Craig Love “Strange Vacation” May 16 – June 26

Opening Reception with Craig Love on Saturday, May 23 from 2-4pm

We are excited for Craig Love’s upcoming solo show at the gallery, his first at MGG.  We recently met Love this past summer on a trip to Winnipeg.  During our studio visit we were drawn into his richly layered paintings, their exploration of space, the familiar yet not so familiar imagery and the animated colour.  Intuitively painted over long periods of time, Love draws from wide-ranging interests in language, poetry, philosophy, culture and art history, thinking in both words as well as images.  They are Paintings with a capital P; paintings that reward the act of looking and engage in the curious amongst us.

Born in 1975 in Winnipeg, Craig Love is a visual artist whose primary concerns are painting and text. His paintings aim at being associative springboards or poignant diversions for the everyday problems of being.  Of particular interest is the propensity for how painted and written languages find their resting state nestled uncomfortably amongst approximation and abstraction.

He was educated at the University of Manitoba and Parsons School of Design at the New School in New York City. He has shown his work in many places across Canada, New York, Scotland, Turkey, and France.

He sometimes writes on Art, primarily painting. Love now lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada with his partner Janet and their dog Lu.

Link to Craig Love’s Artist Page HERE