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Internationally
acclaimed photographer, David Burdeny has created a new body of work
based on his experience as an architect and his world-wide travels. This
series shot with an 8” x 10” view camera and printed large as chromogenic
prints and transmounted onto Plexiglas, were taken in China, Dubai, France,
Egypt, Japan, Greenland and Antarctica. With his camera, David Burdeny is
studying widely varying cities to understand how they came to be built.
These works are recognizable as David Burdeny images with the strong
horizons and use of long exposures.
Having worked on five
continents for nearly a decade, David Burdeny has diligently established
himself as one of Canada’s most successful fine art landscape
photographers. With wide representation across Canada, USA and Europe he
has participated in over forty solo and group exhibitions since 2003. David
Burdeny was awarded the prestigious “Landscape Photographer of the Year” at
the 2008 International Photography Awards for his previous series;
“NORTH/SOUTH” which documented the fragile shorelines and monolithic ice
forms of Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica.
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Photography, offering push button snap shot memory, and digital manipulation enabling play with multiple light filled veils of color, shape and transparency, are Stefanja Dumanowski’s alchemical tools. She creates images sparkling with light, color and form, a voluptuous embodiment of memory in a luminous, dreamlike space that enrapture.
Stefanja Dumanowski studied fine art at the University of Calgary and the Alberta College of Art. She taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design from 1974 until 2008 when she decided to retire and focus on her studio practice. She is married to Stuart Parker, head of printmaking at ACAD and has work in collections throughout Canada, United States and Japan. |
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Laurel Smith continues her project of combining minimalism with ornament. This newest body of paintings is inspired by Qing Dynasty fabric motifs found in the court of the late Dowager Empress Cixi. The paint is layered and hand polished to a luster reminiscent of orchid petals.
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‘presage’ is a series of new paintings in raw pigment powder with acrylic, graphite and pastel on wood by Vancouver artist, Siobhan Humston. Humston's new work deals with various elements of the natural world such as the coral reef and honey bees that are under threat, exploring aspects of its fragility as well as its resilience. Her new use of ground pigments mixed with acrylic medium is an alchemy of sorts, combining these components to build and create work that portrays both beauty and breakdown.
Siobhan Humston received her BFA from the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland. Since moving to Vancouver in 2001, she has exhibited extensively with public, artist-run and commercial galleries in Vancouver, the Okanagan, Calgary, Toronto, Los Angeles and Zurich. Her paintings are in public, private and corporate collections throughout North American, Britain, Europe and Australia.
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New paintings by Harry Kiyooka. Harry Kiyooka has served on local, provincial and national boards such as the Canadian Conference of the Arts, the Royal Canadian Academy, the Alberta Society of Artists, the Alberta Art Foundation, Calgary Allied Arts Centre, the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation and the Calgary Contemporary Arts Society. Harry Kiyooka is a founding member of the Calgary Contemporary Arts Society (1982), Life Member of the Alberta Society of Artists and member of the Royal Canadian Academy. Harry Kiyooka was awarded a 125th Anniversary Medal of Confederation for his contribution to the community in establishing the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts (1988) in Calgary. In 1996, Harry was the recipient of the Award of Excellence from the Alberta College of Art and Design for his contributions to the visual arts.
“The paintings can be described as slabs of time and space. Hindu mythology describes God on the stage of galactic space playing out the story of birth and death of the universe - where the measure of time for the completion of the drama is a Kalpa – “a day of Brahma” a period of 4,320,000,000 years. “ – Harry Kiyooka
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Vancouver based painter, Erin McSavaney, focuses on architecture; often over-looked or abandoned warehouses, factories, loading docks and alleys. His paintings often depict these buildings at night time when there is no human activity only the eerie light and shadows cast by street lamps. His work refers to photography in their format and high realism but there is also a relationship to hard-edge abstraction and formalism with his use of straight lines, bold compositions and intersecting planes. In his artist statement, McSavaney states; "Architecture is a mirror to humanity. More specifically, over time, buildings move from reflecting their environment and an architectural "vision", to revealing their inhabitants and activities."
Erin McSavaney is a graduate from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and has been showing in Vancouver, Seattle, Calgary and Ottawa since 2003. |
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This collection of recent paintings depicts individuals in allegorical and supernatural situations, imbuing everyday settings with otherwordly significance. Floating figures suggest escape and disengagement from the realities of life, while also presenting mysterious, open-ended narratives to be contemplated by the viewer. The
luminal atmosphere of these works pays tribute to the transitory and mythical settings of picture book illustration, archival spirit photography, and theatrical stage design.
Jude Griebel received his bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2003, and studied printmaking at the Santa Reparata School of Art in Florence, Italy. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Griebel has recently worked as an artist in residence in Yokohama, Japan, and at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. He recently published a book of text and images with the aid of the Canada Council for the Arts, titled Footsteps in the Maucaulay House.
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Vancouver based painter, Erin McSavaney, focuses on architecture; often over-looked or abandoned warehouses, factories, loading docks and alleys. His paintings often depict these buildings at night time when there is no human activity only the eerie light and shadows cast by street lamps. His work refers to photography in their format and high realism but there is also a relationship to hard-edge abstraction and formalism with his use of straight lines, bold compositions and intersecting planes. In his artist statement, McSavaney states; "Architecture is a mirror to humanity. More specifically, over time, buildings move from reflecting their environment and an architectural "vision", to revealing their inhabitants and activities."
Erin McSavaney is a graduate from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and has been showing in Vancouver, Seattle, Calgary and Ottawa since 2003.
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New work by Montreal based painter, Renée Duval, the exhibition (be)longing consists of a series of paintings based on webcam images of Vancouver that explore ideas of longing, nostalgia and the idea of “home”.
Renée Duval received her B.F.A. from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design and her M.F.A. from Concordia University in 1991. Renée has been exhibiting since 1991 including the exhibition, “A Group of Seven” at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 2006. Washington Times critic, Joanna Shaw-Eagle called Renée Duval’s work, “intriguing and beautiful”. Renée’s work was also included in Carte Blanche Vol.2 – Painting.
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