26 × 32 in
in
cm
$2,970
Edmundson is known for his fractured landscapes, of which Spectrum is a memorable example. Almost photographic in its application, this oil-on-canvas piece features a country field in the rich golds of a sunset, but the panes of the picture plane are adjusted just enough to lend the painting an offbeat air, almost as though the viewer is seeing the same scene in multiple realities. The sky undulates between the deeper greys of almost-darkness and the vibrant orange of early evening, a faint full moon already visible high above. A row of trees in backlit shadow extends across the horizon line, the only break allowing a winding, well-trodden path to pass through, disappearing into the bright yellow of the setting sun. Dried grasses are depicted in almost photorealistic detail, rising in tufts across the foreground, concealed in places by mysterious shadows at the bottom of the frame.
| Medium | Painting |
| Signature | Signed |
| Frame | Unframed |
| Condition | Excellent |
| Seller | Private |
| Location | Vancouver, Canada |
| Provenance | Atelier Galley, Vancouver; Private Collection, Vancouver. |
Greg Edmonson was born in 1960 in Calgary, Alberta. He is primarily known for his paintings of fractured landscapes and his portraits, as well as his Soviet Pangaea series of paintings which featured large-scale portraits of faces from history. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta.
EDUCATION
1985 Masters of Fine Art Degree, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
1983 Bachelor of Fine Art Degree, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
1985-86 The Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 “Memoryscapes”, Agnes Bugera, Edmonton, AB
2010 “Fluxation”, Weiss Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2007 “New Paintings”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2007 “Transformative Landscapes”, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2006 “Landscapes”, Wallace Gallery, Calgary, AB
2004 “Grid Landscapes”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2002 “Spectrum”, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
2001 “The Persistence of Memory”, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, AB
2000 “Vestige”, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
1999 “Portraits 1992-1997”, The University of Waterloo, ON
1998 “Landscapes”, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
1998 “Greg Edmonson”, Galleria Transit, Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy
1996 “Recent Paintings”, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1995 “Portraits”, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
1994 “Paintings 1990-1994”, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
1993 “Soviet Pangaea”, Catriona Jeffries Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1993 “Soviet Pangaea”, Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan
1993 “Circumfigurabile”, L’Associazione Culturale Crossing, Portogruaro, Italy
1991 “Greg Edmonson”, Gulf Canada Gallery, Calgary, AB
1991 “Fossil Garden”, Catriona Jeffries Fine Art, Vancouver, B.C.
1989 “Permutations and Mutations”, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
1989 “Permutations and Mutations”, L’Associazione Culturale Crossing, Portogruaro, Italy
1987 “Greg Edmonson”, 2nd. Story Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1985 “Greg Edmonson”, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “New Arrivals”, The Collectors’ Gallery of Art, Calgary, AB
2017 “New Arrivals”, The Collectors’ Gallery of Art, Calgary, AB
2015 “Brain Storms: UAlberta Creates”, Enterprise Square Galleries, U of A Edmonton, AB
2015 “Pop/Op/Post-Modern”, Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton , AB
2014 “Memory and Illusion”, Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2011 “Chroma”, Weiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2010 “Summer Show”, Weiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2008 “Fresh Paint”, Wallace Gallery, Calgary, AB
2007 “Group Show”, Wallace Gallery, Calgary, AB
2007 “The Dog Days of Summer”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2006 “Deck the Walls”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2006 “New Work/New Directions”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2006 “Spring in Full Bloom”, Wallace Gallery, Calgary, AB
2006 “Alumni Exhibition”, University of Calgary, Mezzanine Gallery, Calgary, AB
2005 “Summer Show”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2005 “New Works”, Wallace Gallery, Calgary, AB
2004 Landscape X9, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
2003 “Flux of Fluid”(Tom Dean, Greg Edmonson, Jennifer Walton, Don Hughes, Stu Oxley, Michael Toke, Doug Guildford), Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002 “Scenic Scapes”, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON
2001 “Soviet Pangaea”, Esplanade Centre for the Arts, Medicine Hat, AB
2001 “Sites of Resistance”, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
2001 Boston and Miami Art Fairs
2000 “In/Land: the Narrative in Western Landscapes”, The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
2000 “New Additions: Building the EAG Collections”, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
2000 Boston Art Fair
1999 “Greg Edmonson: Portraits 1992-1997”, Esplanade Centre for the Arts, Medicine Hat, AB
1998 MOM Art Gallery, Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy
1998 Arte Fiera di Firenze, Florence, Toscana, Italy
1998 “Passages”, (The Works Festival), Beaver House Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1997 S.I.A.C. Art Fair, Rome, Italy (art fairs also in Vicenza and Ancona)
1997 “The Last Picture Show”, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
1997 Art Fair Seattle 97, Seattle, Washington
1997 “Homecoming”, The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
1996 “Expressions of the New: Abstract Painting in Canada” The Glenbow Museum, Calgary,AB
1996 Art Fair Seattle 96, Seattle, Washington
1996 “What a Piece of Work is Man”, John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1996 “A Natural Fixation”, Edmonton Centennial Library, Edmonton, AB
1995 “Looking Back III”, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
1995 “Realism Revisited”, The Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1993 “The Figure”, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
1993 “Greg Edmonson: Soviet Pangaea”, The Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB
1993 “The Human Condition”, The Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1993 Fiera D’Arte Contemporanea, Pordenone, Italy
1993 Art Fair Seattle 93, Seattle, Washington
1992 “About Face”, The Works, Standard Life Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
1992 “Art Can’t Hurt You”, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1992 “Appropriation”, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1992 “Double Exposure”, Myxdmedia, Calgary, Alberta
1991 “Top Notch”, Harcourt Gallery, Edmonton/Bowman Arts Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
1990 “Alternatives”, The Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1990 “Antonio Maniscalco, Greg Edmonson”, Minimi Intenti, Trieste, Italy
1990 “New Expansions”, Catriona Jeffries Gallery
1989 “Photomaton”, Articule, Montreal, Quebec
1989 “Tutti Frutti”, L’Associazione Culturale Crossing, Portogruaro, Italy
1989 “Square Deal Cubed”, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1987 “Mark Dicey, Greg Edmonson, Joyce Frazer, David Janzen” Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary,
1986 “The Signed Image”, The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB
1986 “Exposure V”, Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta
1985 “Heart Breakaway/Echappe du Coeur”,Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB
1983 “New Alberta Artists”, The Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB
SELECTED REVIEWS/ARTICLES/PUBLICATIONS
2015 Fish Grikowsky, “ArtPic: Greg Edmonson’s Dogs after Muybridge”, The Edmonton Journal, September 4th, 2015
2010 Richard White, “Greg Edmonson, Fluxation”, Galleries West, Spring, pg. 34, 2010
2008 Jamie Woodford, “Hot Ticket”, Avenue Magazine (Calgary), January, pg.124, 2008
2007 Gilbert Bouchard, “Hot Art: Transformed Scenery”, Where Magazine (Edmonton), pg.22
November/December, 2007
2005 Marie-Beth Laviolette, “An Alberta Chronicle”, pg. 433, published by Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd., 2005
2004 Marty Fugate, “Wild at Heart: Wild at Art”, The Observer, pg.4B, June 3, 2004
2004 “The Arts Calander”, The Observer, pg. 7B, June 3, 2004
2004 “Landscapes part 2”, Pelican Press, pg. 5B, May 13, 2004
2004 Mia Johnson, “Greg Edmonson”, Preview Magazine, pg.10, April/May, 2004
2002 Jennifer MacLeod, “Greg Edmonson”, Galleries West, pgs. 8,9, Summer
2002 Sherri Zickefoose, “Colouring the Walls of G-8”, The Calgary Herald, June 6. 2002, pp.S5
2002 “Art with Heart” catalogue for Auction 2002, a Fundraiser for Casey House conducted
by Ritchie’s Auctioneers and Appraisers and Sotheby’s Canada, Toronto
2002 “Back to the Land”, The Calgary Herald, 09/08/02, pg. AG10
2001 “Greg Edmonson”, Galleries Guide, Where Magazine, August, 2001,pg. 85,89
2000 Anne Severson, “Musings of a philosopher artist”, Fast Forward Magazine June 15, 2000
2000 Fast Forward, “The List”, Canadian Art Magazine, Summer, 2000
2000 Mary-Beth Laviolette, Entertainment Guide – Featured Listing, The Calgary Herald, June 29
2000 Berenice Gargus, “Gentle Landscapes”, The Calgary Straight, pg.8, June 22,2000
2000 Kay Burns, “Greg Edmonson: Persistence of Memory”, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery catalogue, December 16, 2000
2000 Anne Severson, “Alberta as seen through the eyes of artists”, Fast Forward Magazine, 08-14/06/00, pg.34
2000 Shelley Boettcher, “Best Bets”, The Calgary Herald, June 8, 2000, pg.HL17
1999 Anne Severson, “Visual Arts”, Fast Forward Magazine, Nov.18, 1999
1998 Leah McCartney, “The Story of the Prairies Layer by Layer”, The Straight, pg. 10, Oct. 8,
1998 Michael Molter, English Reports: Alberta Autumn, Vie Des Arts, no 172, Autumn Issue,
1997 Cinnamon West, “One week worth picturing”, The Calgary Sun, pg. C8, Sept 21
1997 Anne Severson “You Can Always Go Home/U of C’s best”, Fast Forward Magazine, July 5 1997 Alumni Visual Artists’ Interactive CD-ROM, Roza Centre Opening/Nickle Arts Museum
1997 Virtual Gallery, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts 25th. Anniversary CD-ROM
1995 Richard White, “Realism Revisited – The Figure’, The Muttart Art Gallery, Newsletter, Volume 7, Issue1, January/February, 1995
1994 Focus on Contemporary Canadian Art, Artflash, Volume IV, Issue 1, Sept. pg.3, 1994
1994 Mark Walton, “Profile: Greg Edmonson”, May, 1994
1994 Nancy Tousley, “Art – Greg Edmonson”, The Calgary Herald, April 20,1994
1993 Franklyn Heisler, “Greg Edmonson: Soviet Pangaea”, Muttart Art Gallery, Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2, March/April 1993
1993 Ann Rosenberg, Cultures Captured in Faces From Mother Russia, The Vancouver Sun
1993 Art Perry, Greg Edmonson, Step Magazine, May 1993
1992 Visual Arts, Saturday Review, The Vancouver Sun, June 20, 1992
1991 Ann Rosenberg, “Exploring New and Diverse Forms of Personal Symbols”,Vancouver Sun, Saturday Review, October 19, 1991
1990 Ann Rosenberg, “Artist’s on the Up – Catching a Vision”, Vancouver Sun, Sept. 17
1990 Stuart Adams, “Ten Years of Slides”, Visual Arts Newsletter, December, pg.10
1990 Sergio Molesi, “Se i Fossili Sono “Vitali””, da “Il Piccolo”, Trieste, May 15,
1989 Tiziano Santi, “Greg Edmonson”, Crossing Newsletter, October, 1989
1989 Susanna Biadene, “Nel grigiore, i giovani”,Il Giornale Dell’Arte, N.72, Nov. 1989
1989 Boris Brollo, “Greg Edmonson”, Juliet Art Magazine, N.45 Decembre, 1989
1989 Corriere di Portogruaro, “Dal caos all’ordine”, Novembre 1, 1989
1989 Protogruaro/Carole la Nuova, “Si inaugura alla Crossing la personale di Edmonson”, Novembre 1
1989 Il Popolo, “Portomostre”, Novembre 5, 1989
1989 Il Gazzettino, “Arti visive Espongono gli artisti Mion, Sonego ed Edmonson”, Nov. 5
1989 Stephen Robinson, “Permutations and Mutations”, Southern Alberta Art Gallery Contemporary Alberta Art Series, January
1988 Nora Abercrombie, “New Faces”, Visual Arts Newsletter, March, 1988
1987 Nancy Tousley, ” Artists Represent New Generation”, The Calgary Herald,Aug. 20 1987 Nancy Tousley, “Ambiguous Images Hold Fascination for Young Artist”, The Calgary Herald, April 9, 1987
1986 Manon Blanchette, “Heart Breakaway/Echappe’ du Coeur”, Centre Letter, Banff, December 6, vol. VI, #28, 1985
1986 Paul Landon, “The Signed Image”, The Walter Phillips Gallery (catalogue), pp.11,13,
1986 Nancy Tousley, “Gallery serves up pot-pourri”, The Calgary Herald, August 8, pg. 11
SELECTED AWARDS
1994 Canada Council Art Bank Purchase
1992 Canada Council Art Bank Purchase
1987 Canada Council Art Bank Purchase
1987 Canada Council “B” Grant, Ottawa, ON
1986 Nat Christie Foundation, Shell Canada, Calgary, AB
1985 Banff Centre Scholarship, Banff, AB
1982 Heinz Jordan Memorial Scholarship, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, Calgary, AB
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, Nfld
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, ON
The Alberta Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB
The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Aim Funds Management, Calgary, AB
Chalfont Holdings, Calgary, AB
Conoco Ltd., Calgary, AB
Corporate Responses Inc., Calgary, AB
Ernst and Young, Calgary, AB
Infocast Corporation, Calgary, AB
Lancaster Financial, Calgary, AB
Matco, Calgary, AB
Mcintyre Bills, Calgary, AB
Merchant Equities, Calgary, AB
Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, Washington
Nordstrom, Seattle, Washington
PanCanadian Petroleum Limited, Calgary, AB
RBC Securities, Calgary, AB
RXN Visions, Calgary, AB
Shaw Communications, Calgary, AB
Texas Utilities, Calgary, AB
Torode Realty, Calgary, AB
Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto, ON
Westcoast Rehabilitation Consultants, Calgary, AB
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Edmonson_(artist)
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