Art Beat
Casa is going big and going home this weekend. In addition to Christmas at Casa returning to a live event with six new art exhibits opening Saturday, Nov. 20.
“Thematically they’re big and they explore big, meaty subjects,” said Allied Arts Council Communications co-ordinator Kelaine Devine.
Lethbridge based artist and print-maker Kellen Spencer‘s “Between the Sidewalk and the Horizon” is in the main gallery. It explores the concept of home.
The project began as a documentative series of photographs of his home in Mount Pleasant in Calgary.
The exhibit displays drawings and etching alongside surreal elements of his photographic work exploring the concept of home as an investment versus places that hold family and personal history.
“It’s a beautiful exploration of through photos and print making,” Devine said.
Czech Republic born, Lethbridge based Petra Malá Miller also explores the concept of home in her exhibit “ Living in the Zone.”
“It’s about the effects of radioactive fallout, but it’s actually uplifting rather than depressing,” Devine said.
Cardston based artist Craig Talbot’s “Sky Palace” in the Passage Gallery looks at the concept of home in the terms of a futuristic Utopia.
“Many years ago, in the year 2021, the sacred trees were emancipated from humankind. The people of the Sky Palace re-planted the trees to create a new, healthy planet where the people of Earth Could have a chance to redeem themselves for poisoning the sacred trees,” Talbot summarizes in his artists statement.
“The world in the future has evolved into the Sky Palace,” Devine observed.
Recent U of L graduate Leah Koutroumanos’ exhibit of watercolours “ Diary of Earthly Things” in the Casa project space.
“Beauty and ambiguity are explored in my watercolours through contemplation of the ‘stumbled upon’ and an objects value, determined by its evanescence. I am describing the passing of time using static informal subject matter,” she writes in her artist statement.
