Sky Glabush (born 1970)
["Brain, Body, Hands: Meet Sky Glabush, Canada's Most Restless Painter"]
''Canadian Art Magazine'', April 26, 2013. by David Balzer is a Canadian artist based in Southwestern Ontario. 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 in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
["Sky Glabush Paints the Story"]
''National Gallery of Canada Magazine'', Chris Hampton, January 28, 2020
Early life and education
Glabush was born in Alert Bay, British Columbia.
He graduated with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases.
Background
The Bachelor ...
from the
University of Saskatchewan and a
Masters of Fine Arts from the
University of Alberta.
Glabush is a Baháʼí, and the
Baháʼí Faith is significant to his work.
["Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture"]
''Canadian Art Magazine'', April 1, 2014. by David Balzer
Career
In 2006 Glabush began teaching art at the University of Western Ontario.
That year he held his first solo exhibition, ''Provisional Structures''. In 2009 he exhibited ''Renting'', a series of paintings of rental properties.
Over the next several years Glabush created and exhibited artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, pottery, weaving and large-scale paintings.
["In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend"]
''MOMUS'', By Sky Goodden • Reviews• March 14, 2016 In 2016 he exhibited a series of neo-Modernist sculpture and tapestries at the Oakville Galleries,
as well as holding an exhibition of woven artworks in Norway.
In 2020 Glabush travelled to Guyana, where he taught art to the inmates of prisons. That year two of his large-scale paintings were added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Exhibitions
Solo shows
*Provisional Structures, University of Alberta, (2006)
*Homes for Canada, University of Manitoba (2007)
*Renting, MKG127, Toronto Ontario (2009)
*Background, MKG127, Toronto Ontario(2011)
"Sky Glabush Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor"
''Canadian Art Magazine'', review by Sky Goodden, June 15, 2011
*The Kingdom on Names Thames Art Gallery, Chatham Ontario (2012)
*Display, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario (2014)
Group shows
*Here and Now (2005)
*Canada Calling (2006)
*Hinterland (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)
*Unnatural Nature (2022)
References
External links
"Professor’s works rank among Canadian treasures"
''Western News'', December 17, 2015 By Jason Winders
What is a Self? by John DaviesSky Glabush Biography: By Contemporary Art MagazineSky Glabush Website
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1970 births
Living people
Canadian male sculptors
Canadian contemporary artists
Artists from British Columbia
Artists from London, Ontario
Canadian Bahá'ís
Canadian potters
Canadian weavers
People from Alert Bay
Tapestry artists
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
University of Saskatchewan alumni
University of Alberta alumni
21st-century Canadian painters
21st-century Canadian sculptors
21st-century Canadian male artists