Season
October 19 - November 6, 2024
image: Mauricio Lozano
Barbara 19 October - 6 November, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, 19 October, 2024 from 2-5 PM artist in attendance
previews: Thursday, October 17 & Friday, October 18
Milne
about Barbara Milne
Barbara Milne was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied fine art at York University, Toronto. She taught as a seasonal instructor at the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts)) from 1998-2012.
Milne’s paintings are rich in symbols and metaphors. Shape, colour, and textures combine and resonate to describe a parallel experience of place.
Memory plays a complex role in Milne’s paintings. It not only involves the physical reconstruction of the artist’s experience of a place: but also embodies a recollection of previous paintings, histories, and styles. While Milne’s landscapes derive from real settings, the artist transcends the particularities of place, producing images that are richly layered, evoking a sense of wonder.
Light & Shade: Mid-Season, 2024, 36” x 60”, acrylic on canvas
about the show:
Season represents a continuum of work reflecting upon nature; as we encounter it and as we remember it.
Responding to both the intimacy of the garden and the grandeur of landscape, I explore our fragile relationship to the land. Through observation, photographs and sketches, my process is one of obscuring and revealing, editing and amplifying. Works grow organically as one mark responds to another.
These paintings are meditations on static and flux, the specific and the monumental, and the temporal nature of place, both internal and external.
Light & Shade: Hydrangeas, 48” x 60”, acrylic on canvas
Light & Shade II, 16” diameter, acrylic on canvas
Light & Shade I, 16” diameter, acrylic on canvas
Light & Shade: Spring, 2024, 48” x 60”, acrylic on canvas
Light & Shade: Pine, 2024, 48” x 36”, acrylic on canvas
“As a group they are reflections on nature and the passage of time.”
left: Light & Shade III, 24” x 24”, acrylic on canvas
right: Light & Shade IV, 24” x 24”, acrylic on canvas
Light & Shade VI: Lilac, 24” x 20”, acrylic on canvas
Light & Shade: Cyclamen, 24” diameter, acrylic on canvas
“Having lived in Alberta for many years, I respond to this particular light. A crystalline clarity that surrounds. It’s about finding the ephemeral-that moment between sleeping and waking. The in between.”
Light & Shade: Late Summer, 36” x 60”, acrylic on canvas
Ambient Light Cameo, 2019, 12” x 12”, acrylic & oil on board
Ambient Light Cameo II, 2019, 12” x 12”, acrylic & oil on board
“For me these paintings are sound equivalents. Soft. Intense. High. Low.”
Light & Shade: Garden, 2024, 48” x 36”, acrylic on canvas
C.V. (select)
Solo Exhibitions:
38
2022 “Woven”, Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
2019 Edge Gallery, Calgary
2017 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2017 Responding To the Collection of the Whyte Museum
2016 Responding To the Collection of the Whyte Museum
2013 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2012 Edge Gallery, Canmore
2011 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2008 Nickle Arts Museum
Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2006 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2004 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2003 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2001 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
2000 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
1998 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Nfld.
1997 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
1996 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
Group Exhibitions:
2020 The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Drawn to the West
Artistic Pairings, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary
Last Picture Show, Edge Gallery, Calgary
2018 Two Person Show with Dave More, The Edge Gallery in Canmore
2017
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC : Stone and Sky: Canada’s Mountain Landscape
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies: New Acquisitions
2012 Faculty Exhibition ACAD
2011 The National Capital Commission (NCC), in collaboration with the Canada Council Art Bank, Provincial and Territorial Confederation Boulevard Banners. Represented Alberta Faculty Exhibition ACAD
2010 Faculty Exhibition ACAD
2009 Gullkistan Artist Residency, Iceland - 2 Person Show
Art Gallery of Calgary, Gallery without Walls: Celebrating 50 Years, Calgary
Allied Arts Foundation -50 Artists from the Calgary Civic Art Collection
2008 Art Gallery of Alberta “The Essence of Landscape” The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Alberta College of Art – Faculty Exhibition
2007 Nickle Arts Museum – “Alberta Formed” – work from the permanent collection
Alberta College of Art and Design - Print Exhibition “Collaborations”
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina “From Where I Stand”
Contemporary Landscapes by Canadian Artists
2005 Alberta High Commission, Washington DC
2003-2005 Ilingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Faculty Show
2000 Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, “INLAND: Narrative in Western Landscape”
1999
1998
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta “The Path To Skoki”
Art Gallery of Nfld. And Labrador, St. John’s, “The Painters New foundland”
1997 The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton “Celebrating a Legacy” Alberta Foundation for the Arts 25th. Anniversary Exhibition
1996 McMichael Gallery, Ontario, “Hidden Values”, Contemporary Canadian Art Corporate Collections
Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Summer Exhibition
Arts Juries:
2002 Grant Jury, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
1996 Grant Jury, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
1988 Art Bank Slide Jury, Ottawa, Ontario
Residences & Workshops
July 2009 Gullkistan 2 week Artist Residency, Iceland
Sept. 1998 “The Path to Skoki” A week long hiking and painting trip to Skoki, Alberta. Sponsored by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
July 1997 Pouch Cove Residency Programme, A month long, painting and research in preparation for 22 person group exhibition at Art Gallery of Labrador, St. John’s, Nfld., entitled, “Painters’ Newfoundland
Aug.1993 “Columbia Icefield Expedition” A week long hiking trip to paint and research in preparation for exhibition at Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies.
Awards
2009 ACAD Professional Development Funding – Gullkistan Residency, Iceland
2008 ACAD Professional Development Funding for Vancouver
Exhibition, April 2008 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant
2004 Nominated and elected to the Royal Canadian Academy
2003 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant
1998 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant
Teaching
1998 - 2012 Sessional Instructor at The Alberta College of Art and Design, Painting Department
Collections:
Canadian Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies
Canada Council Art Bank
Calgary Allied Arts Foundation
Glenbow Museum
Air Canada
Nickle Arts Museum
Bank of America
Bibliography:
“Painting the Whyte” Portia Priegart, Galleries West 2016
Smith, Caroline, CBC Radio Interview for “Overland” Exhibition, Jan. 2009
Salahub,Jennifer, Paths,Corridors and Intervals, Exhibition Essay for Catalogue “Overland” 2008
Christine Sowiak, The Cadance of Land, Exhibition Essay fo Catalogue “Overland” 2008
Tousley, Nancy, Barbara Milne: Critic’s Pick Calgary Herald October 2008
Robin Laurence Barbara Milne: Overland & Erin McSavaney: Seven Paintings of South Vancouver Georgia Strait, April 17, 2008
Patricia Ainslie & Mary-Beth Laviolette, An Illustrated Guide to a Hundred and Fifty Years of Alberta Art, 150 pages, soft cover 2007
Mary-Beth Laviolette, Alberta Art Cronicle: A history of Contemporary Art in Alberta: 1970 to 2000, 300 Pages, soft cover
Vida,Sandra, Prairie Landscapes are Humming with Life, Fast Forward, May 2nd. 2002
Gustafson,Paula, Barbara Milne at Atelier Gallery,Asian Art News,Jan. 1999
Laviolette,Mary-Beth, The Skoki Expedition, Artichoke, Feb 1999
Severson, Ann. A Prairie Girl’s Maritimes, Fast Forward, May 1998
Woodrow, Paul, The Spectacle of Memory, Exhibition Essay for Catalogue,”Island” 1998
Tousley, Nancy, Brush with Beauty, Calgary Herald Dec. 6th. 1996
Johnson, Mia, Preview, Preview Magazine, Nov. 1995
Lawrence, Robin, Saturday Review, The Vancouver Sun, Nov. 4th. 1999
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