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Colour Sense and Sensibilia:
Dr. Caterina Pizanias
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The exhibition "Colour Sense and Sensibilia: New Edmonton Art" runs July 3 to August 22, 2008, and features art by three of Edmonton’s most inventive artists : Allen Ball , Carolyn Campbell and Ken Macklin. Their paintings and sculptures animate through the use of the intermediary, “in-between” spaces of painting/sculpture, decoration/landscape, and self-document/picture. Macklin “paints” his sculptures or hangs them on the walls as drawings. Ball on the other hand, literally “lifts” the vinyl flooring and seductively frames it on walls, while Campbell paints her over- or under-size portraits of local artists in ways that manage to question the genre’s ability to either “document” or “reflect” selfhood. 
The exhibition uses, expands, and improvises on the artists’ synergy, through colour, to create an exhibit exquisitely crafted and exceptionally beautiful. It will implore the audience to take another “look” at object art, re-awaken their sense of sight, and lift downcast eyes held hostage by “texts”—book-bound or cyber-floating. The exhibit presents works atypical of local audiences’ expectations of Edmonton art—and works that are a revelation and challenge to our preconceptions of steel sculpture, painting, and portraiture.
