Karen Klassen is a Calgary-based figure painter. This body of work is heavily motivated by a desire to elevate the subjective experience, and subject-hood, of the women pictured. Each painting is an act of devotion to the hard work and dedication that these women contributed to their families, and an effort to honour their wholeness and complexity as people, each living her own life.
Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis are a Calgary-based collaborative duo whose practice often resembles the work of ecologists or anthropologists. In the process of making this exhibition, the two have performed tasks that might better fit in the natural sciences: collecting data in the form of film footage or physical specimens, observing natural phenomena and recording their findings diligently, and consulting with knowledgeable locals to gain insight.
Columbia basin artists Sandy Kunze and Natasha Smith each offer us a window into their personal relationships with the place where they live. Kunze often paints en plein air, assembling a makeshift studio somewhere out in the wilderness and then working quickly to capture a feeling of the place on her canvas. Smith's mixed media works incorporate elements of the natural surroundings more concretely, often working with the palpable impressions of leaves and feathers or other treasures found out in nature.
Robin Dupont's work takes its seeds from reflection, many pieces inspired formally by the shape of the head of a shovel or other implements. His practice is very labour intensive, moving thousands of pounds of clay through his fingers a year and firing most of it with wood processed by his own hands. Andrea Revoy is always attracted to humorous, whimsical and colourful things full of texture, patterns and flowers with a bit of an edge, creating things that evoke the feeling that there is a story it is trying to tell.
Two Columbia Basin artists committed to producing a piece of art in their respective practices every day for a year. This exhibition showcased the results of that dedication and discipline, presented online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This exhibition represents the tenacity of two Columbia Basin artists who have committed to producing a piece of art in their respective practises, every day for a year. These two artists, through considerable effort and determination, speak to the boundlessness of human creativity and the very heart of human condition: to be creative. Daily Practice was Tilted Brick Gallery's first offering of an exhibition in an online format.
Anne Fetterly's artwork is as much about the process of making it as it is about the colours, textures, and details we see in the gallery. In her studio, she's reviving ancient methods and practices, using the same plants and mordants that fibre dyers have used for thousands of years. She trained in the fibre department of the Alberta University of the Arts and became fascinated with the history of fabric and textile colours and their cultural contexts and meanings over time.
Heavily influenced by abstract painters such as Pollock, De Kooning, and Richter, Eilers begins and finishes many of his paintings in a single studio session. Working quickly, responsively, and expressively, he endeavours to clear his rational, thinking mind and work more from intuition and instinct, in an effort to allow the paint itself to come alive on the canvas and lead him through the process.
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