Past Exhibitions
MARCH 1 TO APRIL 14, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1 from 8 -10pm Artist Talk opening night at 7:15 pm Gary James Joynes is a sound artist, composer and visual artist from Edmonton, Canada. He is fascinated by the sources of electronic composition and the ever-evolving language of technology; objects and mechanisms stimulate his process. …
MARCH 1 TO APRIL 14, 2012 Front Room Gallery Higgins blurs the line between representation and abstraction in his series of portraits of close friends and family. “The work has, weight and presence of what is observed in life” and that is what he focuses on presently.
January 26 to February 25, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26, 2012 Having an affinity for manmade materials coupled with an awareness of our poor physical relationship to the items we produce, Baker presents an installation featuring a series of twelve, small to large scale, highly reflective spherical sculptures fashioned from compact discs. …
January 26 to February 25, 2012 Front Room Gallery Described as sinister and ominous, this body of paintings explores the expression of anxiety within the context of contemporary Surrealism and “experimenting with the psychological limbo of … that movement.” www.witschl.com
December 8 – January 21, 2012 MAIN GALLERY His newest work “focuses on the tensions emerging around genetic technologies and its effect on our feelings about the dissolving biological boundaries between genders, species etc. and dominance or control in general.” This project consists of fifty new pen and ink drawings and a video …
DECEMBER 8 2011 TO JANUARY 21, 2012 Front Room Gallery This new work is the result of the exploration of a contemporary view of the world using pinhole photography. With this simple device Salomons makes us more aware of the world around us through shapes, color and textures. These photos explore the relationship between organic and geometric forms …
October 13 to November 12, 2011 I have resided in Alberta, Canada’s most westerly prairie province – a frontier region flanking the spine of the Rocky Mountains – for most of my fifty + years. As well as having developed a visual vocabulary as an artist here, I have been deeply influenced by the industrial growth of this place. Once …
October 13 to November 12, 2011 The relationship between objects and people starts very young. These experiences carry on throughout our lives as we collect objects that remind us of important events and memories, even if these objects have no useful value, such as ticket stubs and notes from friends or lovers. In this project I explore portraiture …
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