SPRING AT WINSOR GALLERY...
We are embracing our feminine side this spring with
exhibitions from respected artists Fiona Ackerman, Angela Grossmann, Gabryel
Harrison and Emily Young.
Ackerman’s exhibit, Heterotopia, runs March 1 to
April 1.
Grossmann’s The Future is Female, from April 4 to May
6.
Harrison and Young's joint exhibition runs
from May 10 - June 3.
ACKERMAN and GROSSMANN
While Fiona Ackerman is an emerging artist and Angela
Grossman has been established for more than 30 years, the two have much in
common. Both attended Montreal’s Concordia University and
Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art and Design and both address in their
artwork that change is the only constant.
“These two extraordinary artists incorporate physical and
symbolic collage into their work in a very fresh and compelling way,” says
gallery owner Jennifer Winsor. “Fiona Ackerman’s new works feature
simultaneous narratives taking place within each canvas and Angela Grossman’s
new work pulls multiple narratives together, weaving them into a world where
time never stops. Winsor Gallery is delighted to showcase such strong and
accomplished artists in back to back exhibits.”
ABOUT ACKERMAN
YOUR DEMON DOPPELGANGER, 2011 |
Originally from Montreal, Fiona Ackerman is a painter living
and working in Vancouver, BC. Since completing her BFA through Concordia
and ECIAD, Fiona has exhibited across Canada and in Europe (Germany &
France). While Fiona’s work is diverse in style, it is deeply rooted in the
practice of painting. In shifting towards a new direction in her work,
here is a preview of what Fiona has to say about her most recent work that is
currently up at Winsor Gallery: "I am not a
premeditative painter. During the last ten years, most if not all of my
paintings started with a white canvas on the floor being mercilessly,
deliberately defiled. Yet as I write this, I am concluding a body of work in
which there has been very little room for accident. My approach has been
delicate and calculated. Far from the days of destroying months of work in one
whimsical splash from a bucket of white acrylic, these paintings evolved from
strategy during afternoons spent with my nose up against oil paint, the last
signs of life squeezed desperately from a select few favored brushes."
Grossmann attended Emily Carr in 1985 and was introduced as
one of the Vancouver Art Gallery's "Young Romantic" (1985) painters
most likely to influence the course of painting in that decade. After earning
an MFA at Concordia University and teaching at Ottawa University, Angela
Grossmann returned to Vancouver in 1996 to paint and teach at the Emily Carr
Institute of Art and Design. Over the past 20 years, Grossmann has continued to
be a significant force in the Canadian art world. Recent work of the
artist emphasizes coming-of-age themes, social status fashion and
identity. In her exhibition of new work entitled The Future
is Female, Angela Grossmann investigates the female form and the ways in
which girls and women are shaped by both deeply personal experiences and
socially prescribed notions of female status, sexuality, femininity and
conventional beauty.
Throughout the month of
May, Gabryel Harrison and Emily Young will be showing new painting and
sculptures, true masterpieces in ethereal beauty, stay tuned for updates and
previews on works scheduled for this opening.
ABOUT HARRISON
EARTHLY DELIGHTS, 2011 |
Gabryel Harrison was born in New Zealand, and now lives and
works in Vancouver, B.C. She completed a Fine Arts Degree at the University of
Ottawa in 1980, later fulfilling post-graduate requirements to become an art
therapist in 1992. Working as an art therapist until 1996, and thereafter in
the creative arts field, Harrison has devoted herself to paint full-time since
1999. Gabryel Harrison is an artist inspired by the common roots of painting
and poetry, the rhythmic gesture from heart to line, the inspiration of image,
metaphor and symbol. She looks to nature and botanical forms as well as to the
historical tradition of vanitas paintings for her motifs and compositions. Her expressions
are less about representation than illuminations of inner states of
consciousness.
Join us here at the gallery for the exciting spring line-up!
If you are interested in receiving more information on any of the artists listed in our spring schedule contact: sunshine@winsorgallery.com.
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