When I am given four weeks to prepare an exhibition, the results may end up “HaphazART”.
I was surprised by how many submissions the gallery’s new and current members submitted on a week’s notice. I had no trouble selecting a great cross section of artistic styles and visions, including both realistic and abstract landscapes, functional and non functional sculpture, figurative works, illustrations and purely abstract works.
Several themes revealed themselves: using art as healing, the artist’s own freedom of expression, and working past technical boundaries through experimentation with mediums. Many of the works are inspired by nature and the surrounding world. Motifs in this exhibition range from the wide open prairie, to our city, cracks in the sidewalk, northern lights, sailboats, forests, all the way to dream imagery and abstracts filled with emotional balance.
Through self-reflection, the celebration of life, and the joy of creation, these works fit together in the most “HaphazART” (haphazard) way.
-Jordan Miller
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 7, 7-10pm
Additional Hours June 8 to June 19: Tuesday to Friday, 12-6pm; Saturday, 12-5pm
Anna Araoz, Photography, Winnipeg
Barbara Ellyn, Paintings, Winnipeg
Brenda Martin, Paintings, Elm Creek
Carl Brownell, Photography, Winnipeg
Catherine Emile, Paintings, Winnipeg
Courtney Lynn, Paintings, Winnipeg
Dan Hawksworth, Illustrations, Winnipeg
Daniel M. Camp, Paintings, California
Faye Hall, Paintings/Mixed Media, Winnipeg
Francine Martin, Mixed Media, Winnipeg
Heather Craig, Illustrations, Winnipeg
Heather Gillespie, Paintings, Winnipeg
Jackie Turnbull, Paintings, Winnipeg
John Izzard, Paintings, Winnipeg
Jola Liebzeit, Paintings, Winnipeg
Jill Booker, Photography, Winnipeg
Julia Dennis, Illustrations, Winnipeg
Kathleen Shellrude, Paintings, Winnipeg
Kristina Kauss, Paintings, Winnipeg
Lisa Ayow, Mixed Media, Winnipeg
Lou Valcourt, Mixed Media, Winnipeg
Marlene Roy, Paintings, Winnipeg
Michael Joyal, Paintings, Winnipeg
Manny Schulz, Paintings, Winnipeg
Olivia Leader, Paintings, Portage la Prairie
Patricia Best, Drawings + Paintings, Winnipeg
Patricia Garrod, Photography, Winnipeg
Paul Sparling, Photography, Winnipeg
Rachelle Diddens, Paintings, Winnipeg
Sandra Dalton, Paintings, Winnipeg
Sheldon Dawson, Painting, Winnipeg
Steve Robinson, Raku/sculpture, Winnipeg