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Acclaimed Alberta artist featured in new London gallery show

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A renowned Alberta artist’s work is the focus of a new exhibition at a London gallery.

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Mark Dicey’s Confluence is on at Michael Gibson Gallery until July 24, the second solo exhibition of his work at the gallery.

“(Dicey) has painted for us a bold and rhythmic new body of work based on the metaphor of two rivers connecting,” said Jennie Kraehling, the gallery’s associate director.

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“There is a wonderful balance of free-flowing shapes balanced with colourful, hard-edge abstraction.”

Dicey deliberately painted “a body of work that were variations of similar-sized canvases,” a restriction that “allowed him the freedom to paint unrehearsed, in an instinctual performance, where action, memory and materials merged,” Kraehling explained.

He was also influenced by the natural environment in Calgary where the Bow and Elbow rivers are found, using the organic shape of the connecting rivers as” both a metaphor and also as a geometric shape that is repeated throughout the paintings.”

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Dicey was born and raised in Calgary and graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1983 and has exhibited extensively across Alberta.

He co-founded the Elephant Artist Relief, a fund that supports Calgary artists who need emergency help for health issues.  As a young artist, Dicey was active in Calgary’s experimental artist-run centres and has a history of performance, installation, music, teaching and curating.

But painting, with an emphasis on abstraction, has been the main focus of Dicey’s art for more than 35 years.

Dicey’s work is held in many collections, including those of the Canadian Embassy in Belgium, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, City of Calgary and Nickle Galleries.

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IF YOU GO

What: Mark Dicey’s Confluence

When: Until July 24

Where: Michael Gibson Gallery, 157 Carling St.

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