Surface, Surface opening reception
Learn moreSurface, Surface broadly considers what it means to be a “painter” and features the work of 14 alumni and former students of Alberta University of the Arts.
Surface, Surface, curated by HKG artist Nate McLeod (Educational Art Technician), is an overview of emerging painting practices at Alberta University of the Arts, where McLeod has worked as a technician in the Drawing & Painting departments for the past six years.
Featuring the work of alumni and former students – some who majored in painting or worked primarily with paint, and others who work with various materials in a painterly way – the exhibition broadly considers what it means to be a “painter.”
Ranging from oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, airbrush, and house paint on surfaces including paper, canvas, panel, fabric, wood, and rock to varied processes such as tapestry, sculpture, hand-built ceramics, cyanotype, and quilting, the works in Surface, Surface demonstrate a wide variety of approaches while incorporating key elements of painting: colour, composition, light, movement, texture, space, and surface.
With work by Clinton St. John, godam, Jonathan Wolfe, Juli Song, Lailey Newton, Liam J. Black, May Jones, Pamela Vickerson, Risa Witten, Robyn Mah, Ryley Williams, Skye Kacsmar-Mayoh, Sydney Paquette and Toni Cormier.
A publication will be launched in conjunction with the opening reception in a limited run of fifty copies, and available digitally thereafter, featuring a curatorial statement, artist bios, and answers from each artist to three expansive questions:
- what makes a painting a painting?
- do you consider yourself a painter?
- who are your favourite painters?
