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| Click HERE to see the whole show online |
See Ryan Heshka's exhibit HERE
See Femke Hiemstra's exhibit HERE
Roq La Rue Gallery
presents
Femke Hiemstra
" The Timid Cabbage "
new drawings
and
Ryan Heshka
" Instinction "
new paintings
Opens Friday November 11th from 6-9pm
show runs through Dec 3rd.
Music, refreshments provided
please contact us to be placed on a preview!
Roq La Rue Gallery is pleased to present a show by two returning artists, Femke Hemstra and Ryan Heshka.
Femke Hiemstra’s meticulously tight, jewel like mixed media paintings and exquisitely rendered black and white drawings are homes to a dark fairytale land where inanimate objects come to life and frolic with animal neighbors. Lollipops become ship captains, strawberries become giant wrestlers, and vegetables become Halloween gods with lantern eyes. Femke occasionally uses typography in her work, using words from various languages and letters in her paintings to further enhance the narrative while still retaining a playful sense of mystery, or as a visual device to frame in the scenery, as if you were looking at her world through a secret window.
Drawing from a range of influences, from firework wrappers to Japanese woodblock prints, Femke’s use of both pop culture detritus and child-like fantasy create a vibrant playground for the imagination, with each piece looking like a portal for a fantastic adventure, which is left up to the viewer to imagine the story that lies inside. This show will feature 11 black and white drawings, which depict the adventures of a "The Timid Cabbage", based on a poem written by artist Charles Krafft.
Ryan Heshka unapologetically pays homage to Golden Era sci fi pulp while creating a style that is also uniquely his own. He explores themes of man vs nature, (even though often the "nature" is from another world) as well as the exploring the ideology of pushing the limits of science as a tool to help and further mankind, and the technological terrors that can be inadvertently unleashed as a result.
His work is acrylic painted on wood panel, heavily varnished and embellished with tags cut from pulp magazines, which serve as inspiration and explanation of each piece. |
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