BILL LOBCHUK, "Picks from the Rabbit Hole," September 7 to 29, 2012, Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg
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"Sechelt Shore"
Bill Lobchuk, "Sechelt Shore," oil on canvas, 36” X 48”.
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"863 Selkirk Ave"
Bill Lobchuk, "863 Selkirk Ave," oil on canvas, 33” X 38”.
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"Sechelt Shore"
Bill Lobchuk, "Sechelt Shore," oil on canvas, 36” X 48”.
BILL LOBCHUK, Picks from the Rabbit Hole
September 7 to 29, 2012
Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg
By Margaret Bessai
The Rabbit Hole is the name of Bill Lobchuk’s current studio, a second-floor attic-style space in North Winnipeg, very near the site of his first apartment in the back of a grocery store on Selkirk. Lobchuk, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, is known well as a printmaker, the legendary founder of the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop where artists as diverse as Joe Fafard, Daphne Odjig and General Idea came to create work. This exhibition, Picks from the Rabbit Hole at Gurevich Fine Art Gallery, will feature his newest work in oil and selected works from his past. “There are times when I’ve made something, and I need to keep it in the studio. I’ve put a few of those ‘golden oldies’ into this show, and a few drawings from the 80’s as well.” Lobchuk is inspired by colour. His drawings are layered with watercolour and soft pastel to build vibrancy, and his expressionistic oil paintings have a deliberately loose, organic line and a wet-on-wet spontaneous feeling. Lobchuk often works from photographs taken during his annual travels to the B.C. coast, and recent paintings of the urban landscape carry a very personal connection to place.
