June 2021 - Explore!
Welcome to the KWSA monthly art show! Each month our members submit their artwork related to a specific theme.
The June theme of the monthly gallery is Explore! Almost everyone can admit that after months of lockdown, they would be happy to explore somewhere other than the grocery store! Some of our artists have chosen to explore news ways of creating with materials or methods. Our artists have submitted their favourite works related to the theme, please enjoy them.
Look up the artists in our directory to learn more about them and how to connect!
The June theme of the monthly gallery is Explore! Almost everyone can admit that after months of lockdown, they would be happy to explore somewhere other than the grocery store! Some of our artists have chosen to explore news ways of creating with materials or methods. Our artists have submitted their favourite works related to the theme, please enjoy them.
Look up the artists in our directory to learn more about them and how to connect!
GALLERY
Artist: Barry Smylie
Title: Nahihe Ridge
166 x 38 in (168 cm x 97 cm)
Acrylic on one 24 x 36 inch stretched canvas, one 18 x 24 inch canvas laminated ply panel, two 12 x 18 inch canvas laminated ply panels, and one 9 x 12 canvas laminated ply panel.
I was experimenting with “cubism” or multipoints of view. I am never certain that I can paint a painting, my subjects vary and I must vary my approach to suit the subject. Every painting is new territory. This pentaptych is also an attempt to synthesize the colour field painted geometry of my university studio instructors, Yves Gaucher and Roy Kiyooka. The formula is: Grand Manor Painting + Cubism + Post Painterly Expressionism = something new? Something postmodern composed of famous movements of the modern era… and that is + Conceptualism. The concept being that long lost doctorate academic synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis. All the preceding movements of art have been exclusive (you can’t paint that, it has been done before). It is time to revisit that theory which leads to the elimination of painterly style. The postmodern era, I would suggest is a time of reconciliation and reunification of the experimental and scientific mutilation of art to see what it is composed of in favor of putting poor broken Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Title: Nahihe Ridge
166 x 38 in (168 cm x 97 cm)
Acrylic on one 24 x 36 inch stretched canvas, one 18 x 24 inch canvas laminated ply panel, two 12 x 18 inch canvas laminated ply panels, and one 9 x 12 canvas laminated ply panel.
I was experimenting with “cubism” or multipoints of view. I am never certain that I can paint a painting, my subjects vary and I must vary my approach to suit the subject. Every painting is new territory. This pentaptych is also an attempt to synthesize the colour field painted geometry of my university studio instructors, Yves Gaucher and Roy Kiyooka. The formula is: Grand Manor Painting + Cubism + Post Painterly Expressionism = something new? Something postmodern composed of famous movements of the modern era… and that is + Conceptualism. The concept being that long lost doctorate academic synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis. All the preceding movements of art have been exclusive (you can’t paint that, it has been done before). It is time to revisit that theory which leads to the elimination of painterly style. The postmodern era, I would suggest is a time of reconciliation and reunification of the experimental and scientific mutilation of art to see what it is composed of in favor of putting poor broken Humpty Dumpty back together again.
