Jim Stokes
paintings
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.
EDUCATION
Primarily self-taught, influenced by Jack Chambers & Dorothy Knowles.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Alberta Requiem (Gordon Lewis & Jim Stokes), Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
2012 Blue Notes & Stormy Weather, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2012 Journey, Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
2008 Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2006 Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2003 Muse Gallery Grande Prairie, AB
2002 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
2001 La Clarte Dieu, Quebec City, QC
1998 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1998 Unique Gallery, Grand Prairie, AB
1996 West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1996 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1995 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
1994 Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1993 Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1992 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
1992 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1990 Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1989 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
1988 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1987 West End Galleryl, Edmonton, AB
1986 Picture Perfect Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1985 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1981 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1979 Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1996 Group Exhibition, Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
1995 Group Exhibition, Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
1989 "Alberta Drawing", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1988 "Prairie Scapes", Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, AB
"The Big Canvas", West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1987 Group Exhibition, Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
"Recent Acquisitions", McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, AB
l986 "Parallels & Affinities", Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Alberta Foundation of the Arts
Jarvis Engineering
Prairie Gallery
Lion Business Machines
City of Grande Prairie
Stuart Olson
Queen Elizabeth II Hospital
Parlee McLaws
W.C. MacKenzie Health Science Centre
City of Edmonton
Alberta Government Telephones
Canadian Utilities
Inter Provincial Pipeline
Edmonton Art Gallery
PanCanadian
Alberta Energy
Goepel Shields
Westcoast Petroleum
Continental Communication
Artist
Born: Grande Prairie, AB, 1959
Price range: $950-$5000
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