Robin Arseneault + Mark Dicey
Norberg Hall 333B 36 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 1W2
Left: Robin Arseneault, "Spectral Maneuver 10, 8, 1," 2022 Right: Mark Dicey, "2726-VI-22," 2022
Left: graphite + collage on paper, 28.5 x 21 in. Right: acrylic on canvas, 48 x 42 in. Courtesy of the Gallery.
Robin Arseneault + Mark Dicey
While contrasting process, palettes, and materiality both artists investigate layered imagery and abstraction. Despite functioning with completely distinct and autonomous visual languages, the context of being viewed in tandem pulls out motifs and shapes that are in-common in both artists work.
ROBIN ARSENEAULT works and lives in Calgary and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design (BFA, 1998) and the Edinburgh College of Art (MFA, 2005). She was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2007, received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award in 2008, and has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Alberta Heritage. ARSENEAULT has shown her work in Canada, the USA, Scotland, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, and is in many private and public collections including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Nickle Galleries, Calgary; Scotiabank; Fairmont Hotel Group; and Simons Department Stores.
MARK DICEY is a Calgary based painter and a graduated from the Alberta College of Art (1983). Since that time, he has taught at the Alberta College of Art & Design (Alberta University of the Arts) and has been a pinnacle member of the Calgary art community for over 30 years. DICEY’S work is widely collected and can be found in the collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the City of Calgary; Canadian Foreign Affairs (Belgium); Scotiabank of Canada; Royal Bank of Canada; Bank of Montreal; the Nickle Galleries; the Glencoe Club, Calgary; the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise and many more.
