Art Articles & Reviews for 2002

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  Posted: 09 Dec 2002

  John Abrams: Canadian Artist Sees Red

  Like most Canadian Artists, John Abrams subsidizes his painting practice with a day job. In his case he works at a commercial lithography shop, but that aside, Abrams seems to have a single minded conscience that keeps him focused on making art,.. more...

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  Posted: 02 Dec 2002

  Victor Cicansky: The Art of Living off the Land

  When I entered his studio a gnarly structure was sprawled out on a table over looking a yard lush in flora and green, yet untouched by frost. more...

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  Posted: 25 Nov 2002

  Brenda Pelkey: Haunts

  In the darkness, seeing is a thing of a physiological reaction that forefronts the more plentiful variety of the eye's photoreceptors- the rods, responsive as they are to dim light... more...

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  Posted: 27 Nov 2002

  Birth of a Cow

  Nov 27 more...

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  Posted: 18 Nov 2002

  Allen Lefebvre - As far as the eye can see

  The prairie landscape is a never-ending panorama of changing light and color, and Allen Lefebvre loves to explore and record it on film. more...

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  Posted: 11 Nov 2002

  Ted Rettig: The Gift

  Ontario-based artist Ted Rettig is renowned for his limestone sculptures, works in which relief carvings of botanical imagery figure prominently. Less known are his wall-mounted assemblages, but it was ten years worth of these gaunt, ascetic works more...

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  Posted: 04 Nov 2002

  William Allister - Now and Zen

  As an artist I would paint a path toward peace, paint as I'd never painted before, stretching to the limits, soaring, exploring new forms, new harmonies...Visions of giant canvases marrying East and West unfolded before me. more...

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  Posted: 27 Oct 2002

  Terry Fenton's - Big Sky Country

  Morning sunlight streamed into the room. Terry Fenton had just laid down a sheaf of his oil on-paper paintings on the broadloom of this hilltop condo in Victoria He's here from Saskatoon preparing for his exhibition more...

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  Posted: 21 Oct 2002

  Project showcases Edmonton's art's desire

  Graffiti. Ever since an ancient Egyptian ruler carved, “For I’m a jolly good Pharaoh,” on the side of his pyramid, people have had the urge to communicate by scrawling on walls. more...

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  Posted: 13 Oct 2002

  Gregg Simpson: Artist Doesn’t Conform To Mold

  “I definitely don't do work 'to sell'. It's the formal ideas that interest me as much as anything. However, I am not a conceptualist. In fact my art is rather opposed to the academic school that rules today. more...

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  Posted: 06 Oct 2002

  'I enjoy painting. And if I didn't, I'd stop,' Ted Harrison

  When Ted Harrison graduated from art school in the north of England in the 1930's there wasn't much future for a painter. You could go into commercial art or become a teacher. more...

• Posted: 15 Jun 2002

  Marlene Creates: Orientation

  Much of Newfoundland-based artist Marlene Creates’s early work bears a passing resemblance to that of Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, and Andy Goldsworthy more...