Sky Glabush

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Sky Glabush
Born (1970-08-26) August 26, 1970 (age 51)
Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversity of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta
Known forPainting, Weaving

Sky Glabush (born 1970)[1] is a Canadian artist based in London, Ontario.[2] He has created works in a number of media, but is best known as a painter. He is an associate professor of visual art at the University of Western Ontario. His work is held at the National Gallery of Canada.[3]

Early life and education[]

Glabush was born in Alert Bay, British Columbia.[1] He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta.[1] Glabush is a Baháʼí, and the Baháʼí Faith is significant to his work.[4]

Career[]

In 2006 Glabush began teaching art at the University of Western Ontario.[1] That year he held his first solo exhibition, Provisional Structures. In 2009 he exhibited Renting, a series of paintings of rental properties.[5]

Over the next several years Glabush created and exhibited artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, pottery, weaving and large-scale paintings.[6] In 2016 he exhibited a series of neo-Modernist sculpture and tapestries at the Oakville Galleries,[6] as well as holding an exhibition of woven artworks in Norway.[7]

In 2020 Glabush travelled to Guyana, where he taught art to the inmates of prisons.[8][9] That year two of his large-scale paintings were added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.[3]

Exhibitions[]

Solo shows[]

  • Provisional Structures (2006)
  • Homes for Canada (2007)
  • Renting (2009)
  • Background (2011)[10]
  • The Kingdom on Names (2012)
  • Display (2014)[1]
  • What is a self? (2016)
  • The Window is Also a Door (2016)
  • A new Garden (2017)
  • The Valley of Love (2018)
  • Projet Pangée (2018)
  • The Structure of Painting (2020)
  • The Caged Lark (2021)

Group shows[]

  • Here and Now (2005)
  • Canada Calling (2006)
  • The Hinterlands (2008)
  • Allure of the Local (2009)
  • A Sudden Frost (2010)
  • The Painting Project (2013)
  • Go Figure (2011)
  • Untitled Art Show (2014)
  • Stellar Living (2015)
  • Again, and Again (2017)
  • A Home in the Country (2018)
  • Thinking with My Hands (2018)
  • From Within (2020)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Brain, Body, Hands: Meet Sky Glabush, Canada's Most Restless Painter". Canadian Art Magazine, April 26, 2013. by David Balzer
  2. ^ "In Studio: Sky Glabush, A New Garden". Toronto Star, Murray Whyte, Jan. 7, 2017
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Sky Glabush Paints the Story", National Gallery of Canada Magazine, Chris Hampton, January 28, 2020
  4. ^ "Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture". Canadian Art Magazine, April 1, 2014. by David Balzer
  5. ^ "A Conversation With Sky Glabush". White Hopt Magazine, April 2020. by Matthew Smith
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend". MOMUS, By Sky Goodden • Reviews• March 14, 2016
  7. ^ "Floating Carpets". Contemporary Art Stavange, October 14, 2016 review by Astrid Helen Windingstad
  8. ^ "Western University professor's prison sabbatical in Guyana an eye-opener". London Free Press, Heather Rivers, February 29, 2020
  9. ^ "Project opens doors of prisons to creativity". Education News Canada, February 18, 2020, by Sonia Preszcator
  10. ^ "Sky Glabush Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor". Canadian Art Magazine, review by Sky Goodden, June 15, 2011

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