SECOND SUMMER GALLERY EXHIBIT IS ON, featuring Tammy Fischer, Jae Sterling , Kellie Hampton. For prices on art works, contact gallery directly.
Tammy Fischer:
” Movement, vibration, random thoughts and good music. While the images have played around in my head for a while, ruminating and developing, as soon as I started putting the paint to canvas I fell into a pattern and enjoyed the freedom of exploration and movement.
Playing to the music and thinking only of pattern and vibration I let the images develop from
experience and that sense of pushing the painting till it feels right.
Numbers, letters, colors all seemingly random but with deference to the past and a pattern that would seem illogical to the viewer; I am the only one, it would seem, with the key.”
Jae Sterling:
“There was a music video channel; I forgot the name of it. I used to watch it before heading out to school every morning. Most kids drank cereal or watched cartoons; I watched music videos while I polished my loafers. Then there was 106 & Park on B.E.T after school. It was the most popular music video countdown on TV at the time and I would watch it religiously. I would change the channel on the commercial break to catch up on some of my favourite Anime series. You might notice that some of my work has a hint of the Manga/Anime drawing technique. These animated series played a huge role in helping me create my own style.
I grew up in Jamaica, where although Hip-Hop/American music was loved it never really influenced the culture as much as the Jamaican Dancehall scene. I was one of the few that it really had a major impact on. It influenced how I dressed, how I spoke and now my art. Most of my art is rooted in Hip-Hop music and Hip-Hop music videos. I have been drawing the faces of rap music for a long time. The back of my math notebook in high school would be filled with song lyrics and the faces of Rap masterminds.
Another thing I did back then, was to try and make my friends famous. I would buy paper, staple them together and recreate my favourite Hip-Hop magazine at the time. I would draw them on the cover and write small articles about what we did the night before. Today I am putting them along with famous rap stars in my first exhibition. Some of the portraits are actual screen shoots from my favourite music videos. Now some of my friends are actually on their way to becoming famous musicians, so I made portraits of them too. The show is a tribute to the back of my math notebook, a dedication to the music genre and the short films that influenced my life”.
Kellie Hampton:
Working out of her downtown studio in Calgary, AB Canada. Featured in Calgary’s lifestyle magazine Avenue, and on the cover of Prema Sai Living magazine, showcased her live painting at the Glenbow Museum’s Ignite Summer Patio Party and selling at Rob Kurkut Interiors, Kellie is proving herself to be an up and coming artist in demand. Currently with clients in Germany, Finland, Calgary, Edmonton, Las Vegas and Dallas and showing in restaurants and galleries in Calgary and Toronto. She will also be featured and donating her art at the infamous Celebrity Ski Weekend in Banff benefiting the Waterkeeper Alliance, co-founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
SERIES: Prairies & Elephants
The Praires … I was born here. The big sky comforts me. The images I see in the sky … The animals, the deities, the shapes, the designs. The vastness of the land … The patterns and composition I see in the landscape when flying over it, the sunrises and sunsets … It all takes my breath away.
Elephants … There’s Ganesha, with her big head to think big, big ears to sift the bad from the good. The story of Ganesha teaches us how to remove obstacles. Other elephant references ring true … The elephant in the room, elephants that paint … Elephants are incredible.
I get inspired, it fills me up and then I paint.
First Summer Gallery exhibit, we are excited to present Tammy Fischer’s new vibrant works.
” Movement, vibration, random thoughts and good music. While the images have played around in my head for a while, ruminating and developing, as soon as I started putting the paint to canvas I fell into a pattern and enjoyed the freedom of exploration and movement.
Playing to the music and thinking only of pattern and vibration I let the images develop from
experience and that sense of pushing the painting till it feels right.
Numbers, letters, colors all seemingly random but with deference to the past and a pattern that would seem illogical to the viewer; I am the only one, it would seem, with the key.”