Sky Glabush

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Sky Glabush
Born (1970-08-26) August 26, 1970 (age 54)
Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Education University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta
Known for Painter, Fabric artist

Sky Glabush (born 1970) [1] is a Canadian artist based in Southwestern Ontario. [2] He has created works in a number of media, but is best known as a painter. He is an associate professor of visual art at the University of Western Ontario. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. [3]

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Early life and education

Glabush was born in Alert Bay, British Columbia. [1] He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. [1] Glabush is a Baháʼí, and the Baháʼí Faith is significant to his work. [4]

Career

In 2006 Glabush began teaching art at the University of Western Ontario. [1] That year he held his first solo exhibition, Provisional Structures. In 2009 he exhibited Renting, a series of paintings of rental properties. [5]

Over the next several years Glabush created and exhibited artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, pottery, weaving and large-scale paintings. [6] In 2016 he exhibited a series of neo-Modernist sculpture and tapestries at the Oakville Galleries, [6] as well as holding an exhibition of woven artworks in Norway. [7]

In 2020 Glabush travelled to Guyana, where he taught art to the inmates of prisons. [8] [9] That year two of his large-scale paintings were added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. [3]

Exhibitions

Solo shows

Group shows

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Brain, Body, Hands: Meet Sky Glabush, Canada's Most Restless Painter". Canadian Art Magazine, April 26, 2013. by David Balzer
  2. ↑ "In Studio: Sky Glabush, A New Garden". Toronto Star, Murray Whyte, Jan. 7, 2017
  3. 1 2 "Sky Glabush Paints the Story", National Gallery of Canada Magazine, Chris Hampton, January 28, 2020
  4. ↑ "Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture". Canadian Art Magazine, April 1, 2014. by David Balzer
  5. ↑ "A Conversation With Sky Glabush". White Hopt Magazine, April 2020. by Matthew Smith
  6. 1 2 "In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend". MOMUS, By Sky Goodden • Reviews• March 14, 2016
  7. ↑ "Floating Carpets". Contemporary Art Stavange, October 14, 2016 review by Astrid Helen Windingstad
  8. ↑ "Western University professor's prison sabbatical in Guyana an eye-opener". London Free Press, Heather Rivers, February 29, 2020
  9. ↑ "Project opens doors of prisons to creativity". Education News Canada, February 18, 2020, by Sonia Preszcator
  10. ↑ "Sky Glabush Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor". Canadian Art Magazine, review by Sky Goodden, June 15, 2011
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