Exciting news Part II: Gallery Ingenue

I'm now able to share the exciting news Part II!

I am starting a gallery in Stella's Cafe and Bakery on Osborne called Gallery Ingenue! Stella's is a Winnipeg staple breakfast place with four locations. The osborne location where Gallery Ingenue will be is the original. I have been curating the Students of Fine Arts Gallery at their sister restaurant Edna Fedya for almost a year now and they were looking to make their walls more exciting at their Osborne location so Gallery Ingenue was conceived. Like the SOFA Gallery at Edna Fedya I will be curating monthly shows to showcase local artists. But the difference between the submission process at the Edna's Gallery and Gallery Ingenue is that G.I. will be accepting all artists instead of strictly U of M Fine Arts students. If you are interested in submitting check out the submission requirements below:

Submission Information

We are always looking for submissions. To submit for a solo or group show email the following information to a.gillian.king@gmail.com to be considered.

Artist Name(s)

Bio(s)

Artist Statement(s)

Images, dimensions, and materials of all works to be shown

I am so excited for the first show that will start on Thursday this week! We will be featuring work from two of my Fine Arts friends Rick Rosario and Dee Barsy.

Rick Rosario

"Born and raised in Manitoba, Rick Rosario is currently completing his Art History degree with a studio component focusing on painting at the University of Manitoba. Prior to this venture he has devoted over 10 years as a Graphic Designer and Art Director for various magazines throughout Canada.

"Born and raised in Manitoba, Rick Rosario is currently completing his Art History degree with a studio component focusing on painting at the University of Manitoba. Prior to this venture he has devoted over 10 years as a Graphic Designer and Art Director for various magazines throughout Canada.

[He] continue[s] to focus on portraiture and figurative paintings to explore the human condition. [He] hopes to capture an aesthetic that creates psychological tension between the viewer and the subject. There is a mirror experience when people are experiencing portrait and figurative paintings... hopefully the observer connects with the work and provoked by questions of self, absurdity of existence and the irony and beauty of life experiences.

Most works are oil on canvas, however aerosol and acrylic paint can be found integrated in his work. The choice medium, dimension and subject matter focus on connecting the observer to communal states of consciousness and the collective unconscious."

Mel by Rick Rosario, oil on canvas, 4x5ft

Dee Barsy

"As a young, emerging artist, Dee Barsy is currently preparing for her thesis year of the Fine Arts ‘Honours Degree Program’ at the University of Manitoba. Inspired by the young people she instructs, Dee finds community involvement integral to her creative practice. Over the past four years, her experience as an ‘Instructor’ at Graffiti Art Programming has served as a valuable entry into visual art and the arts community in Winnipeg.

At the onset of her practice, Dee is focused on oil painting, seeing it as a means to engage her thoughts and process her surroundings. With the use of complex geometric patterns, her paintings form a flux of streetscapes. To secure these often overwhelming spaces, specific personalities are placed in the center of the compositions. These paintings become records of her commute through a city that bustles with energy, where the only static image found, is a familiar face. She titles her paintings after bus routes that she regularly commutes on.

Dee makes use of a small palette, limiting herself to mixing one colour at a time. Intrigued by the idea that a given mixture can never be sincerely replicated, and that no two people will experience a colour in the same way, she finds optimism in the possibilities of paint. Through both building up and veiling layers, Dee invests her canvases with histories of colour. Her paintings become maps; often inspired by personal routine, particularly by the paths she regularly takes throughout the city. While these experiences concerning Winnipeg’s unique cityscape are transient, paint affords her the possibility of fixing such impressions. In developing receding and advancing forms, Dee finds a language to convey mobility, communicating her daily patterns and activity of the city."

16 Selkirk #3 by Dee Barsy, oil on canvas, 4x5ft

If you are in Winnipeg or visiting Rick and Dee's work will be up for the next month and their show will start late this week. Stay tuned for news about their opening night so you can head down to Stella's to meet the artists!