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The Works

June 19 - July 1, 2014

A Works Art & Design Festival curated art show in the Gallery space. 

Glen Guillet's Myriad

An exhibit of 3-D works creating floating fields of color.
Guillet’s work uses color and shape to evoke subtle psychological moods and states of mind. Myriad is a collection of suspended, slowly turning translucent artworks in a similar style of Guillet’s other public works, which can be found throughout Edmonton in City Hall, the Citadel Theatre, and in the Don Wheaton YMCA.

Michael Markowsky's Clowns

Can a painting dress up like a clown? Can a painting misbehave? Michael Markowsky’s latest exhibition questions what paintings are allowed to do, be and look like.

The exhibition features a series of provocative new abstract paintings who break all the rules. With canvas stretched incorrectly, paint applied sloppily and then everything hung improperly, the artworks act like a raucous group of mischievous Harlequins. Rather than simply paint pictures of tricksters, Markowsky wondered what it would mean for a painting to itself be a joker.

The paintings grow out of the artist’s fascination with rodeo clowns, whom he studied closely for a series of paintings commissioned by the Calgary Stampede in 2010. Additionally, Markowsky wanted to have a conversation with artists such as Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne, who were themselves fascinated by the theatrical Harlequin character.