-minded woman, made her way in what was then largely a man’s trade.

AMY DRYER: "Urban Blueprints," May 23 to June 8, 2013, Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Amy Dryer’s hometown of Calgary, where she continues to live, has become the subject of her new work. This engagement is all-inclusive, allowing her to paint outdoors and to bring her attachment to the city into her painting practice.

CORI CREED: "A Sense of Place," June 6 to June 22, 2013, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

For more than two decades, Vancouver artist Cori Creed has explored the surface and colour of paint on canvas. Her large oil paintings of great tangles of forests, fields and skies, show her passion for the outdoors.

GISA MAYER: "Unbridled Joy," May 4 to May 17, 201, Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Fresh from a day downhill skiing west of her adopted city of Calgary, Gisa Mayer talks about the Rockies with palpable delight and affection.

TAMMY SALZL: "Into the Woods," April 12 to May 24, 2013, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Tammy Salzl’s painting series, Into the Woods, does not journey into an actual forest, but into allegory. In the Sondheim musical of the same title, the woods are a symbolic place based on Grimms’ fairy tales.