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Sky Glabush
Education
MFA, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2006.
BA: Fine Arts and English (High Honours), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1996.
Research
My research explores image making and the capacity of certain “depictive” media such as painting, drawing, and photography to describe a world already deluged by images. I am particularly interested in investigating and maybe renovating an early modern notion of the pictorial that draws on the discourse of painting’s specific syntax and history, while finding expression in the local and familiar. It is a concern for imaging experience through the framework of the everyday that led to my interest in regionalism and its rich legacy here in London, Ontario.
But instead of thinking about the regional as something embedded in the past, as a kind of sentimental or nostalgic reaffirmation, I am interested in questioning its relevance and registering the distance between any initial radicality and it present state. In this way, the places I have chosen to depict are allegorical and speak to a kind of inhabited yet intermediary space. The following is an excerpt from a statement accompanying a recent show at MKG127:
“So the houses I have chosen to paint sit on this liminal edge: in-between the urban and the pastoral; not really modern, but also not classical, or permanent. I am not entirely interested in the everyday, or the banal; I am more interested in the indeterminate space of a rental home: occupied, local, immediate, but transitional and slightly empty."
Recent Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
"Renting," MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, 2009.
"Homes for Canada 1966-67," Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2007.
“Provisional Structures” (MFA Thesis Exhibition), FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2006.
"Living Together," Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, 2006.
"Building Blocks ," Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 2004.
"Spacing," Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2001.
"Lotus Eaters," Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2001.
"Lotus Eaters," Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2000.
"Haarlem," Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1999.
"New Paintings," Paul Kuhn, Calgary, Alberta, 1999.
"Interference," Francis Morrison Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1998.
“A Subjective Space,” Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1995.
Selected Group Exhibitions
“The (A)Lure of the Local” Museum London, London, Ontario, 2009. (upcoming)
“Hinterlands.” Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, 2009. (upcoming)
“Hinterlands.” McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario 2009.
“100 YEARS OF COLLECTING: University of Saskatchewan art collection” The University of Saskatchewan Permanent Art Collection & College Building Art Galleries. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2008.
“Canada Calling: recent work by Sky Glabush and Shary Boyle,” Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006.
“DIALOGUES: the changing face of contemporary Canadian art.” Rideau Hall, Ottawa, 2006.
“Here and Now: Current Drawings,” Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2005.
“DRAW,” Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, 2004-5.
“Sky Glabush and Els ter Horst,” Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004.
Melbourne Art Fair, represented by Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, 2002.
“Rift,” Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1999.
“Sask Open,” Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1997.
Selected Publications
---. "Abstraction, metaphor, and the poetic landscape," Otto Donald Rogers. Santa Fe: Radius, 2007.
---. "Jordan Broadworth" (exhibition catalogue), Chatham Kent Art Gallery, 2007.
--- . "A Look at Clay Ellis's Eight Miles of Barbed Wire," Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat, 2006.
---. "Field Notes: Terry, Rob, and Tom O'flanagan," Exhibition catalogue, Edmonton Art Gallery 2004.
Long, Timothy. Sky Glabush. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2000.
Awards and Grants
Advanced Education's Graduate Student Scholarship, Alberta, 2005.
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Award, University of Alberta, 2005
University of Alberta Master Scholarship, University of Alberta, 2004.
Creative "C" Grant (Critical Writing): Saskatchewan Arts Board, 1999.
Creative "C" Grant (Visual Arts): Saskatchewan Arts Board, 1997.
Dean's Honour Roll: University of Saskatchewan, 1996.
Dean's Honour Roll: University of Regina (visiting student), 1994.
Mina Forsyth Award: University of Saskatchewan, 1995-1996.
Hannon Scholarship: University of Saskatchewan, 1995-1996.
Recent Courses
VAS 540 Graduate Studio Seminar
The Cohen Exploration Program in the Visual Arts: Pictorial Construction
VAS 210 Introduction to Painting and Drawing
VAS 310 Advanced Painting
Master’s Thesis Supervision
Katja Beneke, “Exploring the Visual Representation of Teen Idols” (supervisor) M. F. A. conferred 2009.
Stephen Lavigne, “The Space Between Systems” M.F.A. (joint supervision) conferred Summer, 2007.
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