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Greg Edmonson (born 1960, Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian painter. He is primarily known for his paintings of fractured landscape and portrait paintings, and his Soviet Pangaea series of paintings which featured large scale portraits of faces from history. He received his master's degree in fine art from the University of Alberta.
Pangaea is a hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined about 200-300 million years ago before breaking up. "In forming the Soviet Union, many borders were disregarded in an attempt to merge cultural identities and alter personal bonds. In this body of work, Edmonson focuses attention on boundaries that have come together and have been divided and subdivided and on the tentative foundation on which political, social and religious beliefs are based". [1] "Soviet Pangaea serves as a metaphor for all political and natural unions. Through this body of work, Edmonson points to the certainty of an everchanging world where history is represented as evolution and evolution results in the individuality of each culture and person." [1]
"The images are based on old photographs from Russia which Edmonson uses as raw material - selecting fragments and snippets of characteristics from different individuals, the common people, reinterpreting and creating new faces that are amalgamations of several..." [2] Edmonson's use of shadows metaphorically suggests the fragmentary nature of history and memory - parts hidden from view, others slowly emerging from which we can begin to formulate an understanding of the whole. In a 1994 artist's statement, Edmonson commented that an earlier interest in tar pits in Alberta led to his archeological interpretation of memory: "where amongst the dark matter of tar have been found the remnants of life forms, which act as a kind of physical symbol of how time displaces history and memory." [2]
His paintings are seen today in collections including those of Microsoft, the Toronto-Dominion Bank, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Glenbow Museum, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, the Nickle Galleries, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Alberta Art Foundation, the Carleton University Art Gallery, the Department of External Affairs(Canada), and the Albright College Museum.
Edward W. (Ted) Godwin, L.L. D was the youngest member of the Regina Five, a group of five artists all based in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1961 when the group got its name from a show held by the National Gallery of Canada. Godwin is also known for his so-called Tartan paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Chris Cran is a Canadian visual artist, based in Calgary, Alberta.
Roloff Beny (1924–1984) was a Canadian photographer who spent the better part of his life in Rome and on his photographic travels throughout the world. Born Wilfred Roy Beny in Medicine Hat, Alberta, he later took as his first name Roloff, his mother's maiden name.
Alfred Young Man, Ph.D. or Kiyugimah is a Cree artist, writer, educator, and an enrolled member of the Chippewa-Cree tribe located on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, Montana, US. His Montana birth certificate lists him as being 13/16th Cree by blood-quantum, his full sister, Shirley, is listed as 16/16ths. He is a former Department Head (2007–2010) of Indian Fine Arts at the First Nations University of Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan and former Chair (1999–2007) of Native American Studies, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lethbridge and University of Regina.
Kirsten Lillian Abrahamson is a Canadian ceramic artist and educator known for ceramics and mixed-media sculptures.
Illingworth "Buck" Kerr was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer. He is best known for his landscape paintings of the Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills.
Peter Krausz is a Romanian-born Canadian artist. Throughout his career, he worked within the fields of painting, drawing, installation, and photography and, since 1970, exhibited in museums and galleries across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He is best known for large-scale landscape paintings of the Mediterranean.
Susan G. Scott is a Canadian artist known for both contemporary figurative painting and, more recently, her landscapes. Her work is found in national and international public collections including the Canada Council for the Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Collection du Fonds régional d'art contemporain d’Île-de-France in Paris, Canada - Israel Cultural Foundation in Jerusalem and Houston Baptist University in Texas. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2013.
Mary Annora Brown L.L. D. (1899–1987), known as Annora Brown, was a Canadian visual artist whose work encompassed painting and graphic design. She was best known for her depictions of natural landscapes, wildflowers, and First Nations communities in Canada. Much of her work thematically explored Albertan identity, though she remained relatively obscure in discussions of Canadian art.
Nancy Tousley is a senior art critic, journalist, art writer and independent curator whose practice has included writing for a major daily newspaper, art magazines, and exhibition catalogues.
Helen Stadelbauer was a Canadian painter and educator known for her establishment of the Art Department at the University of Calgary.
Jeff Thomas is an Onondaga Nation photographer, curator, and cultural theorist who works and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Linda Craddock is a Canadian visual artist living in Calgary, Alberta. Her work has been featured in exhibitions since 1973.
Kim Dorland is a contemporary Canadian painter based in Toronto. He is best known for his thickly-painted, fluorescent-imbued landscapes and super-thick portraiture and his use of multiple painting mediums per canvas.
Janice Gurney is a Canadian contemporary artist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated University of Manitoba in 1973 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree and later received a Master of Visual Studies degree from University of Toronto in 2007 with a collaborative degree in Book History and Print Culture. She went on to get a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University in 2012.
Dulcie Foo Fat is a British-born Canadian landscape painter, based in Calgary, Alberta.
Joice M. Hall is a Canadian artist from Alberta, now based in British Columbia. She is known primarily as a landscape painter of large panoramas.
Ronald Benjamin Moppett is a Canadian painter. He is known primarily for abstract paintings and for works in which he combines paint and collage, along with non-traditional materials. Moppett is based in Calgary, Alberta.
John Hall is a Canadian modernist painter from Alberta, known for his highly realistic painting style.
David Garneau is a Métis artist whose practice includes painting, curating, and critical writing.
