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2010 Events
Thursday, June 17 to July 17
Elemental Titanium: 22
Annual Members' Exhibition & Sale
Opening June 24, 6 - 10 PM
This feast for the eyes reflects upon the diverse group of artists within our membership in this non-juried, group exhibition. This salon style show and sale includes recent works from various disciplines including; photography, painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and new media.
Thursday, June 24
Open Studios & Solstice BBQ, One Night Only
Events begin at 6 PM
Celebrate the summer solstice with an evening of art and entertainment. As well, enjoy a special peek into the multi-faceted artists’ community of Harcourt House Arts Centre and tour some of our 42 artist studios.
Thursday, June 25 to July 7
Naked 18: Finally Legal
Opening June 24, 6:00 – 10 pm
@ The Annex Building 10211 – 112 Street
This is an annual exhibition based on a selection of figure-based drawings, paintings and sculpture created by participants in the 2009-2010 non-instructional, peer based drop in sessions. The human form is the central focus attracting artists at all skill levels ranging from the professional to the beginner.
*Gallery Closed Thursday July 1st and Saturday, July 3rd
*Gallery Closed Saturday, July 31st & Monday, August 2nd
Tuesday, July 6
FREE Special public event:
Earth Works
10 am – 5 pm
@ The Annex Building 10211 – 112 Street
Harcourt House Arts Centre and Visual Arts Alberta invite the public to get their hands dirty and make sculpture from the earth’s favorite art medium – CLAY! Don’t be afraid to join in, assistants will be available to help you transform your ideas into your very own sculpture. Clay will be provided for all participants and everybody is welcome.
Thursday, July 29 to August 28
Sylvia Ziemann: Home (ln)Security & Paul Berhardt: Control
Opening Reception: July 29 7–10pm
Syvlia Ziemann
Artist Talk: Thursday, July 29 at 6 PM
Home (ln)Security is a series of work featuring small homes that contain narrative clues through videos and miniature installations. The work is a hyperbolic account of the present obsession with the home and security. These works incorporate high and low technologies to explore how we are remodeling our homes into little utopias that are still haunted, ironically, by the outside world through virtual means. Many of the works are inspired by current events as shown through the media and blended with domestic situations.
Paul Bernhardt
My painting practice has been concerned with the contemporary landscape. While living in New York City, I began working from sketches of the places I encountered in my immediate surroundings: parking lots, fences, billboards and other apparently banal subject matter. The paintings' expressionist palettes are often acidic and uncharacteristic of a natural space - these colours are founded in my memory of the original experience related to it. As the images move into abstraction there is the potential for a loss of meaning, or new meanging to emerge and the tension between natural and synthetic.
Gallery is CLOSED Saturday, July 31 & Monday, August 2
Thursday, September 9 - October 9
Opening Reception, September 9, 8-10 pm
Artist talks with 12 Point Buck & Jenny Keith-Hughes opening night beginning at 6 pm
Leila Armstrong and Chai Duncan: 12 Point Buck
Opening Reception, 7–10 pm
Join us Saturday, September 11 from 12-2 pm for the Wild Life Sketchclub with 12 Point Buck where participants are invited to build and photograph their own dioramas of nature.
12 Point Buck is a collaborative duo that takes interest in exploring representations of nature as artifice. Both artists see the unpredictability, danger and chaos of nature being abandoned for an ideal pastoral retreat where man and beast co-habit in equanimity. The artists examine the roles of fetishized objects such as toys, figurines, and stuffed animals, to produce a series of digital images of fantastical narratives concerning nature.
Jenny Keith-Hughes *Local artist: You and Me and Everyone We Know
For local artist, Jenny Keith-Hughes, the process of "beeswax painting" is relatively new and evolving. Hughes' work is relatively process oriented allowing her to produce rich, seductive surfaces by layering acrylic paintings with beeswax and working back into it; not to be mistaken for traditional encaustic painting. Aside from the material aspects of this new body of work, the painted images draw the viewer in with their curious narratives and quirky, whimsical subject matter that leave a lasting impression.
Duncan Johnson *Local artist
My paintings are the result of an intuitive effort to create an aesthetic density through the use of colour and surface. I am motivated the strong history of abstraction in Canadian art and would like to create work that draws on these strengths while seeking a place within a larger contemporary practice.
Thursday, November 25 - December 17
Opening Reception, November 25, 7-10 PM
Jullian Forrest *Local Artist
In the six years since moving to Edmonton from eastern Canada, I have been struck by the transient nature of the city, as well the incredible influx of men between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five ... I am regularly reminded of what happens when testosterone reaches toxic levels in Edmonton. My paintings are not a direct criticism of this change and migration, are nevertheless my "Alberta painting" series-in that they are a direct result of my search to understand and reference the narratives of this historical moment.
Ian Forbes
I bring together objects, images and text to create illustrations that merge rational museum practices with irrational dream worlds. I am interested in how memory and history (real or imaginary) can be constructed and invented through the display of these elements to reveal intensely intimate expressions.
Thursday, October 14 - November 13
Artist in Residence Exhibition-Neil McClelland
Opening Reception, 7–10pm
Having lived in Edmonton for several years, artist Neil McClelland will be calling
Harcourt House Arts Centre home for 2009/2010 as the newly selected Artist
in Residence. Neil comes to us with a diverse painting background, experience
teaching music in the public school system, as well as being a gallery educator
and instructor at the Art Gallery of Alberta.
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