March 1 – April 26, 2019 Closing Reception: Friday, April 12 7-9pm
STM Gallery is pleased to present a selection of work by Saskatoon-based artists Jasmin Fookes and Jacob Semko.
First crossing paths while in the BFA program at the University of Saskatchewan, Jacob and Jasmin now find themselves working together in partnership through the CARFAC SK Mentorship Program.
Over the
last 15 years Jacob has completed an MFA at the University of
Cincinnati, traveled internationally visiting printmaking studios as a
resident, an instructor, and a printer. He has been exposed to hundreds
of techniques, countless processes, and worked with dozens of
printmakers continually gaining new insight into state of the art
techniques, especially in the new wave of “green” or non-toxic
printmaking, which he incorporates into his practice. Creating in
different studios has allowed Jacob to make work that pushes the limits
of each print shop’s capabilities regardless of how modest or grand the
facility may be.
Jacob’s diverse series of prints are a direct
response to his geographical location with the work visually
illustrating how the changing environment affects his inner psyche. He
accomplishes this through narrative and metaphor often drawing from
previous printmaking traditions, schools and movements. His artwork and
professional practice are constantly evolving with new series informed
from the previous and inspired by the future.
Jasmin’s
wanderlust also took her around the world where she participated in
several diverse creative workshops. She lived in London for a few years
fully immersed in a thriving art and printmaking community. While rooted
in traditional print media practices Jasmin is drawn to the integration
of unconventional materials and leveraging a hybrid of analogue and
digital processes. She often incorporates hand embroidery and machine
stitching and explores substrates other than paper, working on a series
rather than an edition of identical prints. Her research explores nature
as a representative of the spiritual realm, honouring the merely
personal dimension of existence while moving towards the ineffable.
While
the focus of this mentorship to date has been on Jasmin’s specific goal
of applying to MFA programs they look forward to the final few months
of total creative freedom and exploration.
Jasmin Fookes Deconstructed Bird Series 3, 2018 Silkscreen with embroidery on Somerset Satin, 11” x 14″
Jacob Semko Johns Allegory – the reoccurrence of water Waterless lithography printed on mulberry bleached, chine collé to somerset satin, 2008 26″ x 38″
JANUARY 7 – FEBRUARY 22, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JANUARY 11, 7-9PM
Sitting in a vehicle, driving across the prairies we look out and see what remains of the elevators, homesteads, barns, and farm buildings built by early settlers and reminding us of the history of this land.
It was the texture of these old wooden buildings that drew me in because texture is central to my watercolour batik process. While it was the texture that got me exploring these old buildings it is my thoughts about the people connected to them that keeps my interest. These thoughts are of my ancestors who came to this country, to those who had lived here long before that and to how different things look depending on your perspective.
As I began to pay more attention to our prairie architecture, I had many thoughts about those early settlers. How they put their heart and soul into building new lives on the prairies. How they must have struggled to build those structures and create a new life in this prairie landscape. And how today, these same homesteads are deserted, the granaries sit empty and the elevators are rapidly disappearing.
I also think about the indigenous people who were here long before the settlers came. How their lives were completely changed when these new people came to this land. How different their perspectives may be when looking at these same buildings. It is my hope that this exhibition will remind us to be curious, remembering that there are many different perspectives of this prairie architecture.
Paige Mortensen, 2018
Featured works by Paige Mortensen (2018, watercolour batik):
‘Going, Going, Gone’, 24 x 36in
‘Dotting the Prairie 3’, 18 x 36in
‘Homestead 1’, 20 x 20in
‘Repurposed’, 24 x 30in
‘Patched’, 28 x 22in
For more information, please contact Linda Stark, Curator at 306.380.5310 or via lstark@stmcollege.ca .
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 7:30am – 10:30pm, Saturday 9:00am – 6:00pm, Sunday 11:00am – 9:00pm.
Please join us for our opening reception on Sunday, November 18, 1-3pm as we celebrate the recent work of students from the University of Saskatchewan’s Community Arts Program. For more information on classes offered by Community Arts, please click on the following link: https://artsandscience.usask.ca/noncredit/communityart/adultclasses.php
Participating artists:
Daniel Aussant Atrayee Basu Alex John Bergerman Leane Bettin
Jill Blakley Laurie Blondeau Bill Compton Cecilia J. Cote
Faye Erickson Audrey Findlay Jodi Francoeur Judy Francoeur
Sylvie Francoeur Krista Heidel Jalene Ippolito Mary T Kane
Kim Laprairie Janis Leia Irene Mckinnon Darlene MacDonald
Wendy McLeod Bob Miller Elisabeth Miller Larry Mullen
Kelly Parker Tim Parsons Bernice Rahm Kelsy Schumacher
Christine Popoff Todd Carol Trumbley Gwen Van Meter Cynthia Wright-Fulton
Carole Zuk
For more information, please contact Linda Stark, Curator at 306.380.5310 or via lstark@stmcollege.ca .
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 7:30am – 10:30pm, Saturday 9:00am – 6:00pm, Sunday 11:00am – 9:00pm.
AUGUST 27 – OCTOBER 26, 2018 RECEPTION: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1-3pm
STM Gallery is pleased to present a selection of recent work by Regina artist Anne Brochu Lambert. Anne will be in attendance for our opening reception on Sunday, September 9th from 1 – 3pm. We hope you can join us. Impermanent / Éphémère explores the fugitive aspects of our memories, our tendency to reconstruct and reinvent parts of an experience and the limited means we have to keep them intact overtime through various forms of documentation. Brochu Lambert incorporates found imagery, drawn from a cache of unidentified travel photographs. Many of these early photographs document various landmarks or historical monuments which are seemingly eternal but subject to transformation over time via natural elements and our interaction with them. Her subsequent transformation of these images (‘accidental collaborations’) questions the increasingly fluid boundaries of documentation and memory sorting in a digital age.
L’exposition Impermanent / Éphémère est un projet né d’une exploration des concepts de mémoire et de documentation ; cette pulsion quasi universelle à vouloir capturer des moments et lieux significatifs, d’une réflexion sur la surabondance de visuels qui est générée à cette ère technologique mais malgré tout confrontée aux limites des moyens mis à notre disposition pour préserver ces mêmes images. L’installation de la série évoque cette fragilité et la limite temporelle.
La découverte d’une riche collection de photographies de voyage, anonymes et abandonnées, réalisées en Irlande par un amateur de la Saskatchewan, a été le point de départ de cette recherche visuelle. La sélection d’images de monuments naturels ou de lieux construits par l’humain dans des temps anciens était clef pour évoquer la métamorphose imposée par le temps. Ce traditionnel motif paysagé, ces lieux personnellement vus et évocateurs d’émotions, était le prétexte idéal à transformation par le biais des supports, des techniques d’interventions mixtes, analogues et numériques. La série devient le témoignage d’une collaboration accidentelle entre deux sensibilités.
Anne Brochu Lambert, 2018
Anne Brochu Lambert’s artistic practice encompasses a mixed media approach, with foundations in painting, printing processes and photography. It also includes periodic incursions into installation and performance work in other disciplines.
Raised in Lévis, PQ, she’s calling Saskatchewan home since 1986. Her formal training in Fine Arts includes notably a D.E.C. from CEGEP Lévis-Lauzon, an Artist Residency in Montecastello di Vibio (Italy) in 2009, and currently a high profile mentoring project with curator-conceptual artist Serge Murphy, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts (May 2016-Aug 2018) and spear headed by the Conseil culturel fransaskois.
Brochu Lambert has participated in solo, collective and juried shows in Canada and in the State of Washington (USA) for the past 20 years. Most recently, she’s shown her works at Galerie Luz in Montreal (April-July 2018), and at AKA Artist Run Centre in Saskatoon (Nov-Dec 2017). With gallery representation since 2009, her artworks can be found in both private and public collections, including the City of Regina.
For more information, please contact Linda Stark, Curator at 306.380.5310.
Images:
Silver VIII, Series Les Éphémères, 24 x 16
Silver I, Series Les Éphémères, 16×24
Silver II, Series Les Éphémères, 24×16
Silver XIX, Series Les Éphémères, 24×16
Mixed media techniques on inkjet giclee from vintage anonymous photograph.
THE LIMITED
JULY 4 – AUGUST 24
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 5, 7-9pm
STM Gallery is pleased to present a selection of recent work by Cory Chad and Denise Flaman, both from Prince Albert, SK. We hope you can join us on Thursday, July 5th at 7pm for our opening reception.
A significant detachment from everyday life is required for exploration. The art studio is treated like a laboratory or a confessional. The artist goes in to experiment and wrestle with her materials, hoping to extract the truth. Being in ones studio is not about working in a place of safety, or being assured success. It is about being respectful towards the idea of “process” and having a willingness to develop patience for unresolved expectations.
This exhibition includes pieces from workshop experiences at the Prince Albert Arts Centre, the drawing studio at the University of Saskatchewan, and the artists’ home studios. Although Cory and Denise work separately, their art reflects an ongoing conversation. There is a shared appreciation for a sense of rawness, a dryness of colour, and for the subject matter to be rendered in an unusual manner.
To see,
To look,
To gather.
Even when not painting, there is an enthusiastic documentation of ideas. This does not stop.
To forget that time exists. She’s covered in charcoal, it’s now dark and the lights are off in the rest of the house, and husbands need to be fed. This is what happens when two minds go offline.
Cory Chad
Cory Chad was born and raised in Prince Albert, SK. She discovered her love of art in junior high school when she drew her first still life. Throughout the past seven years, Cory has focused on drawing and painting classes at the University of Saskatchewan. She has been fortunate to receive instruction from Alison Norlen, Graham Fowler, Allyson Glenn, Terry Billings and George Glenn. She has also taken workshops from notable artists such as Degen Lindner, David Alexander, Grant McConnell, Iris Hauser and Kim Ennis. Acrylic is her medium of choice but Cory has also worked with oil, charcoal, ink and pastel.
Her exhibition ‘Offline’ with Denise Flaman, was held in February 2018 at the John V. Hicks Gallery in Prince Albert. She has participated with the KYLA group at the Mann Art Gallery and exhibited her work at Amy’s On Second Restaurant, The Bison Café and the John M. Cuelenaere Library. The Mann Art Gallery in Prince Albert has purchased four of her works for their collection, including ‘Thin Skinned’, which was featured on the cover of their Permanent Collection 2012 Calendar.
cchad@sasktel.net
Denise Flaman
Denise Flaman lives in Prince Albert. She discovered her interest in art during her high school years in Regina, where she was raised. She has been painting for fifteen years in oil, acrylic and various drawing mediums. She began by taking classes with Christina Thoen in Prince Albert. She has since studied drawing and painting at the University of Saskatchewan, taking courses in Prince Albert and Saskatoon. She has received instruction from George Glenn, Terry Billings, Graham Fowler, Allyson Glenn and Alison Norlen.
Her studies have led to observations of “practical life scenes” and of the use of painting and drawing materials to emphasize composition, colour and mark making.
Denise has participated in group exhibitions at the Red Door Gallery at the Bison Café, the John V. Hicks Gallery at the Prince Albert Arts Centre and the Grace Campbell Gallery at the John M. Cuelenaere Library also in Prince Albert. In 2016, The Mann Art Gallery of Prince Albert purchased a painting for their permanent collection.
denise.flaman@flaman.com
Images:
Cory Chad, Balanced, 2018, Watersoluble pastel and India Ink on Terraskin, 9 3/4” x 13 1/2”
Denise Flaman, Move Through, 2018, Watersoluble pastel on paper, 4 5/8″ x 6”
