The Other Passport at the Red Deer Museum Galleries

Posted on September 16, 2017 by printerbird

September through October, I am exhibiting some new works alongside Jill Ho You and Marnie Blair at the Red Deer Museum Galleries. Our exhibition The Other Passport reflects on illness and its impacts. The title is based on a Susan Sontag quote from Illness as Metaphor:

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

I’ll also be delivering an artist talk to students at Red Deer College on September 25th.

Impressions at the Leighton Centre

Posted on September 11, 2017 by printerbird

I have five prints on display at the Leighton Centre as part of Impressions, an exhibition of local Calgary (and region) printmakers. The show is up until the end of September (although its been up for a few months already).

Looking Towards the Garden Fence (silkscreen, 15″ x 22″)

Install shot at the Leighton Centre

10th BIECTR

Posted on June 26, 2017 by printerbird

I recently returned from Quebec where I attended the opening of the Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (BIECTR). I was thrilled to be selected as one of 51 artists from around the world for this edition of the biennale. I met many excellent printmakers, saw a lot of great prints, and gave a short talk about my work in French. Install shots below:

New Prints

Posted on May 25, 2017 by printerbird

Here are some new prints – a couple of them are portfolio prints including one that I never posted from last year. All are silkscreen on paper.

Examination Artifact II
(silkscreen, 11″ x 15″)

Examination Artifact
(silkscreen, 15″ x 11″)

Fold Up
(silkscreen, 15″ x 11″)

The 36th Bradley Print and Drawing International

Posted on March 12, 2017 by printerbird

I have a print included in the 36th Bradley Print and Drawing International juried by Kathryn Polk. The exhibition opens today and runs until April 17th at four galleries in Peoria, Illinois: the Heuser Art Center and Hartmann Center Gallery, Studios on Sheridan, Prairie Center of the Arts, and the contemporary Art Center.

The Lancet Oncology

Posted on March 7, 2017 by printerbird

A review of Flux was just published in the Lancet Oncology. Never thought I’d see my work mentioned in this journal!

Review of Flux

Posted on February 17, 2017 by printerbird

Anne Pratt has written a lovely review of Flux in Canadian Art.

I am Wearing Clothes but I am Naked

Posted on January 9, 2017 by printerbird

My work I am Wearing Clothes but I am Naked is my contribution to the exhibition Flux showing right now at DC3 Art Projects in Edmonton. It was created in response to the year long research project on patient experiences dealing head and neck cancers. It brought together artists, medical researchers, and patients to share and translate cancer experiences.

My piece deals with the aftermath of recovery, the distance that patients feel from their everyday life and specifically how fraught the social activity of eating becomes.

Flux

Posted on January 2, 2017 by printerbird

I am pleased to be part of Flux, opening January 5th at DC3 Art Projects in Edmonton. This exhibition is the result of the year-long research project See Me, Hear Me, Heal Me where researchers, medical practitioners and artists worked with patients who were recovering from head and neck cancers. Details on the posters below.

The Printmakers at Midtowne Gallery

Posted on November 4, 2016 by printerbird

Brenda Malkinson and I will be exhibiting some prints at Midtowne Gallery here in Calgary with an opening on November 12th from 2:30pm to 5:30pm. Please stop by and say hi! Everyone is welcome.

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