Sky Glabush Explained
Sky Glabush (born 1970)[1] is a Canadian artist based in Southwestern 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 in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.[3]
Early life and education
Glabush was born in Alert Bay, British Columbia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. 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. 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, 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.
Exhibitions
Solo shows
- Provisional Structures, University of Alberta, (2006)
- Homes for Canada, University of Manitoba (2007)
- Renting, MKG127, Toronto Ontario (2009)
- Background, MKG127, Toronto Ontario(2011)[10]
- The Kingdom on Names Thames Art Gallery, Chatham Ontario (2012)
- Display, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario (2014)
- What is a self? Oakville Galleries, oakville, Ontario (2016)
- The Window is Also a Door, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway (2016)
- A new Garden, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario (2017)
- The Valley of Love, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, Ontario (2018)
- Projet Pangée, Montreal, Quebec (2018)
- The Structure of Painting, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2020)
- The Caged Lark, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2021)
- Weight of Light, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2021)
Group shows
- Here and Now (2005)
- Canada Calling (2006)
- Hinterland (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)
- Unnatural Nature (2022)
External links
Notes and References
- https://canadianart.ca/features/sky-glabush-canadas-most-restless-painter/ "Brain, Body, Hands: Meet Sky Glabush, Canada's Most Restless Painter"
- https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2017/01/07/in-studio-sky-glabush-a-new-garden.html "In Studio: Sky Glabush, A New Garden"
- https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/sky-glabush-paints-the-story "Sky Glabush Paints the Story"
- https://canadianart.ca/reviews/sky-glabush-mkg-127/ "Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture"
- https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/conversation-with-sky-glabush/2925 "A Conversation With Sky Glabush"
- https://momus.ca/in-search-of-himself-sky-glabushs-mimetic-practice-drifts-into-the-neo-modernist-trend/ "In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend"
- https://www.contemporaryartstavanger.no/floating-carpets/ "Floating Carpets"
- https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/western-university-profs-prison-sabbatical-in-guyana-an-eye-opener "Western University professor's prison sabbatical in Guyana an eye-opener"
- https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/816907/b-project-opens-doors-of-prisons-to-creativity.html "Project opens doors of prisons to creativity"
- https://canadianart.ca/reviews/sky-glabush-windsor/ "Sky Glabush Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor"
