Jim Gladden & Randolph Rigets: Textural Interfaces

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Jim Gladden & Randolph Rigets, "Textural Interfaces," 2018

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Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 27, 6–8 p.m.

Meet the Artists: Saturday, March 31, 2–4 p.m.

The Ferry Building Gallery at 1414 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver is pleased to present Textural Interfaces, a mixed media exhibition featuring two North Shore artists, Jim Gladden and Randolph Rigets.

Jim Gladden received his MFA from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1963. He is a self-described “beachcomber personality” who likes to explore and find unique objects and visual delights in beautiful environments. He feels these moments of discovery are actually God’s sharing of spiritual truths, as Creator, with him. As a lyrical abstract painter, he is intrigued with inventive techniques using acrylic paints. His paintings start with details of colour and design which are chosen spontaneously and applied to glass of stretched plastic; when finished, the acrylic is transferred to canvas for stretching.

Gladden arranges visual elements as form, colour, texture, modular configurations and contrasts, which are variations of what he observes in his daily sojourns along B.C. trails and seascapes. He applies acrylic “skins” to the canvas in a “collage” style, arranged and layered to create “textural tapestries”. These skins of acrylic are made on glass, peeled off, and catalogued according to colour and composition.

Randolph Rigets has been making art in one form or another for more than fifty years. He studied classical drawing, painting, sculpting, printmaking, and photography at the Nelson School of Fine Art, Malaspina College, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and the University of British Columbia, where he is currently enjoying a more abstract approach to art.

His works in this exhibition are predominately white. When asked about what he hopes to accomplish by limiting his palette in this manner, he responded, “We all live in the realm of illusion where we mix what is real with what we think is real; as viewers we become fixed in what we think we see. This is primarily because our minds have become overrun with the many thousands of images we see 'in a flash' on a daily basis. Blank space is being threatened with extinction as advertising overwhelmingly defeats it. I hope that, upon discovering my paintings, the viewer will pause in their routine, take a breath, and rest their mind.”