November 22 – December 20,
2008
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 Ekstedt’s work will be in an upcoming book of Canadian art called Carte Blanche Vol.2 – Painting. Dennis uses the framework of the city grid as a way of structuring clusters of light. He is interested in the contrast and tension between the city grid and the organic clusters of artificial light. His work explores and emphasizes this contrast by treating the cityscape in an abstract way to emphasize the shape of light. For Dennis, the illuminated cityscape resembles a luminous organism, with electric light acting as a kind of nervous system or pulse – a manifestation of human presence. |
Renée Duval: Transitories October 18 – November 15, 2008 |
Marjan Eggermont: September 6 – October 11,
2008 Marjan Eggermont, who is known for her experimental use of materials, will be working with concrete and LED-lit, laseretched acrylic. In this new body of work, Marjan expands reoccurring themes; the works in concrete fix the ephemeral and capture the fleeting moment and again deal with similarities between macro- and microscopic imagery.
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HK Summer 2008 Show July & August
2008 Featuring new gallery artists, Eve Leader, Laurel Smith, Christopher Willard and Angela Leach.
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Laurel Smith:
Laurel Smith's paintings combine two diametrically opposed design styles: the austerity of 20th century Minimalism and ornate embellishment of 18th century Rococo into a form that Smith coins "Ornaminimalism". Smith combines industrial with handmade techniques by applying more than twenty glazes of colors to create an all-over surface upon her custom laser cut panels. She was the Eastern Canada Winner of the RBC Investments 6th Annual Painting Competition and the only female painter included in the 2008 Alberta Biennial.
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Charles Malinsky: The newest instalment of the Journey project “If Only The Times That Have Come and Gone Might Come Again” peels back yet another layer of the unfolding saga of migration and transition along the corridor between mortality and eternity. A new and mysterious band is thrown across the ever- growing network of ideas, stories and narrative propositions. This exhibition provides the first glimpse of beings that begin to close the circle of nearly two decades of work.
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Bill Laing, RCA: Bill Laing’s meticulous paintings and prints deal with textures and patterns found in landscape and in the domestic environments. The works are lush and captivating as layers of visual elements seemingly hover over each other in translucent and iridescent glazes. William J. Laing was born in Glasgow, Scotland and immigrated to Canada in 1960. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art then at Brighton Polytechnic in England and then received his Masters Degree from the Royal College of Art in London, England in 1974. From 1974 to 1977, Laing was an instructor in Printmaking, Photography, and Design at the Alberta College of Art. In 1977, he became a faculty member at the University of Calgary, where he is currently Full Professor and engaged as head of the Printmaking Department. Laing's dedication to his profession gained him the University of Calgary's Student Union Teaching Excellence Award in 1992/93 and in 2003/2004. He has exhibited in over 500 group shows and 48 solo shows across Canada and around the world, is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.), an elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers (London, England), and received the Order of The University of Calgary in 2006.
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Siobhan Humston: this body of work comes as a gathering of ideas surrounding the process of painting and the building of a finished piece. it involves an aesthetic balance between positive & negative space, depth of colour & white; between drawing with graphite & painting with acrylic; between gravity & floating, motion & stillness, place & infinity. they are literally a combination of my recent more minimal white series ‘stone/flora’ and the past colour and shape saturated work. mentally they feel like arriving; emotionally they translate as organic explorations of my love of colour; aesthetically, they are a gathering of symbols and markings culled from years of translating what i see, feel and value about the world around me. clarity of thought was required to make these pieces but there is also a certain physicality in the turning, lifting, wiping, moving the paint and the wood itself. these factors communing with a meditative awareness of watching the images grow landed me in a new mindset with my painting practice. the spreading white space in each piece speaks of a growing, morphing hope or of a private space being engulfed by a colour field of thought. they are half about place and half about the journey to that place. |
The Landscape Show The Landscape Show - works by Renee Duvall, Dennis Ekstedt, Ben van Netten, David Burdeny & Pat Pennell
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