Articulation has exciting news with our new blog created to tell the world about our exhibitions, study sessions, group news and anything else that pertains to the group.
Articulation members live across Canada and we are:
ReBecca Paterson - New Brunswick
Ingrid Lincoln and Miriam Birkenthal - Manitoba
Leann Clifford - Saskatchewan
Donna Clement and Vickie Newington - Alberta
Lesley Turner and Gloria S. Daly - British Columbia
and Wendy Klotz - currently in Qatar, Middle East but soon coming back to Alberta.
Our latest exhibit opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Mennonite Centre on September 18th.
Check out the blog for news on that.
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Showing posts with label Urban Textures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Textures. Show all posts
October 09, 2009
September 11, 2009
Summer..
Summer is hanging around here in Alberta. Long lazy days of endless sunshine - love it!
August was full of lazy days with every weekend spent at the cabin - the most amazing time this year with no bugs - the mosquitoes are non-existent! At the end of the month my daughter and I went to New York City for a week - more on that later now that I have the pictures downloaded.
Over the summer I have been working on more pieces for the new exhibit in Winnipeg (opening September 18th) based upon the heritage architecture of the Exchange District of that city. I finished two more pieces (for a total of seven) for my deadline of September 8th. I thought this video was apropos!
Deadline Post-It Stop Motion
An amazing amount of work went into this by Bang-Yao Liu of the Savannah College of Art and Design.
August was full of lazy days with every weekend spent at the cabin - the most amazing time this year with no bugs - the mosquitoes are non-existent! At the end of the month my daughter and I went to New York City for a week - more on that later now that I have the pictures downloaded.
Over the summer I have been working on more pieces for the new exhibit in Winnipeg (opening September 18th) based upon the heritage architecture of the Exchange District of that city. I finished two more pieces (for a total of seven) for my deadline of September 8th. I thought this video was apropos!
Deadline Post-It Stop Motion
An amazing amount of work went into this by Bang-Yao Liu of the Savannah College of Art and Design.
July 30, 2009
Art sent to Winnpeg...
I have shipped off 5 pieces to Winnipeg along with art from other Articulation members in preparation of the September show. Lesley and I spent a morning packing and finished with three large boxes filled with 18 pieces of art - and Canada Post was successful in delivering it all within two days - thanks to them for a job well done!
I was especially happy with how my two new pieces turned out. I ended up painting matching canvases to mount them on and came up with a fabric-looking backing to sew them onto. I love the colouring and textures they add to the entire piece. Can't wait to get them out for public viewing!
I was especially happy with how my two new pieces turned out. I ended up painting matching canvases to mount them on and came up with a fabric-looking backing to sew them onto. I love the colouring and textures they add to the entire piece. Can't wait to get them out for public viewing!
June 28, 2009
Winnipeg Work - new for Winnipeg
I have been working on a couple of new pieces for the exhibit moving to Winnipeg in September, based upon architectural details I found while touring the city. These photos show the original piece - one is the base of a column, and the other is a detail high on the side of a bank on Main Street.
Starting with two aluminum cans of pop, I cut them open by removing the top and bottom, and flattened the cans. The images were then embossed onto the aluminum with an old ball point pen, and decorative borders added to fill in the space. Then they were painted with black acrylic paint to highlight the raised areas.
I made backgrounds to mount these metal pieces onto using velvet, painted Wonder Under, and two colours of chiffon scarves. Now I am playing with layout and figuring out what else to use for borders and design interest.
Have to wait until Winnipeg to see the final piece!
Starting with two aluminum cans of pop, I cut them open by removing the top and bottom, and flattened the cans. The images were then embossed onto the aluminum with an old ball point pen, and decorative borders added to fill in the space. Then they were painted with black acrylic paint to highlight the raised areas.
I made backgrounds to mount these metal pieces onto using velvet, painted Wonder Under, and two colours of chiffon scarves. Now I am playing with layout and figuring out what else to use for borders and design interest.
Have to wait until Winnipeg to see the final piece!
June 25, 2009
Winnipeg Work - art shown in Edmonton
Showing at the McMullen Gallery in Edmonton from April through June this year, I contributed three pieces to the Articulation show on "Urban Textures" inspired by our study session back in 2006 to the city in the centre of Canada (horizontally at least!)
One piece, called "Motif de Fleur" as a nod to the French settlers, is based upon the Bas Relief flowers that decorated the outer walls of the stately banks where, in early 1900 Winnipeg, twenty banks once lined Main Street.
This art has been hand and machine stitched upon archival tissue paper; coloured with chalk and oil pastels; then tea dyed to age the finished piece. Golds of different types and colours were then added as a final gilding.
Another piece is inspired by the immigrants who came to Canada at the turn of the century. Called "Gateway To The West" it tells the story of European immigrants who sailed to Canada landing in either Halifax or Montreal, boarded trains for Winnipeg, then spent time there accumulating household goods before heading out in wagons to their new lives on Government issued homesteads on the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg truly was the gateway to the west for them.
My family was among these in the 1890s. Both my mother's and father's families moved from the same small village on the Austria/Ukraine border to a small town in central Alberta. This piece shows statistics of the different cultures who were coming west. Squares are hand painted and stamped reminiscent of the plowed fields; the saying "Come to Canada, the land of your future" is written out in various languages that would have been used in Europe to promote immigration; and the names of countries who sent the most settlers are scattered throughout.
My third piece shows the different types of lilies that can be cultivated in Winnipeg's prairie climate. The many different gardens in Assiniboine Park shows locals and visitors to the city the vast range of flowers that can be grown in their global temperate zone.
Again this piece is done on tissue paper, machine stitched, hand coloured, with borders of stitched, melted felt.
One piece, called "Motif de Fleur" as a nod to the French settlers, is based upon the Bas Relief flowers that decorated the outer walls of the stately banks where, in early 1900 Winnipeg, twenty banks once lined Main Street.
This art has been hand and machine stitched upon archival tissue paper; coloured with chalk and oil pastels; then tea dyed to age the finished piece. Golds of different types and colours were then added as a final gilding.
Another piece is inspired by the immigrants who came to Canada at the turn of the century. Called "Gateway To The West" it tells the story of European immigrants who sailed to Canada landing in either Halifax or Montreal, boarded trains for Winnipeg, then spent time there accumulating household goods before heading out in wagons to their new lives on Government issued homesteads on the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg truly was the gateway to the west for them.
My family was among these in the 1890s. Both my mother's and father's families moved from the same small village on the Austria/Ukraine border to a small town in central Alberta. This piece shows statistics of the different cultures who were coming west. Squares are hand painted and stamped reminiscent of the plowed fields; the saying "Come to Canada, the land of your future" is written out in various languages that would have been used in Europe to promote immigration; and the names of countries who sent the most settlers are scattered throughout.
My third piece shows the different types of lilies that can be cultivated in Winnipeg's prairie climate. The many different gardens in Assiniboine Park shows locals and visitors to the city the vast range of flowers that can be grown in their global temperate zone.
Again this piece is done on tissue paper, machine stitched, hand coloured, with borders of stitched, melted felt.
June 20, 2009
Back to reality...
This spring has been so hectic with travel that since I've returned from my last trip I am just hunkering down and vegging at home - can you tell by the date of the last blog entry!?!
2009
The month of March in Artist Residence in Banff...
April travelling the US Southwest...
May bonding with friends on Vancouver Island (more on that next post)...
My daughter's university graduation...
Finally being able to use the cabin since the floods of 2005 when we had 9 feet of water inside - the past summers have been spent cleaning and rebuilding...
And working on upcoming shows...
This week Lesley and I drove to Edmonton to take down the show at the McMullen Gallery on the main floor of the University of Alberta Hospital. This show, based upon the architecture of downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, is moving to the Mennonite Gallery in Winnipeg in September and will be twice as big as the Edmonton show - so we are all hard at work in our studios producing more masterpieces.
2009
The month of March in Artist Residence in Banff...
April travelling the US Southwest...
May bonding with friends on Vancouver Island (more on that next post)...
My daughter's university graduation...
Finally being able to use the cabin since the floods of 2005 when we had 9 feet of water inside - the past summers have been spent cleaning and rebuilding...
And working on upcoming shows...
This week Lesley and I drove to Edmonton to take down the show at the McMullen Gallery on the main floor of the University of Alberta Hospital. This show, based upon the architecture of downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, is moving to the Mennonite Gallery in Winnipeg in September and will be twice as big as the Edmonton show - so we are all hard at work in our studios producing more masterpieces.
May 18, 2009
Urban Textures at McMullen Gallery
Articulation's show on Winnipeg's historical Exchange District has been hanging at the University of Alberta Hospital in the McMullen Gallery since April and several of us living in Calgary have made the drive up to Edmonton every other Thursday to teach workshops as part of their art program. I finally got some photos of the exhibit, but encourage you to go to Lesley Turner's blog as she has been featuring each artist with closeups of their work.
This show moves to Winnipeg and the Mennonite Cultural Centre in September and as it is a much larger space to exhibit in, we are all busy producing more work to hang in the fall.
This show moves to Winnipeg and the Mennonite Cultural Centre in September and as it is a much larger space to exhibit in, we are all busy producing more work to hang in the fall.
March 20, 2009
Banff - Day 20
A day for catching up with business items - coordinating the visitors coming over the next week, arranging the poster for our show next Friday, checking our instructor out, and taking all of our art work down from the classroom studio space. Finally got into the Leighton Studio this afternoon and finished hand stitching the orange squares onto the pinkish background - had a lovely talk with Martha about it and it has now changed shows - moved from the Women Rock body of work into the Winnipeg one. I have 5 new pieces planned for the Winnipeg showing of Urban Textures as that gallery is twice as big as the Edmonton one. She never changed our direction, rather tweaked our thinking and made us realize "oh yeah, that was my original thought all along." Enforced the 'follow your instincts' methodology.
Another Friday night and another concert. This time the group of 4 young women from Russia in a string quartet called Rusquartet played the work of Dutch modern composer Louis Andriessen. They are heading to Vancouver for the "Andriessen at 70" music festival to celebrate the composer's 70th birthday. The group was last in Banff for the international string quartet competition in 2007. The CBC was there to record the concert and you can listen to them. Click here.
Another Friday night and another concert. This time the group of 4 young women from Russia in a string quartet called Rusquartet played the work of Dutch modern composer Louis Andriessen. They are heading to Vancouver for the "Andriessen at 70" music festival to celebrate the composer's 70th birthday. The group was last in Banff for the international string quartet competition in 2007. The CBC was there to record the concert and you can listen to them. Click here.
November 09, 2008
Urban Textures 4 - Stone Carvings
More photographs from Winnipeg's Exchange district - this time focusing on STONE CARVINGS...
November 07, 2008
Urban Textures 3 - Doors
The last blog showed Winnipeg's Exchange District and full shots of buildings. Today is about architectural detailing... Starting with DOORS:
November 06, 2008
Urban Textures 2
Winnipeg surprised us all with its lovely old buildings that haven't been torn down for future development like most of Calgary's core. In Calgary there is movement afoot to save the remaining old buildings but it is too late for a great number of them.
Winnipeg however, has the 20 block Exchange District National Historical Site that contains over 100 turn-of-the-century buildings including massive stone and brick warehouses to elegant terra-cotta clad skyscrapers.
The shipping industry up the Red River from the south started Winnipeg's boom in the mid-1800s but that was a mere stepping stone for the development that the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) brought with its railway lines extending across Canada in the late 1800s and the thousands of settlers that passed through Winnipeg on their way west to claim homesteads.
Winnipeg held titles like - 1905 "fastest growing city of its size in North America"; 1911 "one of the largest rail centres in the world"; "agriculture centre of the country" with over half of the world's wheat sales during the 1920s. At this time financial institutes were lining up on Main Street, turning it into Banker's Row and creating an unrivaled architectural showcase of prosperity. This area also became the entertainment capital of western Canada with opulent theatres and cabarets drawing Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers north.
After being named a National Historical Site in 1997 by the Federal Government, the Exchange District has become Winnipeg's hub of arts and culture, home to art galleries, studios, theatres, festivals and museums.
Winnipeg however, has the 20 block Exchange District National Historical Site that contains over 100 turn-of-the-century buildings including massive stone and brick warehouses to elegant terra-cotta clad skyscrapers.
The shipping industry up the Red River from the south started Winnipeg's boom in the mid-1800s but that was a mere stepping stone for the development that the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) brought with its railway lines extending across Canada in the late 1800s and the thousands of settlers that passed through Winnipeg on their way west to claim homesteads.Winnipeg held titles like - 1905 "fastest growing city of its size in North America"; 1911 "one of the largest rail centres in the world"; "agriculture centre of the country" with over half of the world's wheat sales during the 1920s. At this time financial institutes were lining up on Main Street, turning it into Banker's Row and creating an unrivaled architectural showcase of prosperity. This area also became the entertainment capital of western Canada with opulent theatres and cabarets drawing Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers north.
After being named a National Historical Site in 1997 by the Federal Government, the Exchange District has become Winnipeg's hub of arts and culture, home to art galleries, studios, theatres, festivals and museums.
November 05, 2008
Urban Textures 1
Well, back to work now that the arm is mostly healed. The exhibition in Edmonton is coming up in the new year so it is time to get working on pieces based upon the historical district in downtown Winnipeg. I am concentrating on old signs painted onto the sides of buildings, so going for the effect of layering, erosion, faded beauty...
At the moment I am pulling out fabrics and threads for colours to work in; checking out techniques to portray the time worn images; and stitches to use in the work. Busy times ahead!
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