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St. Albert Artists Corey Hochachka, Carol Donald, Doris Charest, Bev Bunker, Tammy Woolgar, Kim Schaeble, Judy Hage and Wendi Weir show off some of the work which will be on display at Profiles Public Gallery. |
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Myriad full of uninhibited color
Profiles Public Art Gallery's exhibition of AHF members' work runs the gamut of style |
By Susan Jones
Staff Writer
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The title of the Profiles Public Art Gallery September show says it all, because there is truly a Myriad of different art styles to see.
Myriad features the work of Arts and Heritage Foundation members. Each member is entitled to submit work for the show with the assurance that one or possibly two works of art will be included. The only unifying factor is AHF membership. These artists do not work together nor do they share a common theme.
The result is a serendipitous arrangement of paintings as well as sculpture, photographs and pencil drawings.
"It's mostly paintings: oil paintings, water colours, acrylics, dye transfers and acid dyes," said Edward van Vliet, education curator at Profiles, who hung more than 50 works Wednesday in preparation for the Thursday, Sept. 8 opening.
The first painting in the gallery, Pier Power by Carol Brown, lends a colourful and playful atmosphere to the show. Brown's painting shows a dock at a lake with half a dozen kids running back to shore. On the far edge of the dock a gull perches peacefully, as if it knows that the pier now belongs to him, and him alone.
The bright, strong colours continue in Berry Pleasures, an oil by Bev Bunker.
"This is my first time entering a piece in the show," Bunker admitted, as she explained that in the past she focused on commercial design. Her painting features a strong contrast of warm colours. The blackberries are bigger than life, as if they are ready to burst open with juicy goodness.
Perhaps knowing they had the freedom to enter this exhibit, as long as they were AHF members, also freed the artists to experiment, because there is an uninhibited wildness to this month's show.
Susanne Loutas, for example, painted a nude woman and added texture by layering tissues and pastel.
"It makes it look like skin," said Profiles director Heidi Alther, who admired the textural feeling and skin tones of this portrait that appears almost to breathe.
Photographer Corey Hochachka's two panoramic works feature St. Albert shots of the grain elevators at sunset and an old shack on Meadowview Dr. He printed his photos on metallic paper, which adds sheen and richness to the colours.
"I was trying to make them more art than realism," Hochachka explained.
Two artists entered pictures of Oriental poppies but their work is very different in both materials and focus.
Wendi Weir used acid dyes on silk to make a very feminine-looking trio of brilliant red poppies that look as if they should be sewn into an elegant kimono. Tammy Woolgar, on the other hand, used acrylics to paint a Passionate Garden of poppies.
"I wanted to show the love between the sun and flowers. Together they create beauty," Woolgar said.
Perhaps the tiniest work in the Myriad show is Kim Schaeble's dye on rice paper of flowers, including violets.
Schaeble experimented by using a technique similar to colouring Ukrainian Easter eggs to achieve the affect she wanted.
"I outlined the violas with wax," she said, adding the rice paper influences the texture of the flowers.
Her painting is little and lovely.
"I do love miniatures," Schaeble said.
Myriad will be at Profiles Public Art Gallery, 19 Perron St., until Sept. 23.
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