BUILDING STORIES VOLUME 2

For some, buildings shelter, protect, and foster life. For others, buildings represent exclusion and resistance. For many, buildings exist merely to provide a backdrop for the more important actions of life. This exhibition draws attention to the structures that surround us. The buildings depicted in Building Stories tell many stories, some of resistance and some of protection, others of commerce and economy; yet these stories unite to depict the human condition. Stories of hope, fear, peace, exhaustion, commerce, and necessity; these are the narratives of Building Stories.

All types of buildings surround you; you may feel dominated by some images and saddened by others. They confront you on many emotional levels and visually you are transported to a specific time and place where a history, a presence, a story lives.

This exhibition presents the paintings of 15 artists whose work depict stories from their own personal experiences and observations. Artists represented include: Roy Kiyooka, Gertrude Fleming, James Nicoll, Daphne Stankievech, Evelyn McBryan, Euphemia McNaught, Earl Cummins, Margaret Shelton, Patrick Douglass Cox, Neil Patterson, O.N. Grandmaison, John Snow, Standford Perrott, Gordon Harper, and Randy Hayashi.

Building Stories was curated by Todd Schaber, Manager/Curator, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Region 1 of the AFA Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX).