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KELOGLSOOPS "Flood"
November 3 – December 8th, 2018
Opening Reception with kelogsloops Saturday, November 3rd, 6-8pm
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Hieu Nguyen is an emerging Australian artist who goes by the alias, kelogsloops. He specializes in both digital and watercolour paintings, often depicting female portraiture as his preferred subject matter of choice. Blending realist, abstract and surreal art styles with his anime and cartoon influences from his upbringing, his work intends to capture the ethereal, evoke the dream-like, and stir the whimsical.
Hieu started drawing as a child, often losing himself in his sketchbooks drawing characters from anime series and manga, notably, Sailor Moon. He went on to paint digitally in 2009 after receiving his first Wacom tablet. In his final years of high school, he began experimenting with watercolor painting as part of an assignment for his studio subject. Consequently, he fell in love with the medium and has defined himself as a watercolour & digital artist since, going by his motto of 'be right back, chasing dreams.'
Hieu currently exhibits his work in galleries, whilst also maintaining a presence on social media, notably on YouTube. He intends to continue his current projects and pursuits, hoping to one day have his own studio and teach.
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SARAH JONCAS "Maelstrom"
November 3 – December 8th, 2018
Opening Reception with Sarah Joncas, Saturday, November 3rd, 6-8pm
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"A state of turmoil and confusion, 'Maelstrom' is a small body of paintings I created while delving into a place without any true direction other than the feelings and ideas that surfaced and stirred along the way. I didn't approach this show with an over arching theme, but rather decided to explore the paintings as they came to me, allowing some ideas to mix and others to branch. Having recently begun to push the graphic elements surrounding the figures in my work, I'm using these often surreal touches to further reflect the characters struggles, enjoying the psychological tension they suggest." – Sarah Joncas
ABOUT SARAH JONCAS
Sarah Joncas was born in 1986 and grew up in both Hamilton and Niagara Falls, Ontario. Her interest in the visual arts developed at an early age, starting with the dedicated drawings of dinosaurs and lizards. Eventually the study and enjoyment of working from existing images stirred up the need in Sarah to create images of her own; ones that could reflect the world, yet also appease the personal feelings/ideas that she maintained. With this, her direction changed gradually from the world of animation, towards a path in fine art. Sarah graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design's BFA program. She currently resides and works out of Toronto, Canada.
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SCOTT RADKE "Idem Facere"
November 3 – December 8th, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, November 3rd, 6-8pm
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Scott Radke's surrealistic sculptures hold great emotion and stories in their childlike faces. A mixture of animals, celestial bodies and anthropomorphic beings make up this collection, each offering a strong and unique presence. These chimeras intermingle nature with humanity, bringing our most instinctive emotions to the surface, but also playfully pull at our imagination and invite us to follow them into their secret worlds.
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MAHLIMAE "Shadowlands"
November 3 – December 8th, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, November 3rd, 6-8pm
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"For many, culture teaches us from early infancy to split or polarize light and dark – 'masculine' and 'feminine', 'good' and 'evil', 'active' and 'passive', 'expression' and repression'. As such, the birth of our individual consciousness is crafted upon a crossroads, forming a great dichotomy within our psyche that splinters more deeply with the passing years. With societal expectations those psychic elements we deem inferior, unacceptable or evil within ourselves become incompatible with our conscious attitudes and are denied expression in life; they are inhibited, cast aside and forced to take refuge within the darkest crevices of our unconscious selves where they contort, sorcerise and grow blacker.
Shadowlands is an intimate gathering of manifestations of the twilight and in-between places; hidden things possessed of light and shadow exposed, as mahlimae attempts to reconnect with her disowned self, making the darkness conscious once again." – Mahlimae
ABOUT MAHLIMAE
Nicole is an internationally exhibited self-taught mixed media sculpture artist living and creating in the wilderness of Southern Tasmania, Australia. Her exquisitely simplistic and emotionally driven characters blossom from a world long forgotten; a world hidden in the shadows of imagination where the wind blows wild, the trees groan with ancient secrets born from the whispers of the ancestors.
Finding inspiration in ancient ritual and ancestral folklore, Nicole's melancholic words take you on a compelling dreamlike journey into the darkness and light of human nature, drawing you in closer to explore the stories hidden within their subtle and fragile expressions. Each piece is carefully hand sculpted using stone clay, gathered natural materials and tattered hand-dyed textiles. The final works are pulled together by a common theme of possibility, a longing for connection, and an aim to intrigue.
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BRIAN DESPAIN | MATT DANGLER | CHRIS MARS
November 3 – December 8th, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, November 3rd, 6-8pm
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A surreal collection of new work from Chris Mars, Matt Dangler and Brian Despain. Each artist depicts extraordinary worlds full of creatures, imagination and whimsy with a dedicated balance of what darkness may live outside of the light.
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