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Stephen Bulger Gallery is proud to present our second exhibition of photographs by Vivian Maier (1926 - 2009). This exhibition features compelling portraits of childhood, offering insight into the mysterious life of this elusive photographer. Maier worked most of her adult life as a nanny. She spent countless hours in the company of children, capturing the fleeting moments of their young lives. A selection of vintage prints, as well as posthumous exhibition prints made by master printers Ron Gordon and Sandra Steinbrecher will be displayed.
Vivian Maier was born in New York City and lived many years in the Champsaur Valley in France, where several generations of her family had lived. As a young woman she became enamoured with photography and would often shoot a full roll of film or more in a day, a habit that she continued throughout her life. In the early 1950s she returned to New York and later moved to the North Shore of Chicago where she lived until her death in 2009.
Maier’s storage lockers held the accumulation of her passion: negatives, prints, camera equipment and undeveloped film would eventually amount to about 120,000 unique images. In 2007, Maier could no longer afford storage, and her belongings began to be sold at auction. Several bidders purchased parts of the collection and Chicago art collector Jeffrey Goldstein acquired his portion from two of the original buyers. Goldstein’s collection of about 20,000 negatives, prints, slides and films, is the source of our exhibition.
Vivian Maier was by all accounts, a private person. While she was rarely without her camera, there is little evidence to suggest that she shared her photographs with others. Over the past five years, the caretakers of her collection have had the joy of sharing her work with the world in exhibitions throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. The public reaction to her work is unprecedented and her reputation as a photographer continues to grow as her work is exhibited and appreciated.
To date, four books of Maier’s work have been published, including most recently, Vivian Maier: Eye to Eye written by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. Ms. Maier has also been the subject of two documentary films: The Vivian Maier Mystery, an award-winning film by the BBC and Finding Vivian Maier, a film in current release that chronicles her life as well as the role that Chicago historian, John Maloof played in bringing her work to the public’s attention.
Though Vivian Maier’s work was never exhibited in her lifetime, it is now apparent that her work will live on, inspiring others and establishing her as one of the best street photographers of the 20th century.
Newzones is pleased to present "Flora". This summer, Newzones will celebrate summer with a group exhibition exploring the contemporary side of nature and flowers.
Centering on a botanical theme, this group exhibition will showcase Newzones artists' diverse approach to plant life as subject matter. Working invarious mediums from painting to print-making and photography, each artist utilizes unique processes within their medium. While "Flora" will bea survey of the different active processes artists use to capture their subject matter, it will also demonstrate the similarities. Some may see theimagery of flora through a 'romantic' lens, or capture it in a documentary style, and others may take a more painterly approach. We invite everyoneto stop into the gallery to see for themselves!
Artists included: Donald Baechler (New York), Dianne Bos (Calgary), Chaki (Toronto), John Folsom (Atlanta), James Holroyd (Calgary), Joshua Jensen-Nagle (Toronto), Alex Katz (New York), Timothy McDowell (Connecticut), Rebecca Perehudoff (Saskatoon), Kevin Sonmor (Quebec), Donald Sultan (New York) and Samantha Walrod (Edmonton).
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20, 1-4 pm
Walrod’s new body of work is influenced by local wildlife and flora found in the Canadian wilderness. Imaginary spaces are collaged with familiar iconography. The Alberta Rose can be seen emerging out of abstract brushwork and disappearing back into paint splatters. Bears or elk materialize out of drips, stains and strokes, onto a clearing.
Walrod situates herself as a motorist where the road is the meeting place where she and other visitors can encounter majestic wildlife. Walrod says of her experience: ‘When viewing wildlife from a vehicle, I feel a sense of awe and gratitude at the chance to witness the fleeting passage of a bear, coyote or elk coming into view and then disappearing back into the trees.’
Tactility is very important to the artist’s practice. Images are incorporated with collage and digital technologies, while maintaining the exploration of paint. Layers of paint act as a symbol of the mind’s ability to retain detailed information, while at the same time, leaving certain elements unclear. In her own words, Walrod “reacts to the paintings with each layer or erasure, adjusting contrasting activity and quiet, opacity and transparency, chaos and balance”.
Walrod completed her Masters of Fine Art at the University of Alberta and received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Her work can be found in museum, corporate and public collections across Canada.
