Jim Stokes

Biography
Jim Stokes is an artist from Grande Prairie, Alberta. He has been painting and showing his work for 23 years in Alberta and across Canada. His many solo exhibitions have been for the most part a large on going series of painterly landscapes. Fluid and gestural paint handling is played off against a sharp sense of light in the distance. Less known have been a series of interiors, a continuing group of figurative works, and many experimental prints and works on paper. Made with fairly traditional media, paint on canvas and paper as well as distressed wood panels, these works are frankly celebratory. The emotion from a place, a time of day, or some fragment of nature, has a rich resonance. I try to balance this with the influence of abstraction. All over mark making and the material nature of painting are important as well.

Solo Exhibitions
2008 - Scott Gallery, Edmonton
2006 - Scott Gallery, Edmonton
2003 - Muse Gallery, Grande Prairie
2002 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
2001 - La Clarté Dieu, Québec City
1998 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
1998 - Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie
1996 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
1996 - West End Gallery, Edmonton
1995 - Wallace Galleries, Calgary
1994 - Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie
1993 - Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie
1993 - Fine Arts Centre, Fairview
1992 - Wallace Galleries, Calgary
1991 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
1990 - Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie
1990 - Wallace Galleries, Calgary
1989 - West End Gallery, Edmonton
1988 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
1987 - West End Gallery, Edmonton
1986 - Picture Perfect, Grande Prairie
1985 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
1981 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
1979 - Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie

 

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