Past Exhibits:
Kelly Ruth - Homestead
August 22-September 15
opening August 23 at 7pm.
Kelly Ruth is a painter and textile artist. an emerging artist having spent a decade employed as the dyer/painter for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s wardrobe department. Through working alongside many world-class artists during this period she learned much of what she has applied to her career as a painter, concentrating on painting and working with textile dyes. She continues to use dye work in her one of a kind clothing line, which she has developed in relationship to her paintings. In the past couple of years she has been dying linens, which she uses as the ground for her paintings. Her work deals with her personal navigation through a world that she feels at odds with. In an attempt to come to terms with the reality around her she creates a new landscape with characters, who seek truth amongst the rubble and desolation of a world gone awry.
Rosemary Dzus - A Series of Disillusionments
July 25th-August 18th
opening July 26th, 7pm.
Rosemary Dzus' work involves personal narrative, secrets and memory. The paintings begin with an image or memory in mind, and an layer of acrylic paint evolves in response to that stimulus. Graphite follows, with the addition of ink, acrylic and/or paper/photo collage according to the creative arc of the image.
Places For Peanuts - don't go
June 27th - July 21st 2012
Opening reception - June 28 2012
Each night the Peanuts gather they play a series of drawing games which stimulate both their imaginations and their subconscious. Of these drawing games there is one in particular which reigns most popular and has become the signature of the group. The game is known as "Telephone" which is played by having each artist write a word or phrase on the first page of a booklet. The booklet is then passed to a neighbouring artist who interprets the word or phrase with a drawing. This drawing is then passed and a word or phrase is written about it. this cycle continues until a booklet is filled or gone full circle. Each booklet is then presented to the group.
Tumble Together.
An exhibition of collaborative art.
June 7-23rd 2012
Featuring work by
David Marshall
Tavis Walker
Melanie Porquez
Jenel Shaw
Brian Longfield
Charla Ramsey
Being Constructed - Constructed Being.
An exhibition of puppets and puppetry.
May 2nd-26th 2012
Opening reception May 3rd 7-10pm
Featuring work by
Conan Masterson
Marla Botterill
Daniel Wishes
Emily Baxter
Cathy Woods
Brian Longfield
MORETREES - Being Sick, or Not
April 4th-28th, 2012
Opening reception April 5th, 7pm.
Mathew Bishop and Tavis Walker have been collaborating since 2007 as MORETREES. Their work explores the idea of the sketchbook as an art medium in and of itself and together they have produced several books filled with elaborate collaborative drawings. They have also begun collaborating in other forms such as stand alone images on canvas.
8.5x11 - Imperial Letters:
March 7th-31st, 2012 
This exhibit of artworks on, or incorporating, letter size paper seeks to explore the the relationship between empire and communication. The most common size of paper in North America is 8.5"x11". While it is roughly equivalent to the ISO standard of A4, it possesses none of the advantages of the ISO 216 paper sizes. "Letter" size paper is an arbitrary standard whose origins are unknown. While a separate standard size once existed for U.S. government documents, it was abandoned in 1980 when the Reagan administration adopted letter size as a standard.- solely because it made photocopying easier.
Liz Garlicki - SOS
February 22nd- March 3rd 2012
"SOS" is a site-specific light project installed in various empty buildings in and around the downtown Winnipeg area by local artist Liz Garlicki. The work consists of boards with red LED lights in the form of hearts silently blinking Morse code messages. The LED panel blinks a plea that might have come from a jilted lover: “Why are you leaving me?”, “ What did I do wrong?” “What can I do to make you stay?”. The heart shape being used in this project is sentimental; its relationship to advertising and symbolic meaning is widespread. Having this heart placed visibly in the window is meant to be a literal representation of the life of the building itself.
Dave Marshall - Paintworks
February 22nd- March 3rd 2012
David Marshall has been painting furiously, producing an enormous body of work in just a short time. This explosion of work will be on display for two weeks at Tumble Contemporary Art beginning at the end of February
Greg Hanec,
RE-FIND/RENEWAL:
Opening reception January 27, 2012 at 8pm.
An exhibit showcasing Winnipeg Artist, Greg Hanec's exploration of the properties of found materials.
Firstness:
January 12-22, 2012.
Opening reception January 12 at 8pm.
Featuring work by:
Dickson Bou
Sheldon Dawson
Edwin Janzen
Nora Kobrinsky
Andrew MacDonald
David Marshall
Conan Masterson
Slavica Panic
Anna Pauls
Joan Rzadkiewicz
For our inaugural exhibit, Tumble Contemporary Art explored the concept of "Firstness".