Sky Glabush

Sky Glabush (born 1970)[1] is a Canadian artist based in London, Ontario.[2] He has created works in a number of media, but is best known as a painter. He is an associate professor of visual art at the University of Western Ontario. His work is held at the National Gallery of Canada.[3]

Sky Glabush
Born (1970-08-26) August 26, 1970
Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversity of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta
Known forPainting, Weaving

Early life and education

Glabush was born in Alert Bay, British Columbia.[1] He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta.[1] Glabush is a Baháʼí, and the Baháʼí Faith is significant to his work.[4]

Career

In 2006 Glabush began teaching art at the University of Western Ontario.[1] That year he held his first solo exhibition, Provisional Structures. In 2009 he exhibited Renting, a series of paintings of rental properties.[5]

Over the next several years Glabush created and exhibited artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, pottery, weaving and large-scale paintings.[6] In 2016 he exhibited a series of neo-Modernist sculpture and tapestries at the Oakville Galleries,[6] as well as holding an exhibition of woven artworks in Norway.[7]

In 2020 Glabush travelled to Guyana, where he taught art to the inmates of prisons.[8][9] That year two of his large-scale paintings were added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.[3]

Exhibitions

Solo shows
  • Provisional Structures (2006)
  • Homes for Canada (2007)
  • Renting (2009)
  • Background (2011)[10]
  • The Kingdom on Names (2012)
  • Display (2014)[1]
  • What is a self? (2016)
  • The Window is Also a Door (2016)
  • A new Garden (2017)
  • The Valley of Love (2018)
  • Projet Pangée (2018)
  • The Structure of Painting (2020)
  • The Caged Lark (2021)

Group shows
  • Here and Now (2005)
  • Canada Calling (2006)
  • The Hinterlands (2008)
  • Allure of the Local (2009)
  • A Sudden Frost (2010)
  • The Painting Project (2013)
  • Go Figure (2011)
  • Untitled Art Show (2014)
  • Stellar Living (2015)
  • Again, and Again (2017)
  • A Home in the Country (2018)
  • Thinking with My Hands (2018)
  • From Within (2020)

References
  1. "Brain, Body, Hands: Meet Sky Glabush, Canada's Most Restless Painter". Canadian Art Magazine, April 26, 2013. by David Balzer
  2. "In Studio: Sky Glabush, A New Garden". Toronto Star, Murray Whyte, Jan. 7, 2017
  3. "Sky Glabush Paints the Story", National Gallery of Canada Magazine, Chris Hampton, January 28, 2020
  4. "Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture". Canadian Art Magazine, April 1, 2014. by David Balzer
  5. "A Conversation With Sky Glabush". White Hopt Magazine, April 2020. by Matthew Smith
  6. "In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend". MOMUS, By Sky Goodden • Reviews• March 14, 2016
  7. "Floating Carpets". Contemporary Art Stavange, October 14, 2016 review by Astrid Helen Windingstad
  8. "Western University professor's prison sabbatical in Guyana an eye-opener". London Free Press, Heather Rivers, February 29, 2020
  9. "Project opens doors of prisons to creativity". Education News Canada, February 18, 2020, by Sonia Preszcator
  10. "Sky Glabush Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor". Canadian Art Magazine, review by Sky Goodden, June 15, 2011
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