The Second Annual Secrets From The Vault

Opening Night: July 4th, 7:00PM
On Display: July 4th - August 30th

Gurevich Fine Art proudly presents the second annual Secrets from the Vault, an exhibit of work from Gurevich Fine Art’s private collection. Many of the works showcased in Secrets from the Vault have been acquired over the last few years and are on view at Gurevich Fine Art for the first time. The exhibit opens July 4th at 7 P.M. and will feature works by Aganetha Dyck, Buffy Sainte Marie, Robert Bruce, Jackson Beardy and Cyrus Smith among others.

Secrets promises an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the mysteries of some of Winnipeg’s foremost artists and emerging talent.

Secrets showcases work of various sizes some striking, some intimate. They represent various styles ranging from cubist to postmodern (Bruce, Dyck), digital pioneer (Saint Marie), Woodlands traditional (Beardy) and graffiti (Smith). All are examples of exceptional artistry.  The collection will host over 30 artworks; some which have remained unseen for decades. This is a rare opportunity for viewing or adding important pieces to collections.

This exhibit is on display at through August 30, with new work being revealed throughout. 

ONLINE UNVEILING OF SECRETS FROM THE VAULT

Thank you for joining us for the Online Unveiling of Secrets From The Vault. Below are each of the works presented in the exhibit as well as images from opening night. To request a catalogue of the works, prices or additional information, please contact us at sales@gurevichfineart.com or 204-488-0662.

To request a catalogue of the works, prices or additional information, please contact us at sales@gurevichfineart.com or 204-488-0662.

SOL: Cuban Exhibition

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Gurevich Fine Art welcomes summer into the gallery with SOL, an exhibition of work by Cuban artists; Jairo Alfonso, Francisco Núñez and Dalvis Tuya. The exhibit introduced us to ideas both political and social from Cuba, a country that is at once tantalizingly close and yet shockingly unfamiliar to us. SOL opens June 6th at 7:00 pm and is on display until June 28th.

The extensive and stylistically diverse collection of art presented in SOL reflects the intoxicating beauty of the region and those who live there while presenting the techniques and significance of each artist.

Jairo Alfonso’s work investigates the mystery of personal experience to become an exercise in awakening memory and reflection. By balancing objects in tippy stacks in his coffee and ink drawings he explores the symbolism inherent in objects found in daily life. These objects are consumed through their use and then are not discarded. The results are boxes or teetering piles full of various disarrangements. Earlier works from Alfonso illustrate the conflicted history of his country. Layers of collaged religious iconography act as backdrops to painted barbed wire rail lines and filmstrips. He uses these multi-media artworks to create visual stories set around the manner in which each piece characterizes generations, civilizations, and human groups.

Francisco Núñez paints abstract portraits. Powerful faces furtively emerge beneath strong slashes of vibrant paint against starkly composed canvases. The abstract and the figure are blended with a sense of minimalism. Yet the faces are still dominant, full of energy and depth. By exploring each face we are embarking on a journey into the innermost soul of the subjects of his paints. By emphasizing the eyes Núñez creates a direct dialogue between the work and the viewer, thus producing a gaze in each work that is irreplaceable.

Dalvis Tuya’s works involve taking a step back to see the full picture emerge, and a step forward to see the tiny, repeated patterns of smaller images that form the whole. Recreating mass behavior and ordinary objects of everyday life Tuya expresses humanities preoccupation about time and immortality and how the individual is inseparable from the society. Using simplistic tools, his minimalism pieces evolve into a sketch that goes from a micro icon into its macro form creates a dialogue about our place in society.

As with any group of visual artists, even those who are united by their country, there is often little to cohere the artists. Yet in SOL the prevailing harmony among these contemporary artists is in how they unite the conceptual and the aesthetic to tell the stories of life in a place that is closer than it seems.

WORKS AVAILABLE

To request prices or additional information, please contact us at sales@gurevichfineart.com or 204-488-0662.

Art & Architecture

Gurevich Fine Art presents Art & Architecture to coincide with the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Festival of Architecture. The exhibit explores the relationship between art, architecture and the individuals who create them. Art & Architecture is on display from May 26th – 31st.

The Festival of Architecture is part of the RAIC’s annual conference for architects from across Canada. Art & Architecture exemplifies Gurevich Fine Art’s mandate of bringing innovative artistic approaches to the spaces we live in. Be it through abstraction, landscape or installation, each artist creates pieces that enrich our experience of place. 

The exhibit will inspire and connect lovers of art and architecture, merging rational and technological order with ideas of beauty and the transcendental.

Art & Architecture will feature works from:

Deborah Danelley
Aganetha Dyck
Christian Worthington
Robert Sim
Miriam Rudolph
John Erkel
Katherine Bruce
Sue Gordon
Keith Wood
Ed Becenko
Andrew Beck
Kyle Herranen
Gerry Kopelow
Andrew Milne
Tom Lovatt
Mini Davis

More information on each artist can be found at www.gurevichfineart.com/artists

WORKS AVAILABLE

This is only a small sample of the works in this exhibition. To request a catalogue of all the works, prices or additional information, please contact us at sales@gurevichfineart.com or 204-488-0662.

Artist in Residence: Edward Becenko

Gurevich Fine Art is pleased to announce that artist Edward Becenko will be GFA’s inaugural artist in residence this May. Becenko, who joined the gallery in February of 2014, is a Winnipeg-based artist who has been exhibiting his multimedia art to great success since 2006. Beckeno’s residency will begin May 2nd and will continue until May 17th. 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE HOURS:
Saturday May 3, 10 and 17: 12pm - 4pm
Thursday May 8 and 15: 11am - 2pm

An artist in residence provides visitors with the unique opportunity to witness the artistic process first-hand, creating a high-level of engagement with both the artwork and its creator.

Becenko’s many years in the worlds of art and fashion render him the ideal authority for this platform. Art and fashion are catalysts for conversation, and Becenko’s work perfectly reflects the connection between these two forms of expression. By including a variety of media and utilizing diverse techniques such as image transfers, collage and monotype printmaking he creates stunning results that can be experienced on both an aesthetic and critical level.

Becenko’s experience in the fashion industry has defined the innovation and evolution of his work. Large abstract paintings are an introduction his use of layering media. Using strata of luminescent paints and at times even cloth and string each work develops in a way that is comparable to the construction and alteration of a piece clothing.

Similarly in his nude work an appreciation for texture and tactility is evident. In each image transfer, Becenko’s subject stands as an example of traditional sculpture, mirroring the heroes of Michelangelo. The nude figures are muscular, taut, and valiant. They are a sublime balance of power and neoclassical beauty. However, it is also significant to note the influence of fashion and textile that shows Becenko’s evolution from his abstract artwork. In each piece paint surrounds the nude but does not come in contact with it, creating the feeling of an embrace rather than a covering. Showcasing the entire purpose of clothing, the protection of the body underneath.

WORKS AVAILABLE

To request prices or additional information, please contact us at sales@gurevichfineart.com or 204-488-0662.


Milos Milidrag's "Forgotten Flowers"

Opening Night: April 4th
On Display Until April 26th

Form and colour have long been a language all their own for Milos Milidrag. He fled his country, war-ravaged Yugoslavia, in 1997 to live in Winnipeg. The shockwaves of his past continue to ripple through his work. In his latest exhibit Forgotten Flowers, Milidrag conjures his narrative using symbols - a woman (his muse of inspiration), a bird (freedom), or at times a fish (silence) and flowers (our frequently forgotten values).

Featureless and nameless, the female figure stands in solemn contrast to his energetic palette. Stoic in stature, she draws her emotion from the colours and patterns that surround her. To Milidrag she is a symbol of a life left behind, created from the remnants of memory.

The bird that flies among Milidrag’s patterns is a symbol of freedom. It communicates a lighter side of his work floating carefree within each canvas. When Milidrag seeks to convey the feeling of quiet in his work he will transform the bird into a fish.

The fish is the spiritual symbol of silence before evil. To him it is the hush of a small creature, before the beast. To finish each piece Milidrag delicately paints flowers to offer a representation of the neglected values of life. Luminous and beautiful when in full bloom, the blossoms are also fleeting and ephemeral. 

Milidrag’s uses each of these elements together, creating work that becomes “art as language.” His pictorial syntax involves the viewer emotionally and intellectually. Each piece contains multiple levels of composition and sentiment. The paintings convey spiritual piety and the complexity of human emotion. To create this he eschews reality in favour of a universal language of colour and abstraction. Milidrag’s sensitivity for tone and composition fuse with his poet’s mind making each work surpass cultural and physical boundaries. 

The Works in Forgotten Flowers

To request prices or additional information, please contact Elise Dawson, Sales Consultant at edawson@gurevichfineart.com or 204-488-0662.

 

Tim Schouten's "Spirit Lake Project"

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Opening Night: March 7, 7:00 pm
On Display: March 7 - 31, 2014

Tim Schouten’s 2014 exhibit at Gurevich Fine Art Spirit Lake Project is a continuation of his work from the ongoing Songs from Spirit Lake collaboration, started in 2010. It is a series of encaustic paintings reflecting on contemporary life on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. 

In 2010 Schouten was commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks, ND to create a series of paintings reflecting on contemporary life on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. He was one of six native and non-native artists engaged for this project by Laurel Rueter, Director and Curator of the museum. Laurel, a non-native, grew up on the reservation. Her brother Russ, to this day lives and farms on the reservation on allotted land.

Schouten was invited to this project on the reputation of his Treaty Lands Project. Ongoing for ten years the project reflects on the nature of landscape, history and the Numbered Treaties in Canada’s Central regions.

Songs for Spirit Lake was first exhibited at the Rauschenberg Project Space in New York City and at then at Cankdeska Cikana Community College on the Spirit Lake Reservation to excellent reviews. The show is now on view at North Dakota Museum of Art until April 27, 2014.

Schouten spent the past four years travelling to Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and living off and on there for short periods getting to know people and searching for ways into this project as a non-native Canadian artist. He had never lived on or even visited an American reservation before. He had only a passing knowledge of American politics, history and geography and the American Indian Movement.

Schouten’s encaustic pieces are unflinching and determined in their presentation. Typographic and landscape works highlight his experience of how life is lived today, stripping away nostalgia, racism, and history-based anger. The work considers the joys as well as the difficulties faced by northern reservation inhabitants. His large encaustic paintings survey the Spirit Lake Reservation’s Northern Plains country. It is this contrast that makes Schouten’s work illuminating and heartbreaking at the same time.

“Before Songs for Spirit Lake no contemporary art had ever been created on or about Spirit Lake,” explains Laurel Rueter. Schouten’s pieces attempt to depict the people and their patterns of intermingling the past and present through art. The exhibit invites a new, broad audience to engage with the voices and traditions of the Spirit Lake community as viewed through his eyes.

More info about Songs for Spirit Lake here.


Work from The Spirit Lake Project

To request prices or additional information, please contact Elise Dawson, Sales Consultant at edawson@gurevichfineart.com or 204-488-0662.

Toby Bartlett in collaboration with Rylaan Gimby, "DVD Family"

Nowhere is the impact of new technology on relationships more noticeable than in the family. We have entered the age where children and adults are hypnotized by the screens of their personal devices. Paradoxically, we are connecting more than ever online while our face to face connections dwindle. Family conversations take place through threads of texts messages. Artist Toby Bartlett’s DVD Family is the startling examination of our digital relationships. 

In DVD Family, Bartlett collaborates with video artist Rylaan Gimby to examine the growing divide among families due to the increased use of technology.  Bartlett has created videos of a fictitious family. If you want to talk to Grandma – insert her disk. She’ll tell you stories and comfort you with grandmotherly advice. No need for her to be present. The exhibit points a disquieting finger at our absorption in technology and how by its very nature it shapes the way we communicate with others.

DVD Family explores the disturbing trend of people attempting to counteract this growing divide not with face-to-face communication, but by joining their family conversation in cyberspace. With DVD Family Bartlett wonders if we are pressing Accept in the digital family download without reading the Terms & Conditions?

Christian Worthington's "Three"

Worthington summons old masters to create modern spirituality

In his new exhibit Three, Christian Worthington makes a bold and decisive move to redefine modern spirituality. His innovative forms and multiple mediums emphasize individual piety. The art pulls the viewer’s focus in unexpected directions, creating a new way of seeing his subjects. In so doing, Three becomes a post-modern interpretation of the sacred. The exhibit opens November 28, 2013 at 7:00PM. Worthington will be in attendance.

Worthington’s command of realism, underpins the exhibit. His expressive oil and acrylic brush strokes make his abstract offerings subtlety dynamic. Large drawings take off from his usual studied realism using rough oil-bar with deceptive simplicity. The sculptures are a new exploration using techniques he mastered in painting and drawing to produce works of subtle beauty.

Three investigates the potentials of form to achieve its purpose. “I don't ‘express myself,” states Worthington. “Rather I pay close attention to what the piece is pulling out of me, what the forms are communicating."

Using historical techniques of drawing, painting and sculpture concurrently, he crosses the boundaries of tradition infusing each piece with all three elements. The strength of his art is increased by a vivid interior insight and spiritual awareness. Worthington challenges our preconceived notions of the sacred and profane to give us something new.

Artist Statement

Christian Worthington’s practice is a testament to the dexterity of form, and its capacity to prompt complex psychological and emotional responses within the viewer.

"I watch the picture make itself. I want to see it do something I could not have anticipated. I only step in when the piece wanders off and threatens to annihilate itself.

I don't "express my self", rather I pay close attention to what the piece is pulling out of me, what the forms are communicating."

To this, CW unveils a diverse exhibition reflecting a serious investigation into the potentialities of form that concurrently cross three historical art techniques:

Painting.
CW continues to hybridize abstraction and the figurative, typically incorporating themes from art history, assuming specific painterly styles that are purposely blurred to create a tension amid the material and immaterial. His catechetical study of the Masters mines early investigations into the technology of painting, dredging the dramatic depths and realism of the Renaissance, to the ephemeral purity and idealism of the Abstractionists.


Drawings.
These large-scale drawings, measuring up to 9x5 feet, are delineated and evolve in less than 20 minutes apiece. The speed in which they are created emphasizes a striking balance between the subject represented and the graphic quality of the lines themselves. Achieving a large-scale "sketch", CW achieves a blend of classic historical composition with the intense graphic action influenced by the Modern Nueue Wilde artists, notably Martin Disler, who composed in quick and expressive strokes.

Relief Sculpture.
CW’s sculpture, done in low relief, retains his painterly quality, but still represents to the artist a means to embrace the ancient practice of creating from clay- of molding forms from earth and water.

"For me, oils bring you back to the 14th Century. Clay brings you back to the first moments of human creation."

GFA invites you to experience some of the excitement to which Christian Worthington has shown great consideration over the past months of creation, of one image informing another. He hopes to enliven the audience to the highs and experiences of discovering and channeling ancient ideas into form.

Here & Now by Aliana Au

Opening Night: November 1, 2013, 7:00PM
Exhibit: Nov 1 - 23, 2013

 

Aliana Au’s landscapes are measured prayers. Working in a free manner void of controlling lines, her brushstrokes create realities seemingly devoid of time and change. Au has no qualms about letting areas of canvas show. In an impressionistic effort, she employs free space to evoke the light and transparency of each piece in it's fragility.

Effortlessly, Au embraces an intuitive but meticulous style that is in search of harmony rather than a strict copy of reality. She seeks to return to her canvas each time a different person, completing small sections of each work over long periods of time. Painting is essentially a conversation. The landscapes are her tribute to the few places left untouched by the hand or foot of man. It is this unity of reflection and time that allows Au’s paintings to project the sense of eternity that she seeks.

Artist Statement

In landscape painting, I am searching for a time and place untouched by man. An artist draws from his/her life experience and his/her deep well of memories or core thoughts that are unwashed by time. I was born in a small village and grew-up in the country-side of southern China, near Guangzhou. My memory of this place was a poetic and magical one. When I traveled back years later, I could not find the place where I had attended school. The house that I used to live-in has been replaced with a high rise. Where there used to be a river, it is now a brick layered canal. There is so much wealth. Where is the wild natural beauty? What happen to it?

In recent years during my travel, I was so drawn to places where man had left nature untouched or tried to exist in harmony. Living in Canada, I am keenly aware of our vast, valuable, and unspoiled nature. My paintings are prayers for the future of these places and their habitat.

Visit Aliana Au's Artist Page for more information.  

 

 

Aliana Au, Nature's Garden, Acrylic on Canvas, 48" x 51"

Aliana Au, Nature's Garden, Acrylic on Canvas, 48" x 51"

Early Drawings by Eva Stubbs

Eva Stubbs in her studio, 2010, photograph by Andrew Sikorsky

Eva Stubbs in her studio, 2010, photograph by Andrew Sikorsky

After more than 52 years of artistic achievement and dedication to the art world Eva Stubbs will open her final exhibit, Early Drawings, at Gurevich Fine Art on October 4, 2013. The exhibit will feature a selection of Stubbs’ timeless works on paper. Early Drawings will run until October 26, 2013. Stubbs will attend the opening night reception. 

Eva Stubbs’ drawings penetrate the depth of the human condition. Her use of multiple mediums, from pen and ink to charcoal and oil stick showcase extraordinary range. Her powerful expressions show an honest balance between vulnerability and strength. The strong gestural lines of the figures in Stubbs' works are her testament to human endurance and her understanding of the human spirit. 

Known for her expressive clay work Stubbs’ considers her drawings to be a collection of studies in form and function. Stubbs describes her drawings as akin as playing scales for a pianist.  They allow her to rehearse. Many of Stubbs’ early representations became the catalyst for her most famous clay works. It is in the realization of Stubbs multi-dimensional work that a full appreciation of her drawings can begin.

 

Salt of the Earth, New Paintings from Megan Krause

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Press Release

 Winnipeg, Manitoba – August 27, 2013 – Megan Krause is an oil painter attempting to reconcile her medium with her message. Ideals of sustainability and environmentalism clash with Krause’s seemingly hypocritical use of oil in her latest exhibit Salt of the Earth. The exhibit opens on September 6 at 7 PM and will run until September 20, 2013. Krause will attend the opening night reception.

In Salt of the Earth, Krause strives to explain the interconnectedness of the Earth’s resources, while grappling with the conflicting reality of modernism. She struggles to fulfill a greater purpose but worries painting may not be enough. Creating her paintings adds to the detritus of the world, but how else can Krause communicate her ideals?

Salt of the Earth evokes a process of personal evaluation,” explains Krause. “Weighing the ways in which we bring food to the table, our consumer choices, how we get around, and through all of this, what we support.”

Consumer goods and industrial fragments litter Krause’s canvases, utilizing playful colour palettes and surrealist perspectives that contrast her serious subject matter. Krause’s imagery highlights her conflicting ethics and betrays the beauty that only oil can afford.

More about Gurevich Fine Art

Gurevich Fine Art is a contemporary art gallery that presents a broad view in regards to style with a strong emphasis on talent. The gallery is a focal point for artists and patrons at various levels to exchange visions. More information on Gurevich Fine Art is at www.gurevichfineart.com.

Contact

Alexandra Rohne
Communication Coordinator
Gurevich Fine Art
Tel: (204) 488-0662 | Fax: (204) 942-8144 | Web:  www.gurevichfineart.com 
Email: arohne@gurevichfineart.com | Twitter: @gurevichfineart
200-62 Albert Street Winnipeg, MB Canada R3B 1E9

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Megan Krause, Having legs to stand on, Acrylic and oil on linen, 48" x 30", 2013

Megan Krause, Having legs to stand on, Acrylic and oil on linen, 48" x 30", 2013

The Winnipeg Art Gallery and Gurevich Fine Art Celebrate the Life and Art of Winnipeg Artist Eva Stubbs with Commission of Major Bronze Sculpture

PRESS RELEASE 

 

Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 6, 2013 —The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) and Gurevich Fine Art will join a group of art patrons to honour and celebrate the life and art of Eva Stubbs, RCA, at a private dinner party to be held in the Gurevich Gallery on Thursday, October 3, 2013.

Stubbs’ studio closed in 2013 after more than 52 years of artistic achievement in various mediums including bronze, wood, stone, and clay, as well as works on paper. Her remaining works will be shown at an exhibition at Gurevich Fine Art in October.

Stubbs’ last major exhibition was presented at the WAG in 2010. At that time Dr. Stephen Borys, WAG Director & CEO, looked to acquire a major work by Stubbs for the Gallery’s rooftop sculpture garden. The WAG has now commissioned a bronze casting of Generation to add to the five works by Stubbs already held in their collection. “Generation is one of Eva’s most significant works, and we are thrilled that it will be a legacy piece on display on our rooftop, a fitting tribute to her important body of work.”

“We’re honoured to be involved in helping recognize Eva’s enormous contribution to the cultural fabric of not our city but the world,” states Gurevich Fine Art CEO Howard Gurevich.

A tribute to Eva Stubbs will be given at the dinner by Stephen Borys and Andrew Kear, WAG Curator of Canadian Historical Art. Patrons will be seated in the gallery surrounded by Stubbs’ studio work and maquettes. 

Tickets are limited to 50 guests with donations from patrons, including ticket sales being made to the WAG for the casting and purchase of Stubbs’ bronze sculpture Generation. The WAG is applying for matching funds from the Canada Council for the Arts for the commission.

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More about the Winnipeg Art Gallery

The Winnipeg Art Gallery is a cultural advocate for understanding and experiencing art and art-making, and their vital place in our lives, work, and society. The WAG is currently celebrating its 100th anniversary as Canada’s oldest civic art gallery.

Winnipeg Art Gallery contacts:

Debra Fehr, Manager, Communications and Marketing, 204.789.1767, communications@wag.ca

Heather Mousseau, Communications Coordinator, 204.786.6641, ext 211, communcations-coordinator@wag.ca

More about Gurevich Fine Art

Gurevich Fine Art is a contemporary art gallery that presents a broad view in regards to style with a strong emphasis on talent. The gallery is a focal point for artists and patrons at various levels to exchange visions. More information on Gurevich Fine Art is at www.gurevichfineart.com.

Gurevich Fine Art contact:

Alexandra Rohne, Communications Coordinator, 204.488.0662, arohne@gurevichfineart.com

 

Secrets From the Vault

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July 5 through August 31, 2013 - Opening night July 5 at 7:00pm, Part Two opening night August 2 at 7:00pm
Artists in Attendance

 Gurevich Fine Art Unveils Private Collection at Secrets from the Vault

Gurevich Fine Art proudly presents Secrets from the Vault, an exhibit of work from Gurevich Fine Art’s private collection. Secrets from the Vault highlights many works ranging from classic to contemporary by artists both well known and up-and-coming. The exhibit opens July 5 at 7 P.M. with many of the showcased artists in attendance.

Gurevich Fine Art is pleased to include the unique visions of our artists in our collection of contemporary art. Many of the works displayed during Secrets from the Vault have never been hung in the gallery before, making this exhibit an unveiling for many of Gurevich Fine Art’s artists.

Secrets from the Vault offers a diversity of images and ideas: from classic landscapes to modern abstracts and evocative nudes viewers will be simultaneously seduced by the surface beauty and engaged by the complex narratives within each piece. Secrets from the Vault promises an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the mysteries of some of Winnipeg’s foremost artists and emerging talent.

Secrets from the Vault opens Friday July 5, with a reception at 7 pm. This exhibit is on display at through August 30 2013, with work rotating throughout.

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Far Country

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Sue Gordon: Far Country

June 7 through 28, 2013 - Opening night June 7 at 7:00pm
Artist in attendance

Confronting Longing, Winnipeg Artist Sue Gordon Returns to the Horizon in Far Country

Winnipeg artist Sue Gordon's ethereal encaustic work bares the weight of her nostalgia for the prairie horizon. She now seeks to tell stories of longing associated with the increasingly disconnected world of social media set against her dramatic landscapes. The exhibit, Far Country opens June 7 at 7:00 P.M. with the artist in attendance. The exhibit will run from June 7 to 28 at Gurevich Fine Art.

"The older I get, my ability to hope and therefore the things that I long for have changed," explains Gordon. She feels social tools such as Pinterest and Tumblr allow people to derive importance from objects and construct an endless array of mythical lifestyles.

Harmonizing with Gordon's wall pieces are a number of waxed cement orbs, representative of this weight we carry. Gordon wants to encourage viewers to touch and lift the orbs as a physical reminder of her theme.  

"True longing is a complex experience. Far Country is the place wherewe feel incomplete and unsatisfied," Gordon states. 

"Perhaps this is why I return again to the land, to the sky, and to the weather. They are constants in my life through which I can reflect on memories of the past, on an imperfect present, and on longings for the future."

Discover more about Sue Gordon by clicking here.

Artist Statement

As I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, I have always been drawn to the horizon. In my work, the horizon has often been used as a metaphor for hope and longing – a thin band of light on the edge of a bleak prairie. However, the older I get, my ability to hope and the things that I long for have changed. The world is a dark place, and there have been seasons of life that have been difficult. Many of the horizons I now paint are obscured, as I feel I am unable to see things with the clarity I once had. 

I often think about the concept of ‘longing.’ I am interested in the things we long for, and the ways in which we long. With the recent advent of sites such as Tumblr and Pinterest there are thousands of people trying to derive meaning, significance, or a sense of beauty by scrolling through an apparently endless number of lifestyle images. As these sites are often about what is novel, they make me uneasy. Perhaps this is why I return again and again to the land, to the sky, and to the weather. They are constants in my life through which I can reflect on memories of the past, on an imperfect present, and on longings for the future. 

True longing is a complex experience. To long for “something more,” Far Country is where we have to feel incomplete and unsatisfied. Longing involves both positive and negative feelings. This ambivalence is something I hope my work communicates.

 

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Tom Lovatt: Fight

April 5th - 27th, 2013

There is no true explanation for Fight’s role in the whole of Tom Lovatt’s artistic oeuvre. It would seem a departure from his old-Master Spanish-court-painting-inspired works of recent years. His earlier studies, however, include many un-divulged drawings of boxers in fight, reflecting the internal conversation he has as a man confronted with perceptions of male identity. What might be called 'issues of masculine identity'; Lovatt now seeks to ask the question, “what is it to be a man in our society?”

In Lovatt’s observation, Sport, specifically boxing and mixed martial arts, is a major part of the entertainment industry. He is fascinated with masculine archetypes and their portrayal in the media. Lovatt questions, “do I fight because I'm a man? Or am I a man only when I fight? I couldn't do it, but does that make it wrong?”  

The dramatic presentation of hyper-masculinity depicted in sports media is what first interested the artist. In this body of work, he takes action-shots of Boxers apart, examines them, and puts them back together. It is in this interrogation of the male that Lovatt observes Boxing and MMA fighting is highly stylized and ritualized in its presentation.

The overall performance is dramatic, violent, suspenseful, and packed with action. Anticipation rises to a climax as the savage pummeling begins. When the final bloody blow is lain, the denouement, the showboating of the victor, turns to an emotional display of camaraderie: The vanquished rises, and in a complete reversal of what brutality went before, the Boxers embrace, kiss, smash gloves, and part brothers. 

Confronting the viewer with images of sport and perceived “masculinity” Fight provokes discomforting revelations about what we are accepting about masculinity and reality as viewers of popular media.

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IN/ORganic

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 Press Release

IN/ORganic Artists Make the Extra into the Extraordinary

Winnipeg, Manitoba - April 12, 2013 - Gurevich Fine Art presents IN/ORganic, an exhibition highlighting the duality of mixed media and found object artists John Erkel and Deborah Danelley. The exhibition will be unveiled Friday, May 3rd, with an opening reception at 7pm with the exhibit continuing until May 25th. 

Gurevich Fine Art continues its mandate of promoting contemporary Canadian and international fine art, and Erkel and Danelley’s exploratory and raw mixed media work is no exception.

“The pieces offer the viewer a connection, familiarity, and presence, that suggest an honoring of the past and a truthful respect and admiration for the beauty and processes of time,” explains Danelley of the organic nature of her deconstructed book pieces as well as the strong style of Erkel’s repurposed metal and plastics work.

“I fell in love with, as I call it, road kill. I live on a bicycle and I keep seeing these parts of cars, for me they were dark and black and I started collecting them," explains Erkel. "I’m the garbage man.”

IN/ORganic works to complement and contrast each artist displaying the beauty of things industrial and organic, impermanent and incomplete, the beauty of things unconventional. It is from this Wabi Sabi philosophy that Gurevich Fine Art brings IN/ORganic.

More about Gurevich Fine Art

Gurevich Fine Art is a contemporary art gallery that presents a broad view in regards to style, with a strong emphasis on talent. The gallery is a focal point for artists and patrons at various levels to exchange visions. More information on Gurevich Fine Art is at www.gurevichfineart.com.

Contact

Alexandra Rohne

Communications

Gurevich Fine Art
Tel: (204) 488-0662 | Fax: (204) 942-8144 | Web: 
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Email: arohne@gurevichfineart.com | Twitter: @gurevichfineart
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Winnipeg, MB Canada R3B 1E9

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Tom Lovatt: Fight

Winnipeg, Manitoba – March 28, 2013 – With a career spanning 40 years Tom Lovatt is one of Winnipeg’s best-known figurative artists. Lovatt’s new exhibit Fight takes his work to places many have not yet witnessed. It contains paintings and many un-divulged drawings of boxers and mixed martial artists in contest. Fight reflects the internal conversations Lovatt has confronted about perceptions of male identity. Fight opens Friday, April 5th at 7:00 P.M. and the exhibit continues to April 27th at Gurevich Fine Art.

Lovatt observes that boxing and mixed martial arts is a major part of the entertainment industry. He is fascinated with masculine archetypes and their portrayal in the media. Lovatt questions, “Do I fight because I'm a man? Or am I a man only when I fight?”

Fight provokes discomforting revelations about our perceptions of “masculinity” by confronting the viewer with images of blood sport. Adding to this interesting question is the beauty of Lovatt’s painting technique.

More about Gurevich Fine Art
Gurevich Fine Art is a contemporary art gallery that presents a broad view in regards to style with a strong emphasis on talent. The gallery is a focal point for artists and patrons at various levels to exchange visions. More information on Gurevich Fine Art is at www.gurevichfineart.com.

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www.gurevichfineart.com | Email: arohne@gurevichfineart.com | Twitter: @gurevichfineart
200-62 Albert Street
Winnipeg, MB Canada R3B 1E9

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Andrew Beck: Under the Same Blue Sky

A Long Time

​Under the same blue sky; when is the new really new?

As we look around at our city we realize it is in a constant stage of change.

As the buildings decay or are repurposed the past becomes anecdotal, caught by small details of our history and the new which rises. When did the trees grow and when did so many disappear?

We long for stability, we capture the moment when that building made sense, and this one didn’t.

Modernism becomes our Victorian art deco or art nouveau, we look for beauty in the form of our buildings as the bottom line impacts these decisions.

We cannot fix in space but we can see under the continuity of the seasons and of the skies. Change is the continuity and the natural world continues unabated and unconcerned with our concept of time.

We are more like trees and less like dominators of the natural world.