MNG Presents

The Void Over the Land 1

By Jonathan Creese

This month’s first exhibition is The Void Over the Land 1 by first year student Jonathan Creese. Viewers can visit the LRT window space at auarts April 4th-15th to see the exhibition. 

Statement: In this body of work, I am exploring some of my first perceptions of Calgary, as viewed from my residence window during quarantine. Little intellectual, emotional or philosophical ideas are imbedded in the works (at least not consciously), and rather they are raw representations of what has been perceived through the ocular sense.

The prints do not try to be accurate to the sky formations observed but rather seek to capture the observed in the way my mind has perceived my vision and how, in the moment of artistic creation, my hands chose to represent the three-dimensional world within the two-dimensional plane. This approach to observation, whilst not conforming to the idealism striven for in representational art, better reflects the position of these works within my artistic practice; as being experimental and searching, much like I am at this moment as I strive to make sense of my new reality. 

See the exhibition in the LRT Window Gallery from April 4-15.