Auction | The Fine Art of Schmoozy

The Fine Art of Schmoozy: Saturday, December 3rd 2011

This year Latitude 53 is proud to showcase the work of numerous Edmontonian and Canadian artists who have donated their artworks to our Silent Auction in support of Latitude 53's vision of exploring the boundaries of contemporary art.

Artists

Mackenzy Albright
Mackenzy Albright

Mackenzy Albright was born in Tyler Minnesota. He received his BFA in painting and his MA in printmaking, from Minnesota State University. He is currently an MFA candidate in printmaking at the University of Alberta. Although a natural image-maker, Mackenzy enjoys creating sculptures.
Zachary Ayotte

Zachary Ayotte is a photographer and artist living in Edmonton, Alberta. He is interested in the relationship between people and spaces and is currently drawn to moments of domesticity. He has exhibited work internationally and recently completed an internship with photographer Cass Bird in New York City.
Allen Ball

Allen Ball was born in London and received a First Class B. A. (Honours) Degree in Fine Art – Painting, with a Commendation in Printmaking, from Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1984, and an MVA in Painting, from the University of Alberta (supported by a Commonwealth Scholarship) in 1990. He served as Executive Director of Harcourt House Arts Centre from 1993 - 2002. Allen has taught Printmaking, Drawing and Painting courses at Grant MacEwan University from 1993 – 2002. Also, teaching sessional Painting and Drawing courses at the University of Alberta, Department of Art and Design from and 1997 – 2002. He is currently Associate Professor, Co-ordinator Painting, and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.

Over the past 20 years, his work has been grounded primarily in the practice of painting, interrogating the limits of its forms and extending the language of painting into an expanded field of inquiry. Recent projects include: “The Wordless Book and other sounds” (2010), a series of paintings that interrogates the associative power of colour through Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s nonverbal evangelical device the Wordless Book; and, “The German Autumn in Minor Spaces” (2008), a photographic and screen-based collaboration with Dr. Kimberly Mair (Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge).
His work can be found in numerous local, national and international, public and private collections.
Dominique Blackwell
E. Ross Bradley
Richard Boulet
Richard Boulet

I guess I can’t call my self a recent grad of an MFA. It has been a few too many years since that escapade. All is well in my little studio. I have a couple of slow-go collaborations happening. There is a queer back burner project using fibre and drawing. Right now I am focusing on a drawing project documenting a large number of dreams written out by an Egyptian writer named Naguib Mahfouz. The dreams are getting me to move into subject matter that I normally would not think of. I am mixing up my drawing styles as much as possible to keep everything fresh and adventurous. As per usual, there is a cross-stitch on the go.
Andrew Buszchak

I hold a bachelor degree in fine art from NSCAD University. I have exhibited individually and within group exhibitions throughout North America. Making art, I look to various communication technologies and relational systems for ways they can be manipulated to form insights on things typically regarded as ordinary. Website : http://andrewbuszchak.com
Sean Caufield
Sean Caufield

Sean Caulfield is a Centennial Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, and President of the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP). He has exhibited his prints, drawings and artist’s books extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include: Perceptions of Promise, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA/Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; Return to the Surface, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA; Imagining Science, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta; among others.

Caulfield has received numerous grants and awards for his work including: Triennial Prize at the 2nd Bangkok Triennial International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand; SSHRC Fine Arts Creation Grant; Canada Council Travel Grant; and a Visual Arts Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois, USA. Caulfield’s work is in various public and private collections including: Houghton Library, Harvard University, USA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, among others.
Mark Clintberg

Mark Clintberg is an artist and art historian based in Montreal, Quebec. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Concordia University, and has also studied at the Alberta College of Art & Design and Oxford University.
Jim Corrigan
Jim Corrigan

Jim Corrigan was born in Red Deer, Alberta in 1955. He studied art at Red Deer College, Manchester Polytechnic School of Art in England and painting at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta where he received a Master of Visual Arts degree in 1981.

He has worked with University Collections, University Archives and Collections and Museums and Collections Services at the University of Alberta since 1981, and has been the curator of the University of Alberta Art Collection since 1997.
He has had his own work presented on over 50 solo and group exhibitions throughout Alberta since 1979. He is represented in public and corporate collections such as the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Glenbow Museum and Archives in Calgary, the Art Gallery of Alberta, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as private collections in Canada and the United States.
Scott Cumberland

Scott Cumberland holds an MFA in painting from the University of Alberta and a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Scott maintains an active studio practice exploring the language of abstraction in a contemporary context. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited nationally, most notably the inclusion of his work in Drawn 2010, an exhibition highlighting trends in contemporary Canadian Drawing. His works are included in national and international collections including the Canada Council Art Bank and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. In addition to his studio practice, Scott teaches painting for the Dept. of Art and Design at the University of Alberta and drawing for the Fine Arts Dept. at Augustana Campus.
Scott Cumberland
April Dean

An Edmonton native, April Dean, has recently relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia accompanied by her beloved companion Beans Dean in order to pursue an MFA Degree at NSCAD University. She is an interdisciplinary artist and holds a Diploma in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Printmaking from the University of Alberta. Using combinations of video, installation, photography and printmaking her work is focused on themes of intimacy and alienation found in our shifting temporal experience of the everyday, the sublime and instances where the two meet. www.aprildeanart.com
April Dean
Jana Hargarten
Brenda Draney

Brenda Draney grew up in Slave Lake, Alberta. She completed an English degree at the University of Alberta before graduating with a BFA in Painting in 2006. She graduated with her Master’s degree and became the 11th winner of the annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Her work has been exhibited at the Power Plant in Toronto, the Toronto International Art Fair,and at MKG127 Gallery in Toronto. She will take part in a show at Stride Gallery in 2012. Brenda currently lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta.
Emanuel Ilagan
Jana Hargarten

Like a clumsy pageant performance my paintings are staged, a little awkward, humourous and unapologetic. I was born in Edmonton and raised in Saskatoon. I've been an artist all my life and studied art at the University of Alberta achieving a Bachelor of Fine Art and Design. I live in Edmonton in a studio/apartment above Bobby's Furniture. Odd curio left by previous tenents provides much of the still-life material for my paintings.
Emanuel Ilagan

Emanuel’s obsessive and claustrophilic explorations of textures, surfaces and spaces might be attributed to the lack of physical affection in his upbringing. With an artistic intention to emote, he hopes that if given the opportunity you would choose to give him a hug despite his icy demeanor. Emanuel is currently in his second year of studies at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC.
Liz Ingram

Liz Ingram was born in Argentina and grew up in New Delhi, Mumbai and Toronto. For over thirty five years she has been teaching at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and is currently Distinguished University Professor in printmaking and drawing/intermedia. Her art works have been exhibited in over 20 solo and duo exhibitions, and over 250 group exhibitions in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. She has participated in Biennials and Triennials for many years and has received awards for her prints at juried exhibitions in Canada, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), Poland, Korea, Brazil, Estonia, India and Finland. In 2008 Ingram was the recipient of the Gordin J. Kaplan Award for Research Excellence at the University of Alberta, in 2009 she was elected into the Royal Society of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture, and she was the University Cup winner for 2011 (the University’s highest academic honour). She has been visiting artist at universities in North America and overseas including the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, Germany.
Liz Ingram
Andrea Kastner

Andrea Kastner received a BFA from Mount Allison University in 2006 and is currently pursuing an MFA in painting from University of Alberta. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. She has been called an “archaeologist of the bowels of culture”.
Adriean Koleric
Adriean Koleric

www.thinkitem.com

Adriean Koleric, a Canadian Artist, is not a great painter. Nor is he an academic and nor is he a man of great conceptual depths. He is an Artist from a Design background harnessing the insatiable intent to create and destroy. Thus the unapologetic appropriation of the great Whitney Houston classic as his unwavering Artistic Statement:

I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone to fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

Single tear.
Colin Lyons
Jeff Kulak

Jeff Kulak is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Montreal. His work can be found across the print spectrum in national publications and materials for cultural institutions. He maintains a drawing and printmaking practice alongside his commercial work.
Colin Lyons

Colin Lyons grew up in Canada’s original oil boomtown of Petrolia, Ontario. He received a BFA from Mount Allison University and is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at University of Alberta. His recent work explores the fragile and impermanent aspects of industry. He has presented solo exhibitions across Canada.
Martina MacFarlane
Martina MacFarlane

Martina MacFarlane is a graduate of the University of Alberta Bachelor of Fine Arts program. She was born in Vancouver but has long resided in Edmonton, painting and dancing to make it through the winters.
Maegan Rose Mehler

Maegan Rose Mehler studied visual art at Grant MacEwan University and completed her BFA at the University of Victoria. She graduated at the top of her class and was selected for the 2010 Victoria Emerging Artist Awards. Most recently she was chosen as the British Columbia winner for BMO First Art! 2011. Maegan spends most of her time painting and object making, and hopes to one day obtain her Masters in Fine Arts.
Maegan Rose Mehler
Alexa Mietz
Alexa Mietz

Alexa Mietz received her BFA in Printmaking in 2008 from Sonoma State University in Northern California. She is set to finish her Masters Degree in Printmaking from The University of Alberta in November of 2011.
Brad Necyk

Brad Necyk is practicing artist in Edmonton and a Masters of Fine Art student at the University of Alberta. His current work has been in examining the historical progression, literary expressions, and philosophical dicrourses between society, the institution, and mental illness. He works in a specific minimalist vocabulary of imagery and media specificity that has allowed him to work through subjective experiences, societal conceptions, medical dissection, the objectification of the subjective, categorization, containment, psychoanalysis, and pharmaceutics surrounding mental illness.
Brad Necyk
Christina Paradun
Brenda Raynard

Brenda Raynard holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing as well as a Masters in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The combination of these degrees along with her long-term obsessive project, 21 Konstruktions, has recently led her to explore printmaking and artist’s books.
Chris Reid

Chris lived in Brandon Manitoba since 2000. Her work has been exhibited in artist-run centres and public galleries across Canada. Currently she is developing work for exhibitions scheduled at the University of Winnipeg Gallery 111 and Oseredok, Ukrainian Cultural Centre in February 2012 and for the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba later that year. Through drawing, egg writing and craft techniques Chris creates narrative images that are in part autobiographical and in part an exploration of myths related to her cultural heritage.
Brenda Raynard
Chris Reid
Paul Roche

Paul Roche is an Irish born artist has worked as a graphic artist, teacher & design consultant in the UK & Ireland, and more recently as a decorative and visual artist in Edmonton, Canada. His works are held in private & corporate
collections throughout Europe & North America.
Erin Ross

Erin Ross was born in 1983 in Edmonton, Alberta. She earned her Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 2006, and has also studied Visual Communication Design at Medicine Hat College. She has had her work represented in commercial galleries since 2008. She has received public attention for her work, including the cover and a feature article is SEE magazine and a documentary segment on Alberta Primetime. She lives and works in Edmonton, with her studio located in the historic Great West Saddlery building on 104th street.
Daryl Rydman

Daryl Rydman currently plays an active role as practicing artist and art educator. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions and is represented in public collections that include the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Art Gallery of Alberta and the University of Alberta, as well as numerous private art collections. Although known primarily as a painter, Rydman produces work that exists at the intersection of painting, photography and printmaking.
Paul Roche
Daryl Rydman
Daniela Schlüter
Daniela Schlüter

Daniela Schlüter holds an MFA in Print Media from Concordia University, Montreal (2004) and a MFA in Printmaking and Design with a Commendation in Philosophy from the Fachhochschule Münster, Germany and a BFA from the Ruhrakademie Schwerte (2000). Daniela has taught Printmaking, Drawing and Design courses as Assistant Professor at Felician College, NYC, USA (2004–2008). She is currently Assistant Professor in printmaking and drawing/intermedia in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.

Daniela’s work, which has been exhibited in Europe, the United States, Canada and the Middle East, addresses questions of unity and fragmentation from different angles, such as consciousness, social cohesion, biotechnology and history. Recent exhibitions and Triennials include Perceptions of Promise, Chelsea Art Museum NYC, USA/Glenbow Museum Calgary, Alberta; Crossing the Atlantic 40 Years DAAD New York, Chelsea Art Museum NYC, USA and the International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania. She has received support and grants from the University of Alberta; Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Concordia University, Montreal; DAAD Germany; and Aldegrever Gesellschaft Münster, Germany.
Jill Stanton

Jill Stanton is a freelance illustrator, professionally trained silkscreen technician, and future homesteader hailing from Edmonton. Her work (and life) generally revolves around food, its inherent metaphors, and its place in our culture. She also loves drawing cheeseburgers, but not eating them.
Jill Stanton
Kelsey Stephenson

BDes (Printmaking), University of Alberta 2011. In this work, my intention was to venture beyond a definite photographic representation; to work without defining a specific person, creating a portrait nearly inaccessible to the viewer, leaving it open to speculation. By drawing a physical veil between the subject and camera while photographing, a barrier is created between &lquo;self&rquo; and &lquo;other&rquo;, echoing how one mind cannot ever truly encompass anothers intent, only intuit it.
Robyn Stuart & Matt Whitson
Kelsey Stephenson
Stuart & Whitson

Robyn Stuart is a graphic designer by trade and principal at Cut+Paste Design. Matt Whitson works for the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. Their artistic collaborations typically result in “the kind of seriousness that a serious artist couldn't take seriously”.
Jeff Sylvester

Jeff Sylvester is an Edmonton based artist who’s works are enjoyed in private collections throughout Canada since 1995. He is currently represented by the Front Gallery.
Jeff Sylvester
Wayne Turner
Alma Visscher

Alma Visscher is a pop music enthusiast. Her favourite colour is pink and her work draws inspiration from the world of fashion, cloud formations, and medieval poetry. She is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alberta and is open to telling you more of her secrets.

Pat Wagensveld
Pat Wagensveld

I get the idea of abstraction from an intellectual place. The simplification and the complexity is not about the subject; it’s about the whole range of history of emotions that come from such places that are raw, intense and open, and still emergent. The subject matter registered in my core and resonated so much it had to be expressed on canvas. My work is inspired by many indelible experiences. Each imprinted image reveals the rhythm of existence around me. Days, months or years later these internal movies emerge, flowing from the mind through the fingertips on to the selected surface. I try to resolve these connections with all the elements in this tender exposed place that somehow, after being expressed, give me a sense of wellbeing.

I live in an age where compelling information is ingrained in life and has become part of my observation where circumstances demand a response. These opportunities, whether physical or mental, influence and modify my view on reality.

“Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles, and what counts first and last in art is quality; all other things are secondary”. —Art and Culture, Clement Greenberg

I am a multi-media visual artist, born in northern rural England, who now resides in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.
Keith Walker
Keith Walker, Blow in the Dark Glassworks

My attraction to this medium is that, it forever fills my desire to push my limits physically and creatively. The art of glassblowing, for me, lies within the process by which the objects come into being. My glasswork I feel reflects personality, humor and the pursuit of elegant forms with beautiful color concepts. In the shadows of the Alberta glassblowing masters, I hope to present their influences in an exciting and original way.

Recently, I have installed a permanent glass installation for the City of Edmonton located at the Central Lions Seniors Centre (11113-113 st). I own and operate my glass studio, “Blow In The Glassworks” in the city of Edmonton; this is where I teach beginner workshops and make new artwork. http://www.blowinthedark.ca
Campbell Wallace
Sam Walrod
Maria Whiteman
Sam Walrod

Samantha Walrod studied at Alberta College of Design and graduated in 2008. She is currently and MFA candidate at the University of Alberta. Walrod’s current work is partly influenced by the Emma Lake Summer School.
Maria Whiteman

MFA, Pennsylvania State University, 1999. Maria is Assistant Professor of Drawing and Intermedia in Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. Her current art practice explores two main themes: relationships between industry, community and nature; and the place of animals in our cultural and social imaginary. In addition to her studio work, she conducts research in art theory (especially with respect to photography), animal studies and cultural studies. Her most recent exhibition was De Anima at FAB Gallery (2010) and one of her pieces was selected for the Canadian Landscape Juried Exhibition. She taught previously in Multimedia, Studio Art and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
Gillian Willans

I am interested in the ways we find meaning in day-to-day experiences. To question our relationship to the everyday is to question a broader sense of order. By painting images of familial spaces, I hope to draw attention to the unremarkable and the unremarked-upon, which are often overlooked in our daily activities. The image of the “home” is a memory in one form or another that we all share. Within our personal childhood experiences, it is a sight of growth and self-assertion. As adults we endeavor to create our own “home” using memory as either a guide to depart from or recreate the ideals ingrained in our experiences. As in Johannes Vermeer’s light filled rooms, within in a broader context a “home” plays a role in society and can reflect social values and ideals. By addressing and examining my generations (children of the baby-boomers) tenuous relationship with the “home”, I hope to address a wider sense of social disconnection, disillusionment and cyclical behavior.
Gabe Wong

Gabe Wong is a designer, artist and award-winning illustrator. He has done a variety of projects, including multiple public art projects with the city, curated art shows featuring artists all across Canada, coauthored a local cookbook and he has also created his own line of products and toys. His most recent notable project is the design for the 2011 Fringe Festival. He is also an instructor at the University of Alberta, where he graduated from the Bachelor's of Design Visual Communication Program. He lives in Edmonton.
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