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It’s Time for Red so Put the Knives Away
Roger Crait
Urban aboriginal life is juxtaposed with apocalyptic fantasy, where space shuttles hurtle toward cityscapes and skyscrapers
coexist with tepees. The expressionistic works, peppered with satire and social commentary, often includetext meant to provoke thought on modern urban aboriginal existence.
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© Roger Crait
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© Adrien Cho
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Future Imperfect
curated by Adrien Cho
Future Imperfect offers a glimpse of the possible, one hundred years into the future, and the effects today’s generation will have on tomorrow’s political, social, cultural and technological landscapes.Twelve local professional digital artists from the film, video game and comic book industries, bring a diverse illustrative vision, both high concept and low brow, to their digital view of the future.
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Transforming Motion
curated by Terrance Houle
The Works Canadian Aboriginal Artist Program
Transforming Motions presents works by three contemporary aboriginal artists, Duane Linklater, Larry Blackhorse and Nadya Kwandibens. This exhibit curated by Terrance Houle, uses photography and film to examine the social, political and economic parallels that First Nations peoples are facing today with movements from rural to urban
environments.
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© Nadya Kwandibens
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© Lisa Brawn
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Throwing of Underpants Strictly Prohibited
Lisa Brawn
A series of woodcuts explores the correlation between temperature raising heartthrobs and global warming from all the heavy breathing the heartthrobs have caused.
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The Miniature Apiary
Adam Makarenko
In the Miniature Apiary series, Toronto artist Adam Makarenko explores destructive human manipulation of nature through the creation of an imaginary territory called the Langstroth Range. Utilizing narrative style and cinematic lighting and colour, Makarenko shows the disastrous effects when William Bjorn intrudes on the range’s unique flora and fauna, including giant bees.
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© Adam Makarenko
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2009 The Works “See Art and Design Defined” Featured Artist Exhibits
The Works Canadian Aboriginal Artist Program
“Transforming Motion”. Curated by Terrance Houle Featured works by Duane Linklater, Larry Blackhorse-Lowe and Nadya Kwandibens. Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Roger Crait - “Its Time for Red so Put the Knives Away”. Manulife Place and the North Gateway on Sir Winston Churchill Square.
“Future Imperfect” Curated by Adrien Cho Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Ben Sures “Mementos of Vegetation” Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Eric Burton and Robert Harpin – The Works South Gateway Works to Work project, Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Emmanuel Layila, Babatope Omotoso and Fassil Yenie, “The Heat of Africa”, City Hall.
Allen Ball, “Spectacle in a State of Exception”, Gallery at Milner, Stanley Milner Library.
Bella Totino and Verne Busby, “Heat of the Moment”, Theatre Foyer, Stanley Milner Library.
“Made in Germany” Curated by Nadamia Idriss, Bank of Montreal, 10199 – 101 Street.
Lisa Brawn, “Throwing of Underpants Strictly Prohibited”, Manulife Place, 10180 – 101 Street.
Adam Makarenko, “The Miniature Apiary”, Manulife Place, 10180 – 101 Street.
Josee Aubin Ouelette, “Playground Architects”, YMCA, 10211 – 102 Avenue.
Works to Work interns, “Too Hot to Handle”, EPCOR, 10065 Jasper Avenue.
Kinechi Shigeno, “Hot Shoes”, Fairmont Hotel MacDonald, 10065 – 100 Street.
Tessa Nunn, “Enjoy Mother Earth”, Rigoletto’s Café, #102, 10305 – 100 Avenue.
Mark Bellows, “Twisted”, Matrix Hotel, 10640 – 100 Avenue.
“Heat, Lodden and Then” Curated by Jean Yves Coffre Featured artists Dominic Redfern and Antonella Bassanich, The ARTery, 9535 Jasper Avenue.
Robert Harpin, “The Call of Nature”, Louise McKinney Park.
2009 Featured Community Arts Groups, Post Secondary Institutions, Art Organizations, Workshops
M.A.D.E Street Furniture Competition, Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Work on Your Figure – Live Model Drawing Sessions, Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Mary Swain - Raku Demonstrations, Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Institute Parachute - The Portable Festival of Portable Art, Sir Winston Churchill Square.
ICLEI – “Gone Green” City Hall.
Art Clay Canada, Alberta Potters Association, Iskew and Carroll, Craving Color, Edmonton Fashion Week, Alternative Trends – Art Market demonstrations and booths, Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Edmonton Public Schools Grade 12 Best of High School Portfolio Exhibit, Kids in the Hall Bistro, City Hall.
Alberta Society of Artists, “Planet Earth”. Edmonton Room, Stanley Milner Library.
Metro Cinema, “Who Does She Think She Is?” And “The Rising Tide”, Citadel Theatre Complex.
Canada Day Poster Challenge, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Avenue.
April Dean, “Raw Materials and Rose Colored Glasses” and Mark Bovey, “The Ledge_Suite”, SNAP Gallery, 10309 – 97 Street.
Monochrome Guild, “Images of the Natural World”, Sutton Place Hotel, 10235- 101 Street.
Guru Digital Arts College, “ Dr. Max’s Interactive Digital Media Extravaganza”, #200, 10169 – 101 Street.
Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Avenue.
Linda Can Someren, “Simplicity”, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Avenue.
Churchill Square Banners, Edmonton Journal, 10006 – 101 Street.
Alberta Craft Council, “Coming Up Next” and “Hitched: Couples in Craft” 10186 – 106 Street.
ArtsHab Studio Gallery, “Still Cookin’ ” and “6th Annual Sweaty Ball”, 10217 – 106 Street, 3rd Floor.
Latitude 53, Daryl Vocat “Secret of the Midnight Shadow” and Dana Holst “ Prey”, 10248 – 106 Street.
Grant MacEwan, “North/South/East/West”, City Centre Campus, 10700 – 104 Avenue.
Harcourt House, “21 Degrees and Rising” and “HOT: 17th Annual Naked Exhibition” and “Open Studios and Solstice BBQ”, 10215 – 112 Street.
Visual Arts Alberta Gallery, “Diversity 2009, 9th Annual Juried Exhibit and Sale”, 3rd Floor Harcourt house Centre, 10215 – 112 Street.
Stollery Gallery, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, “Spatial Nature”, Duncan Johnson and Louis O Coffey, 9702 – 111 Avenue.
Centre D’arts Visuals de l’Alberta, “Poster Contest Winners”, 9103 – 95 Avenue.
McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta, “Natural Designs”, Jim Visser and Wenda Salomons.
FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, “Design Celebrating Hope”, Curated by Bonnie Sadler Takach and Aidan Rowe. Room 1-1 Fine Art Building, 89 Avenue and 112 Street.
The Works 2nd Annual “Smaller Than a Breadbox” – community public participation exhibit, City Hall. |
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