VOICES OF ABSTRACTION, BARB KREUTTER & SHARON THOMPSON

The Alberta Society of Artists
January 5 - February 25

Both Barb Kreutter & Sharon Thompson are attracted to abstraction as a compelling open-ended way to explore and bring together feeling and intuition without the mental directives and limitations necessitated by representation.

Both of their work is fundamentally structured. They achieve this by ensuring that everything in the piece is connected to everything else. The result is a distilled visual wholeness, a feeling of completeness, simplicity, and flow. This concern for interconnectedness also creates the spontaneous ‘feel’ of their work.

Barb’s photographs are a layering process that takes place both in the camera and again through the editing process, ultimately creating an abstract image that is also suggestive of the imagery embedded within the layering.

Sharon’s oil paintings use a process of layering as well. Using wide brushes, she creates a layered spatial depth, intuitively selecting what to keep from previous layers and what to move into a new layer.

These layering techniques achieved by both of these artists have a similar sense of light and space. Their two different voices are very different, yet they somehow, they share the same aesthetic.

Open: Wed - Sat: 10:00 - 16:00
Access: Exhibition is child friendly.
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Crossroads Market, 1235 26 Ave SE, #222 Attn: Alberta Society of Artists, Calgary AB T2G 1R7