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  AMY DRYER: "Urban Blueprints," May 23 to June 8, 2013, Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary

  Amy Dryer’s hometown of Calgary, where she continues to live, has become the subject of her new work. This engagement is all-inclusive, allowing her to paint outdoors and to bring her attachment to the city into her painting practice.

  May 7, 2013

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  LISA BRAWN "Take Me To Your Leader," October 24 to November 16, 2009, AXIS Contemporary Art, Calgary

  “I’ve hit a vein. I’ve got my medium. I’ve got my genre. I don’t have to reinvent it when I work at it," says Calgary artist Lisa Brawn about her woodcuts. Brawn is fascinated by, and alert to, the eccentric world around her.

  Aug 31, 2009

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  MICHAEL MARKOWSKY, April 3 to 13, 2008, Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary

  While art can often be dangerous, the practice of making art is rarely death-defying. Michael Markowsky may prove that theory wrong with his latest series of drawings and paintings which he calls “Driving Artworks.”

  Dec 31, 2007

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  JOSE ANGEL VINCENCH, "Behind the Abstract," Feb 15 – 28, 2007, Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary

  Cuban artist, José Angel Vincench’s artwork speaks eloquently for those who are unable.

  Dec 31, 2006

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  TIM OKAMURA, "Urban Portraits and Brooklyn Mythology," May 18 — 28, 2006, Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary

  Selecting many of the subjects for his realistic portraits from people he meets on New York city streets, Okamura depicts a range of humanity within a context of dramatic light and shadow.

  Apr 30, 2006

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  Preview of TIM OKAMURA, "Urban Portraits and Brooklyn Mythology," May 18 - 28, 2006, Axis Contemporary Art, Art Central, Calgary

  Okamura paints urban creatures in their milieu: street-wise New Yorkers who for the most part are his friends, rendered with a warm classical hand.

  Dec 31, 2005