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In 2010 I completed a public mural in cooperation with the Works Places, and the 124 Street Business Association. Located at 108avenue and 124st in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Project Oilsands, © 2010, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 36”h
Upgrader, © 2011, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 96”w x 48”h
Rodeo, © 2011, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 72”w x 48”h
K Days
2013
In the summer of 2013 I was invited to exhibit 10 works of art throughout the two weeks of the Edmonton, Alberta capital exhibition ‘K-days’ as part of the ‘Our Alberta’ exhibit, visual arts component, in the Edmonton Expo Centre.
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The North, © 2011, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 36”w x 30”h
In 2011 & 2013 I was happy to donate artworks to Latitude 53 for their annual winter auction Parka Party.
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Farm Girl, © 2012, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 36”w x 30”h
I was selected to participate in the VAA Open Photo/Digital competition 2012 which was on display at the Jubilee auditorium galleries in Edmonton and Calgary in 2012.
VAA Open Digital 2012
Springsteen, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 36”w x 30”h
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A private commission to a fellow Bruce Springsteen fan.
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An illustration commissioned by Vue Weekly for an article on suicide education and prevention by Michael Garth, 2013
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Roper in Town, © 2011, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 36”w x 30”h
Countryside, © 2012, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 36”w x 32”h
VW, © 2012, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 42”w x 34”h
Highway, © 2012, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 36”w x 32”h
I am excited to be be involved in the Trex Travelling Arts Exhibition. This exhibition, featuring the work of six contemporary artists from Alberta, examines the history of the oil industry in Alberta and its perceived impacts on the environmental, economic and social development of the province. This exhibit will be on display from sept 2013 through to sept 2015 throughout rural and urban centres in Alberta.
TREX travelling Arts Exhibition 2013 - 2015
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Fancy Dancer, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 36”h
Economic Action Plan, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 36”h
I am happy to be a part of the 2013 Works International Arts Festival. 9 original artworks Exhibited at Manulife Place main floor in Edmonton, Alberta, June through August 2013
The Works International Art and Design Festival 2013
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El Dorado, AR, June 18, 2013
Holy Rosary Cemetery, Hahnville, LA, July 02, 2013
Corpus Christi, TX, July 10, 2013
Houston, Branum st, TX, July 09, 2013
Coffeyville, KS, June 15, 2013
El Dorado, KS, June 16, 2013
Valiant, OK, June 17, 2013
El Dorado, AR, June 18, 2013
Below is a sample of photographs selected from over 2000 exposures. 79 rolls of Fugi 400 color film were used and a single enlargement of each exposure was made. Selected photographs have been scanned for digital representation. Over 2000 digital photographs were also collected and are identified as so. The following images were taken throughout the U.S.A. in June and July 2013.
In 2013 I was awarded a Project / Travel based grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Edmonton Arts Council. The project involved travelling by car to photograph communities of oil and natural gas refinement throughout Canada and the United States. The photo expedition took place in June and July of 2013. I was provided the opportunity to collect documentation of 55 north american oil and natural gas refineries and the communities throughout. The resulting artistic benefits have led to simultaneous ongoing development of two projects and a multidisciplinary approach to representing the collected materials.
Photo Expedition 2013
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All images courtesy of Harcourt House Artist Run Centre 2013
In Shaw’s near-archetypal realms, firmly grounded in twenty-first century technology, the combination of diverse pictorial elements is achieved virtually. Through unexpected mutations and endless transformations, he deploys image-processing software to highlight and decontextualize salient aspects of his public postures and private insights. His use of photographic images further grants the works a sense of validity and truth, although, as tangible extensions of the world we inhabit, one should keep in mind that these are carefully constructed illusions. This enigmatic empire invites a multiplicity of readings, generating complex and contradictory narratives, reciprocally empowering their poetic reach. Infusing geography and topography with pictorial tourism, Shaw ironically underscores the latent chaos and entropy that have become the ruling forces in some of today’s industrial centres while finding beauty in inscribing the unavoidable human presence and consciousness in his panoramas.
By alluding to our collective complicity in many of today’s shifting paradigms the artist points to consumers, entrapped by the machinations of an unavoidable abject apparatus that seems to have acquired its own momentum and facing a civilization destroying and outgrowing itself. Embodying a surrealist sensibility, the artist is unmasking a media-driven sense of fabricated reality by positing urgent collective preoccupations and pressing focused issues through his distinct aesthetic universes. - César E.Trasobares
Harcourt House Artist Run Gallery 2013
Western Horsemen : Economic Action Plan
I am very excited to have presented my solo exhibit ‘Western Horsemen : Economic Action Plan’ at the Harcourt House Artist Run Centre in September 2013.
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Below are photographs and digital photographs collected while touring the Scotford Shell Refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in Sept 2013. Selected photographs have been scanned for digital representation.
Dutch Shell, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 36”h
Dutch Shell was created using personal photography collected while touring the Scotford Shell refinement centre in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, and incorporates found imagery and materials chosen by the artist. Commissioned by Scotford Shell and on display at the Art Gallery of Alberta as part of the Art Refined exhibition. This work has viewers engaged with considering the environmental and societal impact of the commercial, large-scale petroleum processing industry. As broader contexts develop in the minds of observers, the images suggest subjective, personal interpretations.
Art Refined : Art Gallery Of Alberta 2013 Group Exhibit
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Ustedes Triunfan, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite Transfer, Oiled. 48”w x 32”h
I have been very fortunate to visit Cuba a few times, and have taken the opportunity to travel by car and see 14 of the 16 provinces, all but Guantanamo and Isla de la Juventud provinces. The Collage below was created using my personal photos taken during one of those trips.
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Protest, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery! The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today’s artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery’s curator and director.
GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A., 2014 International Juried Show
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Protest, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
Very Happy to be included in an international group exhibition in Ventura, California, at the Hud Gallery. 707 entries from 9 different countries. The panel judged 3 rounds, eliminating all but 87 pieces. Woo Hoo.
Dab Art Hosts: 2014 International Juried Show
at the HUD Gallery, Ventura, California, U.S.A.
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Washington, © 2013, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 36”h
I am very happy to be included in ‘Guerrilla’, a group show in the state of Maryland at the Anne Arundel College. Curated by Lisa Gold, Executive Director of Washington Project for the Arts, the group show included artists Randy Burman, Margi Weir, Jon Harty, Gongsan Kim, Paul Shortt, Maya Pindyck, Zel Brook, Raymonde van Snaten, and Lauren Jo.
John A. Cade Centre for Fine Arts 2014
“Guerrilla”
All-Media National Juried Show
Anne Arundel College, Arnold, Maryland, U.S.A.
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The Fort, © 2015, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
A 2015 donation to Latitude 53 Artist Run Centre for their annual Parka Party and silent auction. The theme for this year’s event was called FortYEG.
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Everywhere You Look Today, © 2015, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
I am proud to be part of this great group of Edmonton visual artists that have been selected by artist and curator Tim Rechner to showcase this exhibition with the Works Visual Arts Society and in part with the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, at the Jackson Power Gallery. Other artists include Will Truchon, Jason Dublanko, Monica Pitre, Lisa Rezansoff, Aaron Munson, and Tim Rechner.
The Works Gallery at Jackson Power 2015
Telepathic Eye and The Aesthetic Voice
Curated by Tim Rechner
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Premium, © 2015, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
The Works International Art and Design Festival 2015
Telepathic Eye and The Aesthetic Voice
Curated by Tim Rechner
Very excited to be involved in such a great group exhibit with such talented artists, and to have been asked to participate in the 2015 Works Art and Design Festival, the group exhibit on display at the Stanley A. Milner downtown public library gallery.
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Alberta Non-Weekend:
I am very excited to have been given the chance to produce a large site specific temporary outdoor public artwork, installed and on display for the duration of the Works Art and Design Festival 2015 on Sir. Winston Churchill Square, in downtown Edmonton.
‘Get Out Of Town’ & ‘At The Lake’ are two original compositions that make up the large scale double sided artwork titled ‘Alberta Non-Weekend.’
Alberta Non-Weekend : Get Out of Town, © 2015, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on Vinyl. 40’ w x 16’ h
Alberta Non-Weekend : Get Out Of Town
Alberta Non-Weekend : At The Lake
Alberta Non-Weekend : At The Lake, © 2015, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on Vinyl. 40’ w x 16’ h
The Works International Art and Design Festival 2015
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The Works International Art and Design Festival 2015
On the Road to Refinement : A Working Vacation to some of North America’s Sacrifice Zones in my 91’ Mercury
A.K.A. Refineries, Tacos, and Bedbugs on the Great West Basin
Solo photography exhibit in part with the Edmonton Arts Council and Alberta Foundation for the Arts. On display for The Works International Arts Festival, Edmonton City Hall, 2015.
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I am very proud to present my 2016 solo exhibition of new works titled ‘Western Horsemen : The West We Build’, at the Stony Plain Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery, Stony Plain, Alberta. Curated by Lucille Frost, and in part with the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Western Horsemen : The West We Build
Stony Plain Multicultural Centre Gallery June to August 2016.
Anything Of Value, © 2015, Photo Collage Composite Transfer, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
Fred Lowry, © 2016, Photo Collage Composite, Acrylic Paint, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
Albertasaurus, © 2016, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
On The Range, © 2016, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
All In One Place, © 2016, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
Premium, © 2015, Photo Collage Composite, Printed on 20lb stock, Wheat Paste onto Painted Wood Substrate, Covered in Clear Resin. 48”w x 32”h
On The Range - Detail
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The Tube
A physical representation as intangible evidence for self identity. Digitally rendered from scanning of printed medium and hardcopy enlargement photography, transferred to VHS magnetic tape, and stored inside Television/VCR, encased inside handmade viewing capsule, ‘The Tube’ is an auto ethnographic exploration as a response to the philosophical questions of self and identity within technological culture.
178 Channels, © 2016, Video Montage, approx 3min in length.
The Tube, © 2016, Wood, Drywall, Stainless Steel, Rubber, Television/VCR
The Tube, © 2016, Wood, Drywall, Stainless Steel, Rubber, Television/VCR
Video plays at 7 secs in, No audio.
In 2013 I was awarded a Project / Travel based grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Edmonton Arts Council. The project involved travelling by car to photograph communities of oil and natural gas refinement throughout Canada and the United States. The photo expedition took place in June and July of 2013. I was provided the opportunity to collect documentation of 55 north american oil and natural gas refineries and the communities throughout. The resulting artistic benefits have led to simultaneous ongoing development of two projects and a multidisciplinary approach to representing the collected materials.
Artist and friend César E.Trasobares was kind enough to write a response to the work.
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I began developing my ongoing series of original large scale photographic composite collage titled ‘Western Horsemen’ in 2009 as a way to visually explore, contextualize and interpret western north american beliefs and practises, and as a means to examine the cultural ethos of my community and it’s interconnectedness to the larger world. The images that have developed are responsive to my everyday experiences in navigating contemporary cultural norms and historical representations. The visually palpable imagery and bustling constructed representations in the works aims to provide ocular delectation for viewers while prompting subjective personal interpretations. Subversive reimaginings and appropriations speak to a multitude of layered narratives, provoking a discursive approach to subsequent reading.
Digitally constructed using high resolution scans of sourced print-based images and advertisements alongside personal photography, the fabricated scenes are granted a sense of historical accuracy yet operate in assembled and recontextualized corporeal realms. And while the medium lends itself to producing culturally critical pictorial representations through employing diverse and contradictory elements, this critical response has become an integral part of my artistic process inturn serving to reaffirm the contemporary validity of the medium.
Artemesia, NM, July 11, 2013
Pasadena, TX, July 09, 2013
Oil on Canvas, 2016, 14”w x 18”h
My recreation of a 1900’s Russian portrait. I will have to track down the artists’ name again, I can’t seem to find the book that I was referencing.
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