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BOTH FloorS

This Show is Trash 

Tanya Klimp, MFA Painting | Darcy Fraser Macdonald, MFA Intermedia

November 19 - December 14, 2024

Reception

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 | 7-9 p.m. | FAB Gallery
(view the Klimp PDF e-vite  /  view the Macdonald PDF e-vite)

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Tanya Klimp, MFA Painting

Much of the world's waste currently exists in the form of discarded packaging. Packaging often designed to cloak corporate ideologies and perspectives, obfuscating true intentions. This waste is not just to protect and enclose a "product" but also to instill desire to purchase or re-purchase, and oftentimes, to do so after the original product has been used or removed. My thesis navigates latent/dormant content within discarded packaging while weaving and painting other "content" in. I alter these quickly produced and rapidly discarded objects through slow processes of artistic intervention, and transmogrify them from abject and denigrated to valued and elevated. Within this murky affinity between waste, consumers and content - emerge hybrids and chimeras.

About the artist:

Tanya Klimp graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2000. Her paintings have been exhibited across Western Canada and purchased for collections in Canada and the United States. In her studio practice, she seamlessly transitions through a range of scales and materials from intimate watercolour to large works of public art. Together with Darcy Fraser Macdonald, she has completed public art commissions for the City of Spruce Grove, the County of Strathcona and the City of Edmonton and been shortlisted for several others in Alberta and British Columbia. Recently, in the fall of 2023, Tanya created two large low-relief murals for the new Moxy Banff Hotel. She is thrilled to be an MFA - Painting candidate at the University of Alberta, where she has had the opportunity to explore unconventional materials, figuration, and hybridize new techniques with her work.

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Darcy Fraser Macdonald, MFA Intermedia

Darcy began collecting historical trash objects from the North Saskatchewan river valley in the fall of 2020. This waste, which was deposited up until the immediate post-war period (circa 1947) is contemporaneous with the Edmonton of his paternal grandparents; it is their trash and the trash of the community around them. His thesis work takes 8 of these discarded objects/materials from the Rat Creek dumpsite plus two familial objects from the 1940s (one from each paternal grandparent) as its starting point for exploring the complex legacies of inheritance and waste left to us by previous generations.

About the artist:

Darcy Fraser Macdonald graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design in 2000 and went on to study Architecture at Carleton University and the University of Manitoba. He is currently a Masters of Fine Art - Intermedia candidate at the University of Alberta and it’s great to be back! His work at the UofA has been supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters, a Walter H. John’s Graduate Fellowship and an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Scholarship in Art and Design. Over the past several years he has become increasingly obsessed with tile, while acting as Creative Director for River City Tile Company and Geon Tile. He can often be found poking through various historical dumpsites in the North Saskatchewan river valley with an old backpack, a small trowel and an unwarranted level of wonder and enthusiasm.

Fall 2024 Exhibitions Listings

September 3-21, 2024

October 8 - November 2, 2024

• Reception: Thursday Oct. 10, 7 p.m.
• Main Floor: We Made This Mostly at Home with Stuff We Already Had in Our Apartment: Prop Performance and Camp in Contemporary Canadian Video Art. Curated by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau
• Second Floor: Madeline Sturm, MFA Thesis: Printmaking

November 19 - December 14, 2024

• Reception: Thursday Nov. 21, 7 p.m.
• Both Floors: Darcy Macdonald, MFA Thesis: Intermedia; Tanya Klimp, MFA Thesis: Painting