Aron Hill
Aron Hill currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies. He then completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work there evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work. He has recently been focused on formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and color field paintings though with references to the figure throughout. He finds conceptual company in the late Modernist paintings produced particularly in Canada. The choice of a restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, forces restraint. The work's graphic nature relies on the sheer flatness this medium produces. Aron has exhibited internationally, occasionally lectures, and writes.
Aron Hill
Aron Hill currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies. He then completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work there evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work. He has recently been focused on formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and color field paintings though with references to the figure throughout. He finds conceptual company in the late Modernist paintings produced particularly in Canada. The choice of a restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, forces restraint. The work's graphic nature relies on the sheer flatness this medium produces. Aron has exhibited internationally, occasionally lectures, and writes.
Past Exhibitions
2019 - 2020
Flatbed Pictures
November 21 to December 23
American Art critic, Leo Steinberg gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1968 where he argued that a fundamental shift occurred in painting in New York in the early 1950s. This shift was from paintings that had always been angulated towards a vertical human posture to that of a horizontal pictorial surface like a flatbed printing bed. If you consider even Picasso's cubism work, there is one way up. They were painted while standing vertical at an easel and meant to be viewed in that orientation only. But then in the 1950's, Leo states, starting with Robert Rauschenberg, and Dubuffet, you see artists breaking free from this to create works that simulate table tops or the studio floor. Steinberg felt that this was the most important development in post-modern painting.
This exhibition will showcase artists who work in the tradition of a flatbed approach to painting. Artists include; Harry Kiyooka, Rhys Douglas Farrell, Joe Fleming, Lauren Walker, Ben Skinner, Fiona Ackerman, Curtis Cutshaw, Nate McLeod, Tia Halliday, Darija Radakovic, Mario Trejo, Angela Leach and Sara Robichaud.
Holiday Salon 2020
October 17th – November 14th
Opening Reception Saturday October 17, 2 to 5 pm
Artist in attendance - COVID Safety Protocols in Place
The sun is a central element of my work. It serves as the guiding light to the layers of experience translated onto canvas. The paintings are primarily demonstrative of light and transparency, a stage for the painted object. Each element in my paintings can be seen on their own, as an artifact, as an object whose reference can shift not dissimilar from a stage where a flower vase can serve as mere decoration in one play and a murder weapon in another.
Aron Hill
The Golden Fingers of Dawn
October 17th – November 14th
Opening Reception Saturday October 17, 2 to 5 pm
Artist in attendance - COVID Safety Protocols in Place
The sun is a central element of my work. It serves as the guiding light to the layers of experience translated onto canvas. The paintings are primarily demonstrative of light and transparency, a stage for the painted object. Each element in my paintings can be seen on their own, as an artifact, as an object whose reference can shift not dissimilar from a stage where a flower vase can serve as mere decoration in one play and a murder weapon in another.
Fiona Ackerman
Flowers For Rapunzel
October 17th – November 14th
Opening Reception Saturday October 17, 2 to 5 pm
COVID Safety Protocols in Place
Drawing from historical scientific botanical illustration, Fiona Ackerman's new series of paintings documents a fictionalized botanical world, one where the rules of art replace those of science, and the nature explored is obscured by fantasy.
Artistic Pairings
September 12 – October 10th, 2020
Artistic Pairings peers into the lives and studio practices of 6 art-making couples;
Renée Duval & Dennis Ekstedt (Montreal), Barbara Milne & Bill Laing (Calgary), Ben Skinner & Genevieve Dionne (Vancouver),
Laurel Johannesson & Marty Kaufman (Calgary), Nicole Collins & Michael Davidson (Toronto) and Katie Ohe & Harry Kiyooka (Calgary).
The exhibition will show each couples’ work, side by side, along with text from the artists on how their partner in life and art influences, inspires and supports their own art practice. Mediums include photographic lightbox, paintings, multi-media, text-based,
ceramics, glass and sculpture.
RHYS DOUGLAS FARRELL
Sensationships
June 25 - August 29
Rhys Douglas Farrell is an emerging artist living and working in Calgary, Alberta. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (major in Painting) from the Alberta College of Art + Design in the spring of 2016. Farrell is the recipient of a painting scholarship from ACAD where he was also the Representative for the Painting Department and the Director of the Student Gallery, Quoin Gallery. He was signed on with the Herringer Kiss Gallery when still a student and his first solo show was named by Canadian Art Magazine as a “Must See”. He was then featured in a 7 page spread in Branded Magazine in the summer 2016. Farrell has completed a number of public art projects with the Telus Spark Science Center, Beltline Urban Mural Project, the City of Calgary and a number of private commissions. His work has been aggressively collected by private and corporate collections alike and he recently completed three international residencies with Pinea & Linea De Costa A.I.R program in Spain, Graniti Murales in Sicily and the TARP Program in Kuala Lumpur with Taksu Gallery. Farrell is also the recipient of the 2019 Alumni Horizon Award from AUArts.
“Color sensations are not definable, they are experiential” - Robert Swain.
HOWARD LONN
Fragments, Simulations &
a Domestic Interior
June 25 - August 29th
Toronto born painter Howard Lonn graduated from OCAD in the early 1980s. Following his studies, he lived and worked in Toronto, Florence, Montreal, Barcelona, and Berlin. He has exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Barcelona, and Madrid and shown with Sable-Castelli, Nicholas Metivier, and Birch Contemporary. His work is in such collections as Art Gallery of Ontario, McMaster Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Sun Life of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Torys, Toronto, Encana Calgary, TD Bank, Toronto as well as private collections in Toronto, Montreal, Barcelona, Madrid, and New York.
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All women's show celebrating top Canadian artists
Extended to June 20
This all women’s show celebrating top Canadian artists who through their work, teaching and mentorship, empower and encourage other women.
Featuring
Marion Nicoll, Katie Ohe, Shelley Adler,
Angela Grossmann, Janet Werner, Dana Holst,
Fiona Ackerman, Tia Halliday and Lou Lynn.
Mitch Kern
Conundrums
February 1 – 29, 2020
Opening Reception Saturday, February 1st from 2 to 5 pm.
Artist in Attendance.
Set in an absurd, fictionalized environment based upon life in southern Alberta, this body of work poses questions about land and property ownership in the 21st century. In a world where man and beast are conflated with nature and culture, there are no easy answers, only conundrums.
Mitch Kern is a commercial, editorial and fine art photographer with thirty plus years of industry experience working for national magazines, ad agencies, wire services and art galleries. He has a master’s in photography from Penn State University, a bachelor’s in visual art from the University of Maryland and is an associate professor in the AUArts School of Communication Design.
HK Winter 2020 Group Show
Featuring works by
Jason Frizzell, Blake Senini, Rhys Douglas Farrell, Aron Hill, Darija Radakovic and introducing Calgary Realist Painter, Paul de Groot.
Ends February 22, 2020
Sara Robichaud
Spectral
November 9 – December 21, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday, November 9th
from 2 to 5 pm.
Artist in Attendance.
Materially lustrous, Sara Robichaud’s new series of paintings in the exhibition “Spectral,” combine processes and ideas that embody the physicality of formalist painting, and invite imaginative, playful interpretation. Sara scrapes pools of colour together with gel medium to create mysterious floating forms on grounds that act like recesses of the mind. For the large-scale works, she has constructed a wood ‘contraption’, which allows her to glide suspended above the surface of the canvas, pouring and scraping paint, transferring a feeling of movement to contrast the stasis of vacuous space in the background. These works are the embodiment and output of an artist deep into process who becomes the unconscious conduit for creativity released into form onto canvas.
Curtis Cutshaw
Five Hole
November 9 – December 21, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday,
November 9th from 2 to 5 pm.
Artist in Attendance.
New paintings inspired by Canada’s favourite sport, Hockey. Having just completed a major commission as part of the fine art collection at the JW Marriott Edmonton Ice District in Edmonton, Alberta, curated by Farmboy Fine Arts, Curtis Cutshaw continues to push the boundaries between painting and object. Cutshaw, a huge hockey fan, was honored to be invited by the architect of the new arena in Edmonton to tour the recently completed facility including all access to the collection of hockey memorabilia. From the marks made on the arena boards by pucks to famous goalie masks and iconic jersey numbers, symbols of the quintessential Canadian game are fragmented and collaged into stunning abstract works that are both subtle and devotional.
Attila Richard Lukacs
Your Name Here
September 12 – November 2, 2019
Opening Reception, Thursday, September 12th from 5 to 8 pm.
Artist in Attendance.
The Herringer Kiss Gallery is proud to present “Your Name Here” by acclaimed International artist, Attila Richard Lukacs. This exhibition will showcase two series of collage paintings done simultaneously between 2013 and 2014 titled Proscenium and Camp David. The many influences, references and iconography in these works are expertly woven together to form a tapestry of art history and social/political realities.
A proscenium is the frame device for stages in theatres through which the audience views the theatrical performance. "It can be considered a social construct which divides the actors and their stage-world from the audience which has come to witness it.” – Wikipedia. In these works, Attila incorporates framing and theatrical devices in his compositions and includes fabric, braiding, fringe and text to create works that allude to world stages, performances and what has been curated for public viewing. References to Beethoven’s Ghost Trio (which was so named because the score is thought to have been a concept for a Macbeth Opera) can be seen in the ghostly profiles and the repetition of imagery. The paintings and the studio become the stage for the ghost trio. The Camp David works are in essence, concrete poetry. The Xeroxed poster-like text is deconstructed and reconstructed onto works to become more than mere words but symbol. The image of Michelangelo’s David alongside the repeated text CAMP DAVID, DAVID CAMP, conjures notions of everyday heroics against larger Machiavellian forces and also as a symbol for Queer identity. The other most obvious reference is to the US Presidential retreat and so Lukacs has woven interesting and meaningful links between these works of stages, performances, open and closed curtains and political machinations. As Shakespeare wrote “All the world’s a stage”.