Voltz Clarke :: Artists




						Education 1994 BFA, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 1990 York House School, Vancouver, BC Solo Exhibitions 2005 Surfacing, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC 2003 Fresh, Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan & Gallery 83, Vancouver, BC Desire Paintings, Diane Farris Gallery and City TV, Vancouver, BC 2002 Desire Paintings, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC 2001 MacKenzie Sketch, Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Jenkins Showler Gallery, White Rock, BC & Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC Destination, Adele-Campbell Fine Art, Whistler, BC 2000 Powder Scenes, Ruby Street, Vancouver, BC, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC & Jenkins Showler Gallery, White Rock, BC 1999 Sketches Of Spain, Jenkins Showler Gallery, White Rock, BC 1997 Scapes, Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan The Quilt Concept, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC 1996 The Quilt Concept, Canada House, Banff, Alberta The Bayeaux Tapestry, Humberston Edwards, West Vancouver, BC & Jenkins Showler Gallery, White Rock, BC 1995 The Children's Illustrated Dictionary, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC 1994 The Children's Dictionary, Humberston Edwards, West Vancouver, BC The Shakespeared Puritan, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC 1993 The Shakespeared Puritan, Sheck Galleries, Calgary, Alberta 1992 The Shakespeared Puritan, Humberston Edwards, West Vancouver, BC & Jenkins Showler Gallery, White Rock, BC Selected Group Exhibitions 2007 Opening, Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK Anniversary, Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK 2006 Reopening, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC Diva, Adele Campbell Gallery, Whistler, BC First Encounter, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2005 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 Dorothy's Waffle, samplesize.ca, Toronto, ON A Study In White, Herald Square, New York, NY 2003 Recent Paintings, Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba Opening, Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2002 New Artists In A New Gallery, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC Feel Good Art, Canada House, Banff, Alberta 2001 Powder Scenes, The Lavender Roads, West End Gallery, Victoria, BC 2000 From Around The World, Assiniboia Galleries, Regina, Saskatchewan Museum Exhibitions 1996 The MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan 1994 The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario Selected Bibliography Nylon, Japan, April 2007 American Art Collector, March 2007 Robin Laurence, “Small Wonders”, Georgia Straight, December 2006 Gillian Duffy, “Gilded to Perfection”, New York Magazine, November 2006 Jeffrey Podolski, “Nude York Times”, Tatler, October 2006 Infiniti, “A Study In White”, Vogue, February 2004 Deirdre Kelly, “RADAR”, Elle Canada, May 2003 Sara Genn, “International Showcase”, International Artist, April/May 2003 Danyael Halprin, “You Gotta Have Heart”, The Calgary Straight, June 2002 Robert Genn, “Father and Daughter”, Art Avenues, June 2002 Incredible Journey – Marisa Babic, Now, September 2001 Sarah Reeder, “Young Punks”, Fashion Vancouver, April 2001 Gloria Sully, “Leadership In The Arts”, The York Rose, September 2000 Alex Browne, “Big Picture, Little Picture”, The Peace Arch News, February 1996 Bernice Huxtable, “A Vintage Affair”, The Peace Arch News, December 1995 Debbie Malyk, “Beginnings”, Pennisula Magazine, June 1992 Film James Genn, The Dog Walker, 2003 Sabrina Nurse, Half Breed Posse, 2002 Jane Weitzel, Self Portrait, 2002 Luis Mandoki, 24 Hours, 2001 Tony Couture, Red Deer, 2000 James Genn, Second Date, 1999 Awards 2001 The United Way Special Achiever 1990 British Columbia Provincial Art Scholarship York House School Art Prize 1978 National Gallery, London, Children's Collection Special Projects 2004 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY A Study In White, Nissan Infiniti, New York, NY 2003 Crush, The Toronto Arts Council, Toronto 2001 The United Way Community Harmony Tapestry, Vancouver Wild Salmon City, Vancouver 1999 Saraphina Mosey, Seville, Spain Selected Corporate Collections The United Way of The Lower Mainland Crown Life Canada Clark, Wilson and Associates, Vancouver Peace Arch Memorial Hospital Canuck Place , Vancouver York House School Archives Sara Genn was born in Vancouver , Canada in 1972. After studying at York House School in Vancouver , Genn completed her BFA at Queen's University at Kingston , Ontario . She was awarded the British Columbia Provincial Scholarship in Visual Art and achieved the highest standing at the North American Advanced Placement Art Program. In 2003, after year-long sojourns in Paris and Seville , Genn relocated to New York . “My paintings focus on formal elements, working to achieve perfect tonal balance, harmony and rhythm. The placement of equally intense colors achieves a lyrical pleasure, vibration, tension or halation. By reducing subject matter and external references, warm and cool associations can be explored along with motif, patterning, compositional movement and saturation. Fooling around with the idea of saturation and effects that could be achieved with paint viscosity, soaking and staining, I am attempting to give the work a “life” as a canvas, or paper object. The paintings toy with idea of textile, a worn and stretched work of craft. I am blurring the distinction between high art and craft, between the realms of domesticity and art-culture. As the painting’s scale grows closer to that of the viewer’s, it becomes her environment. This scale echoes the dimensions of domestic objects created outside the realm of high art, though these paintings hold themselves up in their practical uselessness. At the same time they exist to serve to the emotions of the viewer. I am genuinely devoted to the task of making visible the invisible, creating totems to quiet rhythm, nothingness, continuity.” New York , 2007 Perfect places to hangout in the woods: an inukshuk is a stone landmark used as a milestone by the inuit of the Canadian arctic. Though varying in shape and size, most are comprised of rocks placed and balanced on top of one another, and symbolize safety, hope and friendship. "Obos" is a Japanese term for a pile of rocks on top of one another, merely saying, "I was here." A balanced, obvious rock pile, the “obos” is the creation of human hands. Also, if it is knocked down or desecrated, it is easily rebuilt. It serves as a symbolic sanctuary, a place of refuge and contemplation, a hideout, a shrine, a place of new direction and a place of quieting. It is a private tribute.