'Stranger Than Fiction' at the Art Gallery of Calgary

Tuesday, 09 January 2007 20:47

Calgary, AB, Canada - January 9, 2007 – On January 19, 2007 the Art Gallery of Calgary celebrates the new year with some exciting exhibitions by local, national and international artists: Catherine Heard (Toronto), Aron Hill (Calgary), Mark Mullin (Calgary) and Rachelle Viader-Knowles (UK).  Deformed child figures, freaky birds, dreamy explosions and insights into the future become a part of the AGC galleries until March 3.  Exhibitions curated by AGC Chief Curator, Alexandra Keim.

Catherine Heard: Symmetries
Catherine Heard graduated from The Ontario College of Art and Design. She is presently artist in residence at the University of Calgary.  Her works on display in the AGC Top Gallery include wax relief sculptures and detailed paper cut outs of child figures deformed by freakish mirroring.  This is the first time her work will be shown in Calgary.

Aron Hill: Unnatural Response
Aron Hill studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2005.  Hill lives and works in Calgary. His fine lead pencil drawings of fragile birds, showing in the AGC Top Gallery, both attract and repel in a grotesque and captivating Kafkanian manner.

Mark Mullin: an unfolding sense of order
Mark Mullin was born in Alberta; he studied art at the University of Alberta and received his M.F.A. from the department of Drawing and Painting in Concordia University, Montreal, QC.  He lives and works in Calgary and is represented by the Paul Kuhn Gallery.  His early large-scale painting and recent drawings explore ideas of physics and the chaos theory and are on display in the AGC Main and Tall Galleries.