A Micropolis in print
The Alberta Printmakers’ Society presents a colourful and chaotic show at the Artist Proof Gallery, featuring the work of Montreal’s Allison Moore and Arthur Desmarteaux.
Mutation and microbiology aren’t great ways to get people flying out the door and into a gallery, but these themes, along with urbanity and perception, are presented in fantastical, enchanting prints. It’s like Dr. Seuss and David Suzuki hooked up with Robert Crumb, ate a bunch of mushrooms and started sketching away.
Expect vibrant playful work at the opening on Friday, July 16 with the artists in attendance.
Giving up the ghost
In the same stylistic vein as Moore and Desmarteaux’s exhibition, Amy Lockhart’s quirky sculptures and paintings create a bizarre world of their own. A multi-disciplinary Canadian artist who works primarily in animation and video, Lockhart celebrates the mundane in popular culture.
Her subjects are often deformed — missing limbs or possessing awkward features. The work is inspired by outsider art and features intentional distortions of bodies and objects.
The exhibition is mostly comprised of paintings, but with a few sculptural works and one video, Give Up the Ghost is another colourful romp through one artist’s twisted reality. Showing until July 23 at Stride Gallery.
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