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#49 - #165
KENDERDINE ART GALLERY, SASKATOON, SK
Steph Krawchuk is a Saskatoon-based artist whose abstract painting practice contains both visible and contingent references to Modernist histories. The exhibition #49 - #165 presents an ongoing series of indexically numbered works, presented in groupings that together form a single, unified body of minimalist, non-representational paintings.
Through self-imposed rigours and repetitions, Krawchuk pares down the formal properties of painting to the essentials, and considers colour, texture, and geometric forms on surfaces that have been worked and re-worked. Imbued with rhythmic energy, each surface reveals glimpses of the artist’s hand, evident in minor imperfections of line, shape, and paint drip. These slight traces are at times only visible on the edges of the painting. Emerging out of a contemporary approach to abstraction, #49 - #165 is founded on her intuitive, playful, and even meditative connections to the act of painting – one that transcends the self.
curator, Leah Taylor