Urban Textures Opening

This is the 3rd work in Ingrid's 'Facade' series.


Ingrid's 'River City'

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The opening of Urban Textures

Ron drove up from Calgary for the opening & to pick up Katherine who had written her last exam that morning.

McMullen Gallery - Ingrid Lincoln's Work

These paired works, 'Night' and 'And Day', began as white cloth dyed through deconstructed screens. Multiple layers of techniques were used to build up the resulting depth of marks and texture.

2 works in her 'Facade' series.
As a long time Winnipegian, Ingrid has an intimate understanding of her city.

McMullen - Donna Clement's Work

'Motif de Fleur'

'Lilies'

The Urban Textures theme also included flowers because when we were in Winnipeg for our study week we spent time looking at gardens, particularly the impressive botanical gardens. That was when I saw magnificent hydrangeas, which brought back my childhood memories and I made the Nana's Garden series in response.

Donna Clement also responded to the flowers she saw in Winnipeg.

'Winnipeg - Gateway to the West'

Donna also examined the ethnic diversity in Winnipeg's early days.

McMullen - Urban Textures

'Alley'

'Stacked'

Vickie Newington`s artist statement and work.

The 2 organisations that support the gallery.

McMullen work continues

...and around to the left wall, work by Leann Clifford & Ingrid Lincoln (left),...

...Wendy Klotz's 3 buildings, which sold before the opening (congratulations, Wendy) and my 'Tapestry Stone' panel.

Leann and Gloria's work.....

...with Wendy's 'Kelly Building'.

McMullen Gallery - Urban Textures

I will take you around the McMullen Gallery where Articulation currently has an exhibition of work called Urban Textures. you can see a person walking past the glass outer wall of the gallery. Inside work hangs on the panels.

Gloria S. Daly and Donna Clement's work.

Around the corner and along the back wall. Ingrid Lincoln & Linda MacKay's work with one of the 'contemplation' chairs that are very comforting to sit in.

The left-hand side of the back wall. More of Linda & Gloria's work with Donna checking levels.

McMullen Gallery Artists' Reception

Donna and I had a slow trip through snow this morning when we travelled from Calgary to Edmonton for a couple of functions to do with Articulation's exhibition in the McMullen Gallery.

This is the view of the gallery space when you walk through the front door.

Vickie Newington's work on panels.

2 of my 'Nana's Garden' works. My little camera couldn't handle the lighting conditions so these are not good images of the works.

Graffiti and Art

While walking through a park I came across another example of graffiti being used to speak out. North of this park there was a gas station for many years. When it was torn down it was found the underground tanks of fuel had been leaking through the soil into the neighbouring residential area. A big clean up of the polluted soil is underway. The above image is of the temporary station set up to 'vacuum clean' the contaminated soil. The company put up white visual screens on the fence surrounding the 'blend-in green' buildings.
These white screens were obviously begging to be painted and sure enough it wasn't long before they were.
The graffiti artist cleverly chose to write one letter on each screen, a word with the same number of letters as screens: VOLTRON
I wonder what the artist's message is in this word?

And yesterday more art was put up for public viewing. In this case, not only in a socially acceptable place to have a voice but in a special place to speak as an artist, the McMullen Gallery in the University of Alberta Hospital. Here is Diana Young Kennedy, Gallery & Collection Administrator, hanging Articulation's latest body of work, Urban Textures.
Vickie Newington and I travelled up to Edmonton to hang the work. I didn't take photos of the exhibition because when we left at 5:00 to return to Calgary, the lights had not been adjusted and the labels still had to be put up. Next week when we go up for the opening and to run a workshop, I'll photograph it all.
On April 23rd there will be a workshop from 2 to 4 and the opening will be from 6 to 9 pm.

After My Banff Residency

People have been asking me about my month-long residency experience. When they are looking for the short version tell them about the thrill of having my bed made every day, my room cleaned and tidied every day and my breakfast & lunch prepared for me with no cleaning up for me afterwards. It was bliss. My mind was free to focus on my work - you would think.
The longer version of the experience is all about how much I grew as an artist, how our group, Articulation, matured, and how much stimulus there was all the time all around the campus.

But, now I have been shot out of that time warp and I am in catch-up mode here in my studio.

The above image was taken at the Calgary airport when I took Ingrid to catch her plane back to Winnipeg. It is the luggage of Calgary's ice hockey team, the Flames. They obviously have an away game. The regular season has finished and the Flames made it to the playoffs. Calgary gets very excited when this happens. The first playoff game is Thursday "Go Flames Go" There are avid Flames fans in my household.

'A Soup of Chefs' or is it 'A Stew of Chefs'
I love the symmetry in this shot taken on the campus of SAIT, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, well
known for the quality of training the Culinary Arts students receive.
I often see great moments like this when walking through the campus to shop at Calorie Counter, where the students sell the meals & meat they have prepared in class that morning. I also shop at their book store, stop in their numerous coffee shops and attend events. It is a great place to visit.



This is a work I successfully bid on during the ACAD Miniature Silent Auction. It was hand stitched in varying weights of black thread by Nauma Reigo (I hope I have her name right). I love watching people's reactions to the fur she strategically placed on the work, very provocative.

ACAD Students Decompressing -Graffiti, Gum, Cigarettes, Coffee

More about the ACAD students' graffiti stairwell where they go for decompression time. At the bottom of the stairwell you go through a heavy door and pop outside...

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...to see this - another place for the students to decompress...

and make art.

ACAD Graffiti Stairwell

Here are some more views of the ACAD graffiti stairwell. I am fascinated by the place. The atmosphere is so palatable.

It isn't sinister, just loud/noisy. It feels like a place where the students let off steam. A place where they can say and do things to see what it feels like, without being committed to the results. They can be anonymous in the crowd. It must be quite the opposite experience to being in a studio or a small class of students where expectations are so high.

I love this knitted graffiti. It is so ironic to put such a slow process amongst the results of speedy painting process. How does the knit graffiti artist not get caught?