Brainstorm: 5 Abstract Painters

Artists: Carmen Haakstad, Carrie Klukas, Tina Martel, Anita Pimm, Marjorie Taylor

Curated by Sue Cloake Millar

Available September 2007 to August 2008

3 crates / 80 running feet

To these abstract painters the act of ‘brainstorming’ may not be a group session, but a constant discussion with themselves. They must produce ideas, make decisions, and discover ways of solving their compositional problems. Usually through one or two spontaneous thoughts or ‘a sudden clever idea’ they accomplish their goals. The final accomplishment may stem from their original idea or be a result fo a creative jorniey of changing ideas.

Their process (the way they work) connects all of these artists. The adding and/or subtracting of layers of their media creates sensual textures and heightened illumination. Their surfaces are rich with colour and emotion. They have a passion for experience and awareness; be it of a natural phenomenon such as the light, the darkness, a violent storm, the seasons, or a piece of nature - wood with its grains, its growth, its life. This exhibition hopes to prompt viewers to think and discuss the possible journeys of these artists. What were their ideas? How did they translate them into these abstract forms?

Artwork by Carrie Klukas