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Lot 1
Artist: Theresa Sapergia
Title: Fairytales for Loss
Media: coloured pencil on paper
Size: 27.25 x 20.25 in. (69.2 x 51.4 cm) framed
Date: 2009
Theresa Sapergia's 'painterly' drawings and 'drawerly' paintings are based in a material exploration of figuration and a questioning of the historical tropes of representation. Her work uses sentimentality, sincerity and humour to call into question contemporary art's current relationship with irony and distancing.
Sapergia has exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and this past summer at Two Rivers Gallery with I Like Canada and Canada Likes Me. She lives in Prince George where she is currently an instructor at UNBC through Emily Carr University of Art and Design and is the Proprietor/Tattoo Artist of Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo.
I am interested in that fleshy body that lifts, falls, hovers and searches for its own likeness, a figuration that wants to find similarity within an image made of marks and dust. The transient form that is at once animal, magical, fantastical and ordinary. These bodies share histories of objectification, exploitation, and colonization. Human / animal recognition relates to born of touch. To touch is to make one-self recognizable in turn.
Theresa Sapergia
Estimate: $750 - $1000
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Lot 2
Artist: Hugh Perkins
Title: We are Light
Medium: felted wool
Size: 24 x 33 in. (61 x 85cm) unframed
Date: 2009
Hugh Perkins is a subsistence farmer living in Dome Creek. He has been working with felt since experiencing an encounter with a grizzly bear a few years ago. Hugh and his partner Kathy work in their studio in Dome Creek in creating functional and Fine Art pieces using natural wool and fibres. Perkins has also been instrumental in developing the trail system in the Ancient Forest.
Perkins exhibited in the Spark Group Exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery in 2008 and the Forest Felters work is available in The Shop at the Gallery.
We are Light
love, desire, fear
singularity, multiplicity, darkness
divinity, illusion, nothing
eternity, life, death
clarity, confusion, resistance
focus, distraction, apathy
intuition, intellect, ignorance
We are Light
--Hugh Perkins
Estimate: $300 - $500
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Lot 3
Artist: Marc LaCaille
Title: Dali Visiting Lake Superior
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8) framed
Date: 2010
Marc LaCaille's artwork is bright and colourful. His images, a jumble of figurative and abstract shapes, give life to his ideas and emotions. Yet the structure of each painting is as important as its content, and it is characterized by solid composition and the artist's gift for combining colours.
Marc began his artistic career at a young age, filling up the margins of his school notebooks with drawings. After honing his drawing skills through High School, Marc went on to study science at College du Vieux-Montréal. Two years later transferred to Concordia University where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and then went on to complete a Teaching Certificate from l'Université Laval.
Marc lives in Prince George, with his wife and two children, and spends his days in his classroom teaching. He paints whenever possible, and has been involved with the BC Lions Society projects: Eagles in the City and Spirit Bears in the City.
Dali Visiting Lake Superior grew from the following question: "What would Dali paint if he had seen or camped at Lake Superior?" This idea took shape as I observed my daughter doing research on Salvador Dali. That same morning I had turned my calendar page to Lake Superior by Lauren Harris. So, it was simply a playful stretch of my imagination to put the two together. The result, of course, is neither Dali nor Harris, but an interesting painting done especially for the Art Auction.
--Marc Lacaille
Estimate: $250 - $400
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Lot 4
Artist: Liz Carter
Title: Woven Copper 2
Media: mixed media: copper & cedar
Size: 17 x 17 x 3.5 in. (43.2 x 43.2 x 8.9 cm) framed
Date: 2010
Woven Copper 2 was made in response to work Carter created for the 2010 Olympics which is displayed in Whistler, B.C. The centrepiece selected for the Olympic work is a traditional Copper shield, which is still used today at Potlatch. The weave represents the peaceful celebration of global communities interacting and arriving from the four directions of the world.
Copper is an important material in my culture and would be my choice for the top metal in a global competition. The addition of cedar to Woven Copper 2 is added out of respect for a material that sheltered, fed, transported and clothed my people since the beginning of time.
--Liz Carter
Liz Carter lives and works in Campbell River, B.C. Carter exhibited work in the Debutante exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery in 2008.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,550
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Lot 5
Artist: Gerald Hushlak
Title: Spirits of the Cut
Media: giclee drawing
Size: 49 x 28 in. (124.5 x 71 cm) framed
Date: 2009
Gerald Hushlak is a Professor of painting and computer graphics in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary. He has a Post Graduate degree from the Royal College of Art in London and Undergraduate Studies in Fine Art from the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of California.
Hushlak's current work focuses on computer-generated artworks that use an algorithm that creates new works from digital files. Each piece, like Spirits of the Cut, is an individual piece. Hushlak also uses sophisticated computer printing techniques with metal based papers - which add to the rich textures and colour depth.
Hushlak has participated in over 40 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries and his collaborative work with colleagues at the University of Calgary has been presented as in more than a dozen public exhibitions across the world. Hushlak's exhibition Bred will be installed at Two Rivers Gallery in August 2010.
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000
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Lot 6
Artist: Nathalie Daoust
Title: Tamas (from the Frozen in Time series)
Media: hand coloured pin-hole photography
Size: 26 x 24 in. (66 x 61 cm) framed
Date: 2005
Nathalie Daoust was born in Montreal, where she studied photography at the Cegep du Vieux-Montreal before moving to New York City to start working on New York Hotel Story, her first solo published photography book. In 2001 she moved for a period of two years to Japan to document the red light district of Tokyo. Since then she has created several new thematic projects including Entre Quatre Murs, Berlin, Street Kiss, Brazil and Frozen in Time, Switzerland and has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Poland, Finland, France, Spain, England and Japan. Her photographs have been the subject of many publications and awards. Daoust exhibited Entre Quatre Murs, Berlin at Two Rivers Gallery in 2009.
During a residency exchange between CALQ and the Christoph Merian Foundation in Switzerland Daoust photographed a series of images set in an ambiguous territory where dream and reality clash. Here, memory and introspection create a labyrinth of illusion and mystery. For Daoust, photography allowed her to consciously reconstruct the reminiscence of her past, piece-by-piece. She fills the gaps in her memory with visual portrayals of fantasy in order to create a life- like tale, bases on real events. All of the photographs are black and white prints taken with a pinhole camera, and then hand-coloured to create so-called "enhanced and corrected memories".
--Nathalie Daoust
Estimate: $600 - $800
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Lot 7
Artist: Maja Swannie Jacob
Title: Sleeping Beauty
Medium: colour photographic print
Size: 18.5 x 18.5 in. (47 x 47 cm) framed
Date: 2002
Maja Swannie Jacob was born in Newfoundland and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After taking a photo class at sixteen she was hooked - she says she started skipping school to take pictures "til she got caught". Swannie Jacob attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Cooper Union in New York. She moved to Alberta in 1994 and began a career in freelance photography. She now lives in Prince George and continues to take photographs as much as possible with a young family.
With Sleeping Beauty I photographed a pair of false eyelashes placed on a white cloth. This image visually echoes a pair of closed eyes "asleep" on a sheet or pillow. The title refers to the well known fairy-tale, and to a girl's childhood dreams for a happily-ever-after future with Prince Charming. Here "Beauty" is an old set of false lashes in a plastic box, a stand-in for real eyes, real beauty, a real person. Nonetheless the drowsy lashes do seem to be blissfully, deeply sleeping.
--Maja Swannie Jacob
Estimate: $275 - $350
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Lot 8
Artist: Lynn Huntley Wyczolkowski
Title: Courtship (ed.2/20)
Media: cibachrome print from slide film
Size: 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm) framed
Date: 2005
Lynn Huntley Wyczolkowski has participated in over fifty solo and group shows in Canada, Italy, Japan, Poland, the Netherlands and the United States. Her floral photographic works are in numerous public and private collections across Canada.
Traditional photographic techniques without manipulation are the foundation of my approach to my work. A simplified composition encourages the viewer to appreciate the purity and unique beauty of nature. Cibahrome prints are prized for their rich colour saturation and longevity.
--Lynn Huntley Wyczolkowski
Estimate: $600 - $800
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Lot 9
Artist: Azucena Rudland
Title: Lonely Worlds (ed. 2/5)
Media: digital photography printed on metallic paper
Size: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm) framed
Date: 2009
Azucena (Sue) Rudland was born and raised in Mexico City. She now lives and works in the Fort Fraser-Fraser Lake area. Her practice includes photography, painting and digital media.
As an artist I like to use both traditional and contemporary methods and technologies to produce my work. In this work I have used digital technology to express some of my areas of interest. I am particularly focused in emotions and how they influence our experience.
Three circumstances inspired this image: a homeless man walking among thousands of people, me realizing that I have lost my walking partner in Mexico City and that I was as lonely as he was, and the lunar eclipse that happened that same night and made the night sky turn completely dark. My experience is not unique, but the way I saw these elements unfolding was and reminded me that each of us spends our lives in Lonely Worlds.
I am almost certain that I will never see the man again, that I will never recover my walking partner in Mexico City, and that I will never see the same lunar eclipse. Digital technology has allowed me to bring the emotional void to life in the darkness and gain a sense of hope for the journey.
--Azucena Rudland
Estimate: $400 - $600
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Lot 10
Artist: John Macdonald
Title: Theme Park
Medium: oil on paper mounted on canvas
Size: 23 x 30 in. (59 x 76.2 cm) unframed
Date: 2010
John Macdonald is an accomplished Canadian Artist whose work has been collected and exhibited nationally for over a decade. His work is informed by traditional as well as the avant-garde.
John Macdonald graduated with honours and merit awards in 1987 from Emily Carr College of Art and Design. His paintings are in the collections of the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa; Toronto Dominion Bank, Vancouver and Toronto; Shaw Cable, Calgary; The Bentall Center, Vancouver; The Grand Pacific Hotel, Victoria; and The Hyatt Regency, Calgary.
Originally from Prince George, and a long time resident of Vancouver, the Artist now resides with his wife and daughter on Salt Spring Island, BC.
Theme Park is an image of water slides and is one of an ongoing series based on artificial realities or constructs. A large painting entitled Unnatural History in the series was featured in August 2008 Harpers Magazine which was based on an image of dinosaurs taken in the interior of Exploration Place in Prince George.
--John Macdonald.
Estimate: $1,750 - $2,500
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Lot 11
Artist: E. Nancy Stevens
Title: West Coast Memory V
Media: watercolour
Size: 14.5 x 22 in. (35.6 x 55.9 cm) framed
Date: 2008
Nancy Stevens, was born and spent her early life in BC, she studied with Group of Seven artist Arthur Lismer at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Alex Colville at Mount Allison University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Stevens exhibits regionally and nationally and is represented in many important collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank and the National Capital Commission. Stevens' work is in Two Rivers Gallery permanent collection.
In West Coast Memory V, I explore another dimension of land, sea and sky, where time has filtered and refined memories of coastal British Columbia.
--E. Nancy Stevens
Estimate: $850 - $1,100
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Lot 12
Artist: Gerda Volz
Title: Highway of Tears (United in Fate)
Media: gouache and ink on paper
Size: 23 x 28 in. (57.2 x 72.4 cm) framed
Date: 2006
Gerda Volz came to Canada from Munich Germany and has lived in the Lakes District since 1973. She raised three sons in the back woods of Burns Lake while exploring nature and pursuing her craft.
Volz is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, and a founding member of the Burns Lake Artists' Guild. Her work has been exhibited since 1989 in a number of group exhibitions including the BC Festival of the Arts and since 2004 Volz has participated in the annual juried group exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery.
The tragedy of the missing women on Highway 16 is an upsetting and emotional theme. It deals with the worst kind of crime and it deals with victims. The outrage over the interruption of precious lives can motivate an artist to search for appropriate expressions. In my painting I try to reach the anxiety, horror, the overpowering darkness of evil, and the desperate cry for help. The masks symbolize the foreboding possibility that all the missing women are united in death.
--Gerda Volz
Estimate: $275 - $500
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Lot 13
Artist: Kim Stewart
Title: Renewal
Media: chalk pastel on canvas
Size: 25.25 x 21.25 in. (64.1 x 53.9 cm) framed
Date: 2009
Kim Stewart studied Fine Art, earning a diploma in 1984 and in 1990 completed a diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration. Stewart began her studies of First Nations Art Form with local First Nations Elders, and through Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Since 2003 she has moved from commercial art to her own personal work where interests come from visual imaginings from ancient writings, stories from her past, or nature renewed or in decay. Stewart was part of the group exhibitions Spark 2008 and Flux in 2009. She was recently awarded a Coca-Cola commission for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
I am interested in exploring ideas and forms of preservation. When I am thinking about those ideas, my head fills with images of fire, water, language or communication and the power of nature as it pushes against man. I am interested in combining traditional media, like pastel and acrylic, with canvas, beeswax, eggshells, beads, leather and rawhide.
--Kim Stewart
Estimate: $275 - $500
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Lot 14
Artist: Laura McGregor
Title: Midsummers
Medium: mixed medium on linen
Size: 36 X 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm) unframed
Date: 2009
Laura McGregor is recognized for her unique style of painting with gouache on linen. She is an avid artist who has shown her paintings and artist-books throughout Canada and abroad. Laura has her Masters Degree in Drawing and Pinting from Edinburgh College of Art. She obtained her Fine Art Degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 2004 after completing a three year interdisciplinary Fine Arts Diploma course at Fanshawe College in 2002. Laura lives with her husband and son in Burns Lake, B.C.
McGregor exhibited work at Two Rivers Gallery in 2009 with the group exhibition Flux.
At the 26th annual Midsummer Music Festival, while I enjoyed chatting with passers-by and listening to the music, I painted this canvas. A painting that can be enjoyed by the viewer both at a distance as a whole, as well as close-up where one can appreciate the more subtle details. The setting or rising sun in the bottom right and the layers of paper, paint, and ink allow the viewer to question what was, what is, what came before, and what will come next.
--Laura McGregor
Estimate: $400 - $600
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Lot 15
Artist: Claire Kujundzic
Title: Northern Light
Media: mixed media on canvas
Size: 36 x 45.5 in (91.4 x 115.6 cm) unframed
Date: 2009
Claire Kujundzic was born in Scotland and emigrated to Canada at the age of 5. She studied fine art at Langara and Emily Carr Colleges and is very active on numerous juries and art boards and was a Moderator at 'Images and Objects' in Penticton in 1996. In 1997 she won the Canadian Association of Labour Media's Best Illustration award, and in 2002, a Woman of Distinction Award in B.C.'s Northern Interior region. Kujundzic owns and operates Amazing Space Studio in Wells with her husband, artist Bill Horne.
Northern Light was part of a series of work entitled Cariboo addressing the pine beetle epidemic, which was part of her exhibition last summer at Two Rivers Gallery. It captures the sky in Wells, where several weather systems frequently collide, and the changing forest of the northern interior.
Northern Light is mounted using a French cleat hanging system that Claire devised for her unstretched, unframed canvases to increase the sense of the fragility of our environment.
Since December, Claire has produced over 50 ten and twelve foot canvas "trees" which are currently installed in the Olympic athletes' living rooms in Vancouver and Whistler, along with other Cariboo paintings. Three new exhibitions of her work are scheduled in the B.C. interior this summer.
Estimate: $1,750 - $2,500
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Lot 16
Artist: Joe Ferrante
Title: Autumn on the Darby
Medium: acrylic on board
Size: 22.5 x 29.5 in. (57.2 x 74.9 cm) framed
Date: 2009
Joe Ferrante has been portraying nature and its creatures for the past 30 years. He has worked in different media but finds acrylics best suited for his realistic style. Each of his compositions begin with a concept, inspiration and sketches on paper which are experimented with until ready for the easel.
Ferrante's work is in collections in Canada, US, Europe, Australia and Japan. Since 1999 he has continuously received numerous awards from Ducks Unlimited Canada and has been recognized by the BC Wildlife Federation and the Guides and Outfitters of BC.
My favourite time of year in Prince George is the fall. I spend as much time as possible in the beautiful outdoors surrounding us. This drives me and inspires me to paint scenes like Autumn on the Darby, which is typical of that time of year.
--Joe Ferrante
Estimate: $600 - $800
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Lot 17
Artist: Allan Farmer
Title: Dead Pine and Verdant Green
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) framed
Date: 2009
Born 1945 in Vancouver and raised on Vancouver Island Farmer attended University of Victoria. He then went on a working journey via Hawaii to Australia and New Zealand. After seven years down under Farmer returned to B.C. and worked for many years up and down the West Coast as a logscaler. He moved to Prince George in 1998 where he continues to work as a log-scaler and weigh-master at various weighscale sites in the region.
Farmer is self taught, has always been interested in painting and over the last 15 years has started to take his work more seriously.
Pine dead
needles down
on the ground
still drives the force
that manifests life
in verdant green
--Allan Farmer
Estimate: $300 - $500
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Lot 18
Artist: Sybille Muschik
Title: Foliage
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 in. (41 x 51 cm) unframed
Date: 2009
Sybille Muschik was born in the outskirts of Berlin to an artistic family. Her grandfather was a renowned landscape artist who often painted en plein air. This seemed such a grand occupation to an impressionable child. Its small wonder that painting on site for her, which she often does in fall and spring, has been a continuing passion for over thirty years. She teaches drawing and painting classes as well as occasional seminars in printmaking to children and adults.
In her studio, she often distils the commune with wilderness into non-objective or abstract work in any number of media especially acrylic or printed monotypes. Her concern for the natural wilderness especially precious water resources, has led her to embrace stewardship issues. She sees the painting process as an extension of her inner vision that often references myths and archetypes while bridging a modern hectic lifestyle with being enriched and sustained by the natural dynamic environment that surrounds her.
Foliage This work is an exploration of changes that occur to plants and trees as they undergo the mysterious transitions from the vibrant growing months to the sleeping dreaming stasis that is winter. The work makes references to the dance of life with sparks of colour and symbolic imagery to indicate how dynamic this process is.
--Sybille Muschik
Estimate: $250 - $400
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Lot 19
Title: Highway Inuksuit Point West
Media: acrylic on canvas board
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) unframed
Date: 2006
Laura Chandler was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and graduated from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba with a BFA Honours. She has a Certificate of Basic Graphic Design from Red River Commuity College as well as a Teaching Certificate from the University of Manitoba and Simon Fraser University. She is currently teaching art at a secondary school in Prince George.
Chandler has been exhibiting her work since 2001 in juried exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery as well as the Central Interior Art Festival. She was selected for the B.C. Lions Society Spirit Bear project and in 2009 had her first solo exhibition In the Wake of a Legend at Two Rivers Gallery.
Highway Inuksuit Point West was visualized while coming home from Ontario after summer travels and depicts a condensed version of our land's arious geographical features. The setting sun radiates the vibrancy of all our B.C. communities.
--Laura Chandler
Estimate: $300 - $500
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Lot 20
Artist: Peter von Tiesenhausen
Title: Untitled - Firepainting (from Acts of Resistance)
Media: whitewash on plywood
Size: 12 x 12 in. (30 x 30 cm) unframed
Date: 2005
Peter von Tiesenhausen is an artist with a global reputation who lives and works in Demmitt, Alberta. Born in New Westminster, he majored in painting at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
von Tiesenhausen works in a variety of media; painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. This work is from the 2005 exhibition Requiem at Two Rivers Gallery which examined the impact of the pine beetle infestation on the Boreal Forest.
A few days into the installation of this project, von Tiesenhausen was given a pile of plywood panels. Discovering that when laid side by side there was precisely enough to go completely around the gallery, he resolved to use it. On a number of those panels von Tiesenhausen drew images of trees in whitewash, a solution used historically as a kind of fire retardant paint which he then charred with a torch. As the whitewash dried, it hardened into the image of a tree. Mirroring the fire-borne process of rebirth that occurs in our forests, through the force of fire, a new tree came into being.
von Tiesenhausen's sculpture Balance was permanently installed at Two Rivers Gallery in 2009. von Tiesenhausen's work is part of Two Rivers Gallery Permanent Collection.
Estimate: $600 - $700
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Lot 21
Artist: Jennifer Annais Pighin
Title: Embracing the Sun
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Size: 14 x 14 in. (35 x 35 cm) unframed
Date: 2009
Jennifer Annais Pighin is an artist and educator located in Prince George, B.C. Her ancestry includes: Carrier First Nations, French Canadian and Italian. Pighin is a member of the Lheidli T'enneh, 'the people from the confluence of the two rivers.' She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Emily Carr and a Bachelor of Education specialization in art from U.B.C.
Pighin is proactive in Prince George which was reflected in her nomination of 'Aboriginal Woman of Distinction' at the Northern B.C. Today's Woman's Awards. She has received numerous awards for her design work and was commissioned to produce a series of prints for the 2008 B.C. Olympic Pavilion in Beijing.
The eagle is a universally strong and sacred spirit symbol across many cultures. Here the eagle embraces the sun expressing great achievement, freedom and enlightenment, reflecting the belief that eagles carry prayers to the creator.
On the eagle's right wing, seven feathers represent the seven sacred teachings. On the left wing, eight feathers resemble the four directions - twofold.
The landscape is stylized to embrace the natural ebb and flow of nature and reflect the world as an integrated whole.
--Jennifer Annais Pighin
Estimate: $350 - $500
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Lot 22
Title: Northern Lake
Media: oil on board
Size: 9.75 x 11.75 in. (25.4 x 30.5 cm) framed
Date: 1998
Bryan Chubb was born in Edmonton in 1947, he began painting in the mid 70's and considers himself self taught. Chubb has lived and painted throughout western Canada. In addition to several solo shows in Alberta, many of his paintings are included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta Foundation of the Arts and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Chubb currently resides in the Cariboo Region of British Columbia where he paints and makes maps.
Northern Lake was painted in 1998 while canoeing east of Yellowknife. While the composition displays some 'Group of Seven' influence, it also owes a debt to Alberta painter W.L. Stevenson.
--Bryan Chubb
Estimate: $450 - $600
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Lot 23
Artist: Leszek Wyczolkowski
Title: Cohesion
Media: aquatint on paper
Size: 17.5 x 31.25 in. (44.5 x 79.4 cm) framed
Date: 1996
Leszek Wyczolkowski was born into a family of artists in Poland. His formal education was obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Ontario College of Art. In 2005 and 2007 Wyczolkowski attended self-directed residencies at the Banff Centre. He has exhibited in over 150 solo and group shows around the globe. Wyczolkowski's works appear in museums, corporate, public and private collections in Asia, Europe and North America.
Wyczolkowski exhibited Dialogue at Two Rivers Gallery in 2004 and is part of Two Rivers Gallery's Permanent Collection.
Favourite printing media are aquatint and etching. The process of working on zinc and copper plates has changed little since the time of Rembrandt.
--Leszek Wyczolkowski
Estimate: $450 - $600
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Lot 24
Artist: Lisa Hebden
Title: Moths II
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm) unframed
Date: 2008
Victoria based figurative painter Lisa Hebden was the 2003 recipient of a Painting on the Edge Award from the Federation of Canadian Artists. Hebden holds two degrees in Fine Arts & Graphic Design, from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Her work has been featured in International Artist Magazine, Applied Arts Magazine, Art Avenue, Ceramics Art & Perception, The Vancouver Sun, The Halifax Herald and the Claremont Review. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Germany and Australia.
This painting focuses on the strength and vulnerability of young girls. On the verge of adolescence, they are caught between the comfort of childhood and the anticipation of being "grown up." The painting was part of a series titled Girls, a few of which were part of the exhibition Debutante at Two Rivers Gallery in 2008.
--Lisa Hebden
Estimate: $450 - $600
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Lot 25
Artist: Keith Kerrigan
Title: The Controller of the Tides
Media: sterling silver pendant & chain
Size: one inch diameter (2.5 cm), 8.75 x 10.75 in./ (22.2 x 27.3 cm) framed
Date: 2010
Keith Kerrigan is a member of the Haida Nation. His family originated from the village of Dadens on Langara Island in Haida Gwaii but in the past 3-4 generations his family has lived in the village of Old Massett, also on Haida Gwaii.
Kerrigan was initially taught basic Haida design by his uncle, Claude Davidson in 1980. Since that time he has worked in argillite, wood, silver and gold. Kerrigan credits his understanding of working with gold and silver to the guidance he receives from his cousins Reg and Robert Davidson. He also worked with Robert for 2 years in his White Rock studio from 2003 to 2005.
Keith Kerrigan's work is in collections in Canada, the United States, Japan, New Zealand, England and Germany.
Killer Whales are the supernatural beings that live under islands, mountains, rocks and capes or points of land. The name of each point of geographical feature is the name of that particular Killer Whale. Cape Ball, on the east coast of Haida Gwaii, is a feature that has many names. I'l'gas - Chief, or common name for supernatural beings, and 'The Controller of the Tides' among them. The engraving of this piece ties the moon to the concept of The Controller of the Tides.
--Keith Kerrigan
Estimate: $125 - $250
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Lot 26
Artist: Ron Malyk
Title: untitled
Media: Pine Beetle Wood
Size: 19" (diameter) x 1½" (height) / (49 x 4 cm)
Date: 2010
Ron Malyk is a woodturner whose love affair with wood began years ago during his career working as a tree faller throughout the Pacific Northwest. During that time, he collected large burls from the falling sites and unusual wood that would have normally been relegated to the slash burns of debris. Malyk's collection was his mainstay of material for his carving - a ‘hobby' that was soon usurped by woodturning because of an introduction to the lathe.
Malyk embraces the imperfections of wood such as the blue stain from the pine beetle and the twisted knots of burls through his natural ability with the material and his life-long affair with its source.
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the
way things turn out."
John Wooden
Ron Malyk is a member of the Prince George Woodturners Guild and his work is represented in The Shop at the Gallery.
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