Marjan Eggermont: When the emotions are strong one should paint bamboo; in a light mood one should paint the orchid. - Chueh Yin There is strong shadow where there is much light. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have discovered phases. I think you need to have gone through at least 2 to recognize them. I just finished phase 2: the end of a process. I agree with Gary Hume in that “if it looks like it’s always been there, rather than I’ve made it” – it is done. The second phase purged body, landscape, and above all, memory. Memory is tyranny: clogs up the hippocampus - the endless encoding and retrieving. Memory, in my mind, is a myth. Phase 3 is therefore the end of memory, not in terms of not wanting to remember, but in terms of knowing ‘the thing’ is there and letting it go . . . quiet.
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Jeremy Herndl: Suburban Mystic The new work by Jeremy Herndl incorporates his admiration of landscape along with his well known abstract city lights paintings. The colorful new work incorporates both representation and abstract imagery.
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Charles Malinsky: The Journey The first time exhibited in North America, new work from Spain-based painter Charles Malinsky's "The Journey". These meticulously painted canvases are in Malinsky's trademark black and white palette, evoking the film noir age with the theatrical settings of a train station and costumes worn by the characters of the story. |
HK Summer 06 Group Show Our rotating summer group show features new work by gallery artists Marjan Eggermont, Jeremy Herndl, Harry Kiyooka, Bill Laing, Reinhard Skoracki and Ken Webb. Also, introducing work by new Herringer Kiss Gallery artists Elizabeth Barnes, David Burdeny, Scott Pattinson and Tadeusz Warszynski.
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Tivadar Boté: Close Quarters “Close Quarters” is Tivadar Boté’s third exhibition with the Herringer Kiss Gallery, following the success of his 2004 exhibition, “Auras” and 2003 exhibition, "Meditative Works". "These recent paintings evolved with a more playful vocabulary of abstracting forms and space, a slight deviation from the “Auras” series which was largely based on dominant fields of color wash. This series “Close Quarters”, (executed in confined space), is more visually complex and perhaps more intimate in nature with paper collage on canvas, grouped with accents of heightened flat color areas. These works are possible avenues for exploration of larger scale works which further embrace my interest in color in the context of painting as a ritualistic, meaningful process. Although I naturally avoid articulating an underlining theme in my work, the experience of painting builds a realm of meaning and spiritual kinship that’s both primal and essential in all my work." Tivadar Boté |
Reinhard Skoracki: Calgary sculptor, Reinhard Skoracki, continues to represent social commentaries with satirical, black humor. Just as every cloud has a silver lining, so does Skoracki’s cutting and poignant bronze figures illustrate the human capacity to see the bright side of even the darkest situations. |
Bill Laing, RCA: Paris Bill Laing's meticulous paintings and prints deal with textures and patterns found in landscapes and in the domestic environment. The work in this exhibition incorporates historical lace designs, elements from nature and images from the Artist's most recent trip to Paris, France. The works are lush and captivating as layers of of visual elements seemingly hover over each other in translucent and iridescent glazes.
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Harry Kiyooka, RCA: Prints, 1960 - 1970 An exhibition of op-art silkscreens from the 1960’s by Calgary artist, art educator and arts advocate, Harry Kiyooka, RCA. The work from this exhibition were accepted into many national and international exhibitions in the 1960-70's and won the Artist many prizes and awards
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Keyes / Skoracki / Talbot: Soliloquies An exhibition in conjunction with the Triangle Gallery of Visual Art's "Footprint / Imprint - 2nd Annual Winter Art Stroll". New work by Helen Keyes, Reinhard Skoracki and Craig Talbot , inspired by subconscious dialogue and free associative thinking in the art making process. |