brian webb dance company art auction
April 28, 2024
11am - 3pm
Gala luncheon event
Chateau Lacombe Hotel
10111 Bellamy Hill Road, Edmonton
I am honored to be invited to contribute once again to this event. It’s a great way to support visual and dance artists in Alberta. Get your tickets for the gala luncheon.
“OUT OF THE BOX”
Featured Artist
April 30 - June 23, 2024
I will be in the gallery June 22nd and 23rd.
The Loft Gallery
Upstairs at the A. J. Ottewell Centre
590 Broadmoor Boulevard, Sherwood Park, Alberta
These pieces came out of a series of design exercises known as ‘expanded squares’. They are a great way to explore motifs and the balance of positive and negative space.
“A way through the world”
Solo Exhibition
May 4 - June 29, 2024
Opening reception Saturday May 5th 2-4pm
Alberta Society of Artists Main Gallery
Upstairs above the Crossroads Market
#222 - 1235 26 Avenue SE, Calgary, AB T2G 1R7
Over the last year or and a half, I created monotypes as physical limitations prevented me from working on large paintings. I love the rich organic patina of these pieces, and the limited control that the process affords.
Recent Exhibitions:
“FROM A DISTANCE - WORKS IN CORRESPONDENCE”
Collaborative project with Susan Purney Mark
January 9 - March 2, 2024
The Old School House Arts Centre
Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada
Listen to a podcast about this project on Art Biz Success
Collage works developed in collaboration during the lockdowns. We each started some pieces which we mailed to each other to complete. The exhibit will look at the impact of the collaboration on our individual work, as well as showcasing work done in collaboration. All the collaborative work is titled with potential opening lines for letter correspondence.
“abstraction”
jen tough gallery
2013 Spring Collective Show
May 12 - June 25, 2023
Jen Tough Gallery Grand Opening
Friday May 12th 5-8pm
4 N Chamisa Drive
Santa Fe, NM, 87508
“No fear”
June 22 - July 8, 2023
Open House Saturday June 24th, noon-5pm
I will be in attendance June 24th from noon-2pm.
Harcourt House Arts Centre
10215 and 10211 112 Street NW, Edmonton, AB Canada
See exhibition details online.
This exhibition’s theme is focused on the social and political conditions of global society today. I do not draw my creative inspiration directly from politics, race, gender or activism. However, like most creative individuals, I am impacted by these forces - in my case, particularly the degradation of community and connection and the instability in cultural sectors. I find I must continue to do the work that I feel deeply in order to feel whole.
The work included in this exhibition is also applicable to the ‘No Fear’ theme as it will be the first time I have exhibited my monotypes/drawings. This new way of working involves considerable room for chance, rather than tightly controlling the process, and I love the results that emerge.
ART EXPO New york
March 30 - April 3, 2023
Jen Tough Gallery
Booth 219
Pier 36
299 South St, New York, NY
Download the exhibition brochure.
Solo Exhibition - BLUE POOL BLACK POOL
March 3 - May 12, 2023
Viewpoint Gallery
5205 48 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
The solo exhibition features both large and small works. These paintings offer a more mature artistic response to the landscape that has inspired me since childhood. In their essence, these bright bold paintings and collages reflect the dynamic summer landscape of Alberta.
FCA toronto invitational
Red dot miami
November 30 - December 4, 2022
Red Dot Miami takes place during Art Week, which hosts a number of art fairs including Art Basel Miami Beach.
Jen Tough Gallery will be exhibiting some of my newest work, along with other members of the Art Collective.
Booth 418
Mana Wynnwood Convention Center, Wynnwood Arts District
2217 NW 5th Avenue at NW 22nd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
FCA Edmonton chapter winter show
December 2-4, 2022
A. J. Ottewell Centre
590 Broadmoor Boulevard, Sherwood Park, Alberta
Organized by the Federation of Canadian Artists, Edmonton Chapter.
I will be in attendance Friday 6-9pm and Sunday 4-5pm.
ART FROM THE UNKNOWN
November 4 - 6, 2022
Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre
8426 Gateway Boulevard
Edmonton, AB
Friday November 4, 2022 6 - 8:30pm
Live music, door prizes, cash bar and complimentary refreshments hosted by Rachel Notley, MLA Edmonton-Strathcona.
Saturday November 5, 2022 11am - 4pm
Sunday November 6, 2022 noon - 2pm
Nominate me for the People’s Choice Award!
ART EXPO DALLAs
September 16-18, 2022
Jen Tough Gallery
Booth 405
“abstraction”
August 15 - 28, 2022
Federation Gallery
1241 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Monday - Saturday 10am-4pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm
I won First Prize in this show in 2019! This year, I’ve submitted a recent painting inspired by the winter fields that surround my home town of Smoky Lake, AB.
“land as muse”
June 23 - July 9, 2022
Open House Saturday June 25th, noon-5pm
I will be in attendance June 25th from noon-4pm.
Harcourt House Arts Centre
10215 and 10211 112 Street NW, Edmonton, AB Canada
See exhibition details online.
The theme, “Land As Muse” is right up my alley. I’ve been inspired by the landscape since girlhood trips across the prairies to visit my Baba, staring chin-on-hand the entire trip.
My current work incorporates views of the landscape from many perspectives: a typical human viewing perspective, aerial looks, zoomed in on small tangles, and a sense of landscape shifting over time. As I work, I feel that I am writing the story of the landscape on my panels.
This painting is a very abstract take, but includes references to textured snow and fields, the scrubbly lines of brush and winter branches, and the shapes of fields, ponds, corrals.
“ASSEMBLY REQUIRED”
The Artist Alliance
I am very happy to have been selected for this international online exhibition juried by The Artist Alliance.
This exhibition focuses on work that involves something particular in terms of assembly or installation.
What You See Is the Fog’s Choosing is a series of three panels (two shown installed here) with acrylic and drawing media on translucent mylar. The sheets float and stir as air moves past them. As people move behind and between the layers, you see hints of shape and movement.
This work was inspired by the way objects, buildings, and entire mountains appear and disappear in the fog and mist of the port edge of the city.