Leslie Bell + Kristopher Karklin + Patrick Lundeen

Leslie Bell
Kristopher Karklin
Patrick Lundeen

Skew Gallery is pleased to launch the 2011 fall/winter season with a trio of solo exhibitions.

Kristopher Karklin: Camp Life

Leslie Bell: Simulacrum

Patrick Lundeen: The Oblique Mystique

September 8th - October 7th , 2011

Opening Reception: 6pm - 8pm, Sept 8th

Kristopher Karklin

Camp Life is the second solo exhibition at Skew Gallery by emerging artist Kristopher Karklin. In response to the artist living and working for the past 19 months in the Alberta Tar Sands of Fort McMurry, Karklin continues to explore his personal recollections on time, environment and experience, with this newest series focusing on the static quality of life in a Northern Canadian work camp.

Leslie Bell

Simulacrum marks Leslie Bell's first solo exhibition at Skew Gallery. The site-specific Cosmic Wall installations of Leslie Bell explores notions of beauty and repulsion, growth and excess, but additionally serves as source material for Bell's future paintings, photographic works and animations. In Simulacrum, Bell presents both her ever growing installation of vine-like and organic shaped material and a series of new oil paintings that directly references the previous incarnations of Cosmic Wall.

Patrick Lundeen

The Oblique Mystique is Skew Gallery's second solo exhibition for Patrick Lundeen. This multidiscipline exhibition includes video, recordings, and paintings that present Lundeen's fascination with the mask as subject and the various standpoints of obscuring authenticity. From Lundeen's video Piano Man, which taunts the viewer to look for the man just behind the eyes of the once outstandingly famous Liberace, to the Mad Mask paintings on the back inside cover of vintage "Mad Magazines" considered by Lundeen to be one-sided collaborations between himself and illustrator Al Jaffee; this exhibition explores facades as popular culture.