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Indepth Arts News:
"Marian Wihak : Boundless"
2011-01-04 until 2011-01-30
Cube Gallery
Ottawa, ON,
CA Canada
Marian Wihak's solo exhibition of stunning, often large-scale oil paintings originally debuted in 2009 at the Art Gallery of Regina. In this show she references cloud masses, dramatic weather systems, and limitless geographical horizons as witnessed in Southern Saskatchewan and Alberta. In this installation of moody paintings, Wihak embraces more affirmative definitions of both maelstrom and chaos, as states of being that are rife with change, upset and yet also potential. She states that " the experience of being within that infinite space tethers and perhaps diminishes us, yet also exhilarates and fulfills us by igniting the imaginative leap. As powerful forces of nature are multiplying in tandem with our compromised natural environment, it offers a palpable touchstone of the seismic shift in our actual physical place within this universe"
Marian Wihak is a Regina born and raised multi-disciplinary artist, who has had a long career as an award winning designer of film, television and theatre based in Toronto. Having studied both theatre and visual art at the University of Regina, Dalhousie University, the Banff Centre, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Ontario College of Art and Design, and Studio Arts Centre International in Florence, Italy, she is currently taking an Interdisciplinary MFA in Art, Media and Design at OCADU in Toronto. She is a Canada Council grant recipient and was a finalist in the 2001 RBC Painting Competition.
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