Works in this collection

Ryan Price – this way that way / that way way this way

Ryan Price – Bio/Statement

One hundred and ninety-two completely pointless illustrations with throw away titles!

Ryan Price is an artist working out of Guelph Ontario. He moved to the city in 1991 after graduating from the technical arts program at BealArt in London. His focus for the most part has been in printmaking, specifically in the areas of drypoint and monotype. His works in these mediums have won several awards and have been viewed and collected fairly extensively. Over the past few years, while maintaining his printmaking practice, Ryan has begun to branch into other mediums and fields. In 2006 he had published his first illustrated book, an interpretive version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The “Raven”.

Max Wright – Bio/Statement

Some materials have a way of recording parts of their history in the marks and traces that scar their surfaces. Scratches on metal suggest some previous action, intentional, violent, or otherwise. Paint has a way of announcing things that are below it in the way it is absorbed and dries on varying surfaces. I believe that these irregularities behave as a language that extends beyond the materials themselves; it is a language of non-existence, of things that are no longer present. My art explores this language; it relies on the invisible history evoked by the subtle wear of matter.

Max Wright is a Canadian artist, born in Mississauga, Ontario in 1979, and who is currently based in both Montreal and Toronto. He completed his BFA at Queen’s University in 2002, and has since developed and exhibited his work professionally, focusing his practice primarily on photo-based mixed media, and branching recently into stand-alone photographic projects. Max’s work is held in private collections internationally.

Ryan Price – shark bait

Ryan Price – shark bait
Ink and watercolour on paper – 2009
6″ x 8″ framed
$160

Max Wright – A Surface Memory

Max Wright – A Surface Memory
Mixed: Photography, oil, paper on wood panel – 2009
48″ x 21″
$1500

Max Wright – Digital Fog 2

Max Wright – Digital Fog 2
Mixed: Photography, oil, paper on wood panel – 2009
12″ x 12″
$400

Max Wright – Interval 1

Max Wright – Interval 1
Mixed: Photography, oil, paper on wood panel – 2009
54″ x 18″
$1500

Max Wright – Vestigial Limbs 1

Max Wright – Vestigial Limbs 1
Mixed: Photography, oil, acrylic, zinc and aluminum plates on wood panel – 2008
48″ x 21″
$1500

Max Wright – Vestigial Limbs 5

Max Wright – Vestigial Limbs 5
Mixed: Photography, oil, acrylic, zinc plates, paper, sandpaper on wood panel – 2008
48″ x 36″
$2500

Max Wright – Carapace 2

Max Wright – Carapace 2
Mixed: Photography, oil, paper on wood panel – 2009
36″ x 16″
$950

Max Wright – Carapace 3

Max Wright – Carapace 3
Mixed: Photography, oil, zinc plate, paper on wood panel – 2009
54″ x 18″
$1500

Max Wright – Conscious Failure 2x

Max Wright – Conscious Failure 2x
Mixed: Photography, oil, acrylic, aluminum plates, paper, on wood panel – 2009
48″ x 24″
$1700

Max Wright – Carapace 4

Max Wright – Carapace 4
Mixed: Photography, oil, acrylic, zinc plates, paper, on wood panel – 2009
24″ x 24″
$950

Max Wright – Carapace 6

Max Wright – Carapace 6
Mixed: Photography, oil, zinc plates, paper, on wood panel – 2009
36″ x 12″
$800

Max Wright – Carapace 1

Max Wright – Carapace 1
Mixed: Photography, oil, acrylic, paper on wood panel – 2009
48″ x 21″
$1500

Max Wright – B, Continuous From A

Max Wright – B, Continuous From A
Mixed: Photography, oil, zinc plates, paper on wood panel – 2009
48″ x 16″
$1200

Ryan Price – caw! what a beaut!

Ryan Price – caw! what a beaut!
Ink and watercolour on paper – 2009
5″ x 7″ framed
$160

Ryan Price – this way that way / that way way this way

Ryan Price – this way that way / that way way this way
Ink and watercolour on paper – 2009
5″ x 7″ framed
$160

Ryan Price – what a peach

Ryan Price – what a peach
Ink and watercolour on paper – 2009
6″ x 6″ framed
$160

Ryan Price – hot tamale

Ryan Price – hot tamale
Ink and watercolour on paper – 2009
6″ x 6″ framed
$160

Tammy Ratcliff – Autumn Branch

Tammy Ratcliff – Autumn Branch
Acrylic, graphite and washi – 2009
36″ x 72″
$4,600

Scott Pattinson – Silence #27

Scott Pattinson – Silence #27
Acrylic on Canvas, 2008
48” x 40”
$3,500

Art Lucs – Yellow Space

Art Lucs – Yellow Space
Mixed Media on Canvas – 1992
60″ x 48″
$5,200

Jonathan Forrest – Sunday Sail

Jonathan Forrest – Sunday Sail
Acrylic on Canvas – 2009
24″ x 32″
$1,900

Maria Pezzano – Daisy with Black

Maria Pezzano – Daisy with Black
Acrylic, mixed media on black unryu
30″x30″
$1,200

Pearl van Geest – Incident Horizon 11

Pearl van Geest – Incident Horizon 11
Oil on board – 2009
20″ x 16″
$1,200 framed.

Jonathan Forrest – Blue Spin

Jonathan Forrest – Blue Spin
Acrylic on Canvas – 2009
24″ x 32″
$1,900

Tammy Ratcliff – Statement/Bio

Pursuing her first loves of painting and drawing, Tammy discovered printmaking while attending BealArt in 1990. She soon moved to Guelph to set up an open print studio / gallery with a fellow printmaker, and has since exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Canada and abroad, including the recent World Washi Summit in Toronto. She’s happily hard at work, preparing for upcoming solo shows in both Windsor – entitled ‘Paperwork,’ in November 2009 – and in Cambridge’s Preston Gallery – named ‘Soft Celebration,’ showing in May 2010.

Tammy Ratcliff was born in Toronto in1966. She studied printmaking at BealArt in London, Ontario and has been printing since her first class in 1990. After leaving school, she opened a small print shop and gallery which she ran for seven years with a fellow printmaker, Ryan Price, in downtown Guelph. She lives in Guelph with her family and she works in her own studio amongst the diverse artistic community in the Trafalgar Building Studios.

Through her intaglio, monotype prints and mixed media works she strives to convey her fascination with the natural world; its strength and beauty while drawing attention to the imperfections and impermanence inherent in all living things. Her recent work has been an examination of pieces of the whole; inclusion, exclusion and difference. This fascination with the facets and relationships that make up the entirety is embodied in both my artistic process and in the content of Tammy’s art.

Her work has shown extensively in group and solo shows, most recently at Lennox Contemporary for the World Washi Summit, Gallery Stratford, Open Studio, Toronto and the Print Studio in Hamilton.

Tammy has received provincial grants and various awards for her artwork since first exhibiting in 1993. Her work is included in numerous private, public and corporate collections in North America, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean.

Scott Pattinson – Statement/Bio

My paintings are the result of an ongoing study of the idiosyncratic energy and flow of life.

I believe that humans innately yearn for authentic experiences, for experiences which nurture and ground us, and which serve to support our spiritual development. And yet, in contemporary Western society, we have reached the point where we are absolutely inundated by messages which promote an insatiable desire for stimulation and instantaneous self-gratification gained through the amassing of material goods and singular investment. It is this unhealthy “white noise of life” that distracts us from focusing on the more meaningful aspects of being alive and which prevents us from appreciating something as simple (and powerful) as the silence of spaces between things.

This “raw-silence” is the energy I intend to capture through the act of painting. As tangible artifacts of emotion, passion and sensuality, my compositions strive to build engaging relationships between sensible proportions, layering of paint, and obtuse geometries; these elements reach out to each other, communicating within.

There is a life to each piece – a tension between control and chaos – each painting a manifestation of an interior, subconscious landscape where you feel a sense of things happening quickly around you…

Pattinson is represented at the Thielsen Gallery in London, Quartier Libre Galerie in Montréal, Oeno Gallery in Prince Edward County, Agnes Bugera Gallery in Edmonton, and Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary, Canada. He paints from his studio in Guelph, and Muskoka, ON.

Jonathan Forrest – Bio

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 17th, 1962

Immigrated to Canada in July 1977 and became a Canadian Citizen in 1989
Lives and paints in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Education

Emma Lake Artists Workshop, August 2007, (participant), Monica Tap
Emma Lake Artists Workshop, August 2005, (organizer), Ron Shuebrook and Robert Christie
Emma Lake Artists Workshop, August 2003, (organizer), Clay Ellis and Karen Wilkin
Triangle Artists Workshop, Brooklyn, NY, October 2002, (participant)
Emma Lake Artists Workshop, August 2001, (organizer), Chris Cran
SIAW workshop, Emma Lake, SK, July 2000, (participant)
Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop, July 1991, (participant), Kenneth Noland, John Gibbons, Terry Fenton & Nancy Tousley
Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop, July 1988, (participant), Joseph Drapell, Harold Feist, Douglas Haynes & William Perehudoff
Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop, July 1985, (participant), Karen Wilkin and Maryanne Harman

One-Person Exhibitions

“Power Play”, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, March 2009
“Cross Section”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc, Saskatoon SK, November 2008
“Off the Grid”, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB, June 2008
“Recent Work”, Newzones, Calgary, AB, June 2007
“Recent Work”, The Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB, June 24 – July 13, 2006
“Recent Work”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon, SK, November 2004
“Recent Work”, The Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB, November 29 – December 23, 2003
“Recent Work”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon, SK, March 2002
“Recent Work”, The Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, April 2001
“Recent Work”, The Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, April 1997
“Recent Work”, The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, January 1997 (toured to the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, March 1997)
“Salon Series”, 1995, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Sask.
“Paper Works 1989-1993″, The Swift Current National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, Sask., February 1994
“Studio Watch”, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. January 1994
“Recent Work”, The Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C. 1993
“Recent Work”, The Vik Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, September 1990
“M.F.A. Exhibition”, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 1990
“Recent Work”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 1990
“Recent Work”, The Swift Current National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, February 1990 (Toured to Moose Jaw Art Museum , June – July 1990)
“Recent Paintings and Sculptures”, The Francis Morrison Library, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, January 1989
“Recent Work”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, February 1988
“Jonathan Forrest, Recent Paintings and Sculptures”, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, July – August, 1987

Two-Person / Feature Exhibitions

“Squares and Stuff”, A group abstract show featuring three new large works at Encomium Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON. April 2 – 30, 2005
“Materialism (2)”, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, Saskatchewan (Clay Ellis, Jonathan Forrest, Terry O’Flanagan), March, 2001
“Materialism”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon, Sk. (Clay Ellis, Jonathan Forrest, Terry O’Flanagan), April, 2000
“Jonathan Forrest & Pat Service”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon, March, 1997
“Jonathan Forrest & Scott Plear” The Vik Gallery, Edmonton, November, 1991
“Large Scale Paintings Featuring Works by Jonathan Forrest”, Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, January – February 1991
“Studio Watch”, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, December 1987 – January, 1988
“Jonathan Forrest and Kim Houghtaling”, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1984
“Jonathan Forrest and Gary Pearson”, B.F.A. exhibition, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sk. 1983

Group Exhibitions:

“Spell”, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, September 2005 (co-curated this exhibition with Jordan Broadworth – travelled to the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, November, 2006 and the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON, July 2006). Catalogue
“Three Generations – London, UK”, APT Gallery, London, England, January 20 – 30, 2005
“Sunscreen”, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, AB, July 10 – Aug 28, 2004
“Three Generations – Perehudoff / Christie / Forrest”, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK., April 23 – July 4, 2004
“New Abstraction”, The Gallery / Art Placement, Inc., Saskatoon, SK, October 18 – November 6, 2003
“The Intangible”, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, September 12 – November 16, 2003
“Lodestar”, The Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, July 14 – August 24, 2003
“The Power of 10″, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB, February 8 – 28, 2003
“Contemporary Canadian Abstraction: A Selection”, The Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, April – June 1994
“Recent Acquisitions”, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, March – April 1994
“Saskatchewan Symbiotics in the Visual Arts – Harvest 20 Years”, Maison de la culture Cotes-des-Neiges, Montreal, Oct-Nov. 1992
“Within Range”, (Touring) Organized by the Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, USA, Itinerary:
June/July 1990, Prichard Art Gallery, U of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho October/November 1990, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana, January/February 1991, Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana, USA.
“Recent Contemporary Acquisitions”, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, December 1988 – January 1990
“A Common Bond”, The Swift Current National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 1988
“Saskatchewan Art”, The Art Centre, University of New Brunswick, St. Johns, New Brunswick, December 1987, (Touring the Maritimes and Saskatchewan)
“Young Saskatoon Artists”, The Francis Morrison Library, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, December 1986
“Works on Paper”, The Wade Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., 1986

Collections

Canada Council / Art Bank
Canpotex International
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
Edmonton Art Gallery
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Moose Jaw Art Museum
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Norcen, Calgary
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Arts Board
Stantec, Edmonton
Suncorp Valuations, Saskatoon
University of Lethbridge
University of Saskatchewan
Westburne Industries, Montreal
Wood Gundy, Edmonton

Articles

Gilbert Bouchard, “Rural immersion colours Saskatoon artist`s work”, Edmonton Journal – “What`s On”, June 6, 2008
Gilbert Bouchard, “Abstractionist`s work looks to the future, not the past”, Edmonton Journal, The Visual Arts, June 23, 2006
Robert Christie, “Jonathan Forrest: New Works”, (catalogue essay, Art Gallery of Swift Current), 1990
Julia Dault, “Prairie Fields of Colour”, National Post, April 15, 2004, B6
Robert Enright, “Shaking Up All Over”, Border Crossing, Winter 2004 (“borderviews section”)
Terry Fenton, “Studio Visit”, (pamphlet for studio watch exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery), 1994
Sky Glabush, “Three Generations”, Canadian Art, Summer 2004 (exhibition review)
Sky Glabush, “Pursuing Paint”, the Mendel Art Gallery, Folio magazine, Winter 2000/01 (transcript of conversation between Glabush & Forrest)
Sky Glabush, “Materialism”, New West Magazine, 2000 (exhibition review)
Piri Halasz and David Evison, “A Tale Of Three Cities”, NY Arts Magazine , March, 2005
Helen Marzolf, “Jonathan Forrest: Recent Paintings”, 1998 (essay for exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery)
Karen Wilkin, “An Inadvertent Vanguard”, The Hudson Review, NY, Spring 2002
Karen Wilkin, “Northerness and Other Considerations: At the Museums and Elsewhere”, The Hudson Review, NY, Winter 2004

Articles by the artist

“Artists by Artists – Jonathan Forrest & Nancy Lowry”, exhibition essay for the Mendel Art Gallery, 2002
“Spell” Catalogue text – “Western Artists”, The Mendel Art Gallery, September 2005
“Spell” Catalogue text – “Joint Statement” co-authored with Jordan Broadworth, The Mendel Art Gallery, September 2005