Harry Kiyooka, RCA: Calgary artist, arts advocator and educator, Harry Kiyooka exhibits new work for the first time in almost 30 years. Harry Kiyooka’s Victim Series based upon TV and media images of global, political unrest and violence, comprises a body of work (drawings, paintings and prints) developed over the past 39 years: multimedia work that combine the filtered elements of mass media to evoke a singular, personal view of human conflict. |
Ben van Netten: The New Dynamism The first exhibition in Calgary of Victoria based painter, Ben van Netten. van Netten seeks to capture moments that go unnoticed by our conscious mind, by working the image until not easily identifiable, but still feels familiar. |
Reinhard Skoracki:
Sit-uations Calgary Sculptor, Reinhard Skoracki’s table top and wall mounted bronze sculptures represent topical issues with a sense of humour in the Rabelaisian tradition. Reinhard exhibits across Canada as well as internationally including the Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale, at the City Museum in St. Louis, the McDonough Museum in Youngstown, Ohio, the Museum of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Czech Republic and WG Kunst in Amsterdam. His work has been published in ‘New Art International’ (Book Art Press, NY, 1998) and ‘Artful Jesters’ (Nicholas Roukes, 2003) and is in collections throughout North America, Europe and Japan. |
HK Summer 07 Group Show
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Elizabeth Barnes:
Chroma Elizabeth Barnes was born and educated in the United States and currently resides in Vancouver. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her paintings are informed by an interest in science and technology, as well as by her interest in the science of pigments and color theory. The paintings are made by layering thin glazes of translucent color. Some layers include technical drawings, while others include transformation of the pigments by applying drops of solvents, rubbing, scratching or brushing. The subtle shifts of color, combined with technical explorations, create a tenuous balance fluctuating between visceral and cerebral. The interaction of color and form appeals to a sensory moment which reminds the viewer of the interconnectedness of all living things.
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Dennis Ekstedt:
Dissolve Montreal artist, Dennis Ekstedt received his B.F.A. from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design and his M.F.A. from Concordia University in 1993. Dennis has been exhibiting across Canada for over 13 years and in 2002 won the Eastern Division of the RBC New Canadian Painting Competition. Dennis’s work depicts distant views of illuminated cities at night, as seen through windows, up high, and provoke the thrill of viewing a landscape that is literally electrified by human habitation – a landscape that resembles a kind of living organism. He writes; “I want to evoke a kind of phenomelogical sublime through the ethereal luminosity of electric light - a kind of visual sensation of luminosity.” |
Ken Webb : Kenneth Webb studied at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary and attended the Royal College of Art in London, England for post-graduate studies. He has taught at the University of Calgary and is currently a permanent faculty member at the Alberta College of Art & Design. Webb has shown with John Ramsay Contemporary Art in Vancouver, Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, Mira Goddard in Toronto and in numerous international exhibitions. Ken’s work has been published in “Hidden Values, Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections” (Robert Swain), “Printmaking in Alberta: 1945 – 1985” (Bente Roed Cochran) and “Sitelines, Printmaking and Image Culture” (Walter Jule). In 2002, Kenneth Webb received the Award of Excellence from the Alberta College of Art and Design. |
David Burdeny :
Drift "Drift" is a series of moving and still photographic images on aluminium. Collected during travels through Canada, France, Japan, England, Belgium and the USA, these photographs catalogue the shifting light and color of the world's oceans and shorelines. Using a variety of analogue and digital mediums that closely parallel racetrack photo finish technology, the images invert conventional photographic motion/time relationships. Motion is rendered still and still is rendered in motion, graphically revealing the underlying rhythms and patterns of the physical world while tracing our navigation through it. Canadian photographer, David Burdeny, has been widely exhibiting his work for over 10 years and recently was awarded First Place in the Landscape Division at the International Photography Awards. |
Group Show
Group Show featuring gallery artists, Bill Laing, Harry Kiyooka, Reinhard Skoracki & Marjan Eggermont.
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