3 x 3 Photographers
Exposure 2012

February 4 - February 25, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday, February 4th from 3 to 5 pm.

Three photographs from three photographers, David Burdeny, Eszter Burghardt and Toni Hafkenscheid which illustrate very different approaches and techniques to contemporary photography.

These three artists explore a sense of artificiality in our landscape while challenging our assumptions about documentation and reality. Through use of long exposures, Burdeny's landscapes are exposed to reveal the surreal in our world, Hafkenscheid manipulates to create a voyeuristic world of miniatures, and Burgardt distorts her constructed miniature models to give the illusion of vast landscape. Ultimately, their work contributes to the ongoing dialogue regarding traditional documentation and the desire to question our assumptions of reality in photography

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Please join us for a talk on "The Collectability of Photography" by Mitch Kern.
Saturday, February 4th at 3:00 pm

Originally from New York City, Mitch Kern is a contemporary photographer and transmedia artist who is the Head of the Photography department at the Alberta College of Art and Design. He has his Masters of Fine Arts in photography from Pennsylvania State University and has an international career.

Ken Webb
Lost Identity: Stories Untold

March 3 – March 31st, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday, March 3rd from 2 to 5 pm.
Artist in attendance

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.

Introducing Lauren Walker

March 3 - March 31st, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday, March 3rd from 2 to 5 pm.
Artist in attendance.

New to the gallery, Lauren Walker graduated from the painting program at the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2007. In her work, she balances geometric and organic shapes as well as negative and positive space. By featuring natural wood grain and pairing it with paper (collage) that has been through a vigorous process of transformation she invites the viewer to visualize the journey of the material through its metamorphosis.

Curtis Cutshaw: Watermark

April 7 – May 5, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday, April 7th from 2 to 5pm.
Artist in Attendance.

Curtis Cutshaw was born in Edmonton, Alberta and attended the Alberta College of Art and Design as well as the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine. Curtis has been exhibiting since 1987.

Curtis' work is based on drawings he made incorporating the use of dowsing rods he found on his family farm. With paper in hand he sets forth on open land, a dowsing rod out in front of him with a felt pen attached to a string hanging at the end of the rod. Touching the paper the pen responds to the water below, deep underground, interacting with the artist. A reaction mixed with his walking; losing traditional control of the developmental stages of the drawing. Over and over he walks, letting the paper become filled with marks and lines, some fast others slow. They are moments trapped in time with a line; a record of his connection to nature. Back in the studio he reworks the drawings letting his artist hand and eye into the work for the first time. Reacting to a mark, not from his artist's hand, he is faced with new dilemmas, new directions and endless possibilities.