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Cameron Johnson

like Lisa is in the faculty show at Meredith. In his statement he addresses the idea of sacrifice and the internal challenges of selflessness. “The juxtaposition between our internal emotions and external action is conveyed through the use of contrasting colors and textures. The areas that lack definition or detail, depict uncertainty and apprehension. The use of abstraction allows the focus to be placed on the interaction between elements, instead of what they represent.”

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Max Bill

was in the Zurich Concrete school along with Verena (and others) which was one of the staunchest formalist movements of the last century. Bill said their Art “without external reference to natural phenomena or their transformation” and that it was “the expression of the human spirit, intended for the human mind, and it is of that sharpness, clarity and perfection that must be expected from works of the human spirit.”

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Verena Loewensberg

Born in 1912, Swiss artist Verena Loewensberg was a leading figure of the influential Zurich school of concrete artists. The only female member of the group, which also included Max Bill, Camille Graeser and Richard Paul Lohse, Loewensberg distinguished herself through her oeuvre’s formal and chromatic flair. In her work, structured oil compositions are animated by wide-ranging color and shape, yielding a precise yet poetic art. Hauser & Wirth has organized Kind of Blue to celebrate the same.

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Debbie Lynn Manville

Debra is a self-taught painter, beginning at 12 years old in acrylic, always painting bright colors, forms, shapes and text. She attended Rowan University and then she also received her certificate for interior design at NYU.  Her other art interests are photography, collage, landscaping design and writing. Through the years, her artistic language has changed from literal to abstract and vague. She like to use colors and shapes and forms as a language. In 2016, she formed 1milliondiamonds as away not only to help herself catalog art with its own semiotic language that was inspiring, but also to promote artists that were making art that others have not seen.

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Steven Alexander

is an American artist who makes abstract paintings characterized by luminous color, sensuous surfaces, and iconic geometric configurations. His works are composed as sensate visual events that embody potential states of being. They invite meditative encounters with the viewer’s perception and imagination.

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Laura Payne

who is a also a painter, has installation work on display with Sinéad Ludwig-Burgess at Okotoks Art Gallery through March 31. Of the work, Payne says she was influenced by “those subtle-but-vivid spectrums of colour in the cloudless sky at dawn or dusk, or the way that hot pink light in November hits the buildings in the city. What I guess I wanted to do is synthesize, artificially, this sort of feeling of witnessing an ephemeral light phenomenon in nature – I want to bottle it, put it in something.”
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