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BY tEENA LEGris
Artist
CHRISTIAN WORTHINGTON
Until Mar 10 — Urban Shaman Gallery features
Missing or Forgotten: Akonessen, Zitya, Tina,
Marie and All the Others, a tribute to forgotten
historical Aboriginal women and the loss
of traditional knowledge. installations by
indigenous art collective: Hannah claus, Nadia
Myre, sylvia Bernard, Mariette Manigouche,
Diane Blacksmith, Lise Bibeau, Annette Nolett,
Diane robertson, and filmmaker Wendat
Akienda Lainé. curated by sylvie paré.
Mar 16-May 5 — MHC Gallery presents
two poetic exhibitions: Anthony chiarella’s
Language’s Natural Movement into the Poetical
examines the human need to express life
beyond literal and figurative means through
paintings, sculptures, carvings, and stained
glass. Seven Whole Days showcases 63
meditative paintings by Faye Hall (pictured
above) from the new art/poetry book by English
poet, Malcolm Guite.
Mar 24-May 13 — WAG@The Park’s
community Gallery celebrates artwork by young
artists with its annual exhibition Through the
Eyes of a Child.
Mar 30-Apr 10 — cre8ery Gallery and Studio
presents A Continuum which features wildlife
themed photography and ceramic works of
local artist Diane Blakeley from her exploratory
career as a scientist.
is a canadian multimedia artist who has garnered both
local and international acclaim. With over twenty years
studying the techniques of classic masters such as
rembrandt and caravaggio, along with American abstract
expressionists, he is endlessly intrigued by historical periods
and the experimental trends in art.
christian is dedicated to applying his broad range of
work in a variety of genres, narratives and themes. From
representational portraits in oils to contemporary abstracts,
he considers himself “an investigative painter delving into
sculpture.” Each explorative medium, including his three-
dimensional forms in clay, copper, and steel, demonstrates
attention to precision with dramatic effects rendered
through the contrast of light and shadow.
seeing each project as an opportunity to explore art on
a macro and existential level, his objective is to “take an
immaterial essence, an emotion or even a spiritual idea,
and make it tangible. Like a transfer of stewardship from
conception to creation.”
the desire to delve further into large-scale industrial
design led to a melding of creative minds in the spring
of 2017. christian connected with swiss-born sculptor,
Jürgen cooper Meier, whose art consists of a prolific body
of privately commissioned, large-scale abstract steel
rEtrospEctivE
sculptures. Both artists have created a dynamic series of
Until March 31
small prototypes (maquettes), representative of large-
WAG features A Personal Journey, the first
scale pieces intended for public exhibit. paul Zacharias,
retrospective in a public gallery of legendary
graphic inuit artist, pitaloosie saila, celebrating
Director of the LANtErN Gallery, hosts the exhibition of
her remarkable body of work from the earliest
collaborative sculptures by christian Worthington and
years of printmaking in cape Dorset. curated by
Jürgen cooper Meier from April 6-14, 2018. 211 pacific Ave, Darlene coward Wight and susan Gustavison. 300
204-226-2357, lanternshows.com, Map 1: N-4
Memorial Blvd, 204-786-6641, wag.ca, Map 1: p-3
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