MAIN SPACE EXHIBITION
JUNE 4 – JUNE 26, 1999
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1999 AT 8 PM
ARTIST TALK: SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1999 AT 2 PM

LOCATION – STRIDE GALLERY
722, 11 AVE S.W, CALGARY, ALBERTA

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

THEIR DEATH HAD HAPPENED (THINGS AND WORK)” is an installation by Milo Dlouhy of over forty small paintings from new and older bodies of work. Dlouhy will group his paintings on one wall while on the opposing wall he will install ten of his grandfather’s woodcarvings with some of his won works. Dlouhy installs the paintings in groups to develop a dialogue about past and present histories that are symbolized by the objects. Each painting embodies a language that has been developed through a labor-intensive process of making. Dlouhy develops elaborate “doodles” on the wood surfaces through the repetition of shapes and images. As the artist states, “the work talks about the death of language;” how language is constantly in flex. Visually the paintings demonstrate this through multiple, meticulous layers of resin, polyurethane, enamel, varnish, paint, and images. The viewer is encouraged to read the objects and develop associative meanings for the works.

ARTIST BIO

MILO DLOUHY attended the painting program at the Alberta College of Art and Design until 1994. Dlouhy has had several exhibitions with the Untitled Art Society, of which he was a founding member. In 1997, he was part of the group exhibition Tongue at Truck Gallery in Calgary.

EXHIBITION TEXT

THEIR DEATH HAD HAPPENED (THINGS AND WORK) is an installation by Milo Dlouhy of over forty small paintings from new and older bodies of work. Dlouhy will group his paintings on one wall while on the opposing wall he will install ten of his grandfather’s woodcarvings with some of his won works. Dlouhy installs the paintings in groups to develop a dialogue about past and present histories that are symbolized by the objects. Each painting embodies a language that has been developed through a labor-intensive process of making. Dlouhy develops elaborate “doodles” on the wood surfaces through the repetition of shapes and images. As the artist states, “the work talks about the death of language;” how language is constantly in flex. Visually the paintings demonstrate this through multiple, meticulous layers of resin, polyurethane, enamel, varnish, paint, and images. The viewer is encouraged to read the objects and develop associative meanings for the works.

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